精品解析：广东省中山市纪雅学校2020-2021学年九年级上学期10月质量检测英语试题

2020-2021学年上学期初三年级10月质量检测英语试卷 笔试部分（95分） 二、语法选择（本大题有10个小题，每小题1分，共10分） In the 1950s, a female swimming athlete set a goal for herself. She decided ___1___ across the English Channel before she retired. If she could make it, she ___2___ be the first person in the world who did it. On that day, she jumped into the sea ___3___ any hesitation and swam towards the opposite bank. In the journey, she faced heavy fog, heavy rain and heavy waves. ___4___ she was very tired, she carried on swimming. But in the end, she gave up. And what she didn’t know at the moment she gave up was that the opposite bank was only 1 mile away. Later people asked her about the reason. And she said,“The reason why I gave up is that I could not see the destination ___5___ I was so close to.” Too many ___6___ stories have been lecturing（告诫）us about courage and persistence（坚持）. But they never told us ___7___ courage and persistence. You can have courage only when you know where your goal is. You can manage to persist only when you know where your goal is, and prepare yourself ___8___ mentally（心理上）. Courage and persistence never fall from the sky. They come from weighing between input and output. A life without goals is like ___9___ ship without a compass. It goes nowhere. ____10____ no courage or persistence in a life without goals. 1. A. swimming B. to swim C. swim D. to swam 2. A. will B. can C. would D. could 3. A. without B. with C. in D. by 4. A. Since B. Though C. Because D. As soon as 5. A. which B. what C. where D. how 6. A. succeed B. success C. succeeded D. successful 7. A. how do we find B. how to find C. when we find D. where to find 8. A. good B. better C. well D. worse 9. A. a B. an C. the D. / 10. A. There is B. There has C. There are D. There have 三、完型填空（本大题有15小题，每小题1分，共15分） It began a year ago, around Christmas. Every time I drove down our street, I ___11___ an old man sitting in his front yard. He was usually smoking or drinking, and looking rather unhappy. One day, while I wa