广东省广州市华工&天外&广外三校联考2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中测试英语试题

2023学年第一学期期中诊断试卷九年级英语 命题人: 苏穗萍 审题人: 谢慧欣 注意事项: 1. 本试卷分全卷满分 120 分, 100 分钟内完成, 闭卷。 2. 本试卷分第I卷（选择题）和第II卷（非选择题）两部分。 3. 答题前, 考生务必将自己的姓名, 准考证号填写在答题卡相应的位置。 4. 全部答案应在答题卡上完成, 答在本试卷上无效。 5. 考试结束后, 将答题卡交回。 第Ⅰ卷 一、语法选择 In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” ___1___ of China, Japan, Korea, ___2___ Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite ___3___. Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver ___4___ Chinese characters. ___5___ workers also combine various hard woods and metal ___6___ special designs. The Chinese ___7___ chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots, ___8___ twigs(树枝) to remove it. Over time, ___9___ the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces ___10___ with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks. Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius, ___11___ lived from roughly 551 to 497 B.C., influenced the ___12___ of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killing and ___13___ too violent for use at the table. Chopsticks are not used ___14___ in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat ___15___ their hands. 1. A. cultural B. culturals C. cultured D. cultures 2. A. and B. or C. but D. / 3. A. art B. artistic C. artist D. article 4. A. by B. from C. in D. with 5. A. experiences B. experienced C. experiencing D. experience 6. A. to create B. creating C. creative D. created 7. A. had used B. used C. have used D. have been used 8. A. to use B. used C. using D. had used 9. A. as B. as soon as C. before D. after 10. A. can be eaten more easily B. should be eaten easier C. must be eaten easier D. could be eaten easily 11. A. / B. that C. which D. who 12. A. develop B. development C. developing D. developed 1