山东临沂市白沙埠中学2026-2027学年九年级上学期英语第二次阶段练习 B卷 (10月）

2026-2027学年九年级上学期英语第二次阶段练习 B卷 2026.10

满分120

一、听力理解(20小题，每小题1分，共20分)

第一节听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案。每段对话读两遍。

1. Whose poems does Bob like better?

A. Du Fu's. B. Wang Wei's. C. Li Qingzhao's.

2. Who is Helen's hero?

A. Shakespeare. B. Mark Twain. C. Liu Yang.

3. What does the man like about the hotel?

A.The price B. The rooms C. The breakfast

4. What are the speakers talking about?

A. A historical story. ^B. A brave woman. C. A beautiful ocean.

5. What quality does the girl admire most in Zhang Guimei?

A. clever B. selfless C. humorous

第二节听下面一段对话，回答两个小题。

6. When did Madame Curie win the Nobel Prize for physics?

A. In 1903. B. In 1911. C. In 1912.

7. What does the man think we should do?

A. Become famous scientists. B. Win the Nobel Prize.

C. Learn from Madame Curie's spirit.

听下面一段对话，回答两个小题。

8. Who was Huang Xuhua?

A. A movie star. B. A scientist. C. A teacher.

9. What honor did Huang Xuhua get?

A. Medal of the Republic. B. Best Scientist Award. C. National Hero Title.

听1段材料，回答以下小题。

10. What does the woman think of the village?

A. Noisy. B. Modern. C. Beautiful.

11 What's the population of the village?

A. About 12,300. B. About 123,000. C  About 30,012.

12. How often does the woman visit the park?

A. Every day. B. Once a week. C. Twice a week.

听对话，回答小题。

13. What does the girl want to be in the future?

A. A chemist. B. A historian. C. A researcher.

14. What does the girl think is the most important for a scientist?

A. Great wisdom B. A good education. C. Useful tools.

15. Where does the girl's grandma work now?

A. In a school. B. In a research center. C. In a local hospital.

第三节下面一段独白，根据内容，补全所缺信息，每空一个单词。

 

Ms Chen: More Than Just a Cook
Aspect	Details
Time	Every morning at 6:30, Ms Chen    16        at our school dining hall.
Break Activity	I saw she was teaching a new worker how to cut up vegetables     17    .
Act of Kindness	Gave a warm meal to a student who forgot lunch money.This kindness       18     me most
Influence	Now, many students     19      in the dining hall after lunch. Ms Chen's action shows that even small actions can make a big   20

第二部分阅读理解(共两节：满分40分)

第一节(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项并在答题卡上将该项涂黑A

Great changes have taken place in our hometown over the past ten years. In the past, most families lived in small, dark wooden houses with little fresh air. Few families owned private vehicles. Local people used to walk or ride old-style bikes to work,even on cold rainy days. The river running through the town was dirty because nearby factories poured plenty of waste water into it. Rubbish could be seen along the river banks. Few public green areas were built for local citizens.

But now, everything is totally different. Tall bright apartment buildings have replaced the old houses. Public transport develops rapidly. People can take the subway, shared bikes or drive their own cars for daily trips. The government has taken strict action to deal with water pollution. Workers clean the river regularly. The river is clean again, and many beautiful parks have been built along its banks.More trees and flowers make the whole town lovely. People's living conditions are greatly improved and their lives are becoming better and better.

21. What was the river like in the past?

A. Clean. B. Dirty. C. Wide.

22. How did people use to go to work?

A. By subway. B. By car. C. By bike.

23. What is the main idea of the passage?

A. The history of the river.

B. How to protect the environment.

C. The changes in the writer's hometown.

B

When talking about inspiring people, we can't miss Yuan Longping, widely known as the" Father of Hybrid Rice". He was born in Beijing in 1930. As a teenager, he witnessed the pain caused by hunger. After graduating from university, he devoted himself to agricultural research without any hesitation.

At that time, large numbers of people in China suffered from terrible hunger. Plenty of villagers could not get enough food to fill their stomachs. Yuan made up his mind to develop a new kind of rice to increase rice production. He spent long hours doing field work under hot sunshine. After years of hard work and countless painful failures, he successfully developed hybrid rice in 1973. This great achievement produced much more grain. It helped feed

millions of people not only in China but also around the world. It also offered useful experience for other developing countries.

Yuan Longping had a well-known dream: to enjoy the cool shade beneath rice plants taller than men. He kept doing research till his old age. Although he passed away in 2021, his spirit of persistence and self-devotion encourages us to work hard and make contributions to our society

24. What is Yuan Longping famous for?

A. Hybrid rice. B. Wheat. C. Corn.

25. What does the underlined phrase“devoted himself to” mean?

A. Gave up. B. Put all his energy into. C. Was tired of.

26. Which of the following is TRUE about Yuan Longping?

A. He was born in 1930 in Hunan

B. He helped many people around the world.

C. He developed hybrid rice easily.

27. What can we learn from Yuan Longping?

A. We should give up when we fail.

B. We should only care about ourselves.

C.We should work hard and contribute to society.

C

Technoiogy has changed our daily lives greatly during recent years. The Internet, smartphones,and AI are making our world a smaller and more connected place With mobile devices, we can communicate with friends and relatives far away in seconds no matter where they stay. We can shop online without leaving home. take online courses, and finish different kinds of tasks on the screen.Modem technology brings plenty of convenience  for common people.

However, every coin has two slues. Some students spend too much spare time playing games on their phones. Thıs bad habit bad for their eyesight, physical health and school studies. Moreover, the digital carbon footprint becomes a new serious environmental problem. As the passage in Unit 1mentioned, storing and sending huge amounts of data uses a lot of electricity. I he energy-consuming process produces much carbon dioxide and warms our planet.

Therefore, while we are enjoying the convenience that modern technology brings us. we should also learn to use electronic products properly. We need to form good digital habits and try our best to protect our environment in the digital age.

28. What is the advantage of technology according to the passage?

A. It makes us lazy. B. It helps us communicate easily. C. It wastes electricity.

29. What problem does the" digital carbon footprint" cause?

A. More paper waste. B. More electricity use. C. Less shopping.

30. What is the writer's advice?

A. Stop using the Internet. B. Buy more smartphones.

C. Use technology properly and protect the environment.

31. What is the main purpose of this passage?

A. To introduce the history of technology.

B To tell us the disadvantages of smartphones.

C. To ask us to use technology wisely.

D

In a small remote village in Africa, there was a little girl named Thando. She loved reading books and hoped to get more knowledge. But her family was extremely poor. Her parents worked hard on the farm but still could hardly afford daily supplies. There were no books at all in her home. She could only listen to old-story tellers in her free time.

One sunny day, a mobile library drove to her quiet village. The warm-hearted librarian, an old woman. quickly noticed Thando's strong love for books. She gave Thando a thick book and said softly,“Knowledge is like a key. It can open the door to a new world.”

From then on. Thando studied very hard day and night. She borrowed different books every time the mobile library arrived. She read under tree shade after farm work. Years later, she received further education and finally became a teacher. She. returned to her home village. She set up a small local library to help other poor children. She