内容正文:
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,从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。
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 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 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 50,000 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 D. wh