九年级英语 Unit 9 单元测试 人教新目标Go for it(4)

These small horses lived in the forest. Their many toes helped

the horses run over the soft wet ground.

It was very hot in the forest. But the weather changed. It became

cold. Many trees couldn't live in cold weather. The trees died and

fell. Open field took the place of(代替) forests. The sun made the

ground dry and hard(坚硬).

Horses began to change too.They began to get bigger.This took a

long time. On the dry hard land, horses needed only their middle toes

for running. Their middle toes became hard. After a long time horses

had only one hard toe on each foot. We call this hard toe a hoof(马

蹄).

(21) Long ago, the horse had four toes on each of its ______.

A. back feet B. front feet C. right

feet

(22) The cats were ______ the horses at that time.

A. much bigger B. smaller than C. bigger

than

(23) Which of the three sentences is true?

A. The weather stays the same the whole year all over the world.

B. When the weather changed, animals began to change too.

C. Cats were bigger in the past than they are today.

(24) On the dry hard land ______.

A. horses needed a lot of room for running

B. a horse needed more than four toes for running

C. horses needed only their middle toes for running

(25) Now each horse has ______ on its feet. A. one toe B.

three toes C. four toes

(二) Holiday Ride

A friend of mine named Paul received an expensive car from his

brother as a Christmas present. On Christmas Eve when Paul came out

of his office a street urchin(顽童) was walking around a shining car.

“Is this your car, Paul?”he asked.

Paul answered,“Yes, my brother gave it to me for Christmas.”The boy

was surprised.“You mean your brother gave it to you and it didn't

cost you anything. Boy. I wish ”He hesitated(犹豫).

Of course Paul knew what he was going to wish for. He was going to

wish he had a brother like that. But what the boy said surprised Paul

greatly.

“I wish,”the boy went on,“that I could be a brother like that.”

Paul looked at the boy in surprise, then he said again,“Would you

like to take a ride in my car?”

“Oh, yes, I'd love that.”