精品解析：广东省广州市越秀区广东实验中学2022-2023学年九年级下学期期末英语试题

初三九下期末考调研英语问卷 本试卷共四大题，8页，满分90分。考试时间100分钟。 注意事项： 1.答题前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名。 2.选择题用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案标号，答案不能写在试卷上。 3.非选择题答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，再写上新的答案。答案不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束时，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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。 The beaver(河狸) is mainly found in North America. It is about three and a half feet long, ____1____ the tail, which is a foot in length. Beavers build themselves the most lovely huts(棚舍) ___2___ in, and quite often a great number of these huts ____3____ close together, like the buildings in a town. They always build their huts on ____4____ banks of rivers, as they swim much ____5____ than they walk, and prefer moving about in the water. When they build on the bank of a running stream, they make a dam(堤、坝) ____6____ the stream for the purpose of keeping the water at the proper___7___ to protect their huts. These dams are usually made of mud, stones and the branches of trees. They are ____8____ six or seven hundred feet in length and are built so well-that they look more like the work of man than of little dumb beasts. ____9____ huts are made of the same material ____10____ the dams and are round in shape. They ____11____ building their houses late in the summer but do not get them finished completely before the early winter. The freezing helps them become tighter and stronger. The fur of the beaver is highly prized. A hunter once ____12____ five young beavers playing. They were jumping on the branches of a tree ____13____ lay near a beaver dam and pushing one ____14____ off into the water. He moved forward very slowly and was about to fire at the little creatures. ____15____ their funny tricks reminded him so much of his little children at home that he thought it would be inhuman to kill them, so the gentleman left them quietly. 1. A. include B. including C. includes D. included 2. A. to