广东省茂名市茂南区2022-2023学年九年级上学期期末考试英语试题

2022--2023学年度初三级第一学期期末质量监测 英语科试卷 说明：1. 全卷共8页, 满分为90分, 考试用时为70分钟。 2. 答卷前, 考生务必用黑色字迹的签字笔或钢笔在答题卡的指定区域填写自己的考号、姓名。用2B铅笔把对应该号码的标号涂黑。 3. 选择题每小题选出答案后, 用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的信息点涂黑, 如需改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案, 答案不能写在试题上。 4. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指区域内相应位置上; 如需改动, 先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新的答案; 不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 5. 考生务必保持答题卡的整洁。 一、语法选择（本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，根据语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 Everyone loves to wear clothes made of cotton(棉花），because they feel comfortable. But do you know 1 cotton comes from? It is said that the Indian people were the first to grow cotton. China is one of the world’s 2 cotton producers. And Xinjiang is the home of our 3 cotton. Cotton needs plenty of sun to grow. Xinjiang is 4 good place to grow it. It gets lots of sun---about 3,000 hours every year. Xinjiang is famous for its long-staple cotton(长绒棉）, Its fibers( 纤维）are longer, softer and whiter than those of other cotton. It’s warm and 5 It’s fit for making cloth. It’s one of the best kinds of cotton in the world. In Xinjiang, the cotton harvest begins in late August and finishes until late October every year. In the past, people mainly 6 the cotton by hand, but now more and more people use machines, which makes it lighter work 7 cotton farmers. It is technology that helps a lot. Farmers first fly a drone(无人机） 8 the cotton a kind of special water. 9 makes the cotton leaves fall . Then the big machine “eat up” all the cotton in the field. After bags of cotton 10 to different factories, they become clothes, toys and other things that we see in our daily life. ( ) 1. A. what B. when C. where ( ) 2. A. large B. lager C. largest ( ) 3. A. country B. country’s C. countries ( ) 4. A. the B. a C. an ( ) 5. A. comfort B. comfortable C. comfortably ( ) 6. A. picked B. pick C. will pick ( ) 7. A. with B. for C. about ( ) 8. A. give B. giving C. to give ( ) 9. A. It B. Its C. Itself ( ) 10. A. take