《2025年新课程课堂同步练习册九年级英语上册人教版》

Ⅴ.阅读理解。
Paper cutting is a very special art of Chinese handicrafts. One saying is that it came from the religious ceremony(宗教仪式). The ancient people cut paper into animals or people. They buried(埋) them with the dead, wishing that things paper stood for could be with the dead. Later, they were used during festivals to decorate gates and windows. After hundreds of years’ development, now they have become a very popular means of decoration.
It is easy to learn about cutting a piece of paper but very difficult to master it. Beginners need only a knife and some paper. For craftsmen(工匠), they need knives and gravers of various(各种各样的) types to make complicated(复杂的) patterns. It can be one piece of paper or many pieces.
Paper cutting covers nearly all topics, from flowers, birds, animals, people, figures in classic novels, to types of facial make-up in Beijing Opera. Paper cutting has various styles in different parts of China.
In the past, women living in the countryside gathered in their free time to make paper cutting, which was a way to judge their skillfulness. As society develops, fewer and fewer people learn this skill while there are some who still regard it as a profession. At present, there are factories and associations for paper cutting in China. Paper cutting has changed from decoration to a kind of art. At the same time, paper cutting also appears in cartoons, on stage, in magazines or in TV series.
根据短文内容,选择最佳选项。
(B)1. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Ancient religious ceremonies.
B. A special kind of art form in China.
C. Decoration of festivals in ancient China.
(C)2. Why did the ancient people bury paper animals or people?
A. They wanted to give them warmth.
B. They wanted the dead to have enough food.
C. They wanted them to accompany the dead.
(C)3. The underlined word “gravers” seems to be a kind of ______.
A. paper B. color C. tool
(B)4. From the passage we can see that ______.
A. it is very easy to become a paper cutting artist
B. it takes great patience to make a perfect paper cutting
C. paper cutting is limited to some topics
(C)5. What can we learn from the last paragraph?
A. More and more people regard paper cutting as a profession.
B. Paper cutting is in danger of disappearing in the future.
C. As a kind of art, paper cutting is still popular today.

答案： 1.B 2.C 3.C 4.B 5.C