【人教版】2016年秋九年级：《Unit 6 When was it invented》单元练习

Unit6 When was it invented?单元练习

一、单项选择（共15小题；共15分）

 1. --- Do you know Earth Day?

--- Sure. It                  in 1970 to tell us to protect our planet.

A. sets up B. set up C. is set up D. was set up

 2. --- Can you sing the English song?

--- Yes, a little. It                  on the radio yesterday.

A. taught B. is taught C. was taught

 3. Many houses                  by the earthquake and thousands of people were left homeless.

A. damaged B. were damaged C. were damaging D. are damaged

 4. He is very surprised that all the houses in the village                  white.

A. paint B. painted C. are painting D. are painted

 5. In the spoken English of some areas in the US, the "r" sounds at the end of the words                 .

A. are dropped B. drop

C. are being dropped D. have dropped

 6. The 31st Olympic Games will                  in Brazil in 2016.

A. take care B. take off C. take part D. take place

 7. Mo Yan is famous now, but he                  a true son of soil(土地).

A. keeps B. stays C. remains D. maybe

 8. I met my old friend Kate in the street                  this morning.

A. by accident B. by the end C. by mistake D. by car

 9. Jack is good at Chinese. He can                  speak good Chinese                  read and write it well.

A. not only; but also B. not; or

C. either; or D. neither; or

10. The teacher                  the class                  small groups.

A. divide; into B. divided; into C. divided; to D. divide; to

11. The books                  to the library the other day.

A. were returned B. returned

C. will return D. will be returned

12. A lot of trees                  on the hill yesterday.

A. are planted B. will be planted

C. have been planted D. were planted

13. Lots of food and water                  to Ya'an, Sichuan Province immediately, after the earthquake happened.

A. were sent B. are sent C. send D. sent

14. --- Look at the sign on the right.

--- Oh, parking                  here.

A. doesn't allow B. isn't allowed

C. didn't allowed D. wasn't allowed

15. --- Does she like singing English songs?

--- Yes. She                  to sing English songs in her room.

A. often does B. is often heard C. often hears

二、单词拼写(单句首字母填空)（共10小题；共10分）

16. Mr. Liu gives us lots of interesting p                 in English class.

17. I have the p                 of helping you.

18. --- Thank you for telling me the news.

--- Don't m                 it.

19. Deng Yaping joined the n                 table tennis team in 1988.

20. You can't t                 every word into Chinese, and it's not good for your English study.

21. Have you ever played a musical i                ?

22. There are many c                 in the supermarket. It's very crowded.

23. The conference has developed t                 and friendship between China and Russia.

24. That's too bad! The door is l                 with my key inside.

25. These grapes are too s                . Please give me some sweet grapes.

三、单词拼写(根据中文提示拼写单词)（共10小题；共10分）

26. The young man is trying to be a                 (先锋) in the field of high technology.

27. It's very important to know what to do in an                 (地震).

28. Reading for                  (愉悦) is the easiest way to become a better reader in English.

29. He did not                 (提到) the quarrel with his wife.

30. There is a wonderful                 (气味) coming from the kitchen.

31. Can you                 (翻译) this English sentence into Chinese?

32. Can you play this kind of                 (乐器)?

33.                 (国庆节) Day is on October 1.

34. There are a lot of                 (顾客) in the big shop.

35. It is said that we will be                 (分开) into six groups.

四、翻译(根据中文提示完成句子)（共8小题；共16分）

36. 某些研究是为了制作戏剧而做的。

Some research                                   in order to make the play.

37. She                                   (被授予) the first prize last week.

38. 近年来, 随州发生了巨大的变化。

Great changes have taken                  in Suizhou in                  years.

39. 那辆小汽车突然撞上了一棵大树，幸运的是，司机受伤并不严重。

The car hit a big tree                                                                    . Luckily, the driver wasn't hurt badly.

40. 他发现他错把Sally的太阳镜装进他的书包里了。

He found that he had put Sally sunglasses into his backpack                                  .

41. 很多人为了改善我们的居住环境做了很多事, 我们应该尊重他们。

Many people have done a lot for improving our living environment. We should                                                    them.

42. 苹果碰巧掉在博比的头上。

The apple fell on Bobby's head                                  .

43. 毫无疑问，这场会议非常成功。

                                 , this meeting is quite successful.

五、完形填空（共10小题；共15分）

     Time is very important to us. When and by whom were the watches or clocks     44    ? Perhaps nobody knows. How could we tell time if there were no watches or clocks anywhere in the world?

     The     45     was probably the world's first "clock", except in the far north, where the Eskimos live. There, it's dark most of the winter, and     46     most of the summer. But     47     most of the world, people have used the sun for day.     48     you don't have a clock that shows time, you still know that when the sun shines, it's day, and when it's dark, it's night. The sun can not only tell you whether it's day or night but also it's morning, noon, or afternoon. When the sun is almost directly overhead, it's     49    .

     People who live near the sea know time from the tides(潮汐). In the daytime, for about six hours, the water rises     50     on the beach. The same thing     51     again at night. There are two high tides and two     52     tides every 24 hours.

     In some places in the world the wind comes up at about the same time every day or changes direction or stops     53    . In these places the wind can be the clock.

44. A. discovered B. found C. invented D. made

45. A. sun B. moon C. star D. planet

46. A. wonderful B. large C. heavy D. light

47. A. on B. around C. in D. of

48. A. If B. When C. Although D. As

49. A. morning B. noon C. afternoon D. evening

50. A. high and high B. higher and high

C. higher and higher D. high and higher

51. A. takes place B. is taking place

C. is taken place D. will take place

52. A. wide B. narrow C. long D. low

53. A. blows B. blowing C. blow D. to blow

六、阅读理解（共15小题；共30分）

A

     The biggest secret about inventing is that anybody can do it! Perhaps this sounds crazy, but it's true. Maybe you have the wrong idea about inventing, so read on to discover the truth.

     Wrong idea No. 1: An invention has to be something completely new.

     Inventing means creating something "new", but the idea could come from something that already exists(存在). The Wright brothers, for example, got the idea for building a "flying machine" from watching birds.

     Wrong idea No. 2: Inventors are born, not made.

     There are a lot of factors(因素) that make invention possible. Take Mazart, for example. He was born with a talent for musical composition. But other factors were also important for his creativity. His father was a music teacher, and Mozart practiced for hours every day, from the time he was four years old. Thomas Edison said that being an inventor was "99% hard work and 1% inspiration"!

     Very successful creators don't give up when they get something wrong. As one inventor said, "A failure is the right answer to the wrong question."

     Wrong idea No. 3: Inventors are always old people.

     Don't believe that you can't invent something when you are young. Here are two examples of young inventors: Louis Braille went blind when he was a child. When he was fifteen, he invented a system of reading and writing for blind people that is still used in most countries today.

     As a young man, George Nissen was watching some artists performing in a show. He watched how they fell into the safety net and then jumped back up again. This gave him an idea, and he invented the trampoline(蹦床).

54.                  got the idea for building a "flying machine" from watching birds.

A. Mazart B. George Nissen

C. Louis Braille D. The Wright brothers

55. The underlined word "talent" probably means                 .

A. 态度 B. 品质 C. 天赋 D. 能量

56. Which of the following is the writer's opinion?

A. Anybody can do inventing.

B. Inventors are born, not made.

C. Inventors are always old people.

D. An invention has to be something completely new.

57. The best title for the passage would be                 .

A. How to Perform in a Show B. Be a Composer

C. How to Help Blind People D. Be an Inventor

B

     To us, it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But in fact the umbrella was not invented as protection against the rain. Its first use was as a shade(遮蔽) against the sun.

     Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it were the Chinese, back in the eleventh century BC.

     We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing connected with its use: it became a symbol of honor and power(权力). In the Far East in ancient times, the umbrella was allowed to be used only by those in high office or by royal people such as the kings or queens.

     In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshade. The umbrella was in common use in ancient Greece, but it is believed that the first people in Europe to use the umbrella as protection against the rain were the ancient Romans. During the middle ages in Europe, the use of the umbrella almost disappeared. Then it appeared again in Italy in the late sixteenth century. And again it became a symbol of power.

     Umbrellas have not changed much in style during all this time, though they have become much lighter in weight. It wasn't until the twentieth century that the umbrellas for women began to be made in all kinds of colors.

58. Ancient people first used umbrellas as                 .

A. a symbol of honor B. protection against the sun

C. a symbol of power D. protection against the rain

59. According to the passage, the umbrella was probably first used in ancient                 .

A. Egypt B. Babylon C. Rome D. China

60. The underlined word royal might mean "                " in Chinese.

A. 皇室的 B. 富裕的 C. 中产的 D. 平民的

61. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

A. The ancient Greeks used the umbrella in their daily life.

B. Europeans hardly used the umbrella during the middle ages.

C. The umbrellas for women were made colorful in ancient times.

D. The style of the umbrella hasn't changed a lot since it was invented.

62. This passage is mainly about                 .

A. the sales of the umbrella

B. the differences among umbrellas

C. the invention of the umbrella

D. the history and the use of the umbrella

C

      Thomas Edison was a great American inventor. He was born to a poor family in 1847. His mother taught him at home. He often observed things carefully and he made over 1,300 inventions during his life time. He was often said to be the greatest genius(天才) of his age. There are only a few men in all of history, who have changed the lives of other men as much as the inventor of the first useful electric light. But Edison could never be happy only because someone said he was a genius. “There is no such thing as genius,” Edison said. He also said that what people called genius was mostly hard work. But Edison was a dreamer as well as a worker. From his earliest days as a child he wondered about the secrets of nature. Nature, he often said, is full of secrets. He tried to understand them; then, he tried to learn what could usefully be done with them.

      Edison enjoyed thinking. He knew that most people will do almost anything instead of the difficult work of thinking, especially if they do not think very often. But he knew, too, that thinking can give men enjoyment and pleasure.

      Edison could not understand how anyone could be uninterested in life. As he loved to think, he also loved to work. On the day he became 75 years old, someone asked him what ideas he had about life. “Work,” he answered back, “discovering the secrets of nature and using them to make men happier.” He said he had enough inventions in his mind to give him another 100 years of work.

63. Edison was                 .

A. interested in changing people's ideas

B. interested in discovering the secrets of nature

C. very much uninterested in nature

D. uninterested in making people happier by discovering the secrets of nature

64.                  Which of the following is NOT TRUE according to the passage?

A. Many other people have changed Edison's life

B. Edison has changed the lives of many other people

C. Only a few men in history can change other people's lives

D. Edison invented the electric light

65. The last sentence in the passage most probably implies(意指)                .

A. people of his time were ready to give Edison another 100 year's work

B. Life is too short for Edison to invent more for human beings

C. Edison made 100 inventions in his life

D. Edison was able to live and work for 100 years

D

     1970 was World Conservation Year. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger. They hoped that governments would act quickly in order to “conserve” nature. Here is one example of the problem. At one time there were 1,300 different plants, trees and flowers in Holland, but now only 866 remain. The others have been destroyed by modern man and his technology. We are changing the earth, the air and water, and everything that grows and lives. We can't live without these things. If we continue like this, we shall destroy ourselves.

     What will happen in the future? Perhaps it is more important to ask “What must we do now?” The people who will be living in the world of tomorrow are the young of today. A lot of them know that conservation is necessary. Many are helping to save our world. They plant trees, build bridges across rivers in forests, and so on. In a small town in the United States a large group of girls cleaned the banks of 11 kilometers of their river. Young people may hear about conservation through a record called “No one's going to change our world”. It was made by the Beatles, Cliff Richard and other singers. The money from it will help to conserve wild animals.

66. “No one's going to change our world” was                 .

A. an important book published in 1970

B. an idea that nobody would accept

C. a record calling on people to conserve nature

D. a rule worked out by the United Nations

67. What is the most important thing for us to do to save our world?

A. We should plant more trees and flowers

B. we should clean the banks of our rivers

C. we should know what will happen in the future

D. we should know what we must do and begin to do it now

68. What's the main idea of the passage?

A. 1970 was World Conservation Year

B. The United Nations wanted everyone to know that the world is in danger

C. Conservation is necessary

D. It is the young people who are helping to save our world

七、短文7选5(5选5等)（共4小题；共8分）

     I'd just got in a taxi at the railway station when suddenly I found one of my suitcases(手提箱) missing. Just then, I saw a young man, not very far, opening it and taking out valuables. "Stop thief! Stop thief!" I shouted and threw open the car door and rushed out to him, followed by the driver and some passers-by. 69.                 My driver caught him by the neck and took out the valuables from his trouser pocket and put them back into my suitcase.

     Half an hour later, I sat back in the taxi and breathed a sigh of relief (松了一口气). But as I checked those stolen things, I became very surprised, unable to speak. 70.                 And a blood test report of a 58-year-old woman appeared. I suddenly realized that the taxi driver must have mistaken the thief's things and put his into my suitcase.

     71.                 But this story keeps coming back to me. Was the young man a habitual thief or a dutiful son who had been driven to find money to save his mother's life? 72.                 How I wish I had gone back that afternoon to return the money and the report and say sorry to him. For the first time in my life, I realized that hate and love are very close.

A. My heart aches for him.

B. Two years has passed since then.

C. The train left the station very quickly.

D. Very soon we caught up with the thief.

E. Before my eyes was 200 yuan instead of 100.

八、阅读与表达(问答式)（共5小题；共10分）

      DNA is the whole “map” of the human body. It is something that all humans have, and it tells the body what to do. DNA is the reason that we look like our parents, because we get some of their DNA to make our own.

      People have been trying to understand the human body for a long time. In I860, Mr Mendel discovered why we look the same as other people in our family. It is because of small things called “genes”(基因) in our body. In 1953, two scientists, Watson and Crick, found out that those small parts are really messages. They're written in the DNA with a special language.

      In 1961, another two scientists found the first “word” that they could understand in that language. It shows how DNA tells the cell(细胞) to build its parts, Scientists have now found all  the words in the DNA map, but we still do not understand what they all do. By understanding what just one “word” means, we can help to save people from several illnesses. So the more we understand, the more doctors will be able to do.

      Most people hope that this will help to make better medicine and help sick people; Other people worry that when we Icam more “words” and find out more information, we will use it in the wrong way, just to make people more attractive(有吸引力的), or stop sick people getting jobs.

 根据短文内容，完成下列小题。

73. Do all humans have DNA?

74. When did Mr. Mendel discover why we look like our other family members?

75. What did the two scientists find in 1961?

76. Why do some people worry about learning more “words” in the DNA map?

77. What is the passage mainly about?

答案

一、单项选择

 1. D  2. C  3. B  4. D  5. A

 6. D  7. C  8. A  9. A 10. B

11. A 12. D 13. A 14. B 15. B

二、单词拼写(单句首字母填空)

16. projects

17. pleasure

18. mention

19. national

20. translate

21. instrument

22. customers

23. trade

24. locked

25. sour

三、单词拼写(根据中文提示拼写单词)

26. pioneer

27. earthquake

28. pleasure

29. mention

30. smell

31. translate

32. instrument

33. National

34. customers

35. divided

四、翻译(根据中文提示完成句子)

36. was done

37. was awarded

38. place; recent

39. all of a sudden

40. by mistake

41. look up to

42. by accident

43. Without doubt

五、完形填空

44. C 45. A

46. D 47. C 48. A 49. B 50. C

51. A 52. D 53. B

六、阅读理解

54. D 55. C

56. A 57. D 58. B 59. D 60. A

61. C 62. D 63. B 64. A 65. B

66. C 67. D 68. C

七、短文7选5(5选5等)

69. D 70. E

71. B 72. A

八、阅读与表达(问答式)

73. Yes.

74. In 1860.

75. They found the first “word” that they could understand in that language.

76. Because they think we will use it in the wrong way.

77. What the DNA is and how we understand it.