北京市顺义区牛栏山一中创新班2022-2023学年九年级上学期英语期末考试英语试卷

牛栏山一中2022-2023学年创新2022级英语期末考试卷 考试时间：90分钟 注意事项： 1．答题前填写好自己的姓名、班级、考号等信息 2．请将答案正确填写在答题卡上 第I卷（客观题）56分 一、完形填空（每空1分，共10分） Once upon a time, a daughter ___1___ to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn’t know how she was going to ___2___ it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon follow. Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He ___3___ three pots with water and placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot and ground coffee beans in the third pot. He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter. The daughter complained and ___4___ waited, wondering what he was doing. After twenty minutes, he turned off the turners (开关). He took them out of the pot and put them in a bowl. Turning to his daughter, he asked, “Dear baby, what do you see now?” “Potatoes, eggs and coffee,” she quickly replied. “Look closer,” he said, “and touch the potatoes.” She did and noted that they were ___5___. He then asked her to take an egg and break it. After___6____ the shell, she found the hard-boiled eggs. Finally, he asked her to sip (抿) the coffee. “Dad, what does this really mean?” she asked. He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and the coffee beans had each faced the same boiling water. However, they ___7___ differently. The eggs were fragile (易碎) with the thin outer shell protecting their liquid inside until they were put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard. However, the ground coffee beans were___8___. After they were ___9___ in the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new. “Which one are you?” he asked his daughter. “When the disaster knocks on your door, how do you respond? Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean?” “Dad, I want to be a coffee bean,” said the daughter. All his efforts paid off and the daughter realized that in life, challenges happen to us all, but the only thing that truly _______10_______