1、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.JiugeThe AI can remember 300,000 Chinese poems clearly. Whats 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.ForpheusT
2、he ping-pong robot can play in an easy way with a beginner and a difficult way with a better player. Whats more, it not only encourages players with words like Good job! but also gives some good advice to improve their skills.Self-driving AIIt can drive the car more safely than humans. It doesnt dri
3、nk 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 asACS. ACS wont let a stranger in without the house owne
4、rs 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 specialA.Because it can drive cars safely.B.Because it can play the violin.C.Because it was on CCTV.D.Because its good at poems. （2）What will Fo
5、rpheus do while playingA.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 sideA.When th
6、e 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 passageA.Facial Recognition helped the police catch a criminal.B.No one can beat Forpheu
7、s.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 oclock in the morning. Working all night became his living habit. Whos Elias Howe You may never hear of him. He was born in America. The sewing（缝纫）machine was invented
8、 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 couldnt get the thread（线）to run around the needle（针）. Inventing sewing machine was hisdream. So he did not
9、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
10、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 o
11、f 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 oclock a.m.A.Because he had sleeping problems.B.Because he got used to working at ni
12、ght.C.Because of the noise of the machine.D.Because he liked to play at night. （2）What can we know from the second paragraphA.Elias wanted to invent the sewing machine to make money.B.Eliass parents lived on sewing.C.Elias had difficulty in inventing the sewing machine.D.People preferred to do sewin
13、g by hand over 100 years ago. （3）What does the underlined word something meanA.Dream.B.Spear.C.Problem.D.Hole. （4）What happened in Howes dream at lastA.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 passageA.Working at nigh
14、t 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 Howes 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
15、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 tofind aliens, they have worked hard for over half a centur
16、y, 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
