精品解析：广东省东莞市东华初级中学2020-2021学年九年级上学期期末英语试题

东莞市东华初级中学2020-2021学年第一学期初三期末考试 英语试卷 一、语法选择(本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分) My father used to tell restaurants by their bread baskets. According to ___1___ “If you can’t get little things right, how can you do big things right?” I feel that way about commas(逗号). Something can go wrong ___2___ a piece of writing when commas are used carelessly around the page. My writing students often put a comma wherever they feel one ___3___. Then again, ___4___ kind of poor writings is quite opposite: no commas can be found anywhere. I always feel a bit disappointed, even ___5___, when I see the lovely comma abused (滥用) in these ways. Such abuses mean that my students don’t know how ___6___ this mark. But commas are important. They separate ideas. They show relationships. In talk, commas can mean life or death, “Kill ducks!” or “Kill, ducks!” Then again, I also failed to learn the importance of the comma ___7___ I taught writing to first-year students. I remember the program head, ___8___ strict, white-haired woman, saying, “You have no idea where the commas go or why.” I felt terrible. How could I have misunderstood something so basic? Well, the thing is, commas aren’t so basic, and learning to use them ___9___ years. Oscar Wilde once joked about ___10___ a hard day of writing was like: spending the morning taking out a comma, and in the afternoon, putting it back in. That sounds about right. 1. A. he B. his C. him D. himself 2. A. at B. with C. on D. in 3. A. needs B. is needed C. needed D. was needed 4. A. other B. another C. the other D. others 5. A. sad B. sadder C. saddest D. the saddest 6. A. use B. to use C. using D. used 7. A. if B. though C. unless D. until 8. A. a B. an C. the D. / 9. A. took B. takes C. has taken D. will take 10. A. why B. when C. what D. where 二、完形填空(本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分) 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 A Blind Man with a Lamp Once upon a time, there was a small town. There lived a man who couldn’t see anything by himself. Yet, he car