广东省广州市花都区秀全外国语学校2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中英语测试

2023-2024学年广州市花都区秀全外国语学校 九年级第一学期期中英语测试（33校联考） 一、语法选择(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分) There was once a young man who began to feel self-satisfied after ___1___ some small achievements. One day, the young man took a walk with ___2___ wise man from his town. The young man was bragging(吹嘘)about himself, ___3___ the wise man didn't say a word. When they got to the top of the mountain, the young man ___4___ to look down and tell the wise man what he saw. “I see trees, farmland, houses and people as ___5___ as ants working in the fields,” the young man said. Then the wise man asked him ___6___ he felt about it. “Everything is below me. I feel I rule(v.统治)the world,” the young man answered. The wise man said nothing. After a minute, he asked the young man to look up and tell him what he ___7___ see this time. “Now I see birds ___8___ around high mountains, the white clouds above the mountains and the blue sky above the white clouds,” the young man answered. Then he asked about the wise man's feelings. “I feel small and powerless,” the wise man answered. “A person who knows to look upward can ___9___ understand his position. ___10___ a person knows the blue sky is always overhead, he won't be so silly as to believe he rules over the world or ___11___people.” The young man felt foolish ___12___ his pride. From then on, whenever he began to feel as if the world owed(v.亏欠)___13___ something, he looked up at the sky and ___14___ how small he really was. ___15___ to look upward when you feel too good about yourself. 1.A.to make B.made C.making D.make 2.A.a B.the C.an D./ 3.A.if B.but C.so D.or 4.A.asked B.was asked C.is asked D.was asking 5.A.smaller B.smallest C.small D.the smallest 6.A.how B.why C.that D.what 7.A.might B.should C.could D.must 8.A.flying B.to fly C.fly D.flew 9.A.clear B.clearly C.clearer D.clearest 10.A.Since B.When C.After D.While 11.A.another B.the other C.others D.other 12.A.for B.about C.on D.in 13.A.his B.him C.he D.its 14.A.had remembered B.remembers C.was rememberi