湖北省武汉市武昌区拼搏联盟2023-2024学年上学期期中联考九年级英语试题

—I'm afraid that I can't return the book to you tomorrow, Linda.

—Oh! ____. 

 China has done a great job of dealing with poverty (贫困)?

—____. We are so proud of being Chinese. 

 —Shall we go to the movies tomorrow afternoon? 

—____. I'll save the afternoon for my homework. It's too much.

 —Look, Brother Ken is in his new car. He ____ a fortune in the past few years. 

—Yes. You are sure to get well paid as long as you work hard. 

—I don't think children under 18 should be allowed to watch the show without their parents.

—I ____ It's not suitable for them at all.

 When Kang Jian was travelling in the US, he noticed that a great many of everyday things produced in China ____ in the stores. 

The staff ____ all the copies to make sure they didn't miss any details.

 —Mom, may I keep two kittens

—The pets ____ a lot of care and attention. Are you patient enough to work with pets? 

 He ____ write with a pencil, but now a pen ____ writing by him. 

—Although these were good students, ______________ of them had a score above 60.

—I can't believe it!

 —Dad, I need only one more card to ____ the set. Could you buy one for me? 

—Of course. 

—I don't care what people think.

—Well, you______________. Some opinions are worth weighing.

 —This course allows the students to ____ at their own speed. 

—That's great. They are different after all.

—If an interview is too easy, it's a sure ____ that you haven't got the job

—I see. Jobs are hard to come by these days. 

 —You must have had a great time in Wuhan in the past May Day. 

—Of course we did. Come and have a look! There photos will show you ____

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

In February 2007, about two hundred paragliders were in Australia to prepare for the World Championship. They included Ewa Wisnierska, a German paragliding champion (冠军). One morning, as the 1  were getting ready to take off, they noticed that a terrible storm was coming. However, they decided to 2 . After all, these were the best paragliders in the world. 

Unluckily, as the competitors took off, the weather quickly became 3 . Ewa tried to get away from the storm, but two huge 4  came together and caught her. 

The clouds pulled Ewa up inside the storm like a leaf in the 5 . She flew higher and higher, , with lightning (闪电) and hailstones (冰雹) all around her. . "Iwas 6 ," she told reporters afterwards. "The last thing I 7 , it was dark. I could hear lightning all around me. "She 8 to about 10, 000 meters high and then lost all her senses. At that height, the temperature was about -40℃.

After forty minutes Ewa woke up. She was still inside the storm. It was dark and hailstones were 9  past. They were as big as tennis balls. Finally, Ewa came out of the storm cloud and 10  towards a small farm and landed 11 . She fell to the ground, too 12  to call for help. When her team 13  her, she was 60 km away from the place where she took off. She was covered in ice-but alive! 

Ewa was sent to a (an) 14 for treatment at once, but a few days later, she competed in the World Championship. "Flying is too fantastic to stop 15 an accident," she said.

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The Ameca Robot is Getting Better The Ameca robot is once again making headlines. In a video released by Engineered Arts, the humanoid robot is shown engaging in conversation. For each question posed by the human participant, the robot briefly pauses before delivering a response that mixes words with proper facial expressions. Besides, this Ameca demo uses GPT3 for conversation and translation.  ____ Anyone can put on a show at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and this year even robots were getting in on the act. One of Fringe's big shows even used a small robot to come up with jokes from audience suggestions, which were then performed by humans. The results could be very funny, but sometimes they weren't funny at all. That was part of the point, explained Piot Mirowski, the show's co-maker. "We do not use humans to show off Al, we use AI to show its limitations ( (局限性), to show human creativity on the stage." said Mirowski. Artificial Intelligence and Education On October 21st, at the New Oriental Family Education Summit Forum, Yu Minhong stated that AI is not very beneficial (有益的) for children in terms of education. Robin Lee retorted (反驳): "I think this is a misunderstanding." Yu Minhong said, anyway, if a boy writes a particularly beautiful love letter to a girl, don't believe it was written by the boy himself, it may be written by artificial intelligence. Robin Lee replied, "It depends on his ability to write key words."

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I hid the long black bag in the garage (车库). Tonight, in the dark. If everything went OK, I would carry out my secret project. But I had to be sure that no one, not even my wife, saw me. 

It was more difficult to get away from the party than I expected. I made an excuse that the children were tired and needed to get to bed. It was partly true. Of course the main reason for leaving was to complete my plan. 

Then I had to get the kids to sleep. That was never easy at any time and tonight it was even more difficult. The eldest one wanted to know why we left the party early. I told him 10: 30 p. m. was not early. As usual, I read them a bed time story, but I had to stop myself reading too quickly in case that they would learn my secret. 

Silence finally came, and feeling like a thief in the night, I went out of the house and into the garage. Taking one end, I dragged the bag out from its hiding place and took it into the garden. I was worried that my neighbors might find me and call the police. It was already eleven o'clock. By the light of the moon I started working, trying to make as little noise as possible. In fact, that was not easy with a saw (锯子) and a hammer (锤子).

After much hard work, I finally completed my work. I looked down at my watch. It was exactly 4: 00 am. I went inside to have a shower and get a few hours of sleep, with great satisfaction. 

It was long before the kids would rush into my room and woke me up. They were so thrilled, racing to tell me, "Daddy! Santa Claus brought us a lovely tree house this year." Seeing their excitement on their faces, I knew it's worthwhile for me to do it.

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Last November, scientist Yan Ning announced that she would leave America and return to China. 

Yan Ning is well-known to the Chinese public. She studied at Tsinghua University from1996 to 2000. After that, she studied and worked in America for several years. In 2007, she returned to China and became the youngest professor at Tsinghua University. Ten years later, she left Tsinghua University and became a professor at Princeton University in the US. She was later chosen as a foreign member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a foreign member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. 

Her announcement spread like wildfire and got much attention. Yan Ning said she would resign from Princeton University and help build Shenzhen Medical Academy of Research and Translation in Shenzhen. She called her return to China her third dream. 

Yan Ning hopes to offer what she has learned these years. She wants to help and support more young people and make truly original breakthroughs (独创性的突破). She calls Shenzhen a dream city, and plans to build a world-known medical research center there. 

In recent years,  ★ , thanks to China's efforts in encouraging innovation (创新). In 2021, more than 1, 400 Chinese scientists gave up their jobs in America and returned to China, a 22% increase from the year before. There are also many top scientists who have come back to China from Britain, Japan and other countries.

We welcome the scientists back to China and wish them success. 

仔细阅读下面五个句子，然后用下面方框中所给的单词或短语填空，使每个句子在结构、句意和逻辑上正确。 (提示：选项中有两个是多余的。) 

change / questioning / suggest / lively / influence / speech / directly

阅读下面短文，根据上下文、所给首字母或括号内单词等提示，在空白处填入适当的单词。每个空只能填一个单词。

Li Xiaoming, a teacher from Zhejiang Sci-Tech University, recently became popular on the Internet. By holding students' resumes (简历) and (introduce) them in front of a smartphone, Li was helping his students find work from good businesses tlivestreaming (直播).

On Feb. 17, 2023, Li and two other college teachers tried the new and  (create) method for the first time. In the livestream, they connected with businesses to learn about their  (require) for workers and introduced the college graduates. And all graduates who were w  the livestream could also put their resumes online during the livestream. 

Li said that before the livestream, he and his workmates had already l through several excellent students' resumes together. They also talked with the students to get to know their abilities and advantages.

The livestream l for about an hour and a half and received more than 20, 000 likes. Among the eight graduates that Li introduced, three have received interview invitations from businesses. "I became such a l dog. I am very moved and thankful." said Lyu Yuke, one of the graduates who got an invitation.

"In recent years, livestreaming has become very popular. We hope to use this new way of (communicate) to help excellent students find good jobs." said Li.

假如你是李华，你的笔友Peter想了解中国的传统剪纸艺术。你也很喜欢剪纸艺术。请根据以下内容提示，用英语给他写一封邮件，说明你喜欢剪纸的原因，并简要介绍中国剪纸的历史、制作和用途等相关信息。

内容提示：1. Why do you like Chinese paper cutting? 2. How is Chinese paper cutting made? 3. What is Chinese paper cutting used for? 

注意：文中不得透露个人真实信息；词数60-80；开头和结尾已给出，不计入总数。

Dear Peter, 

How is it going? Today I'd like to tell you something about Chinese paper cutting.

Yours, 

Li Hua