2020~2021学年度第一学期中考试

2020~2021学年度第一学期中考试
九年级英语试题
第I卷(选择题共85分)
第一部分听力部分
一、听力测试(共三节，满分25分)
第一节(共4小题,每小题1分,满分4分)
听下面4个问题。

每个问题后有三个答语，从题中所给的A.B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。

听完每个问题后，你都有5秒钟的时间来作答和阅读下一小题, 每个问题仅读一遍。

1. A. Too thick . B. In Sue’s drawer . C. About English.
2. A. A dress . B. Some chocolate . C. With my friend.
3. A. By bus. B. Very fast. C. About two blocks.
4 A. Much better, thanks. B. Ten years old. C. A lovely girl.
第二节(共8小题,每小题1分,满分8分)
听下面8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选项。

听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来作答有关小题和阅读下一小题。

每段对话仅读一遍。

5. What can we know about Judy?
A. She can’t come to the party.
B. She planned do come but changed her mind later.
C. She hasn’t appeared at the party yet.
6. Who is on duty now?
A. John.
B. Alice.
C. The man.
7. When will the two speakers leave if they get cheaper tickets?
A. On Tuesday.
B. On Thursday.
C. On Friday.
8. What is the probable relationship between the two speakers?
A. Husband and wife.
B. Passenger and driver.
C. Salesgirl and customer.
9. What can we know about Jennie?
A. She’s not going to work tomorrow.
B. She has just come back from a holiday.
C. She is just out of work.
10. How much is the TV set today?
A. One hundred and eighty dollars.
B. Two hundred dollars.
C. Two hundred and fifty dollars.
11. Where did the speakers plan to go?
A. A shopping center.
B. An opera house.
C. A ticket office.
12. What does the man mean?
A. He got help from the woman.
B. He needed more time to study.
C. He worked hard for his job.
第三节(共13小题,每小题1分,满分13分)
听下面4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选项。

听每段对话和独白前，你将有时间阅读各个小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,各小题将给出5秒钟的作答时间。

每段对话或独白读两遍。

听下面段对话,回答13至15三个小题。

13. What will Mike do in the summer vacation?
A. Go to travel.
B. Write his fiction.
C. Visit the museum.
14. What is the girl going to do?
A. Learn to play an instrument.
B. Learn to drive a car.
C. Learn to write stories.
15. Which musical instrument might the girl learn?
A. Violin.
B. A one-hour class.
C. A fifty-minute class.
听下面一段对话，回答16至18三个小题。

16. What kind of class does the man want to choose?
A. A two-hour class.
B. A one-hour class.
C. A fifty-minute class.
17. Who’s the teacher of the fifty-minute class?
A. Mr.Black.
B. Miss Green.
C. Frank.
18. How much should the man pay for the class in total?
A. 60 yuan.
B. 320 yuan.
C. 720 yuan.
听下面一段对话，回答19至22三个小题。

19. Who will take the dog for a walk in the afternoon?
A. The woman.
B. The woman’s brother.
C. The woman’s husband.
20. Where will the woman keep the dog when she isn’t at home?
A. In the yard.
B. In her brother’s.
C. Inside the house.
21. What can we learn from the conversation?
A. The dog is usually outside for over four hours.
B. Peanut was always kept by the woman’s brother.
C. Jake is three years older than Susan.
听下面一段独白，回答22至25三个小题。

22. What does Jack’s wife tell him to do?
A. Eat Jess.
B. Exercise more.
C. See a doctor.
23. What does the doctor think Jack should do?
A. He thinks Jack should run every day.
B. He thinks Jack should stop eating fruit.
C. He thinks Jack should sleep less.
24. Why is Jack far from his home now?
A. Because the doctor gave him some bad ideas.
B. Because he didn’t understand the doctor’s words.
C. Because he took the wrong road.
25. What do you think of Jack Smith from the story?
A. He’s very great.
B. He’s foolish.
C. He’s fast.
第二部分笔试部分
二、选择填空(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分)
从题中所给的A.B.C、D四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

将代表该答案的字母在答题卡上相应的位置涂黑。

26.─These dresses are really nice and I can’t decide which one to buy.
─________. There’s no hurry.
A. I think so
B. Take your time
C. It’s a piece of cake
D. I’m afraid so
27.─Do you think I could borrow your dictionary?
─_______.
A. Yes, you may borrow
B. Yes, as you like
C. Yes, go on
D. Yes, go ahead
28. ─What shall we do tonight then?
─__________--whatever you want.
A. All right
B. It’s up to you
C. It doesn’t matter
D. Help yourself
29. ─I suggest you try that ride, and I promise it’ll be quite exiting.
─I agree. You never know ______ you try something.
A. until
B. though
C. as
D. if
30. ─How sweet Daisy’s voice is! She seems to be good at singing all kinds of songs.
─But actually, she has trouble hitting the high ________.
A. notes
B. beats
C. steps
D. sounds
31. ─Cloudy days really drive me crazy these days.
─I can’t agree more. The sun hardly shone through a ______ in the clouds.
A. hole
B. break
C. side
D. point
32. ─Why do you choose Uncle Bob’s?
─Because this restaurant ________ very delicious food and is inexpensive.
A. changes
B. spreads
C. serves
D. treats
33. ─The soldier _______ the secret with his life. That’s why he was killed.
─It’s a pity that he lost his young life.
A. protected
B. discovered
C. guarded
D. made
34. ─Do you mind if I _____ some music _______?
─Of course not. I also like listening to soft music while reading.
A. lay; out
B. turn; off
C. look; up
D. put; on
35. ─Sorry, Mr. George, but I can’t work it out!
─It is certain that you can’t solve it yet if your ____ look appears again in class .
A. absent
B. present
C. straight
D. direct
36. ─ Could you tell me a traditional _________ story about the Mid-Autumn Festival?
─Of course! I know the most touching one─Chang’e Flying to the moon.
A. normal
B. formal
C. folk
D. local
37. ─He is very open and ____. If he knows something, he will tell us.
─That’s why he is popular with everybody.
A. patient
B. common
C. police
D. direct
38. ─Who is the girl standing over there?
─Well, if you _______ know, her name is Joe.
A. must
B. may
C. can
D. shall
39. ─What would you like to drink？
─It doesn’t matter. ______ will be OK.
A. Nothing
B. None
C. Something
D. Anything
40. ─Do you know _______?
─To study for the Chinese test, I guess.
A. what he did just now
B. when did he practice Chinese
C. why he left so early
D. how he studied for Chinese
三、完形填空(本题共15分，每小题1分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从41--45各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

When my twin sons, Chad and Brad, were born, I was worried about everything. Five years later, our little girl, Becky, __41__ our family. I wanted everybody to be __42__ and happy. I worked hard to see that they were.
As the kids grew older, I worried about headaches, throat infections and many other __43__ childhood illnesses. I didn’t like it when the boys spent time “warming the bench(板凳)” during Little League football games. I worried about Becky when she __44__ the ball while playing baseball. Before long, the children were in their teens.
I stayed __45__ late the night waiting for the boys to return home. Many times the __46__ that I would call the
police crossed my mind if they weren’t home on time. Luckily, they always arrived home safe and sound before I had to do that.
The day the boys moved away to college was a sad day indeed. I worried about their being able to take care of themselves. A few months after the boys left college, our __47__ rang in the middle of the night. It startled (惊醒) us when we looked at the clock. It was 3 o’clock in the morning. “__48__ must be wrong,” I shouted to my husband, Roy as we both jumped up. We ran to the door, opened it, and there __49__ a police officer.
“You need to __50__ your sons,” he seriously announced. I picked up the telephone, but unfortunately, it was __51__. A line outside had been accidentally cut. Roy and I jumped into the car and __52__ to the nearest telephone. My stomach ached. My husband was __53__ so badly that he could hardly dial the number.
On the first __54__, Chad answered the telephone. “What’s wrong?” Roy shouted into the receiver.
“We were worried about you,” Chad told him. “We’ve been trying to call you all night, but you didn’t answer.
We called the police and asked them to go and __55__ you.”
For the first time in their lives, the boys were worried about us. And they were the ones who actually had to call the police.
41. A. completed B. tested C. visited D. appreciated
42. A. smart B. comfortable C. healthy D. outgoing
43. A. serious B. common C. unusual D. terrible
44. A. hit B. threw C. got D. missed
45. A. down B. up C. out D. in
46. A. plan B. advice C. worry D. thought
47. A. phone B. clock C. alarm D. doorbell
48. A. Something B. Anything C. Everything D. Nothing
49. A. stood B. greeted C. turned D. came
50. A. call B. email C. see D. educate
51. A. gone B. useless C. dead D. stolen
52. A. rushed B. headed C. went D. moved
53. A. looking B. shaking C. suffering D. seeing
54. A. night B. arrival C. try D. ring
55. A. call on B. check on C. turn on D. talk on
四、阅读理解(本题共30分,每小题2分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的A.B.CD四个选项中,选出一个最佳答案。

A
56. The news about moths work in the night was reported in ________.
A. Science
B. Global News
C. CNN
D. Richard Walton’s paper
57. ________ aren’t well-known as important pollinators.
A. Honey bees
B. Moths
C. Dragonflies
D. Butterflies
58. In which section can we read the news?
A. INSECTS COLUMN
B. CNN
C. SCIENCE
D. NEWS BAG
59. According to the reading, it’s TRUE that _______.
A. moths work day and night
B. scientists find that most moths had pollen on the pollen they collected
C. moths visit many plants that bees don’t normally visit
D. there are few kinds of moths all over the world
60. The main purpose of the reading is to _______.
A. describe the habits of moths
B. introduce the importance of moths as pollinators
C. show the bees are choosy compared to the moths
D. call on us to protect moths
B
Height is just one of the thousands of features(特征) that your genes decide. In fact, because you have two parents, your genes provide you a height that usually lands somewhere between the height of each parent. If both your parents are tall, then maybe you will be tall, too. But if you have questions about how tall you are going to be, ask your doctor if he or she can help you find it out.
But genes don’t decide everything. For example, eating an unhealthy diet can keep you from growing to your full potential. Getting plenty of sleep and enough exercise will help you grow to the expected height.
It’s natural that you are wondering how fast you should grow. There is no perfect or right answer. Generally speaking, kids grow about 6 centimeters a year between age 3 and the time when they start puberty.
Your doctor will know how your growth has been going over the years. 2cm here and 3cm there make a little
difference to the height you are at now. How have you been growing up to this height? What other changes may your body be going through?
Don’t be amazed if you seem to have grown a lot in a very short time. Everyone has a very quick growth during the puberty. The age for starting puberty is about 10 for girls and about 11 for boys. But it can be earlier or
later--between 7and 13 for girls, 9 and 15 for boys.
You will usually begin to notice that you are growing faster about a year after your body starts to show the first changes of puberty.
61. If you want to know how tall you should grow, _______.
A. you should have enough exercise
B. you can ask doctors for help
C. you should take some special medicine
D. you can record your growth during puberty
62. The underlined word “puberty” most probably means a person when is a(n) _______.
A. teenager
B. baby
C. adult
D. elder
63. This passage is mainly about ________.
A. how the genes work in your body
B. how your parents’ height influence you
C. how you look like your parents
D. how you grow to a certain height
64. After reading this passage, we can explain ________.
A. how good it is to be a doctor
B. how much sleep time we need
C. why genes can’t decide everything
D. what healthy diet is
65. Which is NOT mentioned in the passage?
A. The features showing the first changes of puberty between boys and girls are different.
B. Girls’ age for starting puberty is usually earlier than that for boys’.
C. Your height most probably depends on how tall your parents are.
D. You may be amazed sometimes when you grow too fast.
C
When I was about 12 years old, my older brother, James, bought a BB gun into the house. Our parents had lost us many times that we were not allowed to bring home guns or knives, even if they were just toys. Having any form of weaponry(武器) in our home was not allowed at all.
James brought me to his room. He opened his closet door and took out a shoebox that was buried under some clothes. The BB gun was inside. I was enamored(迷恋的) by it at once.
“Can I shoot it?” I asked, hopefully.
“No way,” James said, taking it from me and putting it back.
One day, when no one was home, I went into James’ closet and took it out. For some special reason--I have no idea what I was thinking--I went to the front window of the second floor in our row house. I opened the window, I pointed the gun outside and shot. I quickly shut the window and looked outside.
In a matter of seconds, old Mr. Schlosberg came out of his store, he looked back at his store window. He looked up the street. He looked down the street. Then he looked straight across to our house.
Thankfully, James made it home before Mother of Father.
As he stepped through the door, I could hear old Mr. Schlosberg call his name. “James, James,” he called. “Come here, son.” After several minutes, James ran back across the street and into the living room. I hid in the kitchen. “Alma.” He shouted. “Get out here! You broke Mr. Schlosberg’s window with my BB gun!”
“Oh, please, James!” I cried. “ Don’t let him tell mother! She will hit my bottom real good!”
James wiped my tears and went back across the street to Mr. Schlosberg’s. I don’t know what James said to that man, but there was never a mention of that thing again.
Years later, I found out James had used the money he got from his newspaper route to pay for Mr. Shlosberg’s
broken window. He only got one cent for every paper he sent. He managed to pay back the money just before he went off to fight in World War II. Since that day, I have never touched a gun：a BB gun, a water gun, a real gun, or any other type.
66. Why was the gun hidden in the closet?
A. The gun was too expensive
B. The family had only one gun
C. The law didn’t allow anyone to have a gun
D. The parents didn’t allow a gun to appear at home
67. Alma used the BB gun _________.
A. because he was angry with James
B. because he didn’t want to listen to his parents
C. for some reason he couldn’t tell
D. because some other kids had used it before
68. What did Alma expect from James after he shot Mr. Schlosberg’s window?
A. To deal with the problem
B. To talk with his parents
C. To throw away the gun
D. To tell Mr. Schlosberg’s the truth
69. Which of the following best describe James as a brother?
A. Brave but strict
B. Brave and funny
C. Responsible and caring
D. Humorous and kind
70. The best title of the passage is “_______”.
A. Warm-hearted brother
B. A BB gun
C. A broken window
D. An accident
第II卷（非选则题共35分）
五、词与短语选择填空(共5小题,每小题2分,满分10分)
仔细阅读下面五个句子，然后用下面方框中所给的单词或短语填空,使每个句子在结构，句义和逻辑上正确。

(提示:
71. I always have to worry about how I ________ to others and I have to be very careful about what I say or do.
72. When you visit a foreign country, it is important to know how to ask for help ________.
73. He used to be a very quiet teenager. He remained _________ most of the time and seldom talked to other people.
74. The mother traveled for many hours to return home to talk to her child _________.
75. The most common things, from paper to clay to bamboo, are _________ objects of beauty.
六、阅读理解填词(本题共10分，每小题1分)
阅读短文,在其后空白处写出各单词的正确形式,单词的第一个字母已给出。

At one time there was an oyster(牡蛎). He always appreciated himself in the mirror, because he thought he was the most important animal in the world. Certainly, the silkworm(蚕) was important too, but silk could not be s__76__ at the same price as pearls(珍珠). So the oyster thought that he had good r__77__ to think well of himself.
One day, there was a great storm at sea. The waves were very big, and the thunder(雷声) was l__78__. The oyster h__79__ in his weak shell and stayed on the sea floor. He thought that if he moved to the shore for safety, others would make f__80__ of him, so he decided to remain there. Though he didn’t move, he and his shell were w__81__ onto the shore by the big waves. After the oyster found himself l__82__ on the beach, he lifted himself out of his shell and looked out. While the oyster was looking around, another big wave came and t__83__ him further. Oh, this was terrible! N__84__ of the waves were strong enough to push the oyster back into the sea. The poor oyster was not a __85__ to move and became very angry and sad. He could not find a way back into the sea.
76. s_________ 77. r_________ 78. l_________ 79. h_________ 80. f_________
81. w_________ 82. l_________ 83. t_________ 84. N_________ 85. a_________
七、书面表达(本题15分)
你是一名武汉中学的中学生，想成为国际动物救助中心“International Animal Helpers” (IAH)的一名志愿者，请你用英文写一封自荐信。

内容要点如下：
1. 能参加周末活动；
2. 从家乘地铁到”中心”约10分钟；
3. 喜爱动物，愿意帮助他们；
4. 懂得一点医学知识；
5. 补充一两点个人信息和想法。

注意：
1. 文中不得透露个人姓名和学校名称；
2. 词数：60-80；
3. 不得逐条翻译，内容要连贯得体；
4. 开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

参考词汇：
be glad to do sth乐意做某事volunteer n. 志愿者medical adj. 医学的
Dear Sir / Madam,
My name is Li Ming,
Looking forward to your reply!
Yours sincerely,
Li Ming。