精品解析：广东省中山市第一中学2022-2023学年九年级上学期开学考试英语题

中山市一中2022年-2023学年第一学期初三年级开学考 笔试部分（107分） 二、语法选择（本大题有12个小题，每小题1分，共12分） How often do you go to the library? Do you enjoy ___1___ books? Libraries are places for us to get knowledge. You can ___2___ all kinds of books or free there. If your books are overdue （过期未还的） or you lose them, you just need to pay a little money. ___3___, things didn’t go that way many years ago. In 1900, people ___4___ had books because they were too expensive. Only rich people had ___5___ own small libraries. If you were one of their friends, you might get a chance to borrow books from them. There were only ___6___ places that had big public libraries. However, borrowing books, people had to pay a lot of money. Thanks to Andrew Carnegie, more and more big public libraries have been set up. In fact, Andrew Carnegie was one of ___7___ Americans in history. He not only gave away a lot of money to help the poor but also helped about 3,000 public libraries. The reason why he helped so many libraries was that ___8___ free libraries had been his dream since he was young. Andrew Carnegie was born into a poor family in 1835. ___9___ he was young, he always made good use of time and threw himself into his work and reading. He strongly believed those people who were born poor wouldn’t always be poor. Everyone could become a better person ___10___ reading books. Because of his large and kind donations（捐赠） of money, people are able to ___11___ free libraries in many places in America now. ___12___ great and generous man! 1. A. to read B. reads C. reading D. read 2. A. borrowed B. borrows C. borrowing D. borrow 3. A. Besides B. However C. But D. So 4. A. hard B. harder C. hardest D. hardly 5. A. them B. their C. theirs D. themselves 6. A. a little B. little C. a few D. few 7. A. rich B. richer C. the richer D. the richest 8. A. having B. have C. has D. had 9. A. When B. Before C. After D. If 10. A. on B. by C. with D. in 11. A. find B. found C. finds D. finding 12. A. What B. How C. What a D. What