精品解析：广东省广州市天河区汇景中学2022-2023学年九年级上学期10月考试英语试题

2022学年第一学期初三年级 10月教学质量检测 英语学科 (本卷共10页，56小题。满分90分，考试用时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，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。 Stephen Hawking was born in Oxford, England on 8th January, 1942. He went to school in St Albans, a small city near London. ____1____ he did well, he was never top of his class. After ____2____ school, Hawking went first to Oxford University where he studied physics, and then he went to Cambridge University where he studied cosmology. As he himself admitted, he hadn’t worked hard. He was a very lazy student, and did very ____3____ work. However, he still got better marks than ____4____. It was at the age of 20 that Hawking first noticed there ___5___ something wrong with him. He started to bump into things. When he visited his family at Christmas time, his mother was ___6___ worried that she made him see a doctor. Hawking ____7____ to hospital for tests. Finally, the result came back. Hawking had motor neuron disease, an incurable (不可治愈的) illness which would make him ___8___ to speak, breathe or move without the help of a machine. Doctors said they had no way to help him. He ___9___ before he was 23. At first, Hawking became very low. After a while, he began to see his life in ______10______ different way. As he later wrote, “Before my illness was diagnosed (确诊), I had been very tired of life. It seemed that nothing was worth ______11______. But shortly after I came out of hospital, I suddenly realized that there were a lot of worthwhile things I could do.” Hawking married, found a job at Cambridge University, ______12______ had three children. He also went to do some of the most important scientific researches. Hawking worked at Cambridge University ______13______ a professor before his ______14______. He ______15______ believed that nobody, how hard their life was, should lose hope. “Life is not fair,” he once said. “You just have to do the best you can in your own situation.” 1. A. Although B. Unless C. Because D. If 2. A.