新目标英语初三年级上学期期中考试英语试题附答案

新目标英语九年级（上）期中测试题时间：100分钟满分：120分班级：姓名：

Ⅰ. 单项选择（20分）

( ) 1. ---Do you prefer milk or orange juice?

----I don’t like . I usually drink coffee.

A. other

B. another

C. neither

D. either

( ) 2. ---It’s too hot. Would you mind the door?

---- . Please do it now.

A. to open; OK

B. opening; Certainly not

C. opening; Of course

D. to opening; Good idea

( ) 3. ---How do you study a test? ---I study watching movies.

A. for; for

B. for; by

C. by; for

D. by; by

( ) 4. ---What’s on TV tonight? Is there interesting? ----I’m afraid not.

A. something

B. anything

C. nothing

D. everything

( ) 5. ---Can you go and play with us? ---Sorry, I am busy my homework.

A. do

B. to do

C. doing

D. making

( ) 6. If it fine tomorrow, I don’t know if they football. If they that, .

A. is; will play; do; so will I

B. will be; will play; will do; so will I

C. is; play; will do; so do I

D. will be; will play; do; so I do

( ) 7. He dropped his stick in the race. He stopped it and of course he .

A. to get; fell behind

B. to get; fall behind

C. getting; fell behind

D. getting; fall off

( ) 8. Older people should politely.

A. speak to

B. be spoken

C. tell

D. be spoken to

( ) 9. People like to visit England, because it is too hot too cold.

A. neither; nor

B. either; or

C. both; and

D. not; but

( ) 10. Do you know who with at eight yesterday?

A. he is talking

B. was he talking

C. he was talking

D. is he talking ( ) 11. Teenagers allowed to drive in the street.

A. should not be

B. should be not

C. not should be

D. should not

( ) 12. ---Listen! Helen is singing in the next room.

---It be Helen. She has gone to Beijing.

A. mustn’t

B. may not

C. can’t

D. should

( ) 13. is possible for everyone to make a mistake.

A. That

B. It

C. This

D. He

( ) 14. The Smiths sending e – mail letters, because it is faster.

A. prefer; to writing

B. prefer; to write

C. prefers; to writing

D. prefers; to write

( ) 15. Not only we but also she been to the Great Wall before.

A. has never

B. has ever

C. have ever

D. have never

( ) 16. We found what then.

A. were they doing

B. they were doing

C. did they do

D. they did ( ) 17. The boy says English is not easy because he can’t often pass the exam.

A. to be learned

B. to learn

C. learning

D. learned ( ) 18. Cotton nice and soft.

A. is felt

B. is feeling

C. feel

D. feels

( ) 19. If I not so busy, I attend the meeting this afternoon.

A. was; would

B. am; will

C. were; would be

D. will be; will ( ) 20. ---Would you mind if I the radio? ---I’m afraid yes. I’m listening.

A. turn off

B. turn on

C. turn up

D. turn down

Ⅱ.完形填空（20分）

A

Football is, I do think, the most favorite game in England: one has only to go to one of the important 21 to see this. Rich and poor, young and old, one can see them there, 22 for one side or the 23 .

To a stranger, one of the most surprising things about football in 24 is the great knowledge of the game which 25 the smallest boy seems to have. He can tell you the names of the 26 in most of the important teams, he has 27 of them and knows the results of large numbers of matches. He will tell you who he 28 will win such a match, and his ideas about 29 are usually as good as those of men three or four times his 30 .

( ) 21. A. cities B. matches C. teams D. places ( ) 22. A. waiting B. looking C. asking D. shouting ( ) 23. A. other B. same C. team D. places ( ) 24. A. China B. the USA C. England D. Canada ( ) 25. A. all B. hardly C. only D. even ( ) 26. A. players B. cities C. countries D. matches ( ) 27. A. names B. pictures C. heard D. thought ( ) 28. A. says B. asks C. decides D. hopes ( ) 29. A. England B. players C. football D. men ( ) 30. A. ideas B. age C. stories D. education

B

A sailor 31 had a talk with a farmer. He told him about all his adventures 32 sea and how many times he was 33 downed. “My father was downed at sea,” he said. “ 34 a bad storm his ship 35 on to some rocks and sunk into the sea. All the lives 36 . My grandfather was also a sailor,” he 37 .

“And where did your grandfather die?” asked the farmer.

“He died at sea, too,” answered the sailor.

“Oh!” said the farmer. “The sea must be a 38 place. Are you not afraid of going to sea?”

The sailor 39 . “Where did your father die?” he asked.

“He died in his bed, of course,” said the farmer.

“And your grandfather?”

“He died in his bed, too.”