江苏省无锡市长泾片20xx届九年级英语下学期第二次模拟试题

江苏省无锡市长泾片20xx届九年级英语下学期第二次模拟试题内容摘要：

. A. accepted the writer B. wanted a rest C. was quite afraid D. felt a little nervous 30. What can we learn from the passage? A. No pains, no gains. B. Love me, love my dog. C. Expect higher, act better. D. When there is a will, there is a way C A box boy at a supermarket was hard work. People came to the counter(柜台 ) and you put things in their bags for them and carried things to their cars. I had worked as a box boy in a supermarket in central Los Angles for ten months when I was seventeen. While working, I wear a plate(标牌 ) with my name on it. One day I met someone I knew years ago. I remembered his name and said, “Mr. Castle, how are you?” We talked about this and that. As he left, he said, “It was nice talking to you, Brett.” I felt great that he remembered me. Then I looked down at my name plate. Oh no. He didn’t remember me at all. He just read the name plate. I wish I had put “Irving” down on my name plate. If he’d have said, “Oh yes, Irving, how could I fet you?” I’d have been ready for him . There’s nothing personal here. The manager often shouted orders. One of these was: You couldn’t accept tips( 小费 ). Okay, I’m outside and I put the bags in the car. For a lot of people, the natural reaction(反应 ) is to take a quarter and give it to me. I’d say, “I’m sorry, I can’t.” They’d get angry. When you give someone a tip, you mean being polite. You take a quarter and you put it in their hands and you expect them to say, “Oh, thanks a lot.” When you say “I’m sorry, I can’t”, they feel a little put down. They say, “No one will know.” And they put it in your pocket. You say“I really can’t.”. It gets to a point whe re you almost have to hurt a person to prevent him from tipping you. Accepting tips was a friendly thing and made the customer feel good. I just couldn’t understand the strangeness of some people’s ideas. One lady in fact put it in my pocket, got in the car, and drove away. I would have had to throw the quarter at her or eaten it or something. I had decided that one year was enough. Some people needed the job to stay alive. I guess I had money and could afford to hate it and give it up. 31. What can be the best title for this text? A. How Hard Life is for Box Boys B. Getting along with Customers C. Why I Gave up My Job D. The Art of Taking Tips 32. From the second paragraph, we can infer that ________. A. the writer didn’t like the impersonal part o f his job B. with a name plate, people can easily start talking C. Mr. Castle mistook Irving for Brett D. Irving was the writer’s real name 32. Which is the correct order of the following sentences? a. Mr. Castle called the boy name. b. The boy got to know Mr. Castle. c. The boy realized Mr. Castle fot him. d. The boy began to work in this supermarket. e. The boy met Mr. Castle and had a talk. A. adcbe B. cabed C. bdeac D. dbaec D Do you think telling lies, whether a little or a lot, isn’t that big of a deal? Well, that depends on the situation. If someone asks, “Does this dress make me look fat?” we might all lie. We might s ay, “Of course not. You look great.” Lying to spare someone’s feelings is one thing. Lying to destroy(毁坏 ) someone’s character is another. “What’s really terrible is that you can’t cancel a big lie,” says a man we’ll call Man. “I promise if you go house to house to say, ‘I feel terrible I wrongly charged my neighbor with stealing,’ the lie will spread li ke a fire. You can’t call back a lie very easily.” Man goes on to say that lies have hurt people more than guns. “We have a grandfather in our church whose son inlaw told people the man treated his own children badly,” Man says. “To this day, we don ’t know whether it is true or not. I would doubt it, but I can’t take a chance, especially if he is working with young people in our church.” “I worked with a man who was stealing money from our boss,” says a man we’ll call Fred. “He was good at lying and doctoring the books (做假账 ). I worried, ‘If I turned him in, and he got out of the trouble, my career at our pany would e to an end.’” Fred says he came up with a plan to drop hints (暗示 ) to the pany owner. “I found printed materials on the dishonest worker. I started mailing them to the pany owner without leaving my name. Then one day, over lunch, I told my boss he should have the books checked carefully. He got the hint.” Fred told us that when the books were checked, the dishonest worker tried to blame him for the mistakes. However, Fred told the pany owner he had been dropping hints for some time. The boss got the picture. Fred kept his job. The dishonest guy was sent away. How to make a liar(说谎者 ) public takes work. It can be done, but you might have to give others time to accept the truth. The slower you move, the more control you will have. 34. The underlined phrase “spare someone’s feelings” in Paragraph 1 can be replaced by . A. destroy someone’s feelings B.。