四川省绵阳市三台县2022-2023学年九年级上学期期末考试英语试题

三台县2022年秋九年级教学质量监测 英语试卷 本试卷分为试题卷和答题卡两部分，试题卷共8页，答题卡共2页。满分120分。考试时间100分钟。 注意事项： 1.答题前，考生先将自己的学校、姓名、班级、考号用0.5毫米的黑色墨迹签字笔填写清楚，再用2B铅笔将考号准确填涂在“考号”栏内。 2.选择题使用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号位置上，非选择题用0.5毫米黑色签字笔书写在答题卡对应框内，超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。 3.考试结束后，将答题卡收回。 第I卷（选择题，共70分） 第一部分：读（共两节，满分70分） 第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A One upon a time, there was a place with many green trees and clever birds. Nobody found this place before. It was really beautiful and peaceful. However, one day a man came here with an axe (斧头). He looked around this great forest and seemed very happy. Why? He was a logger. He made money by cutting down trees. The more trees he cut down, the more money he would make. How happy he was when he saw this place! He began to work. The birds in the forest flew away from the trees and felt angry with this man. It didn’t take him much time to cut down a tree. Seeing what happened to their friend, other trees cried sadly. They cried for losing one friend. They cried for their future. A bird couldn’t stand the man. It pecked (啄) hard to the man. While it was pecking, it shouted, “Stop! Man! You must be crazy! It’s our home!” However, the power of this little bird was too weak to stop the man. After a few days, all the trees were cut down. The bird said, “Poor man. Nature is our home. We lost our home, and you will lost your home, too.” Some years later, this beautiful place turned into a desert. And the man who cut down all the trees died in this desert. 1. What does the underlined word “logger” in the second paragraph mean in Chinese? A. 伐木工 B. 猎人 C. 园丁 D. 农民 2. Why did other trees cry sadly? A. All the birds left them. B. They were too weak to stop the man. C. They couldn’t make friends with the man. D. They lost a friend and worried about their future. 3. We can infer that the bird pecked that man because ________. A. the man killed many birds B. the man did something bad to its home C. the other trees asked it to stop the