广东省广州市第二中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期开学考试英语试题

广州市第二中学2023学年第一学期 初三第一阶段学情反馈 英语科试卷 本试卷共四大题, 考试时间100分钟, 满分90分。 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。 Today people usually enjoy two-day weekends after working or going to school for five days. Recently, some cities around China are planning to offer ____1____ weekends to workers so that they can travel and shop more. This can help the economy, which ____2____ by the COVID-19 outbreak. However, in ancient China, there ____3____ no “weekends” because people did not use ____4____ weekly calendar. But they could still relax after work. During the Han Dynasty, officials took one day off every five days. During the Tang Dynasty, officials worked for ten days and rested for one day. What did they do on that day? The answer is ____5____. They usually bathed and washed their hair ____6____ their day off, which was called xiumu (休沐). Ancient Chinese had long hair and also wore heavy clothes. They needed to clean ____7____ often so that they wouldn’t get sick easily. Bathing was also a way to show ____8____. Confucius always took a shower ____9____ meeting people. But _____10_____ water took a long time. And there were no hair dryers. People waited a long time for their hair _____11_____. That’s _____12_____ they needed to take a day off. There were many public holidays in ancient times, such as the Mid-Autumn Festival, winter solstice and the Spring Festival. People like businessmen and farmers had to work _____13_____ of the year. But even the hardest-working people _____14_____ take a few days off during the public holidays. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, people also took days off for the emperor’s birthday. During the Song Dynasty, people could rest for over fifty days every year! They spent the holidays eating a good meal and _____15_____ hiking with family and friends. 1. A. long B. longer C. longest D. the longest 2. A. affected B. was affect C. are affecting D. was affected 3 A. was B. were C