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2024-2025九年级英语单元测试卷
Unit 4 I used to be afraid of the dark.
（满分160分，时间120分钟）
主 题： 人与自我
主题群： 生活与学习 做人与做事
子主题内容： 自我认识，自我提升
第I卷（选择题 满分100分）
第一部分 听力部分（共两节 满分35分）
第一节（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分）
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。
1.What kind of fruit did Sarah use to like eating
A. Bananas. B. Apples. C. Pears.
2.What did Billy use to be like
A. Active. B. Outgoing. C. Shy and quiet.
3.What does Mike often do after school now
A.Plays basketball. B.Plays soccer ball. C . Plays tennis
4.What's the relationship between the two speakers
A. They're workmates. B. They're father and daughter. C. They're classmates.
5.How does the man feel according to his tone？
A. Excited. B. Tired. C. Sad.
第二节(共15小题；每小题1.5分，满分22.5分)
听下面5段长对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话或独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话或独白读两遍。
听第6段材料，回答第6至第7两个小题。现在你有10秒钟的时间阅读下面两个小题。
6.What did Anna do just now
A. She bought a picture. B. She took a picture. C. She painted a picture.
7.What does Anna hope to be in the future
A. A musician. B. An artist. C. A scientist.
听第7段材料，回答第8至第10三个小题。现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读下面三个小题。
8.What did Bob use to look like
A. He was tall and had short hair. B. He was short and had long hair.
C. He was tall and had curly hair.
9.Who is taller now
A. Bob. B. Linda. C. We don't know.
10.What is Linda like now
A. Serious. B. Outgoing. C. Shy.
听第8段材料，回答第11至第13三个小题。现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读下面三个小题。
11.How long did it use to take Li Hua to get to his hometown by train
A. About 9 hours. B. About 13 hours. C. About 30 hours.
12.How did people in Li Hua's hometown make money five years ago
A. By growing rice. B. By growing vegetables. C. By keeping chickens.
13.When did Li Hua's aunt buy her second car
A. In 2013. B. In 2015. C. In 2017.
听第9段材料，回答第14至第16三个小题。现在你有15秒钟的时间阅读下面三个小题。
14.How long haven't they seen each other
A. For two years. B. For five years. C. For three years.
15.What did Tina use to be like
A. Outgoing and patient. B. Active. C. Shy.
16.What was Tony afraid of in the past
A. Monkeys and elephants. B. Spiders and snakes. C. Monkeys and tigers.
听第10段材料，回答第17至第20四个小题。现在你有20秒钟的时间阅读下面四个小题。
17.How old is Mike
A. 13. B. 14. C. 15.
18.What did Mike use to be like
A. Outgoing. B. Friendly. C. Shy.
19.When did Mike get up three years ago
A.6:45 . B:715 C.7:45
Where did Mike spend most of his time on weekends three years ago
A. In the sports hall. B. In the library. C. In his room.
第二部分 阅读理解（共两节 满分50分）
第一节（共15小题；每小题2.5分，满分37.5分)
阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
A
Accidental inventions change our lives
Most of you enjoy eating potato chips. Do you know The invention of potato chips was actually an accident. In fact, scientists have created many inventions by accident.
Let’s take a look at a few of them. Each one has an interesting story.
Penicillin
In 1928, British scientist Alexander Fleming went on vacation. But he forgot to cover up some bacteria before he left his lab. When he came back, he found there was some mold growing on the bacteria. The mold stopped the bacteria from growing. Fleming later found penicillin in the mold.
Potato chips
George Crum was a chef in New York. He invented potato chips in 1953.
One day, a customer said that his French-fried potatoes were too soft and oily. Crum thought the customer was rude and wanted to teach him a lesson. He cut the potatoes into very thin slices and fried them until they were crisp and brown. Surprisingly, the customer loved them.
Microwave oven
One day in 1946, US engineer Percy L. Spencer was working on radar tubes. He noticed that a chocolate bar in his pocket melted while he was working. He found out that the microwaves from the tube melted it. The engineer started to work out how to cook with microwaves.
In 1947, the first microwave oven was born.
21.Potato chips are invented ________.
A.in the lab B.in the kitchen C.in the factory D.by accident
22.What did customers think of potato chips at first
A.Soft and oily. B.Soft and brown. C.Crisp and brown. D.Crisp and soft.
23.Microwave ovens work through ________.
A.stopping the bacteria growing B.microwaves from radar tubes
C.melting the chocolate bar D.cutting the tubes into thin slices
B
We all know the strange feeling of watching the time change on a clock. You never see it change because the hands move so slowly. But of course, the time is changing all the time.
Human faces, like clock faces, are also changing. And like clocks, the changes take place too slowly to be noticed. Over many thousands of years, though, huge changes are possible. For example, the human brain tripled (三倍) in size and began to think more. Our faces became flatter (平坦的).
If our heads became larger in the past, how will things change in the future Unlike the changes of a clock face, the changes in human faces are very difficult to predict (预测). One of the main reasons for this is the way in which we can now control parts of nature. Hundreds of thousands of years ago, all changes were natural, but now we can actively choose ways for our own evolution (进化).
Just a few hundred years ago, most humans were working in the fields, whereas nowadays more and more people receive education. These are just predictions, and no one can be sure how human beings will become in the future. But with such huge changes in our environment, it seems likely that we will look very different in the future.
24.The changes of human are hardly noticed because ______.
A.human faces never change B.the human brain becomes bigger
C.the changes take place too slowly D.we never think about the changes
25.The third paragraph tells us ______.
A.human faces can’t be controlled by us
B.human faces used to be changed by nature
C.it is easy to predict the changes in human changes
D.human can’t change the size of brain in the future
26.The underlined word “whereas” in the last paragraph means “______”.
A.最终 B.同时 C.然而 D.因此
27.From the last paragraph, we can learn that ______.
A.the predictions will surely be true B.people in the past liked to be educated
C.future humans must have larger heads D.humans will not look the same as today
C
Mr.White is sixty years old.He always talks about how fast things have changed, and he often says that life in the past was better than it is these days.
Now cities are full of cars.Some families even have two or more cars, so parking is becoming a big problem.The traffic(交通) in some cities is getting worse and worse, too.Car drivers drive so fast that there are more traffic accidents.
More and more people are always looking at their mobile phones with their heads down.Mr.White often sees people in the restaurant eating face to face while looking at their own mobile phones.He thinks it is strange that they don’t talk to the ones who sit opposite to them during the meal.Some of them even have fun chatting(闲聊) with others on the phone.
Most families own computers now.A study found that children use the Internet more and more.The number of children using the Internet has grown by three times in the past three years.Mr.White’s grandson is a middle school student.He often stays up late playing computer games on the Internet.He falls asleep in the early hours of the morning and spend less time doing homework.His teacher told Mr.White that his grandson failed(失败) another test.Mr.White got very angry with him.
Mr.white thinks that life was simple and happy, but now it has changed a lot.
28.What does Mr.White think of the life now
A.He thinks the life now is very simple.
B.He thinks the life is the same as it was.
C.He thinks the life now is worse than it was.
D.He thinks the life now is more comfortable.
29.Why do people say nothing face to face during a meal
A.Because they are tired.
B.Because they don’t know each other.
C.Because they are unhappy.
D.Because they are busy in looking at their phones.
30.Which statement is WRONG according to the passage
A.Mr. White has his own computer now.
B.Mr. White’s grandson often plays computer games.
C.Many people like chatting with others on the phone.
D.The traffic in some cities is getting worse and worse.
31.What can we infer(推测) from the passage
A.Mr.White is a worker in a factory.
B.Mr.White is worried about his grandson.
C.Mr.White’s grandson is not interested in the Internet.
D.Mr.White likes today’s life more than that of the old days.
D
Cameron Patterson, a British student, spent his childhood in China. He has seen many great changes in the country over the past 15 years, especially trains.
At the age of 8, Patterson moved from Wales to join his father in Shanxi. In the following years, he and his parents lived in a few cities. They also travelled a lot during holidays. However, traveling itself wasn’t always relaxing. When his family moved from Jiangsu to Guangdong, they took the old green train and spent one and a half days on the trip.
Now with high-speed train, life become much easier. Long and boring trips in the past have become shorter. Also, the modern trains are more comfortable. “A coin (硬币) wouldn’t move at all on the table of a fast moving train.” He said excitedly.
Patterson was glad to see these changes in China, but he also wondered how they happened. When he read a poem about China’s role model (榜样) Jiao Yulu in 2015, he got the answer. Jiao was seriously ill at that time, but still kept working to help people till the end of his life. Jiao devoted (献身) himself to improving people’s life. “He was really great. I learn a lot from him,” said Patterson.
Patterson now works as a Confucius Institute volunteer at Lancaster University. “I’m proud to act as a bridge between the UK and China and help the two peoples know about each other’s cultures better.”
32.From the first two paragraphs, what do we know about Patterson
A.He moved to China at an early age.
B.He didn’t feel any changes in China.
C.He took great interest in China’s history.
D.He was always excited when taking the old green train.
33.The writer shows the modern trains are more comfortable by _______.
A.playing a trick B.asking a question C.giving an example D.showing a picture
34.Why does Patterson mention the story of Jiao Yulu
A.To ask readers to study harder.
B.To tell readers to read poems.
C.To make foreign readers learn Chinese.
D.To show that people like him help China become stronger.
35.According to the passage, we can infer Patterson __________.
A.wants more people to travel around the world
B.enjoy acting as a bridge between the UK and China
C.thinks it is useless to learn cultures of other countries
D.feels happy to live in China with more people from the UK
第二节、补全短文（共5小题；每小题2.5分，满分12.5分)
阅读短文，根据短文内容，从其后所给的六个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两一项为多余选项。
I once gave a lesson to a group of primary school students for a TV program.
I suggested that we create small gardens.
First, I asked the students to look for their favorite place in the school. 36 Then I had each of them describe their experiences of nature in a small garden.
In a box of about one and a half by two feet, they were free to organize—soil, stones, leaves and grass. Even as an active garden designer, I was impressed with their imagination. 37
One child created “water” that flowed into a “lake”; another child put grass in a way to represent “wind”; and yet another child tried hard to create shade... 38 That was why they took great interest when they created their small gardens. They spent a wonderful time together with nature.
39 If you notice a stone lying on the ground, pick it up and hold it. When you see beautiful flowers by the side of the road, stop and enjoy the pleasant smell.
Then, inside your mind, create a small garden of your own. 40
A.It will relax you. B.Flowers like these are all around you. C.The gardens were built many years ago. D.Try spending time with nature yourself. E.The gardens they made were really creative. F.Once there, I let them try hard to empty their minds. G.These children were often busy doing their schoolwork.
第三部分 语言知识运用(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
Hunter Adams was very unhappy during his teenage days and he spent many years in a special hospital for people with mental (精神的) health problems.
When he was 41 from the hospital, Adams decided to become a 42 , so he went to a medical school in Virginia, USA.But when he was there, he did things in a 43 way. He didn’t like the doctor’s 44 coats, for example, so he 45 shirts with flowers on them when he visited his 46 and he tried to make them laugh. The doctors at the medical school didn’t like Adams 47 he was too different.
But Adams considered that people in hospital 48 more than medicine. They had unhappy and 49 hearts, and they needed to be helped as patients, but as people too. He spent a lot of time with children in the hospital and often 40 up like a clown to make the children laugh.
When he finished medical 51 and became a doctor, Adams 52 his own hospital, called “the Gusundheit Institute”, together with some other doctors. They wanted it to be a place with a different way of 53 with sick people.
Hunter Adams became 54 during the 1980s, and in 1988, Universal Pictures made a film about his life. It was very successful, in the film, Robin Williams played Adams. Williams said “Hunter is a/an 55 warm person, who believes that patients need a doctor who is kind and friendly. I enjoyed playing him.”
41.A.out B.abroad C.away D.far
42.A.nurse B.hunter C.worker D.doctor
43.A.different B.untidy C.complete D.common
44.A.black B.yellow C.orange D.white
45.A.hung B.wore C.found D.made
46.A.patients B.parents C.partners D.friends
47.A.after B.when C.before D.because
48.A.played B.needed C.knew D.chatted
49.A.terrible B.serious C.lonely D.usual
50.A.dressed B.climbed C.picked D.looked
51.A.care B.school C.treatment D.examination
52.A.cleaned B.used C.watched D.opened
53.A.talking B.living C.working D.going
54.A.strong B.famous C.honest D.kind
55.A.really B.usually C.mainly D.actually
第II卷（非选择题 共三节 满分60分）
第一节 单词填空。(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
根据下列句意及所给单词首字母写出完整单词。
56.Mr. Lee is very friendly and h_________. We all like him very much.
57.Jack will have an i_________for a job next week.
58.Internet has a very strong i_________on Chinese teens.
59.It’s my p_________letter. You can’t read it without my permission.
60.If you are always a________from class, you will fail the examination.
61.There is a d___________ newspaper and we can read it every day.
62.He lives all by h__________ in that large house.
63.You must wait your turn. Be p_________.
64.He used to go to Europe by a_________.
65.The hero’s d______ made the people in the country very sad.
第二节 语法填空。(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内所给单词的正确形式。
Tina is a thirteen-year-old middle school student. Last year, she went to 66 summer school in France and stayed with a local family, the Truffauts.
At first, things didn’t go well 67 she couldn’t speak French. Simple things like finding the right bus stop became big problems. The Truffauts helped her a lot and treated her like part of the family. They played 68 (game) and shared traditional food with her. Tina was helpful as well. She did some housework with the family every day. On the weekend, she 69 (join) a community club and did volunteer work. For most of the time, she used body language to communicate. People showed 70 (they) thanks with smiles and she would always smile back. Language was not a problem 71 her any more. As a new member of the club, Tina 72 (invite) to have parties with the other members. Day by day, she made more friends. Tina began 73 (love) her new life. “A smile is a second language we were born to speak. It is also the best gift I have got,” she often said 74 (proud).
Smiles and a helping hand can always make people 75 (close) than a language can.
第三节 书面表达 （满分30分）
76.我们国家正在迅速发展，生活正变得越来越美好。请根据下表提示，以“Changes Around Us”为题，用英语写一篇短文。
1.旅行: 网上旅行；出国旅游；
2.学习: 阅读上更感兴趣；课堂上需要更多的小组合作等；
3.交通: 自驾；乘坐高铁，舒适快捷等；
4.环境、生活 ……(自拟两点)。
要求：
(1)不得使用真实的校名和姓名；
(2)短文需包括所有要点，省略号部分适当发挥；
(3)词数80词左右。
参考词汇：高铁high-speed trains
Changes Around Us
Great changes have taken place in our life around us. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
In a word, our life is becoming better and better. We look forward to a better future.
参考答案
1.A 2.C 3.C 4.C 5.A6.C 7.B 8.A 9.B 10.B 11.C 12.A 13.C 14.C 15.C 16.A 17.B 18.C 19.A 20.C
21.D 22.A 23.B24.C 26.C27.D28.C29.D30.A31.B32.A 33.C 34.D35.B36.F 37.E38.G39.D40.A
41. C 42. D43 A 544.D 45.D 46.B 47.A 48.D 49.C50.A 51.B 52.D 53.C 54.B 55.A
56.humorous 57.interview 58.influence 59.private 60.absent
61.daily 62.himself 63.patient 64.airplane / air 65.death
66.a 67.because/as 68.games 69.joined 70.their
71.for 72.was invited 73.loving/to love 74.proudly 75.closer
76. One possible version:
Changes Around Us
Great changes have taken place in our life around us. As for travel, many people enjoy travelling in their spare time. Some people like travelling online and more and more people can afford to travel abroad. Our studies are also changing. For example, more and more students show an interest in reading and more group work and discussions are done in class, which help us learn more. More and more people have their own cars. At the same time, more and more people prefer to walk to school instead of driving. And high-speed trains make people travel faster and easier. Our environment changes a lot, too. The air is fresher and the water is cleaner. We often take a walk happily in the park.
In a word, our life is becoming better and better. We look forward to a better future.
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