内容正文:
2023-2024学年度第一学期九年级英语期中考试卷
考试时间:70分钟
Written test part(共90分)
一、语法选择(本题有10小题, 每小题1分, 共10分)
在每小题所给的三个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
In a faraway place, there was a village. The village was ____1____ in potatoes than anywhere else in the country. At the end of every growing season, thousands of potatoes were dug out of the ground, and readied for market. In each home, men and women would ____2____ divide the potatoes into three groups, large, medium and small.
One year, there was a young man who received his share of the potatoes. As the other villagers ____3____, he walked around the village laughing and talking. The villagers thought he was lazy, and they worried that this man would never get ____4____ potatoes ready in time. When it was time for the villagers to go to market, they were greatly surprised to find that the man’s potatoes ____5____ perfectly into three groups.
After asking the man how he did it, they understood he was not lazy, ____6____ very clever. He had put all his potatoes in a cart and pulled it along the village’s rough dirt road. As the cart moved up and down over the road, the potatoes moved ____7____. The small potatoes moved to the bottom, the larger potatoes rose to the top and the medium potatoes rested ____8____ the middle.
Life ____9____ like this too. The rough roads we travel along can also ____10____ us.
1.
A. rich B. richer C. richest
2.
A. busily B. busy C. more busily
3.
A. work B. was working C. were working
4.
A. his B. him C. himself
5.
A. are divided B. were divided C. are dividing
6.
A. but B. and C. or
7.
A. too B. also C. either
8.
A. on B. in C. with
9.
A. has B. were C. is
10.
A. to help B. help C. helps
二、完形填空(本题有10小题, 每小题1分, 共10分)
Foreign visitors are often puzzled in Japan because most streets there don’ t have names. In Japan, people use landmarks (路标)instead of street ____11____ . For example, when you ____12____ the way to the post office, the Japanese will say, “Go straight down to the corner (拐角). ____1