河南省南阳市内乡县内乡县初级中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期9月月考英语试题

九年级英语学月巩固练习 注意事项： 1．本试卷共8页，五个大题，满分100分，考试时间80分钟。 2．本试卷上不要答题，请按答题卡上注意事项的要求直接把答案填写在答题卡上。答在试卷上的答案无效。 一、阅读理解（每小题2分，共40分） A 1、    Great changes have taken place in the way of communication in people's life.     You may find many beacon towers (烽火台) when you are visiting the Great Wall. In fact, they were used by soldiers to send messages by burning something to make smoke. When the soldiers from far away places saw the smoke, they knew something important happened. They would do the same. That's one of the ways of communication. In the old days, it was very difficult for people to keep in touch with each other. It took postmen several days to send a letter from one place to another by riding horses. In order to provide a place for the postmen to live in, the government had to build many post houses. Some people trained pigeons (鸽子) or other birds to carry letters, others even used kites to send messages.     Telegrams (1781) and fixed telephones (1892) are great inventions. They have changed the way of communication. People can communicate with each other easily. But they can only send words. For pictures, people can use fax(传真) machines (1843) or e-mails (1969). With the spread of Internet, people can send messages at any time, in any place only if there is network and a computer. What's more, smart phones (1973) have made communication much easier. They are like small computers. They can send sound, words and pictures. More than two billion (十亿) people around the world are using smart phones to communicate now. 1. How many ways of communication are mentioned in the passage?（ ） A. 6. B. 7. C. 8. D. 9. 2. Which of the following order is right?（ ） A. beacon tower — fax machine — telegram — e-mail B. e-mail — telegram — fax machine —beacon tower C. telegram — e-mail — beacon tower —fax machine D. beacon tower —telegram — fax machine —e-mail 3. What does the underlined part mean?（ ） A.邮箱 B.邮政局 C.旅馆 D.驿站 4. You may use _____ to send a picture when you are tr