浙江省温州市2016-2017学年九年级下学期四校第1次联考英语测试

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Think before we speak!

    It was a sunny and enjoyable day. Everyone in the 1 station was waiting for the train to arrive. Among the crowd, there was a group of young friends who were on board for vacation.

    It was a 2 station with a lot of people and some juice shops, coffee and tea stalls, newspaper shops, etc. The train was arriving and everyone prepared to 3 the train to their seats.

    The group of friends made loud noise to 4 the train as it moved into the station. They ran to get their seats 5 anyone entered the train.

    The empty seats were 6 and the train whistled to move. An old man with a young boy aged around 15 had their seats just next to the friends' group. The young boy was so 7 to see everything. He cheered, "Dad, the train is moving and the things are moving backward."

    His father8and nodded his head.

    As the train started moving fast, the young boy again screamed, "Dad, the 9 are green in color and run backward very fast." His father said, "Yes, dear," and smiled

    Just like a kid, he was watching everything with great 10 .

    A fruit seller passed selling apples, bananas and oranges. The young boy asked his dad, "I want to eat 11 ." His father bought some for him.  He said, "Oh, this apple looks a lot sweeter than it tastes. I love this color. "  The group was watching all the12 of this boy and asked the boy's father, "Is your son having any problem? Why is he behaving so 13?"

    "His son is mad, I think," a friend from the group made fun of him and shouted.

    The father of the young boy, with patience, 14 the friends' group, "My son was born 15 . Only a few days ago he was operated. He is seeing different things in his life for the first time."

    The young friends became very quiet.

阅读下面材料，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    Even though I just had lunch not long ago, I was felling hungry again. I went to the kitchen to look for something to eat. That was when I discovered the pudding in the fridge. It was made from milk, sugar, eggs and fruits, and it looked so yummy. I noticed that there was only one left.

    I was putting the pudding on a plate when my brother came into the kitchen. He found the pudding and asked for it. "It's mine! I was the only one who found it!" I shouted. "You are my elder brother. You should give it to me!" said he. Then he started pulling the plate towards himself and I did the same.

    Suddenly, the plate moved to one side and the pudding slipped out of the plate. It landed on the floor and turned into a yellow mess. My brother and I both looked at each other, feeling amazed and disappointed at the same time. It was such a waste!

    To my surprise, Ollie, our pet dog, walked over to the mess on the floor. It began to lap up the pudding happily. Within minutes, the mess on the floor was gone. Ollie licked * its lips when it was done.

    After watching Ollie finishing the whole pudding by itself, we realized how foolish we had been. If both of us had shared the pudding, we would both have got to eat half of it. It was because of our greed* that we ended up with nothing. That day, my brother and I learnt a good lesson.

    If you were to walk up Arthur Bonner and say, "Hey, Butterfly Man." his face would break into a smile. The title suits him and he loves it.

Arthur Bonner works with the Palos Verdes blues butterfly, once thought to have died out. Today the butterfly is coming back—thanks to him. However, years ago if you'd told him this was what he'd he doing someday, he would have laughed, "You're crazy." As a boy, he used to be "a little tough buy on the streets". At the age of thirteen, he was caught by police for stealing. At eighteen, he landed in prison for shooting a man.

    "I knew it had hurt my mom," Bonner said after he got out of prison. "So I told myself I would not put my mom through that pain again."

    One day he met Professor Mattoni, who was working to rebuild the habitat for an endangered butterfly called EI Segundo blue. He saw the sign "Butterfly Habitat" and asked, "How can you have a habitat when the butterflies can just fly away?" Dr. Mattoni laughed and landed him a magnifying glass, "Look at the leaves. I could see all these caterpillars on the plant." Dr. Mattoni explained, " Without the plant, there are no butterflies."

    Weeks later, Bonner received a call from Dr. Mattoni, who told him there was a butterfly that needed help. That was how he met the Palos Verdes blue. Since then he's been working for four years to help bring the butterfly back. He grows astragalus, the only plant the butterfly eats. He collects butterflies and bring them into a lab to lay eggs. Then he puts new butterflies into the habitat.

    The butterfly's population, once almost zero, is now up to 900. For their work, Bonner and Dr. Mattoni received lots of awards. But for Bonner, he earned something more: he turned his life around.

    For six years now Bonner has kept his promise to stay out of prison. While he's bringing back the Palos Verdes blue, the butterfly has helped bring him back, too.

阅读下面短文，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart. They will, in a lifetime, push the shopping carts many miles, but few will know—or even think to ask—who it was that invented them.

    Sylvan N. Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937. At that time he was in the supermarket business. Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry.

    One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels. To create the first shopping cart, Goldman used folding chairs. He out one basket on the seat, and he raised the chair by putting wheels under the legs. The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers, and would help to attract more business.

On June 4, 1937, Goldman's first carts were ready for use in his market. He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving. He couldn't wait to see them using his invention. However, Goldman was disappointed. Most shoppers gave the carts a long look, but hardly anybody would give them a try. After a while, Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren't using his carts.

    "Don't you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket?" one shopper replied.

    Goldman wasn't beaten yet. He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try. To this end, Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping! Seeing this, the real customers gradually began copying the phony customers.

As Goldman had hoped, the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market. Not only did more people come—those who came bought more. With larger, easier-to-handle baskets, customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before.

    Today's shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman's original model. Perhaps that's one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937—before the coming of the shopping cart.

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