【正文】 motor racing has a simple dream: to go faster!Learn to race in gocartsIn the early days, a small number of people raced each other driving 48 machines on ordinary roads. Today, motor racing is a huge money making 49 .Learn about cars and enginesCars race along twisting roads or on round tracks. Millions more people watch the events on 50 . Top drivers are celebrities and earn huge amounts of money.Learn race rulesThese drivers don’t 51 the top overnight. Everyone has to start somewhere. They must also be familiar with race rules and 52 to do in an emergency.Join classes for beginners such as Formula FordFerrari is the most successful builder of Formula 1 cars. Ferrari has had some famous Formula 1 champions as 53 , such as Michael Schumacher.Bee a Formula 1 driverMotor racing isn’t 54 . Racing teams need huge amounts of money to keep their cars on the racetrack. The bigger the logo, the 55 the pany will have to pay to the racing team.（共5小題，每小題2分，計10分）THE HISTORY OF LIVING IN SPACESpace travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human on board blasted into space In 1961. since then, people have not only been travelling to space, but many of them have also lived there for extended FoodAll the meals on space stations are put together on Earth and sent to the space station, along with the astronauts, by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be preserved by dehydration or canning.The space station does not have a freezer to preserve food, but It does have a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh.Astronauts also eat many other foods such as cereals, cereal bars, nuts and dried fruit that do not need any special preparation.EatingAstronauts have a set timetable each day. This tells them when to do everything, including when to have their meals. At meal preparation time, they start getting their food ready, which often includes adding water to rehydrate the dehydrated foods.Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tricky. Astronauts sometimes have to strap themselves and their food into place. Because of lack of gravity, astronauts cannot use ground salt and pepper, and all drinks must be taken from bottles. They also have to be careful that crumbs do not fly off and get stuck in vents and instrument panels.（選自《九年級下冊新理念英語閱讀》）56. What does the space station have to keep fruit and vegetables fresh? (Fewer than 7 words) _____________________________________________________ 57. How do people send the food to the space station ? _____________________________________________________58. What tells astronauts when to do everything about eating? _____________________________________________________ 59. Astronauts can use ground salt and pepper, can’t they? _____________________________________________________60. Why should astronauts be extremely careful while they’re eating ? _____________________________________________________四、詞匯（共20小題，每小題1分，計20分）A. 根據(jù)句意，用所給單詞的適當(dāng)形式填空。20162017學(xué)年度九年級第二次調(diào)研考試英 語 試 題第I卷（選擇題，共60分）一、單項選擇（共15小題，每小題1分，計15分）( ) 1. —How was _________ outerspace fashion show delivered by the Fairies?—It was great! Everybody enjoyed it.A. a B. an C. the D. /( ) 2. We all know that learning a foreign language ________ time and A. requires B. reduces C. removes D. respects( ) 3. They all said that the man caused the accident, but he ________ he had nothing to do with it.A. advised B. insisted C. supposed D. doubted( ) 4. —____________ is it from your home to the city centre?— Less than 20 minutes by underground.A. How soon B. How often C. How long D. How far( ) 5. None of us talked. We finished our meal in A. silence B. order C. place D. public( ) 6. —May I go birdwatching with my classmates in the Nature Reserve?—No. You _________ until you have finished the report.A. needn’t B. mustn’t C. won’t D. shouldn’t( ) 7. —He’s never been l