九年级任务型阅读训练题（一）本试卷主要培养学生英语应用拓展能力。

（一）阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，完成表格中所缺的信息。

What makes the world become smaller and smaller Some inventions. It began in the 11th century, but it has developed greatly in the last century. Let’s take a look at the five top inventions. Movable Type（活字印刷）: By using Movable Type, books could be printed cheaply and easily. Bi Sheng invented Movable Type in China in the 11th century.Telephone: The inventor Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call in 1876. “Mr. Watson, come here. I want you.” he said to his assistant over the phone line. And with those famous words, the world was about to get much smaller.Airplane: The Wright brothers made the first powered flight in 1903. Air travel has made the faraway places suddenly become a lot closer. Satellites（卫星）: The Soviet Union sent up the world’s first satellite in 1957. This began the Space Age. Satellites have helped scientists study the earth. Much of our knowledge of the world has come from the information recorded by satellites.Internet: When the Internet was created in 1969, only a few people knew about it. But more than 650 million people in the world use it now. The Internet has made information about anything easy to get.（二）The Secret of Success1. Your best chance of success is by doing what you really want to do. Ask yourself, “If money were not so important, what kind of work would I do for free” Then just do what you like to do.2 Think about what you are going to do. You have to start somewhere and it may be quite a real beginning. Whether you are beginning in business or you’re dreaming to be a star, you have to start at the bottom.3. Great ambition（目标）is necessary. An English student called Richard Brason opened a student magazine when he was only 16 years old. But he didn’t stop there. He also opened a record business with many shops, and now his company has planes, trains and cars.4. The only people who succeed without hard work are lottery（彩票）winners. You need a “can do”attitude（态度）and you must work step by step, which will help you get what you really want. You are on the right way to win the success.5. If you always say someone is successful, it doesn’t mean anything to you. Learn from those who have already succeeded in something, especially where they do the same as you want to do.A. Think bigB. Start smallC. Follow the leadersD. Find the work you loveE. Be prepared to work hard阅读上面的5段语言材料，请找出与它们相对应的标题，并将其标号填入下列方框中。

（三）Thumbs Down to Texting 屈指发短信Do you have a mobile phone Do you send text messages to your friends and familyText messaging or “texting”, is becoming very popular. But, scientists have discovered that texting can give us problems with our hands. Be careful! Too much texting can cause swelling（肿胀）in our thumbs（拇指）. Our thumbs were not made for pushing small buttons（按钮）, over and over. Scientists call his problem RSI （重复性紧张劳损）. We spoke to a doctor called Harriet Wilson, who treats many sick people with RSI. She says we need to see how much time we are spending in typing text messages. If we are spending more than 10-15 minutes at once, we could have problems in the future.As mobile phones develop, they are getting smaller with buttons closer together. Texting with a smaller phone is worse than using a larger phone with bigger buttons. Using a computer keyboard and playing video games can cause the same problem. So more and more people could find themselves with RSI. Among them, most are university students and teenagers, as they do not know the risks of spending so much time using computers, video games and mobile phones. If we don’t do something about this, too many young people could grow up in terrible pain.1. What is becoming very popular now2. Does the word “once” mean “one time” in the second passage3. What kind of people are easier to have the problem of RSI4. What can also cause RSI except testing5. Which is easier to cause the problem of RSI, using smaller mobile phones or larger ones（四）Most people can think of a sport they would love to see in Olympics. But they often don’t realize how hard it is to add a sport to the Olympics. A sport needs to be well-organized and popular before the International Olympic Committee (IOC) will consider it. An international federation must govern（控制）the sport by making rules and making sure athletes meet Olympic standards（标准）. What’s more, men from at least 75 counties and women from at least 40 must play the sport.However, even meeting those conditions isn’t enough. The IOC always tries to keep the number of athletes at about 40,000 for each Olympic. Since most modern Olympics already included so many athletes, introducing a new sport often means cutting other events.The country that hosts the games is allowed to suggest what new sports should be included. While new sports are added to the Olympics, most of them will simply become events in another sports meeting.In Beijing, open water swimming will become part of swimming, while women’s steeplechase（障碍赛）will be added to athletics.根据文章内容，完成下列任务：1. How can a sport be added to the Olympics 从短文中找出三个条件。