广东省培英中学2023-2024学年下学期九年级英语测试题

培英中学九年级（下）英语测试题

（Unit 3—Unit 5）

 

一、单项填空 (共10小题，每小题1分；满分10分)

 从A、B、C、D中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. Man first walked on the _____ of the Moon in 1969.

  A. object   B. level   C. soil   D. surface

2. When the man awoke, he _____ that the window was open and it was raining heavily.

  A. found   B. decided  C. announced  D. agreed

3. The group had to wait _____ after 12 to check in at the hotel.

A. from   B. until   C. for   D. at

4. This is _____ day of my life. I can’t believe my luck!

A. happy   B. happier  C. happiest  D. the happiest

5. _____ the flood, many people were left homeless.

A. According to  B. In addition to C. Instead of  D. As a result of

6. When you _____ a difficult task, try to stick with it and finish it.

A. give    B. gave   C. are given  D. were given

7. —_____ is it from your home to the school?

  —Only five minutes’ walk.

  A. How long  B. How far  C. How many  D. How soon

8. It’s been raining badly for ten days. _____ awful weather!

  A. What     B. What an  C. How   D. How an

9. The boy was so quiet that often no one would notice _____.

  A. when did he come in the room  B. when does he come in the room

  C. when he came in the room   D. when he comes in the room

10. —I’m worried about the air.

—_____. There might be heavy pollution.

A. Me too   B. Never mind  C. Of course   D. Not yet

二、完形填空 (共15小题，每小题1分；满分15分)

 阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

 I was woken by the radio. I listened to the 7 a.m. news, expecting to hear the same   11   stories. Oh, how I wanted to hear some exciting news!

 Then I heard it! The weather man was telling people to stay at home. A super typhoon was going to   12   before noon. I jumped out of bed and rushed to my bedroom window. Because the building we live in is on high ground, I   13   see a long way away. It was raining outside,   14   not very badly.

Immediately, I rushed into the living room to talk to my   15  .

“Don’t be frightened,” said Dad. “This kind of weather usually   16   and causes no trouble. I’m going to work. The buses have stopped, but the underground railway station is still open   17  . I’ve got to go to a special lunch at 1 p.m. today with one of our Japanese customers. Last year, he placed many orders   18   our company. Today I’m going to tell him about some of our new products. We’re going to make   19   money.”

I couldn’t believe it! A super typhoon was coming and   20   seemed to notice or care!

My sister asked, “Do you want some breakfast?”

I looked at her in surprise.   21   could she think about eating at such a time! As for my baby brother, he was   22   young to understand and was more interested in pouring his milk onto the floor.

I shouted “Mum, where are you?” but got no   23  .

“She has   24   left for work,” said Dad. “She has a lecture at the university this morning, and in the afternoon, she’s going to visit her friend. She’ll have no   25   to cook dinner, so I’ll be cooking this evening.”

Oh no, I thought. More bad news! It’s a terrible … But before I could finish my thought, the super typhoon hit. The weatherman was wrong. The typhoon came early!

11. A. boring   B. amazing  C. interesting  D. frightening

12. A. melt   B. disappear  C. hit   D. reduce

13. A. must   B. could   C. might   D. would

14. A. and   B. or   C. for   D. but

15. A. classmates  B. friends   C. family                D. fellows

16. A. falls over  B. sits around  C. takes action  D. passes by

17. A. for now   B. at times  C. in the past  D. at last

18. A. for    B. with   C. on   D. in

19. A. little   B. many   C. a few   D. a lot of

20. A. someone  B. anyone  C. no one   D. everyone

21. A. Why   B. How   C. Where   D. What

22. A. too    B. very   C. enough  D. so

23. A. guess   B. sound   C. reply   D. purpose

24. A. already   B. never   C. also   D. ever

25. A. fee    B. chance   C. fuels                D. time

三、阅读理解 (共10小题，每小题2分；满分20分)

 阅读短文，然后根据其内容从A、B、C、D中选出最佳选项。

A

I have loved animals since I was a young boy. I have always believed that animals deserve (应得) the same amount of respect as humans. After all, we share this planet together and we should take more responsibility and try to stop those who hunt animals for fun or money.

When I was growing up, I could see that more and more animals seemed to be in danger each year. It made me really sad to hear that the population of some animals was falling by large amounts every year. I could not believe that people would hurt beautiful animals like tigers and elephants. In the past, I donated (捐赠) money to organizations that help animals, but it was not enough. I wanted to do more so I moved to Africa to work at a nature reserve.

At the nature reserve, our main job is to guard the animals. Also we need to make sure the animals’ living environment is not being destroyed. Some people still try and take the animals. They often come at night. I am shocked it happens so regularly. They want the ivory (象牙) from elephants or the fur from big cats and do not care

about killing the animals to get what they want. The money is all they care about. I am told that some hunters burn the forest to make the animals come out. It is even more selfish (自私的) to do this because it affects every animal.

I am glad to be doing my job. I have been in the job for a year now, and I know I have helped stop a lot of animals from being harmed.

26. What does the writer believe about animals?

   A. It would be better to keep them in a zoo.

   B. We should never eat them.

   C. They deserve the same respect as humans.

   D. We should hunt them for fun or money.

27. How did the writer feel about the reducing number of animals?

   A. Puzzled.  B. Surprised.  C. Unhappy.  D. Relaxed.

28. The writer moved to Africa because _____.

   A. he wanted to tell hunters that they were wrong

   B. he wanted to raise more money to help animals

C. he wanted to see more animals there

   D. he wanted to do more to help animals

29. What else does a worker do at a nature reserve besides guarding the animals?

   A. To help the animals find food.

   B. To donate money to organizations.

   C. To protect the animals’ living environment.

   D. To get the fur from big cats.

30. Hunters make animals come out _____.

   A. by burning the forest    B. by coming at night

   C. by making loud noises    D. by doing harm to them

B

From a young age, I’ve had a really deep connection with being outside. I’ve been skiing since I was eight or nine years old. I’ve been on expeditions (探险) in many places like China, Pakistan and so on. But it was in my home country, the USA, that I came closest to death.

It was April 1, 2011. I was skiing in the Tetons with my friends Jeremy and Xavier, both experienced snowboarders. That day, I was the last person to ski. They were watching me from a safe area. Suddenly, I heard someone cry loudly. I turned around and saw the whole mountain start to move behind me. It was a massive avalanche (大雪崩). The kind of avalanche that destroys trees, cars, buses, even houses! Tens of thousands of tons of snow were coming straight down the mountain behind me. I felt the snow push me forward, hundreds of meters, and then cover me. It was so heavy that I couldn’t breathe. And then it pushed me forward again and up, out of the snowpack (积雪). I looked around, and for a few seconds I actually stopped being terrified. I had a moment to pause and to look at the power of the avalanche.

I looked down into the bottom of the valley (峡谷). I could see trees that were 30m tall, because I was so far away, they looked tiny to me. “OK, I’m going all the way to the bottom!” I thought. Then the snow pushed me again down the mountain another 450m. I thought the force of