山东省荣成市第十四中学等六校石岛联盟（五四制）2019届九年级下学期期中诊断英语试题

2018-2019学年度第二学期期中诊断检测题 初四英语 时间：90分钟 满分：80 第I卷 一、阅读理解（共五篇短文，25小题，计30分,21-25每小题2分） 阅读下面A、B、C两篇短文，根据短文内容，从短文后面每小题所给的四个选项中选择最佳答案。（每小题1分） A One day an ant was drinking at a small river and fell in. She made desperate(不顾一切的) efforts to reach the side, but made no progress at all. The poor ant was very tired, but she was still bravely doing her best when a dove saw her. Moved with pity, the bird threw her a blade of grass, which supported her like a raft(筏子), and thus the ant reached the bank again. While she was resting and drying herself in the grass, she heard a man come near. He was walking along barefooted(光脚) with a gun in his hand. As soon as he saw the dove, he wished to kill it. He would certainly have done so, but the ant bit him in the foot just as he raised his gun to fire. He stopped to see what had bit him, and the dove immediately flew away. It was an animal much weaker and smaller than herself that had saved her life. ( ) 1. The ant could not reach the side though _____