江苏省常州市金坛区直溪中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期期末专项训练二英语试卷

英 语 试 题 （总分100分） 一、英语阅读（每题3分） A Short stories are amazing. You can get something useful out of them. The Bogey Beast Flora Annie Steel A woman finds a pot of treasure on the road. Pleased with her luck, she decides to keep it. As she is taking it home, it keeps changing. However, her enthusiasm(热情)refuses to fade away. Her positive personality tries to make every terrible situation seem like a gift. There Will Come Soft Rains Ray Bradbury Earth has been destroyed by war. However, machines continue to function and serve humans who have long ago died. The title is taken from a poem describing how nature will continue its work long after humanity is gone. But in this story, we see that nature plays a supporting role and machines have taken its place. The Tale of Johnny Town-Mouse Beatrix Potter Timmie is a country mouse accidentally taken to a city. He finds himself at a party and makes a friend. When he can’t bear the city life, he returns to his home. When his friend visits him, something similar happens. Village and city life are recent inventions and we need to decide their costs and benefits. The Night Train at Deoli Ruskin Bond While taking the train, Ruskin Bond always has to pass through a small station called Deoli. One day he sees a girl selling fruit and he is unable to forget her. This is about our attachment to strangers and why we treasure them even though we do not meet them ever again. 1. What does There Will Come Soft Rains want to teach us? A. Nature works in its own way. B Humans shouldn’t break natural law. C. Technology can still function without humanity. D. Technology should be developed to serve our life. 2. What happened to Timmie’s friend? A. He settled down in the village. B. He made many friends in the village. C. He couldn’t get used to the village life. D. He couldn’t bear the life in the city anymore. 3. Whose story tries to show the connections between people? A. Flora Annie Steel’s. B. Ray Bradbury’s. C. Beatrix Potter’s. D. Ruskin Bond’s. B Cats don’t live by the rules, and spend most of their time just doing what they want. For the cat owner Zack King, his cat Billy’s life was enigmatic. Free-spirited felines(猫类) who like to spend time outdoors are often gone for hours at a time, leaving their owners wondering where they’ve been or what they’ve been up to. However, King soon discovered that his beloved cat was serving as a “postcat”. Billy comes and goes as he pleases through a cat door. One day in October, when Billy was inside, King noticed a folded piece of paper covered in a plastic wrap in his collar. King carefully unwrapped it and was surprised to find a note from his neighbors. “Your cat likes to come to visit us when he is outside,” it read. “He will sit at the door and run into our house. We have no idea where he comes from. He always wants people to give him lots of scratches(挠痒). What’s his name? Does he have an owner?” King wrote a note back, attached it to Billy’s collar, and hoped it would make it to the original sender. “We’re so glad he’s making friends with the neighbors,” it read. “His name is Billy.” It wasn’t long before Billy came back with another note, and now months later, the neighbors are still pen friends. “We both like watching movies online and cooking at home,” King said. “We have no idea what the neighbors look like. We could ask for details but there’s no need—it’s nice to have some privacy sometimes.” “I was frustrated as the nights got colder and darker. Billy is spending more time indoors and sweet exchanges have become less frequent,” he says. “To be honest, a closed door and a sensitive alarm can ensure the safety of our houses. But they can prevent neighbors from having healthy friendships. To break the ice, we just need a cat and a note.” 4. What does the underlined word “enigmatic” mean in paragraph 1? A. Mysterious. B. Boring. C. Tough. D. Ordinary. 5 Why did King’s neighbors write a note? A. To know the identity of the cat. B. To express his dislike of the cat. C. To express his thanks for the cat. D. To ask King to take the cat back. 6. What can we learn from the last but one paragraph? A. King has met with his neighbors before. B. King hopes to thank the neighbors in person. C. King shares common hobbies with his neighbors. D. King has communicated with his neighbors online. 7. What does King imply in the last paragraph? A. We should make friends with neighbors. B. We should ensure the safety of our houses. C. We should respect the privacy of neighbors. D. We should keep pets to stay safe and healthy. C Cell phones, tablets, laptops, smart-watches: the modern world is packed with a lot of devices that bring us connectivity, entertainment and information. Our hunger for the latest models leads to the “throwaway” culture, which means consumers often throw away old devices as soon as new ones come to the market, a habit that can have a significant effect on waste streams and the environment. With concerns about e-waste growing, some companies are now turning to chemistry to develop solutions to recycle items like old cell phones, extracting value at the same time. One such example is the work being carried out by Mint Innovation, a clean tech firm based in Auckland, New Zealand. “We’ve developed a biological process for recovering valuable metals from electronic waste,” said Ollie Crush, the company’s chief scientific officer. Crush explained that Mint Innovation’s system included grinding(磨碎)waste up into a powder. “The reason why we must do this is that we need to make sure that we’re exposing all the metal contained within to a chemical filtering(过滤)process,” he added. When it comes to recovering a valuable material like gold, the technique used by Mint Innovation has a number of steps. According to a video, chemicals dissolve (溶解) the powdered waste into a solution, with any materials that haven’t dissolved filtered out. Microbes are then added to the mix. Gold atoms catch on to them in a process called “selective biosorption”. Next, the microbes coated gold are filtered, producing a paste which is then turned into a solid, “recycled” gold. “Nearly 50% of the value of e-waste comes from the gold,” Cameron Weber, a senior lecturer at Chemical Sciences, said. “In fact, there’s actually more gold in e-waste as a concentration than there is in gold that’s been mined, which shows you the value of being able to take your e-waste and recycle and reuse some of the elements that are found in it,” he added. Looking ahead, Crush, explained the process could potentially have a number of interesting applications. “The future for Mint Innovation is to prove that our technology works with a number of different materials,” he said. “So, we’ll just keep trying to see where our microbial process makes more sense.” 8. What is Mint Innovation trying to do? A. To develop eco-friendly products. B. To change the “throwaway culture”. C. To collect harmful things in e-waste. D. To get valuable things from e-waste. 9. What is an important step in Mint Innovation’s system? A. Mixing e-waste with gold. B. Reusing elements of e-waste. C. Turning e-waste into tiny pieces. D. Exposing e-waste to special chemicals. 10. What does Cameron Weber mainly want to express in the last but one paragraph? A. The ways of dealing with e-waste. B. The necessity of reducing e-waste. C. The difficulty of recycling e-waste. D. The meaning of recycling e-waste. 11. What is Crush’s attitude towards the company’s technology? A. Concerned. B. Positive. C. Doubtful. D. Objective. D In most cases, people pick the easiest way out: the path of least resistance. Yet, it is the hard choice — the path of most resistance — that is more beneficial and provides most success in the long run. How do these paths differ? What are the dangers of an easy life? What are the rewards for a hard life? Taking the path of least resistance means choosing the easiest available option, without thinking about its long-term consequences. For example, you eat whatever and whenever you like. It may feel nice at first but they have a very high price — guaranteed obesity (肥胖). Most people in modern world follow this path, and this is why so many people struggle without self-control, good habits, etc. The path of most resistance is about choosing the option that will lead to more personal growth, even if it means suffering in the early stage. For example, it may cost you a lot to quit watching TV for hours. But over the long term, you’ll free up a lot of time that will lead to a more satisfying lite than that of a couch potato. At first sight, this way is unattractive. It requires effort and loss of pleasure, and leads to potential suffering. Yet, on the other side of all that lies a world of more confidence and self-control. In the end, they more than make up for the passing shallow pleasures. We’re lazy by nature. Some may point out that because of this laziness that we now enjoy so many wonders of technology that people in the past would kill to have. But ask the same individuals praising laziness if they would be happy living a life where everything is given to them the moment they think about it. They would have zero difficulties, no aims in life and no obstacle to get over and no wise human would want such an existence. 12. How does the author show the dangers of choosing the easy path? A. By asking questions. B. By giving examples. C. By giving explanations. D. By making a comparison. 13. What does the underlined word “it” in paragraph 3 refer to? A. Watching TV for hours. B. Getting shallow pleasures. C. Having many life struggles. D. Choosing the path of most resistance. 14. Which of the following would the author agree with? A. Life is to be enjoyed, not suffered. B. There should be some challenges in life. C. Set your lite goals as early as possible. D. Good habits provide short-term pleasures. 15. What is the author’s purpose in writing the text? A. To tell us humans are lazy by nature. B. To encourage us to take the hard path of life. C. To prove that laziness leads to wonders in life. D. To show the common lifestyles of young people. 二、七选五（每题2分） Studies continue to show how important strong friendships are to our overall health. Here’re the rules you are supposed to know to keep strong and healthy friendships. ____16____ Everyone needs a support network. When you consider yourself the friend of another, you’re implicitly offering to be a part of his or her support network. What’s more, without trust and honesty, there is no authenticity (真实性) to the friendship. Be all ears to your friends. Too often, we only “half hear” what others are telling us, and have a hard time making space for caring about others’ conditions. ____17____ If we don’t truly know what our friends need or can’t clearly express how we feel or what we need, friendships won’t survive or continue. Throw away the judgment. ____18____ Good friends are able to realize that everyone is human. Friends don’t have to necessarily “like” or “approve” of their friends’ choices, but good friends will accept their friends’ choices no matter what. Forgive (原谅) where you can — and seek forgiveness when you make a mess of something. No one promises to bring perfection to a relationship, so being willing to accept and forgive the weaknesses of others makes you more likely to build a lasting friendship. ____19____ Respect your friends and their boundaries. Everyone has a right to set up personal boundaries to feel safe and respected. Some friends may have a difficult time letting people get close to them for fear of being hurt. ____20____ Give them the space they need to feel comfortable, and let the relationship deepen over time. A. Don’t crowd your friends. B. Offer them what they need. C. Support, trust, and honesty are givens. D. But friendships don’t need to be perfect. E True friends don’t judge each other’s choices. F. However, friendships require attention and care. G. It’s also important that we’re able to recognize when we make mistakes. 三、完形填空（每题2分） A cheerleader amazed everyone at the Nebraska State High School Cheer & Dance Championship (锦标赛). Just two weeks before the competition, something unexpected happened. Morrill High School cheer coach (教练) April Ott ____21____ the sad news to 17-year-old Katrina that she was the only one left on the cheer squad (拉拉队) after three girls ____22____ for personal reasons. The coach added the only choice for them was to watch other girls in action, but Katrina had other ____23____. She made up her mind to go at it ____24____. And that was exactly ____25____ Katrina did. It was the first time that a cheerleader had competed on her own. Surprisingly, she had the ____26____ audience when she was ____27____. She was greeted by huge cheers. And despite not being able to be ____28____ the same as other competitors, her ____29____ ended up eighth out of the 12 squads. “It was the last competition in my high school life. It was certainly out of my comfort zone,” said Katrina. “That was not something I would _____30_____ do by any means, but I didn’t want to end my senior year on a(n) _____31_____ note.” Katrina’s story _____32_____ her coach and many other people. “Katrina _____33_____ herself,” Ott said, “I feel like this is a story for everyone. Never quit. Whatever the _____34_____ are, just keep going.” As for her advice to others, Katrina smiled, “Never back off. You’re _____35_____ than you think you are.” 21. A. acquired B. reminded C. broke D. exchanged 22. A. hurried up B. gave up C. broke up D. shot up 23. A. conditions B. potentials C. resources D. ideas 24. A. equally B. informally C. originally D. alone 25. A. where B. why C. what D. when 26. A. funniest B. loudest C. youngest D. strictest 27. A. dancing B. advancing C. watching D. struggling 28. A. viewed B. directed C. judged D. encouraged 29. A. adventure B. management C. operation D. performance 30. A. mainly B. normally C. finally D. immediately 31. A. usual B. passive C. wrong D. low 32. A. inspired B. attracted C. comforted D. discouraged 33. A. kept up with B. broke away from C. stood up for D. took advantage of 34. A. efforts B. challenges C. desires D. opportunities 35. A. stronger B. luckier C. smarter D. kinder 四、综合填空（每题1.5分） A stunning performance by Shaolin warrior monks amazed hundreds of audiences in Bowers Museum in U.S. Southern California on Sunday. The event offered a unique opportunity for people to ____36____ (active) engage with Shaolin culture. Shaolin Kung Fu is one of China’s most ____37____ (treasure) cultural heritage items, with a history of over 1,500 years. “Whether it’s ____38____ (learn) from Kung Fu masters, exploring Zen arts (禅宗艺术), ____39____ enjoying interactive Shaolin activities, these experiences will help audiences experience the Chinese culture and better understand Chinese traditions,” Anne Shih, chairwoman of Bowers Museum, told Xinhua. The Shaolin Cultural Day also ____40____ (feature) a series of demonstrations on Zen arts, allowing visitors to immerse (沉浸于) ____41____ (they) in the world of Zen Buddhism. Larry Lee was a 72-year-old man ____42____ had been practicing Kung Fu for over 50 years. Lee said, “The traditional Chinese martial arts has deep wisdom in it. It relates to a way of life that goes much ____43____ (deep) than just fighting.” Besides Kung Fu, he was also interested in Chinese medicine, acupuncture, and other aspects of the Chinese culture. The Shaolin Cultural Day served ____44____ a fitting finale to the 2023 Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which offered a platform to honor and appreciate the _____45_____ (contribute) of the AAPI community. 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$