九年级英语阅读竞赛题

九年级英语阅读竞赛题
（共7段文章，25个小题，100分值）
（A）
It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order(订购) some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying. He asked her what was wrong and she answered, “I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, and I’ll buy yo u a rose.”
He bought the little girl her rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother,”She brought him to a cemetery(墓地), where she placed the rose on the grave.
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered, and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house. Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
( ) 1. The man went to the shop to ______.
A. help the girl
B. buy some food
C. order some flower
D. visit his mother
( ) 2. The girl was crying on the road because ______.
A. she was hungry
B. she couldn’t buy a rose
C. she couldn’t find her way home
D. she hur t her leg
( )3. From the passage we can infer(推断) that ______.
A. the girl loved flowers very much
B. The girl loved her mother very much
C. The shopkeeper sent the flowers to the man’s mother
D. The girl was very rich
（B）
Emma had kept her secret for so long, letting it grow in her heart. But the secret was so big that she knew she couldn’t keep it inside much longer. She wanted to show people how beautiful it was, but she wasn’t sure how.
At first she noticed the secret trying to get out when she began smiling at everyone, and they smiled back. Oh, that felt good. So she did it some more. Then she saw her secret working its way out when she talked to people in the store, or on the school playground, or in the ne ighborhood. She’d say simple things to them like, “Nice weather,” or “I like your baby,” or “Where’d you get those cool shoes?” And they would answer with simple “Yes it is,” or “Thank you,” or “At Penney’s.” She
found that being friendly to others made them friendly to her.
Next she tried telling some of her best jokes to someone she thought might need a good laugh. Then she would get to laugh along with them.
Then she would write funny stories in her notebook and paint pictures to make herself smile. Then she would give them to her friends.
Her secret was getting out. She was sharing her happiness with others. At first she was a little afraid she might run out of good feelings for herself, but what she soon discovered was it was quickly being refilled(再装满) as others shared their happiness with her.
( ) 4. Emma couldn’t keep her secret any longer because it was _________ to anyone.
A. a secret
B. beautiful
C. expensive
D. a chance
( ) 5. The phrase “working its way out” in the s econd paragraph means _______ in Chinese.
A. 钻出
B. 寻路
C. 出轨
D. 结束( ) 6. From this article we learned _________.
A. no one had a secret in his heart
B. Emma was liked by a few people
C. good feelings were easily run out of
D. a person would be friendly treated if he was friendly to others。