广东省茂名市信宜市第二中学2023-2024学年上学期九年级英语9月测试

广东省信宜市第二中学2023-2024学年上学 期九年级英语9月测试 时间：90分钟满分90分 一、语法选（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，根据语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每小题所给的三个选项中 选出一个最佳答案。 Have you ever heard of the Eternal Flame Falls(永恒火焰瀑布)？It's one of_1 special waterfalls on our planet. The waterfall is in a park in western New York,America.As we come close to it,we'll smell something like bad2 That's the smell of natural methane gas(()produced by ancient rocks that are too hot.At the heart of the waterfall is a small flame. The burning flame3there for a long time.The locals believe it was created by elves().According to4,we may come across one if we're lucky enough. Another popular idea5the flame is that it's alive because of the natural gas.It's widely believed that it was first set on fire a hundred years ago.6the flame once went out,it was lit again right away However,Indiana University researchers think 7.The temperature of the flame is much higher than the boiling point of water,but their study shows that those rocks aren't hot enough 8 to such a result.This means something else9 the flame alive. However.the researchers aren't able to discover10real reason behind it.A researcher further explains this special place has a different way to produce gas. ()1.A.many B.more C.the most ()2.A.g8 B.eggs C.eggs' ()3.A.was B.is C.has been ()4.A.them B.their C.themselves ()5.A.at B.about C.with ()6.A.Although B.If C.When ()7.A.different B.differently C.difference ( )8.A.lead B.leading C.to lead ( )9.A.keeps B.kept C.will keep ( )10.A.a B.an C.the 二、完形填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 请通读下面短文，掌捏其大意，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 Where did you go this summer holiday?Perhaps you have visited some top universities at home and abroad.If so,you are not 11. This summer,many tourists travelled to famous12 like Tsinghua University,and 1 Peking University.Tsinghua University 136,000 visitors a day,reported China Youth Daily.Most of them were students with their parents. With the rising number of visitors,it took many 14 to enter the universities. "Tsinghua U