2019年清华附中初16级九年级下英语试卷

2019年4月

第一部分知识运用（共48分)

一、单项填空（共12分，每小题1分)

从下面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. Mr. Brown is always patient and knows a lot about history. And we all like to ask ______ questions.

A. she B.him C. her D. him

2. - Excuse me, is there a computer room in your school?

- Yes. It’s ______ the third floor.

A. on B.in C.at D. to

3. - ______ do you take piano lessons?

-Twice a week.

A. How long B.How man C.How often D.How much

4. Lots of people exercise every morning ______ bad weather stops them.

A. if B.unless C.until D.since

5. - Will you go camping with us this weekend, Bob?

- I'd love to, but I ______ study for the coming test.

A. May B. must C.can D.could

6.I think Journey to the West is ______ of all the Chinese novels.

A.interesting B.more interesting

C.most interesting D.the most interesting

7. My father is a tea lover. He ______ tea every day.

A.drink B. drinks C. drank D. will drink

8. Jack ______ an English magazine when his mother rang him up.

A.reads B. has read C. will read D. was reading

9. I ______ John the good news as soon as he gets home. I believe he will be excited.

A. will tell B. told C. tells D. tell

10. My sister Katie ______ as an AI engineer since she graduated from college.

A.works B.has worked C.will work D.worked

11. -Luke,do you know who invented the kite?

-Sure.It ______ by Mozi over 2000 years age.

A.is invented B.invented C. was invented D.will be invented

12. -Great changes have taken place in China. Who can tell ______ in another five years?

-It's hard to say.

A. what our life will be like B. how our life looked like

C.what will our life be like D. how did our life look like

二、完形填空（共36分，每小题2分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选

项中，选择最佳选项。

A

Ask your foreign friends or teachers whether they experienced "culture shock”upon moving to China. ______ (13) are,they did.

According to a survey, eighty-five percent of international students have had culture shock. Culture shock is a broad term for the series of personal difficulties that people go through in new places, for the surrounding environment is so different from that where they grow up. It's usually most extreme for those who can't speak the language of the place to which they have ______(14) , or for those who aren't familiar with the social rules. such as what you should do if you meet people for the first time.Both of these things happened to me in China when I moved there in 2011.

So as you can imagine,naturally,I went through the four well-known ______(15) of culture shock: honeymoon, distress, re-integration and autonomy.

When I arrived at first,I was ______(16) and optimistic, I thought I was well-prepared for this new life in the new country,and I was eager to find out what I was going to experience later. But quickly I became upset by the cultural differences I encountered, missing how things ______(17) back home.

By the end of my first year,I had totally lost my self-confidence; I was a bitter, clumsy and sensitive person, and I blamed China for making me that way.

Then,in my second year,I started to ______(18) some language skills, and I found fun activities to do in my spare time. I made great foreign and Chinese friends, and with their help. I tried hard to learn to appreciate the beauty of Chinese history and culture, which was the thing I always wanted to achieve. To my delight, I succeeded in ______(19) an interest in them. And afterwards, I learned to consider myself a confident and happy laowai.

Today I'm back in the US, where I'm pursuing a PhD at a university in my hometown. It's been a little ______(20) to readjust to life in my home country. I suffered at first from "reverse"culture shock,experiencing the four stages in the opposite order.

I started out feeling independent and self-confident, before slowly realizing that I knew my country much less well than I used to. I'd complain loudly about little things, like how I could no longer shout “fuwuyuan!" to get waiters' ______(21) to let them know that I was ready to order in a restaurant.

But eventually. I came to realize that what I had thought was my “home” had become an entirely new place while I'd been away. That, by itself, was exciting.

13. A.Chances B.Experiences C.Friends D.Facts

14. A.turned B.moved C.took D.stuck

15. A.types B.stages C.names D.effects

16. A.nervous B.excited C.worried D.satisfied

17. A.seemed B.changed C.continued D.worked

18. A.hold up B.make up C.pick up D.speed up

19. A.showing B.developing C.expressing D.receiving

20. A.difficult B.relaxing C.fast D.interesting

21. A.word B.service C.attention D.smile

B

Christopher Wilson, a Texas-based DJ and producer, is beter known by his stage name, Riot Ten. But what's unbelievable about him and his family's journey is that he has never let negative situations shake or shape his direction.

From a young age, Wilson knew he wanted to go for ______(22). When dropping out seventeen and having little family support, he still started his carer as an uphill battle.

“Thinking positive, thinking big is huge for success.” he said, “I’ve always imagined myself rich, successful and at the top of everything I did.I really believe in positivity...That positive energy shows itself in work and opportunities.”…

Wilson took this energy and ran with it, slowly building a career and name for himself in the music industry, despite criticism from others, financial (money)challenges and the difficulty of ______(23) both his duties as a father, and his great love for making music.

With the birth of Wilson's second child, Kai, however, both his positive attitude and career were ______ dramatically.

On September 3, 2017, Kai was born -weighing less than two pounds and with a large welt on the side of his head.Kai was said to have less than a 50% chance of living, and if he did live, there was a 50% chance he'd have cerebral palsy(脑性瘫痪. For Wilson, this was terrifying----the unknown, the fear of ______(25) his child. He also felt the powerlessness in watching Kai struggle to ______(26) on his own. Wilson was then told Kai was missing a part of his brain, something that would affect all motor skills.

He had no ______(27); he just had to wait. But even in the moments of fear, of helplessness, of pain, Wilson kept positive. He kept creating, kept believing and kept moving forward.

In the course of a few months, he had answers. Kai didn't have cerebral palsy, and he would survive. After one month of a breathing tube, Kai was able to breathe on his own, and even began to show ______(28) baby behavior.

“I’ve always thought everything happens for a reason.” Wilson says."Kai probably shouldn't be alive, and he somehow made it. And everything we expected to happen----his coming out ______(29), not having cerebral palsy, being able to breathe on his own----it all worked out. There's a plan for everything.”

It's this attitude that has ______(30) Riot Ten to success. He released his second EP(唱片), “Hype or Die: The Dead EP” on February 16, 2017, and his song, “Rail Breaker” has hit No.I on all dubstep charts.

No mater what life throws at us, Wilson has continued to stay positive and share his passion for music with the world.

22. A.money B.painting C.music D.health

23. A.avoiding B.sharing C.shouldering D.balancing

24. A.quickened B.strengthened C.challenged D.changed

25. A.missing B.losing C.hurting D.refusing

26. A.Breathe B.sing C.think D.work

27. A.answers B.dreams C.doubts D.questions

28. A.normal B.strange C. good D.curious

29. A.healthy B.happy C.inspired D.humorous

30. A. driven B.compared C.followed D.introduced

第二部分阅读理解（共42分）

三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共32分，每小题2分）

A

I have a problem. Her name is Luca. We do not see eye to eye.

Like yesterday, we saw the number 9,999. She said, “All those nines. They feel so ...so purple!”

Purple? I saw it as logical and orderly. Not as colors. I think Luca and I live in different universes.

But we have to do a report on the Statue of Liberty.I really doubt if I can work with her.

At our first meeting on Friday, we come up with a plan. She will make a Statue of Liberty, and I'll write the report. But on Monday, with only one week until our report is due, she tells me she's leaving to visit her great-grandfather for six day%, because he's ill. It means that I, the one who can't even draw a stick figure, will have to make the statue. And she, the one who doesn't like to think logically, will have to write the report.

“Please be at my house at 2:00 on Sunday,"I say. I cross my fingers.

While she's gone, I spend lots of hours making the sculpture according to some directions I find online.

Sunday at 2:00 arrives, and Luca is late. Finally,I see her skipping down the sideway, carrying only a small piece of equipment.

“What's that?”I ask. “Where's the report?”

“It's a digital recorder.” she says. “A report didn't feel right, so I did something else.”

I try to keep my voice calm as I say, “But this is not about feelings. It's about the Statue of Liberty. Statues don't have feelings.” Our project is due tomorrow. We're doomed.

“Statues don't have feelings, but my great-grandfather does.” Luca says.

Now I am quite sure that we're from two different universes because I have no idea about what she's talking about.

“I interviewed him about when he came to America and saw the Statue of Liberty,” she continues. “Listen.” She turns on the recording.

A scratchy voice comes on. “In Hungary, I had no food and hoped to go to America, where I could eat, have a better life. Finally I got on the ship. Then the sunshine started. Oh! There she was, lady Liberty. Like hope itself. All of us cried. All my life, I remember that feeling, of seeing the Lady.”

Looking at Luca, I think a while. “You are right. That's what the Statue of Liberty is all about. Who says a report has to be on paper?” I say quietly. And a smile spreads over her face.

Can you imagine what happens while we are making the presentation the next day? When Luca's great-grandfather says “All my life, I remember that feeling, of seeing the Lady,” everyone is staring at our statue, quiet.

31. The idiom "see eye to eye"in Paragraph I probably means “______”.

A. like each other B. have good eyesight

C.want to see each other D.share the same viewpoint

32. What can we know about Luca from the passage?

A. She doesn't like writing reports.

B. She is not a very friendly person.

C. She has her own ideas about the report.

D. She visits her great-grandfather to interview him.

33. What does everyone think of their presentation?

A.Boring. B.Relaxing. C.Embarrassing. D.Moving.

B

Some people claim they”never forget a face”. But what does that saying mean? Is there really no limit to the number of faces a person can remember? A new study at the University of York in England has found that, on average, people can remember as many as 5,000 faces.

The study is the first time that scientists have been able to put a number to the abilities of humans to recognize faces. The research team tested people on how many faces they could remember from their personal lives and in the media. They also tested them to see how many famous faces they recognized. Rob Jenkins works in the psychology department at the University of York. He said the researchers' study centered on the number of faces people actually know. He said the researchers were not able to discover whether there is a limit on how many faces the brain can handle.

In the study, people spent one hour writing down as many faces from their personal lives as possible. At first, they found it easy to come up with many faces. But by the end of the hour, they found it harder to think of new ones. Their change in speed let the researchers estimate when they would have run out of faces completely.

The results showed that these people knew between 1,000 and 10.000 faces. Jenkins explained that some people may have a natural ability for remembering faces. “There are differences in how much attention people pay to faces and how well they process the information,” he said. Jenkins also said it could be because of different social environments. Some people may have grown up in more populated places. Therefore, they may have had more social contact throughout their lives.

The people in the study included 25 men and women between 18 and 61 years old. Researchers think age may be an interesting area for further research. “It would be interesting to see whether there is a peak age for the number of faces we know”, Jenkins said. He said it is possible that we gather more faces throughout our lifetime. But, he added, there also may be an age at which we start to find it harder to remember all of those faces.

The study suggests our facial recognition abilities enable us to deal with the many different faces we see an the screens, as well as these we know, like family and friends. Today, facial recognition technology is used in many ways, including by law enforcement agencies to prevent crime and violence.Governments use it to keep secret areas secure and, in extreme cases, control populations. Even Facebook uses facial recognition. For example, when you “tag” or name a friend, Facebook technology may recognize the person's face from a different picture you had shared before.

34. The study at the University of York centers on ______.

A. how different people's faces are

B. how important knowing faces is

C. how many faces people actually know

D. how much attention people pay to faces

35. What can you learn from the passage?

A. It's possible for anyone to remember 5000 faces.

B. The number of faces that people can remember is limited.

C. There is a change in the speed of people's coming up with faces.

D. Facial recognition technology can improve social contact greatly.

36. What does Rob Jenkins probably agree?

A. Remembering faces is not a natural ability for people.

B. People should gather more faces throughout their lifetime.

C. There is an age at which people can no longer know more faces

D. People from a place with a large population may know more faces

37. What does the writer want to tell us in the last paragraph?

A. To present people's abilities to recognize faces

B. To tell us how facial recognition helps humans.

C. To explain the meaning of facial recognition technology.

D. To introduce the development of facial recognition technology.

C

What do you think about when you think of a zoo? small cages? Bars like those in prisons? These images might be common in people s mind which serve as arguments for the people who do not like zoos, as historically, traditional zoos kept animals with a very limited focus on conservation (protection of natural things) or education. However, a sort of evolution(改革；进化)has occurred.

Most zoos today, especially those in the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), an international organization, whose members are leading zoos and aquariums, provide spacious and natural space for their animals and worked hard to keep them mentally and physically stimulated. More importantly, modern zoos not only take much better care of the animals they keep, but also engage with the protection of animals in the wild.

As the human population increases, our impact on the environment has been deadly harmful to wildlife and wild spaces. Things like climate change and severe habitat destruction are causing species to go extinct at unnatural rates. Some scientists estimate we are currently experiencing the sixth mass extinction(灭绝) in the history of life on earth. As a consoling(令人安慰的) part our of all griefs, many zoos serve as important safe-holds for endangered species populations, and in cases like that of the California Condor, captive breeding programs in AZA, which kept animals in zoos, proved to be important in bringing species back from extinction. Besides, AZA, including many zoos, also fund over 2.500 conservation projects,donating 160 million dollars every year to protecting species in the wild.

The conservation impact that zoos have goes even further than direct conservation action and financial support for fieldwork. In a time when people spend less and less time outdoors, zoos serve as a place to teach children and remind adults that wildlife and wild spaces still exist, and that our society holds the future of these species survival in our hands.

_______________________________________________. While I am only 18, I have spent the last six years volunteering with wildlife conservation organizations.As a volunteer at the Santa Barbara Zoo, I stood outside of the Amur Leopard exhibit and educated guests about these critically endangered big cats,I saw the way that live animals can spark peoples' curiosity and inspire them to love and protect nature. Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to attend the AZA's Legislative Conference in Washington DC, where I got the opportunity to see how zoos support conservation efforts in the wild. Cheetah Conservation Fund in Namibia is an organization dedicated(致力于）to saving the cheetah in the wild, but it relies heavily on support from zoos. Many zoos donate large amounts of money to CCF, but they also contribute to CCF's mission by connecting people across the United States with cheetahs, and the issues they face in the wild.

Zoos can be controversial institutions; however, both opponents of traditional zoo and those who support modem zoos have more in common than one might think. Both groups are extremely motivated because they are so deeply about animals, their welfare, and their long-term survival on our planet. I encourage you to consider both sides of this issue and learn more about all of the conservation work zoos do, and the world-class care animals in AZA receive before determining where you stand on this issue.

38. Images like small cages are mentioned in paragraph 1to explain ______.

A. why there must be an evolution of zoos

B. how much people misunderstand the zoos

C. why some people are against traditional zoos

D. how well the modern zoos are treating animals

39. According to Paragraph 3, what do captive breeding programs do?

A.They are conservation projects donating to AZA.

B.They protect the wild habitat of endangered animals.

C.They keep endangered animals to save them from extinction.

D.They set up missions of animal protection for AZA every year.

40. Which sentence serves best as the topic sentence of Paragraph 5?

A. However,there is still much that zoos should have done.

B. I have gotten to see many of the positive aspects of zoos up close.

C. Yet what I have personally experienced might explain why zoos have caused so much disagreement.

D. The misunderstanding of zoos, unfortunately, is still widespread, and some people are blind to the contributions zoos have made.

41. What is TRUE according to the article?

A. Zoos in Namibia heavily reply on the Cheetah Conservation Fund.

B. Traditional zoos only paid attention to conservation but no education.

C. Modern zoos bear responsibility for the animals they keep and those in the wild.

D. With the increase of human population,a huge species extinction in history is on the way.

42. Which could be the best title for the article?

A. Traditional Zoos:Harmful to Wildlife

B. AZA:A Consoling Part out of All Griefs

C. Evolution of Zoos:More Changes in Need

D. Modern Zoos:Dedicated to Saving the Wildlife

D

Art, as we know, is subjective. What one person considers a priceless masterpiece others might see as nothing more than a giant black square. But there’s one very specific kind of painting that almost everyone sees the same way ---- the kind with the “strange” eyes that seem to follow you around the room. So what causes this optical illusion (视觉错觉) and how do artists achieve this effect?

It turns out, for even a moderately skilled artist, this effect isn't a difficult thing to achieve. In fact, the artists need to use a little illusion of depth, making the person depicted on the canvas appears somewhat 3D on a 2D canvas, and to adjust the gaze(凝视) of he eyes so that they would be looking at someone standing right in front of the picture.

So whet exactly is going on here in our brains that then makes it seem like the eyes follow you even if you move away from being front and center? As demonstrated by a team of researchers from Ohio State University, as you move to the side, the “near” and “far” points of the 2D image don't really change. These near and far points are defined as visible points that, if the image was 3D, would appear nearest and furthest away from the viewer at a given angle.

The idea is simple. No mater what angle you look at a painting from, the painting itself doesn't change. You're looking at a flat surface. The key is that the near points and far points of the picture remained the same no mater the angle the picture was viewed from. When observing real surfaces in the natural environment the near and far points vary when we change viewing direction. When we observe a picture on the wall, the visual information that defines near and far points is unaffected by viewing direction. Still, we willingly accept and interpret the thing in the painting as if it were a real object.

Thus, because the perspective, shadows, and light on the painting don't change as you move around, if the eyes in the painting would be staring directly at the observer who is standing in front of the painting, it creates something of an optical illusion in your brain so that the eyes will continue to seem to stare at you as you move to the side.

In contrast to the eyes following you trick, if the artist tweaks the painting a bit, for example the artist adjusts the gaze of the eyes so that the eyes are looking off somewhere else instead of directly looking at a potential observer, no matter where you stand, the eyes will never seem to be looking at you.

The technique first began popularly showing up in art around the I4th century when the artist and architect Fillipo Brunelleshi introduced the art world to the idea of “linear perspective”, being painting with the idea of everything in the picture converging(聚集) on a specific point on the horizon, creating the illusion of depth. Linear perspective, combined with skilled use of light and shadow, allows artists Io create masterfully realistic paintings, including some of people that stare at you creepily no mater where you stand.

43. What's the writer's purpose of writing Paragraph 1?

A. To lead in the question why staring eyes seem to follow us in a painting.

B. To make a comparison between a priceless masterpiece and a black square,

C. To introduce the topic that he optical illusion can make the painting look real.

D. To prove that people can think alike when they admire a certain kind of painting.

44. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The visible points of the image won't change in the natural environment.

B. The near and far points of a painting are affected by our viewing direction.

C. The viewing direction of viewers can make the image in the paining look real.

D. The optical illusion inn our brain makes us feel the eyes in the painting staring at us.

45. The 3rd paragraph is mainly about ______.

A. who took part in the research.

B. how long the research lasted.

C. what was found in the research.

D. how the research was performed.

46. What's the meaning of the underlined word “week” in the passage?

A.change B.decorate C.move D.turn

四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）

Most of us probably dreamed about becoming an astronaut when we were little. But how many of us have actually become one, or are at least working toward it? It's true that the advice “Always follow your dreams” is something that is typically easier said than done.

But still, this is the one piece of advice that Alyssa Carson wants to share with her peers. This 17-year-old girl from the US has become one of the candidates(候选人) for NASA's 2033 project to go to Mars.If everything goes well,Carson will be one of the first human beings to ever set foot on the red planet.

Carson began to dream of going to Mars when she was only three years old. After watching an astronaut-themed cartoon and hearing from her father that humans had only been to the moon but not Mars,Carson decided that she wanted to be the first one to do so.

To realize her dream, she has worked hard toward it. At the age of 12, Carson became the first person to attend all three NASA space camps,and she sat with real astronauts to discuss the future of Mars missions.Now 17,Carson is continuing with her space training while still taking on her high school work like a "normal”teenager, except that she studies all her subjects in four languages-English, French, Spanish and Chinese.

“I don't think there's anything specific that makes it easier for me or makes it something that others can't do,” Carson said in an interview. “I've just really focused myself on what I want to accomplish."

Besides, Carson is willing to make sacrifices(牺牲) for her dream. She's fully aware of the danger of the mission and the possibility that she might never be able to come back. She also accepts the fact that she can't get married and start a family because any loved ones left on Earth may be a distraction for her and for the mission. But Carson believes that it's all worth it, summarizing her view with this ancient Greek proverb she once quoted, “A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they’ll never sit in.”

While some people's dreams may sound out of this world, Carson is on her way.

47. Where is Carson from?

______________________________________________________________

48. When did Carson begin to dream of going to Mars?

______________________________________________________________

49. What languages is Carson learning?

______________________________________________________________

50. Why can't Carson get married and start a family?

______________________________________________________________

51. What does Carson do to follow her dream?

______________________________________________________________

第三部分书面表达（共10分）

五、文段表达（10分）

52.从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。文中已给出的内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的班名和姓名。

题目①

假如你是李华，你在美国的交换学习即将结束。请用英语给你的美国老师Mr，Smith 写一封邮件，告诉他你离开美国的时间，并谈谈一个月以来他对你的帮助，最后简要表达对他的感谢和其他想要说的话。

提示词语：help...with...，keep in touch with

提示问题：● When are you going to leave?

● What did he do to help you?

● What else do you want to say to him?

Dear Mn Smith

I'm writing to tell you that ______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________ Yours, Li Hua

题目②

某英文网站正在开展以“Friendship”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈初中阶段你最珍视的一段友谊，主要内容包括：你最好的朋友是谁，他/她的外貌特征，你们是如何成为好朋友的，以及你为什么珍视你们之间的友谊。

提示词语：tall，in trouble，help，encourage，together，happy

提示问题：● Who is your best friend?

● What does he/she look like?

● How did you become best friends?

● Why do you treasure the friendship between you?

As teenagers,I believe that everyone needs friends. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________