《2025年阳光夺冠九年级英语下册》

一、完形填空(20分)(兰州中考)
Finding Happiness in the Lights
Last year, we took a trip to New York City. When we arrived at our 1 , it was around 2 a. m. My son, Joseph, looked out at the lights of Times Square and said he wanted to go 2 . I told him it was too 3 to go out, but he kept looking out of the window and said, “Just for two minutes. ”
My wife and I just looked at each other, smiled and said, “Two minutes. ” We got dressed and walked into the center of Times Square. 4 we got there, my son pointed at the lights and said, “Dad, 5 !” And then he started to fall asleep. So we had go back to the hotel.
It took us 20 minutes to 6 for the 20 seconds we spent outside, but it made our son 7 and that meant a lot to us. That night, I learned a lesson about happiness. We sometimes have chances to 8 happy moments in our lives, but we often find 9 to do something else.
Because of my son, I learned that I am the biggest enemy to my own happiness. 10 happiness is a door that is always open, we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.
1. A. restaurant B. bank C. supermarket D. hotel
2. A. inside B. outside C. back D. home
3. A. hot B. early C. late D. cold
4. A. If B. Unless C. Because D. When
5. A. listen B. touch C. look D. smile
6. A. make rules B. get ready
C. do sports D. have dinner
7. A. sad B. happy C. bored D. patient
8. A. create B. forget C. waste D. avoid
9. A. a place B. a book C. an excuse D. an order
10. A. Because B. Although C. Unless D. As soon as

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

二、阅读理解(40分)
A(大单元)
Sometimes, when you worry that you may fail an exam, you end up failing. Or during a seating arrangement (安排) in your class, when you are afraid to sit next to someone you don’t like, you end up sharing the desk with him or her.
This is what Murphy’s Law tells us: If things can go wrong, they will go wrong. But is it true?
Of the studies about Murphy’s Law, the most famous one is the buttered toast (烤面包片) phenomenon (现象): One toast with butter falls, it lands butter - side down most of the time.
To prove this, Robert Matthews did a lot of experiments with more than 1,000 British school kids in 2001.
In the first experiment, each student put a piece of buttered toast on a plate, let it fall off 20 times and noted which side it landed on. Of almost 10,000 experiments, toast landed butter - side down 62 percent of the time.
But you may ask: Is it the butter that plays a role? Here comes Matthews’ second experiment.
This time, instead of butter, the toast had a letter “B” written on one side. It still landed 58 percent of the time on the B - side.
This proved that Murphy’s Law is true: If the toast can land butter - side down, it will do so.
Matthews did another experiment. When students threw the toast from a height of 2.5 metres, the toast landed butter - side down only 47 percent of the time.
“Toast lands butter - side down because humans aren’t tall enough to let it land any other way,” Matthews said.
根据上文内容判断正(T)误(F)
11. According to Murphy’s Law, in an English class, if you don’t want to be questioned by the teacher, you may end up failing answering the questions.
12. In the first experiment of buttered toast, we know the toast landed butter - side down about 620 times.
13. If the toast can land butter - side down, Murphy’s Law is true.
14. In the first two experiments, either the butter or the letter “B” plays a role.
15. The passage is mainly talking about Murphy’s Law depends on people’s mental state(心理状态).

答案： 11.F 12.F 13.T 14.F 15.F