2020-2021学年河南周口九年级上英语期末试卷

一、阅读理解

1.

The AI（人工智能）has changed our lives. There are four useful AI inventions here.

（1）Why is Jiuge special?

A.Because it can drive cars safely.

B.Because it can play the violin.

C.Because it was on CCTV.

D.Because it's good at poems.

（2）What will Forpheus do while playing?

A.It will say "What a shame!" to the player.

B.It will guess what job the player is.

C.It will change its way of playing according to different players.

D.It will be angry if the player is a beginner.

（3）When does the Self-driving AI car flash two white lights side to side?

A.When the car is ready to speed up.

B.When the car has to stop.

C.When it has passed other vehicles.

D.When the car wants to slow down.

（4）What does the underlined word "ACS" mean in Chinese?

A.社会福利 B.电子商务 C.公共卫生 D.门禁控制

（5）Which is TRUE according to the passage?

A.Facial Recognition helped the police catch a criminal.

B.No one can beat Forpheus.

C.Self-driving AI can make subway trains safer.

D.Jiuge has written 300,000 poems.

2.

Elias Howe is always used to going to bed at 4 o'clock in the morning. Working all night became his living habit. Who's Elias Howe? You may never hear of him. He was born in America. The sewing（缝纫）machine was invented by him.

Over 100 years ago, without modern machines, people had to do the sewing by hand. Elias decided to design a machine to do the sewing instead of our hands. However, he had a trouble. He couldn't get the thread（线）to run around the needle（针）. Inventing sewing machine was his dream. So he did not give up. He kept thinking about how to solve this problem.

Once he was tired, he slept in bed. He had a dream. In the dream he was caught by a king. The king ordered him to build a perfect sewing machine, or the king would kill him. Elias met the same problem as before. The king was so angry that he ordered his soldiers to kill him. The soldiers raised spears（长矛）and came up to him. Suddenly Elias noticed something. There was a hole in the tip（尖端）of each spear.

Before the spears stuck to his body, Elias woke up from the dream. And he realized that he had found the answer to the problem. Instead of getting the thread to run around the needle, he made it run through a small hole in the tip of the needle. A simple thought finally made Elias invent the first sewing machine.

（1）Why did Elias go to bed at about 4 o'clock a.m.?

A.Because he had sleeping problems.

B.Because he got used to working at night.

C.Because of the noise of the machine.

D.Because he liked to play at night.

（2）What can we know from the second paragraph?

A.Elias wanted to invent the sewing machine to make money.

B.Elias's parents lived on sewing.

C.Elias had difficulty in inventing the sewing machine.

D.People preferred to do sewing by hand over 100 years ago.

（3）What does the underlined word "something" mean?

A.Dream. B.Spear. C.Problem. D.Hole.

（4）What happened in Howe's dream at last?

A.Elias had a good thought. B.Elias was killed.
C.Elias caught the soldiers. D.The king was killed.

（5）What can we know from the passage?

A.Working at night is helpful in new inventions.

B.If you want to invent something, you should have a good dream.

C.Sleeping can also solve the problem.

D.Elias Howe's dream came true.

3.

In many science fiction（科幻）movies, men travel to faraway stars and even fight with aliens. But are there real aliens in the universe（宇宙）? The answer of some scientists is yes. So they have been searching for aliens in outer space for many years. They hope to find life signs of aliens.

Some scientists are used to using radio telescopes to search for aliens in space. In order to find aliens, they have worked hard for over half a century, but so far they have found nothing. Then some scientists guessed aliens might not want to connect us, but aliens could answer our messages. So some scientists sent radio signals into the universe. They hope one day they would be picked up by alien technology. These scientists want to prove that we are not alone in the universe.

But what should we do if the "alien phone" rings one day? Should we answer it? Stephen Hawking, the famous physicist, thought it could be dangerous to connect aliens. He said that the main purpose of aliens' visiting to our solar system could be searching for our resources. But other scientists think we have no need to worry. David Morrison, a NASA scientist, said, "If an alien radio signal reaches the earth from a planet thousands of light-years away, then they almost surely have solved all the problems we still have including the short of resources. Maybe they are much smarter than us, but why don't they hurt us? I think we can try to connect them."

（1） ________ scientists believe there are aliens.

A.Most B.Few C.All D.Some

（2）Scientists have worked hard to find aliens for ________.

A.40 years B.more than 50 years
C.30 years D.50 years

（3）What is Stephen Hawking's opinion?

A.Aliens can't be found. B.Aliens are dangerous.
C.Aliens have been on the earth. D.Aliens are friendly.

（4）Why does David Morrison think we want to connect aliens?

A.Because we want to help aliens.

B.Bccause we want to find aliens.

C.Because aliens have many skills.

D.Because aliens are much smarter than us.

（5）What's the best title for the passage?

A.Protect Our Earth B.How to Use Radio Telescope
C.Are We Alone? D.Stephen Hawking's Idea

二、五选五

4. 根据材料内容，从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使文章意思通顺、内容完整。

May passed IELTS（雅思）successfully last week. IELTS is regarded as the most difficult English test. How does she learn English? If you want to learn English well, you'd better listen to what May said. Here is her experience.

AT SCHOOL
◆ I always read aloud in the morning.（1）________ And it can also make me brave and confident.
◆ Listening to the teacher carefully is the most important in class. I'm sure you must have the same opinion.（2）________ It can not only help me a lot in English pronunciation, but also help me listen to the teacher's explanation clearly.
AFTER SCHOOL
◆  Before going to bed, I must read the English notes again. They are the key knowledge.（3）________
◆ （4）________ I like to watch Hollywood（好莱坞）movies like Spider-Man and Captain America. Listen to what they say carefully and try to understand the main ideas.
BEFORE TESTS
◆ It is necessary to do a lot of English exercises before tests.（5）________ Only by doing a lot of exercises can I always do well in the tests.

A. Listening carefully can improve my listening ability.
B. I watch English movies on weekends.
C. Reading aloud helps me remember.
D. I can learn the new while reviewing the old.
E. Practice makes perfect.

三、完形填空

5.

In daily life, people use many languages. But there（1）________ six working languages of the United Nations. Chinese is one of them. Officials usually（2）________ Chinese in all meetings. This shows（3）________ Chinese has been widely used all over the world.（4）________ China's achievements in reform and opening-up, Chinese has become more and more important. More and more foreigners like to learn（5）________. Chinese is（6）________ the whole world. Some countries（7）________ Chinese courses in schools. Some students from western countries come to China to study in order to learn Chinese. Moli is one of them.

Moli is from Canada. She likes China very much. She likes everything from China, especially Chinese（8）________. She bought many books about Chinese poetry. She likes reading Chinese poetry. She has（9）________ the opportunity to come to China since she was a child. Her dream came true. In 2019, after she graduated from senior high school, she became a（10）________ in Wuhan University.

At first, she was not used to living in Wuhan. But（11）________, she liked the city. Moli worked hard in the college. She has won many（12）________, including a scholarship（奖学金）. She used these scholarships to travel to many places of interest in China to learn more about Chinese culture. She likes both Chinese culture and Chinese people. In her（13）________, Chinese people is the most friendly in the world. In the COVID-19 pandemic（新冠肺炎疫情）, Moli chose to stay in Wuhan. She said that nothing could（14）________ her from China. She believed China would（15）________ the COVID-19 pandemic successfully.

Moli plans to work in China after graduating from university. She believes that China will become better and better.

（1）

A.is B.are C.was D.were

（2）

A.speak B.say C.ask D.tell

（3）

A.which B.what C.why D.that

（4）

A.Under B.In C.With D.From

（5）

A.Spanish B.Chinese C.English D.Russian

（6）

A.discovering B.teaching C.encouraging D.influencing

（7）

A.looked up B.built up C.set up D.cheered up

（8）

A.clothes B.literature C.operas D.food

（9）

A.longed for B.left for C.thanked for D.asked for

（10）

A.worker B.fan C.teacher D.student

（11）

A.normally B.suddenly C.gradually D.luckily

（12）

A.games B.prizes C.medals D.races

（13）

A.view B.surprise C.memory D.turn

（14）

A.prevent B.stop C.separate D.learn

（15）

A.understand B.defeat C.research D.complete

四、选词填空

6. 阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。

It grows easily somewhere hot. There are about 1,000 species of this amazing plant around the world. It has been used to build（1）________, bridges, and so on.

There's a bridge in China of nearly 2,000 years old（2）________ is made of this material. Many people think（3）________ it as a product of yesterday, but it could easily（4）________ a star product of the future. Why?

For one thing, it's easy to grow. And it grows very quickly. In Japan, one species（物种）can grow more than one meter in one day! In Brazil, one species can grow up to 45 meters in height. Best of all（5）________ can reach full height in about two months.（6）________, it takes about 50 years for a tree to grow up to the same height.

What is it? You've probably already guessed it. It's bamboo!

In fact, studies have（7）________ that bamboo is pretty tough, and even tougher than the wood from some of the world's（8）________ trees.

One more thing: there is only one animal on this planet that（9）________ nothing but bamboo. It lives in China. It's black and white, and very（10）________. You guessed it—the panda.

五、语法填空

7. 阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。

My name is Rose. Last Tuesday, my classmates and I went to visit the Yuexiu Science Museum. I learned（1）________ many inventions there. There are about a thousand inventions on display in the museum. Among the inventions, I am（2）________ in online shopping. I think online shopping has four advantages. First, if we shop online, we will greatly save time in shopping. Second, we can enjoy online shopping while（3）________ to our favorite music. Third, if we want to give gifts to our friends, after we bought them online, these gifts can be sent directly to our friends. Fourth, we can compare what we need.（4）________ we go to the store to choose, we may visit more than 10 shops throughout the afternoon, but if we are online, we can search more than 100 shops in（5）________ hour. We search for the cheapest thing with the same style.

六、补全对话

8. 根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。
A: You look worried.（1）________?
B: I just saw a movie about endangered wild animals. We must do something.
A:（2）________. We humans should stop hunting and eating wild animals.
B: But our strength is too small. We must call on others to protect wild animals together.
A: Can't agree more.（3）________?
B: I am thinking about making a poster which can be put up on our school notice board.
A:（4）________.
B: You are clever! It must be a good chance.
A: We'd better start preparing right now.
B:（5）________.

七、书面表达

9. 在学习和生活中，你有什么值得与他人分享的东西吗？它可以是一本书、一部电影、一个计划或是一次体验。请以“A（n）________ I'd like to share”为题，并根据以下要点和要求用英语写一篇短文。
1. 要点：
1）你想分享的是什么；
2）你为什么想分享它；
3）你从中学到了什么。
2. 要求：
1）请补全标题，如book、movie、song、plan、experience等；
2）文中不要出现所在学校的校名和师生姓名；
3）词数100个左右。

A（n）________ l' d like to share

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