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2023学年第一学期九年级英语期中试卷
卷二笔试部分(共六部分,满分100分)
一、完形填空(本题有15小题:每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文,攀握大意,然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
One weekend,my husband suggested we cook together.I had spoken to my mother earlier
that day on the phone.I had told her about our life.She yawned (and we said 1 to
one another.
I didn't know then that just 16 hours later,my mother would die.
My mother was my best friend.After she died,I felt2.She was the only person I
wanted to 3.The only person who could help me was the one who was missing
My mother gave me many things,4 she had never taught me how to cook.She liked to
eat more than cook.She loved to eat fish pie and 5 it to us for dinner.Almost every week,
she would 6 a prepared fish pie.Then she would bring it home and make her own white
sauce.
My mother 7 taught me how to make a white sauce,and I never wanted to ask her.
Since she was gone,I would have to teach 8.
So this became my focus.For the first few weeks,I survived (on cheap food.But one
night,a fish pie mix 9 my eye at the store.
When I got home,I 10 myself in front of our electric stove.Armed with a 11,I
tried to teach myself to make a white sauce.
Halfway through the recipe,I couldn't believe it-I had made a white sauce on my own!
Then I remembered:I had always 12 fish pie.
Admiring my sauce,I wondered 13 I wanted to make a dish I had hated for 25 years.
Why was it suddenly so important?
I poured the sauce over the fish.Then I ate the pie.I realized that the act of 14 calmed
me down.
It helped me find
15
1.A.goodbye
B.hello
C.OK
D.nothing
2.A.lively
B.pleased
C.serious
D.lonely
3.A.help with
B.connect with
C.deal with
D.end up with
4.A.and
B.or
C.but
D.so
5.A.make
B.manage
C.add
D.serve
6.A.steal
B.buy
C.borrow
D.cook
7.A.never
B.sometimes
C.often
D.always
8.A.himself
B.herself
C.myself
D.ourselves
9.A.got
B.preferred
C.showed
D.caught
10.A.saw
B.set
C.picked
D.packed
11.A.recipe
B.magazine
C.newspaper
D.textbook
12.A.loved
B.ate
C.hated
D.cooked
13.A.why
B.where
C.how
D.when
14.A.teaching
B.cooking