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2020 学年第二学期九年级全科阶段检测
英语试题
(时间:100 分钟,满分:90 分,请在答题卡上作答)
一、语法选择(共 15 小题,每题 1 分,满分 15 分)
阅读下面短文,从各题所给的 A、B、C、D 项中选出最佳选项。
When I was a boy, my father planted a tree. He took me out in the yard, and told me it was a redbud tree. He told me what we ____1____ to do in order to make sure the tree would one day be big and strong. “One day,” he said, “your boys ____2____ this tree. “ ____3____ I was only eight at the time, I was taller than this tree. And it was going to grow ____4____ for my sons to climb? Then, I had to see!
Well, a young boy’s attention ____5____ here and there rather easily, so the tree soon “got lost” among many ____6____ things happening in my life. Time goes by quickly, and I now find ____7____ well beyond my father’s age when we planted that tree. I was always “too busy”, and never had those sons ____8____ were to climb that tree. ____9____ a matter of fact, I’d seldom even thought of the tree in many years.
Things have a way of _____10_____ about strangely, and I recently found myself in the old place. That tree came to my mind, and I just had to see _____11_____ had happened to it. The place had changed a lot over the years, but I had no trouble _____12_____ the old house and the tree. That redbud tree was _____13_____ taller than my house and protected it like _____14_____ umbrella. Although it wasn’t there for “my boys” to climb, there was a swing(秋千) hanging from the big branch of the tree.
As I drove away, that visit brought back many things to my mind. But one idea struck(冲击) me _____15_____. I spent too much time “being busy” in the course of my life.
1. A. need B. needed C. will need D. have needed
2. A. climb B. climbed C. will climb D. would climb
3. A. So B. Although C. Because D. If
4. A. too tall B. tall too C. enough tall D. tall enough
5. A. draw B. draws C. is drawing D. is drawn
6. A. other B. the others C. another D. others
7. A. myself B. me C. my D. I
8. A. which B. what C. who D. whom
9. A. In B. As C. For D. With
10. A. com