《2025年阳光夺冠九年级英语下册》

H(呼和浩特中考)
A restaurant had once fallen upon hard times. Only five 1 were left: the manager and four others, all over 60 years old.
In the town near the restaurant they lived a successful businessman who was good at managing business, so the manager 2 to ask the businessman if he could offer any advice that might save the restaurant. The manager and the businessman talked for a long period of time, but when he was asked for advice, the businessman 3 for a while and then said, “I have no advice to give. The only thing I can tell you is that the saver is one of you. ”
The manager, returning to the restaurant 4 , told the other people what the businessman had said. In the months that 5 , the old restaurant workers thought carefully of the words of the businessman, “The saver is one of us?” they asked themselves. As they thought about this possibility, they all began to treat each other with 6 respect (尊重). And thinking that each of themselves might be the saver, they also began to treat themselves with more care.
As time went by, people coming to the restaurant 7 that some respect and warm kindness were around the five old members of the small restaurant. Hardly knowing 8 , more people began to come back to the restaurant. They began to bring their friends, and theirs brought more friends. Two 9 later, the small restaurant had once again become a big food company, thanks to the businessman's 10 . They understood that it was they themselves that were the savers.
1. A. cooks B. waiters C. members D. customers
2. A. hoped B. began C. allowed D. decided
3. A. stopped B. refused C. rested D. laughed
4. A. angrily B. hopefully C. lively D. nervously
5. A. following B. followed C. going D. gone
6. A. strange B. similar C. strong D. special
7. A. received B. advised C. felt D. wished
8. A. what B. how C. why D. when
9. A. years B. days C. hours D. minutes
10. A. advice B. words C. methods D. success

答案： 1.C 2.D 3.A 4.B 5.B 6.D 7.C 8.C 9.A 10.B

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“The grass looks greener on the other side of the fence. ”That's an old 1 in English. It means other places often look better, more interesting than the place 2 you live. Some people worry 3 young Chinese are beginning to feel that way. They see young Chinese ignoring Chinese culture and, instead, 4 Japanese cartoon books, watching Korean soap operas and even celebrating western holidays.
Foreign books and soap operas are good, 5 Chinese writers and actors are just as good. As for holidays, Christmas is nice, but it can 6 have the meaning for Chinese that the Spring Festival has, and the West has nothing to compare with the Mid - Autumn Festival. And let's not forget the part of Chinese culture I like best: 7 friendliness. Not all countries are as 8 as China.
It's good to enjoy other cultures and to learn 9 them, but they cannot replace your own culture. It's good to look on the other side of the fence, but 10 you take a good long look. You will find that the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the fence.
1. A. saying B. words C. voice D. talk
2. A. why B. when C. where D. how
3. A. if B. that C. what D. whether
4. A. buy B. refusing C. refused D. buying
5. A. but B. so C. or D. because
6. A. always B. ever C. still D. never
7. A. it B. they C. its D. their
8. A. warmer B. warm C. cold D. colder
9. A. from B. with C. to D. over
10. A. make up B. make sure
C. make up of D. be sure to

答案： 1.A 2.C 3.B 4.D 5.A 6.D 7.C 8.B 9.A 10.B