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2022-2023学年湖北省恩施州恩施市九年级(上)期末英语试卷
第一部分语言运用(共两节, 满分10分)第一节(共1小题;每小题10分, 满分10分)
完形填空:阅读下面短文,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Ever since “Mother Nature” gave me life, I expected to grow tall and big.
As a young ____1____, I was well protected in the forest. I ____2____ to have a good time with my friends under the blue sky and along the river. Our only purpose was to stand high. My pal, Tim often said, “All I ask for is to be happy the whole day.”
More than 300 days passed and we grew straight. Until one day, our ____3____ birthday, people came, moved us from the ____4____ and put us on their trucks. “I don’t want to go!” Tim cried.
After a long journey, we arrived in a completely different place with ____5____ green. Here we were planted in a line. Because the wind blew strongly, I could not even open my eyes to see Tim ____6____ beside me. So we needed enough ____7____ to grow thicker and higher to stop the wind.
As time went by, we finally became much ____8____. I could keep my eyes open in the wind! I even found the blue sky was back!
This was no longer a no-man’s-land, and hundreds of visitors came here. A man took a picture of us with his camera, “Thank you. We can enjoy clear days ____9____ worrying about sand storms.” A young girl jumping up and down came over and hugged me. “Thank you,” she said, “It’s you that have turned the desert into a green land!”
Tim and I smiled at each other, feeling _____10_____. The sun was shining brightly in the bluer sky.
1. A. girl B. boy C. tree D. fish
2. A. planned B. used C. happened D. had
3. A. first B. second C. third D. fourth
4. A. beach B. lake C. house D. earth
5. A. everything B. nothing C. anything D. something
6. A. clearly B. greatly C. kindly D. widely
7 A. clothes B. sand C. food D. water
8. A. greener B. stronger C. worse D. better
9. A. from B. about C. without D. of
10. A. tired B. bored C. proud D. surprised
第二节(共1小题;每小题10分, 满分10分)
短文填空:阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
With the ____11____ (develop)