靖江外国语学校2016∽2017学年度第二学期九年级英语独立作业（2017.03）一、听力部分一、听对话回答问题（10分）本部分共有10道小题，每小题你将听到一段对话，每段对话听两遍。
在听每段对话前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读题目；听完后，你还有5秒钟的时间选择你认为在最合适的备选答案。
在听到“嘀”的信号后，进入下一小题。
( )1. What subject does Andy like?A. B. C.( )2. What did the man eat yesterday?A. B. C.( )3. When does the plane to Nanjing leave?A. B. C.( )4. Where does Eddie find Lisa’s mobile phone?A. B. C.( )5. What happened after Mike left the party?A. Many people arrived.B. His teachers came.C. A lot of people left.( )6. How many sisters and brothers does Peter have?A. Three sisters and one brother.B. Two sisters and two brothers.C. Two sisters and one brother.( )7. What kind of film will they watch?A. The action film.B. The horror film.C. The science fiction film.( )8. Why does the woman choose the grey sofa?A. It is not expensive.B. It looks bigger.C. It is small.( )9. Where will Bob meet his mother?A. At the school gate.B. Beside the school hall.C. In front of the classroom building.( )10. What did David do during the holiday?A. He played chess on the Internet.B. He played cards with his classmates.C. He chatted online with his friends.C. Before June 18thD. After June 18th( )4. ---Which of the three dresses will you take?---I’ll take ____. Let’s go to another shop.A. bothB. eitherC. noneD. all( )5.People used to communicate on the phone, but now they are used __________ on Wechat because it makes communication ________.A. to chatting; much easierB. to chat; much easilyC. to chatting; more easierD. to chatting; much more easily( )6._________ big difference Tu Youyou has made to modern medicine in the world！She says she will________ her study.A. What; carry onB. What a; carry on withC. How; carry on withD. What a; carry on( )7.He couldn’t wait ___________ the phone but couldn’t stop __________ when he got the bad news about his dad’s sudden death.A. reply; to cryB. to answer;cryingto be in their _________.A. second-nines; fortiesB. two-ninths; fortiesC. second-ninths; fortiethD. two-ninths; fortieth( )13. I bought a robot yesterday and I ________ the batteries before using it.A. put throughB. put upC. put onD. put in( )14. Don’t ask him to study too late into the night. _____, heis only a small child.A. Above allB. After allC. In allD. First of all( )15. ---______ will the terrible weather stop?--- I’ve no idea. The radio says it will _____ until next Monday.A. How soon; lastB. How often; stopC. How far, lastD. How long; stop( )16. ---So you gave her your mobile phone?---___________.She said she’d return it to me after she had hers fixed.A. My pleaseB. No problemC. With pleasureD.Not exactly( )17.----May I speak to Kitty, please? ---Please__________ and I will__________.A. hold on; put you upB. hold on; put you throughC. hold of; put you awayD. hold in ; put you off( )18. ---Would you mind _______the umbrella with me?---________________. Let’s go.A. share, Of courseB. toshare, Better notC. sharing, Of course notD.sharing, Never mind( )19. Could you tell me ______________ in the future?A. what will life be likeB. what life will be likeC. how life will be likeD. what will life like( )20.-- You should do more and talk less because what you do is more important than what you say. --Yes._____.A. The grass is always greener on the other sideB. Practice makes perfectC. No pain, no gainD. Actions speak louder than words三、完型填空(15’)As darkness fell, hundreds of people in the Swiss village left their houses. They were staring(凝视) __1__ at the mountain top in the distance. It was covered with __2__, beautiful and dangerous.The huge mountain is called Matterhorn. Mountain climbers had __3__ the top, using the southern route. But no one had ever dared(敢) to try a winter climbing up the __4__ side. But now one man was daring to try the __5__ route. He was Walter Bonatti, a great mountain climber from Italy.For two days he had climbed. The village people had watched him anxiously(焦急地). Now they were waiting to see his signal(信号). If he planned to __6__ the next day, he would light a green signal. A red light would mean that he was turning back.A tiny green light __7__ high on the mountain side. Bonatti was not giving up! The people __8__.The next day he continued his way upward. He was so lonely and so __9__! But he would not give up. Again that night he lit the __10__ light.In the morning, Bonatti __11__. He couldn’t see the top, but he knew he was __12__ there. Though the climb was painful, he moved up.Bonatti had spent months __13__ for the climb. Was the training enough? Did he have the strength and skill to climb to the top?He was finally at the top! News about his __14__ was radioed tothe world.The trip down the southern route was easy. He was warmly welcomed in the village. He had done the “__15__”, and would be well remembered as a climber of all time.( )21. A. back B. around C. downD. up( )22. A. flowers B. rocks C. ice and snow D. green trees( )23. A. watched B. passed C. reachedD. climbed( )24. A. western B. eastern C. southernD. northern( )25. A. difficult B. strange C. sameD. easy( )26. A. turn back B. go on C. restD. stop( )27. A. raised B. appeared C.turned on D. turned off( )28. A. cheered B. laughed C. jumpedD. shouted( )29. A. asleep B. excited C. tiredD. happy( )30. A. yellow B. blue C. greenlong-term stay in space and the building of the space station.Remember the 2015 film The Martian(《火星救援》)? The USA astronaut in the film lives on the Red Planet by growing potatoes. Now, scientists have built a mini “greenhouse” on Tiangong-2. They hope to grow rice there.Once the space lab task comes to an end, China will start building our own space station.By 2020, China will have its first space station. It will be able to work for at least 10 years. By then, astronauts could stay in the station for more than one year.“When the International Space Station stops working in 2024, the Chinese station will be a choice for ‘scientific research and international cooperation(合作)’,” experts say.( )36. China sent up Tiangong-2 into space on ______________.A. September 15B.September 25C. October 15D. October 25( )37. The underlined word “they” here refers to “_______________”.A. astronautsB. experimentsC. space technologiesD. spaceships( )38. What happened in 2015 according to the passage?A. The film The Martian came out.money, he will eat poor little Toby. (Don’t worry, though. Remember, it’s just a hoax!)While the streets of New Orleans, the USA, were still flooded after a terrible hurricane (飓风), a frightening e-mail was sent around the Internet. It included a photograph of a large crocodile(鳄鱼) over five meters long. According to the message, it had been swimming around the flooded city eating people. It was later discovered that the photographs of the crocodile were of one that was caught in the Congo (刚果) years before.The following e-mail hoax takes in many people. It says that a large British company will pay you to send their e-mail to as many people as possible. For every person that you send the e-mail to, it promises you will receive $5.00; for every person that you send it to that sends it to someone else, you’ll get $3.00; and for every third person that receives it, you will be paid $1.00. To make it even more believable, the sender says that at first he thought it was a hoax, but the company soon sent him $800.00.( )41.The underlined word “hoaxes” means _____________.A. gamesB. websites C lies D. stories( )42.The crocodile in the photograph actually lived in________ .A. New OrleansB. the USAC. BritainD.the Congo( )43. Some people believe that they can_________ if they send e-mail.A. become famousB. find friendsC. make moneyD. keep promises( )44. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. The city of New Orleans was flooded because of the terrible hurricane.B. If the man doesn’t receive enough money, he will eat poor little Toby.C. The crocodile swam around the flooded city and ate several people.D. Someone received $800.00 from the company because of the e-mail.( )45.The main idea of the passage is to _________.A. teach how to create a professional website withattractive storiesB. show that anyone can create good Internet hoaxes with some factsC. explain that, even though they seem false, Internet hoaxes might be trueD. tell people to be careful of Internet hoaxes by giving some examplesthey expect that we will phone them from there. Once we arrive at their homes, the welcome will be full, warm and real. We will find ourselves treated hospitably.For the Americans, it is often considered more friendly to invite a friend to their homes than to go to restaurants, except for purely business matters. So accept their hospitality at home!( )46. The writer of this passage must be ______.A. an AmericanB. a ChineseC. a professorD. a student( )47. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?A. Friendships between Americans usually extend deeply into their families.B. Friendships between Americans usually last for all their lives.C. Americans always show their warmth even if they are very busy.D. Americans will continue their friendships again even after a long break.( )48. From the last two paragraphs we can learn that when we arrive in America to visit an American friend, we will probably be ______.A. warmly welcomed at the airportB. offered a ride to his homeC. treated hospitably at his homeD. treated to dinner in a restaurant( )49. The underlined words “generous with our time” in Paragraph 2 probably mean ____.A. strict with timeB. serious with timeC. careful with timeD. willing to spend time( )50. A suitable title for this passage would probably be “______”.A. Friendships between ChineseB. Friendships between AmericansC. Americans’ hospitalityD. Americans’ and Chinese’s views of friendships五、阅读表达(10’)“Here is the shopping for Mr Green,” said Dad, handing me a big plastic bag. Dad owned a milk bar, and sometimes I helped out after school with deliveries(送货). We had our regulars(常客), but times were hard. Dad said it was the home deliveries and the tea Dad imported(进口) from Fuzhou that kept us in business. Dad was well-known for his tea, and people came from miles around to buy it.I loaded up my bicycle with Mr Green’s shopping. His order always included three packets of Dad’s tea. How Mr Green could drink that much tea each week was a mystery to me.“See you later, Chen,” said Dad.He always called me by my Chinese name.Dad’s parents came from China in the 1950s. I had a yuan coin they brought with them. I cycled out into the sun, wishing I could drive— it would be so much quicker to make deliveries.Dad always said the exercise was good for me. I knew he was right, but I’d already decided that when I left home, the first thing I would do was to buy a car.I loved anything to do with cars, and I’d decided I would be a mechanic(机修工), although I knew it wasn’t what Dad had in mind for me. He’d already started saying to his friends, “When Chen goes to university, ……” If that happened, I would be the first person in my family to go, and it would be a great honor for my dad. But it wasn’t what I wanted.回答下列5个问题，每题答案不超过7个词。
