广东省肇庆市高要区第二中学教育集团、城乡共同体2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题

高要区第二中学教育集团、城乡共同体 2023-2024 学年 第一学期期中考试九年级英语科试卷 考试时间:90 分钟 满分:90 分 一、语法选择（本大题共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要 求，在各小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卷上对应题目所 选的选项涂黑。 China is a large country. In order to improve the traffic(交通) condition in China, as early as the 1980s, some people suggested ____1____ high-speed railways. Do you know ____2____ is the most convenient way to go to Chaozhou from Guangzhou now? The answer must ____3____ taking a high-speed train. So far, the high-speed railways in China ____4____ about 40,000 kilometers. Every day, over 2,800 pairs of high-speed trains run in all ____5____ to connect over 550 cities in China. They have made it very ____6____ for people to travel from one city to another. At the request of people, there will be more high-speed trains running in the future. ____7____ most new high-speed railway stations are outside cities, there are buses connecting every corner of the cities. In big cities, there are even underground railways connecting the high-speed railway stations ___8____ the central parts of the cities. In order to make it easy for people to park ____9____ cars, there are also many big parking lots beside the stations. China’s high-speed railways have made people’s life much ____10____. On November 25, 2017, China Post issued(发行) a set of four stamps in honor of(向…… 表示敬意) the development of China’s high-speed railways. 1. A. build B. building C. built 2. A. what B. if C. that 3. A. be B. is C. being 4. A. reach B. have reached C. are reaching 5. A. direct B. direction C. directions 6. A. convenient B. more convenient C. convenience 1 7. A. But B. Until C . Although 8. A. at B. in C. with 9. A. they B. them C. their 10. A. easy B. easier C. easiest 二、完形填空（本大题有 10 小题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最 佳答案， 并将答题卡对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 In China，very few children make pocket money. ____11____，in western cou