新目标英语九年级Unit 7同步阅读（含答案）
Unit 7 Where would you like to visit?
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根据你所读到的信息完成下面的表格。
Today, the largest remaining area of hutongs in is on the north of the Forbidden City, in the area around the , the and Hou Hai. There is where many Chinese and foreign tourists come for a “hutong tour”. We asked several of these tourists to tell us about their impressions.
(Vicky Wang, )
“It’s really strange --- we’re in the middle of one of the biggest cities in the world, but in these hutongs it feels as if we’re in a village in the countryside. There are lots of trees everywhere, and all the buildings are only one or two storeys high. Also, there aren’t many cars in the hutongs, so they are quite quiet --- very different from the streets in the centre of ! It’s nice to stroll around here and stop for a drink in one of the little cafes or bars by the lakes.”
(Ted Watson, )
“When you visit the modern parts of Beijing --- with the wide roads, tall, concrete and glass buildings, and neon lights (霓虹灯) you can imagine that you are almost anywhere in the world. It’s the old hutongs, temples and palaces that are really interesting and beautiful. It’s a shame that so little of the old city remains. I’ve taken lots of photographs while I’ve been here. The next time I come back here, I don’t know how much of old will be left.”
(Yu Lou, )
“I don’t see what’s so interesting about these hutongs. The streets are too narrow --- I couldn’t drive my Mercedes down them. And most of the houses are old and dirty. should have a modern capital city that we can all be proud of. Lets get rid of these hutongs and replace them with modern offices and flats!
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根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
Strange things happen when you travel, because the earth is divided into twenty-four zones (分区). The time difference between two zones is one hour. You can have days with more than twenty-four hours and days with fewer than twenty-four hours. You can have weeks with seven days and weeks with fewer than seven.
If you make a five-day trip across the Atlantic Ocean (大西洋), your ship comes into a different time zone every day. As you come into each zone, the time changes one hour. If you travel west, you set your watch back. If you travel east, you set it ahead. Each day of your trip has either twenty-five or twenty-three hours.
If you make a trip by ship across the Pacific Ocean (太平洋), you across the International Date Line (国际日期变更线). This is the point where a new day begins. When you cross the line, you change one full day. If you travel east, today becomes yesterday; if you travel west, it is tomorrow.
( ) 1. The time difference between two time zones is ___________.
A. twenty-four hours B. one hour
C. two hours D. twenty-three hours
( ) 2. If we cross the , we _____________.
A. change one full day B. set our watch back
C. set our watch ahead D. set our watch back or ahead
( ) 3. If we travel east across the International Date Line on July 5th, the date becomes July _________________.
A. 3rd B. 4th C. 5th D. 6th
( ) 4. The ____________.
A. is in one time zone B. is divided into twenty-four zones
C. is divided into five time zones D. can not be crossed in five days
( ) 5. Which of the following sentences is true?
A. If we travel around the world, we will get into trouble in telling the time.
B. If we travel west across the , we will have twenty-three hours.
C. If we travel by ship across the , we will cross the International Date Line.
D. If we travel across the , today becomes tomorrow.
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阅读表格内容，根据所提供的信息，选择最佳答案。
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Pusan 釜山（韩国地名） Costa Rica 哥斯达黎加
Senegal 塞内加尔 vs (Versus的缩写) 对抗prep.
( ) 1. There is a clothes show in . If you want to go there and watch it, you can only take _____________ when you reach at 15:10.
A. F001 B. F C. F005 D. F002
( ) 2. There are ________ flights between and every week.
A. 5 B. C. 7 D. 8
( ) 3. If you want to watch the World Cup Football Match ( vs a foreign country) in and return on the same day, you can only watch __________.
A. China vs (Tuesday 06:30 --- 08:30)
B. Turkey vs (Thursday 07:30 --- 09:30)
C. China vs (Friday 12:30 --- 14:30)
D. vs (Saturday 11:30 --- 13:30)
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阅读短文，选择正确答案。
The is the biggest museum in the world. Inside, you feel smaller than usual. There are about a hundred things to see.
The story of the goes back three hundred years to one unusual man, Sir Hans Sloane, doctor to King George II. The doctor collected books, drawings, clothes, money, animals, flowers, things from all over the world. The doctor wanted everything to stay together when he died, so that people could come and have a look. The began. King George II gave his library, and the museum started to grow.
The opened in 1759, six years after Sir Hans Sloane died. At first the museum was only open three days a week and only ten people could enter in an hour. There wasn’t much time to see things. Visitors had to run though the rooms.
By about 1800, things began to get better. Wonderful statues, three thousand years old, arrived from .
King George IV sold all his books to the museum secretly. A hundred years ago not only old books but also new ones arrived at the museum, and more people came to read them. Since them many famous men have written and studied there. And the library is growing faster and faster. There are four kilometers of new shelves every year and there are about two million visitors every year.
( ) 1. Sir Hans Sloane was interested in _______________.
A. collecting all kinds of books B. collecting all kinds of drawings
C. collecting all kinds of money D. collecting all kinds of things
( ) 2. When you go inside the , you feel smaller than usual because __________.
A. the museum is empty B. the museum is very big
C. there are too many things in it D. you are too small
( ) 3. Sir Hans Sloane died ____________.
A. in 1753 B. in C. in 1765 D. in 1800
( ) 4. At first, the visitors had to run through the museum because ____________.
A. there are only several things to see
B. the museum was the biggest one in the world
C. they were not interested in the things in it
D. they had only one hour to see all the things in it
( ) 5. The passage is mainly about ______________.
A. Sir Hans Sloane B. George II
C. the history of D. the books in the museum
Keys
1 1. (really) interesting and beautiful
2. narrow, old and dirty
3. we’re in a big city
4. “hutong tour”
2 BDBCA
3 DCD
4 DBADC