山东省威海市文登区文登七里汤中学、文登实验中学、文登二中2023-2024学年九年级上学期11月期中英语试题

英语试题 第 1 页 （共 6 页） 2023-2024 九年级英语期中质量检测题 注意事项： 1. 本试卷共 80 分；考试时间 90 分钟。 2. 答题前，务必用 0.5 毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、座位号填写在试卷 和答题卡规定的位置上。 3. 选择题选出答案后，用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动， 用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号。 4. 非选择题必须用 0.5 毫米黑色签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡指定区域内相应位 置；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不能使用涂改液、胶带纸、 修正带。 5. 在试卷上和答题卡指定区域外的答案无效。 第一部分阅读理解(满分 32 分) 一、阅读理解（共 26 小题，满分 32 分, 1-20 每题 1 分，21-26 每题 2 分） A How do we know the time? A clock, a watch or a mobile phone can help us. However, many years ago there were no clocks and knowing the time was not so easy. Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time. About 5500 years ago, the Egyptians invented the sun clock. This was a tall stone building. Its shadow(影子)showed the movement of the sun. So people were able to know midday. The Egyptians made a sundial about 3500 years ago. It was smaller than the sun clock and could let people know the time for half a day. On cloudy days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial. Water clocks were the first clocks not to use the sun. The idea is simple. Water flows(流动) from one bottle to another. When the water reaches a certain level, it shows the hours. The Egyptians used water clocks about 3400 years ago. These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China. But they failed to make people know the exact time. In the 13th century, the mechanical clock was invented. This was more exact, but it was expensive to make one. Over the next few centuries，it was developed. For example , springs(发条) were added around 1500. This enabled people to get the correct time and allowed clocks to be smaller. In 1927, the first quartz watch was developed. Clocks became cheaper to make. It’s also cheaper for ordinary people to own a clock. People began depending on them more and more to run businesses, markets and so on. More recently, in 1956, came the digital clock. And nowadays satellites send our mobile phones the time to the exact sec