精品解析：广东省广州市越秀区铁一中学2022-2023学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试题

2022年12月广铁一中初三英语学科学情反馈 （本卷共8页，共四大题，满分90分；用时100分钟） 一、语法选择（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15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1-15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 In 2010, something very strange happened in a small Australian town. ___1___ fish began falling from the sky! People called their friends to tell them about ___2___ strange event, but nobody believed it. There have been similar events of “raining animals” all over the world. It ___3___ in Singapore, Canada, the Philippines, and other places. Usually the falling animals are fish, but sometimes other animals have fallen from the sky. In 2009, the animals ___4___ fell from the sky in Japan were frogs. In Hungary in 2010 frogs ___5___ to fall from the sky too. Throughout history there have also been reports of falling jellyfish, spiders, and worms. You ___6___ won’t be surprised to know that this kind of event ___7___ cause a lot of panic(恐慌). When this happens, people often believe that the world ___8___, or that something else terrible is happening. However, although this seems crazy and impossible, we now know ___9___ fish and other animals sometimes fall from the sky. The answer ____10____ this question is the weather. Sometimes, tornado(龙卷风) sucks up water from ponds, rivers, and oceans. When this happens, the tornado often sucks up fish and other animals ____11____. The tornado carries these unlucky animals for a short distance, and then drops them in ____12____ place. When fish fall from the sky, they are often still alive ____13____ tornado doesn’t carry the fish very far. Scientists have never been able to test this theory, so we can’t be sure that it’s completely correct. However, almost everyone ____14____ that weather causes the raining animals. ____15____ some photographs if you are outside and it starts to rain animals. Otherwise, how can anyone else believe you? 1. A. Hundred of B. A few hundreds C. A few hundred of D. Hundreds of 2. A. a B. an C. / D. the 3. A. happen B. happens C. happened D. was happened 4.