北师大版初中英语九年级Unit 2 综合检测卷

— I hear the company __________________ him a good job, but he refused it.

—Why not stop____ for a while?

— No. ________________ seeing a film, I just stayed at home and listened to the music.

— Of course. Whether or not you can read fast mainly ________________ your reading habits. Try to read word groups while reading.

— Right, just as many old people do.

E-schoolbags

    Is your schoolbag too heavy? The e-schoolbag will help you. It is said that e-schoolbags are going to be brought into1in Chinese middle schools soon.

    Heavy schoolbags have been a serious2for a long time. But the e-schoolbag will3. An e-schoolbag is4lighter than a usual schoolbag. Perhaps, the e-schoolbag should be5an e-textbook. It is a small computer for students. It is as6as a usual book,7it can still have all the things for study ,such as text- books and exercise books. They can be made8chips (芯片) like stamps. The students can read the text page by page on the screen, take notes, and even send e-mails to their teachers. They only need to9the right chips into the e-schoolbags. Then they can use them.

    Some people say10e schoolbags can be easily broken, while others say it is not good to students' eyes. But only time will tell.

    Wonder is a book about a ten-year-old boy called August, or Auggie, who feels normal but looks very different.

    What's Wonder about?

    Auggie lives with his parents and sister in New York. He is a normal boy in many ways. He rides a bike and likes playing with his Xbox. But Auggie has deformities (畸形) of the face and looks very different from other children. At the start of the book, he tells us, "My name is August. I won't describe what I look like. Whatever you're thinking, it's probably worse." In the street, people look at Auggie and are frightened.

    Auggie has never been to school because he has spent a lot of time in hospital. His mother teaches him at home, but now he's ten, and she thinks he should go to school. At first, Auggie doesn't want to go. He worries that other students will look at him and say terrible things. But when he visits a school with his mum, he likes the headteacher and decides to go. Auggie's first year at school has good times and bad times. He makes some good friends but other children are rude to him. At the end of the year, Auggie goes on a school trip and a frightening event there changes things completely.

    Is it a good book?

    Wonder is an excellent book. It tells an exciting story that makes you feel many different emotions. It is easy to like Auggie. He has a good sense of humour, so the book has a good mix of funny and sad moments. But the book isn't just about Auggie. We also learn what life is like for his sister, and his friend, Jack. Wonder is popular with people of all ages. Pre-teens, teenagers and adults all love the book.

    A best-seller

    Wonder is R.J. Palacio's first book. On her website, she explains that she had the idea for Wonder after seeing a girl with deformities on the street one day. Many schools use the book to start discussions about bullying, friendship and being different. The book is very popular and has won prizes. Many people are looking forward to seeing what R.J. Palacio writes next.

    This is a book show. Read and enjoy them in your free time! Let's do pleasure reading together.

     Have you ever read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? It was written by Lewis Carroll. He was an English writer, poet, scientist, photographer, and priest. His real name was Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, and Lewis Carroll was his pen name. He was born in 1832 and died in 1898.

    He is most famous for writing two children's fantasy books about a young girl called Alice. They were titled Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass.

    He also wrote two famous poems called The Hunting of the Snark and Jabberwocky. What is important about these poems is that he made up many new words to use in them. He was an expert at "wordplay" and used words in many different ways. Some of these ways were quite new. And this has influenced members of the literary elite who are well educated about English. Many people still study his works and his life today.

     Although they seem to have been written for children, Lewis Carroll's books and poems have been enjoyed by people of all ages. If you have not read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, which is also referred to by the short title Alice in Wonderland, you should read it soon. No matter how old you are, you will find it exciting and enjoyable.

    Who is the greatest English writer? . His popular expressions, like "To be or not to be, that is a question.", and his stories such as Romeo and Juliet are almost famous in every corner of the world. William Shakespeare was born in a small town in England in 1564. . By 1594, he had become an important playwright in London.

    Whether comedies or tragedies, Shakespeare's plays always catch people's hearts. . In A Midsummer Night's Dream, fairies(仙女) play magical tricks on people lost in the woods. His tragedies, however, can be very dark. Macbeth tells the story about a man who becomes king by killing a lot of people.

     Shakespeare's works also have a big influence on the English language. .

    Of course, Shakespeare wrote his plays 400 years ago and his English was very different from that of today. . His plays have been translated into other languages and are performed more often. There are over 400 films and TV plays adapted from his works. Shakespeare is not of an age, but for all the time.

A. His comedies make a joke on human weakness and always have a happy ending

B. But it doesn't influence his popularity (流行程度)

C. He created about 1,700 English words, including everyday ones like "lonely" and "hurry"

D. When he was young, he moved to London and began to work as a playwright

E. The person should be William Shakespeare

     The American book Who Moved My Cheese? has been a best-seller all over the world. Its author is Spence Johnson. It teaches people how to face changes in their lives. It is just for teens. The book tells us that when facing changes in our lives， like a new school or new friends, don't be afraid. Instead, use this change to make a better life. The book gives an example of a change at school. A school is changing from having two terms to three terms because there are too many students.

    Several teens are talking about this. Most of them are unhappy and worried. But Chris is not. He laughs and tells a story about two mice, two “little people” and some cheese.

    The four are in a maze(迷宫) looking for the cheese. Here, cheese means something important in life, like moving to a new class or getting into college. But they find the cheese is gone. The mice realise that they can't change what has happened and have to find more cheese. This means finding different dreams. The "little people", however, can't do this. They are afraid of change, so they find no cheese.

     After Chris finishes the story, the friends understand one thing: to get more cheese, move in a new direction quickly. His friends understand how this can be used in the changes all teens face, such as doing well at school or having good relationships or just feeling good about yourself.

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Reading outside class

    As we all know, reading has a lot of benefits.