九年级英语任务型阅读专项训练题

九年级英语任务型阅读专项训练题

(1)Roberto Clemente

Roberto Clemente was born in 1934 near San Juan, Puerto Rico. His parents did not have much money. But they taught their children to be good and hones. (1)They also taught their children the importance of honour. Clemente had all of these qualities.

(2)As a child, Roberto loved baseball. He listened to baseball games on the radio. He played baseball games on the radio. He played baseball with his friends. He also played in high school on a city team. When he graduated from high school in 1953, nice professional teams wanted Clemente to play fro them. The Brooklyn Dodgers offered him $10,000. Clemente said “yes”. Then another team offered him $30,000! Clemente asked his parents for advice. (3)His mother said that he must keep his word. So he signed a contract with the Dodger.

1. 将(1)处改为同义句

2.将(2)处改为复合句

3.将(3)处译成汉语

(2)How can a plant kill?

People kill. Animals kill. Animals and people kill for food, or they kill their enemies. People and animals can move around and find something to kill. They can run away from an enemy. They can kill it if it is necessary.

Many kinds of animals eat plants. The plants cannot run away from their enemies. Some plants make poison. (1)If an animal eats part of the plant, it gets sick or dies. Animals learn to stay away from these plants. (2)There are many kinds of plants that make poison. Most of them grow in the desert or in the tropics.

Today farmers use many kinds of poison on their farms. Most of these poisons come from petroleum, but petroleum is expensive. Scientists collect poisonous plants and study them. Maybe farmers can use cheap poison from plants instead of expensive poison from petroleum(石油).

1. 将（1）处改为简单句

2. 将（2）处译成汉语

(3)

Scientists are trying to turn deserts into good land again. They want to bring water to the deserts, so people can live and (A) food there . However, more and more land is becoming desert. Why? Scientists think that people are doing bad things to turn good land into desert.

(B)地球上的一些地方雨量不足，but they still do not become desert. This is because green plants are growing there. Small green plants and grass are very important do dry places. Plants do not let the hot sun make the earth even drier. (C)Plants do not let the wind blow the soil away. When rain falls, plants hold the water. (D)Without plants, land can become desert much more easily.

1. 在（A）的空白处填入一个适当的词语。

2. 将划线部分（B）译成英语

3. 将划线部分（C）译成汉语

4. 将划线部分（D）改写成：Land can become desert much more easily there are

plants.

(4)

Different children like different stories. Very young children usually like stories about animals more than stories about people. They like books with lots of pictures most of all.

Older children like stories about children of their own age. They like them more than stories about adults. They also like fantasies(幻想). These are stories about strange and wonderful places. Some of the best fantasies are movies-Star Wars and Star Trek, for example. (2)This kind of fantasy is called science fiction. It takes place in the future.

(3)In different countries some stories are more popular than others. In Egypt and other Arab countries, stories from Arabian Nights are very popular. Some of these stories are quite popular in America, too. However, they are not as popular as American stories, such as Little Women or The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

Do you have a favorite story?

1. 将（1）句改为同义句

2. 将（2）句改为主动语态

3. 将（3）句译成中文

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(1)An old man visited a new doctor. He was very young.

“I don’t fell well, doctor,” he said. “Please find out what’s wrong with me.”

“Take off your clothes and lie on the bed,” the young doctor said, “I’ll examine(检查) you.”

The old man took off his clothes and lay down on the bed, and the young doctor examined him. However, (3)he didn’t find anything wrong with the old man.

He listened to his heart. He looked into his throat(咽喉). He examined every part of him.

At last he said, “I’m sorry, but I can’t find anything wrong with you. You’re as healthy as I am.”

“That’s very strange,” the old man said, “because I fell really bad.”

“Come back tomorrow and see me again if you don’t feel better,” the young doctor said. “I’ll examine you again.”

“All right, doctor,” the old man said .

Slowly, he stood up and put on his clothes. Then he walked out of the hospital.

A few seconds later, the doctor’s nurse ran in.

“Doctor! Doctor!” she cried . “That man you said was healthy has just died outside the door.”

The doctor thought quickly.

“Then turn the body around so that people will think he is coming in,” he said.

1. 将（1）中的两个简单句合并成一个复合句

2. 写出（2）的同义句

3. What do you think of the doctor?

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Mr Shaw wrote a lot of nice novels and the entire world knew him. (1)He didn’t like the arrogant(傲慢的) rich men and often laughed at them. So people liked him.

Mr Shaw was often asked to all kinds of parties. A lot of important men hoped to know him. One day a famous singer asked him to her party. When Mr Shaw came in, all the people stood up except a young man. The singer hurried to meet him and asked him to sit down next to her. The young man’s father was one of the richest men in England and he was studying in Paris. (2)He thought he knew much more than any other guest in the sitting-room. He talked a lot and tried to show he was a know-all. All the people politely listened to him and nobody would interrupt him. It made Mr Shaw unhappy.

“Please listen to me, my friend,”Mr Shaw had to stop him. “I think only we both know the things in the world!”

(3)Hearing this, the young man was happy and asked, “Why?”

“Maybe you know all, ”said Mr Shaw, “but you don’t know one thing!”

“We are all tired of you.” Mr Shaw said with a smile. “Just I know it!”

The young man’s face turned red and didn’t say anything until he left.

1. 将（1）处的句子改成含原因状语从句的复合句。

2. 将（2）处的英文句子译成汉语。

3. 将（3）处的句子改为含时间状语从句的复合句。

(7)

Something was wrong with Mr Hunt’s eyes and his friends told him to see the doctors in the capital. The train was late that day when he arrived there. He felt hungry and bought some food outside the station. (1)As it was raining hard, he couldn’t walk to the nearest hotel. He was waiting for a taxi while eating the sandwich and chips.

Half an hour later it was his turn and he got on a small taxi. (2)The woman drove so fast that she couldn’t stop at the crossing when the traffic lights turned red. Luckily the policeman did not find it and she hurried off. She went on driving fast and all the cars and buses had to make way for her. But soon it hit a big tree by a narrow street and the driver was hurt.

Mr Hunt got off and looked around. There were not any persons or cars and nobody could help him. He had to take her to hospital by himself. He moved the woman away and was going to drive the taxi. (3)At that moment he found something and asked, “Didn’t you find the window was spattered with some mud(溅满了泥水), madam?”

“No, I didn’t,” said the driver. “I’ve left my glasses at home.”

1. 将（1）处的句子改为简单句

2. 将（2）处的英文句子译成汉语

3. 将（3）处的句子改为间接引语

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I asked children about their TV watching habits in three different groups-from four to six, from seven to twelve and from thirteen to sixteen. The children in the first group watch TV for an average(平均) of two hours in the day and an average of one hour at night. The children in the second group watch it for an average of two and a half hours at night. The children in the 3rd group watch it for an average of one and a half hours at night.

Cartoons are the favorite shows of the first group . The favorite shows of the 2nd group are TV plays and the favourite shows of the 3rd group are quiz programmers.

Simon 根据调查记录完成表格：

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HOUSE SALE(出售): Comfortable family home with large garden on north side of town. Three bedrooms, living room, kitchen, bathroom, pay￥280.000 for it.

The Browns are looking for a new house. Mr Brown wants to live on the north side of the town near his work. Mrs Brown wants a house with four bedroom. Their children don’t care what the house is like but the garden is big enough.

DRIVER WANIED for restaurant . Some evening and weekend work. All meals free. Ring

3320178.

Jack has always wanted to drive. He thinks it’s very interesting. The work is hard but he doesn’t mind. He has to work in the evening and at weekends but he can get some weekdays off. It’s not very well paid, but he never minds.

JOIN OUR FOOTBALL TEAM Boys and girls wanted to play for a local(本地的) football team. Aged 9-13. Meet in Green Park on Friday at 9 p.m.

Tom: There’s a new football team starting in the village, mum. I’m old enough to play in it. School it over at 3:30. So I’d have plenty of time.

Mum: Well, I’m sure you could do your homework in the evening . But Look, Tom, you haven’t read the paper carefully. You can’t play for this team.

1. What do you think of the house?

2. What didn’t the Browns buy the house in the nd?

3. What does “all meals free” mean?

4. Why does Jack want to get the job in the restaurant?

(10)Madam C.J. Walker

Madam C.J. Walker was the first African American woman in the United States to make a million dollars. She was horn Sarah Breedlove in 1867 on a farm in delta, Louisiana. Her family was very poor, and her life as very hard. (1)他们住在一幢没有窗户的房子里. Sarah did not go to school. Every day she worked from morning to night in the cotton fields.

When Sarah was seven, her parents died. She went to Mississippi to live with her married sister. Her sister’s husband was very mean to her. Sarah wanted to get away, so she got married when she was 14. A few years later, (2)she had a baby girl named Lelia. When Sarah was only 20, her husband died. She moved to St. Louis, Missouri. For the next 18 years, she worked washing clothes for $1.50 a day. (3)When she was 38, Sarah was worried because her hair was falling out. She tried different things on her hair, but nothing worked. One night she had a dream about what to mix up and use for her hair. It worked! Sarah gave it to her friends. It worked for them, too. She went from door to door to sell her new hair product. Then she made other hair care products. Soon she had her own business.

1. 将（1）句汉译英

2. 将（2）句改为定语从句

3. 将（3）句改为同义句

(11)

Our environment is fragile－it needs taking care of. The problem is that there are over 6 billion people on the earth and they all need houses, fuel(燃料) , food, clothing and water. Our environment can give us all these if we take good care of it.

Some countries take more than their share from the environment. The people in these countries want cars, packaged food, big houses, raw materials and many other “extras”. Luckily, only about 50 countries in the world demand(要求) these extras. Our environment gets damaged(遭破坏) even in poorer countries because the people use it just to stay alive. (1)they cut down trees for firewood and farm the soil heavily to get more food. (2)Their governments try hard to make more money so that they can build more schools and hospitals. All this is often done by letting the industries pollute the water and the air. (3)It costs money to keep the environment clean.

In order to stop the environment from deteriorating(恶化) further and to allow people to live a better life, world conference(会议) was held in Brazil in 1992. Leaders from over 150 countries met together to agree on solutions(解决方法) to the worlds ecological(生态的) problems. They asked the governments and people to change wasteful consumption patterns(消费方式) . They also said that rich countries should provide more help for the poor countries so that environmental problems could be dealt with more quickly.

1. 将（1）处句子译成汉语

2. 将（2）外句子改为简单句

3. 写出（3）处的同义句

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Selma Scarausi looked at her baby daughter and smiled. The baby smiled back. Selma began to cry. “I love my baby very much,” Selma thought. “But is she really my baby?”

Selma’s baby was born at a hospital in Sao Paulo, Brazil. A few days later Selma and the baby came home from the hospital. (1)Friends and relatives were surprised when they saw the baby. The baby didn’t look like her parents. The baby had dark skin and curly hair, but Selma and her husband had light skin and straight hair. “Babies change,” everyone thought . “She will look like her parents when she is older.”

But the baby didn’t change. When she was nice months old, she still looked very different from her parents. Selma and her husband, Paulo, took the baby back to the hospital. (2) “Are you sure this is our baby?” they asked the hospital director.

“Of course she is your baby,” the director said. “Immediately after the babies are born, we give them bracelets with numbers. Your baby was number 51. You left the hospital with baby 51. A

mistake is impossible.”

“A mistake is possible,”Selma and Paulo thought. “We have another family’s baby. And somewhere another family has our baby. But Sao Paulo is a city of seven million people. How can we find our baby?”

Selma and Paulo went to the hospital again. A nurse at the hospital told Paulo, “I remember another couple. Their baby didn’t look like them. The parents had dark skin, but the baby had very curly hair, but the baby had straight hair.” (3)The nurse gave Paulo the couple’s address.

The next day Selma took her baby to the couple’s house. She knocked, and a woman opened the door. The woman took one look at Selma’s baby and fainted. Selma helped her into the house. There, in the living room, was a nine-month-old baby. Selma knew that the baby was hers.

The hospital made a mistake. Both babies were born at the hospital on the same day. The hospital gave both babies the number 51.

During the next weeks the two families prepared to exchange babies. First they exchanged information about the babies’ habits. Then they exchanged toys and clothes. Finally, with smiles and tears, they exchanged babies.

1. 将（1）处句子改为简单句

2. 将（2）处句子改为宾语从句

3. 将（3）处句子改为被动语态形式

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(1)The Atlantic Ocean is one of the oceans that separate the Old World from the New. Fro centuries it kept the America from being discovered by the people of Europe.

Many wrong ideas about the Atlantic made early sailors unwilling to sail far out into it. One idea was that it reached out to “the edge of the world. ”Sailors were afraid that they might sail right off the earth. Another idea was that at the equator(赤道) the ocean would be boiling hot.

The Atlantic Ocean is only half as big as the Pacific, but it is still very large. It is more than 4,000 miles (6,000 km) wide where Columbus crossed it. Even at its narrowest it is about 2,000 miles(3,200 km) wide.

Two things make the Atlantic Ocean rather unusual. For so large an ocean it has very few islands. Also, it is the world’s saltiest ocean.

(2)There is so much water in the Atlantic that it is hard to imagine how much there is. But suppose no more rain fell into it and no more water was brought to it by rivers, (3)it would take the ocean about 4,000 years to dry up. On the average, the water is a little more than two miles (3.2km) deep, but in some places it is much deeper. The deepest spot is near Puerto Rico(波多黎各). This “deep” measures 30,246 feet－almost six miles(9.6km)

One of the longest mountain ranges of the world rises from the floor of the Atlantic. This mountain range runs north and south down the middle of the ocean. The tops of a few of the mountains reach up above the sea, and make islands.

Today the Atlantic is a great highway. It is, however, not always smooth and safe one. Storms sweep across it and pile up great waves. Icebergs float down from the far north across the paths of ships .

(4)We now have such fast ways of traveling that this big ocean seems to have grown smaller. Columbus sailed for more than two months to cross it. A fast modern steamship can make the trip in less than four days. Airplanes fly from New York to London in only eight hours and from South America to Africa in four!

1. 将（1）句改为简单句

2. 将（2）句改为原因状语从句

3. 将（3）句改为同义句

4. 将（4）句翻译成汉语

(14)

A 50-year-old American officer came back to his school. (A)The teachers asked him to give a talk to the small boys and girls there. The talk was about the love of their great country. All the little ones were sitting in a large meeting-room. The old officer went up and began speaking. He said, “Boys and girls, I studied in this school forty years ago. (B)When I was your ago, we were not as happy as you are today. Think about it and answer me, why are you so happy now?”

No sound came from the children. The old man waited for a long time. Then a short boy in the front put up his small dirty hand. “Good boy! Please answer me, dear, ” said the officer.

With a big smile on his face, the boy stood up and said, (C)“If you speak long enough, we won’t have to have maths and biology lessons this morning.”

1. 将（A）句合并为一句。

2. 将（B）句改为同义句

3. 将（C）句用另外一句表达

(15)The advantages of watching TV

I like watching TV very much for I think it has many advantages(长处). First of all, watching

TV is a good rest. After a day of hard work, we need a good rest. (1)Watching TV can make our mind and body not tired any more because of the pleasant music and TV plays.

Besides, watching TV is entertaining. There are many kinds of entertainments, such as sports activities(活动), singing and dancing concerts, plays and films all over the world at any time. (2)It’s not possible for us to go to every place to enjoy all the activities within a short time. We need at least over ten hours to fly from New York to Paris, a week by train from Beijing to Moscow and an hour to drive from Queens to Manhattan. But within just one second, TV can bring us from an NBA game in New York to a fashion show in Paris by changing the channels.

Most importantly, watching TV is educational (有教育意义的). We can learn all kinds of subjects through the educational programmes and the special reports on TV, and it’s easy for us to learn Chinese from a Chinese teacher in Beijing and to learn Russian from a Russian teacher in Moscow. Even we can learn how to behave well from the TV plays. (3)A teacher can teach millions of students without a huge classroom.

1. 将（1）句英译汉

2. 将（2）句改为同义句

3. 将（3）句改为被动语态

(16)A chimney sweep

Bruce Chapman is a chimney sweep. He is going to work. His clothes are unusual for a worker. He is wearing a tall hat, a formal coat, and a silk tie. He has a broom in his hand. Many chimney sweeps dress this special way. Now Bruce is ringing the bell. After he enters the house, he changes his clothes.

Sweeping chimney is a very old and dangerous job. (1)Chimney sweeps today use expensive, modern equipment instead of brooms. They only carry the brooms. They store their equipment in their trucks.

Bruce has air tanks so he does not breathe toxic substances. Now he is covering his body, face, and hands to clean the chimney. (2)Bruce has tools of may different shapes. He is filling the room with his tools.

Bruce finds spider webs, insects, and a small dead animal in the chimney. Now the chimney is clean, but Bruce’s work is not finished yet. He is cleaning the room and putting his tools back into the truck.

Chimney sweeps save lives. Chimney fires are dangerous and expensive. Twenty-eight percent of all house fires start in unsafe, dirty chimneys. (3)If people do not have enough money to pay a chimney sweep, they clean their chimneys.

1. 将（1）句改为被动语态

2. 将（2）句英译汉

3. 将（3）句改成同义句

(17)

Clem Quinn was always interested in flying. (1)When he was five, he tried to fly by jumping off the garden shed(小棚) with a golf umbrella, but when he was in his twenties, he didn’t become a pilot, instead he became a taxi drive. Then 20 years ago he did a parachute(跳伞) jump and loved it from then on. (2)being a taxi driver in London was a lot more dangerous than jumping out of a plane, (3)so he moved to the country to learn parachute jumping and sky-diving. He said:

“I love sky-diving because the world looks so good blue sky, green fields, white clouds. When you’re floating through the air, it’s just like floating in water. You can see forever, all the way to the French coast. The scenery is beautiful. You can forget all your worries. People think it is dangerous but it’s very safe. Football is much more dangerous. Footballers often have accidents. When did you hear of a sky-diving with 100 people from six planes. That’s a record. I’m never going to give up. I’m going to jump out of planes until I’m an old man.”

1. 将（1）句复合句变简单句

2. 将（2）句改为同义句

3. 将（3）句改为复合句

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Mr Read had a shop in a town. His wife died nine years ago and left his son, Allan, to him. (1)He loved him very much and did his best to please him with everything. The boy did nothing at home and never worried about food or clothes. When Allan grew up, he wasn’t able to do anything. Once his father was ill in hospital, but he never went to look after him. Even when the doctors operated on his father, he was drinking at home. He took care of nobody except himself. Mr Read was angry with him. When he came out of hospital, he left some money to his son and moved to another town.

(2)Of course Allan spent all the money on clothes and drinks. Then he couldn’t find any work in the town. He had to beg from door to door. He often stayed somewhere for day if he couldn’t find anything . People didn’t know what to do with him.

One afternoon, when the Kings were having supper. Allan went to beg for something.

“Well, then,” said Mr King. “Follow me , please.”

Allan was happy. He said to himself, “He must give me much nice food.”

After a while they came to the church(教堂). Mr King said, “It’s God’s home, dear God’s guest!

It’s the place where you must stay!”

1. 将（1）句翻译成汉语

2. 将（2）句改为同义句

3. 对（3）句划线部分提问

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The report shows something of home computers used by a group of young people. We decided to try to find out if it was true.

We asked thirty young people between 14 and 18. All the children had computers at home.

(1)The usual time spent on a computer in a week was about 12 hours, with the highest user about 32 hours, and the lowest user only 5 hours.

All the children said they usually used computer to play games. Fourteen children told us they did some word-processing(文字处理) at times.

Only two of them said computers helped with their

lessons, and (2)eight people told us they kept addr-

ess and phone number on their computers or used

them as diaries. Only three people said they were

learning to make computer programs and nobody

looked up databases(数据库). None of them used co-

mputers for any other use.

The results show that computer use is quite high among 14-18 years old. They also show quite clearly that (3)computers are seen by most young people as little more than game machines. The only other great uses are for word-processing and keeping lists. It seems to us that, though computers are common in the homes of young people , they have not yet become useful in everyday life.

1. 将（1）句改为复合句

2. 将（2）句英译汉

3. 将（3）句改为主动语态

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I’ve collected several stories, and I’d like to tell you some of them.

One day, Daisy, the cow, was eating grass. (1)Suddenly, a very strong wind blew her up into the air and carried her two kilometers before landing her safely in a neighbour’s field. But that wasn’t Daisy’s only flight. Five years later, passengers on a bus were amazed to watch as another strong wind lifted Daisy into the air, carried her over their heads, and brought her down on the other side of the road.

You think that’s strange? Well, what about Speedy, the cat, and her love of traveling fast? Speedy loves riding on the back of her owner’s motorbike.

Now let me telld you something about Rambo, the monkey. Rambo lived in a zoo and once a little boy fell into the monkey’s cage. (2)Rambo made much noise to stop the other monkeys coming near the boy, and when the boy cried, he dried the boy’s tears with his hand. The way he kept the boy safe has made Rambo famous.

Prince, the dog, lived in a forest on a mountain. (3)Once day, he found a little boy lying on the ground covered by snow. He was badly hurt and couldn’t get up. Prince carried him on his back to the nearest house. Well, you must agree, animals can be just amazing!

1. 将（1）句翻译成汉语

2. 将（2）句改为同义句

3. 将（3）句改为含有宾语从句的复合句