精品解析：江苏省盐城市东台市2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末英语试题

江苏省盐城市东台市2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末英语试卷（解析版） 一 补全对话 根据对话情景，从所给选项中选择合适的选项补全对话，使对话意思完整。 Max: Hello, Tom! Could you go shopping with me? Tom: Sorry, ____1____ Max: But it doesn’t open for students before 2 p. m. ____2____ Tom: Because I’m going to practise playing basketball. Max: ____3____ Tom: At 2:15 p m. I go there earlier so that I can warm up. Max: You are training harder than usual. Tom: Yes, we’ll have an important match next week. Max: ____4____ Tom: Black Bears. Max: ____5____ I do hope you will do better in the match. Tom: Thank you! A. Good luck to you! B. When do you start your practice? C. Why are you going there so early? D. I have to go to our school club now. E. Which team are you playing against? 二 完形填空 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从下列各题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。 One day a little boy asked his father, “What does the word ‘great’ mean? Who are great people and ____6____ do they become great?” The father asked his son to bring two plants and then told him to plant one of them ____7____ the house and the other outside the house. The boy did as his father said. The father asked his son, “Which one of the two plants do you think will be ____8____ and bigger?” The boy replied, “The plant inside the house will be safer, ____9____ it will grow bigger, while the plant outside the house is not safe at all. No one will be there to ____10____ it. It may be eaten by animals.” The father smiled and said, “Let’s wait ____11____. We will know the answer.” Then the boy ____12____ for study and after four years he came back to his house. He said to his father, “Look, ____13____ happens to this plant inside the house and it is safe.” When the boy went outside, he was very ____14____ to see a big tree. The boy couldn’t believe his eyes. He couldn’t ____15____ how the plant outside was able to grow much bigger than the plant inside the house. “The plant outside the house faced four ____16____ and many difficulties!” the father ____17____ to his son why the plant outside was bigger. “