科目:初中英語 來源:杭州市2018年九上英語Unit 5單元檢測試卷 題型:閱讀單選
Nathan Sawaya's childhood was a lot of fun. He drew cartoons, wrote stories, and played with plastic toy bricks (積木). His grandparents bought his first set of toy bricks when he was five years old and he's been building with toy bricks ever since. He even took his building bricks to college with him! Instead of books and a computer, he had a model of Greenwich Village made of bricks on his desk.
Nathan started as a lawyer but gave up His highly-paid (高薪的) job to become an artist that uses toys in his art. He uses toy bricks to build everything from the Statue of Liberty(自由女神像) to Superman! He has more than 1.5 million colored bricks in his working room in New York which he uses to make pieces of art. He started by building small models but then decided to do something big and created a self-portrait (自畫像). It took him two days just to build the eyes.
Nathan's work has appeared in museums around the world. Children love his art because it is made out of the same toys that they play with at home and adults love his work because it is fascinating. Since it began in2007, Nathan's exhibition "The Art of the Brick" has been very popular with museum visitors everywhere.
"I'm proud that I took a dream I had as a child, to become an artist, and I have actually made a job out of it," says Nathan. "To do what you love in life is the most important thing."
1.What did Nathan put on his desk at college?
A. The Statue of Liberty. B. Superman.
C. His serf-portrait. D. A Greenwich Village modal.
2.Why did Nathan give up his job as a lawyer?
A. Because he made little money out of a lawyer.
B. Because he wanted to make toys for the children.
C. Because he decided to become an artist of toy bricks.
D. Because he was going to work in the museum instead.
3.What does the underlined word "it" in Paragraph 3 refer to?
A. Nathan's work. B. Nathan's exhibition.
C. Nathan's art. D. Nathan's self-portrait
4.What would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Brick Artist B. The Brick Exhibition
C. Toy Bricks for Adults D. The Artist's Childhood
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科目:初中英語 來源:江蘇省徐州市2017-2018第二學期期末七年級英語試卷 題型:閱讀單選
Years ago, many zoos kept all kinds of animals in small cages. Small cages made it easy for people to see the animals, but a small cage is not a good place for an animal to live in.
Today zoos keep animals in different kinds ofcagas. The cages are very big and open. They usually have plants and a little lake. The cages look like the animals' living places.
Zoos help to protect all kinds of animals. They protect animals in the zoo and animals in the wild (野外). How do they do this? Zoos tell people how animals llve in the wild. Zoos want people to help protect the animals' wild living places.
Why should we protect animals' wild living places?
Many plants and animals are going extinct.
'Extinct' means that every one ora kind of plant or animal has died. The dodo is an extinct bird. There are no dodos anymore in the world. Scientists say that seventy-four different kinds of living things go extinct every day!
Zoos are working together to stop animals from going extinct.
1.What are the cages in zoos like now?
A. Big and open. B. Big and closed.
C. Small and open. D. Small and closed.
2.What does the underlined word "extinct" mean?
A. 馴服 B. 絕跡 C. 野生 D. 瀕危
3.Which sentence does the passage make us believe?
A. People should not have zoos now.
B. Small cages are good for animals to live in.
C. There are only about 74 dodos in the world now.
D. Today's zoos are different from many zoos years ago.
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科目:初中英語 來源:海南省三亞學校2018屆九年級第一次中考模擬考試英語試卷 題型:閱讀單選
We are already familiar with computers. They work for us at homes, in offices and in factories. We benefit(受益) a lot from the computers ,but at the same time, with the development of this high technology, it also caused a lot of trouble. One of them is the jobs’ problem.
Many people want to work, but it has become more difficult for people to find work in today’s work. Ma Yun’s unmanned supermarket appeared in 2017. It shows that more and more people will lose jobs even the simple job as a shop worker . The economy (經濟) of the world needs to grow by 4% each year just to keep the old number of jobs for people. Often this is not possible, and so more people are out of work. Some people have no jobs now because new machines can do the work instead of many people in short time. Also, machines do not ask for more money and longer holiday. In all of the countries of the world, machines are taking work from people, not only in factories but also on the farms. One machine can often do the work as much as forty people. About 75,000 people are moving to the cities a day to look for jobs, but only 70% of them can find jobs.
1.It was _______ for people to find jobs today than before.
A. more difficult B. not possible C. easier
2.If the economy of the world grows by 4% each year, _______.
A. people will have no jobs B. people can still have jobs as before
C. only 4% of the people will have jobs
3.One machine can do as much work as _______.
A. 75,000 people B. 14 people in the world C. 40 people
4.If 75,000 people move to the cities a day to look for jobs, how many of them can find jobs?
A. 52,500 people. B. 3,500 people. C. About 75,000 people.
5.Where may this article come from?
A. A story book. B. A newspaper C. A novel.
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