山东省潍坊安丘市、高密市2021-2022学年九年级上学期期末考试英语试题

2021—2022学年度第一学期期末学业质量检测 九年级英语试题 注意事项： 1.本试题测试时间90分钟，分值80分； 2.请将试卷每小题答案涂/写在答题纸/卡上，答在本试卷上无效； 3.本次测试卷面书写质量分5分，希望你认真书写。 相信自己，加油！ 一、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分,满分30分） 阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 A Inventions play an important part in our lives. They open the door to a new world for us and change the way we live. Humans have been inventing from the beginning of time. Some of the most famous inventions are so common in our everyday lives that we no longer think of them as inventions. Here are some inventions from different centuries. In 1876, Alexander Graham Bell built the first telephone that transmitted (传输) the human voice by electricity. There are many important events (事件) in the the history of computers. In 1936, Konrad Zuse built the first freely programmable computer. Eli Whitney patented (获得专利) the cotton gin on March 14, 1794. The cotton gin is a machine that separates unwanted materials from cotton after it has been picked. Barthelemy Thimonnier invented the first sewing machine in 1830. Elias Howe patented and improved sewing machine in 1846. Penicillin was first noticed by a French medical student, Emest Duchesne, in 1896. It was rediscovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928. ( )1. What can we learn from the first paragraph? A. Inventions close the door to the new world. B. People know how every invention was invented. C. Some inventions are so common that they are useless to people. D. We pay little attention to some inventions because they are so common. ( )2. Which of the following inventions were invented in the 19th century? A. Penicillin and the cotton gin. B. The telephone and the computer. C. The telephone and the sewing machine. D. The sewing machine and the computer. ( )3. Which of the following statements is TRUE? A. Elias Howe patented an improved sewing machine in 1846. B. Alexander Graham Bell patented the cotton gin in 1794. C. The sewing machine can be used to separate cotton. D. Eli Whitney built the first telephone.