江苏省盐城市大丰区实验初级中学2022-2023学年九年级下学期英语第17周强化练习（含答案）

2022—2023学年度第二学期
九年级英语第17周强化练习
（练习时间：60分钟 分值：95分 练习形式：独立闭卷）
完形填空。（共15小题，每小题1分，计15分）
It was December and the snow was falling quietly outside. The four March sisters were sitting around the fire in the living room. They were knitting(织) socks for 1 . There was a war and everyone had to help.
Meg was the 2 of the four sisters. She was sixteen. She was very pretty and she loved pretty clothes. Jo was fifteen. She was very tall and thin. She was different from Meg. She didn’t 3 dresses or hairstyles. She was a tomboy(假小子). Beth was thirteen. She was very shy and 4 and she seemed to live in a happy world of her own. The youngest, Amy, looked like a snow princess with her blue eyes. She loved beautiful things and she was a little vain(虚荣的). She also thought that she was a very important person.
“Christmas isn’t Christmas without any presents,” Jo said 5 .
“I hate being unwealthy!” Meg said, looking at her old dress.
“Some girls have lots of nice things, and 6 girls have nothing at all,” said Amy. “I don’t think it’s 7 !”
“But we’ve got Father and Mother, and each other,” said Beth.
The four sisters looked happy for a moment when they remembered this.
“But we haven’t got 8 ,” said Jo. Their smiles suddenly disappeared. Mr March was far away 9 the soldiers.
“Mother says our men are suffering and we 10 spend money for pleasure,” Meg said. “That’s why we can’t have presents this year.”
“Well, each of us has a dollar to spend,” said Jo. “ 11 can the army do with four dollars 12 ! I don’t expect anything from Mother but I’d like to buy a book for myself!” Jo was a(an) 13 .
“I want to spend mine on some new music.” said Beth. She played the piano and she loved singing.
“I’m going to buy a box of drawing pencils. I really need them!” said Amy. She wanted to be an artist.
“Mother didn’t 14 anything about spending our own money,” cried Jo. “Let’s each buy what we want and have a little fun; I’m sure we 15 hard enough to earn it.”
It was true. The two older sisters had jobs. Meg worked as a teacher for the King family and Jo looked after Aunt March, their father’s rich, bad-tempered(坏脾气的) old aunt. Beth and Amy helped with the housework.
( )1. A. neighbours B. sisters C. parents D. soldiers
( )2. A. prettiest B. oldest C. smartest D. youngest
( )3. A. care of B. care for C. care about D. care with
( )4. A. noisy B. quiet C. generous D. mean
( )5. A. sadly B. happily C. loudly D. gently
( )6. A. other B. the other C. others D. the others
( )7. A. fair B. right C. unfair D. necessary
( )8. A. parents B. Father C. Mother D. presents
( )9. A. for B. with C. from D. in
( )10. A. needn’t B. wouldn’t C. mightn’t D. mustn’t
( )11. A. How B. Why C. What D. Who
( )12. A. Everything B. Something C. Nothing D. Anything
( )13. A. pianist B. artist C. bookworm D. writer
( )14. A. say B. talk C. tell D. speak
( )15. A. study B. work C. save D. help
阅读理解 （共15小题，每小题2分，计30分）
阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
As AI art generators (生成器) take the world by storm, some people wonder if their works should count as art at all. The technology is still developing and has some problems to work out, which means there are indeed flaws to consider along with the unbelievable artwork a good artificial intelligence (人工智能) can produce.
Art is classed as the product of imagination, skill, experience, and feelings, usually meant to represent something for the public to enjoy. Artists spent time and effort putting their inner worlds onto these works. Machine intelligence also puts a lot of work into sorting through tons of data, linking someone’s tips to datasets (数据集), and trying to represent it as best as possible. The difference is that the AI is driven by instructions instead of an emotional need to express itself.
AI painters can produce over 1,000 original (原创的) works of art with every tap of the enter key on a keyboard. But a mass-produced print of the Mona Lisa is worth less than the actual Leonardo da Vinci’s painting. Why Rareness — there’s only one of the original. Should anyone pay for these things And if an artist puts AI works up for sale, what should the price be
AI art includes a program imitating the work of famous artists to create a new piece according to the need of a human. But who made the artwork, the machine or its user And can the original artists protect copyright Such questions make the appearing of artificial intelligence and the art industry more difficult, increasing arguments against recognizing AI-generated art as marketable artistic products.
Once we’ve answered those questions, we can deal with the really big one: When an AI-generated painting wins an award, who gets the prize
( )1.The passage is most probably taken from _______.
A. a diary B. a science study C. a tour guide D. a dictionary
( )2. What does the underlined word “flaws” in paragraph 1 probably mean
A. Advantages. B. Benefits. C. Weaknesses. D. Standards.
( )3. How is AI art different from human art
A. It is the product of experience.
B. It costs less money to produce.
C. It includes different styles of work.
D. It is not a mirror of humans’ feelings.
( )4. Why does the writer mention Mona Lisa in the third paragraph
A. To prove the popularity of classic artworks.
B. To present the potential trouble with the value of AI art.
C. To show the advantages of AI painters over human artists.
D. To introduce a new way of preserving art masterpieces.
( )5. What can we infer from paragraph 4
A. AI art promotes the sale of artistic products.
B. AI art makes copyright issues more complicated.
C. Artists can create more works with the help of AI.
D. There will be fierce competition in the art industry.
从对话后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。其中有一项为多余选项。
Tom: Hello, Steve! You must have had an unusual experience living in France.
Steve: Yeah, Tom. 1
Tom: Nervous about what
Steve: Well, for one thing, I didn't know what I
should do at the dinner table.
Tom:_ 2
Steve: For example, you shouldn’t put your bread on your plate. You should put it on the table!
Tom: 3
Steve: I thought it was strange, but now I am used to it.
Tom: 4
Steve: You shouldn't put your hands on your lap(大腿部). 5
Tom: I have to say it's very surprising.
Oh, it's pretty strange.
What rules do they have
C. But I was a little nervous.
D. We always put it in a bowl.
E. What else do you find surprising
F. You should always keep them on the table
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（三）阅读下面短文，选出能填入短文空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺,其中有一项是多余选项。
Now the US government is considering banning TikTok. Some US users share their opinions on the possible ban.
Hana Schwarz. I think it’s funny. They are trying to stop us from using TikTok, but many other social media websites are doing similar things. 1 But in my opinion, the system provides me with short videos that I want to watch. 2 I don’t care about the worries lawmakers have about TikTok. For me, as long as the users enjoy the videos, it’s fine.
Darlette Wilson. When I heard the news, I was very surprised and upset. TikTok shows interesting videos to more people and unites people to have more fun. 3 TikTok has changed so many lives. People make new careers out of it, and some even raise money for a good cause. 4 It becomes a very important part of many people’s lives.
Alex Pearlman. I don’t understand this ban on TikTok. It looks like the government doesn’t want people from other countries to run media companies. 5 For example, the Wall Street Journal, a famous newspaper in the US, is owned by an Australian. If the government is afraid that China is spying on us through TikTok, they should ban every smartphone for sale on Amazon – because many of them are made in China!
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A.I like watching short videos.
B.
It’s like they are made just for me.
C.
This app has brought joy to so many people.
D.
It also teaches us “lessons” that we didn’t know before.
E.
But there are already a lot of newspapers owned by foreigners.
F.S
ome people think TikTok’s system
can
break down their
smartphones.
)
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三、阅读并回答问题（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）
Reading books brings with it numerous benefits giving people the chance to explore new worlds and meet new people both real and imagined. It expands our knowledge and understanding of the world around us and those far away.
To celebrate the wonderment of books and those that make them come to life, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) established 23 April as World Book and Copyright Day in 1995. However, it got its start long before that in Spain.
Setting a day to celebrate books traces its beginnings to Spanish writer Vicente Clavel Andrés. In 1922, he came up with the idea as a way to honor fellow countryman author Miguel de Cervantes. Four years later, the first celebration took place on 7 October, Cervantes’ birthday, but was moved to 23 April, the date of his death, in 1930.
In 1995, the UNESCO General Conference decided to pay respect to authors and books world-wide as a way of encouraging everyone to access books. Choosing 23 April seemed a reasonable choice, besides being the date of Cervante’s death, it also happens to be the date William Shakespeare and Inca Garcilaso de la Vega died, among other prominent authors. Moreover, several distinguished authors were born on 23 April making it a symbolic date in the world literature.
Annually since 2001, one city around the world is chosen to be the UNESCO World Book Capital for a year. The chosen city is tasked with carrying out activities to encourage “a culture of reading and spreading its values in all ages and population groups in and out of the national borders.”
回答下面5个问题，每题答案不超过6个词。
What does the underlined word “it” in the first paragraph refer to
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When is World Book and Copyright Day
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Why did Vicente Clavel Andrés come up with the idea to celebrate books
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What did the UNESCO General Conference decide to do
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What do you think of World Book Day
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四、选词填空 从方框中选择恰当的词或短语填空（每个词或短语只能用一次）（计10分）
call as include after set a success ending sad I
If you lose hope for the future, watch the movie The Shawshank Redemption(《肖申克的救赎》). It won seven Oscar nominations, 1 the Best Motion Picture, the Best Actor.
Andy Dufresne, the main character, was charged with killing his wife and her lover，and was sent to a prison 2 Shawshank. Because he insisted that he was not guilty, he tried and 3 ran away from prison 20 years later. Hope and freedom are of great importance throughout the movie.
In my opinion, Dufresne finally made his escape because he had a heart full of hope. Just 4 he said, “Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” 5 he ran away from the prison, Red, his inmate(狱友), said, “I have to remind 6 that some birds shouldn’t be trapped, because their feathers are just too bright…”
Among all the scenes, the 7 one for me is about old Brooks, a senior prisoner, who had been in Shawshank for over fifty years. When he 8 free, he found the world outside was his true prison. “These walls are kind of 9 funny lie which first you hate them, and then you get used to them. Enough time passes, and you depend on them”. That was why he ended his life hopelessly.
The different 10 of Dufresne and Brooks made me think a lot. We should never give up hope when we are going through awful things. This is the spirit of The Shawshank Redemption.
___________ 2.__________ 3. ___________ 4.__________ 5. ___________
6.___________ 7.__________ 8. ___________ 9.__________ 10. ___________
五、根据短文内容及首字母,填写所缺单词。（共10小题，每题1分，计10分）
An event of warm and friendly exchanges about giant pandas was hosted by the Chinese Embassy in Tokyo last Friday.
Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike, Director of Ueno Zoo Yutaka Koike, head of the Panda Protection Institute of Japan Toshimitsu Doi, and more than 230 giant panda fans a 1 the big warm party at a hotel in Tokyo.
A documentary was shown on cooperation between the two c 2 on giant panda protection and research before the evening party formally started. That reminded the viewers of happy m 3 about pandas.
“When I was a child, I would stand in a long queue with my family to see giant pandas. It’s an experience I will always remember,” or “Japan held a writing c 4 about giant pandas, in which I took part and won a prize” was among people’s experiences about pandas.
Yang Yu, the Chinese embassy in Japan, said that the giant panda is not only a messenger of f 5 between China and Japan, but also a symbol of world peace.
“We are ready to work with Japan and other countries in the world to build the Earth into a
truly p 6 home,” he added.
“I can feel everyone’s deep love for giant pandas,” said Ruriko Kojima, a Japanese artist to go to China for studies. “I hope to go to China as e 7 as possible to see them, and to show more of the real China to Japanese people.
“T 8 the giant pandas, I can better introduce Chinese culture to everyone and let people feel the charm of China,” said the special researcher at the University of Tokyo.
Zhu Jianrong, a professor at Japan’s Tokyo Gakuen University who has long s 9 the friendly exchanges between China and Japan, expressed his opinion about the event: When it comes to giant pandas, people have a lot to s 10 .”
“We need more such events like this tonight to offer a chance for the Japanese people to have a better understanding of China,” said Zhu.
1.___________ 2.__________ 3. ___________ 4.__________ 5. ___________
6.___________ 7.__________ 8. ___________ 9.__________ 10. _____
六、书面表达（计20分）
近几年，我们被很多闪光的人物感动：有为国争光的奥运健儿，有抗击疫情的医护人员，有风雨无阻的快递小哥，有兢兢业业的社区工作人员……他们在各自的工作岗位上奉献着光和热。某英文网站正在开展“My ideal job”为主题的征文活动。请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈你的未来职业设想，你这样选择的理由及如何使之实现。提示问题：
●What is your ideal job？
●Who or what experience makes you have such an idea
●How are you going to make it come true (at least 2 points)
注意事项：
1.词数 100 左右(文章开头已给出，不计入总数)；
2.文中不能出现真实姓名、校名等信息。
My ideal job
Everybody has his ideal job.
参考答案
一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，计15分）
1-5 DBCBA 6-10 AABBD 11-15 CCCAB
二、阅读理解 （共15小题，每小题2分，计30分）
（一）阅读短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳答案。
1-5. BCDBB
（二）阅读下面的对话，从所给选项中选出能补全对话的最佳选项，其中有一项为多余选项。
1-5. CBAEF
（三）阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的选项中选出能填入短文空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺，结构完整，其中有一项是多余选项。
1-5. FBDCE
阅读并回答问题（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）
Reading books.
On 23 April.
To honor fellow countryman author./ To honor Miguel de Cervantes.
To respect authors and books.
It’s meaningful/great/valuable...
选词填空 从方框中选择恰当的词或短语填空（每个词或短语只能用一次）(10分）
including 2. called 3. successfully 4. as 5. After
6. myself 7. saddest 8. was set 9. a 10. endings
根据短文内容及首字母，填写所缺单词。（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）
1. attended 2. countries 3. memories 4. competition 5. friendship
6. peaceful 7. early 8. Through 9. supported 10. share
六、书面表达（计20分）
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