精品解析：山东省临沂市沂水县沂新中学2023-2024学年九年级下学期3月月考英语试题

九年级英语月考试题卷 2024.3 一、完形填空（共8小题,计8分） 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从方框中选出恰当的单词或短语填空，使语意通顺完整。第一个方框供1-4小题选用，第二个方框供5-8小题选用。每个选项只能使用一次，每框有一项剩余。 A. had to B. unless C. got lost D. borrow E. if A long time ago, there was a kind businessman named Antonio in Venice. One day, his friend Bassanio wanted to ask a lady named Portia to marry him. But he didn’t have any money to buy clothes and travel to her city. The man then tried to ___1___ some money from his friend Antonio. However, Antonio had spent all of his money on some ships at sea. So he decided to borrow money from Shylock, a money-lender. “I can lend you money,” said Shylock. “But ___2___ you don’t return it on time, you must give me a pound of your own flesh（肉）.” Antonio agreed. Bassanio asked Portia to marry him successfully, but Antonio’s ships ___3___ at sea. This meant that he had no way to return the money to Shylock. He ___4___ face Shylock in court （法庭）. A. without B. cut off C. herself D. with E. punished Bassanio wanted to help his friend, but he didn’t know what to do. Then portia dressed ___5___ up as a male lawyer （律师）and followed Bassanio to the court. She checked the contract（合同）between Shylock and Antonio. Then, she told the court that Shylock could ___6___ one pound of Antonio’s flesh. But he had to do it ___7___making Antonio lose blood. This, of course, was impossible. The court ___8___ Shylock for trying to kill Antonio. The court took half of his money and gave the other half to Antonio. 二、阅读理解（共12小题,计24分） A Words in the Snow In the time of the Yellow Emperor, there were no written words. People recorded things by tying knots（打结）in ropes and carving（雕刻） shapes on stone walls. One day, the Yellow Emperor discussed an event with a wise man named Cang Jie. Cang took out a piece of knotted rope, but found it was rotten（腐烂的）. It was impossible for him to remember the event clearly. Then he turned to a stone wall, but could hardly read the shapes on it. They had been carved by another person