2018杭州市下城区一模2017杭州上城区九下初三英语一模卷第二部分阅读理解（共两节，满分40分）第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）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。

AMany say their most painful moments are saying goodbye to those they love. After watching Cheryl, my cousin, watch her mother suffer for six months before dying. I think the most painful moments can be in watching to say goodbye. Cheryl made the two-hour trip over and over to be with her mother. They spent long afternoons holding hands and sharing memories.Each time she kissed her mother before leaving, her mother would feel sad and say, “I’m sorry you drove so far and sat for so long, and I didn’t stay up long to talk with you.”Cheryl would tell her not to worry. It didn’t matter. But________.A. saying goodbye to those they loveB. watching one’s mother leave and say goodbyeC. waiting to speak to those they loveD. waiting to say goodbye to those they love17. Why did the mother say she had let Cheryl down?A. Her disease had cost Cheryl much money.B. Cheryl had cried too many times for her.C. Cheryl hadn’t stayed with her every day.D. She felt sorry for being unable to talk much.18. Cheryl told her mother about the school basketball game in order to ________.A. say sorry to her motherB. test her mother’s memoryC. make her mother feel betterD. ask her mother to forget it19. Which of the following best describes the main idea of the passage?A. Visiting your sick parents is meaningful.B. Saying sorry is necessary between loved ones.C. Love means being there with loved ones.D.Children and parents need understanding.B◆ metallic 像金属的20. Look at the calendar. It’s October 6th today. You broke a clay cup this morning. When will they collect thebrokencup?A. On October 3nd.B. On October 10th.C. On October 17th.D. On October 24th.21. Which of the following things can be collected to burn?A. Dinner food.B. Fish cans.C. Plastic plates.D. Milk bottles.CWhen we think of food farming we usually think of green fields in the country, outside the city. Sam Chee works on a very different type of farm, in the center of the Canadian city of Toronto. “We grow fruit vegetables and herbs,” says Sam. “But not many people know the farm is here. You can’t see it from the street. We’re on top of an office building, 50 meters above the ground.”Rooftop farming is becoming popular in cities like Toronto, New York and London. The roofs of buildings are often just wasted space, but this space can be used for growing good fresh food, right in the middle of the city. Sam explains how it works. “We grow everything in big boxes-there are hundreds of them. We catch rainwater to water the plants when the weather is dry.”The rooftop farm where Sam works belongs to a restaurant called Green Garden, on the ground floor of thebuilding. The farm produces about half the restaurant’s fruit and vegetables. Sam believes that the rooftop farm is what makes Green Garden special. “We help to keep food production local. We don’t need to transport this food from anywhere and that saves energy. It’s better for the environment.”The food from the rooftop is fresher too. “When the fruit and vegetables are ripe we can pick them and use them right away. They taste better when they’re really fresh,” says Sam. “I hope that there will be more rooftop farms in the city soon. It could be the farming of the future.”22. Green Garden’s rooftop farm is ________.A. the only one in the worldB. in the middle of a small townC. one of many in cities around the worldD. near the countryside of a city23.The fruit and vegetables Sam grows are ________.A. used in a restaurant in the same buildingB. sold to restaurant to cook dishes for peopleC. taken to a restaurant in another buildingD. given to people who work in the building24. Sam thinks the food from the rooftop is better than that bought from other places because ________.A. it is much cheaper and fresherB. it tastes better and is better for the environmentC. it uses space which was being wastedD. it can’t be bought in the local stores25. According to the passage, which of the following is RIGHT?A. The farm is on the top of a teaching building, 50 meters above the ground.B. The plants are watered by collected rainwater when necessary.C. You can find more rooftop farms in the country than in the city.D. When they pick the fruit and vegetables, they must use them at once.26. What is the main purpose of the passage?A. To describe what rooftop farming by giving an example.B. To describe why rooftop farming has become very popular in Canada.C. To tell the story of the man who first started rooftop farming.D. To encourage people to build as many rooftop farms as possibleDYou probably know many of the things that you can do with the hundreds of different muscles in your body. But have you ever thought about how the muscles in an animal’s body are different from yours? An animal’s muscles are made to do the things that are the most important for its life. Lions are hunters. They depend on their ability to catch other animals.Lions must be fast in order to catch their prey(猎物). The powerful muscles in their back legs allow them to run at speeds of more than 30 miles per hour. They can also jump a distance of more than 35 feet. The strong muscles in their front legs help them catch their prey.Snakes also use their muscles for hunting prey and for movement, but their muscles work in very different ways than lio n’s do. Because snakes do not have any legs, they usetheir muscles to push against the ground or other objects to move themselves forward. Their muscles also allow them to eat things that seem much too large. For example, a snake may eat an egg that is larger than the width of its body. How does this happen? The snake’s strong neck muscles work together to push the egg down the mouth.The elephant’s long nose has a lot of muscles. Scientist believe that the nose alone has more than 100, 000 muscles! This is because the elephant uses its nose much in the same way that people use their hands and fingers. Even though the nose is large, it can perform surprisingly tasks. For example, an elephant can pick up a tree by its roots or even to lift a baby elephant.The great muscles of these animals seem pretty unbelievable. But the muscles in your body work exactly the way you need them to. After all, it might be fun to be able to jump a distance of 30 feet, but as a human being, there is just not much need for it.27. The underlined word “hunters”in Paragraph 2 means persons or animals that ________.A. keep animals for funB. raiseanimals for meatC. catch animals for foodD. run after animals for exercise28. All the following are talked about in the passage EXCEPT ________.A. An elephant’s nose is strong enough to pick up a tree by its roots.B. The strong muscles in the back legs help lions catch their prey.C. Snakes can’t move themselves forward without their muscles.D. Muscles in an animal’s body are not the same as a human’s29. According to the passage, what makes the muscles in your body different from an animal’s?A. The exerciseB. Your parentsC. The environmentD. Your needs.30. Which of the following shows structure(结构) of the passage? (P=Paragraph)A. B.C. D.第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）下面有关如何成为作家的短文(第31-35)需要添加小标题。