Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.阅读专练2023-2024学年人教版英语九年级全一册（含答案）

人教版九年级全一册Unit12阅读专练
阅读理解
A
读下面的文章,然后回答文章后的问题。请在1~5小题后的横线上写上答案。
Be careful on April 1st! When your classmates say “Your shoes are untied(解开的)!", it may not be true. And if you find your alarm clock is set back an hour, this may be a joke(玩笑)，too.
April Fool's Day(愚人节)is a traditional festival. On that day people play harmless(无害的) jokes on others and then shout, “April Fool!”It's a “for-fun-only" day, so people don't buy gifts(礼物) or get the day off work or school.
April Fool's Day started in France in the 16th century(世纪).At that time, New Year's Day was between March 25th and April 1st. When New Year's Day changed to January 1st in the 1560s, some people still celebrated it on April 1st. Others played jokes on them and called them “April Fools”.
Each country celebrates April Fool's Day differently. In France, it is called “April Fish". The French fool their friends by sticking paper fish to their friends' backs. When someone finds out this joke, they shout, “April Fish!” In England, it is bad luck to play an April Fool's joke on someone in the afternoon. Americans play small tricks on friends and strangers alike.
1. Where April Fool's Day started in the sixteenth century
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2. When was New Year's Day about five hundred years ago(以前) in France
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3. Do people buy presents or get the day off work or school
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4.Why is" April Fool's Day” called “April Fish”
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5. In England, is it good luck to play an April Fool's joke on someone in the afternoon
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B
读下面的文章,然后回答文章后面的问题,正确的答案写T,错误的答案写F。
Almost 10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on February 21,2011 and realized that my alarm had never gone off. I jumped out of bed and went straight to the airport. But by the time I got to the airport, my plane to New Zealand had already taken off. “This is the first holiday I've taken in a year, and now I've missed my plane. What bad luck!" I thought to myself. The other planes were full so I had to wait till the next day. The next morning, I heard about the earthquake in New Zealand the day before, My bad luck had unexpectedly turned into a good thing.
( )6. The writer got up late because he overslept.
( )7. Before the writer got to the airport, his airplane took off.
( )8. The writer failed to miss the plane.
( )9. The writer took another plane to Newland.
( )10.The writer had a good vacation.
C
读下面的文章,在每个标题下做简短的笔记。
April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world. It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
One April Fool's Day a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti. Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could. By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out. In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
Many April Fool's jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool's Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said yes, he replied, "April Fool!” That little joke didn't have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
One of the world's famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Wells announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States. Wells made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
11. The general idea of the article is____________________________
12. The main idea of paragraph 1 is______________________________
13. All of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out because_
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14. The TV star's joke have a bad ending because___________________
15.The language goal of this passage is to talk about
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D
七选五
16 _____If so, you will find Andrew Matthews' book Being A Happy Teenager (青少年)useful.
In his book, Matthews tells us how to have a happy life and answers the questions of teenagers.17_____. For example, if you want to improve your memory(记忆力)，you car put all the things into pictures of your mind.
18_______ but in fact you can still be happy when there are no such “good” things.
19______ but Mattbews tells us happiness comes from thinking about things in a positive way. If you are tall, you can have a better view(视线)at the movie; if you are short, your clothes and shoes take less room in your bedroom! 20_______
This is Matthews'most important lesson: You choose to be happy.
B. Do you have problems in your life and don't know how to be happy C.Many teenagers think happiness comes from good grades,
D. Some schoolboys have problems such as being too tall or too short,.
E. The book also tells us about some useful skills(技能).
F. Are you happy everyday
G.Children are working hard at school .
参考答案
阅读理解
1. April Fool's Day started in France .
2. Between March 25th and April lst.
3. No, they don't.
4. Because the French fool their friends by sticking paper fish to their friends' backs.
5. No,it isn't.It's bad luck.
6-10 TTFFF
11. what's April Fool's Day and some famous examples of tricks and jokes.
12. an introduction to April Fool's Day
13. many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could14. he lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
15. past stories that were funny or sad in history.
16-20 BECDA