浙江省台州市书生中学2020-2021学年九年级下学期开学考试英语试题

台州市书生中学2020学年第二学期九年级起始测试英语试卷 （满分：120分 考试时间：100分钟） 一、完形填空（15分） Last year, my mother was seriously ill. I felt my whole 1 turn upside down and I had no idea what I could do to 2 with her pain. My eyes were filled with tears whenever I was 3 . Last month, I lost a (an) 4 watch that was an 18-year-old birthday gift from my father. I couldn’t 5 for a couple of nights because I felt so terrible about that. There have been many 6 like these in my life. I could never figure out 7 to handle (应对) such difficult things 8 I read If You Have a Lemon, Make a Lemonade by American writer Dale Carnegie. “When the wise man is handed a lemon, what lesson can I learn from this? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?” he wrote. I 9 that life is full of ups and downs, so I need to stay positive (积极的) all the time. Now when I think of my past, I wish I could have handled things differently and 10 When my mother was fighting 11 the illness,