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2021-2022学年广东省揭阳市九年级(上)期中英语试卷
二、语法选择
阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 从A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。
Stories and Art of Chinese Fans
You may think you cannot live through summer without air conditioners. But in ancient China, hand fans were almost ____1____ only ones to help people keep cool.
Chinese people started to use hand fans over 2, 000 ____2____ ago. The fans came in different shapes, such ____3____ round and square. They ____4____ of all kinds of materials. Palm leaf fans were cheap and easy to make. Feather fans (羽毛扇) showed the owner’s high status (地位). Sandalwood fans (檀香扇) ____5____ send out a sweet smell.
Later, hand fans became far ____6____ useful than something that could cool you down. They developed into different kinds of fans, such as tuanshan (round fans) and zheshan (folded fans).
In the shape of a full moon, tuanshan was ____7____ made of silk. It had beautiful birds and flowers on it. Women, especially those in the imperial palace (皇官), liked to use it.Meanwhile, especially the literati (文人), used zheshan. The literati liked it ____8____ zheshan they could paint and write poems on it. It was a way for them ____9____ off their ability in literature, painting and handwriting. Almost ____10____ could be painted on zheshan.
Today, Chinese people still use these fans, but many people don’t write or paint on them any more. Next time when you are waving a fan.
1. A. a B. an C. the D. /
2. A. month B. months C. year D. years
3. A. in B. as C. for D. with
4. A. make B. is made C. made D. were made
5. A. could B. will C. must D. needed
6. A. many B. more C. most D. the most
7. A. usually B. usual C. lucky D. luckily
8. A. until B. although C. because D. unless
9. A. show B. shown C. showing D. to show
10. A. something B. anything C. somebody D. anybody
三、完形填空
通读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。
Once there was a rich man in a village. He never gave anything to help others. The ____11____ didn’t like him. One day he said to them, “I know you don’t like me. I w