上海市九年级上学期英语期中测试试卷D卷

第 1 页 共 16 页 上海市九年级上学期英语期中测试试卷上海市九年级上学期英语期中测试试卷 D D 卷卷 一 一 完型填空 完型填空 共共 1 1 题 共题 共 1010 分分 1 10 分 完形填空 What do the people usually do on weekends Some people like to 1 at home but others like to go out for a walk or play football Mr Smith 2hard in a factory during the 3 On weekends he 4 does the same thing On Saturdays he washes his car and on 5 he goes to a village 村庄 with his family by car His uncle and aunt 6 a farm 农场 there It isn t a big one but there is always 7 to do on the farm The children help with the animals and give them some 8 Mr and Mrs Smith help in the field 田野 At the end of the day they are all 9 and Mr Smith s aunt always 10 them a big meal 1 A play B stay C look D go 2 A works B does C makes D studies 3 A days B years C weekdays 第 2 页 共 16 页 D months 4 A usually B sometimes C hardly ever D never 5 A Saturdays B Sundays C Thursdays D Fridays 6 A find B has C bring D have 7 A much B many C any D most 8 第 3 页 共 16 页 A cakes B rice C food D fruit 9 A hungry B angry C funny D happy 10 A does B puts C finds D gives 二 二 阅读理解 阅读理解 共共 4 4 题 共题 共 3232 分分 2 4 分 Hans Bethe The late German American physicist Hans Bethe once described himself as the H bomb s midwife 接生婆 He left Nazi Germany in 1933 after which he helped develop the first atomic bomb 原子弹 won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1967 for his contribution to the theory of nuclear reactions 核反应 and advised controls over nuclear weapons 武器 for the peaceful use of the nuclear energy Francis Crick The late Francis Crick one of Britain s most famous scientists won the 第 4 页 共 16 页 Nobel Prize in Physiology 生理学 or Medicine in 1962 He is best known for his discovery with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins the double helix structure 双螺旋结构 of the DNA though he also made important contributions in other fields He died in 2004 Peter Hall Sir Peter Hall s life in the theatre has seen him running the Arts Theatre founding the Royal Shakespeare Company when he was only 29 and directing the National Theatre He also directed Akenfielf for London Weekend Television and runs the Peter Hall Company which has 40 productions worldwide to its name 1 The above information is about A famous physicists B great people C great directors D Nobel Prize winners 2 Francis Crick won the Nobel Prize before years of his death A 32 B 24 C 42 D 45 3 10 分 阅读理解 In many high schools there are strict rules about using mobile phones If your phone rings in class for example the teacher will be very angry Every mobile phone has a ringtone 铃声 It tells you that someone is calling you Now there is a ringtone called mosquitotone 蚊子铃声 Mosquitotone has a special sound Only children and teenagers can hear it As we get older we are unable to hear some sounds with high frequencies 频率 As a result a child or teenager can 第 5 页 共 16 页 hear the mosquitotone ringtone but someone of 20 or older can t But sometimes people over 20 can hear the ringtone One British student s phone uses mosquitotone In class the student s phone rang The 22 year old teacher looked at the student and became unhappy I heard that You know the rule no mobile phone in class Not all the students are interested in mosquitotone Jerry Jones a high school student of 17 says Using mosquitotone too often is bad for our hearing I may use it for pleasure but not in class It s unfair 不公平的 to the teachers What do parents think of mosquitotone I think it is perfect for places like movie theaters says Connie Neeson 44 Think about it You re watching a film and someone s mobile phone rings Mosquitotone is good because many people don t hear it However it also has a bad influence 影响 on their study if students use it in class 1 Mosquitotone works because A it is very loud B it has no sound C it has a beautiful sound D it is mainly for children and teenagers 2 Which of the following about Jerry Jones is TRUE A He likes watching movies B He is a high school teacher C He thinks mobile phones are helpful D He refuses to use mosquitotone in class 3 The 22 year old teacher felt unhappy because the student A was late for class B didn t do his homework 第 6 页 共 16 页 C couldn t answer her question D was using a mobile phone in class 4 Connie Neeson thinks that mosquitotone A has no bad influence B is unfair to the teachers C has its advantage and disadvantage D can t be used in any public place 5 The writer wrote this passage mainly to introduce A a strict rule B a famous school C a special ringstone D A popular mobile phone 4 10 分 Thomas Edison lit up the world with his invention of the electric light Without him the world might still be in the dark However the electric light was not his only invention He also invented the motion picture camera and 1200 other things About every two weeks he created something new Thomas Edison was born in 1847 He attended school for only three months His mother taught him at home but Thomas was mostly self educated He started experimenting at a young age When he was 12 years old he got his first job He became a newsboy on a train He did experiments on the train in his spare time Unluckily his first work experience did not end well They fired him when he accidentally set fire to the floor of the train Then Edison worked for five years as a telegraph operator but he continued to spend much of his time in experimenting his first patent 专利权 in 1868 for a vote recorder run by electricity Thomas Edison was totally deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other but he thought of his deafness as a blessing in many ways It kept conversations short so that he could have more 第 7 页 共 16 页 time for work He always worked 16 out of every 24hours Sometimes his wife had to remind him to sleep and eat Thomas Edison died at the age of 84 He left a great many inventions that greatly improved the quality of life all over the world 1 How often did Edison make a new invention A About every fourteen days B About every seven days C About once a week D About twice a week 2 The underlined word fired in the passage means A Gave somebody a job B Set fire to somebody C Let somebody down D Forced somebody to leave his job 3 Edison considered his deafness as A something bad B a gift from god C a kind of ability D a disadvantage 4 which of the following sentence is NOT true according to the passage A Edison had only 8 hours rest each day after his deafness B Edison got his education mostly by self teachinG C Edison had his first job in 1869 第 8 页 共 16 页 D Edison s inventions greatly improved the quality of people s life 5 What does the passage mainly talk about A The function of the electric light B Edison and his experiments C The importance of inventions D The whole life of Edison 5 8 分 阅读下面短文 从 A B C D 四个选项中选出最佳选项 D Almost everybody in America will spend a part of his or her life behind a shopping cart They will in a lifetime push the shopping carts many miles but few will know or even think to ask who it was that invented them Sylvan N Goldman invented the shopping cart in 1937 At that time he was in the supermarket business Every day he would see shoppers lugging groceries around in baskets they had to carry One day Goldman suddenly had the idea of putting baskets on wheels To create the first shopping cart Goldman used folding chairs He out one basket on the seat and he raised the chair by putting wheels under the legs The wheeled baskets would make shopping much easier for his customers and would help to attract more business On June 4 1937 Goldman s first carts were ready for use in his market He was terribly excited on the morning of that day as customers began arriving He couldn t wait to see them using his invention However Goldman was disappointed Most shoppers gave the carts a long look but hardly anybody would give them a try After a while Goldman decided to ask customers why they weren t using his carts 第 9 页 共 16 页 Don t you think this arm is strong enough to carry a shopping basket one shopper replied Goldman wasn t beaten yet He knew his carts would be a great success if only he could persuade people to give them a try To this end Goldman hired a group of people to push carts around his market and pretend they were shopping Seeing this the real customers gradually began copying the phony customers As Goldman had hoped the carts were soon attracting larger and larger numbers of customers to his market Not only did more people come those who came bought more With larger easier to handle baskets customers unconsciously bought a greater number of items than before Today s shopping carts are five times larger than Goldman s original model Perhaps that s one reason Americans today spend more than five times as much money on food each year as they did before 1937 before the coming of the shopping cart 1 Who invented the shopping carts A Some shoppers B A supermarket assistant C The phony customers D An American supermarket owner 2 Why did Goldman hire people to push carts around his market A Because he wanted to sell more shopping carts B Because he needed more customers to buy groceries C Because he wanted people to use the shopping carts D Because he hoped to help shoppers carry their groceries 3 The right order of the following is a Many shoppers began to use the shopping carts b Goldman invented the shopping carts 第 10 页 共 16 页 c Goldman paid some people for using the shopping carts d Few shoppers would like to use the shopping carts A b d c a B b a d c C a d c b D a b d c 4 What s the best title of the passage A How to Cheat Customers B Goldman and His Shopping Carts C How to Use the Shopping Carts D The Purpose of Goldman s Invention 三 三 词汇运用 词汇运用 共共 2 2 题 共题 共 2020 分分 6 10 分 选词填空 time useful called mistakes stops players stronger just big appear Chess is called the game of kings People have been playing it for hundreds of years The chess we play today is believed to first in Asia Some people think that chess is more than a game They think that it can make the mind stronger Good chess use their brains They take their time and think about what will happen next These skills are in life too You don t always have lots of time to think when playing chess There is a kind of chess with short time limits 限制 It s blitz chess In blitz chess each player gets ten minutes to play a whole game Your clock runs during your turn 机会 You hit the time clock after your move This your clock and starts the other player s clock If you run out of you lose Games of blitz chess are fast paced 快节奏的 第 11 页 共 16 页 Chess is not for people Computers have been playing chess since the 1940s At first they did not play well They made As time went on they grew In 1997 a computer beat the best player in the world for the first time It was a computer called Deep Blue Deep Blue was which took up a whole room By 2006 a mobile phone could beat the best players in the world Chess sure has come a long way 7 10 分 单词拼写 People from foreign countries have different body languages from us Here are some w to welcome the visitors First When they meet t people will shake hands and smile each other in China However American people will kiss or h each other In India people p their hands together and nod their heads In Russia people usually kiss three t But Maori people in New Zealand often t noses to welcome the visitors Second you can t stand too close to North Americans Remember to give them more p space But in South America they like to h on to you so you can t move away In some places it is polite to look at people when you talk But in other countries it is i to look at people when you talk Generally we wave to say goodbye but it is quite r in Greece So when you have a trip to other countries you should make use of the body language correctly 33 year old spacewoman Wang Yaping made history she is China s first teacher in space 四 四 语法填空 语法填空 共共 1 1 题 共题 共 1 1 分分 8 1 分 There are a lot of tall build in Beijing 五 五 任务型阅读 任务型阅读 共共 1 1 题 共题 共 5 5 分分 9 5 分 阅读下面短文 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词 每个空格里只 填一个单词 第 12 页 共 16 页 The Internet nowadays opens a wide world to people including teenagers but many parents worry that their children may meet with something unhealthy when searching online In order to solve this problem a new search engine for children called Kiddle has appeared Search results are filtered 过滤 so only safe website are shown and descriptions are written in simple language Searches with bad words are shut off too Kiddles uses the same colors as Google in its logo and a similar design on its homepage too with an extra robot picture The top three Kiddle search results show safe websites and pages written specially for kids and those websites and pages are well chosen and checked by Kiddle developers The fourth to seventh results will be safe and trusted websites that are not written specially for kids but have content written in a simple way These results are also chosen and checked Results on the eighth and owwards pages are safe and famous websites that are written for adults They provide expert content but are harder for kids to understand Unlike on Google most results appear along with large thumbnail pictures 缩略图 to make it easier for children to find what they are looking for For example when searching for meow meow Google produces pages for information about a drug 毒品 that has meow meow as its nickname 绰 号 but Kiddle lists information only about