江苏省无锡锡东片2020届九年级英语下学期期中试题

江苏省无锡锡东片2020届九年级英语下学期期中试题第I卷 （客观题 共50分）一、单项选择 在A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并写在答题卡上。（本大题共14小题，每小题1分，共14分）1. How was your recent trip to Sichuan? Ive never had _ one before. A. a pleasantB. a more pleasantC. a most pleasant D. the most pleasant 2. Isnt it surprising that Tom should have got the first place in the National IT Contest? Yes, it is. The result is really _ what we all expected. A. withinB. overC. againstD. beyond 3. Which one do you like better, McDonalds or KFC? _. I think they are junk foods and bad for our health.A. Both B. Either C. None D. Neither4. A good listener is expected to _ ideas and raise questions to keep the talks to follow. A. realize B. advise C. offer D. agree5. Linda, _ do you take the course in DIY? Every Sunday afternoon. A. How longB. How farC. How oftenD. How soon 6. Sales of such drinks are dropping for years. People prefer healthy drinks like tea and juice. So I think soft drinks _ be out with time passing. A. may B. mustC. shouldD. need7. China provides more than 90 percent of the worlds rare earth metal, but its reserves(存储) only _ about one-third of the worlds total. A. take upB. make upC. open upD. put up 8.The Spring Festival is one of the _ festivals in China and everyone loves to celebrate it. A. modern B. traditional C.international D. ancient9. You are crazy! How can you go blind when such things like this happened? Well, I have no idea _.A. whats wrong with my mind B. that my eyes were blindC. why did the things happen D. whether have such things taken place10. In March, cherry blossoms(樱花) in the Turtle Head Park give the city of Wuxi an early _ of spring. A. tasteB. themeC. senseD. result 11. There is no way of knowing why one man makes an important discovery _ another man, also smart, fails. A. since B. ifC. asD. while 12. Its known to all that learning a foreign language_ action, or you wont master it well. A. realizes B. reduces C. requires D. receives13. Few movies have had a greater influence on popular culture than Steven Spielberg. _. To me, his works are nothing more than entertainment.A. Practice makes perfect B. Every coin has two sidesC. Every dog has its day D. Its just your cup of tea. 14. It is hoped that users private information will be better protected in the future. _. Much of our personal information is at great risk in the age of the Internet.A. Exactly B. It depends C. Not at all D. Far from it二、完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意, 然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。 （本大题共10分，每小题1分）“Kids can make a difference.” Craig Kielburger said. When Craig was 12, he 15 a group that has helped kids all over the world. How did Craig get started? In the seventh grade he learned something that made him 16 . A 6-year-old boy in Pakistan was sent to work in a factory. The boy could not go to school. He could not even play. He had no freedom (自由) at all. Craig 17 that with his own life. Laws in his country said that kids must go to school. 18 was free for all kids. But in some countries school was not free. Children from poor families went to work instead of to school. Craig wanted to help those who didnt have the same 19 as he and his friends. As a result, Craig and some friends started Free The Children. Craig and his friends decided that Free The Children should 20 money to build schools. Craig hoped that learning would help kids in poor areas live 21 . Today, Craigs charity has more than one million members in 45 countries. It is 22 going strong. The money they have raised has done many good things. It has helped build more than 500 schools around the world. It also pays for health care in poor communities. Craig has had a lot of success. 23 , he still remembers his unpleasant start in the seventh grade. “We were 24 by other kids, who said you couldnt change things,” he says. Still, Craig didnt give up. Now he wants more kids to help. “Go to . Bring it to your teachers,” he says. “As you gain more confidence, friends will join you. It just gets easier.”15.A.expectedB. startedC. inventedD. owned16.A.angryB. hopefulC. helpless D. excited17.A.matchedB. balancedC. comparedD. marked18.A.EducationB. SchoolC. WorkD. Reading19.A.programmeB. resourceC. advantageD. quality20.A.saveB. storeC. winD. raise21.A.betterB. worseC. closerD. surer22.A.stillB. almostC. recentlyD. simply23.A.IndeedB. HoweverC. FinallyD .Instead24.A.encouraged B. satisfied with C. laughed atD. praised 三、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。（本大题共13小题，每小题2分，共26分）。 AThe Internet is an important part of our lives. What do you usually do on the Internet? Here are some useful websites for you.25. NG Kids has an edition especially for _.A. parents B. childrenC. teachers D. doctors26. Teens Health helps _.A. learn about giving advice.B. look after pets at home.C. solve problems in life.D. keep away from changes.27. _ can help you choose a good movie.A. MtimeB. NG KidsC. Teens Health D. News Room BEveryone is born with their own built-in burglar（窃贼）alarms（闹钟）, called the sense of sight and sound.Unluckily, many of us go around with the alarm turned off.We dont see the stranger walking outside the house next door.We dont notice the sounds from the flat upstairs.(Werent they supposed to be on holiday?)The police can only do so much to prevent crime. There never can be enough of them to guard every home in every town. So they need your help in fighting with the burglars.Not, of course, by setting out to have a go every time, youll see something doubtful. Itll always be the job of the police to arrest criminals. But by acting as a line of communication between them and your community, for example, you probably know far more about your neighborhoods than the police ever could. A stranger in someones garden would probably be far more easy to be seen to you than it would to even the local police, if, of course, you were on the look-out.Thats the whole idea behind the Neighborhood Watch plans, trying to make the country create a spirit of watchfulness within a community, anything doubtful being reported to the police. Its early days yet, but results so far are very encouraging. The crime numbers are already dropping in many of the areas running the plan. And all because of people like you.28. The underlined word “them” refers to “_”.A. the police B. criminals C. neighbors D. strangers29. The advertisement points out that many people_.A. are not ready to help the police B. are not as watchful as they could be C. dont look after their gardens well D. dont tell their neighbors about their holidays30. One of the ways we could help prevent crime is to_.A. tell the police if we hear noises upstairs B. try to stop criminals from running awayC. turn on the alarm system in our home D. look out for people behaving doubtfully31. The purpose of the advertisement is to _in their neighborhood.A. ask people to join the police forceB. advise people how to protect their homesC. encourage people to be on watch for possible crime D. warn people about the increasing risk of crimeCLast week, my granddaughter started kindergarten, and I wished her every success. But part of me didnt. I actually wanted her to fail in some ways because I believe that failure can be good for our learning process（过程）. Success is proving that you can do something that you already know you can do, or doing something correctly the first time, which can often be a problematic (存在问题的) victory. First-time success is usually luck. First-time failure, however, is supposed to be the natural order of things. Failure is how we learn. In Africa they describe a good cook as “She who has broken many pots.” If youve spent enough time in the kitchen to have broken a lot of cookers, probably you know a lot about cooking. I once had dinner with a group of cooks, and they spent time comparing knife wounds and burn marks. They knew how much value their failures gave them. I make my living by writing a daily newspaper. Each week I know that one part I write is going to be the worst part. I try my best every day. I have learned to love writing. A successful article usually means that I am discussing my familiar topic, writing in a style I am used to or saying the same things as anyone else but in a better way. My younger daughter is a trapeze artist (荡秋千演员). She spent three years practicing a show, and she did it successfully for years. There was no reason for her to change it but she did anyway. She said she was no longer learning anything new and she was bored. And if she was bored, there was no meaning in putting her body into all that stress. She risked failure and great public embarrassment(尴尬) in order to improve herself. My granddaughter is a perfectionist. She will feel her failures, and I will want to comfort her. But I will also, I hope, remind her of what she learned, and how she can do better next time. I hope I can tell her, though, that its not the end of the world. Indeed, with luck, it is the beginning.32. What does the writer think of his daughters changing her show?A. He doesnt think it wise of his daughter to do so.B. He is worried about the risk his daughter takes.C. He is very excited about his daughters decision.D. He stands on his daughters side no matter what the result will be.33. The writer talked about his own experience to show that _.A. past failures made him afraid of taking risks in writingB. we should try every possible way to avoid failureC. the thought of failure will make you work even harderD. we cannot depend on luck to live a good life34. The writer develops the article mainly by _.A. following the time order B. giving examplesC. comparing different opinionsD. giving a reason and its results DUS poet Allen Ginsberg once said, “Poetry is the one place where people can speak their original(独创的) human mind.”To know the special ability of poetry to catch the human spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations on March 21 each year.The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the writer and the reader. When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when they wrote it, or what they were doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better, as if wed written the poem ourselves.But in the age of artificial intelligence (AI，人工智能), would a poem still mean as much if it werent written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, including research papers, books, news stories and even poems.In 2020, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend Benjamin Laird created a website called “bot or not”, where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a recent speech at TedX Sydney, Schwartz said that all over the years, some of the websites poems were able to fool（欺骗） 65 percent of human readers into thinking they were written by a human.By creating the website, Schwartz and Laird hoped that people would doubt the difference between humans and machines and be able to tell what makes us human.“The human mind is not a cold, hard fact,” Schwartz said during his speech. A computer may be able to create poems that are correct in both grammar and style, but it wouldnt be able to get the same meanings and feelings across as a human poet could. In fact, now AI software creates poems based on ones that have already been written by humans. As Schwartz noted, “The computer works like a mirror that reflects (反映) any idea of a human.”35. The purpose of the first three paragraphs is to _. A. introduce where World Poetry Day comes from. B. show how popular poetry is around the world. C. show the importance and beauty of poetry. D. give some tips on enjoying poetry.36. What did the data （数据）from “bot or not” show? A. Computers are better than humans at writing poetry. B. Computers can also produce poems of high quality. C. Readers dont really care whether the poems were written by humans. D. Few readers can tell poems written by computers from those by humans.37. According to the article, computers cant match humans in creating poems because they_. A. fail to use the correct grammar and style B. cant create poems that are meaningful C. cant show feelings as well as humans D. only know how to follow humans poems第卷 （主观题 共40分）四、词汇运用（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）(A) 根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡对应题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式38. These days a mobile is an _（工具）which is used in daily information. 39. Its said that Chinese parents are _（严格的）with their children in everyday life.40. Daniels boss speaks _ （高度地）of his work and he is offered a higher pay.41.Can you _ （猜测）whats in my right pocket? (B) 根据句意，在答题卡对应题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。42. The little boy kept walking and _ (success) climbed to the top of the mountain. 43. Who let out the news that still remained _ (know)? It made the boss really angry. 44. With the _ (develop) of industry, more and more farmers choose to work in factories. 45.Sometimes making good _ (decide) is not easy because so much information on the Internet makes us feel hard to tell right from wrong. 五、动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）46. The young man hates to stay at home without _ (do) anything.47. My friend Lily will not have a holiday unless she_ (finish) the job next week.48. Last term, I often_(chat)with my friends on the Internet on Sundays.49. The witness said he_ (report) the case to the police the next day.50. How did the accident happen? You know, it was difficult to see clearly because it _(rain) heavily.51. Dont worry. The dream you are looking forward to now _ (realize) later in life.52. _ (remember) the dead in World War, a great parade was held on the square.53. Do you know any places of interest in Wuxi? Oh, yes. Its the third time I _ (visit) this beautiful city. 六、阅读填空先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在文章后表格的空格内填入一个最恰当的单词。所填单词必须写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。每个空格只能填一个单词。（本大题共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）People often say that the world is getting smaller. By this, they mean that with improved trade, each country is becoming more and more familiar with one another. There seems to be a lot of truth to this. After all, you can buy African food in India, or watch a French movie in China.However, countries still have the power to surprise people who visit them for the first time. For many of us, there are still real differences in the culture and habits between countries.Recently, the Daily Mail reported on some culture shocks(文化冲击) from around the world. A Serbian student, Milorad Boti, was greatly surprised on a school trip to Germany when he found that public bathrooms were very different to those in his home country. He noticed that after using the toilet, the cover turned as part of a cleaning process. Milorad was impressed. “That was the best thing that happened on that school trip,” he said.Most often, however, it is some habits that are different between cultures. The Daily Mail article mentioned the shock of an Indian man, Kaushal Barot. When visiting a Western country, he noticed people communicating with each other in restaurants, often spending hours in them with friends. Kaushal was surprised because in India, restaurants are for one thing only: food.The cultural differences people notice can seem good, bad, or simply just strange. But rather than something to be afraid of, these differences should be welcomed. Indeed, if the whole world were like one big country, it would be a much more boring place. So lets be proud of our own culture, and at the same time, open to the cultures of others.Topic: culture shocks around the worldMilorad BotiOn a school trip to Germany, he found public bathrooms very different to those in Serbia. After people used the toilet, its cover would turn to 54. _ itself.Kaushal BarotHe noticed some differences in 55._ habits on his trip to a western country. In India, people go to restaurants just for food, but here, restaurants are also a place for 56. _.The writers ideaWe should 57. _ cultural differences instead of getting afraid of them,