《2025年习题e百课时训练九年级英语全一册人教版》

五、语法填空
Hundreds of years ago, the moon was a mystery to people on the earth. And in many ancient Chinese poems, it was used 1. to express (express) people's feelings of homesickness (思乡). What was the ball that looked white and came out at night? Why didn't it fall from the sky? Through the centuries, people have tried 2. their (they) best to think about the answers.
To the native (出生地的) people of Bolivia, in South America, the moon was a great ruler who once lived on the earth. However, the Abaluyian people of Kenya, in Africa, believed the moon and the sun were brothers who 3. fought (fight) in the sky. In other parts of the world, people believed they saw 4. different (difference) pictures in the moon. The Haida Indians of Canada saw a woman carrying a bucket (圆桶), 5. but the Chinese saw a road.
People in the past also used the moon to mark time as a kind of calendar. 6. Actually (actual), in some languages, the word for moon meant "month". A Native American nation called the Sioux made a calendar of 13 moons, or months.
Almost 400 years ago, an Italian scientist named Galileo made a new telescope (望远镜) 7. for the purpose of looking at the moon. After spending 8. a long period of time watching, he discovered it was not a smooth or shiny ball. The brighter parts in the moon were mostly hills and 9. mountains (mountain). The flat (平坦的) areas were lower, which could explain why they appeared darker.
Since three American astronauts 10. landed (land) at the moon in 1969, we've known more about the close neighbor of the earth.

答案： 1. to express 2. their 3. fought 4. different 5. but 6. Actually 7. for 8. a 9. mountains 10. landed