1、上海市杨浦区2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末质量调研英语试题学校:_姓名：_班级：_考号：_一、单项选择1The soup is tasteless. Pass me _ salt over there, please!AaBanCtheD/2The team celebrated _ victory with a big party with the crazy fans.AtheyBthemCtheirDtheirs3The bus to the airport has just left. We have to wait half an hour for _.AanotherBot
2、herCthe otherDothers4After the long journey, there was _ energy left for exploring the city. Everyone just wanted to have a good rest.Aa fewBa littleCfewDlittle5Beverly is often too full to eat anything at mealtimes because she eats lots of snacks _ meals.AafterBbetweenCduringDfrom6Susan looked extr
3、emely _ in that yellow dress at the party last night.AbeautifullyBbadlyClovelyDwonderfully7Bob is _ of the boys in the family. He never does any housework. His brothers at least take out the rubbish sometimes.AlazyBlazierClaziestDthe laziest8You _ take an umbrella. The weather report says it might r
4、ain in the evening.AmustBhad betterCneedDmay9Aunt Gina has lived in this town for more than sixty years. Thats why she _ it very well.Awill knowBknewCknowsDis knowing10The sun _ brightly every day during our holiday in Milan last year.Ais shiningBshoneChas shoneDshines11It took me lots of time _ a b
5、ig meal for ten people and I was happy that everyone enjoyed it.AprepareBto prepareCpreparingDprepared12After hours of questioning, the suspect finally admitted _ the womans purse.AstealBto stealCstealingDstole13The film starts at two oclock, _ lets meet at the cinema at one forty-five.AsoBorCandDfo
6、r14Jimmy would not get up for breakfast, _ his dad had already tried to pull him from his bed several times.AalthoughBbecauseCifDuntil15Diana: _ does your brother attend violin classes?Peter: Three times a week.AHow longBHow muchCHow soonDHow often二、选词填空选择最恰当的选项填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次。Shadow Puppet Sho
7、wsAcharacterBmeansC meaningDtraditionsE. traditionalPeople in many cultures love theatre. One of the oldest and greatest storytelling 16 in the world can be seen in theatres in Indonesia. It is a kind of shadow puppet show (皮影戏) called Wayang Kulit. Wayang is a kind of leather and kulit 17 puppet.In
8、 a Wayang Kulit show, the stage and the equipment are quite simplenot like 18 theatres! There are puppets, musicians, a puppeteer and a screen made from a white sheet.Wayang Kulit puppets are flat and made of leather, and they come in big and small sizes. They have different eyes, noses and mouths,
9、so they all look very differentjust like people! Each puppet plays a different 19 in a story. Some characters are good and some are bad. Puppets, which are painted in bright colours, are sometimes used for daytime puppet shows.AnoiseBlastC voiceDfamousE. appearFor each show, there is only one puppet
10、eer. He moves the puppets, tells the story, and does the 20 for each puppet. Puppeteers are amazing because there are sometimes between 100 and 500 puppets for him to move in one show! This is a very special job and it is not easy. Good puppeteers are very 21 in Indonesia, and sometimes more than 6,
11、000 people come to see the show.In a Wayang Kulit show, the puppeteer sits behind a white screen. A lamp or light is shone onto the screen, so the puppets look like dark shadows. Each puppet has three sticks attached to it: one on the body and one on each arm. The puppeteer moves the puppet with the
12、se sticks. Usually, good characters 22 on the right side of the screen, and bad characters on the left side.One of the most amazing things about the Wayang Kulit, is that a show can 23 all night, even up to ten hours! The puppeteer and musicians are going to be tired after each show!三、用所给单词的正确形式填空24
13、Sam, do it I dont have time to help you today. (you)25David tried his best and got the place in the race at last. (five)26Several people made to congratulate the new couple at the wedding. (speech)27A family is a unit that helps build a whole society.(base) 28The final result was that the doctors we
14、re not able to the childs life. (safe)29Ive come to the that hes not the right person for the job. (conclude)30There is a wide of patterns (图样) for you to choose from. (various)31During the tourist season, the people in the hotel were from other countries. （main）四、句型转换32Angela has already sent her g
15、randmother a postcard. （改为否定句）Angela sent her grandmother a postcard .33The sunset is so beautiful over the ocean! (改为感叹句) beautiful sunset it is over the ocean!34The comic strip should be full of action to keep the readers interested. （就画线部分提问） the comic strip be full of action?35I delivered the me
16、ssage to your office this morning. (改为被动语态)The message to your office this morning.36When did you take my car key from my bag yesterday? I just want to know that.（改为宾语从句）I just want to know you my car key from my bag yesterday.37He got up early in order not to miss the train. （保持原句意思基本不变）He got up e
17、arly he would not miss the train.五、连词成句38a, case, me, tell, you, let, something, about, recent（连词成句） .六、阅读理解39It is obvious that Andy Lee left his _ when he booked his ticket.Ahome addressBmobile phone numberCemail addressDcompany address40The travellers who got the letter from NR _.Abought the tick
18、ets onlineBwanted to travel to Black TownCworked for National RailwayDbooked the tickets on August 1441National Railway writes this letter because _.Athere is a train ticket saleBa train line will be closed in JulyCit will open a new train line in AugustDsome of its trains will run on different line
19、s42What is true about NRs trains between August 14 and 28?ANo trains will stop at Spring Town.BTrains that change lines will all stop at Black Town.CPeople can take the free buses to any station on the Sand Town-Spring Town line.DPeople can go to Hill Town on any train that runs between Green City a
20、nd Cloud City.43From the reading material, we can infer (推断) that National Railway will _from August 24 to August 28.Acarry a lot of travellers to Gray Village by using their free busesBfix the railway between Sand Town and Spring TownCmake a lot of mistakes in carrying travellers to wrong placesDst
21、op the Green City-Cloud City line trains44James lives in Smoke Town. He wants to go to Black Town on August 19. How can he get there?ATake Train RL202 to Green City, get off there, and take the free bus.BTake Train RL103 to Green City, get off there, and take the free bus.CTake Train RL102 to Spring
22、 Town, get off there, and take Train RL201.DTake Train RL101 to Cloud City, get off there, and take the free bus.七、完形填空Intelligent animalsScientists used to believe that animals could not think, but now we know that animals can understand information and use it. 45 , if we repeat words such as Down
23、or Sit to dogs, theyll begin to understand them and follow the instruction. Some kinds of dogs can understand more than one hundred words!Some dogs have jobs. Working dogs are 46 good at learning words because they have to listen carefully to instructions. Border collies, a kind of dog, are often us
24、ed to move sheep. Farmers use special words to tell the dogs what to do. They say Find when they want the dog to go and look for the sheep, and then Walk when they want the dog to move towards the sheep. The dogs also need to understand the word Stop. They can also understand if they have done a job
25、 well and 47 whether the command is from their own farmer.Dogs are not the only creatures that can learn words. An orca (killer whale) called Wilkie has been taught to repeat the words Hello and Bye-bye and can count to three. She produces the sounds by pushing air through her blowhole, but amazingl
26、y, she can 48 the sound of a human voice. If she listens to children, she sounds like a child when she repeats the words. In the wild, orcas live in groups and the young orcas make the similar sounds to the sounds the adult orcas make. So, each group of orcas 49 from other groups.Parrots are famous
27、for repeating words, and an African Grey parrot called Alex could understand the English words for one hundred and fifty different thingslike water, banana and grape. He knew some colours and shapes, and he could count various items. He could even understand the word none or zero. People once though
28、t it was 50 to say someone had a brain like a bird, but now it seems birds and other animals are smarter than we thought.An orca in the deep ocean45AAs a resultBFor exampleCIn factDWhats more46AespeciallyBobviouslyCtrulyDrecently47AwonderBhesitateCrecognizeDguess48AfollowBcreateCoperateDcopy49Acommu
29、nicates in a different wayBstays in a distanceCmoves quickly awayDprotects their children50AstrangeBpuzzlingCcalmDrude八、短文填空在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。首字母已给。AN ANCIENT MURDER1In 1991, hikers in the Italian Alps discovered a body frozen in ice in tzi. They were surprised to learn that it belonged to a man
30、who died 5,300 years ago! This was the o 51 complete human body ever found.Scientists named the man tzi after the p 52 he was found. They studied his body and learned many things. His teeth and skull2 showed that he was probably in his 40s. He wore thick clothes and shoes made of bear skin. He carri
31、ed a stone knife, wooden arrows, and equipment for starting fires. And he had a copper axe3a rare and valuable t 53 back when tzi was alive.The Plot ThickensMost interestingly, there were injuries on tzis body that showed he was a 54 . There was a piece from a stone arrow buried deep in his left sho
32、ulder. Scientists believe this is what killed him. There was also the blood of four other people on his clothes, as well as injuries on his hands. These injuries were not c 55 healed4they were recent, but not as recent as the injury on his shoulder.tzis story quickly became a murder mystery5the worl
33、ds earliest murder mystery. Why was he killed? Was he running away when he died? And why was he even there, in such a cold and faraway place? New studies in 2010 and 2018 revealed more clues.New FindingsScientists learned that tzi ate a big m 56 right before he diedthey found goat and deer meat in h
34、is stomach. He was therefore probably resting, not running, when he died. They also learned that the arrow in tzis shoulder hit him from behind.Did someone injure tzi in a fight, and did tzi run up the mountain to e 57 ? Did that same person follow tzi up the mountain and shoot him in the back? Its
35、a good theory, but scientists will probably never completely know how or why tzi died.Word box1 murder n. & v. 谋杀2skull n. 颅骨3copper axe 铜斧4heal v. 愈合5mystery n. 不可理解之事九、任务型阅读根据短文内容回答问题SIT WITH USYoure at your new school. Its lunchtime, but you dont have anyone to sit with. You want to join some
36、one at their table, but youre not sure if theyre friendly. What do you do? One students solution was to create an app.Natalie Hampton from California, USA, knows what it feels like to be alone at a new school. She found it difficult to make new friends and had to search for a new table at lunch ever
37、y day. If she , she felt . But if she asked to join someone and got rejected1, she felt embarrassed. Her solution was to create a lunch-planning app to help students like her find people to have lunch with.The appcalled Sit With Usis simple. If a student is having lunch in the afternoon, they can cr
38、eate an invitation. Other students can open the app and accept that invitation. They can then use the app to decide when and where to meet. This allows students to make plans online instead of face-to-face. This is the reason it works so well: it reduces the risk2 of rejection, and the embarrassment
39、 that goes along with it.Natalie is pleased with the way people are responding to her app-especially those who suffer from bullying3. Soon after the launch4 o f her app, she won an award for it. She also appeared in many news stories.Natalie was even asked to speak at a United Nations Youth Assembly
40、5. In her talk, Natalie wanted people to know that you dont have to do something big to change lives. Sometimes, a simple thinglike having a friend to enjoy lunch withcan make all the difference.Word box1 reject v. 拒绝2 risk n. 风险3 bullying n. 欺凌行为4 launch n. 上市5 assembly n. 集会58Natalie created the a
41、pp for a school project, didnt she? , .59What caused Natalie to feel embarrassed, sitting by herself or getting rejected? 60Complete the sentence in the article.If she , she felt .61What do you need to do after your invitation is accepted by someone? 62What message was Natalie trying to share at the
42、 United Nations Youth Assembly? 63Why did Natalies app become so popular and successful? (List at least two reasons.) 十、书面表达64Write a paragraph in at least 60 words according to the given situation（根据所给情境，写一段不少于60个单词的文字）学校的漫画社（Cartoon Club）、信息技术社（IT Club）、茶艺社（Tea-making Club）和阅读社（Reading Club）正在招募社长（club secretary）。假设你是吴磊，结合你的特长与爱好，给负责社团工作的王老师（Mr Wang）写一份自我介绍，参与其中一个社团社长的竞选。_试卷第9页，共10页
