浙江省温州市2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中模拟练习

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给三个选项（A、B、C）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    A group of frogs were traveling through the woods. Unluckily two of them fell into a hole. When the other frogs saw how 1 the hole was, they told the two frogs that they couldn't be saved. The two frogs didn't 2 them and tried to jump out of the hole. The other frogs kept telling them to 3. Finally, one of the frogs believed what the other frogs were saying and 4. He fell down and died. The other frog continued to jump as 5 as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs shouted at him to stop. But he jumped even harder and 6 made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Didn't you 7 us?" The frog explained to them that he was 8. He thought that they were 9 him all the time.

    This story teaches us a (an) 10:

    There is power of life and death in 11. An encouraging word to someone who is 12 can lift him up and help him 13 while a discouraging word can even 14 him.

    Be careful of what you say. Speak hopefully to those who cross your path. It is sometimes 15 to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Remember anyone can say words that can encourage another person to continue his way in difficult times.

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Money Matters

Babies know nothing about money. But when they are growing, you should teach them about it. The best time to teach a child anything about money is when he shows an interest. So you may start talking about money when your child shows any interest in buying things, candy or toys, for example.

⒈The basic function （作用） of money.

Begin explaining the basic function of money by showing how people trade money for goods or services. It is important to show your child how money is traded for the things he wants to have. If he wants to have a toy, give him the money and let him hand the money to the cashier. Talk about how the money bought the thing after you leave the toy store.

⒉Money lessons

When you have money lessons, be with openness and honesty. Tell your child why he can or cannot have certain things. If you must say no to a child's request to spend money, explain, "You have enough toy trucks for now." Or, if the request is for many different things, say, "You have to make a choice between this toy and that toy."

⒊Wise decisions

Begin at the grocery store. Pick out two similar brands （品牌） of a product—a name-brand cheese and a generic （无商标产品）, for example. You can show your child how to make choices between different brands of a product so that you can save money. Allow the child to choose between them. If he chooses the cheaper brand, allow him to have another thing with the money saved. Later, you may explain how the more expensive choice leaves less money for other things.

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Scientists from Uppsala University in Sweden studied 18 women, analyzing them as they ate snacks and watched different programmes. The women were shown a popular and interesting Swedish comedy as well as a boring lecture programme. The scientists also watched their eating habits carefully while the women took part in another boring activity-reading a text on insects living in Sweden.

Their findings showed that this type of content increased the possibility that a woman would snack on unhealthy food. While watching the boring lecture programme, the women ate 52 percent more food than they did during the interesting comedy. However, the women ate 35 percent less when watching the interesting comedy on TV compared with reading the text about insects.

Researchers have found that the more exciting a show is, the less likely the women are to eat unhealthy food. A boring show, on the other hand, increases the risk of eating unhealthy snacks.

The findings have made the team of scientists believe that it is how surprising the TV is, rather than the act itself, that causes a person to eat more. "If the programme is boring, you eat to engage yourself because you're bored," said Aner Tal, a researcher at Cornell University's Food Lab. But he suggested that you should choose healthy snacks while sitting on the sofa for a night in front of the TV. He added, "Use pre-portioned snacks instead of endless bowls." That means keeping the source of food out sight to prevent you from eating too much.

If you know you have the habit of overeating while watching TV, just snack on something that's better for you. Have vegetables as snacks instead of chips. Besides, next time you want to lose weights, try watching a nail-biting thriller （恐怖片）.

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It was at midnight, when Janice Esposito arrived at the train station, jumped into her car, and began the 20-minute drive home. She had traveled the road so many times. Suddenly, a car out of nowhere crashed into Esposito's minicar, pushing her backward some 100 feet onto the railroad tracks （轨道）. She sat in her minicar, hurt badly by the shock and the airbags.

As it happened, Pete DiPinto, a volunteer firefighter and retired （退休的） teacher, was getting ready for bed. He took a flashlight and, still in his pajamas(睡衣), ran out the door.

The first car he came upon was the one that had hit Esposito. Once DiPinto made sure that the driver was OK, he looked around and noticed Esposito's minicar was on the railroad tracks. And then he heard a sharp sound: the bells of an oncoming train.

"I even see the headlights of the train," he told Newsday. DiPinto rushed to Esposito's car and knocked the driver's side window. She just looked at him, "I don't know where I am." she said.

"You're on the railroad tracks," DiPinto shouted. "We have to get you off right now!" He pulled the door, but failed. The train was rushing toward them. DiPinto ran to the passenger side and opened the door. He pushed aside the airbags, caught Esposito's arms, and pulled her toward him across the passenger seat until he could help her out and speed her to safety. Within six seconds, the train crashed into the minicar. "'It was like a Hollywood movie," DiPinto told reporters the next day.

"Last night," Esposito told CBS, "the hero arrived in pajamas, not in a fire truck."

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。

When you sleep, can you know that you are dreaming? If yes, then you are having a lucid dream (清醒梦). It is hard for most people to know it. Only some people are able to know this. Now scientists have found ways to help more people to have lucid dreams, Live Science reported. Denholm Aspy from the University of Adelaide in Australia, found that certain skills are key to helping people have lucid dreams.

First, people train themselves to figure out (弄明白) that they are dreaming or they are not. People can practice a way for this in real life. For example, someone may look at a clock, look away, and then look back. The time should stay the same. Then, they might dream about this situation while sleeping. But in their dreams, the time on the clock may change very quickly. So people know they are dreaming.

Another way is to wake up after five hours of sleep. Then, stay awake for a while. During this time, repeat (重复) the words. "The next time I'm dreaming, I will remember that I'm dreaming." Then, go to bed again to begin rapid eye movement (REM,快速眼球运动) sleep. In REM sleep, people can know their dreams.

Scientists found that those who used these ways had a 17% success to have lucid dreams. This was far higher than if they did nothing. And in a lucid dream, people might study a hobby and then become better at that hobby in real life.

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根据所给的中文提示，写出单词的正确形式，每空限填一词。

William Shakespeare was a famous English writer. He was (出生) in 1564 in Stratford, England. He wrote many (诗歌)all his life. When he was (年轻的), he liked (戏剧), so he decided to be an (演员) when he finished school at fourteen. In 1582, he (结婚) and had three children. In 1592, he (加入) a theatre company in London. Later he became very (成功的). In 1599, the company (建造)the Globe Theatre, but there was a (火灾) in the theatre. (像……一样) many other people, he was (富裕的) but (死) at an early age. Many people put his works into many other (语言), so you can (仍然) see them around the world.

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    Hemingway is one of the most famous writers and reporters in the  (twenty) century(世纪)in the world. He was born on July 21, 1899 and  (die) on July 2, 1961.

    When he was a small child, his mother taught him and her other children music and creativity(创造力)by (take)them to concerts, museums and theatres. And his father taught them to love nature and how  (cook)in the open air and other life skills.

    In 1917, Hemingway finished high school and then worked as reporter. During World War I(第一次世界大战), he went to France, Italy and Spain. He fought in World War I and then moved  Cuba Later, Cuba drove him out of the country. He had to go back to Idaho, the USA. There he had many health problems. And in 1961 he killed  (him) with a gun(#t)in his own house.

    In his amazing life, Hemingway wrote lots  famous works. Most of them are still popular now. The Old Man and the Sea helped him  (win) the Pulitzer Prizes(普利策奖) in 1953 and the Nobel Prize In Literature in 1954. His other famous (work) include The Sun Also Rises(《太阳照常升起》), A Farewell to Arms(《永别了，武器》) and so on.

假如你是张鹏 ，转学去了杭州。你的好友王新来信询问你的近况，并告诉你他暑假要来看你。请根据以下提示，绐王新写一封回信。

写作要点：1）表达你收到他来信后的激动心情。

        2）介绍新学校。①设施:一个大操场，一个图书馆。②师生:友善，易于相处。

        3）针对他独自乘火车来杭州提出具体建议。

写作要求：1）不得使用真实的姓名和学校名。

        2）时适当加入细节，使内容充实，行文连贯。

        3）字迹工整、语言精练、表达准确、条理淸晰。

        4）至少80词。

Dear Wang Xin,

    How are you doing?

    Best wishes!

Yours，

Zhang Peng