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2022—2023学年度第二学期开学考试九年级英语试卷
二、语法选择(共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)。
阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从各题所给的A、B、C三项中选出最佳选项。
Tom lived in a country without snow. One day he saw some pictures ___1___ in big white fields in a book. He was shocked ___2___ the beautiful scenery. His mother told him it was snow. Although Tom ___3___ understand it, he has already fell in love with snow.
He dreamed about snow all the time. ___4___ Tom was twelve years old, another thing happened. Tom’s uncle had a big new television which had many channels to watch. One day, when Tom was watching one of the ___5___, he found people flying across the snow in a program. That was what he had dreamed of. He also found ___6___ they had things that looked like strange shoes on their feet.
“What are those?” he asked his uncle ___7___.
“Skis, and those people ___8___ skiers,” replied his uncle. He told Tom it was a skiing competition that happened once a year.
At that moment, Tom decided to be a skier, go to the competition some day and win the gold medal for skiing. He made himself a pair of skis and began to practice skiing.
People thought ___9___ crazy because there was no skiing team in their country. But Tom didn’t care about it. Every night, Tom ____10____ skiing down from sand. Several years later, Tom took part in the competition and brought a gold medal home.
1. A. flying B. to fly C. fly
2. A. at B. with C. about
3. A. shouldn’t B. couldn’t C. mustn’t
4. A. When B. After C. Before
5. A. channel B. channel’s C. channels
6. A. which B. that C. when
7. A. exciting B. excited C. excitedly
8. A. call B. called C. are called
9. A. them B. they C. him
10 A. practices B. practiced C. will practice
三、完形填空(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
通读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后在每小题所给的四个选项中, 选出个最佳答案。
Once upon a time, there was a little boy. He ___11___ to dig a hole in the yard behind his house after watching a science program on TV. As he was digging, a couple of elder boys passing by stopped to watch. “What are you doing?” ___12___ one of the