《2025年亮点给力大试卷九年级英语上册译林版》

Passage 3(2023·淮安市涟水中考二模)
新素材科普知识 At night, you fall asleep while listening to beautiful music. In the morning, you are woken up by the singing of birds outside. You can enjoy all of these things because of the important organs—the ears.
You may wonder: How do the ears work? The ear has three different parts: the outer ear, the middle ear, and the inner ear. The outer ear is the part you can see. It collects sound around you. The sound then travels through the middle ear, the inner ear and then to your brain.
Your ears never stop working, even when you are asleep! Your ears continue hearing sounds, but your brain just ignores(忽略) them. That's why you might sometimes wake up suddenly in the middle of the night—your brain hears something but your brain doesn't pay attention to it since you are asleep.
But ears do more than hear. They help you keep your balance too. In the inner ear, there are organs that are filled with liquid(液体) covered in small hairs. When you move your head, the liquid and hairs move too. They send messages to your brain about the position of your head.
More surprisingly, ears even help with tasting food. Of course, you don't actually taste food with your ears. But there are nerves(神经) running through the middle ear that connect the tongue to the brain. If something wrong happens to your ears, you might have a hard time telling different flavours apart according to People's Daily.
The ears are truly important organs with many functions. Everyone should make sure to protect their ears as well as they can.
根据以上短文内容填空(每空不限一词)。
1. From the passage, we know that there are ____ of our ears and sound around us ____ by the outer ear.
2. Sound travels through ____ and then the inner ear, and at last to ____.
3. We hear with our ____. Our ears work even while we are sleeping, but our brain pays ____ attention to the sounds it hears.
4. Ears also help us ____. In the inner ear, there are organs that ____ of liquid covered in small hairs. They tell our brain the position of our head.
5. Ears even help with tasting food. There are nerves running through the middle ear that ____ the tongue to the brain. If our ears don't work properly, we might not be able ____ different flavours apart.

答案： Passage 3: 1. three different parts, is collected 2. the middle ear, our brain 3. ears, no 4. (to) keep our balance, are full 5. connect, to tell