甘肃省兰州三十五中2022-2023学年九年级（上学期）期中英语试卷(含答案)

2022-2023学年甘肃省兰州三十五中九年级（上）期中英语试卷 完形填空（每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 1．（10分）Do you know anything about the invention of the bar code （条形码）？ A small food store owner found it was （36）　 　to keep records of the product information．In 1948，he asked the Drexel Institute of Technology to solve this（37）　 　．Bernard Silver，a graduate student，was interested．He and his friend Norman Joseph Woodland （38）　 　to work on it．Soon，they invented their first working system （系统）． The system did work （39）　 　，but it was very expensive and sometimes the system didn't work well．If the invention was to become （40）　 　in stores，the problems had to be solved．Finally，Woodland solved （41）　 　． The patent （专利权） for the bar code system was （42）　 　for by Silver and Woodland in 1949，but the patent was not given until 1952． （43）　 　this patent was given，the system was still not popular among store owners． In 1970，a business named Logicon Inc．（44）　 　the Universal Grocery Products Identification Code （食品工业统一码）．Marsh's Supermarket in Troy was the first store to （45）　 　 this bar code reading system．It has become very popular ever since，and now it's used in all types of stores all over the world． 36．A．easy B．difficult C．interesting D．boring 37．A．plan B．problem C．project D．doubt 38．A．started B．continued C．refused D．failed 39．A．at first B．for example C．on time D．in person 40．A．lively B．cheap C．direct D．popular 41．A．it B．him C．her D．them 42．A．asked B．offered C．made D．divided 43．A．Unless B．Although C．If D．Since 44．A．found B．mentioned C．invented D．remained 45．A．give up B．put up C．set up D．clean up 阅读理解（每小题 2 分，共 30 分） 2．（10分）People at home keep asking me， "Is it hard to learn Chinese？Why have you learned it so well？" Well，there's one thing that makes Chinese easy to learn：there are so many people to talk to．You've probably heard that it's the most spoken language．Today it's also one of the most written languages online．And with so many Chinese people interested in learning English，it couldn't be easier to find a friend for language learning．You just have to know where to look for them． The really good place to look for them is QQ．QQ has the same status （地位） in China as AIM （AOL Instant Messenger） does in the US．It is reported that at any moment，up to 9，000，000 people are using QQ．They're at work，or in a web café （网吧），or at home，and the information of the users can be found．If you sign on with your address set to "abroad"，you'll soon find that many thousands of them are interested in speaking to you!This is a great way for you to learn Chinese，and for them to learn English．I think that it's a very interesting way of cultural contact （文化交流），too，for ordinary people from around the world to be able to have one﹣on﹣one contact． （1）In the first paragraph （段落），the writer tells us 　 　． A．why his family members want to learn Chinese B．where you can find people to talk to for language learning C．the easiest thing to do is learning Chinese D．Chinese isn't so hard to learn as his friends think （2）From the second paragraph we know that QQ and AIM are 　 　． A．addresses for the Internet users B．documents you need to get online C．tools for people to talk online D．programmes of a computer （3）Offices，web cafes and homes 　 　． A．attract the most people to learn Chinese B．provide both QQ and AIM in China C．are the best places for English learners D．have the most people online （4）The writer wrote this passage mainly to 　 　． A．tell a way of learning Chinese B．show what the Chinese people are doing C．tell the important of learning Chinese D．show the difference between AIM and QQ （5）The writer of this passage is probably 　 　． A．a Chinese who works abroad B．an expert who works at home C．an American who works in China D．a salesman who sells softwares 3．（10分）Researchers from Israel found that our given names may have something to do with our facial appearances.Lead writer Yonat Zwebner of a university，along with her team，did eight different experiments in Israel and France.The different experiments were set up to answer two main questions：whether people can correctly guess a person's name based only on a photo of a face and what is behind this matching effect. During the experiments，researchers asked students to look at photos of people's faces and guess each person's name from a list of four choices.They correctly guessed the right name 38 percent of the time，which was better than the 25 percent of a blind guess. What's more，when the faces the students looked at came from within their own country，they were able to best match the faces to the names.French students were better at matching only French names and faces while Israeli students were better at matching only Hebrew names and Israeli faces. Researchers believe it is possible that people change their appearances without paying attention to it，to match their names.One study especially backed up this idea，showing that