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北京市顺义区 2019-2020 学年九年级上学期期末英语试题
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单项填空
从下面各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中, 选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. —Are these ___________books, Dad?
—Yes. I'm looking for them. Thank you.
A. her B. your C. his D. their
2. Yao Ming decided to enter the NBA ___________2002.
A. at B. on C. in D. of
3. —Peter, which do you like ___________, e-books or paper books?
—Both give me the pleasure of reading.
A. well B. best C. better D. the best
4. —___________do you have to stay at home?
—Because I have something important to do.
A. When B. Why C. Who D. Which
5. —How do astronauts eat in space?
—They have special plates ___________their food doesn't float away.
A. so that B. since C. so…that D. because
6. —___________ you play the piano?
—No, I can't. But I can play the guitar.
A. May B. Must C. Need D. Can
7. —I didn't see you last week.
—I had a bad cold. The doctor asked me ___________ at home for a week.
A. to stay B. stay C. staying D. stayed
8. After Steve Jobs returned to Apple in 1996, he ___________many things in the company.
A. changed B. changes C. has changed D. will change
9. Yang Liwei is the first Chinese astronaut ___________went into space.
A. which B. who C. whose D. whom
10. —What should we do first if we want to make our town more beautiful?
—More trees ______________, I think.
A. plant B. are planting C. have planted D. must be planted
11. —Do you like Harry Potter?—Yes. I ___________it since I was 10 years old. I like it very much.
A. have read B. read C. am reading D. will read
12. —Do you know ___________the Capital Museum?
—Next Friday.
A. when will we visit B. when we will visit
C. when did we visit D. when we visited
完形填空
阅读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从短文后各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中, 选择最佳选
项。
Winners Are Made, Not Born
No one is born a winner. People make themselves into winners by their own ___13___. I learned this lesson
from an experience many years ago. I took the head coaching job at a school in Baxley, Georgia. It was a small
school with a weak football program.
It was a tradition for the school's old team to play against the ___14___ team at the end of spring practice.
The old team had no coach, and they didn't even practice to ___15___ the game. Being the coach of the new team,
I was excited because I knew we were going to win, but to my disappointment, we were defeated（击败）.
Thinking hard about it, I came to realize that my team might not be the number one team in Georgia, but they
were depending on me. I had to change my ___16___ about their ability and potential（潜力）.
I started doing anything I could to help them build a little pride. Most important, I began to ___17___ them
like winners. That summer, when the other teams enjoyed their vacations, we met every day and practiced passing
and kicking the football.
Six months after suffering our defeat on the spring practice field, we won our first game and our second, and
continued to ___18___. Finally, we faced the number one team in the state. I felt that it would be a victory for us
even if we lost the game. But that wasn’t what happened. My boys beat the best team in Georgia, giving me one of
the greatest ___19___ of my life！
From the experience I learnt a lot about how the attitude of the leader can affect the members of a team.
Instead of seeing my boys as losers, I pushed and encouraged them. I helped them to see themselves ___20___,
and they built themselves into winners.
13. A. works B. tests C. efforts D. opinions
14. A. strong B. new C. good D. successful
15. A. prepare for B. cheer for C. fight for D. look for
16. A. decision B. attitude C. conclusion D. purpose17. A. treat B. control C. choose D. change
18. A. relax B. spread C. improve D. protect
19. A. chances B. developments C. offers D. excitements
20. A. honestly B. separately C. completely D. differently
阅读理解
阅读下列短文, 根据短文内容, 从短文后各题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中, 选择最佳选项。
A
Creative and New Ideas from Teenagers
Teenagers are known for being creative and full of new ideas. Let's have a look at these teenage inventions
that might change the world.
Banana leaves usually go bad in two or three days. Richard, a teenager from India, used UV to
make the leaves stay fresh for a year. Richard thinks that one day the leaves will be used for
making plates, cups and other things.
David, an American teenager, built an earthworm (蚯蚓) robot. It is able to go into the smallest
places, where humans or dogs can't go. It will be finding people in a fire or an earthquake.
Sara, a 14-year-old girl, from South Africa, found it tiring and boring to hand wash clothes in the
nearby river. She reused some bicycle parts and created a washing machine that saves time,
energy and keeps people fit at the same time.
Alex, a 15-year-old boy, from England, noticed that his grandfather who got Alzheimer's disease
（老年痴呆）would often leave home and get lost. So he invented the wearable sensors（感应
器）to help people find their family members like his grandfather.
21. Who built an earthworm robot?
A. Richard. B. David. C. Sara. D. Alex.
22. The wearable sensors invented by Alex can ___________.
A. make things stay fresh B. help people wash clothes
C. go into the smallest places D. help people find their family members
23. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Plates and cups are made of fresh banana leaves.
B. Sara's washing machine can also keep people fit.
C. David is a middle school student from India.
D. Alex's wearable sensors will keep old people at home.
B
Best Trip I've Ever Had
Clara Daly was seated on an Alaska Airlines flight from Boston to Los Angeles when she heard a worriedvoice over the loudspeaker：“Does anyone on board know American Sign Language? We need your help.”
Clara, a fifteen-year-old girl at the time, pressed the call button. An air hostess came by and explained the
situation. “We have a passenger on the plane who's blind and deaf,” she said. The passenger seemed to want
something, but he was traveling alone and the air hostesses couldn't understand what he needed.
Clara had been studying ASL for the past year to help blind and deaf people and she knew she'd be able to
finger spell into the man's palm. So she rose from her seat, walked toward the front of the plane, and knelt（跪）
by the seat of Tim Cook, a sixty-four man. Gently taking his hand, she signed, “How are you? Are you OK?" Cook
asked for some water. When it arrived, Clara returned to her seat.
She came by again a bit later because he wanted to know the time. On her third visit, she stopped and stayed
for a while. “He didn't need anything. He was lonely and wanted to talk, ”Clara said.
So, for the next hour, that's what they did. She talked about her family and her plans for the future. Cook told
Clara how he had become blind over time and shared stories of his days as a traveling salesman.
"Even though he couldn't see her, she looked attentively（聚精会神地）at his face with such kindness, ”a
passenger reported.
“Clara was amazing, ”an air hostess told Alaska Airlines in a blog interview. “You could tell Cook was very
excited to have someone he could speak to, and she was such an angel.”
24. What was the air hostesses' problem?
A. They had a very difficult passenger. B. They couldn't understand the passenger.
C. They didn't know the passenger's name. D. They didn't have what the passenger wanted.
25. Tim Cook kept asking for service in order to ___________.
A. get some food B. have someone to talk to
C. know Clara well D. look for his family members
26. From the passage we can know Clara Daly is ___________.
A. brave and clever B. beautiful and lovely
C. patient and caring D. outgoing and friendly
C
However exciting space travel sounds, astronauts must still suffer with bad food. Now, food in space has to be
dehydrated（使脱水）or pre-cooked and stored. This means astronauts aren't really eating fresh food.
New technology may change this. Scientific American reports that a specially-designed oven will be sent into
space this autumn with NASA's NG-12 cargo（货物）.Far from the common vacuum-packed（真空包装的）
meals, astronauts may get to enjoy freshly baked cookies before the end of 2019.
Why aren't they baking cookies in space already?For one thing, there's the risk of a fire. Engineers also have to overcome the challenge of microgravity, which
prevents heat from circling inside ovens the same way it does on Earth.
Astronauts will still have to wait a while before they can have their cookies, though. After baking, the results
will be sent back to Earth for safety testing. If successful, this will be the first oven to bake food in space.
“I believe…that will be game-changing for both science and astronauts, ”food technology researcher Maeena
Naman Shafiee told Scientific American.
One of the main driving forces behind this project has been NASA's 2018 research into the effects of "
confinement（封闭）and isolation（隔离）”. Unlike on the International Space Station（ISS）, astronauts
traveling out of Earth's orbit may not be able to speak to their loved ones on future missions, which could lead to
negative feelings.
It's hoped that the chance to bake and sense familiar smells can bring joy to crews（宇航人员）.
“Is the ISS going to smell like fresh-baked cookies? We don't know, ”said NanoRacks' communications
manager Abby Dickes. “But that's a feeling we all know and love…that will make someone feel at home.”
,
Baking cookies in space would mark an important step offering a small comfort in the difficult and
unfamiliar environment of space travel. Astronauts have already grown plants aboard the ISS.
With commercial（商业的）space travel now being planned, who knows what other developments may
surprise us in the future
27. What can the new technology help astronauts to do in space?
A. Store more food. B. Enjoy fresh cookies.
C. Quickly prepare food. D. Cook many different kinds of home-made meals.
28. Why is it difficult to bake cookies in space?
.
A. Because it's difficult and costly to send food into space
B. Because microgravity stops food from staying in one place.
C. Because baking cookies in space would pollute the spaceships.
D. Because it is hard to heat food properly because of microgravity.
29. What was the main purpose of the cookie project?
A. To improve astronauts' health. B. To make improvements in space travel.
C. To encourage more people to travel to space. D. To make space travel more comfortable for
astronauts.
D
Audio Texts Signal Rise of New Literacy
Many people read physical books or e-books, but now there is a new trend—listening to audiobooks（有声读物）.
According to a recent report by the Chinese Academy of Press and Publication（CAPP）, more people are
choosing to listen to audiobooks these days.
To be specific, 26 percent of adults listened to audiobooks in 2018, which was 3. 2 percentage higher than that
in 2017.
Young people have been the main driver in the development of audiobooks. Some 26.2 percent of teenagers
listened to audiobooks in 2018, which was 3. 5 percent higher than that in 2017. Ximalaya noted that the value of
audiobook purchases made by those aged 13 to 18 in 2018 increased by 330 percent over that of 2017, the Beijing
Evening News reported.
One of the reasons that audiobooks are becoming increasingly popular is that people want to get more use out
of their free time, China News Service reported. Listening to e-books frees up time for them, whether they are at
the gym, on a bus, or in bed. Faster internet speeds mean that a book can be downloaded in seconds, according to
Wei Yushan, director of CAPP.
,
Listening to audiobooks also helps with loneliness.“When I feel bored or lonely listening to audiobooks
makes me feel that there is someone accompanying（陪伴）me, ”Zhong Yan, an office worker who is obsessed
with audiobooks, told the Beijing Evening News.
However, audiobooks are still far from perfect.“Listening to audiobooks doesn't make you think in the way
you do when you're reading a book. It's also likely that you will miss information while you listen, ”said Zhong.
Qiang Qiang, a primary student who often listens to audiobooks, shares this perspective: " Despite（即使；尽
管）its convenience, audiobooks are less detailed than physical books you read, ”he told the Beijing Evening
News.
Li Yini, assistant general manager of Baicaoyuan Bookstore in Wuxi, Jiangsu province, told Jiangnan Times
that people who want a book with serious content should choose a paper book or e-book, but they can choose an
audiobook if the content is easy to understand.
30. What can we learn from the first four paragraphs?
A. Audiobooks have developed quickly in recent years.
B. Audiobooks are more popular than physical books in China.
C. Ximalaya is the first choice when people listen to audiobooks.
D. About half of young people in China listened to audiobooks in 2018.
31. According to the article, people like to listen to e-books because—·
A. they are more convenient B. they are cheaper than paper books
C. they are more relaxing than physical books D. they provide people with a better reading experience32. The phrase “be obsessed with" in Paragraph 6 probably means“ ___________, , .
A. be doubtful about B. be interested in
C. be careful about D. be disappointed at
33. What can we learn from Li Yini's words?
A. Audiobooks are less detailed than physical books.
B. People should choose a book form based on its content.
C. People think differently when they listen to audiobooks.
.
D. Physical bookstores face a big challenge from audiobooks
阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。
Let's Save Our Language Heritage
Each year on Feb 21, UNESCO holds an International Mother Language Day（IMLD）. The event is to draw
attention to the disappearance of the world's languages：dozens of them are vanishing each year. UNESCO sees
this as a tragedy（悲剧）, and with good reason.
What happens when a language dies out? Something huge is lost—not just sounds and marks but the way that
people make sense of the world and communicate with each other. And it is through language that we have culture
and tradition. Kill a language and all this is killed too.
Through IMLD, more people are becoming aware of the destruction of linguistic（语言学的）diversity in
modern times and trying to stop it. Google's 2012 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Speakers and
protectors of endangered languages upload text, audio and video files to the project site. They want to introduce
people to the wonders of the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.
The Myaamia Project is a similar kind of effort. This is an attempt to revive（重新使用）the language
spoken by the Miami and Illinois tribes（部落）of the US. Project members work to encourage people to study
and communicate with this language, which formally died out in the 1960s.
These activities, which breathe life into languages on the verge（边缘）of extinction, might seem old-
fashioned to some. But those who work to keep languages alive are not enslaved（束缚）to the past. They are
enthusiastic young people who design apps and use social media to champion their activities. As the US-based
social event calendar website Upcoming puts it, they“spread the word" to save the word.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a
special feeling for our mother tongue, although those of us who speak one that is not endangered might not always
be aware of it. This is why we should recall（回忆）the wise words of the late president of South Africa, Nelson
Mandela：“If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own
language, that goes to his heart.”34. When is International Mother Language Day?
_____________________________________________________________
35. What happens when a language dies out?
_____________________________________________________________
36. What is Google's 2012 Endangered Languages Project?
_____________________________________________________________
37. What can we know from Paragraph 5?
_____________________________________________________________
38. Why did the author mention Nelson Mandela's words?
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书面表达
文段表达
从下面两个题目中任选一题, 根据中文和英文提示, 完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。文中
已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
39. 题目①
假如你是李华, 打算邀请你校的美国交换生Peter于本周六下午4点一起去参加读书俱乐部。请你用英语写
一封邀请信, 告诉他你们见面的时间、地点,
以及活动内容和邀请他的原因。
提示词语：Reading Club, listen to the lecture（讲座）, share
提示问题：● When and where are you going to meet?
● What are you going to do?
● Why do you invite him
Dear Peter.
How is it going?
I’m writing to invite you to go to the Reading Club together.
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Yours
Li Hua40. 题目②
的
每个人心中都有一个自己 榜样, 他们无时无刻都在激励着我们克服困难, 勇往直前。
某英文网站正在开展以“My Role Model”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华, 请用英语写一篇短文投稿, 谈
谈你心中的榜样。主要内容包括：你心中的榜样是谁, 为什么他／她会成为你的榜样, 以及你从他／她身
上学到了什么。
提示词语：example, hard-working, helpful, successful
提示问题：● Who is your role model?
●Why is he/she your role model?
●What have you learned from him/her?
My Role Model
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