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2024年九年级第一学月阶段检测试卷
英语科目
考生注意:本试卷共4个部分,61道小题,满分100分,时量100分钟。
I.听力(共两节,满分20分) 略
II.阅读(共两节,满分30分)
第一节 (共10小题;每小题2分,满分20分)
阅读下列材料,从每题所给的A、B、C三个选项中,选出最佳选项。
A
English dictionaries usually list words in alphabetical (字母的) order.
After you know the word’s meaning, don’t forget to learn how to use the word from example sentences. At the same time, try to use this word to make more sentences. You will find that this helps improve your English.
1. If you want to know the meaning of “stand”, you should search the letter “_______” first in the dictionary.
A. S B. T C. A
2. What does the writer think of the way to improve English through dictionaries?
A Difficult. B. Useful. C. Comfortable.
B
You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?
Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions (《红楼梦》), written by Cao Xueqin (1715-1763). Now the book has been made into an English-language opera. After being performed in San Francisco, US, the performance came to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan in 2017.
Many of the opera’s creators have backgrounds in both Chinese and American cultures, including the director and playwrights (剧作家). Their understanding of both cultures helped them change a Chinese classic into a foreign-language opera.
The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters (章) and hundreds of characters. But the opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang, a Chinese-American, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbreaking tragedy (悲剧) that everyone would understand. The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreign people understand the characters using costumes and stage settings. He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin showed up on stage, there was usually water ar