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陕西省商洛市山阳县色河铺镇九年制学校2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末英语试卷(解析版)
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第一节:
阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,使短文连贯完整。
The first cellphone was invented fifty years ago. The inventor, Martin Cooper, is now 95 years old ____1____ he is called the “father of the cellphone”.
In the early 1970s, Cooper worked for Motorola. At the time, Motorola and other companies (公司) ____2____ competing to create cellphones. Cooper made the first mobile phone from a handheld (手持型) telephone in 1973.
He developed the phone with ____3____ team at Motorola for over five months. They could only talk on it for about 25 minutes. Cooper noted that such a call time was not ____4____ problem, because this phone was so heavy that you couldn’t hold it up for 25 minutes. Cooper said, “But I really wondered ____5____ going to work at that time. And finally it did. At the time, we had no way of knowing this was an important moment ____6____ history.”
Cooper thinks the progress of phones was sure ____7____ long into the future and future phones can show our health condition at all times. And he ____8____ that one day, phones might be small devices (设备) inside our ears.
Cooper has also showed his worry. “We don’t have any privacy (隐私) anymore because nowadays everything ____9____ someplace,” Cooper said, “However, phones will continue to develop and it can ____10____ help humans.”
1.
A. or B. because C. and D. but
2.
A. were B. was C. are D. is
3.
A. he B. himself C. him D. his
4.
A. an B. a C. the D. /
5.
A. whether was it B. whether it was C. what was it D. what it was
6.
A. from B. with C. on D. in
7.
A. continue B. to continue C. avoid D. to avoid
8.
A. will believe B. has believed C. believes D. believed
9.
A. is recorded B. was recorded C. recorded D. records
10.
A. hard B. hardly C. real D. really
第二节:
阅读下面短文,理解大意,然后从各小题的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,使短文连贯完整。
Who is the greatest teacher in Chinese history? Many people will think of Confucius (孔子), whose birthday was September 28th. Although