Unit 8 More than a Game.单元阅读过关2026-2027学年人教版英语九年级上册

Unit 8 More than a Game.单元阅读过关

一、完形填空。

Mrs Green is our history teacher. Today she . .1. . us to study for the history test on Friday. I’m good at many subjects and can organise all kinds of activities, . .2. . I’ve always been poor at history.

Feeling nervous, I went to the library in the afternoon to remember historical facts and dates. But no matter how hard I tried, it seemed not . .3. .. Just then I . .4. . and found my classmate Maria sitting nearby. I joined her, and saw she had some . .5. . and coloured pencils.Each card had a colourful . .6. . and key notes. I asked her what she was doing out of curiosity.

“I’m reviewing history,” said Maria with a . .7. .. She told me it was . .8. . to remember so many things, so she made these cards. Historical events were shown through . .9. . paintings and keywords.

After . .10. . for a while, an idea hit me. I had rich experience in . .11. . organising big events with mind maps before! Then I . .12. . these historical events into different kinds and used a mind map to connect them. I also invited Maria to . .13. . pictures for them.

With the mind map and pictures, . .14. . didn’t seem so hard anymore. This experience taught . .15. . that learning isn’t boring. The key is to find a suitable method and never give up.

1.(     ) A.inspired  B.reminded  C.allowed  D.refused

2.(     ) A.so   B.and   C.or   D.but

3.(     ) A.strange  B.interesting  C.useful   D.real

4.(     ) A.looked up B.looked down C.came back  D.came in

5.(     ) A.books  B.boxes   C.erasers  D.cards

6.(     ) A.message  B.name   C.picture  D.map

7.(     ) A.smile  B.cry   C.worry   D.dream

8.(     ) A.common  B.active   C.creative  D.difficult

9.(     ) A.private  B.cheap   C.simple  D.high

10.(     ) A.thinking B.guessing  C.questioning D.explaining

11.(     ) A.carefully B.comfortably C.successfully D.peacefully

12.(     ) A.translated B.divided  C.turned   D.broke

13.(     ) A.watch  B.compare  C.copy   D.draw

14.(     ) A.English  B.history  C.physics  D.Chinese

15.(     ) A.them  B.her   C.him   D.us

二、选词填空。

Every winter, tens of thousands of black-headed gulls(海鸥) complete their long journey from as far away as Siberia to Kunming.In 2025, cameras and drones were 1. ____ up at the city’s Dianchi Lake for these regular visitors. They were 2. _______ to work in an AI-powered “bird facial recognition” monitoring mode (监测模式).

Traditional methods of monitoring birds used to depend on people. They needed many people with good 3. ___________ of birds, and the results were not always right. However, the new system 4. _______ use of cameras, drones, microphones and deep neural network algorithms (深度神经网络算法) to identify birds. 5. _________ features such as body size and beak (鸟喙) shape serve as special “identity markers”.They help people 6. ______ tell what kind of birds they are right away, count their population, follow where the birds fly and 7. ______ they move, and make a record of the changes in the birds at Dianchi Lake.

Having been used at several test sites in Kunming, the AI system has identified 17 8. ______ of birds, building a database 9. __________ hundreds of thousands of pictures, videos and audio (音频) recordings.

AI bird monitoring isn’t just used in Kunming now—it’s being used in other places. 10. _____ example, at the Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve in Shandong Province, an AI system used 11. ______ 2022 has recorded over 1,200 birds, giving strong data support for local management.

三、阅读理解。

A篇

Welcome to the Touring Exhibition about Scientists! Are your kids interested in science? The touring exhibition about Chinese scientists is coming to our city. Come and enjoy it with your kids. Here are some exciting exhibitions. Exhibition: Heroes of the Nation ●Enjoy over 300 real objects and more than 400 pictures from over 190 scientists. ●Explore more than 10 large exhibits, like the model of China’s first atomic bomb (原子弹). Exhibition: Deng Jiaxian ●Know Deng’s schooldays.

●Read letters between Yang Zhenning and Deng Jiaxian. ●Have a look at Deng’s high-speed cameras in his experiments. Exhibition: Return ●Find out how the scientists gave up a comfortable life in the USA. ●Learn about what those scientists did for their country. Exhibition: Flora of China ●Learn about how the book Flora of China was completed step by step. It includes most of the plants in China. ●Find out the stories about the important scientists behind the book. Opening time: 9:30 am to 5 pm from February 3rd to March 2nd Price: 60 yuan for one ticket Please note: One ticket covers one adult and one child. Please buy one more ticket for another adult or child.

1.How many real objects can you see in Exhibition: Heroes of the Nation?(     )

A.More than 10. 

B.Over 190.

C.Over 300. 

D.More than 400.

2.What can you see in Exhibition: Deng Jiaxian?(     )

A.   B.     C.        D.                         

3.If you are interested in trees and flowers, it’s a must to go to ___.

A.Exhibition: Return

B.Exhibition: Deng Jiaxian