2023－2024学年度九年级英语练习
9BU1-U2综合测试2
单项选择（共30小题；每小题1分，满分30分）
( )1. When he left ________ college, he got a job as ________ university teacher in Wuxi.
A. /; a B. /; an C. a; a D. the; the
( )2. Chinese Dream is a great way for us to join together to______ the fast development.
A. try out for B. fit for C. push for D. cheer for
( )3. Put the meat in the fridge. It ________ bad easily in such hot weather.
A. becomes B. is turned C. is gone D. goes
( )4. During my stayed in Beijing, I ________ to meet one of my primary school friends. We ________ each other for almost ten years.
A. happened; haven’t seen B. managed; hadn’t seen C. happened; hadn’t seen D. led; didn’t see
( )5. The work of art which was made ________ was so expensive that I couldn’t afford it.
A. with hand B. by hand C. by hands D. from hands
( )6. Who do you think is the greatest person ________ has ever lived, Jack
A. which B. who C. that D. whom
( )7. The excellent young man is the ________ of his family. Both of his parents are ________ of him.
A. pride; pride B. proud; proud C. proud; pride D. pride; proud
( )8. My brother ________ the navy two years ago. He has been in the navy for two years.
A. joined B. took part in C. attended D. was a member of
( )10. We all know that the Anti-Japanese War ________ in 1937 and ________ for eight years.
A. broke out; was lasted B. broke out; lasted
C. was broken out; was lasted D. was broken out; lasted
( )11.Do you know who ________ the first computer
A. found B. found out C. discovered D. invented
( )12. —Sally, you have been in China for nearly twenty years. What do you think of it
—________ different the life today is from ________ it used to be!
A. What a; what B. How; that C. What; that D. How; what
( )13. Look! Between the two trees ________ a boy with an English book in his hand.
A. lie B. are lying C. is D. are
( )14. —Driving less and walking more is good for our health.
—I agree. So I’d rather ________ an hour’s walk to work than consider ________ a car.
A. taking; drive B. take; to drive C. take; driving D. to take; driving
( )15. —The prices of vegetables and meat have ________ so quickly these days.
—So they have. Life is becoming harder.
A. raised B. increased C. improved D. developed
( )16. —When will the railway in our city in length of about 208 kilometers be in service
—________ 2022. Three fifths ________ been completed smoothly (顺利地) so far.
A. Until; has B. Until; have C. Not until; have D. Not until; has
( )17. —Excuse me, sir. Smoking is not allowed here. —Oh, sorry. I ________.
A. didn’t know B. hadn’t known C. don’t know D. haven’t known
( )18. —Chris didn’t even look at me. I did say hello to him with a big smile!
— __________ But that is just so Chris. He’s always living in his own world.
A. No wonder B. No worries C. I bet you did D. I doubt you did
( )19. ______ young in our town are now living ______ much more comfortable life than we did because their living conditions have improved greatly.
A. A; / B. A; a C. The; a D. The; the
( )20. —A lot of money ______ for the old man’s operation online.
—Yes, but the medicine cost ______ a lot, so we still need to get more for him.
A. raised; rose B. was raised; has risen C. raised; has risen D. was raised; rose
( ) 21. — Are your parents angry with you about your English
— Oh, ______ of them is angry. They just told me to be careful and get better grades next time.
A. neither B. both C. none D. all
( )22. The destiny (命运) of the youth is always ______ connected with the times. We have always believed that the future of our nation rests on the youth.
A. completely B. certainly C. clearly D. closely
( )23. The film The Battle at Lake Changjin ______ the young with a chance to learn about the history of that hard period.
prevented B. provided C. presented D. protected
( )24.In an important game like this one, every minute .So let's go for it!
A. counts B. works C. lasts D. helps
( )25._______always makes me unhappy to think of what he has done.
A. That B.It C. This D. Which
( )26.There is a knock at the door. _______ must be the postman.
A. It B. He C. She D. This
( )27. —______ wonderful experience it was to take part in the recording of Call me by fire!
—Yes. Though they are not young any more, they work hard in their own field.
A. What a B. How C. What D. How a
( )28. In order to get ______ the difficult times, it is of great importance for countries all over the world to work closely together.
A. beyond B. across C. through D. against
( ) 29.—Simon, I’m afraid we can’t complete the model spaceship this afternoon.
—Well, we ______ finish it today. It’s fine if we give it to Mr. Wang tomorrow.
A. can’t B. mustn’t C. needn’t D. shouldn’t
( )30. Don’t be afraid of the problems we meet in our lives. All of them can be ______ with our wisdom and patience.
handed out B. worked out C. found out D. turned out
完型填空（共30小题；每小题1分，满分30分）
(1)
Many people love cilantro’s (香菜的) fresh taste. But for others, cilantro tastes ____11____. This isn’t just about some people being picky eaters. Our feelings about cilantro ____12____ our gene (基因) itself.
About 20% of the world’s population says that cilantro tastes awful. People usually ____13____ it as tasting like stink bugs (椿象) or soap. These people have a gene that lets them recognize (辨别) something called aldehydes (乙醛). These are not only ____14____ in cilantro, but also in soap and stink bugs.
____15____, more European people have this gene. Many Europeans in the past wrote about cilantro’s bug-like smell. In fact, “coriander”, another name for cilantro, comes from the Greek word “koris” which means “bug”! This could ____16____ why cilantro doesn’t show up very often in European or other Western food. ____17____ you have this gene, though, you can learn to like cilantro. Make the aldehydes break down and ____18____ giving off bad smells, or coach your brain to connect cilantro with ____19____ food experiences. You won’t know until you try it!
Cilantro isn’t the only food whose taste is ____20____ by our genes. According to a study, our genes influence our tastes in at least six food groups. The foods we’re raised to eat have some influence, too. However, our genes make us more likely to pick certain foods over others. One ____21____ is with fat. Some people’s genes make them prefer fatty foods. This was likely a big ____22____ when food was not enough. But today, when we can get all kinds of food, problems in this gene can lead to putting on ____23____.
Understanding the relationship between food and gene could help us eat ____24____. We might be able to give people better ____25____ on their diet by knowing the foods they like. This can help people stay in good health more easily.
（ ）11．A．strange B．popular C．terrible D．useless
（ ）12．A．help with B．play with C．learn from D．come from
（ ）13．A．imagine B．exchange C．describe D．repeat
（ ）14．A．found B．wasted C．realized D．thought
（ ）15．A．Luckily B．Interestingly C．Terribly D．Successfully
（ ）16．A．create B．suppose C．continue D．explain
（ ）17．A．So B．But C．Or D．If
（ ）18．A．try B．stop C．keep D．enjoy
（ ）19．A．happy B．angry C．scary D．silly
（ ）20．A．caused B．influenced C．forced D．refused
（ ）21．A．question B．suggestion C．reason D．example
（ ）22．A．chance B．problem C．advantage D．skill
（ ）23．A．weight B．height C．shape D．heat
（ ）24．A．completely B．wisely C．hardly D．simply
（ ）25．A．progress B．advice C．projects D．Instruments
(2)
Hannah Taylor is a schoolgirl from Manitoba, Canada. One day, when she was five years old, she was walking with her mother in downtown Winnipeg. They saw a man 11 out of a rubbish bin. She asked her mother why he did that and her mother said that the man was homeless and hungry. Hannah was very upset. She couldn't understand why some people had to live their lives without shelter or enough food. Hannah started to think about how she could 12 , but, of course, there is not a lot one five-year-old can do to solve the problem of homelessness.
Later , when Hannah attended school, she saw another homeless person. It was a woman, 13 an old shopping trolley（购物车）which was piled with 14 . It seemed that everything the woman owned was in them.
This made Hannah very sad, and even decided to do something. She had been talking to her mother about the lives of homeless people 15 they first saw the homeless man. Her mother told her that if she did something to change the problem that made her sad, she wouldn’t feel so bad.
Hannah began to speak out about the homelessness in Manitoba and then in other provinces. She hoped to 16 her message of hope and awareness. She started the Ladybug Foundation, an organization aiming at getting rid of homelessness. She began to host “Big Bosses” lunches, where she would try to persuade(说服) local business leaders to make a 17 to the cause. She also organized a fundraising(募捐)drive in “Ladybug Jars” to collect everyone’s spare change during “Make Change” month. More recently, the foundation began another activity called National Red Scarf Day—a day when people donate $20 and wear red scarves in support of Canada’s 18 and homeless.
There is an emergency shelter in Winnipeg called “Hannah’s Place”, something that Hannah is very 19 of. Hannah’s Place is divided into several areas, providing shelter for people when it is so cold that 20 outdoors can mean death. In the more than five years since Hannah began her activities, she has received a lot of 21 . For example, she received the 2007 BRICK Award recognizing(认可) the 22 of young people to change the world. But 23 all this, Hannah still has the 24 life of a Winnipeg schoolgirl, except that she pays regular visits to homeless people.
Hannah is one of many examples of young people who are making a 25 in the world. You can, too!
( )11. A. jumping B. eating C. crying D. waving
( )12. A. behave B. manage C. help D. work
( )13. A. pushing B. carrying C. buying D. holding
( )14. A. goods B. bottles C. foods D. bags
( )15. A. since B. unless C. although D. as
( )16. A. exchange B. leave C. keep D. spread
( )17. A. contribution B. friend C. promise D. agreement
( )18. A. elderly B. hungry C. lonely D. sick
( )19. A. aware B. afraid C. proud D. sure
( )20 A. going B. sleeping C. traveling D. playing
( )21. A. praises B. instructions C. replies D. appointments
( )22. A. needs B. interests C. dreams D. efforts
( )23. A. for B. through C. besides D. along
( )24. A. healthy B. public C. normal D. hard
( )25. A. choice B. decision C. judgment D. difference
阅读理解
A
History
The lighthouse of Chania, Crete, is one of the oldest lighthouses in the world. It was originally built around the late 16th century to protect the harbor of Crete in Greece.
During the Turkish occupation (占领), the lighthouse fell into disrepair (塌毁) and was finally rebuilt between 1824 and 1832 in the form of very minaret (尖塔). The modern lighthouse is often referred to as “Egyptian” because it was built during a time when Crete was occupied by Egyptian troops (军队).
The “Egyptian” lighthouse was leaning badly due to bombings during World War II and earthquakes. But it was fully repaired in 2005 and now looks as good as new.
Current situation
The base of the lighthouse is still the original one although the Lion of St. Mare which was carved there has long gone.
The lighthouse is located at the end of a long mole (防波堤) that protects the harbor from the sea. It is well worth walking all the way to the end of it as you get wonderful views from harbor.
Notice!
*Unluckily the lighthouse itself is closed so you can’t go up the tower.
( )1. Which country is the lighthouse of Chania in
A. Turkey B. Greece C. Egypt D. Italy
( )2. If you visit the lighthouse now, you CANNOT _____________.
A. see the original base of the lighthouse B. step on the mole the lighthouse is located at
C. enjoy a good view from the harbor D. go up to the top of the lighthouse
( )3. The lighthouse was repaired in 2005 because _____________.
A. It had been destroyed by Turkish troops. B. It had been destroyed by Egyptian troops.
C. It was in a bad condition. D. It would be developed into a place of interest.
B
Experts believe that there are more than 8 million restaurants in the world today. So it might surprise you to learn that restaurants, as we know them, have only existed for a few centuries. Before 1765, there were no restaurants. That is, there were no places that provided the restaurant experience. There was nowhere in which a waiter brought you food and drink that you picked from a menu. In fact, there were no menus anywhere.
There were eating places travelers could go to centuries before that. The countryside was full of inns that would serve food. And there were taverns where one could get drinks. The rich could also eat special meals prepared by private cooks. But none of them could be called a “restaurant”.
A man called Boulanger changed that. In 1765, he opened a place in Paris that sold soups(汤). On his sign he used the word "restaurant" to describe what he was selling. At that time, soups were considered something that could help "restore"(恢复) your health -- in French the word "restore" is “restaurer”--- so he called the soups "restaurants". Soon, people started buying Boulanger's soups even when they were not ill. And over time, people began to use the word "restaurant" to refer to a place selling soup rather than the soup itself. More "restaurants" opened in France, and people began to buy soups more often.
Later, restaurants in Paris began to serve other food besides soup. In the 1790s, menus started to appear. By the mid-1800s, there were many types of restaurants throughout the world. The United States offered coffee shops. Tea houses became popular throughout China. Paris created beautiful restaurants for the rich. The British began to copy the French, and the restaurant idea spread throughout the British Empire.
Today cities are filled with all types of restaurants. Diners have millions of choices.
( )1. What is the passage mainly about
A. Why restaurants became popular. B. What made a good restaurant.
C. Who created the first restaurant. D. How restaurants developed.
( )2. Who did Boulanger expect to come and eat at his restaurant
A. Rich people. B. Travelers. C. Sick people. D. Workers.
( )3. When it was first used, what did the word "restaurant" mean
A. A person. B. Soup. C. Illness. D. A place.
( )4. When did restaurants begin to grow internationally
In the 1600s. B. In the 1700s. C. In the 1800s. D. In the 1900s.
C
Researchers at Georgia Tech have been working to improve a musical robot called Shimon. Now Shimon doesn’t simply play music, he also writes the words to his own songs and sings them.
Shimon has been around for quite a while as a musical robot. Even back in 2015, he was playing with other musicians at the Kennedy Center in New York. What Shimon could do back then was already pretty cool.
Using AI（人工智能）, Shimon was taught to write his own music. ① For Shimon, that meant he could not only make up his own music, but do it in real time, while playing with other musicians.
Now Shimon can write the words to his own songs. ② Shimon learned to write the words for the songs the same way he learned to write music—by being “fed” thousands and thousands of examples. Shimon was trained on the lyrics （歌词） to 50, 000 songs.
Georgia Tech professor Gil Weinberg, who leads the Shimon project, gets Shimon going with a starting idea. Shimon then writes the lyrics based around that idea. “You’ll get a word like ‘storm’, and then it’ll produce a lot of relational words, like ‘wind’ and ‘rain’.” He says Shimon gets many ideas, keeps the good ones, and builds on them.
③ To give Shimon a voice, the Georgia Tech team worked with experts at Pompeu Fabra University in Spain. The voice was created using AI and sounds very much like a man.
④ To show off Shimon and his new abilities, the researchers have recorded one of Shimon’s songs, called “Into Your Mind”. They have made a video for the song, which is out on Youlube.
Later this spring, the team plans to put out an album（专辑） of about 8—10 of Shimon’s songs. There are also plans for Shimon to go on tour with a band to play and sing his songs live.
For Mr Weinberg, that’s the main goal behind the Shimon project—not to have robots take over, but to have robots and humans make something beautiful together.
( )1. The aim of the first paragraph is ________.
A. to give an introduction B. to lead a music topic
C. to explain a science problem D. to make a conclusion
( )2. Paragraphs 3—5 mainly talks about ________.
A. the number of the songs he writes B. the process to write his own songs
C. the history of Shimon’s development D. the reasons for developing a musical robot
( )3. Where can the sentence “Singing songs is another story” be best put
A. ①. B. ②. C. ③. D. ④.
( )4. Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage
A. Shimon was produced before 2015.
B. Shimon writes songs beginning with his own ideas.
C. Researchers are expecting more things from Shimon.
D. “Into Your Mind” is a song written by Shimon with the AI voice.
D
A team of Chinese researchers have recently developed a new type of self-powered flexible and transparent electronic skin to monitor subtle human activities, shedding light on the future of wearable electronics. This new e-skin integrates a flexible transparent supercapacitor（超级电容器）as an energy storage device with a stretchable transparent strain sensor（应变传感器）. Thanks to its mechanical softness, the integrated e-skin can be directly attached to various parts on the body.
As the largest organ of human body, skin is responsible for multiple major functions such as protection, perspiration, regulation of body temperature, and sensory stimulation（感觉刺激）. It forms the basis of people’s physical interactions with the outside world.
The ideal e-skin should be highly sensitive, self-powered, and suitable for the human skin. “Inspired by sensory functions and performance of real human skin, we have made the new e-skin both flexible and transparent to serve multiple functions. After charging, it is capable of monitoring of people’s subtle physical signals and multi-scaled activities in real-time. It can measure a person’s pulse, tell when they are swallowing, and detect other body movements,” said Lan Wei, a professor at the School of Physical Science and Technology of Lanzhou University and the leader of the research team.
E-skin is the core of future wearable electronic devices. The new invention can be applied in smart health care, human-machine interaction, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. For example, it could help surgeons control surgical robots more precisely, enable people to “touch” over long distances, and create more immersive gaming experiences.
Going ahead, the research team will focus on strengthening the sensory capacity and power supply of the e-skin, making it even more like human skin, which will in turn make it more adaptive to various future applications.
( )1. What is the purpose of the new wearable e-skin
To monitor human activities. B. To regulate body temperature.
C. To slow down the aging of human skin. D. To improve the flexibility of human skin.
( )2. What is special about the new e-skin according to Lan Wei
A. It has large battery storage. B. It can be attached to human skin directly.
C. It can meet diverse functional requirements. D. It is highly sensitive to environmental change.
( )3. What does paragraph 4 mainly tell us about the new e-skin
A. Its target users. B. Its medical value. C. Its working theory. D. Its application potential.
( )4. Which is the most suitable title for the text
A. Electronic Skin: A New Breakthrough B. Electronic Skin: A Technology Reform
C. Electronic Skin: The Welfare to Human Health D. Electronic Skin: The Model of Wearable Devices
词汇（共25小题；每小题1分，满分25分）
根据句意及所给中文提示、音标、首字母提示、英文解释，写出句中所缺单词，每空限填一词（15分）
He ____________(指)to the child with his pen and asked, "what's your name "
There are many strange things in the ________________(地下的)world.
We walked down some stone ____________________(台阶)to the beach.
Mary has been used to using ____________________(筷子) to eat since she came to China.
Do you know any famous ________________(日本人的)stars
Even the little child knows that the ________________(形状)of the earth is round.
The Grand Canyon is one of the natural____________(奇迹)of the world.
I think it’s difficult to get the ________________ (飞行员) licence.
Since China is getting stronger and stronger, the number of visitors from abroad is________(增加) all the time.
A long time ago it was______________(广泛地) believed that there was life on Mars.
Being tall gives him an____________(优势) over the other basketball players.
All the ______________(发明者) names should be remembered as they have changed the world
The plane________________________(着陆) safely though it was raining heavily.
Doctors say that too much pressure is not good for a child’s________________________(发展).
The __________________ (the total number of people) of Nantong is much smaller than that of Shanghai.
用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空（10分）
1. As the saying goes, the harder you work, the ____________(wealth) you will be.
2. How ____________(peace) the pandas are lying on the big stone! They are enjoying the sunshine.
3. Mr. King told us everything ____________(weigh) more on the Earth than on Mars because of gravity.
4. More and more______________(Europe) come to China for a visit every year.
5. The terrible weather prevented the astronaut______________(step) out onto the Moon.
6. We all know Edison was one of the greatest ________ (invent) in the world.
7. All of the _________________ (Russia) are good at skiing and skating.
8. Because of his excellent ____________________ (serve), he was presented with an award.
9. Please tell us more about the guide who ___________________ (give) you much help during that trip.
10. The exam is coming. Each of the students ______________ (work) for the exam at present.
阅读表达。阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容回答问题（共5小题，每小题2分，共10分）
Run-down buildings, rotted doors, rusty (生锈的) machines... this is how you might picture an old industrial site. But many of them now have a new look in China.
Shougang Industrial Park in Shijingshan district of Beijing is now a famous and popular culture and sports site. However, it used to be a steel mill that was built in 1919. It once housed 60,000 workers and made more than 10 million tons of iron and steel. To protect the environment, however, the mill slowly reduced its production from 2005 until it closed in 2010.
With the government’s support, the old mill has been reborn. Cafes, bookstores, hotels, and offices now fill Shougang’s warehouses and blast furnaces (高炉). Self-driving cars move around the place for testing. And during the 2022 Winter Games, Olympic athletes flew down the Big Air Ramp, which is now in front of Shougang’s former (之前的) cooling towers.
Xu Zhaolin, from Beijing, visits the industrial park a lot. “It’s hard to imagine that the park was a steel mill in the past,” said the 24-year-old. “It feels like you’ve come into a sci-fi game. The photos I took there look like cyberpunk (赛博朋克)!”
Like Shougang Industrial Park, in recent years, many old factories and mills have been turned into cultural and tourist sites. For example, the World of Tsingtao is a beer museum inside the old factory of the Tsingtao Brewery (啤酒厂), one of China’s largest breweries. The museum has brought people closer to the long history of the brewery. Today, China is home to 194 national-level industrial heritage (遗产) sites.
Old factories and workshops across the country are like a book on the history of Chinese manufacturing (制造业). Giving new life to them through protection and development is important for driving cities’ innovation and development, noted People’s Daily.
91. What did Shougang Industrial Park use to be
92. Why did Shougang close in 2010
93. How did Shougang have a new look according to the passage
94. Where can people visit the World of Tsingtao
95. What benefit (益处) can giving new life to old factories and workshops bring (请自拟一句话作答)
根据首字母提示写出文中所缺的单词，每空限填一词（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
Dr. Temple Grandin is austistic（自闭症）, which means she thinks and acts differently from most people. For example, she thinks in p____66____. If you say the word school to Dr. Grandin, her brain immediately recalls every school she has ever seen. She pictures each school and the books, desks, and rooms inside it! This may sound s____67____ to some people, but Dr. Grandin likes being different.
Thinking in pictures a____68____ Dr. Grandin’s brain to work on difficult ideas because she can “see” everything in her mind. That a____69____ helps her design machines and equipment. She first imagines all the pieces of a machine and h____70____ they work together. Then she gives them a “test run” in her mind to see if they will w____71____. If the machine does not work in her mind, she changes it u____72____ she sees something that does work.
Dr. Grandin uses her ability to make special equipment for handling farm animals. She believes that animals have a right to a comfortable, healthy life. So she has designed many inventions that help animals such as cows and pigs live more c____73____ on a farm. For example, she invented a curve corral（畜栏）that calms s____74____ animals as they walk through it.
Dr. Grandin and others l____75____ her teach people that being different can be a positive thing. If we all thought alike, Dr. Grandin believes, nothing new would ever be invented.
