Unit 6 When was it invented 完形填空和阅读理解专项练-2024-2025学年初中英语人教版九年级全册

Unit 6 When was it invented 一、完形填空 Do you know anything about the invention of the bar code (条形码)? A small food store owner found it was 1 to keep records of the product information. In 1948, he asked the Drexel Institute of Technology to solve this 2 . Bernard Silver, a graduate student, was interested. He and his friend Norman Joseph Woodland 3 to work on it. Soon, they invented their first working 4 . The system did work at first, but it was very expensive and sometimes the system didn’t work well. If the invention were to become 5 in stores, the problems would have to be solved. Finally, Woodland solved them 6 . The patent (专利权) for the bar code system was 7 for by Silver and Woodland in 1949, but the patent was not given until 1952. Although this patent was given, the system was still not popular among store owners. In 1970, a business named Logicon Inc. 8 the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code (通用杂货产品识别码). Marsh Supermarkets in Troy was the first store to 9 this bar code reading system. It has become very popular ever since, and now it’s 10 in all kinds of stores all over the world. It helps us to easily know about some information of products. 1．A．easy B．difficult C．interesting D．boring 2．A．plan B．problem C．project D．doubt 3．A．started B．continued C．refused D．failed 4．A．way B．system C．part D．situation 5．A．lively B．cheap C．direct D．popular 6．A．surprisedly B．excitedly C．worriedly D．successfully 7．A．asked B．offered C．made D．divided 8．A．found B．mentioned C．invented D．remained 9．A．give up B．put up C．set up D．clean up 10．A．repaired B．tried C．learned D．used Bridger Walker is a six-year-old American boy. After saving his little sister from being bitten（咬）by a dog, he is called a hero by many people. These include several 11 who have played heroes like Captain America and Iron Man in movies. On July 9, Bridger saw a dog running at his four-year-old sister. He 12 her by getting in its way. The dog bit the young boy’s face, which needed a two-hour surgery（手术）and 90 stitches（针）to treat. He later told his family, “If someone had to die, I thought it should be 13 .” “It didn’t 14 us at all,” said their father, Robert Walker. Bridger has always protected his sister. While Bridger was in hospital, he has been receiving 15 messages from movie stars and fans, including actor Chris Evans. Evans 16 Captain America in Marvel’s The Avengers（《复仇者联盟》）movies. He sent a video to Bridger calling him a 17 . “Your sister is so 18 to have you as a big brother. Your parents must be so proud of you,” the actor said. Evans promised to send Bridger a Captain America shield（盾牌）. Other Avengers actors 19 Robert Downey and Mark Ruffalo have also sent message. In a video call, Spider-Man actor Tom Holland learned that Bridger’s favorite Avenger is Spider-Man. He 20 invited the real-life hero to the set of the next Spider-Man movie. 11．A．pilots B．actors C．nurses D．farmers 12．A．protected B．discovered C．provided D．connected 13．A．you B．her C．him D．me 14．A．interest B．surprise C．trouble D．excite 15．A．sad B．poor C．kind D．proud 16．A．played B．found C．lost D．made 17．A．trader B．guest C．cover D．hero 18．A．angry B．lucky C．brave D．strong 19．A．among B．from C．except D．like 20．A．ever B．then C．also D．even 二、阅读理解 AI (人工智能) makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.Cool driverless bus A bus door opens and you get on. Wait! Where is the driver? Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong. It has 14 seats and doesn’t need a driver. The bus follows the traffic rules. It stops as soon as it sees a stop light.Your close friend Hi, everyone. I’m Xiaobing, a chatbot (聊天机器人). I speak like humans and you can talk with me. I’m talented in singing, writing poems and telling stories. I want to be your friend!World’s first AI anchor (主播) Hey, look! The famous Chinese anchor Mr. Qiu is reporting the news for us. But, is “he” really Mr. Qiu? The answer is “no”. This is the world’s first AI anchor. It looks and speaks just like a real person. It can work 24 hours and doesn’t make any mistakes. You might see it on TV.Popular AI artist This beautiful painting was at an auction (拍卖). The painting is worth about 3,000,000 yuan! But it is not a piece of work by a famous painter, such as Vincent van Gogh. It was painted by an AI artist. Three Frenchmen created the AI artist. It studied over 15,000 paintings. In this way, it learned to paint. 21．What is Apolong? A．A driver. B．A driverless bus. C．A chatbot. D．An AI anchor. 22．What can Xiaobing do? ①Sing.    ②Tell stories.    ③Talk with people.    ④Go out to play with people. A．①②③ B．②③④ C．①②④ D．①③④ 23．The painting mentioned ________. A．was drawn by three Frenchmen B．is worth about 3,000,000 yuan at an auction C．is a piece of work painted by Vincent van Gogh D．was studied by three French artists over 15,000 times 24．Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A．Xiaobing is a girl. B．AI makes our life harder and worse. C．This new kind of driverless bus needs a driver to control it. D．The AI anchor can work 24 hours and doesn’t make any mistakes. 25．We can probably read the passage in ________. A．a storybook B．a notice C．a newspaper D．a novel There are millions of people throughout the world who are either born blind or have become blind over the course of their lifetime. It is unfair to take away the visual (视觉的) beauty of the world from these people. Doctor Humayun has created the world’s first bionic (仿生学的) eye that could change the life of every blind people in the world. Doctor Mark Humayun is a well respected professor at the Doheny Eye Institute California. He has been working for years on creating a bionic eye that would allow blind people to see images just like a normal person does. The bionic eye is actually an eye that has been built in a small video camera. The test results show the bionic eye has given blind patients the amazing ability to see the scientists doing the tests. But the images are still blurry (模糊的) and we need much work before the eye actually becomes a regular implant (植入物) into blind people. Humayun believes that he can go into production with the bionic eye over the next three to five years. A closer look at the bionic eye is amazing. The patient wears a special set of eyeglasses. All the signals are passed to the implanted eye. It’s done by wireless technology. Humayun has created an invention that could change the lives of millions of people. Imagine a world in which someone would no longer have to fear about being blind. This could be considered a technological achievement. 26．The writer thinks the life of blind people is ________ for them. A．easy B．unfair C．busy D．different 27．Doctor Mark Humayun is well respected because ________. A．he has been working on a small video camera B．he is a professor of a famous university C．he invented a video camera for the blind D．he devoted himself to making the blind see again 28．The bionic eye created by Mark Humayun at present ________. A．can help the blind to see the people doing the tests B．has been a total success during the use C．can be planted into the blind people’s eye D．looks much like the normal people’s eye 29．It will take Doctor Mark Humayun _________ to produce the bionic eye in large numbers. A．more than eight years B．more than five years C．three to five years D．less than three years 30．This passage mainly tells us _________. A．the life of blind people has changed B．Mark Humayun becomes famous C．there will be no blind in the future D．a technological study for the blind Traffic lights are red, yellow and green. They are very important signals（信号）. Traffic lights are usually placed at busy street corners to help control traffic. Sometimes, they are on streets near schools and shops, too. Most young children are taught what each of the colored lights means, so everybody can stay safe. The first traffic signals were used for trains. The signals were put alongside railway tracks（轨道）. The color red was used to mean “stop” because it warned people of danger. A red light was also the easiest color to see from a distance. Train drivers could see the red “stop” light ahead and had enough time to slow down and stop their trains. A green light was used to mean “take care” and a white light meant “go”. However, there were many dangerous accidents on the train tracks. Some train drivers sometimes thought a star shining in the night sky was a white light that meant “go” by mistake. So the signals were swapped. The “go” light was changed to green and the “take care” light was changed to white. During these times, people travelled by train or in carts pulled by horses. Years later, when cars were built, people began to drive them because they could travel much faster than horses. However, the road rules for drivers were not very clear and many people were hurt crossing the roads. Yellow warning signs had to be placed beside the roads to remind drivers to take care and allow people to cross safely. Today, towns and cities all over the world have traffic lights. Red and green lights match the signals used on the railways. Yellow lights are easy to see, so they are used to warn drivers that they should slow down and prepare to stop. 31．People place traffic lights at busy street corners to ________. A．control traffic B．stop traffic C．catch the people against traffic rules D．make the street more beautiful 32．Why was the color red used to mean “stop”? A．It reminded people of traffic rules. B．It helped trains run smoothly. C．It gave people a warning of danger. D．It was the first color people thought of. 33．What does the underlined word “swapped” in Paragraph 3 mean? A．Designed. B．Exchanged. C．Suggested. D．Compared. 34．In which order did the “take care” light develop? a.A white light    b.A green light.    c.A yellow light. A．a-c-b B．b-c-a C．a-b-c D．b-a-c 35．What is the passage mainly about? A．The advantages of traffic lights. B．The history of traffic lights. C．The importance of traffic lights. D．The meanings of traffic lights. The designer of the Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, was not quite successful in his early years. He was not among the best students at school, and from time to time he got into trouble with either his schoolmates or his teachers. But he was full of new ideas, which few people saw the value of. Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out halfway. Steve Jobs worked first as a video game designer at Atari. He worked there for only a few months and then he set out to tour India. He hoped that the trip would give him more ideas and give him a change in life for the better. After he returned from India, he began to live on a farm in California. And then, in 1975, Steve Jobs set about making a new type of computer. Along with his friend Stephen Wozniak, he designed the Apple Computer in his bedroom and built it in his garage (车库). He chose the name “Apple” because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent on an orchard (果园) in Oregon. His Apple Computer was so successful that Steve Jobs soon became worldwide famous. But unluckily, he died of illness in 2011. 36．Steve Jobs 　　　　 when he was at school. A．was an outstanding student B．didn’t do very well C．was always praised by others D．didn’t learn anything 37．The underlined word “value” means 　　　　. A．beauty B．chance C．importance D．hope 38．Steve Jobs 　　　　. A．received an excellent college education B．didn’t go to college at all C．studied in college for 4 years D．didn’t finish his college education 39．Steve Jobs gave the name “Apple” to his computer because 　　　　. A．the apple was his favorite fruit B．he designed the computer under an apple tree C．he wanted to remember the happy time on an orchard D．the computer was designed on the orchard 40．Steve Jobs’ 　　　　 would be the most important thing for his lifetime success. A．“failure” in school B．stay on the orchard C．travel in India D．new ideas 三、任务型阅读 In China, writing brushes, ink sticks, paper and inkstones are called the Four Treasures of Study. Among the high-quality(高质量的) treasures, the writing brush produced in Huzhou, the ink stick produced in Huizhou, the Xuan paper made in Xuancheng and the inkstone made in Duanxi are the best-known. Writing brushes can be used to draw pictures on painted pottery(陶器). They are mainly made of the hair of animals. Those made of wool are called yanghao and those made of the weasel’s(鼬的) tail hair are called langhao. Their artistic effects in writing and painting cannot be copied by any other pens. The ink stick is the pigment(颜料) used in writing and painting. The ink stick produced in Huizhou is of high quality. A story goes like this: Two famous skilled men Xi Chao and his son produced a kind of high-quality ink stick. As a result, Emperor Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty agreed to give them the family name “Li”. From then on, the fame of the Li Ink Stick was widespread. In the Song Dynasty, its producing area was changed into Huizhou, and it was then called the Hui Ink Stick. Paper is among the four great inventions in ancient China. The famous Xuan paper appeared in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. In Xuanzhou, Anhui Province where Xuan paper is produced, it’s said that Cai Lun’s pupil Kong Dan took the job of producing paper but failed to make perfect white paper. Later he happened to see the ebony(黑檀木) in the rivers. It was wet with the water and turned white. Then he used the bark(树皮) to produce the world-famous Xuan paper. The inkstone was already very popular in the Han Dynasty. The Ming and Qing Dynasties saw the appearance of the Four Famous Inkstones—Duan Inkstone, She Inkstone, Tao Inkstone and Chengni Inkstone. They can be used not only in writing and painting but also for admiration. 41．What are writing brushes mainly made of? 42．Why did Xi Chao and his son get the family name from Emperor Li Yu? 43．What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refer to? 44．When did the Four Famous Inkstones appear? 45．What’s the best title for the passage? 参考答案： 1．B 2．B 3．A 4．B 5．D 6．D 7．A 8．C 9．C 10．D 1．句意：一个小食品店老板发现很难记录产品信息。 easy容易的；difficult困难的；interesting有趣的；boring无聊的。根据下文“In 1948, he asked the Drexel Institute of Technology to solve this...”可知，这个事情是困难的，所以他才需要求助别人去解决。故选B。 2．句意：1948年，他要求德雷塞尔理工学院解决这个问题。 plan计划；problem问题；project项目；doubt疑问。结合上文及句意可知，此处表示解决问题。故选B。 3．句意：他和他的朋友诺曼·约瑟夫·伍德兰开始研究它。 started开始；continued继续；refused拒绝；failed失败。根据下文“Soon, they invented their first working...”可知，他们是先开始研究。故选A。 4．句意：很快，他们发明了第一个工作系统。 way方式；system系统；part部分；situation情况。根据下文“The system did work at first...”可知，他们发明了工作系统。故选B。 5．句意：如果这项发明在商店里流行起来，这些问题就必须得到解决。 lively活泼的；cheap便宜的；direct直接的；popular受欢迎的。根据下文“Although this patent was given, the system was still not popular among store owners.”可知，此处表示的是受欢迎的。故选D。 6．句意：最后，伍德兰成功地解决了这些问题。 surprisedly吃惊地；excitedly兴奋地；worriedly焦虑地；successfully成功地。根据下文“The patent for the bar code system was ... for by Silver and Woodland in 1949, but the patent was not given until 1952.”可知，成功地解决了问题才能去申请到专利。故选D。 7．句意：1949年，西尔弗和伍德兰申请了条形码系统的专利，但直到1952年才获得专利。 asked询问；offered提供；made制造；divided分开。根据句意可知，ask...for意为请求，要求。故选A。 8．句意：1970年，一家名为Logicon Inc.的公司发明了通用杂货产品识别码。 found发现；mentioned提到；invented发明；remained保留。结合句意可知，他们发明了这种识别码。故选C。 9．句意：特洛伊的马什超市是第一家安装这种条形码读取系统的商店。 give up放弃；put up张贴；set up建立；clean up打扫。根据上下文可知，这家店安装了这种识别码，后面才变得受欢迎。故选C。 10．句意：从那以后，它变得非常受欢迎，现在世界各地的各种商店都在使用它。 repaired修理；tried尝试；learned学习；used使用。结合句意可知，它变得受欢迎了，全世界的商店都在使用它。故选D。 11．B 12．A 13．D 14．B 15．C 16．A 17．D 18．B 19．D 20．B 11．句意：这些人包括在电影中扮演了美国队长和钢铁侠这样的英雄的演员。 pilots飞行员；actors演员；nurses护士；farmers农民。根据“who have played heroes like Captain America and Iron Man in movies.” 可知，是这些演员扮演了英雄的角色。故选B。 12．句意：他挡住狗，这是为了保护他的妹妹。 protected保护；discovered发现；provided提供；connected连接。根据“by getting in its way”可知，布里杰挡在狗的前面，并将妹妹挡在身后是为了保护她。故选A。 13．句意：如果有人不得不死去，我想这个人应该是我。 you你；her她；him他；me我。根据“After saving his little sister from being bitten（咬）by a dog, he is called a hero by many people.”可知，布里杰·沃克冒着生命危险，勇敢地承担起了保护妹妹的责任，他认为如果有人死去的话，应该是他自己。故选D。 14．句意：这件事一点儿没有让我们吃惊。 interest使感兴趣；surprise使吃惊；trouble麻烦；excite使兴奋。根据下文“Bridger has always protected his sister.”可知，父亲对布里杰·沃克为保护妹妹而被狗咬这件事一点儿也不惊讶，因为他总是保护他的妹妹。故选B。 15．句意：当布里杰在医院里时，他收到了来自电影明星和粉丝们的祝福短信。 sad难过的；poor贫穷的；kind体贴的，关爱的；proud自豪的。结合全文可知，当人们知道布里杰的英勇事迹后，都很关心他，故选C。 16．句意：埃文斯在《复仇者联盟》这部电影中饰演美国队长。 played扮演；found发现，找到；lost丢失；made制作。根据“Captain America”可知，这是一个电影角色。故选A。 17．句意：他给布里杰发了一段视频，称他是英雄。 trader商人；guest客人；cover封面；hero英雄。根据文章开头“he is called a hero by many people”可知，布里杰被称作英雄。故选D。 18．句意：有你这样的大哥哥，你的妹妹是幸运的。 angry生气的；lucky幸运的；brave勇敢的；strong强壮的。布里杰为了保护妹妹而被咬伤，因此有这样的哥哥是幸运的。故选B。 19．句意：其他《复仇者联盟》的演员，例如小罗伯特·唐尼和马克·鲁法洛也发送了短信。 among在……中；from来自；except除了；like例如，比方。根据“Robert Downey and Mark Ruffalo”可知，这是列举了演员的名字，因此此空应该用介词like，意为“例如，比方”。故选D。 20．句意：然后他邀请这位现实中的英雄来到下一部蜘蛛侠电影的拍摄现场。 ever曾经；then然后；also也；even甚至。根据“Tom Holland learned”以及“ invited the real-life hero to the set of the next Spider-Man movie.”可知，这是前后连续的行为。then意为“然后”。 21．B 22．A 23．B 24．D 25．C 21．细节理解题。根据“Here is a new kind of driverless bus called Apolong.”可知Apolong是无人驾驶巴士。故选B。 22．细节理解题。根据“I speak like humans and you can talk with me. I’m talented in singing, writing poems and telling stories.”可知Xiaobing能够与人聊天、唱歌和讲故事。故选A。 23．细节理解题。根据“The painting is worth about 3,000,000 yuan! ”关于这幅画，提到的信息是它在拍卖会上价值300万元。故选B。 24．细节理解题。根据“World’s first AI anchor (主播)”中的“It can work 24 hours and doesn’t make any mistakes.”可知人工智能主播可以24小时工作，不会犯任何错误。故选D。 25．推理判断题。根据“AI (人工智能) makes our lives easier and better. Let’s see the amazing AI.”可知文章主要介绍了几种人工智能，并举例告诉大家人工智能带给人们的便利。因此推断文章了来自于报纸。故选C。 26．B 27．D 28．A 29．C 30．D 26．细节理解题。根据“It is unfair to take away the visual (视觉的) beauty of the world from these people.”可知作者认为对盲人来说看不到美丽的世界是不公平的。故选B。 27．细节理解题。根据Doctor Mark Humayun is a well respected professor at the Doheny Eye Institute California. He has been working for years on creating a bionic eye that would allow blind people to see images just like a normal person does.”可知Mark Humayun博士多年致力于仿生眼的研究以便让盲人和正常人一样看到图像。故选D。 28．细节理解题。根据“The test results show the bionic eye has given blind patients the amazing ability to see the scientists doing the tests”可知可知目前仿生眼在试验过程中能给盲人一个惊人的能力，即能看到做实验的人。故选A。 29．细节理解题。根据“Humayun believes that he can go into production with the bionic eye over the next three to five years.”可知Mark Humayun博士会在三至五年间将仿生眼投入生产。故选C。 30．主旨大意题。本文介绍了仿生眼研究的情况和其发展前景，这一切都是为了使盲人能够重新看到世界。D选项“一项针对盲人的技术研究”符合，故选D。 31．A 32．C 33．B 34．D 35．B 31．细节理解题。根据第一段第三句“Traffic lights are usually placed at busy street corners to help control traffic.”可知交通灯通常安装在忙碌的街道拐角处，用于帮助控制交通。故选A。 32．细节理解题。根据第二段第三句“The color red was used to mean ‘stop’ because it warned people of danger.”可知红色被用来表示“停止”，是因为它提醒人们有危险。故选C。 33．词义猜测题。从划线单词所在句的后一句“The ‘go’ light was changed to green and the ‘take care’ light was changed to white.”可知“前行”灯被变成了绿色；“当心”灯被变成了白色。所以B项符合题意。故选B。 34．细节理解题。根据第二段最后一句“A green light was used to mean ‘take care’...”可知b为第一个；根据第三段最后一句“...the ‘take care’ light was changed to white.”可知a为第二个；根据第四段最后一句“Yellow warning signs had to be placed beside the roads to remind drivers to take care...”可知c为最后一个。故选D。 35．主旨大意题。通读全文以及从第二段“The first traffic signals were used for trains.”，第四段第一句“During these times...”和最后一段“Today, towns and cities all over the world have traffic lights.”可知文章以时间顺序讲述交通信号灯的演变历史。故选B。 36．B 37．C 38．D 39．C 40．D 36．细节理解题。根据第一段第二句“He was not among the best students at school.”可知，他在学校表现的并不是很优秀。故选B。 37．词义猜测题。根据“...But he was full of new ideas, which few people saw the value of”可知他总是充满新想法，但是他在学校表现不好，所以当时很少有人看到他的想法的价值，故此处value意为“价值”，故选C。 38．细节理解题。从第一段最后一句“Things remained the same when he went up to college and he dropped out halfway.”可知，Steve Jobs并没有读完大学。故选D。 39．细节理解题。从 第三段最后一句“He chose the name “Apple” because it reminded him of a happy summer he once spent on an orchard in Oregon.”可知，他挑选苹果这个名字是因为它使他想起曾经在Oregan一个果园里度过的一个快乐的夏天。故选C。 40．推理判断题。通读全文可知，乔布斯总是充满了新想法，这些想法都促使了他的成功。故选D。 41．They are mainly made of the hair of animals./The hair of animals. 42．Because they produced a kind of high-quality ink stick. 43．The Li Ink Stick. 44．In the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 45．The Four Treasures of Study. 41．根据“They are mainly made of the hair of animals.”可知，毛笔主要由动物的毛发制成。故填They are mainly made of the hair of animals./The hair of animals. 42．根据“Two famous skilled men Xi Chao and his son produced a kind of high-quality ink stick. As a result, Emperor Li Yu in the Southern Tang Dynasty agreed to give them the family name ‘Li’.”可知，是因为他们制作了一种高品质的墨锭。故填Because they produced a kind of high-quality ink stick. 43．根据“From then on, the fame of the Li Ink Stick was widespread…”可知，it指代上文的隶墨。故填The Li Ink Stick.。 44．根据“The Ming and Qing Dynasties saw the appearance of the Four Famous Inkstones”可知，明清时期出现了四大名砚。故填In the Ming and Qing Dynasties. 45．根据“In China, writing brushes, ink sticks, paper and inkstones are called the Four Treasures of Study.”及全文可知，本文主要讲述了文房四宝。故填The Four Treasures of Study. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$