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2021学年第一学期
九年级英语质量监测
本试卷共四大题, 10 页, 满分 90分;考试时间100分钟
注意事项:
1. 答卷前, 考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号, 再用2B 铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。
2. 选择题 1~45 小题选出答案后, 用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动, 用橡皮擦净后, 再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡。各题目指定区域的相应位置上;如需要改动, 先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新的答案, 改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域;不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁, 考试结束, 将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
一、语法选择(共 15 小题;每小题1分, 满分15分)
阅读下面两篇短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Every year, thousands of people visit one of the world’s most famous addresses: 221B Baker Street, London.
The address is famous ____1____ being the home of Sherlock Holmes, who lived in the well-known stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
A lot of people are ____2____ interested in the stories that they forget Sherlock Holmes wasn’t a real person and therefore didn’t ever ____3____ live at the address. In fact, there ____4____ no house there when Conan Doyle wrote the stories.
So, if Sherlock Holmes was a made-up character, why do so many people ____5____ him like a real person?
The character Sherlock Holmes is based on a ____6____ person named Benjamin Bell, a forensic surgeon(法医). Many times, Bell ____7____ on by the police to join several investigation (调查), just as Sherlock Holmes did.
Conan found the idea for the name of Sherlock Holmes elsewhere, though. He was ____8____ expert cricket player and joined the names of two other well-known players, Shacklock and Sherwin, to make the name “Sherlock”.
____9____ thing that makes the character seem like a real person is his special habits. He seldom ate breakfast and had three pipes which he enjoyed ____10____.
Although his famous methods for solving mysteries started in the novels, many of ____11____ became part of modern-day rules.
____12____ the character is made up, most of the places are real. One of Conan Doyle’s strengths as an author is describing a London ____13____ seems so real to the readers.
Most of the famous places in the books ____14____