湖北省鄂州市部分学校2023-2024学年九年级下学期3月调考英语试卷

2023-2024年春季学期九年级部分学校三月调考 英 语 试 卷 (本试卷共12页满分120分，考试时间130分钟) ★祝考试顺利★ 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试卷和答题卡上，并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上指定位置。 2.选择题的作答：每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 3.非选择题的作答：用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区城均无效。 4、考试结束后，请将本试卷答题卡一并交回。 　　笔试部分(90分) 一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分) 阅读短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最住选项。 Every month, Julia and her cousins would go for the big family meal at their grandparents’ house. On each 1 , their grandpa would give them a few coins. Then all the children would run off to buy 2 . One day, he gathered the children together. He said, “Let’s have a competition to see who can manage money 3 . At the end of this year, tell me 4 you’ve used your money.” Ruben and Nico, the two smallest kids, still 5 spending all their money on sweets. Every time, they would 6 their sweets in front of the other children. This made Clara and Joe so angry that these two could no longer keep saving their money. They soon 7 Ruben and Nico. Monty was a clever boy. He decided to manage his money 8 buying and selling things. Soon he made a lot of money with little 9 . The way he was going, he would end up almost a rich man. However, he began to spend his money on more and more 10 things for himself. A few months later, he didn’t have a single penny (便士) left. Alex saved and saved all the coins he was given, and at the end of the year he had 11 more money than anyone. He was the clear winner. There was also Julia. Poor Julia didn’t have a penny on the day of the 12 . She had spent all her coins on her secret plan. Julia knew a poor violinist who played in the park, and she 13 him all the coins for his violin lessons. 14 it wasn’t much money, the violinist agreed as soon as he saw Julia’s excitement. A little after a year the violinist lent a violin to her, so they two could play together in the park. They were so successful that she 15 to buy her own violin. Even