2012年新目標九年級英語Unit9單元檢測試題及答案
some people have another reason for changing their names. they have moved to a new country and want to use a name that is usual there. for example, li kaiming changed his name to ken lee when he moved to the united states. he uses the name ken at school. but when staying with his family and chinese friends, he uses li kaiming. for some people, using different names makes life easier in their new country.
in many countries, a woman changes her family names to her husband’s after she gets married. but today, many women are keeping their own family names and not using their husbands’.
( ) 36. hanna changed her name to anne because “anne” _______.
a. makes her different
b. is easier for people to remember
c. i s more unusual than “hanna”
d. makes her prettier
( ) 37. famous people want their new names to _______.
a. have special sound b. be ordinary
c. have no meaning d. be unknown
( ) 38. li kaiming uses his new name when he _______.
a. stays with his family b. is at school
c. is among chinese friends d. comes back to china
( ) 39. the underlined words “gets married” mean _______.
a. 升官 b. 就業 c. 結婚 d. 生育
( ) 40. the passage mainly tells us _______.
a. different people have different names
b. what names mean
c. only film stars and sportsmen have two names
d. why some people change their names
ⅳ. 任務型閱讀（10分）
during the 1890s, basketball was becoming the most popular gym game in america. but basketball was not a good sport for older people to play, because of much running in the game.
so in 1895, william morgan, a gym teacher in holyoke, massachusetts, america, decided to invent a new game that would be good for older persons too. he invented a game which was played with the same kind of ball as basketball, but mo re like tennis.
at first morgan called the game “minonette”. but when he watched players hitting the ball back and forth (向前) with their hands, or “volleying (凌空截球)”, he changed the name to volleyball.
volleyball and basketball, which were both invented in the nineteenth century, have become two of the most popular games. today, volleyball has more and more players and spectators (觀眾) around the world.