【单元考点培优】Module 3 Heroes 专题13 任务型阅读（含答案解析）-2025-2026学年九年级英语上册单元复习考点培优外研版

/ 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 / 让学习更有效 新课备课备考 | 英语学科 2025-2026学年九年级英语上册单元复习考点培优外研版 Module 3 Heroes 专题13 任务型阅读 学校:_____姓名：_____班级：_____考号：_____ Marco Polo was born in Italy in 1254. When he was 17, he travelled along the Silk Road with his father, who wanted to trade with Chinese. Finally, they arrived in Beijing. They were guests at the emperor’s palace. Although Marco was young, he was very clever and could speak four languages. The emperor was impressed by him and they became friends. The emperor asked Marco to help him and sent him to do many important jobs all over the country. Marco was amazed by how great China was. He was impressed by the emperor’s palace which he described as “the greatest palace that I’ve ever seen”. The walls were covered with gold and silver and the hall was so large. Marco was also attracted by lots of strange things in China. Marco was surprised to see Chinese people using paper money at the markets. In Europe, people paid for goods with gold and silver. He could not understand how people paid for food and valuable things with paper! He was also puzzled by the black stones people used to burn to produce heat. The black stones were coal, but Marco had never seen coal before! After he served the emperor for 17 years, Marco returned to Italy. He had a lot of money then. A writer wrote down all the stories that Marco told him in a book called The Description of the World, which became one of the best-selling books in Europe. 1．He was born in in 1254. At the age of 17, he travelled to China along the Silk Road with his . 2．He made friends with the Chinese . He helped the emperor do many jobs around China. 3．He described the emperor’s palace as the palace that he had ever seen. Some things which he never saw before him. 4．During his living in China, paper was used at the markets. The Chinese used to produce heat. 5．He became very . A book was about his travelling experiences. 阅读短文，回答问题。 Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock (股票) market last year with a value of around 140 billion—the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success． Ma made his first trip to the US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website—the seed for Alibaba was sown (播种). Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC． And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times. It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And ... ...