精品解析：广东省珠海市香洲区2022-2023学年九年级上学期期中英语试题

2022-2023学年度第一学期期中质量监测 初三年级英语试卷 说明：1.全卷共6页，考试时间为70分钟，满分90分。 2.全部答案一律写在答题卡上。考试结束后，将答题卡上交。 一、语法选择题（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10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，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的项目涂黑。 The First Astronaut Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Thousands of years ago, people used to ____1____ at the sky with their eyes. But today people are used to ____2____ at the sky with modern machines. Perhaps they dreamed of knowing more about the universe(宇宙). When did human first go to space? The story began not so very long ago, ____3____ the first astronauts were not people—they were animals. Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ____4____ as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test ____5____ in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals that first went into space. Many of them ____6____ but they helped to make space travel safer for human. For their great service, we shouldn’t forget these animals. Albert II was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly, he died after his spaceship landed back on the earth. ____7____, the result was different for Ham, another Monkey. His story ended happily when he returned to the earth ____8____ a very good health. Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: Could ____9____ animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on the earth? The answer came when Ham was sent into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for ____10____ 16 years. 1. A. look B. to look C. looking D. looked 2. A. looking B. look C. looks D. looked 3. A. as B. or C. so D. but 4. A. the safest B. safest C. safer D. safe 5. A. they B. them C. their D. theirs 6 A. die B. died C. are dying D. will die 7. A. Luckier B. Luckily C. Lucky D. Luck 8 A. in B. on C. at D. for 9. A. / B. a C. an D. the 10. A. another B. other C. others D. the others 二、完形填空（本题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四