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2023-2024学年度第二学期集团模拟联考试题
九年级英语
本试卷共8页,51小题,满分90分。考试用时90分钟。
一、语法选择(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
Duanwu Festival is a traditional Chinese festival held on the fifth day of the fifth month of the Chinese calendar. It is also known ___1___ the Double Fifth. It has been celebrated in various ways in ___2___ parts of East Asia as well. In the West, it’s ___3___ known as Dragon Boat Festival.
The exact origins of Duan Wu are unclear, but one traditional view holds ___4___ the festival memorializes the Chinese poet Qu Yuan of the Warring States Period. Qu Yuan drowned on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in 278 B. C because of the corruption (腐败) of the Chu government. The local people, knowing him to be ___5___ good man, decided to throw food into the river to feed the fish ___6___ they would not eat Qu’s body. They also sat on long, narrow paddle boats called dragon boats, and ___7___ to scare the fish away.
In the early years of the Chinese Republic, Duan Wu ___8___ as “Poets’ Day,” due to Qu Yuan’s status as China’s first poet of personal renown (声誉).
Today, people eat bamboo-wrapped steamed glutinous rice (糯米) dumplings ___9___ zongzi and race dragon boats in memory of Qu’s dramatic ____10____.
1.
A. for B. as C. to
2.
A. the other B. others C. other
3.
A. common B. more commonly C. commonly
4.
A. that B. if C. why
5.
A. the B. a C. an
6.
A. and B. but C. so
7.
A. tried B. try C. will try
8.
A. celebrated B. is celebrated C. was celebrated
9.
A. calling B. called C. to call
10.
A. death B. death’s C. deaths
二、完形填空(本大题共10小题,每小题1分,共10分)
请通读下面短文,掌握其大意,从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案,并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。
I went to the restaurant on the ground floor of the hospital with my mother. We took our ____11____ and then walked back to the 5th floor where my father stayed. In, the evening when we were leaving, I found the wallet in my bag was ____12____.
I had put lots of money in it since I had to pay some bills. I started to ____13____ worriedly. And then I remembered my visit to t