精品解析：广东省湛江市雷州市第三中学2021-2022学年九年级上学期期末英语试题

2021—2022学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测 九年级英语试卷 （总分：120分；时间：90分钟） 一、听力理解（本大题共30小题，每小题1分，共30分） 略 二、语法选择（本大题有10小题，每小题1分,共10分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构语法性和上下文连贯要求，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. Sandalwood fans (檀香扇) ____5____ send out a sweet smell. Later, hand fans became far ____6____ than just something that could cool you down. They developed into art works, in which tuanshan (round fans) and zheshan (folded fans) were the most common. 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 (皇宫), liked to use it. Meanwhile, men, especially the literati (文人学士), used zheshan. The literati liked it ____8____ zheshan was usually made of paper and 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 anymore. Next time when you are waving a fan, you may think of the stories behind it. 1. A. a B. an C. the D. / 2. A. year’s B. years’ 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. can C. must D. need 6. A. many B. more C. most D. the most 7. A. usually B. usual C. unusual D. unusually 8. A. until B. although C. because D. unless 9. A. show B. shown C. showing D. to show 10. A. something B. anybody C. nothing D. everything 三、完形