20xx届牛津版英语九年级上学期期末考试试题

20xx届牛津版英语九年级上学期期末考试试题内容摘要：

te, most of them in developing countries. Twothirds are women and girls. John Wood who started the Room to Read campaign（运动） , has opened 1,650 schools and 15,000 libraries in some of the world’ s poorest munities（社区） . He said that from the beginning, Room to Read’ s goal was to reach 10 million children around the world in the poorest countries. In 1998, on a threeweek vacation journey in Nepal, Wood met a local headmaster who invited him to visit his school in a far mountain village. The experience changed Wood’ s life. “ This headmaster had 450 students at the school, but he didn’ t have any books,” Wood said.” He had a library that was empty.” Wood promised to fill the library shelves and returned to the village year later with some of his friends with 3,000 books. And that was just the start. Later, Wood used some of his personal money to start Room to Read. He believes that world change begins with educated children. Today, the programme can be found in 10 countries across Asia and Africa. Wood believes the key to the program’ s success is local support .While Room to Read gives away money and provides books, munities offer land and parents help build the school. Agnes, a Room to Read teacher in Zambia who also runs the library, is proud to say the literacy at her school has improved. Room to Read’ s biggest challenge is the huge need. Hundreds of munities have asked for literacy programmes. One way of Room to Read’ s success is that it will achieve Wood’ s goal of reaching 10 million kids by 2020, five years earlier than it is planned. 38. The purpose of the Room to Read campaign is to __________. A. ask parents to read together with their children B. help poor children to learn to read and write C. tell more people the importance of reading D. help 10 million children to go to college 39. When John Wood travelled in Nepal in 1998, he __________. A. visited many local schools B. sent many books to local children C. started the Room to Read campaign D. met a man who changed his life 40. The underlined part “ the literacy” in the last paragraph refers to（指的是）__________. A. the teaching conditions B. the teaching quality C. students’ ability to read and write D. the money teachers earn every month 41. John Wood is a person that is ____________. A. helpful and generous B. honest and brave C. careless but active D. strict but friendly D Close contacts between Japan and the rest of the world were created in the twentieth century. In the last forty years, business contacts between Japan and the West have bee very important. Many foreign panies now have offices in Japan and Japanese businessmen do business around the world. Differences between Japanese and Western ways of doing business, however, often bewilder foreign businessmen and make doing business in Japan difficult for foreigners. The American businessman, for example, wants to start talking business immediately. He does not want to wait. The Japanese businessman, on the other hand, likes to arrive at decisions after giving them serious thought. Another thing foreign businessmen have difficulty in understanding is when a Japanese means “Yes” or “No”. This is because of cultural differences between Japanese and Western society(社会 ), Which make it difficult for a Japanese to say “No” directly. In the USA, it is easy to say “No” to something one does not want to do. But in Japan, it is very difficult to say “No”. To refuse an invitation or a request( 请求 ) with “No” is felt to be impolite. It is thought to be selfish and unfriendly. So instead of saying “No” directly, the Japanese have developed many ways to avoid(避免 ) saying “No”. These c an help them avoid hurting other people’s feelings. However, this often makes their ways of doing business rather difficult for foreigners to understand and follow. 42. What often makes foreigners feel difficult to do business in Japan? A. Their different ways of doing business. B. Their different lifestyles. C. The fact that the Japanese never say “No”. D. The fact that the Japanese are slow to take action. 43. Which of the following is the closest in meaning to the underlined expression “bewilder foreign businessmen” in Paragraph One? A. cause foreign businessmen to change their minds. B. give a feeling of surprise to foreign businessmen. C. attract foreign businessmen’s attention. D. make foreign businessmen think wrongly. 44. What fact does the passage lead you to believe? A. American businessmen do things more slowly than Japanese ones. B. American businessmen like to say “Yes” and “No”. C. Americans usually say what they are thinking. D. Americans do not say what they think or。