广东省深圳市红岭中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期期中英语试题

2023-2024 . 10 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。（共 10 小题, 每小题 1 分） 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 sometime. 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 . 40 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 just moved house. Our old house was beautiful and huge. Our home no