《2025年同步测控优化设计九年级英语全一册人教版精编版》

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Men have always wondered about the earth they live on and the ①______ above them.
When early men looked at the night sky, they asked themselves a lot of questions. They looked at the moon, and wondered what this strange bright object in the sky was. They did not understand why it changed its shape from night to night. They looked at the stars and planets. They also wondered why some of them changed their positions, while others did not.
② 他们也思考地球的形状。Most early people believed the earth was flat.
③ In different parts of the world, there were different ideas about the universe. The ancient Greeks were the first people to study the universe more scientifically. In the sixth century BCE Pythagoras put forward the idea that the world was round. However, he could not explain why people at the bottom of the world did not fall off.
It was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that scientists found the answers to some important questions. ④ With the help of Galileo’s telescope, people could see the sky more clearly, and find the positions of the stars and planets. Finally in 1665, Isaac Newton explained to the world what gravity (重力) was and people at last understood why they did not fall off the earth.
46. 在文中①处填写一个单词,使得句意完整,上下文通顺。sky
47. 根据文章内容回答问题。
What questions did early men ask themselves when they looked at the night sky? Write down one of them.They asked what this strange bright object（the moon）in the sky was. /They asked why the strange object(the moon) changed its shape from night to night. /They asked why some of the stars and planets changed their positions，while others did not.
48. 将文中②句翻译成英语。They also thought about the shape of the earth.
49. 将文中③句翻译成汉语。世界的不同地方存在着对宇宙的不同想法。
50. 写出文中④句的同义句,每空限填一词。
Galileo’s telescope made it possible for people to see the sky more clearly, and to find the positions of the stars and planets.

答案： 46. sky 47. They asked what this strange bright object（the moon）in the sky was. /They asked why the strange object(the moon) changed its shape from night to night. /They asked why some of the stars and planets changed their positions，while others did not. 48. They also thought about the shape of the earth. 49. 世界的不同地方存在着对宇宙的不同想法。 50. it possible