广东省广州市南沙区滨海实验学校2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题

2023-2024学年度第一学期九年级学情调研 英语 （共8页，57题，满分90分。用时100分钟。） 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。 Have you ever heard of the old saying, “No two snowflakes（雪花）are alike?” Snowflakes are small pieces of snow that fall from the sky. Everyone ___1___ amazed when they see the special and beautiful shapes of them. Recently, London’s Natural History Museum put 355 photos of snowflakes from the 1800s online for people to enjoy. These amazing and amazing photos ___2___ by Wilson Bentley, an American meteorologist（气象学者）___3___ lived in the US. They were bought by the museum in 1899. “___4___ are so beautiful.” Said Andrea Hart, a worker at the museum. Wilson Bentley was born into a family of farmers ___5___ February 9, 1865, in the small town of Jericho, Vermont, US. The area would get ___6___ snow in winter every year. Day by day, Wilson became more and more ___7___ in science and snow. At ___8___ age of fifteen, he received a microscope（显微镜）as a gift from his mother. Since that day, Wilson would look ___9___ at the delicate snowflakes under the snowflakes under the microscope every day in the winter, and try ___10___ them, but they would often melt（融化） before he ___11___ finish. Over the next 47 winters of his life, he took over 5,0000 photos of snowflakes. He also wrote down information such as how cold it was, and what direction the wind was blowing to see ___12___ they had something to do with the shapes and sizes of the snowflakes or not. In his whole life, Wilson loved snow and ice ___13___ much that spent a great amount of time learning a lot about them all by ___14___. Because of his hard work, he has been considered by people all over the world as one of the most famous ___15___ in the world. Some people even think that his photos helped start the tradition of people cutting snowflakes out of paper. 1. A. feel B. feels C. felt D. is felt 2. A. took B. was taken C. take D. were taken 3. A. who B. which C. what