精品解析：宁夏吴忠市同心县2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末英语试题

2023-2024学年宁夏吴忠市同心县九年级(上)期末英语试卷 一、完形填空(满分10分) 根据短文内容，在A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个正确答案。 My friend Richard went far to work, so he asked me to take care of his yard in the mountains. He worked hard and often kept the yard ____1____ without any grass. But I was too lazy to sweep the fallen leaves, and I ____2____ pluck (拔) grass, allowing it to grow rapidly. In the early ____3____, in March, the leaves were green and soft. A month later, when the leaves spread quickly, I discovered they were like wild orchids (兰花) in the forest. As the summer came, the “grass” really lowered. The flowers looked like those forest orchids, ____4____ they were yellow, unlike those people or brown red forest orchids. I picked one flower, then went to find my friend who studied ____5____. As soon as my friend saw it he asked me ____6____ I picked it. “It’s amazing!” He ____7____ explained, “This kind of orchid is hard to find. Now it is worth at least 10,000 dollars each.” I told the good news to Richard. He was ____8____. After a while he said gently, he saw the orchid in the yard every year, but he thought it was common grass, so he always plucked it. He said, “If I could ____9____, it would flower a few years before.” Yes, all of us might miss some rare (稀有的) orchids in our own lives. We don’t give them the time to flower to prove their value. Give the “grass” time to lower and give everybody a ____10____ to prove his value. Don’t pluck a leave of any “grass” or negate (否定) a person rudely and how many “rare orchids” we will get in our lives! 1. A. wild B. clean C. dry D. dirty 2. A. sometimes B. often C. never D. always 3. A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter 4. A. so B. but C. then D. or 5. A. colors B. rivers C. seasons D. plants 6. A. that B. why C. where D. who 7. A. proudly B. successfully C. carelessly D. excitedly 8. A. worried B. surprised C. scared D. relaxed 9. A. wait B. get C. take D. make 10. A. tree B. yard C. flower D. chance 二、阅读理解(共5小题; 每小题8分, 满分40分)阅读短文, 从短文