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2023-2024学年上学期九年级期中考试(苏州专用)
英语
注意事项:
1. 本试卷共七大题,满分100分(不含听力口语30分)、考试用时100分钟;
2. 答题前,考生务必将自己的姓名、考点名称、考场号、座位号用0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔填写在答题卡和对应的位置上,并认真校对条形码上的准考号、姓名是否与本人相符合;
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4. 考生答题必须答在答题卡上、答在试卷和草稿低上一律无效。
第I卷(客观题 共45分)
第一部分 完形填空(共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
Each school day, yellow school buses take millions of American kids to and from school. According to the law, school buses must be painted “school bus 1 ”. You may not find it in a box of crayons. The color is neither pure yellow nor pure orange. Instead, it is a mix of the two, similar 2 to the flesh of a mango.
Before such a law was passed, school buses had been painted pure yellow, close to the color of a lemon. In 1939, Dr. Frank W. Cyr had a meeting to set 3 for US school buses. This included a standard color for all school buses in the whole country. Since then, Dr. Cyr has been known 4 the “father of the Yellow School Bus”.
The school bus yellow color is not just for looks. It is also a matter of safety. Many people 5 that red is the most noticeable color. Both stop signs and stop lights are red. In fact, research shows that yellow gets our attention 6 than any other color. Even if we are looking straight ahead, we can also see a yellow object that is going past 7 . Besides that, unlike red, yellow is also more easily noticed in a 8 environment. School buses usually 9 children to school in early morning. The black lettering on that yellow background is the easiest color combination to be 10 in darkness. This is another main reason why school bus yellow was chosen.
1.A.red B.blue C.green D.yellow
2.A.color B.smell C.size D.sweet
3.A.times B.lines C.rules D.shapes
4.A.for B.as C.to D.with
5.A.disagree B.believe C.promise D.imagine
6.A.faster B.slower C.worse D.harder
7.A.you B.them C.us D.it
8.A.light B.terrible C.clean D.dark
9.A.pick up B.give