外研版九年级上学期英语期中质量检测试卷C卷

第 1 页 共 12 页 外研版九年级上学期英语期中质量检测试卷外研版九年级上学期英语期中质量检测试卷 C C 卷卷 一 一 阅读理解 阅读理解 共共 4 4 题 共题 共 2525 分分 1 8 分 阅读理解 It s Sunday afternoon It s my son s eighth birthday tomorrow I go into a cake shop to buy a big birthday cake for him When I get there the shop is full of people When I am looking for a cake I find a little boy watching the cakes for a long time He is in poor clothes At last he picks a cake Then he gives money to the salesgirl and says to her I want the small cake Sorry the cake is 20 yuan but you only pay 10 yuan says the salesgirl I I have no more money says the little boy and he begins to cry Oh my boy Who would you like to buy the birthday cake for I ask My mom madam Why doesn t she come and buy one My father left us a few years ago the boy says we don t have money My mother has to work from morning to night every day She celebrates my birthday every year but she never celebrates her birthday It s her birthday tomorrow I want to buy a small cake for her But I don t have enough money Oh my boy I m your mother s friend I say I will buy her a nice birthday cake I give the money to the salesgirl and leave the shop 1 When is the writer s son s birthday A Saturday B Sunday C Monday D Tuesday 第 2 页 共 12 页 2 The underlined 划线的 word pick in Paragraph 2 means A 买到 B 卖掉 C 挑选 D 寻找 3 Which is true about the boy s mother A She is one of the writer s friends B She loves the boy very much C She has no work to do D She wants to celebrate her birthday 4 What can you get from the story A The boy is too bad B The salesgirl is very nice C the boy s father died D Love can pass on 传递 2 6 分 阅读理解 We use passwords to keep our personal information secret and safe but some passwords we use may not be as dependable as we think Splash Data a computer safety company recently came out a list of the 25 worst passwords of 2011 This list is based on the research of hackers files including stolen passwords According to the list password is the worst and most common password Many others on the list are numbers in order either forward for example 1234 or backward Letters on the keyboard in order such as qwerty are also common as well as some first names and animals 第 3 页 共 12 页 Hackers can easily break into many users just by trying common passwords again and again said Morgan Slain CEO of Splash Data How can you make a strong password It should be eight characters or more with a mix of letters numbers and symbols One way to create a long and easy to remember password is to separate short words with spaces or numbers Having safe passwords is important for surfing the Internet safely But it s not the only thing you must do to keep safe online Here are some other web safety suggestions Never give out information that will allow someone to find you offline That includes your full names address and phone number Don t include your real name as part of your online screen name Never meet people you met on the Internet in person If you insist on breaking this rule meet in a very public place and take an adult with you 1 The underlined word Hackers means in Chinese A 软件设计师 B 工程师 C 流浪者 D 黑客 2 Which is the worst and most common password A password B 123456 C abc123 D monkey 3 Which of the following is NOT true A Animal names can be very safe passwords 第 4 页 共 12 页 B It is important to have a password for surfing the Internet safely C You can t use your real name as part of your online screen name D You can meet people you met on the Internet in a very public place 3 6 分 Have you ever heard an echo of your voice An echo is a reflected 反射 sound Stand in a very large empty hall with nothing on the walls Then shout The sounds you make will hit the walls and come back to you The walls reflect the sounds These reflected sounds are called echoes We can use reflected sound to make sound travel farther Hold a watch about fifty centimeters from your ear You cannot hear it The sound of the watch travels a short way in all directions It does not travel as far as your ear You can make it travel to your ear by using a roll of cardboard 纸板筒 Make the roll of cardboard about fifty centimeters long Put one end over your ear and hold the watch at the other Now you can hear the watch because the sound has not gone in all directions It is reflected down the roll to your ear A megaphone 喇叭筒 works in the same way It makes sound travel farther It reflects the sound into a beam which can travel a long way In the ship the sailor uses the megaphone to make his voice travel Without the megaphone his voice cannot travel far We use reflected sound in many ways We use it to measure the depth of the sea for example Among the animals bats and whales use reflected sound to tell them where they are and what things are near them 1 Which is the right order of hearing our echo in a very large empty hall a We hear the reflected sound b The sound returns to us c The sound hits the walls d We make a sound A c b a d 第 5 页 共 12 页 B c a b d C d c b a D d b c a 2 From the text we learn that A reflected sound is useful only to blind people B people haven t made use of reflected sound yet C bats use reflected sound to fly and get food D whales don t use reflected sound as they live in the sea 3 If you haven t got a megaphone will help you to make your voice travel farther A a long piece of wood B a roll of cardboard C a thin thread D a long piece of silk 4 5 分 阅读短文 把 A E 五个句子填入文中空缺处 使短文内容完整 The Internet is shaping our lives We already have online shopping services and mobile payment However this is just a start The world s leading tech companies are planning to build smarter online communities It was held in Wuzhen Zhejiang last year The development of artificial intelligence AI 人工智能 was a hot topic at the conference 会议 If a machine can learn and solve problems as humans do it can be called AI The company Alibaba uses AI technology in its unmanned supermarket in Wuzhen There is no salesperson in the supermarket just an iPad on a desk that says please smile The bigger you smile the more discounts 折扣 you get Payment is done automatically through your Alipay account When you first enter the supermarket the supermarket s AI recognizes 辨认 your face and your account 第 6 页 共 12 页 There is also AI that can read lips It recognizes your mouth s movements and turns them into voice or text messages This could be very useful when you are trying to talk to someone on your phone in a noisy place Police could also use the technology to help them find criminals by lip reading recordings from video cameras Microsoft s chatting robot XiaoIce can not only provide useful information but also talk with people like a real friend XiaoIce has a WeChat account 账户 After following the account users can start talking with her She keeps improving herself by talking with users These technologies are being put into wider use We may see a smarter world and better lives in the near future A She knows when to comfort you or tell jokes B They discussed this at the World Internet Conference C Sougo brought its lip reading system to the conference D If you smile it will give you a special discount for your goods E Another type of AI focuses on understanding human emotions 二 二 完形填空 完形填空 共共 1 1 题 共题 共 1010 分分 5 10 分 完形填空 On June 2 1886 a German threw a message in a bottle into the water while his ship crossed the Indian Ocean Around 132 years later in January the bottle was 1 on the Australian coast making it the oldest known message in a bottle in the world The bottle was thrown into the water to study ocean currents 洋流 But throwing messages in bottles into the ocean is not just for 2 People send out such messages for many reasons Some people write information about themselves in 3 of finding a pen friend 4 write down secrets hoping that waves will5 those secrets And still other people just write down some jokes songs or anything else they think might be 6 The reasons and ways might be different but the7 is always the same to reach out and try to connect8someone This kind of shared feeling might be 9 this tradition has remained popular for so 第 7 页 共 12 页 long In 1989 the British band The Police wrote a song called Message in A Bottle that described this 10 A hundred billion bottles washed up on the beach Seems I m not alone at being alone the singer said 1 A sold B showed C found D made 2 A scientists B tourists C friends D families 3 A fears B hopes C worries D cares 4 A Another B Other C All D Others 第 8 页 共 12 页 5 A put off B wash away C pick up D call at 6 A fun B dangerous C terrible D boring 7 A price B speed C plan D goal 8 A with B by C into D on 9 A what 第 9 页 共 12 页 B why C how D when 10 A result B feeling C situation D accident 三 三 语法填空 语法填空 共共 1 1 题 共题 共 6 6 分分 6 6 分 用所给动词的正确形式填空 Be sure go to this exhibition at the Sunshine Gallery Ms Wang consider to be one of the best known Chinese photographers in the world today and some of her most famous photos are in this exhibition Ms Wang get to Sunshine Town yesterday afternoon She really have something for everyone There are many great photos of the countryside Maybe you see some of them on TV before It s quite different when