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2022—2023学年度第二学期第一次阶段测试
九年级英语试卷
一、语法选择(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
请通读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每小题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳答案,并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。
Do you admire rich people? What qualities do you think they have? There was a businessman ___1___ was deep in debt (债务) and could see no way out. He sat ____2____ a park bench head on his hands.
Suddenly, an old man appeared before him. “I can see that ____3____ is troubling you,” he said. After listening to the businessman’s story, the old man wrote out a check (支票), and put it in his hand, saying, “____4____ it and pay me back here exactly one year from today.” Then he turned and disappeared as ____5____ as he came.
The businessman saw in his hand a check for $500,000, signed by John D. Rockefeller, one of the richest men in the world!
“With this money, I can pay off my debts in a second!” He thought to himself. But instead, the businessman decided to put the check in his safe case. It might give him the power ___6___ his business, he thought.
He went back and worked hard to become a ___7___ businessman. Exactly one year later, he returned to the park with the check. The old man appeared. Behind the old man was ____8____ nurse. The nurse said to the businessman, “The old man is mentally ill and always ____9____ people he is John D. Rockefeller.”
The businessman was shocked to hear this. Suddenly, he realized that it wasn’t the money that turned his life around. It was his _____10_____ that gave him the power to achieve anything he went after. From then on, he always believed in himself.
1. A. who B. which C. what
2. A. on B. in C. under
3. A. anything B. nothing C. something
4 A. Take B. To take C. Taking
5. A. quicker B. quick C. quickly
6. A. saving B. to save C. save
7. A. successful B. successfully C. succeed
8. A. an B. the C. a
9. A. told B. is telling C. tells
10. A. confident B. confidence C. confidently
二、完型填空(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
请通读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Some people might think that young people are too young to know what the