广东省深圳红岭教育集团2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中英语试题

红岭教育集团2023—2024学年度第一学期 九年级期中考试 英语试卷 命题人: 王官君 审题人: 林汝英 （说明: 本试卷考试时间为70分钟，满分为75分） 第一部分（选择题50分） Ⅰ. 完形填空（10分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳进项。 I was an eighth-grader without ever really learning how to read. I had no confidence and was afraid of being laughed at. ___1___, an amazing teacher appeared. After asking me to read aloud in class, Ms. Powell noticed my nervousness. She quickly let another student do the ___2___ and asked me if she could take me to the nurse’s office, saying that I looked a little pale. Even though I was not ___3___, I followed her. I couldn’t read, so I never had the ___4___ to make friends. I always ___5___ someone would find it out. I was happy being nobody. Ms. Powell never knew reading was a challenge for her husband until two weeks before he passed away. She promised to teach him but he told her, “Teach someone who really needs you.” She ___6___ that person for some time. Then she asked a little girl to read and ___7___ her problem. That girl was me. Meeting me in the hallway, she said, “I’m here to help solve your problem.” Shamefully, I told her I couldn’t read. “There is no need to feel ___8___,” she said. She promised me that ___9___ could solve my problem. Over the course of the next year, Ms. Powell spent it teaching me. It was ____10____, but through many tears I could finally read. Ms. Powell brought me out of my lonely world and my life improved. 1. A. Hopefully B. Luckily C. Suddenly D. Finally 2. A. task B. business C. request D. time 3. A. okay B. real C. tired D. sick 4. A. chance B. confidence C. choice D. invitation 5. A. believed B. considered C. worried D. imagined 6. A. looked for B. turned to C. focused on D. thought of 7. A. discussed B. accepted C. answered D. discovered 8. A. sorry B. surprised C. ashamed D. lonely 9. A. efforts B. pleasure C. curiosity D. adventures 10. A. different B. boring C. difficult D. wonderful Ⅱ. 阅读理解（40分） 第一节 阅读下列短文，从下面每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。（共15小题，每小题1. 5分） A We