广东省广州市越秀区铁一中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期11月期中英语试题

2023学年度第一学期期中考试 九年级 英语 本试卷共四大题，10页，满分90分。考试时间100分钟。 注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名；并将自己的条形码粘贴在答题卡的“条形码粘贴处”。 2. 选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其它答案标号；答案不能写在试卷上。 3. 非选择题答案必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔写在答题卡各题目指定区域内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，改动后的答案也不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束时，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 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1~15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A man sat at an underground station in Washington. D.C., and started to play the violin. It was ___1___ cold day in January. He played six Bach（巴赫）pieces ___2___ about 45 minutes. It was rush hour and ___3___ people went through the station, most of them on their way to work. Three minutes went by and the first person, a middle-aged man, noticed there was a ___4___ playing. He slowed down and stopped for ___5___ seconds and then hurried up ___6___ the subway. After a minute, the violinist ___7___ his first dollar trip. A young woman threw the money in the box and continued to walk. Then ___8___ five minutes went by and someone stood against the wall to listen to ___9___, but the young man looked at his watch and started to walk again. ___10___, he was late for work. During the musician’s performance, only six people stopped and stayed for a while, twenty gave him the money ___11___ continued to walk. When he finished ___12___, no one applauded（鼓掌）. No one knew the violinist was Joshua Bell, one of the best musicians in the world. This is a(n) ___13___ story. Joshua Bell playing in the underground station ___14___ by The Washington Post as part of a social experiment. One of the conclusions coming from this experiment could be: ___15___ we do not have a moment to stop and listen to one of the best musicians in the world playing the best music, how many other things are we missing? 1. A. a B. an C. the D. / 2. A. at B. for C. with D. on 3. A. thousand of B. thousand C. thousands of D. thousands 4. A. music B. musician C. musical D. musica