甘肃省兰州三十五中2022-2023学年九年级（上学期）期中英语试卷

2022-2023学年甘肃省兰州三十五中九年级（上）期中英语试卷 完形填空（每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 1．（10分）Do you know anything about the invention of the bar code （条形码）？ A small food store owner found it was （36）　 　to keep records of the product information．In 1948，he asked the Drexel Institute of Technology to solve this（37）　 　．Bernard Silver，a graduate student，was interested．He and his friend Norman Joseph Woodland （38）　 　to work on it．Soon，they invented their first working system （系统）． The system did work （39）　 　，but it was very expensive and sometimes the system didn't work well．If the invention was to become （40）　 　in stores，the problems had to be solved．Finally，Woodland solved （41）　 　． The patent （专利权） for the bar code system was （42）　 　for by Silver and Woodland in 1949，but the patent was not given until 1952． （43）　 　this patent was given，the system was still not popular among store owners． In 1970，a business named Logicon Inc．（44）　 　the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code （食品工业统一码）．Marsh's Supermarket in Troy was the first store to （45）　 　 this bar code reading system．It has become very popular ever since，and now it's used in all types of stores all over the world． 36．A．easy B．difficult C．interesting D．boring 37．A．plan B．problem C．project D．doubt 38．A．started B．continued C．refused D．failed 39．A．at first B．for example C．on time D．in person 40．A．lively B．cheap C．direct D．popular 41．A．it B．him C．her D．them 42．A．asked B．offered C．made D．divided 43．A．Unless B．Although C．If D．Since 44．A．found B．mentioned C．invented D．remained 45．A．give up B．put up C．set up D．clean up 阅读理解（每小题 2 分，共 30 分） 2．（10分）People at home keep asking me， "Is it hard to learn Chinese？Why have you learned it so well？" Well，there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn：there are so many people to talk to．You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language．Today it's also one of the most written languages online．And with so many Chinese people interested in le