广东省佛山市禅城区2023-2024学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试题

佛山市禅城区2023-2024学年第一学期九年级第三次课堂作业调研 英语学科 全卷听说30分，笔试90分，满分120分。本卷用时70分钟。 注意事项：1．答卷前，考生务必用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的准考证号、姓名、考场号和座位号填写在答题卡上。用2B铅笔在“考场号”和“座位号”栏相应位置填涂自己的考场号和座位号。 2．作答选择题时，选出每小题答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目选项的答案信息点涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，答案不能答在试卷上。 3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案；不准使用铅笔和涂改液。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。考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、语法选择（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，根据语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 Do you find that you learn things faster than your parents? If your answer is yes, you could be right!  1 at Brown University, found that school-aged children learn new knowledge and skills faster than grown-ups. This has something to do 2 a chemical called GABA in our brains. It reduces brain noise so that we can learn things more 3 . It also makes new knowledge stay much 4 in our minds. The scientists scanned the brains of children aged from 8 to 11 years old and adults aged from 18 to 35 years old before, during, and after doing 5 learning task. It turned out that the amount of GABA rose quickly 6 children learn new things. However, when adults learn, there was little change in 7 brains. This 8 us why children were better learners than adults.  The finding, the scientists said, should encourage teachers and parents 9 children learn anything from riding a bike to playing an instrument in their childhood. It could also 10 to help adults learn faster by increasing the amount of GABA in their brains. 1. A. Scientist B. Scientists C. Scientists’ 2. A. for B. as C. with 3. A. easily B. easy C. ease 4. A. long B. longer C. longest 5. A. an B. a C. the 6. A. as B. because C. if 7. A. them B. their C. theirs 8. A. told B. tell C. was telling 9. A. letting B. to let C. let 10. A. used B. be used C. has used 2、 完形填空（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分） 请通读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案，并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 In Chinese culture, there are many famous stories. Some of them happened on the 11 . One