专题17.九年级第一学期期中测试英语试卷（宁波卷）

2023-2024学年九年级第一学期期中测试英语试卷（宁波卷） 满分为100分。考试时长为90分钟。 试题卷Ⅰ 一、完形填空（本题有15小题，每小题1分，共计15分） 阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 Most people agree that Leonardo da Vinci(1452-1519) was one of the greatest thinkers of all time . He only went to school for a short time, but he was always trying to ____1____himself. He had a curious mind and great ____2____. He tried everything and wasn't _____3_____ of making mistakes. As a child, Leonardo____4____to spend a lot of quiet time alone. He would go to the____5____to study and draw nature, like rocks, animals... everything! He ____6____attention to the things that happened around him and kept notebooks ______7______he wouldn’t forget anything. In his notebooks, he recorded ____8____he saw, wrote down his ideas, made a ____9____ of interesting things and made drawings. It is ______10______that in his lifetime, he made 13,000 pages of notes and drawings! These notes and drawings______11______a wide range(范围)of subjects, _____12_____groceries to flying machines. Leonardo was so eager to learn that he would have conversations with anyone who could teach him new things. Of course he didn’t always _____13_____with what people held true. Many people at that time thought that the sun went around the earth. But Leonardo’s research showed the earth went around the sun. He also had many ideas about ______14______the human body works. Today, Leonardo's notebooks are still interesting to us ______15______they show the thoughts and ideas of great genius. 1. A. paint B. invent C. improve D. kill 2. A. image B. imagine C. imaginable D. imagination 3. A. popular B. good C. dare D. afraid 4. A. used B. came C. likes D. got 5. A. cities B. countryside C. villages D. countries 6. A. pay B. paid C. pays D. paying 7. A. and B. but C. so D. although 8. A. every B. how C. what D. when 9. A. sum B. couple C. set D. list 10. A. believed B. believes C. believable D. believing 11. A. saved B. covered C. concluded D. had 12. A. with B. in C. from D. for 13. A