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浙江省杭州市下城区2017届九年级上学期英语期中考试试卷(含听力音频)

阅读下面材料, 从每题所给的A, B, C, D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

    A major development to self-driving cars may change the way we will drive in the future. Google, the leading company in self-driving technology, has changed its develop plan. It had driverless cars built by car factories, but now it will start building its own cars.

    Google has started to build some kinds of experimental electric self- driving cars that look like a Smart car or Fiat 500. There is no steering wheel(方向盘), gas pedal or brake. The only things a human passenger controls are a red "e-stop" button (按钮) for fear stops and a start button. The car's only "friendly" face is designed to make it help people accept self-driving technology.

Google workers took part in a long experiment, in which they used self-driving cars for their usual travel to work. No accident happened, but Google's heads realized that depending on a human passenger to drive in an emergency(紧急情况) wouldn't work because they may be reading, working , or sleeping. Now the self-driving car drives by itself if the driver takes his hands off the wheel for over ten seconds.

Google recently announced that its cars had covered 700,000 miles of public roads, and they were now running in busy city streets. People who love self-driving cars say this will improve transport by making roads safer, cutting down accident, and making less pollution.

    Of course, there's no need to look for parking at a crowded shopping mall. Instead, users could let their self-driving cars drop them off to park itself. A mother who took a test ride said that having the car would allow her more time to catch up with her son. The cars could also allow people who might not be able to drive to enjoy the hand-free driving. And drunk driving? Not a problem. It is very likely that by 2020, driverless cars will be common. Do you believe so?

 

(1)、What is Google's plan about driverless cars?
A、It will have driverless cars built by car factories. B、It will give up its plan to make driverless cars. C、It will start building its own driverless cars. D、It will help other companies to make cars.
(2)、The second paragraph mainly describes about ____________.
A、Google self-driving cars B、Smart car or Fiat 500 C、a red "e-stop" button D、gas pedal or brake
(3)、What advantage of self-driving cars is not mentioned?
A、They can start the engine by itself and make people's hands completely free. B、They can help to solve air pollution and reduce car accident. C、They can park by themselves and make mothers look after young kids easily. D、They can help those disabled people to enjoy the driving. 
(4)、We can guess from the last paragraph that ______________.
A、self-driving cars are too expensive      B、there will be fewer self-driving cars C、there will be more self-driving cars       D、the government will stop Google's plan
举一反三
 阅读短文, 从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

 Wu Jingxun, 46, is from Foshan, Guangdong Province. About 15 years ago, when he came to volunteer at a village primary school in Sichuan Province for the first time, he found the kids there didn't have enough books to read. He also found that there weren't any books at the students' homes.

 After that, Wu and his friends at Friends Camp, a volunteer organization (组织), bought many books for the primary school.

 One year later, in 2007, when they visited the school again, they found that children in the village did not know how to read. Even though you put great books in front of them, they just looked through the picture books. They didn't learn from the books. This made Wu and his friends think how to teach children to read.

 In some good primary schools, grade-three students can finish reading 15 books a year and, sometimes even more. But, in poor villages, grade-six students only know about 1,800 Chinese characters(汉字).

Now Wu focuses on(专注) picture books and science as he volunteers to teach children how to read. "If they can take up reading as a good habit, they can benefit (受益) more. They can read in their free time but not just play games or use Douyin on their phones," Wu said.

 阅读短文,回答问题

The Sahara Desert in Northern Africa is the largest hot desert in the world. It is about 1,800km from the north to the south and about 4,800 km from the east to the west. Temperatures can reach 58℃ in the daytime and can fall to ﹣6℃ at night. More than 8,000 years ago,the Sahara was a rich land where farmers grew food and plants grew well. As the rainfall in the area gradually went down every year,it became a huge desert. Most areas of this desert have less than 13 cm of rain every year. 

Gary Smith and a few of his brave friends decided to hike across the Sahara. Supporters in cars,who carried food and water for the group,stayed with them together. 

One day,Smith walked alone and then he couldn't find the rest of the group. Even worse,he could not find out which direction to go. Then a sandstorm covered the area. When the storm was over,Smith was even more worried. In the heat that he couldn't stand,he quickly finished his water. He had to spend that night out in the open,and he almost felt he couldn't survive (生存). 

The next day,he walked on. After the second night,he started to worry about dying. He realized that his friends might not find him in time. It was late on the third day that Smith lost his sense and fell over. 

When Smith awoke,he was in the car with his friends. He had been found by a group of Bedouin who were traveling in a truck. In such a large desert with the weather conditions, this made it possible for him to survive. Then Bedouin returned to his group of friends. Smith was so lucky. 

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