Unit 1 Great explorations能力提升【含答案解析】—2025深圳牛津九年级（下）Module 1 Explorations and exchanges

2025深圳牛津九年级（下）Unit 1能力提升 第一卷 选择题 I. 完形填空（10分） 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佳选项。（共10小题，每小题1分） An American writer’s praise of ancient China’s literary (文学的) tradition has moved many Chinese readers. Bill Porter spent four years 1 following the paths of China’s 36 famous poets. These poets included Qu Yuan and 2 poets from the Tang and Song Dynasties. Porter visited many places, such as the poets’ graves, their birthplaces, the villages and cities where they once lived, and the places they wrote about in their poems. Because of this, these places are still 3 today. One place Porter visited was a mountain in eastern China’s Shandong province. Porter set out three small cups. He filled them with the whiskey (威士忌) he brought from the United States. He then 4 the cups to toast (为……敬酒) his two imaginary guests, Li Bai and Du Fu, in the place where the two poets first met, more than 1,000 years ago. Porter said he carried the whiskey on his journey because 5 appears often in Chinese poems. It shows 6 feelings. On a visit to Xi’an, Porter walked up a big, old building in the middle of the city. He looked around and saw the whole 7 city. He also saw Zhongnan Mountain, which was very beautiful. A long time ago, a poet from the Tang Dynasty named Wang Wei once wrote wonderful poems about this 8 . A Chinese copy of Porter’s book about his 9 came out soon.The book is called Finding Them Gone: Visiting China’s Poets of the Past.More and more Chinese readers are 10 Porter’s love for China’s ancient poems. ( ) 1. A. angrily B. carefully C. sadly D. tiredly ( ) 2. A. awful B. humorous C. celebrated D. lucky ( ) 3. A. avoided B. remembered C. damaged D. attacked ( ) 4. A. hit B. afforded C. cleaned D. raised ( ) 5. A. gold B. silk C. wine D. war ( ) 6. A. nervous B. different C. embarrassed D. scared ( ) 7. A. modern B. poor C. unknown D. common ( ) 8. A. art B. mountain C. journey D. festival ( ) 9. A. voyages B. adventures C. travels D. trades ( ) 10. A. doubting B. hiding C. controlling D. discovering II. 阅读理解(40分) 第一节 阅读下列短文，从下面每题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。（共15小题，每小题1.5分） A One of the boys who loved to read The Travels of Marco Polo was an Italian explorer named Christopher Columbus. He wanted to find a western route to the Far East and visit the rich lands described in the book. In one of his writings, he said he went to sea at 14. After that, Columbus made many voyages, but he never got to China and Japan, which he had read about in the book. Many sea captains at that time were looking for a shorter way to India than the long and tiring land route that Marco Polo had taken. By then,many sailors believed the Earth was round. Columbus believed that if the Earth was truly round, one should be able to reach India by sailing westward. He thought it would be much easier and shorter. Columbus wanted to try out his idea. Howev ... ...