人教版九年级英语Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected课时精练（含答案）

Unit 12 Life is full of the unexpected.
Section A
一、根据句意及首字母提示写出所缺单词的适当形式。
1. The news may be u___________. However, it's true.
2. I o__________ this morning because I stayed up too late last night.
3. Tom's father died ten years ago, but his mother is still a_________.
4. Look! The birds are flying high a______ the trees.
5. People do not know the value of health t_________ they lose it.
6. The sun rises in the east and sets in the w________.
7.-Where are you going -To the a__________. I am going to take the plane there.
8. Don't get the socks close to the fire. They b_________ easily.
9. When spring comes, the________(豆子) under the earth will grow into green plants.
10. Please add some c_________ between the two pieces of bread. It will taste better.
11. There is a food m__________ near my home. It's convenient to buy fruit and vegetables there.
12. Most people go to work on w_________and enjoy a rest on weekends.
二、用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. All of us should look straight ahead and keep running(run).
2.Tom said that he___________( keep) the book for two weeks.
3.When I ___________(get) to school, I realized I______________( leave) my homework at home.
4. This month, he was late for school at ________(little) three times.
5.These _________(work) are building a new bridge in the city.
6. By the end of last year, he ____________(learn) 3,000 English words.
7. The dog rushed into the _________ (burn) house to save his owner.
8. Catherine ______________(finish) the letter before her mother came into her bedroom.
9. He told his mother that he _________(run) out of money to buy new clothes.
11.Walk about two ____________( block ) and you can see the bookstore on your left.
12. The great scientist passed away accidentally. He read the news in _____(believe) over and over again.
13. I was about to__________(visit) my grandparents when it started to rain.
三、语法填空
“Look out, Matt!” My brother shouted to me. When I heard this, I was 1 (lie) on the ground. “You are really 2 (luck), Matt !” My brother said.
He was right. I was having 3 ( bad) day of my life. When I 4 (wake) up in the morning, I found myself on the floor. Don't ask me how I got there, 5 I don't know, either. The greatest soccer game was supposed to be on at 7:00 a. m. , so last night I set my alarm clock for 6:40 a. m. However, it didn't go off, so I overslept. I got up at 11:00 a. m. I was hungry, so I rushed downstairs 6 (find) something to eat. I ran so 7 (quick) that I missed the first step and fell downstairs.
I was too angry to eat 8 (something), so I went back to my bedroom. I turned on the computer to search the Internet for the report of the game. When I was about to sit down, I missed the chair. I was so angry, so I decided to go out to relax.
When I was riding my bike with my little brother, I knocked into my 9 (neighbor) mailbox by mistake. What 10 terrible day! My day didn't go on as I had planned. I missed the game, fell downstairs, missed the chair and knocked into a mailbox.
Section B
一、根据所给首字母、音标或汉语提示完成单词。
1. I need a c_________ for tomorrow's performance, but I don't know what I should wear.
2. You can't imagine how e__________I was when I found I was wearing my sweater inside out.
3. Don't be f_________by his words. I've already seen through his tricks.
4. The school has c__________the sports meeting because of the storm.
The young l__________bought a red handbag in the shop just now.
All the children shouted happily when Mr.Chen a__________the good news.
He is not an o__________in the army, but a common soldier.
Finally these animals d___________because people cut down lots of trees.
Columbus was known for his d___________of a new land--America.
Bob is kind and friendly to everyone. He is b___________.
二、用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. Sarah felt __________because of a(n) __________experience and her face went red.(embarrass)
2. A few after-class activities should_____(cancel) in order to make students have more free time.
3. The government has _________(announce) that 10,000 new jobs will be offered next year.
4. The party lasted for 3 hours, and then the _________(lady) left, but the men continued to drink and talk.
5. To do their jobs better, nurses, doctors, or police _________(officer) need to speak more than one language.
6. The scientist has made many wonderful _________(discover). I think it is very important to science development.
三、语法填空。阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式。
As we all know, people play jokes on others on April Fool's Day.Sometimes, they use some joke tools. Sorensen Adams was an inventor of such tools.
Born in Denmark in 1879, Adams moved to the US with his family at age of four and 1.__________(grow) up in Perth Amboy, New Jersey. In 1904, Adams worked as a salesman for a dye(染料) company.One of the 2. __________products(product) he sold caused people to sneeze(打喷嚏),and then Adams used it to create a new product 3.__________( call) Cachoo. He sold it as a tool 4. __________people could use to play jokes on others. Cachoo achieved national 5.__________( popular ) in a short time. More and more people began to ask him for this product. So he decided 6. __________ (start ) the Cachoo Sneezing Powder Company.
To make his company more popular, Adams went on 7. _________(invent) many other amazing tools. In 1928, Adams invented the Joy Buzzer which could 8.___________( put) in one hand. People used it when shaking hands with others. When shaking hands, they would feel the
9.___________( expected)vibrations(振动)from the Joy Buzzer. Adams continued to lead his company 10. ____________his death in1963. He was widely known as “King of the Pranksters(恶作剧者)”.
参考答案
Section A
一、1.unexpected 2.overslept 3.alive 4.above 5.till 6.west 7. airport
8.burn 9.beans 10.cream 11.market
12. weekdays
二、1.running 2.had kept 3.got ，had left
4.least 5.workers 6.had learned 7.burning
8.had finished l 9.had run 11.blocks 12.disbelief
13.to visit
三、1.lying 2.unlucky 3.the worst 4.woke
5.because 6.to find 7.quickly 8.anything
9. neighbor's 10.a
Section B
一、1.costume 2. embarrassed 3. fooled 4. canceled / cancelled
5.lady 6.announced 7.officer 8.disappeared 9. discovery 10. believable.
1.embarrassed, embarrassing 2. be canceled/ cancelled
announced
4.ladies 5.officers 6. discoveries
三、1.grew 2. products 3. called 4. that /which 5. popularity
6. to start 7.inventing 8. be put 9. unexpected 10. until /till