1、1九年级上期期末九年级上期期末 英语试卷英语试卷1-70题提交问卷星题提交问卷星补全与作文提交纸质答题卡补全与作文提交纸质答题卡一、听力理解。一、听力理解。第一节听下面 5 段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳答案。()1.What does the woman want the man to do?A.To clean the table legs.B.To put the table together.C.To find the instruction book.()2.Which blouse does the woman want to try o
2、n?A.The purple one.B.The one made of silk.C.The one with some oranges on it.()3.What is next to the nearest bank?A.A museum.B.A library.C.A parking lot.()4.When does the class finish in the afternoon?A.At 3:00 p.m.B.At 4:00 p.m.C.At 5:00 p.m.()5.What does the man advise the woman to do first?A.Copy
3、his notes.B.Go over the lessons.C.Borrow a textbook.第二节听下面几段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的 A、B、C 三个选项中选出最佳答案。听对话，回答问题。()6.What is Molly doing on the computer?A.Booking a train ticket.B.Playing computer games.C.Doing her homework.()7.Who is going to London by train?A.Tim.B.Tims father.C.Tims mother.听对话，回
4、答问题。()8.How long does Holly usually work every day?A.For about three hours.B.For about six hours.C.For about seven hours.()9.What does Holly think of her job?A.She likes it.B.She doesnt mind it.C.She cant stand it.听独白，回答问题。()10.What is the speaker going to do next Thursday?A.Do some volunteer work.B
5、.Have a picnic.C.Take part in a meeting.()11.What subject does Professor Ruby probably teach?A.Art.B.P.E.C.Geography.()12.What day is it today probably?A.Monday.B.Wednesday.C.Friday.听对话，回答问题。()13.How long will the woman stay in Bath?A.For a week.B.For six weeks.C.For two months.()14.What is the woma
6、n going to do in Bath?A.Take part in a performance.B.Take classes.C.Work at the nursing house.()15.Who is the man going to Bristol with?A.His friend.B.His family.C.His boss.16.听下面一篇短文。按照你所听内容的先后顺序将下列图片排序。A.B.C.D.E.16._ 17._ 18._ 19._ 20._2二、阅读理解（二、阅读理解（20 小题，每小题小题，每小题 2 分，共分，共 40 分）分）AThe Adopt-A-Hi
7、ghway plan began right here in Texas almost 35 years ago.Since then,its grown intoa nationally and internationally litter-clearing job.Today,such programs work in all 50 states.In New YorkState alone,5,000 miles of roads are kept litter-free in this way.Our program now has almost 3,700 member groups
8、 across the state here,and we truly thank thosethousands of people who spend their own time actively making a difference and keeping Texas beautiful.#1_Its our volunteers who keep this Texas-born program going strong,and your help is needed now morethan ever:You adopt a two-mile highway for at least
9、 two years.You agree to pick up litter four times per year(more in some areas because of heavy traffic).Adopt-A-Highway signs will be put up with your groups name at the roadside in your adopted area,which makes it different and meaningful for you.#2_Families,businesses,groups,schools.everyone shoul
10、d take pride in our beautiful state andAdopt-A-Highway.#3_The growing population means more cars and rubbish on our roadways.90%of the litter on Texas highways is cleaned by paid workers,so volunteers can help cut downlitter clean-up costs.Its a free,easy way for groups to help beautify the environm
11、ent.#4_Adopting groups must sign a program agreement.Group leaders must hold safety meetings with group members before each pickup.All must wear theprovided orange vests during work.You need to be at least 8 years old to take part in.Those who areunder18 can only work with grown-ups present.Join Us!
12、3Food，cans,newspapers,bags and even clothes are left behind by many careless peoples along ourstates roadways.Once youve picked up roadside litter,you are unlikely to drop any there yourselfAny interest visit or call(800)200-0003.根据材料内容选择最佳答案()21.How many member groups does the program have in Texas
13、?A.About 3,700.B.About 50C.About 5.000.D.About 35.()22.Who cant adopt a highway?A.A high school teacher.B.A seven-year-old child.C.A seventeen-year-old teenager.D.Careless drivers who litter on the highway()23.What is the proper title for#1,#2,#3 and#4 separately?a.Who Should Adopt?b.Why Adopt?c.Saf
14、ety First.d.What to Do?A.a-d-b-cB.d-a-b-cC.d-a-c-bD.c-a-b-d()24.What makes the program special?A.Adopting groups must sign a program agreement.B.Adopting a two-mile highway for at least two years.C.You need to be at least 8 years old to take part in.D.Your groups name will be put up in your adopted
15、area.()25.Where is the text most probably from?A.A government website.B.A school poster.C.A science report.D.A travel magazine.Word Bank:adopt领养highway公路Texas德州vest背心4BA few weeks before Thanksgiving one year,my husband and I decided to invite a guest over for theholiday.I called the old peoples hom
16、e and they suggested Bella,a woman I thought would be very gentle,but I was wrong.Bell was a stubborn 78-year-old lady,and she enjoyed gambling.On Thanksgiving,within minutes of arriving,Bella dropped her large purse on the kitchen tableheavily and,with a wide smile,drank down the glass of wine I of
17、fered.By the end of the evening,thisstrange old lady became our friend.Two weeks later,I invited her to lunch.Day by day,she became more like a grandma.“Get a child!Youre not getting any younger!”shealways shouted at me.Soon I became her personal driver too.The more I helped,the more she asked of me
18、.But when I asked her only child Ralph to help,he refused.A few months later,I helped Bella find a caregiver because she was too old to live alone,yet she wasstill the same stubborn lady.Once,I threw away the old table in her house which got her fall over.She wasso angry that she didnt talk to me fo
19、r a whole week!But at the end of that week,her caregiver called,saying she died of a sudden heart attack.I cried my heart out when I arrived at the hospital,but it was toolate.However,what was completely unexpected was that Bella left all her money to me-$50,000!I knew Icouldnt spend the money on my
20、self,so I gave it away to local kids with a reading program.Bella wasnt asoft-spoken old lady to many people.Yet the gamble I d taken years ago when I called the old peopleshome and met Bella had made my life richer.I took a chance on humanity,and Bellas friendship was thejackpot.()26.What decision
21、did the writer and her husband make before Thanksgiving?A.To visit the old peoples home.B.To invite a guest over for the holiday.C.To make a meal for the homeless.D.To give away money to old peoples home.()27.Who might Bella value the most in the last days of her life?A.The writer.B.Her son.C.The ca
22、regiver.D.Local kids.()28.Why didnt the writer spend the money on herself?A.Because the money was too much for her.B.Because Bellas son didnt allow her to do so.C.Because she helped Bella without expecting any money.D.Because Bella told her to give the money away.()29.What did the writer mean by say
23、ing she took a gamble years ago?A.She joined Bella in gambling for the holiday.B.Taking care of old people would cost much money.C.Many people didnt like Bella because she talks too much.D.She didnt know what would happen after bringing Bella to her life.()30.What is the writer mainly trying to tell
24、 us in the story?A.Learn to accept people for who they are.B.No one has ever become poor by giving.C.The elderly people are those who need love most.D.A true friend is someone who loves you for who you are.Word Bank:stubborn执拗的gamble赌博，冒险humanity人性jackpot头奖5CEverybodys house smells in some way.There
25、 are the smells of bread that is no longer fresh,or those ofthe flowers which are dying.You almost never notice the way your own place smells.You notice the way everyone elses placesmells as soon as you walk in.There are their pets like the cats and the dogs,the new furniture like the sofaand the be
26、d they just got.And those all add up to the way their house smells.You can only smell your own house after youve been away for a long while.Not just a workday,but aweek.It has to do with sensory adaptation(感觉适应).That s the scientific way to say that you just get usedto it.And its clearer for our sen
27、se of smell than for any other sense,like our hearing.Researcher Pamela Dalton at the Monell Chemical Senses Center has done lots of work on sensoryadaptation.She and her team say that adaptation means you respond(作出反应)less when a stimulus(刺激物)is repeated.So when youre at home,the smell of your hous
28、e is all around you.It never goes away.ltsnot just repeated-youre swimming in it.So you become adapted to the way it smells.You adapt to smellsreally quickly.After even a few breaths of a smell,Dalton says,you begin to acclimate to it.You start torespond to that smell less strongly and finally dont
29、notice it at all.Thats why you can smell your friendshouse when you walk in,but you dont really notice it when youre there all the time.Its important to discover smells.It might warn you of danger,like something bad in your drinks,or itmight show something pleasant,like the fresh bread.Your nose can
30、 look for new smells that are dangerousor delicious.If you want to change the way your house smells,many things might work,like candles,fresh fruit andso on.()31.Which may not be the reason for your houses smell?A.B.C.D.()32.What is Pamela Daltons idea?A.When a stimulus is repeated,people respond mo
31、re.B.When youre at home,the smell of your house never goes away.C.There is nothing we can do to change the way our house smellsD.Smells can warn people of danger but cant show anything pleasant.()33.Which paragraph provides an explanation about sensory adaptation?A.Paragraph 1.B.Paragraph 2.C.Paragr
32、aph 4.D.Paragraph 5.()34.What does the underlined phrase acclimate to mean in Chinese?A.适应B.重视C.否认D.依赖()35.What does the text mainly tell us?A.How we can smell better.B.How we discover new smells.C.Why we cant smell our own houseD.How we can make our house smell better.6DThe late president of South
33、Africa,Nelson Mandela,once said,“If you talk to a man in a language heunderstands,that goes to his head.36_”Mandela understood that our mother language is a very intimate thing to us.For people who speak anancient language as their mother language,it helps them keep their traditions.37_And it is als
34、ohow they imagine the future.So its a serious thing that a language disappears.Over the last century,more than 400 languages havedied out.Some languages are now spoken only by a few dozen people,like Yagan in Chile.38_Why are humans speaking fewer languages than we once did?The answer has to do with
35、 globalization.Now,its more useful to speak certain languages-English is one example rather than others.39_But some people arent prepared to accept a planet with fewer and fewer languages.The UnitedNations has set Feb.21 as International Mother Language Day.40_This work is very important.As the US w
36、riter Rita Mae Brown wrote,“Language is the road map of aculture.It tells you where its people come from and where they are going.”Word Bank:intimate亲密的link联系globalization全球化A:Their language is their main link with their ancestors.B:If you talk to him in his language,that goes to his heart.C:This ha
37、s killed some languages spoken by fewer or less influential people.D:Africa and South America are also places where many languages are dying.E:The organization wants people to pay more attention to dying languages.7三、完形填空（三、完形填空（15 小题，每小题小题，每小题 1 分，共分，共 15 分）分）先通读短文先通读短文，掌握其大意掌握其大意，然后从然后从 A、B、C、D 四个
38、选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。After dinner,the children turned to Jacob and asked if he would tell them a story.“A story 41_ what?”asked Jacob.“About a giant,”squealed the children.Jacob smiled,satagainst the warm stones at the side of the fireplace,and his voice turned 42_.“Once ther
39、e was a boy who asked his father to take 43_ to see the great parade that passedthrough the village.The father,remembering the parade from when he was a boy,quickly agreed.The nextmorning,the boy and his father 44_ together.“As they got close to the parade line,people started to push in from all sid
40、es,and the 45_grew thick.When the people along the way became almost a wall,the father lifted his son and 46_him on his shoulders.“Soon the parade began and as it 47_,the boy kept telling his father how wonderful it was.The boy,in fact,grew so proud of what he saw that he laughed at those who saw 48
41、_.And evensaid to his father,“If you could see what I see.”“But,”said Jacob looking straight at the faces of the children,“what the boy did not look at was whyhe 49_ see.What the boy forgot was that once his father,too,could see.”Then as if he had finished the story,Jacob stopped 50_.“Is that it?”sa
42、id a 51_ girl.“We thought you were going to tell us a story about a giant.”“But I 52_,”said Jacob.“I told you a story about a boy53_ could have been agiant.”“How?”squealed the children.“A giant,”said Jacob,“is anyone who 54_ we are all sitting on someone elses shoulders.”“And what does it make us 55
43、_ we dont remember?”asked a boy.“A burden,”answered Jacob.()41AforBfromCaboutDwith()42AsoftBrudeCsharpDsurprised()43AusBhimCthemDhimself()44Aput outB.looked outC.set outD.sent out()45AcrowdB.peopleC.paradeD.village()46AsearchedB.threwC.missedD.placed()47AmatteredB.passedC.finishedD.touched()48Aclose
44、dBhigherC.moreDless()49AmustBshouldC.couldDwould()50AlisteningB.cryingC.speakingD.breathing()51A.happyB.nervousC.excitedD.disappointed()52A.didB.forgetC.shockedD.joked()53A.whereB.whoC.whichD.when()54A.advisesB.forgetsC.remembersD.supposes()55A.ifB.afterC.untilD.unlessWord Bank:squeal高声嚷着说giant巨人par
45、ade游行burden负担8四、词语运用（四、词语运用（15 小题，每小题小题，每小题 1 分，共分，共 15 分分）第一节第一节阅读短文阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺使短文通顺、意思完整意思完整。每空限填一词每空限填一词，每词限用一次。每词限用一次。How many times have we said to ourselves,“Oh,Ill do that tomorrow.”Sometimes tomorrow nevercomes and we find ourselves 56_,“Oh,I wish I hadn
46、t t put that off.”Our family was 57_with Betty for many years.Over the years,we shared phone calls,birthday cards,and much more.Every year,Betty sent our 58_ son Brandon a birthday cardwith five dollars in it.She did this until he graduated from high school.Brandon sometimes offered help.But Betty a
47、lways said she could look after 59._.One year,not long after her birthday,I called to see how she was and ask her 60._she didanything special for her birthday.I was surprised when Betty didnt answer the phone.61_,herdaughter Carol did.Carol told me that her mom was ill and had 62_downhill fast.She w
48、as inhospice care（临终关怀）.Carol gave the phone to Betty.I talked to her and let her 63_ that weloved her.As soon as I got off the phone,I sent a text to Brandon,“Betty isnt doing 64_.”Brandonstopped what he was doing and sent flowers to Betty.You can imagine how proud I was 65_Brandon when Carol calle
49、d the next day.She told me that Betty loved the flowers very much.Just a fewdays later,Betty died.Its never“too soon”to be kind to others.You never know when it might be“too late”instead.第二节第二节阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词Dear Aunt Grace and Uncle John,I am just writ
50、ing to tell you that I arrived home safely.I got 66_ tired on the train that Inearly fell asleep and missed my station！Thank you so much for inviting me 67_ come and stay.I loved helping on the farm.Perhaps Imay work on one when I get older.You were kind to me when I was there.I enjoyed every minute
