九年级英语期中考试和答案

2010年九年级期中考试英语试题

考试时间为100分钟，分值100分

第Ⅰ卷（选择题，共45分）

一、单项选择（共20小题，计20分）

从每小题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入句中空白处的最佳答案。

( )1. The poor child shouldn’t and we should help him.

A．1augh B．1augh at C．be laughed D．be laughed at ( )2. My grandma me stories when I was very young.

A. used to tell

B. is used to tell

C.was used to tell

D.is used to telling

( )3 Would you like ________ more cakes ?

A some

B many

C any

D a few

( )4 He is the last one to ______ .

A reach

B arrive

C get to

D arrive in

( ) 5 He hardly does homework at weekends ,________ ?

A doesn’t he

B isn’t he

C does he

D hasn’t he

( ) 6 Yesterday I went to school in such a hurry that I _______ my note book at home .

A left

B forgot

C remembered

D lost

( ) 7. Why not ____ help when you were in trouble?

A. you ask for

B. asks for

C. asking for

D. ask for

( ) 8. Tomorrow is Sunday. How about ______ to visit your grandmother?

A. go

B. gone

C. to go

D. going

( ) 9. People don’t need to spend ____ money buying gifts.

A. too many

B. much too

C. many too

D. too much

( ) 10. Tom ______the CD player for two weeks.

A. has borrowed

B. has bought

C. has had

D. borrowed

( ) 11 .The students ________ a biology class when the visitors came.

A. had

B. were having

C. will have

D. have

( ) 12. Have you ever visited Water Park _____ I visited last year?

No. I’ve never been there.

A. that

B. where

C. there D when

( ) 13. His brother has been to Stone Forest twice______ he came to Yunnan.

A. after

B. before

C. since

D. for

( )14．About two ______ fans went to the airport to welcome Yao Ming back to

China. 1

A. thousand

B. thousands C．thousands of

D．thousand of

( )15.—Mum, may I watch TV after supper?

—No. You finish your homework first.

A．may B．needn’t C．must D．mustn’t ( )16. —Can you tell me _______ tomorrow evening?

A. when will the party start

B. when the party will start

C. when did the party start

D. when the party started ( ) 17. Dogs are too difficult to _______.

A. take care

B. look for

C. give away

D. take care of

( ) 18. There will be no space to live ___ the earth in future.

A. on

B. in

C. in on

D. on in

( ) 19. ______ fun!

A. What

B. What a

C. How

D. How a

( ) 20. Do you think we’ll need a cof fee pot?

I don’t drink coffee, and ______. It’s not necessary. Why not a tea service?

A. so do you

B. neither you do

C. so you do

D. neither do you

二、阅读理解（共20小题，计30分）

阅读下列短文，然后从每小题A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

A

You go to a store. You see many new things. You know about them before you get to the store. How do you know? You saw these things on TV. You learned about them through advertising.

People have been advertising for thousands of years. Long ago, men called “criers” walked up and down the str eet. They shouted about things that were being sold.

Later, people met at one place. This place was a market. Some people came to sell. Other people came to buy. But only those people who were at the market knew what was being sold.

When people learned about printing, things changed. Soon there were newspapers. Many people read the newspapers. They saw many ads in the papers. Later, more people saw and listened to the ads on TV. Are the people who sell to us “criers”? ( )21. When you go to a store, you see ______.

A. singers

B. advertisement

C. many new things

D. TV

( )22. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?