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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 (吹噓) 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 ____6____ he felt about it.
“Everything is below me. I feel I rule 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.
“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 (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. can
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