浙江省舟山市定海二中教育集团12月联考2023-2024学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试题

定海二中2023学年第一学期12月份质量检测

英语试题卷

一、完形填空（本题有15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）

阅读下面短文，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

For 16-year-old Ma Yifei, the violin performance of the Beijing 2022 Olympic theme song,Snowflake,was her best  1  for Paralympians（残奥运动员）all over the world．“I＇m also disabled and I want to do  2  for them with my music," said Ma.

Ma became  3  at the age of two because of an illness. She began to take interest in  4  when she was young. She started to learn to  5  the piano at five and the violin at nine,experiencing the “colorful” music through sound and emotion.

Ma's mother Ha Chunyan, a former music teacher in a primary school,  6  her memorize the music score（乐谱） bcforc she played the piano. Ma could not see the keys and  7  played the wrong notes. It took her thousands of tries to play a piece  8  .

Learning the violin was more  9  Ma needed to feel the teacher's hands, arms and back to learn the movements， and listen to the strings（弦）  10  to feel the muscles（肌肉） herself.

“After thrcc years of learning, she still could not make any sound  11  terrible noises,”said Ha, who advised her daughter to  12   the violin. But Ma said, “I believe I will play better if I keep on practicing.”

In 2018, Ma got a  13   to follow two famous musicians from the Central Conservatory of Music. She left her home to follow her musical dream, though shc knew there would be more challenges ahead.

Ma expressed her  14   about performing on such a big stage. “All my hard work has paid off.I'm so

  15  that I can stand on this stage today.”

1.A.advice            B. idea              C. promise                 D. present

2. A. anything         B.everything         C.nothing                  D.something

3.A.blind             B. deaf              C. poor                   D. strange

4.A. art              B. music             C. sports                  D. movies

5.A. buy             B. hit                C. play                    D. watch

6.A.made            B. saw               C. heard                   D. helped

7. A. always          B. sometimes         C.hardly                   D. never

8. A. correctly         B. gladly            C. quickly                 D. quietly

9. A. challenging       B. interesting         C. relaxing                 D. surprising

10. A. at the same time  B. onc: in a while      C. over and over again       D. one by one

11. A. aboul          B. beside             C. except                  D.for

12. A. cheer up        B.pick up             C. put up                  D.give up

13. A.chancc          B. decision           C. discussion               D. job

14. A. action          B. excitement         C. purposc                 D. surprisc

15. A. afiaid          B. proud            C. lonely                  D.worried

二、阅读理解（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。

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16. How long will the Halloween party last?

A.Halfan hour.   B. One hour.    C.One and a halfhours.    D.Two hours.

17. If 14-year-old Jessie goes to the party with her parents, how much should they pay?

A.$5.           B.$10.         C.$15.                 D.$20.

18.Which of the following statement is TRUE?

A. Only students at Sunshine School can go to the party.

B. Ail the party-goers should arrive at 5:30 pm on Oct. 31st.

C.You can carve your pumpkin lantern at sct ool.

D. Ten winners of the Pumpkin Carving Contest will be picked.

B

Once upon a timc, there lived a kind-hearted king. He loved birds and animals, and had a huge bird sanctuary（禁猎区）in his kingdom. Hc hated harming the animals and birds. He did not kill them for meat. One day, the king was sent two beautiful birds by a businessman. The king ordered the trainer to make them feel somfortable in their country.

 

One day, the king saw one bird fly very high, very quickly. However, the other bird just sat on the branch（树枝）and didn＇t move even a step. The trainer said that he had tried everything he could but still failed to make the bird movc. Later, the king decided to find someone in the country to make it move and fly.

A few wecks later, an old man reached the king's palace and assured him that he would make the bird fly like the other one. The king asked the trainer to takcthe old man to train the bird.The next day, the king went to visil the old man. He was surprised to see the other bird fly like the first one to great height at rapid specd. The king was very happy and sent the old man quite a few gold coins and asked the old man what he had done to make the bird fly in a day. The old man simply replied, “I just cut down thebranch of the tree where the bird used to sit on.

Many of us are like this. We have wings to fly; we know how to fly, and where to fly. Still we sit doing nothing or doing something that makes us inferior（较差的）to others.

19. What did the king do after he got the two birds?

A. He sent them to a businessman in the forest.

B. He kept them on the branch of a true.

C.He ask the trainer to take care of them.

D.He set them free and let them fly awav.

20. What does the underlined part “assured.him” probably mean?

A.Made him agree.                   B.Let him believe.

C.Helped him fly.                       D. Cheer him up.

21. Why did the king go to visit the old man the next day?

A. To see ifthe man's words were true.       B.To have a talk with the trainer.

C. To make the other bird fly in the sky.   D. To give the old man some money.

22. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The businessman became the richest man in the world.

B. The trainer was successful in making both birds fly.

C. The king killed the two birds for meat in the end.

D. The old man used a simple way to make the bird fly.

 

C

When my daughter was in primary school， she brought home four small twigs （嫩枝）from school to plant. None of them looked very hardy, but with hope for the future. I planted them somewhere in our backyard that had enough sunlight. Over the years,because of the poor soil, three of them died. Only one was alive.It grew crooked（弯弯曲曲的）and very slowly.It looked more like a fat bush （灌木从）than a tree. Later,I noticed that it was starting to dic. The lower branches hardly had leaves. Only the top third of the tree was still green. I did my best to save it but it didn't work.

Later one morning I went out and looked at it again. I was wondering whether it would be better to just cut it down.lt would make the yard look cleaner.As I walked over to take a closer look at it,however，I noticed something moving within the leaves.It was a robin（知更鸟）patiently building a nest in the topmost branches. I thought maybe this old tree was still useful. It might not be healthy or pretty,but it was still giving a bird a home.

This tree reminded me that all of our lives have a purpose. It doesn't matter if we are young and strong or old and sick. Until our last breath, we have things to do, love to give and joy to share.We can help to make this world a better and more beautiful place.

23.What made the three trees die in the writer's opinion?

A. The twigs were too small and young to plant.

B. The daughter didn't plant then correctly

C.The soil around them was not rich.

D. There wasn't enough sunlight in the backyard

24.What did the only remaining tree look like later?

A.It was straight and tall                    B.It grew fat very quickly.

C.It looked like a bird's nest               D.It didn't have many leaves

25.How might the writer deal with the tree later?

A.She might cut it down.

B She might leave it as it is.

C.She might build more nests on the top.

D. She might cut some twigs from it to plant them.

26.In the story, the writer wants lo tell us thal             

A we should care more about Earth

B we should work hard until our last ureath

C.we should share love and joy with others.

D.It Is high time to think about the meaning of ouhs life.

D

How is your memory? Remembering things is an important function of our brain. If you think about it, there is so much we have to remember - from where we left our car keys to how we walk.However,do you often find you are forgetful?

Mernory allows the brain to store and recall information when needed. Our short-term memory can hold a small amount of information for a short time, while our long-term memory can hold a large amount of information for a long timc. Our memory is amazing, but why do we still forget things?

It's possible we don't always store information in our memory casily, maybe because we are in a rush or we consider it not important at the timc. When we do storc information, we often make connections with other things, which helps us recall it later. If you don't have these connections, then it can be casier to forget.

But sometimes even our short-term memory can let us down. Have you ever gone into a room to get something only to forget what you wanted when you got there? This is called “The Doorway Effect”.Writing for the BBC Future website,