21世纪英语报第七期-九年级报纸阅读命题

1、时事新闻阅读（七）amoney comes in different forms. cash is used in real life. but when it comes to on line busi ness, some prefer virtual currencies （虚拟货币）.among them, bitcoin is the most famous one.created in 2009 by a japanese programmer, bitcoins are produced by computers and are not controlled by any gov

2、ernment or bank everyone can buy them with real money through online exchanges （交易所）.the total number of bitcoins is 21 million they can be used for online business like buying products in computer games in china, bitcoin trade has developed quickly, making up 80 percent of the worlds total, accordi

3、ng to xinhuabut recently, bitcoins caught people's attention for another reason: there will be no more bitcoin exchanges in china soon. btcchina, one of china's biggest bitcoin exchanges, closed its trading platform （平 台）in september. another two large exchanges, huobi and okcoin, said they

4、would also stop all trading by the end of october, reported the beijing news.this change is brought by an order from seven chinese departments, including the central bank and ministry of industry and information technology that's because bitcoins were also used for illegal （彳呂法 tl勺）activities, s

5、uch as drug （毒品）selling and smuggling （走私）for example, wannacry, a computer virus （病毒），hit tens of thousands of computers in may. it required the victims （受害者）to pay the hackers lots of money using bitcoins, otherwise it would destroy the files （文件）in their computers paying with bitcoins left no per

6、sonal information for the police to find the people behind the attacks 1. the underlined word it refers to.（指代关系）a a virusb bitcoinc wanna cryd. a virus's creator2. which of the following is ture?（细节判断）a. bitcoins can be used for downloading computer games.b. bitcoins can be used for buying prod

7、ucts in real shops.c- bitcoins can be used for buying things in on line games.d. bitcoins can be used for paying for bills as real money.3 we can infer the reason why china has stopped the trading of bitcoins is（逻辑推t里）a. because the number of bitcoins is too largeb. because bitcoins lead more teenag

8、ers to play gamesc- because the trading of bitcoins developed too quicklyd. because bitcoins are used to do illegal businesses4. which of the following is the best title?（主旨大意）a. money comes in different forms.b bitcoin is the most famous currencyc bitcoins caught peopled attention.d say bye to bitc

9、oin.bthree people were sitting around a table in a restaurant in brazil how much do you think each of them tipped （给小费）?the briton asked: "it's common to tip 10 percent, right?5' the american woman cried: “oh, i was planning to leave 20 percent! and the chinese asked: “what's a tip?

10、'，although it is not a custom to tip in china, tipping is a big deal in western countries. when traveling to countries like the us and canada, it is common to tip about 10 to 15 percent of the bill.usually, people give tips to a waiter or waitress when they eat in a restaurant. the us tops the l

11、ist of the biggest restaurant tips, with waiters and waitresses expecting to get 10 to 25 percent of the total bill.so if you order $ 100 （about 662 yuan） worth of food, you are expected to pay your waiter at least $15, making your total payment $115 but why is this? many waiters and waitresses get

12、paid below the us minimum wage （最彳氐工资）and work for tips to make up for that. according to the american travel website tripadvisor, some states pay their servers （月艮务 员）only $2.13 per hour.it is not just for waiters, either. hotel maids（女佣），hairdressers （发型0帀）and taxi drivers also usually work for ti

13、ps.besides the us, tipping is also popular in some southeast asian countries, such as indonesia and thailand however, in japan there is a no-tipping culture and you may actually offend the waiter if you try to give him mone y.1. from paragraph 1 and 2, we can see the writer's purpose is to show

14、that（段落主旨目的）a. british people know how much to tipb. americans are the richestc it is a custom to tip in chinad. tipping amounts differ from country to country2. if you order $280 worth of food in the us, then it's common to tip.（查找细节）a. $14b.$42c. $50d. $803. what is the meaning of the underlin

15、ed word in the last paragraph?（推测词义）a make someone angryb.make someone happyc make someone pleasedd.make someone satisfied4. what can we learn from the story?（逻辑推理）a tipping is popular around the worldbyou should also tip the taxi driver in the us.c. asian people never have to tipwaiters in a restau

16、rant.d.it is ok to tip a waitressin japan.cthe great monarch migration帝王蝶的生命是一场永不停息的接力赛when autumn arrives in the united states and canada, you could see one of nature's greatest scenes 一 the yearly migration （迁书e） of the monarch butterflies （帝王蝶）.no other butterfly in the world migrates like th

17、e orange and black monarchs of north america. they cannot live for long periods in cold weather.so each autumn around october, the butterflies travel up to 3,000 kilometers south to spend winter in warmer locations. some even fly to the mountains of mexico- there are so many of them that they almost

18、 block out the sky. and you can hear their wings beating.it usually takes the butterflies two months to reach mexico. after five months of staying, they head back north in the spring.but not one butterfly finishes the whole round-trip. they lay eggs along the way and die.three generations （代）of butt

19、erflies will live and die during the spring journey alone. the fourth and final generation of the year is born in early autumn and will reach the north but the butterflies hardly get to rest before starting the iong journey south again to mexico.the most amazing thing about these butterflies is that

20、 they return to the very same trees in mexico that their great-great-grandparents used the winter before.however, the populations of this colorful butterfly have dropped in recent years.in 2015, the us fish and wildlife service said that nearly a billion monarchs have disappeared from theoverwinteri

21、ng sites （越冬地点）since 1990, reported the washington post.one of the main reasons, experts say, is that farmers have used herbicides （除草齐！j） on milkweed （马利筋） plants. the monarchs lay eggs along the route of their migration. their larvae （幼虫）live and feed on milkweed plants but the herbicides can kill

22、 them1. the underlied word can be replace by（推测词义）a. breakb. blowc coverd. disappear from2. why do they migrate to the south?（查找信息）a. because they dony like living in the northb. because winters in the south are more beautiful.c. because they can" stand the cold winter of the northd. because th

23、eir grandparents live in mexico.3 according to the passage, we know that.（细节判断）a. the butterflies that fly back to the north are not the same ones that flew southb. when arriving in the south, the butterflies will all stay on one treec. the population of monarch butterflies is increasing after 2015d

24、. farmers have planted lots of milkweed plants to attract the butterflies4. where can we find the article?（逻辑推理）a. from tv series.b from scientific magazine.c. from magazine of natured. from radio programmes.at 9 am on sept 21, a fully loaded high-speed train left beijing for shanghai. seconds later

25、 when the screen showed a speed of 350 km/h, excited passengers （乘客）held up their cameras and cellphones to take photosthe train is china9s newest high-speed train, fuxing ifs now the fastest train in the world, reported xinhuathere were 2,595 high-speed trains running across china by 2016, making u

26、p 60 percent of the worlcfs total high-speed trains, according to xinhua. chinese companies have also built more than 10 high-speed railways in europe, southeast asia and south america. overseas （衣国夕卜），the high-speed train has become a new name card for china.besides the high-speed train, many other

27、 innovations （创新）have also changed people's lives in china.bike sharing （共享单车）,for example, is not new itself. but china has made it much more convenient and popula匚 months ago, the chinese bike-sharing companies mobike and ofo went to singapore and britain. users there were excited and posted p

28、hotos of themselves riding the bikes on social media.but that's not all. suppose you are riding a bike on the street and stop to buy a bottle of water. when you reach into your pocket, you find that you have left your wallet at home don't worry. it's not a problem if you're in china.

29、 you could just pay with your cellphone by scanning a quick respond code （qr, 二维码）from the seller.cashless payment （无现金支彳寸）has become a lifestyle choice in china even a street stall （摊位）selling fruit has qr codes.thomas derksen, from germany, spent an entire day in hangzhou without any cash or bankc

30、ards last year. in july he told china daily it was something he could not imagine doing back home in europeit seems that china is really leading in some ways. and we have every reason to believe in an even brighter future.1. china has built high-speed trains inareas.（查找细节）d.5a. symbolb. successc. pr

31、oductd. invention3 the passage is mainly talking about（主旨大意）a. china has built the fastest high-speed train in the world.b. users in singapore and britain are satisfied with chinese sharing bikes.c. cashless payment is everywhere in china.d. china is leading the world with some innovations.4. how do

32、es the writer feel about china's future?（逻辑推理）a. proudb. confidentc. nothingd. both a and beone day a young man gary went to see a wise old man. he wanted to know why he wasn't able to reach all of his goals in his life.he found the old man reading in a small house by the river. with a smile

33、, the wise man listened to garys story and told him, "first come help me boil a kettle （水壶）of water!gary saw a big kettle standing in the corner next to a small stove （火炉），but he dicin' t find any wood. so he went out to search for some.he came back with some dry wood, filled up the kettle

34、with water and put it on the stove then he put some wood in the stove and started a fire. but because the kettle was too large, when the wood burned up, the water did not boil. so he ran off to get morewhen he returned, the water had nearly turned cold. this time he learned his lesson and prepared m

35、ore wood in advcmce. this time the water boiled very quickly.“if there is not enough wood, how would you boil the water?" the wise man asked.gary thought for a moment but didnt know the answer, so he shook his head.u well, then just pour out some water from the kettle! the old man said. gary nodded thoughtfullyuat first, you had so many d