《2025年全品学练考九年级英语上册外研版》

Ⅴ. 用方框中所给单词的适当形式完成短文(主题: 人与社会·科技发明)
electric, store, quick, develop, connect, prefer, replace, main, through, provide
Thanks to the development of science and technology in the past few years, people now can read news on the Internet 21. ____. Some people 22. ____ to get worldwide news on mobile phones and computers rather than hold a newspaper to read. So, does it mean it is the age of information technology and newspapers will be 23. ____ in the future?
On the one hand, many people believe that newspapers will not be popular. Online news changes in a minute but newspapers can’t. So, by taking advantage of technology, people can 24. ____ themselves with the world in several minutes. What’s more, many people prefer to read 25. ____ news because they think it is not only fast, but also convenient. Besides, using more paper means cutting down more trees. A much larger amount of information can 26. ____ on the Internet. In a way, reading online news can both protect trees and save paper.
On the other hand, some people believe that newspapers will still be a 27. ____ source(来源) of news in the future. Firstly, not everyone likes to read online news since some people think it is bad for eyes. Secondly, not all countries can offer services on the Internet. The online services aren’t 28. ____ in some developing or poor countries. So, people there may still look 29. ____ newspapers.
In short, although it is true that electronic news has 30. ____ quickly in the past years, newspapers still play a certain role in our modern life.

答案： 21. quickly 22. prefer 23. replaced 24. connect 25. electronic 26. be stored 27. main 28. provided 29. through 30. developed

词汇积累
1. stuck /stʌk/ adj. ____
2. leak /li:k/ n. ____
3. engine /'endʒɪn/ n. ____

答案： 1. 困住 2. 泄漏 3. 发动机