2023—2024 学年第二学期三月质量监测 九年级 英语 Ⅱ. 阅读理解（40 分） 第一节 阅读下列短文，从下面每小题的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项，并 （
组卷网，总分：75 分 考试时间： 80 分钟） 在答题卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。（共 15 小题，每小题 1.5 分） 请将答案写 在答题卷上 A 第一部分 选择题（50 分） With most Chinese people speaking Mandarin, or putonghua, some local dialects, or fangyan, are in Ⅰ. 完形填空（10 分） danger of disappearing. To save them, the Chinese government started the Chinese Language Resources 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最 (资源) Protection Project in 2015. 佳选项， 并 在 答 题 卡上将相应的字母编号涂黑。（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分） This project looked at how people talk in 1,712 places. Their languages included 103 dialects that are A man kept driving for 3 hours and felt sleepy. Suddenly, he drove off the road into a ditch (沟 ). almost gone. Over five years, more than 350 universities and research groups joined in, along with over Though he wasn’t 1 , his car was stuck deep in the ditch. So the man walked to a nearby farm to 4,500 experts (专家) and more than 6,000 dialect speakers. ask for 2 . “Warwick can get the car out of that ditch,” said the farmer, pointing to an old mule This project has helped China to build the largest language resource library in the world. Now a (骡子) standing in a field. The man looked at the old mule, thinking that it was 3 for it to do dialect library has been built online, where people can learn dialects from over 5.6 million recordings and that. over 5 million videos. At present, the project has entered into the second stage. It plans to create digital The farmer noticed the 4 on the man’s face and repeated, “Yep, old Warwick can do the tools like apps and mobile dictionaries to help people learn dialects. job. I believe in him.” The man thought he had nothing to lose. So, the two men and the mule then 5 Why is it important to protect the dialect culture According to British expert Harold Palmer, dialects to the ditch. The farmer tied the mule to the car. Then he pulled the rope and shouted, are the key to keeping local cultures, because they faithfully show the histories, the beliefs and the fixed “Pull, Fred! Pull, Jack! Pull, Ted! Pull, Warwick!” ideas of an area. Soon, the mule pulled the car out of the ditch 6 . Zhang Hongming, another expert, talked about the worrying situation of dialects. “For about over 10 He thanked the farmer and Warwick. But he was still 7 about how Warwick did it. So he years, in the Wu dialect areas such as Shanghai and Suzhou, children aged 6 to 15 can understand but asked, “Why did you call out all those 8 before you called Warwick ” hardly speak the dialect. Besides, young people above 15 years old sometimes speak it, but not very well. The farmer smiled, saying: “Old Warwick is just about blind. But as long as he believes he’s part of a If this keep ... ...
