湖北省宜昌市2022-2023学年九年级上学期期中能力水平测试英语试题

九年级阅读训练 一、完形填空。 Which do you like better: breakfast or lunch? Well, with brunch（早午餐）you don’t have to choose! Brunch ____1____ its name from the first two letters of breakfast (br-) and the ____2____ four letters of lunch(-unch). Rich British people are believed to have ____3____ brunch. They liked to go hunting. In between their hunting sessions(环节) they would ____4____to enjoy a mid-morning meal that ____5____ meat, eggs and many other things. Today, it is a meal ____6____ around late morning to early afternoon, usually on weekends. It might seem like a simple meal, but sometimes it ____7____ breakfast to an artistic level(艺术水准). For example, ordinary pancakes might be ____8____ to blueberry pancakes. In Melbourne, brunch culture is also being ____9____ . I decided to try it with my friend. We visited a cafe that is ____10____ its flower theme. There was a wall full of various types of fresh and colorful flowers. This theme is also ____11____ in its food and drinks. The pink rose tea latte(拿铁) had real rose petals(花瓣) on top. It ____12____ as sweet as it looked. For the main course(主菜), I chose the soft-shell crab(螃蟹). The crab was ____13____ in a bread bowl with some fried crab claws(蟹钳) on the top. The brunch greatly ____14____ my appetite (食欲). ____15____ I was full after having such a big meal, I still wanted to have another one. 1. A. gets B. reaches C. brings D. catches 2. A. first B. last C. middle D. least 3. A. found B. taught C. opened D. invented 4. A. keep B. control C. stop D. have 5. A. divided B. saved C. directed D. included 6. A. eaten B. chosen C. missed D. forgotten 7. A. drops B. raises C. prefers D. influences 8. A. changed B. carried C. returned D. cooked 9. A. worried B. solved C. welcomed D. played 10. A. known as B. thankful to C. famous for D. interested in 11. A. taken B. grown C. lent D. shown 12. A. touched B. tasted C. heard D. valued 13. A. placed B. picked C. started D. pushed 14. A. covered B. broke C. surprised D. pleased 1