课后练习17 九年级 Units 56一、完形填空（30分）（2018宁波市北仑区模拟）I am a poet. People often ask me how I started writing poems. Here is my 1 .That year I was thirteen years old. Back then, although I loved reading 2 , I hadnt tried writing one myself. One day, I 3 that the President was coming to my city. My parents often 4 the President at home. And I learned he had brought many great changes to the country, so I 5 to write a poem to praise the President for what he had done.After finishing the poem, I gave it to my 6 , who loved it and said it was good. Then I said to him, “I want to read the poem to the President.” Hearing that, my father laughed and said it was 7 for a child to meet the President. But I didnt give up.That day when the President came to my city, I went to the City Hall. An official saw 8 and asked what I wanted to do. I said I wanted to read a poem 9 by myself to the President. The official was 10 . I gave him my poem and he read it. He liked the poem. He then made a phone call and said a 11 wanted to read a poem to the President. 12 hanging up the phone, he added, “Its a good poem.”I was then taken to where the President was. The President 13 at me and asked me to read the poem to him. After I read the poem, the President gave a 14 to the public. To my surprise, he began it with my poem. I was 15 encouraged and decided to become a poet one day.（ ）1. A. storyB. adviceC. ideaD. dream（ ）2. A. suggestionsB. booksC. reportsD. poems（ ）3. A. promisedB. heardC. guessedD. explained（ ）4. A. thought ofB. cared aboutC. talked aboutD. looked for（ ）5. A. allowedB. decidedC. stoppedD. refused（ ）6. A. grandpaB. brotherC. friendD. father（ ）7. A. believableB. impossibleC. impoliteD. harmful（ ）8. A. himB. themC. meD. us（ ）9. A. writtenB. recalledC. collectedD. remembered（ ）10. A. tiredB. calmC. interestedD. angry（ ）11. A. memberB. teacherC. poetD. child（ ）12. A. BeforeB. WhenC. AfterD. Once（ ）13. A. lookedB. shoutedC. pointedD. smiled（ ）14. A. changeB. callC. speechD. gift（ ）15. A. slowlyB. greatlyC. graduallyD. hardly二、阅读理解（18分）（2018杭州市西湖区模拟）Internet BoomToday the Internet is wi-dely used in homes, schools, and businesses around the world. However, that hasnt always been the case. The In-ternet was first developed in the 1960s and 1970s by U.S. government scientists as a way of sharing information. The earliest Internet was called ARPAnet. In 1969, only four computers were connected to ARPAnet. Just 20 years later, though, as computers became more commonly developed, over 80,000 computers were connected.Use of the Internet has continued to grow rapidly. Experts think that about 1% of the worlds population used the Internet in 1996. By 2008, that percentage grew to nearly 24%.How do scientists count more than 1 billion users? Programs called Web Crawlers look through the Internet to see how many people are using the Internet and which pages they are visiting. They also make copies of webpages, which are stored by search engines. Web Crawlers work and collect information once they are started. These programs are sometimes called “spiders” because they “crawl” around the web.These programs collect and send information 24 hours a day. So if everyone stops using the Internet for one day, the Internet will still be a pretty busy place. Even when people are not online, these programs travel the Internet.（ ）1. The information in the first paragraph shows the idea that the Internet_ .A. is available mainly in the United StatesB. has a wider use today than it did in the pastC. is seldom used by people in other countriesD. is used mainly by government scientists today（ ）2. From the third paragraph, we can know that scientists use Web Crawlers to_ .A. clean the webB. catch the spidersC. find the InternetD. count the users（ ）3. According to the chart, which one of the statements is TRUE?A. There were much fewer people who used the Internet in 2000.B. There were more than 500 million Internet users in 2000.C. The number of the Internet users became less from 2000 to 2008.D. Use of the Internet grows slowly between 2000 and 2005.（ ）4. The underlined word “Boom” in the title means “_”.A. a loud noiseB. a government jobC. a rapid increaseD. a computer program三、词汇运用（15分）A）用方框中所给词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。 balloon heat leaf French compete 1. When autumn comes, the_ on the trees begin to turn yellow and fall down.2. My young sister stopped crying when she saw the two_ in the sky.3._ is a romantic（浪漫的） country which is famous for its modern clothes and wine.4. Every_ must obey（遵守） the rules of the game.5. In cold winter, my mother_