2023年河南周口市20九年级上学期英语期末试卷.docx

2023-2023学年河南周口九年级上英语期末试卷 一、阅读理解   1. The AI（人工智能）has changed our lives. There are four useful AI inventions here. Jiuge The AI can remember 300,000 Chinese poems clearly. What's more, it can write a poem in a very short time. In a CCTV show, Jiuge beat three great poem fans from a famous college. Forpheus The ping-pong robot can play in an easy way with a beginner and a difficult way with a better player. What's more, it not only encourages players with words like "Good job!" but also gives some good advice to improve their skills. Self-driving AI It can drive the car more safely than humans. It doesn't drink wine and never feels tired. It can do what we humans do. For example, if a car with this AI has passed a bus, it will flash（闪）two white lights side to side to show thanks to the bus. Facial Recognition（人脸识别） It is used a lot in the world such as ACS. ACS won't let a stranger in without the house owner's permission（允许）. Paying by facial recognition is common now. The police in Hangzhou even caught a criminal（罪犯）at a concert with its help. （1）Why is Jiuge special A.Because it can drive cars safely. B.Because it can play the violin. C.Because it was on CCTV. D.Because it's good at poems. （2）What will Forpheus do while playing A.It will say "What a shame!" to the player. B.It will guess what job the player is. C.It will change its way of playing according to different players. D.It will be angry if the player is a beginner. （3）When does the Self-driving AI car flash two white lights side to side A.When the car is ready to speed up. B.When the car has to stop. C.When it has passed other vehicles. D.When the car wants to slow down. （4）What does the underlined word "ACS" mean in Chinese （5）Which is TRUE according to the passage A.Facial Recognition helped the police catch a criminal. B.No one can beat Forpheus. C.Self-driving AI can make subway trains safer. D.Jiuge has written 300,000 poems.   2. Elias Howe is always used to going to bed at 4 o'clock in the morning. Working all night became his living habit. Who's Elias Howe You may never hear of him. He was born in America. The sewing（缝纫）machine was invented by him. Over 100 years ago, without modern machines, people had to do the sewing by hand. Elias decided to design a machine to do the sewing instead of our hands. However, he had a trouble. He couldn't get the thread（线）to run around the needle（针）. Inventing sewing machine was his dream. So he did not give up. He kept thinking about how to solve this problem. Once he was tired, he slept in bed. He had a dream. In the dream he was caught by a king. The king ordered him to build a perfect sewing machine, or the king would kill him. Elias met the same problem as before. The king was so angry that he ordered his soldiers to kill him. The soldiers raised spears（长矛）and came up to him. Suddenly Elias noticed something. There was a hole in the tip（尖端）of each spear. Before the spears stuck to his body, Elias woke up from the dream. And he realized that he had found the answer to the problem. Instead of getting the thread to run around the needle, he made it run through a small hole in the tip of the needle. A simple thought finally made Elias invent the first sewing machine. （1）Why did Elias go to bed at about 4 o'clock a.m. A.Because he had sleeping problems. B.Because he got used to working at night. C.Because of the noise of the machine. D.Because he liked to play at night. （2）What can we know from the second paragraph A.Elias wanted to invent the sewing machine to make money. B.Elias's parents lived on sewing. C.Elias had difficulty in inventing the sewing machine. D.People preferred to do sewing by hand over 100 years ago. （3）What does the underlined word "something" mean A.Dream. B.Spear. C.Problem. D.Hole. （4）What happened in Howe's dream at last A.Elias had a good thought. B.Elias was killed. C.Elias caught the soldiers. D.The king was killed. （5）What can we know from the passage A.Working at night is helpful in new inventions. B.If you want to invent something, you should have a good dream. C.Sleeping can also solve the problem. D.Elias Howe's dream came true.   3. In many science fiction（科幻）movies, men travel to faraway stars and even fight with aliens. But are there real aliens in the universe（宇宙） The answer of some scientists is yes. So they have been searching for aliens in outer space for many years. They hope to find life signs of aliens. Some scientists are used to using radio telescopes to search for aliens in space. In order to find aliens, they have worked hard for over half a century, but so far they have found nothing. Then some scientists guessed aliens might not want to connect us, but aliens could answer our messages. So some scientists sent radio signals into the universe. They hope one day they would be picked up by alien technology. These scientists want to prove that we are not alone in