精品解析：广东省广州中学小创班少年部2021-2022学年九年级上学期期中测试英语试题

广州中学少年部9A期中测试 一． 语法选择（15分） The first astronauts Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines ___1___ at the sky. This is very different from the situation ___2___ years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of ___3___ the universe. When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago ___4___ the first astronauts were not people—they were animals. Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ___5___ as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test ___6___ in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals ___7___ first went into space. Many of them ___8___, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we ___9___ forget these animals. Albert II was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died ____10____ his spaceship landed back on Earth. ____11____ the result was different for Ham the Monkey. His story ended happily when he returned to Earth ____12____ very good health. Scientists Wanted to know the answer to the important question: could ____13____ animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham ____14____ into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and live for ____15____ 16 years. 1. A. look B. to look C. looking D. looked 2. A. thousands of B. thousand of C. thousands D. thousand 3. A. to explore B. explore C. explored D. exploring 4. A. so B. but C. or D. as 5. A. safe B. the safest C. safest D. safer 6. A. theirs B. their C. them D. they 7. A. whose B. whom C. what D. that 8 A. die B. have died C. will die D. died 9. A. needn’t B. don’t have to C. may not D. shouldn’t 10. A. since B. after C. because D. if 11. A. Luck B. Luckier C. Lucky D. Luckily 12. A. for B. on C. in D. at 13. A. the B. an C. a D. / 14. A. was sent B. sent C. is sent D. sends 15. A. the others B. others C.