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绝密★启用前
2023-2024学年九年级上学期第一次月考(深圳卷)
英 语
本试卷共75分,考试时间70分钟。
注意事项:
1. 答卷前,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、试室号、座位号,再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。
2. 选择题每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。
3. 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答,答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上;如需要改动,先划掉原来的答案,然后再写上新的答案,改动的答案也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,将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 选择题(50分)
一、完型填空(10分)
阅读下面短文, 从短文后所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将相应字母编号涂黑。(共 10 小题, 每小题1分)
I always think my daughter Kendall is the best—that’s just what parents do. When she was only three, she 1 for the people, like a little angel.
When Kendall was five, we noticed that she 2 had a tic (面部抽搐). When the problem got worse, we took her from doctor to doctor. During the treatment, Kendall continued to sing. Surprisingly, her tics disappeared when she sang.
When Kendall was sixteen, we thought she would be cured soon. However, a(n) 3 thing happened.
At a party, Kendall jumped on a friend for a piggyback ride. He bent lower than she expected, and she jumped 4 than he expected. Kendall flew over his back and 5 on the floor—on her neck. She was rushed to hospital, paralyzed (瘫痪) from the neck down. She couldn’t move. But her biggest 6 wasn’t whether she would walk again, but was whether she could try out for a show called American Idol.
As the days went on, feeling on her left side 7 , but she was still paralyzed on the right. We weren’t sure how much of her 8 would come back. A friend brought a microphone and put it on her bed. Every day, Kendall tried hard to pick it up. It was more 9 for her to pick up that microphone than a spoon or fork.
Sometimes she had to bite a toothbrush to take her mind off the pain. We all cried because of the pain we witnessed. But on the day—only three months after her accident—we cried full of joy when she sang, 10 she didn’t enter the Top 24 of American Idol.
When she was a little girl, she asked me why it was she tha