2019-2020学年浙江省杭州市杭州外国语学校九年级第一学期期中测试
二．完形填空（共20题，每小题1分，满分20分）
I got on the bus and noticed a girl looking at me. With the warmest smiles, she rose and 1 into the aisle（过道）offering her seat to me politely and respectably. I was wrong-footed, then conflicted. “No,” I screamed 2 , holding back a laugh from within, “I come from a generation 3 I do that for you.” I realized immediately what a 4 place that was.
Speech failed me; I burnt with 5 . Later, I reflected that this was an act of 6 . I bowed in recognition, 7 felt I bowed with shame. I am fit, able, and strong. In my head, I am 8 . She shocked me by making me so acutely(强烈地) aware of my 9 years.
To accept the seat was to accept that 10 status— elderly, needy, requiring care—a status I was not yet 11 to acquire. To decline was to 12 an act of generosity. To turn a blind eye was to appear 13 and impolite. To explain, on a 14 bus, was impossible.
The 15 situation was played out before the other passengers. What if, once I was seated, an older person 16 and no one offered a seat? Should I remain seated and bum with shame, or stand and 17 my newly received gift — a slap(巴掌) in the face for the kind and caring girl?
18 I took the seat, smiled and 19 my head on to my chest. The bus came to
a stop. I got up, walked slowly, 20 and noisily down the aisle and out into the rain.
1. A. stepped B. climbed C. slid D. ran
2. A. loudly B. silently C. angrily D. emotionally
3. A. which B. what C. when D. where
4. A. nice B. proper C. public D. strange
5. A. disappointment B. weakness C. embarrassment D. happiness
6. A. aggression B. violence C. kindness D. faith
7. A. but B. and C. so D. or
8. A. wrong B. vital C. normal D. young
9. A. coming B. advancing C. past D. recent
10. A. high B. low C. new D. equal
11. A. allowed B. ready C. proud D. perfect
12. A. reject B. perform C. commit D. balance
13. A. ungrateful B. unfortunate C. uncomfortable D. unbelievable
14. A. regular B. luxurious C. crowded D. local
15. A. different B. similar C. dangerous D. tough
16. A. boarded B. entered C. searched D. arrived
17. A. hand out B. give up C. give back D. hand over
18. A. Doubtfully B. Naturally C. Delightedly D. Awkwardly
19. A. shook B. nodded C. hung D. lifted
20. A. suddenly B. heavily C. energetically D. effortlessly
三．阅读理解
A
Bandhavgarh National Park in India is best known for its large biodiversity. The density of the tiger population at Bandhavgarh is the highest in the country. In addition to tigers, the park also has a large population of leopards, and various species of deer.
Location: In Madhya Pradesh state, almost 200 kilometers northeast of Jabalpur. The nearest village is Tala, which is the access point of the park.
Opening Hours and Safari Timings
Safaris operate twice a day, starting at dawn until late morning, and mid-afternoon until sunset. The best time to visit the park is early in the morning or after 4 p.m. to spot the animals. The park is closed from July to September due to the monsoon(季节) season.
Bandhavgarh Zones
Bandhavgarh is divided into three main zones: Tala (the park's best zone, with the most tigers), Magdhi (the second best zone to see tigers), and Khitauli (scenic and less visited, although tiger sightings do occur there; particularly good for birding).
Entry Fees and Charges for Jeep Safaris
Bandhavgarh has become expensive to visit in recent years. Entry fees have increased since October 2014. When going on a safari, separate fees must be paid for park entry and jeep hire. Entry tickets are priced per vehicle (up to six people). For 2018-19, park entry tickets cost as follows: Tala Zone: 2,400 rupees(卢比) for Indians, 4,800 rupees for international tourists. (Up to six people)
Other Zones: 1,200 rupees for Indians, 2,400 rupees for international tourists. (Up to six people) Jeep Hire
Expect to pay about 2,200 rupees to hire a jeep, in addition to the entry cost. This can be done at the park entrance. All hotels can arrange jeep hire and tours, but at a higher rate. It's much less trouble though. Besides, unlike many national parks in India, it's possible to take private vehicles into Bandhavgarh.
1. What is Bandhavgarh National Park most famous for?
A. Richly varied species of animals.
B. A very high density of tigers.
C. A large number of leopards.
D. Diverse species of deer.
2. When can you visit the park?
A. In September
B. In August.
C. In July.
D. In June.
3. What do we know about Bandhavgarh Zones?
A. There are only 3 zones in Bandhavgarh.
B. Tigers can’t be seen in all 3 main zones.
C. Khitauli is most frequently visited.
D. People can enter Bandhavgarh at Tala.
4. How much should five Americans pay for entry fees to visit Magdhi Zone?
A. 1,200 rupees
B. 2,400 rupees
C. 4,800 rupees
D. 6,000 rupees
5. What’s the purpose of the passage?
A. To encourage the development of Bandhavgarh.
B. To make an advertisement for Bandhavgarh.
C. To offer guidance to people traveling in Bandhavgarh.
D. To call on people to protect tigers in Bandhavgarh.
B
During the past weeks, thousands of people wearing the "yellow vests" have taken to the
streets across France, causing violence and conflicts. For example, in Paris on Nov 24, many tourism streets were littered with burnt cars and broken glass, and the Arc de Triomphe monument was defaced with graffiti.
The protests(抗议) started as opposition to the increase in France's' fuel tax, introduced by the French government to encourage people to use more environmentally friendly transport. However, the rising fuel tax is believed to increase peoples' expenses(花费), especially for those in small towns and in rural France where most get around by car and have low-paying jobs. Meanwhile, French students have also joined the protests, as they oppose the government's recent educational reforms.
With more people attending, the protests have grown into wider criticism that French President Emmanuel Macron doesn't care about the problems of ordinary people and that his policies favor the rich, reported the Associated Press.
"Macron came out of the banks and finance, and that goes down very badly for many people," Thierry Paul Valette, a protest coordinator in Paris, told Time magazine.
Macron's style of communication was also being criticized. His manner has fueled the idea
that he doesn't understand the lives of ordinary people, reported Time magazine For example, in September, Macron told an unemployed man that he could land a job at a local cafe if he just “crossed the street”.
To calm down the protesters, Macron promised a minimum wage rise and broad tax reduction for struggling workers in a televised address on Dec 10.
1. According the passage, many people in France took part in the yellow vests movement to protest against
A. higher fuel prices
B. low-paying jobs
C. non eco-friendly transport
D. high government expenses
2. What was the government's intention in the tax reform?
A. To collect more money from people.
B. To encourage people to drive their own cars.
C. To promote more eco-friendly transport.
D. To lower the government expenses.
3. Which of the following groups of people were probably NOT among the protesters?
A. The people from the upper class.
B. The students who were affected by the educational reforms.
C. The people in places where they got around mainly in diesel and petrol vehicles.
D. The workers who were poorly paid
4. The underlined remark of Macron in Paragraph 6 shows _____________.
A. Macron doesn't respect unemployed people
B. Macron doesn't understand the lives of French people
C: Macron thinks it very easy to find a job
D. Macron is a very humorous man
5.This passage is _______________.
A. a tourism warning
B. a news article
C. a magazine article
D. political report
C
It is a question people have been asking for—ages. Is there a way to turn back the aging process in people? For centuries, people have been looking for a "fountain of youth." The idea is that if you find a magical fountain, and drink from its waters, you will not age.
Researchers in New York did not find an actual fountain of youth, but they may have found a way to turn back the aging process. It appears the answer may be hidden right between your eyes, in an area called the hypothalamus（下丘脑）. The hypothalamus is part of your brain. It controls important activities within the body. They include growth, reproduction and the way we process food.
Researchers at New York's Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that hypothalamus neural stem cells also influence how fast aging takes place in the body.
What are stem cells? They are simple cells that can develop into specialized cells, like blood or skin cells. Stem cells can also repair damaged tissues and organs.
Dongsheng Cai is a professor at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. He was the lead researcher in a study on aging in mice. He and his team reported their findings in the journal Nature.
“Aging speed is controlled, can be controlled by a particular place in the body, which is the hypothalamus. And it can be controlled by a particular type of cells, which are hypothalamus stem cells.” He adds that when the hypothalamus starts aging, so does the body. “So when hypothalamus function is in decline, particularly the loss of hypothalamus stem cells, and this protection against the aging development is lost, it eventually leads to aging.”
Using this information, the researchers began trying to activate, or energize, the hypothalamus in laboratory mice. They did this by injecting the animals with stem cells. Later, the researchers examined tissues and tested for changes in behavior. They looked for changes in the strength and coordination of the animals’ muscles. They also studied the social behavior and cognitive （认知的）ability of the mice. The researchers say the results show that the treatment slowed aging in the animals.
“ When we injected the hypothalamus stem cells, which were derived from young mice, we injected them to the middle-aged mice and that was, in fact, to slow down aging. So the mouse aged
slowly and they also have increased their lifespan, which is longevity.”
But these results were just from studying mice in a laboratory. If the mice can live longer, does that mean people could have longer lives? The next step is to see if the anti-aging effects also work in human beings. “If we can translate what we have seen in animals to humans, I think humans, they can function better during later ages, later stage of aging.”
Cai and his team say their studies may have other benefits. They say the findings could lead to new ways to help doctors identify and treat any number of age-related health issues.
1.What do we know about the hypothalamus?
A.It’s located in the eyes.
B.It starts aging due to the increase of its stem cells.
C.It plays a key role in controlling the aging process.
D.It functions well when the body starts aging.
2.What did the researchers do during the experiment?
A.They strengthened the muscles of the mice.
B.They examined tissues and tested the behavior of mice.
C.They injected the stem cells into the younger mice.
D.They changed the social behavior and cognitive ability of the mice.
3.What do we know about the study done by Cai?
A.They have found a way to turn back the aging process.
B.The brain controls growth, reproduction and the way we process food.
C.The decrease of hypothalamus stem cells can lead to aging.
D.The finding has been applied to human being.
4.What would the researchers probably do next?
A.Inject stem cells of young mice into humans.
B.Research on the cognitive psychology.
C.Help human beings live longer.
D.Do similar experiments on human beings.
5.Which of the following can be the best titles for the passage?
A.How human being age
B.A new discovery about cells
C.The ways of slowing down aging
D.Researchers use brain cells to control aging in mice
D
There is an old joke among pilots that says the ideal flight crew is a computer, a pilot and a dog. The computers job is to fly the plane. The pilot is there to feed the dog. And the dog’s job is to bite the pilot if he tries to touch the computer.
Handling complex tasks to computers is not new. But recent progress in machine learning, a sub field of artificial intelligence (AI), has enabled computers to handle many problems which were
previously beyond them. The result has been an AI boom, with computers moving into everything from medical diagnosis and insurance to self-driving cars.
There is a problem, though Machine learning works by giving computers the ability to train themselves, which adapts their programming to the task at hand. People struggle to understand exactly how those self-written programs do what they do. When algorithms are doing small tasks, such as playing chess or recommending a film to watch, this "black box" problem can be safely ignored. When they are deciding who gets a loan, or how to drive a car through a crowded city, it is potentially harmful. And when things go wrong, then customers, regulators and the courts will want to know why.
For some people this is a reason to hold back Al. France's digital-economy minister, Mounir Mahjoubi, has said that the government should not use any algorithm whose decisions cannot be explained. But that is an overreaction. The difficulties caused by clever computers are not unheard of. Society already has plenty of experience dealing with problematic black boxes; the most common are called human beings, who can’t even figure out what's going on in a brain. In response to the weakness in humans, society has evolved a series of workable coping mechanisms, called laws, rules and regulations. Many of these can be applied to machines as well.
Humans have worked with computers on complex tasks for decades. One lesson from such applications is that, wherever possible, people should supervise the machines. In that joke, lots are necessary in case something happens that is beyond the scope of artificial intelligence. As computers spread, companies and governments should ensure the first line of defence is a real person who can overrule the algorithms if necessary.
Al is bound to suffer some troubles. But it also promises extraordinary benefits and the difficulties it poses are not unprecedented(无先例的) If the new black boxes prove tricky, there will be time to toughen the rules
1. Why is the joke mentioned in Paragraph 1?
A. To make people laugh.
B. To predict future airplane industry
C. To introduce the latest model of airplanes.
D. To raise people's awareness of computers performing complex tasks
2. What has caused the increasing application of computers in various fields?
A. The shortage of labor force
B. The rise of artificial intelligence
C. The encouragement of governments. D, The development of economy
3. Why are some people opposed to Al according to the article?
A. Black boxes always go wrong
B. Al may become too smart to be controlled by human beings.
C. They don't understand how Al works
D. Computers are trying to replace human beings.
4. What does the author suggest people do with AI?
A. Stop panic and welcome Al
B. Reduce the usage of algorithms
C. Supervise AI wherever possible
D. Deal with the "black box" problem.
5. What's the author's attitude towards the development of AT?
A. Supportive
B. Indifferent
C. Pessimistic.
D. Neutral
第二节:阅读回答问题
仔细阅读下文,用完整的句子回答下列问题。回答请勿超出限定字数。
Jessica Cox, 25, a girl without arms, stands inside an aircraft. The girl from Tucson, Arizona got the Sport Pilot certificate lately and became the first pilot licensed to fly using only her feet.
Jessica Cox was born without arms, but that has only stopped her from doing one thing: using the word "can't".
With one foot manning the controls and the other delicately guiding the steering column, Cox 25, soared to achieve a Sport Pilot certificate. Her certificate qualifies her to fly a light-sport aircraft to altitudes of 10,000 feet. She made what's seemingly impossible become a reality.
"She's a good pilot. She's rock solid." said Parrish Traweek, 42, the flying instructor at San Manuel's Ray Blair Airport.
Parrish Traweek runs PC Aircraft Maintenance and Flight Services and has trained many pilots, some of whom didn't come close to Cox's abilities.
"When she came up here driving a car, Traweek recalled, "I knew she'd have no problem flying plane.”
And piloting a plane is only one of Jessica's achievements. Jessica who works as a motivational speaker, also drives car, has a black belt at taekwondo, uses a computer and otherwise lives a normal life. She is so adept at using her feet, she is even able to insert her contact lenses and apply makeup using only her feet. In her role as a motivational speaker, Jessica has inspired audiences across the United States.
1. What was Jessica Cox's achievement lately? (no more than 12 words)
2. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph mean? (no more than 15 words)
3. According to the article, what else is Jessica able to do besides flying a plane? Give ONE example. (no more than 8 words)
4. What does the underlined word in the last paragraph "adept" mean? (no more than 3 words)
5. How does Jessica Cox's story inspire you?(no more than 12 words)
四、单词拼写(共10小题,每小题1分,满分10分)
在下列空格处填入单词的适当形式以完成句子,每个单词的首字母已经给出。
1. Mrs. White has made a New Year's resolution to take up knitting, which may become one of her h_______ that she enjoys after retirement.
2. Our science teacher was very pleased that we completed fairly difficult project all by o____
3. Monica has never f______ in a hot air balloon before. She's very excited about her first ride in the air.
4. We're going to the mountains for a few days, so we'll need some camping e_________
like tents, mats and sleeping bags
5. After a nuclear leak, the environment of this area was seriously polluted. It became
u_________ and all the residents had to flee and find a new place to live in.
6. D___________ newspapers is part-time job that teenagers can do to earn spending money. They ride a bike around a neighborhood and leave a newspaper at each house.
7. ---if we can't find a Chinese restaurant by lunchtime, shall we eat western meal i__________ -- Certainly! I'm not a picky eater.
8. Mary's desk is always messy and she can never find things in her drawers. There's no way such
a d_________ person will make a good secretary.
9. On Dec. Y8, 2018, China celebrated the f______________ anniversary of its reform and opening-up policy. Since it was launched in 1978, a lot of remarkable achievements have been made in China's economic and social development.
10. An international team of a____________ has discovered the bones of two new species of dinosaurs in the Atlas Mountain, Morocco. According to their followed research, the dinosaurs lived more than 90 million years ago.
五、词组填空
从下列方框中选择正确的词组，使用其正确的形式完成句子，每一个词组用一次，其中有两项是多余的
1.People with severe heart problems can have a heart transplant _______________, a healthy heart is put into their body to replace the heart with problems.
2.While the dog ______________the baby in the crib, a wolf suddenly dashed in through the window, casting a greedy eye on the baby.
3.Don’t rush to a decision. Choose wisely and remember that you’re the only one who ______________your decisions and actions.
4.Peter doesn’t get along with his classrooms. Perhaps his problem __________a lack of interpersonal intelligence.
5.All over the world people have cut down millions of trees. ___________,many types of animals and plants are now disappearing.
6.The 2016 New Year’s celebration in Munich, Germany. ____________due to a potential terrorist attack. The police advised people to avoid crowds.
7.The Foreign Language Festival offers a wonderful stage to show students’ talent and passion in language learning. So each your students all look forward to __________its many events.
8.Mary is going to quit Mr.Green’s class because she says she ___________his boring lectures.
9.The Moon faces Earth with always the same side. The other side, which is never seen from Earth, is called “the far side”. All manned(载人的）and unmanned landings __________on the near of the
Moon, until January 3,2019 when China’s Chang’e 4 spacecraft made the first landing on the far side.
10.A farmer has just been hit by a car and is lying on the country road, badly injured. If nobody passed by in time , the man ___________excessive loss of blood.
六．短文填空
China, which takes pride in four inventions in ancient times, has once again shown its ability____1_____ (change) the world with its “new four great inventions”: high-speed railways, mobile payment, shared bicycles and online shopping.
Over the last few years, the “new four great inventions” _____2____(improve) the quality of people’s lives. Thanks ___3______ online shopping and mobile payment, people can buy what they want much more ____4_____(easy).
As for the bikes, ______5___ the service of shared bikes began in Western countries, China surprised the world with a business model of station-less shared bikes _____6____ allows users to simply pick up or park a bike anywhere on the street. Shared bicycles are bringing cycling back to people’s lives and they are making public transport _____7____(attractive) than before.
So far, China has had the world’s largest high-speed rail (HSR) network, which is about 30,000 kilometers long and takes up over 60% of the world’s total length. According to China Railway Company, another 8,000 kilometers _____8____(build) in five years.
It is increasingly clear that China is _____9____(innovate) and no longer copying Western ideas. A growing number of ____10_____(foreign) hope to promote the economic development in their home countries by highlighting the need for technological achievements like that of China.
七、书面表达(满分25分)
如今课外补习班变得越来越普遍，有的同学觉得上课外补习班可以提升成绩，有的觉得
上补习班有很多弊端。Teens英文报社向你征稿，请你就“学生是否应该上课外补习班”谈谈你的看法。文中必须包括:
1. 现状描述;
2.你的经历或做法
3.你的观点及理由(理由至少2条，且有阐述)。
请注意:
1.文中请勿出现你的真实姓名、学校、班级和地址
2.数150左右。
Should students take after-school classes?
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参考答案：
完形填空AADCC CADBC BAACD ABDCB
阅读理解ADDBC ACABB CCCBC DBCCD
阅读回答
1.She got the Sport Pilot certificate lately.
2.The word “can’t” doesn’t appear in Jessica Cox's life.
3.She can also drives car/ has a black belt at taekwondo/ uses a computer…
4.Good
5.We should overcome our weaknesses with courage and determination.
单词拼写hobbies；ourselves；flown；equipment；uninhabitable；delivering；instead；disorganized；fortieth；archaeologists
词组填空In other words; was watching over ; is responsible for; has to do with; As a consequence; was called off; participating in; is fed up with; took place; will die from
语法填空to change; have improved; to; easily; Although; which; more attractive; will be built; innovating; foreigners