九年级英语培优练习（十三）AWaste paper and used coke cans are thrown out anywhere and everywhere. You might have seen plastic bags flying in the sky when the wind blows and getting caught in the trees. Or maybe you’ve seen old cans sitting in the rivers and polluting the water.Our environment, the place we live in, is being ruined by us.Believe it or not, every family in China makes about one ton of rubbish every year. That’s over 100 million tons of rubbish in China alone. It is enough to fill a line of 10-ton trucks that goes around the world almost five times. All this rubbish makes our soil, our water and our air dirty. And so it affects our health. Bad habits, such as dropping litter, add to this problem. Many people think that dropping one small piece of chewing gum doesn’t matter too much.But, did you know that nearly 6000,000 pieces of gum were stuck to Tian’anmen Square during the last National Day holiday? It cost 0.2 yuan to remove each piece. And it will take many years for the stains of gum to disappear.So it is clear that we can not go on living like this. We need to cut down on our waste. This world is ours. It is our only world. And it is the job of every person to make an effort to save it.( )1. The first three paragraphs vividly（生动的）describe .A. the scene of the environment around us being pollutedB. plastic bags are flying in the sky when the wind blowsC. waster paper and used cans are thrown out here and there.D. old cans are in the rivers.( )2. The fourth and fifth paragraphs mainly show us .A. we can pay 0.2 yuan for a piece of gumB. making a large amount of rubbish and other bad habits can cause seriouspollution to our environmentC. people always use trucks to carry rubbishD. the stain of gun is difficult to disappear( )3. The meaning of the underlined phrase “cut down on” in the passage is .A.减少B.清除C.消失D.砍伐( )4.The underlined phrase “make an effort to” in the passage means .A. redouble one’s effort toB. do as little as possible toC. try hard toD. stop polluting( )5. The main idea of the passage is .A. the importance of improving the environment where we liveB. not to throw rubbish aboutC. how to keep the balance of nature andD. the influences of throwing litter aroundBIn Thailand, people do not eat with chopsticks, like in China, Japan, and Korea. They use spoons and forks. 1 Most food is already cut. If you need to cut things,1. 2. 3. 4. 5.九年级英语培优练习（十三）一、选择题( )1. In order to find ________ better job, she planned to learn ______ second foreign language.A. the; aB. /; aC. the; theD. a; a( )2. ---I hear your friend is visiting Sanya again. Is it the second time for him?---Yes, and he will come for ________ time next spring.A. a thirdB. a secondC. the thirdD. the second ( )3. ---Which city has _______ population? Beijing, Fuzhou or Putian?---Putian, of course.A. the largestB. the smallestC. the mostD. the least ( )4. ---What is the window of your house made of?---It’s made of _______.A. many glassB. glassesC. some glassesD. glass ( )5. There are some chickens _______ on the farm.A. risingB. raisingC. risenD. raised( )6. If there _______ on buying and selling of animals, there _______ no killing in nature.A. is; will beB. will be; will beC. is; isD. will be; is ( )7. When he heard a cry for help, he ran out as _______ as he could.A. hardlyB. quicklyC. finallyD. slowly ( )8. Is this the factory _______ you have visited?A. the oneB. whichC. thatD. both B and C ( )9. ---Can you tell me _______?---His home is quite for away from the office, I think.A. how far it is from his home to the officeB. where he worksC. why he bought the carD. where he lives ( )10. In some western countries shops are closed _______ weekends.A. inB. toC. atD. with二、完形填空In a small town in France, there was a farmer who lived alone. Every day he 1 a pound of butter to his neighbor, who was a baker (面包师), One day the baker decided to 2 the butter to see if he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that is wasn't. The baker then took 3 farmer to the judge (法官).The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butter. The farmer replied." I am so 4 that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, 5 I do have a kind of scale (天平)." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter" The farmer replied," Before the baker started buying butter from 6 , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same weight,"We 7 what we give to others in life. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this 8 , "Am I honest?" Honesty or dishonesty can become a 9 .Some dishonest people can lie without a red face. Others lie so much that they do not even 10 what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest behavior.( )1. A. gave B. fed C. threw D. sold( )2. A. weigh B. watch C. cut D. use( )3. A. / B. a C. an D. the( )4. A. rich B. poor C. honest D. quiet( )5. A. and B. so C. but D. or( )6. A. I B. my C. me D. mine( )7. A. get back B. look back C. give back D. turn back( )8. A. answer B. question C. help D. idea( )9. A. difference B. habit C. mistake D. difficulty( )10. A. study B. mean C. imagine D. know三、综合填空One day, while I was sitting in my car in a parking area, I noticed a young boy in front of my car. “What is the boy doing?” I asked myself and looked 1 (靠近地，接近地). “Oh, he is picking up a coin from the ground.” When he stood up, we saw each other clearly . He was not 2 than ten and was wearing one blue glove and one brown glove. His coat was too for h 3 .As he walked away, I saw his 4 , which were too old to wear. The parking area was wet, I could tell that his feet were cold because he kept moving his weight from one foot to the other.I rolled down(摇下) my w 5 and called him over. I asked him 6 he needed some money. He replied, “ No. That’s okay.”“Please,” I held out a five-dollar bill. “It’s not much, but wh en the money is 7 (分享), it is much more useful” I said. He took off one of his gloves and took the money f 8 my hand. His small hand was r 9 and cold.He smiled and went away after s 10 “Thank you!” to me. That smile made me feel warm in the cold winter.1. 2. 3. 4. 5.6. 7. 8. 9. 10.四、完成句子1．我们让他的梦想实现吧！Let’s __________ his dream __________ __________!2．我认为保罗不会做炒米饭。