吉林省长春市第一〇八学校2024-2025学年九年级上学期期中英语试题

英语试题2024.10 (满分90分，时间100分钟) 一、基础知识(共15分) 1.从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。(15分) 1.Headsches may be a of stress.You rieed to havea good rest. A.sign B.spirit C.break D.joy —China is getfing betler and better at making high technology products. —That's right.People around the world can hardly avoid products made in China. A.notbuying B.not to buy C.to buy D.buying 3.Unlike Chinese,Americans their meals with knives and forks. A.used to taking B.are used to taking C.used to take D.are used to take 4.-Long time no sec! —-Ohl It ten years since we last time. A.was;meet B.is been;met C.has been;met D.was being;meet 5. it's hard togive up bad habits,we shouldstill fight on. A.As long as B.As soon as C.Ever since D.Eventhough 6.After two hours of reading,Paul his book on the table and down for a rest. A.laid;lay B.laid;laid C.lay;laid D.lay;lay 7. kids leam to be independent, it is for their future. A.Earlier;better B.The earlier;the better C.Earliest;best D.The earliest;the best 8.--What did our teacher say just now? --He said that light much faster than sound. A.traveled B.will travel C.travels D.is traveling 9.-- brave Zhang Hua is! ---Yes.He helped his neighborMrs.Sun out of the fire. A.What a B.How C.How a D.What 10.--So kind of you to give me a ride to the bus stop. A.My pleasure. C.With pleasure. B.Never mind. D.That's nothing to do. 二、交际运用(共5分) II. 根据对话及方框中所给的句子补全对话。选项中有一个句子是多余的。(5 分 ) A:I'm a reporter from China Daily.Congratulations on your speech this morning!It was wonderful! B:Thanks a lot! A:11. B:I tried my best so as to make it good.I practiced it every day.12. A:As far as I know,in the past you were too shy to talk to anyone. B:It's true.I used to be a shy girl. A:How did you overcome it? B:My mother was very worried about me.13. .She encouraged me to take part in the speech contest. A:14. B:At first,I thought it was unbelievable.But when I realized itwas true.I felt excited.I couldn't help crying.After all,the contest changed my life.15. I'm very thankful to all the people who helped me. A:Would you like to say something to the teenagers? B:Of course.Believe in yourselves!Keep on going and never give up! A:Thanks for answering my questions.See you later. ( B:See you. A.She told me that I must have confidence in everything. B.I practiced it at least 100 times. C.How did you do such a good job? D.It made me feel more confide nt. E.What did you think when you won the contest? F.What did you think of the speech contest? ) 三、阅读理解(共45分) II. 完形填空(15分) 阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。 Do you still remember the debate(讨论)between sweet and salty zongzi during Dragon Boat Festival?It seems that the differences between northerners and southemers have always been a 16. topic among Chinese. Now another difference has drawn 17. attention:The way northerners and southerners 18. for food at markets. People from southem China might say they19. to buy what they need for just one or two meals.It is 20. for them to buy just half a Chinese cabbage,two potatoes and 0.25 kilograms ofbeef at a time. However,one maybe 21. if he does thisin the north.22. buying vegetables and meat enough for a week is usual,reported ChinaDaily. Also,23. you go to the market in the south,you can buy a small amount of fruit, such as an apple or pear.Shop owners even 24. you peel and cut them.But hardly do shop owners in the north 25. such service(服务). The difference 26. be because of the different climate( 气 候 ) . Food can be 27. for a long time in the north,as it is usually cold and dry there. Many northerners have the 28. of stocking up( 储 存 )on food. But because of the hot and wet weather in the south,southern Chinese prefer to buy just enough food for one meal or one day.Otherwise( 否 则 ) ,the food may go 29. Maybe these debates about 30. help us Chinese know more about each oth (__)·er. 16.A.boring B.funny C.strange D.popular 17.A.widely B.wide C.width D.widest 18.A.shop B.call C.care D.wait 19.A.decide B.like C.hope D.try 20.A.hard B.easy C.normal D.Wrong 21.A.looked after B.laughed at C.found out D.agreed with 22.A.Instead B.However C.Otherwise D.Besides 23.A.since B.once C.before D.when 24.A.ask B.watch C.make D.help 25.A.receive B.spread C.offer D.refuse 26.A.will B.would C.may D.must 27.A.cooked B.frozen C.bought D.kept 28.A.rule B.habit C.purpose D.chance 29.A.bad B.wrong C.black D.safe 30.A.weather B.traditions C.symbols D.differences IV. 阅读理解。(30分) A A Space Hotel Will Open Soon A Californian company wants to build a hotel in orbit(天体等 运行的轨道). The space hotel will open in 2027.It willbe able to carry up to 400 people.The space hotel will be shaped like a large wheel,with 24 space pods( 舱 )around the outside of the 200-meter-wide structure.The pods will be used for restaurants,bars,gyms,rooms for tourists,laboratories for research and so on. Researchers at Fudan University in Shanghai have made a new type of cloth that can be used as a digital display(数字显示) . Professor Peng Huisheng and his team have spent 10 years trying to make “digital cloth”with a silver-plated yarn(银镀纱)and a kind of thread(线).The cloth could allow a driver toview a GPS map on their arm while driving.It could also help people communicate better ifthey have language barriers(障碍)or disabilities. 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 A Gift Box Made from Mycelium A UK company Seedlip has released(发布)a gift box that packaging(包装材料)made from mycelium(菌丝体).Seedlip is working with Magical Mushroom Company to make the packaging. Magical Mushroom adds mycelium to natural materials that farmers no longer need.As the mycelium tries to break the materials down,it grows threads that form a strong and light material that can be used as packaging.And after being used,it breaks down(分解)naturally in about 40 days in a garden. 根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。(5分) 31.In which section will you read the material above? A 、History B.Technology C.Culture D.Advertisement 32 、What would be agood title for the second piece of news? A.Digital Display B.A Kind of Thread C.A Silver-Plated Yarn D.ANew Type of Cloth 33.Who may use the digital cloth in their life according to the material? A.Students in Fudan University. B.Professor Pengand his family. C.Peoplewho are good at communicating. D.People with language barriers. 34.What does Magical Mushroom add to natural materials that farmers no longer need? A.mycelium B.rope C.plastic D.threads 35.Which of the following is NOTtrue? A.The space hotel will carry as many as 400 people. B.The space hotel will be used in many ways. C.Seedlip is making the packaging on its own. D.The gift box made from mycelium is environmentally friendly. B ①Lam Hon-ming,a talented teacher at the Chinese University of Hong Kong,is top in soybean(大豆)research.Since 1998,Lam's team has been working with scientists in Chinese mainland.He came across Zhang Guodong at a national soybean meeting,who is also excellent in agriculture(农业) .Zhang is from Gansu,China.With the same interest,they decided to improve farmers'lives. ②Farmers in Gansu depend largely on the weather for their living,mainly on rainfall. Because of this,many people livewith poormess in the area.In 2016,they developed three new kinds of soybeans for salty land and dry weather of Northwest China.All the three kinds of soybeans were invented by the two scientists. ③ As the land in Northwest China is not suitable for the growth of common kinds of soybeans,local farmers never planted them,and it became a main problem for spreading the three new soybean kinds.Lam and Zhang communicated with the farmers through different ways. ④By 2020,the planting area of the soybeans in Gansu had been more than 2.4 million squarc kilometers.The production of soybeans had reached 7.71 million kilograms,adding about 30 million yuan to local farmers'income.Zhang said that Professor Lam's work has cut the poorness down and improved agricultural research in Northwest China.“It is hard to keep doíng agricultural research in poor areas.And it is more difficult to travel from Hong Kong to the Northwest to do agricultural research so often."he added. ⑤In the future,Lam will keep working with mainland scientists and lead more “Hong Kong power"into the development of the country's northwest part. 根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。(5分) 36.What can we know about the two scientists from Paragraph 1? A.They have been friends since 1998. B.They met by accident in HongKong. C.They are both interested in agriculture. D.They once studied in the same school. 37.Why did many farmers live a poor life in Gansu? A.Because they planted common kinds of soybeans. B.Because they had less knowledge of agriculture. C.Because the scientists didn't work together before. D.Because they depended mainly on rainfall for their living. 38.What's the meaning of the underlined word“income ”in the passage? A.The soybeans the farmers grow. B.The money the farmers make. C.The knowledge the farmers learn. D.The research the farmers make 39.Which of the following best shows the structure(结构)of the passage? A. B. C. D. 40.What's the main idea of this passage? A.Poomess in Gansu is hard to cut. B.Three kinds of soybeans were developed. C.Farmers in Gansu never planted soybeans. D.Scientists from different areas work together in agriculture. C The Sahara is the largest desert in the world.It has one of the most terrible environments on the earth.It covers an area of about 600,000 square kilometers.This is nearly the whole size of the United States. The huge desert spans(横跨)11 countries.So it has many different land features(地貌特 征 ) .The most famous and beautiful one is the golden sand dune fields(沙丘地) .Other land features include mountains,plateaus(高原)and so on.Some of the mountains have snow in winter.Thousands of years ago,the Sahara was not a desert at all.There were many plants and rivers.As the weather changed,it became hot and dry.Although the natural conditions are terrible,there are many plants and animals like snakes,foxes and birds living there.In some places,people grow fruit.Plants can grow there because their roots( 根 )can reach deep underground to get water. More than 2,000,000 people live in the Sahara.Some of them move around from place to place with their camels.Others live in towns and cities.Camels are known as the"ships of the desert”.They can travel more than a week without water or food in the desert. The desert is not always hot.The temperature changes a lot in a day in the Sahara.And the sunshine is strong there.So people have to prepare well if they plan to visit it. 根据短文内容，判断下列句子正(T)、 误 (F)。(5 分 ) 41.The Sahara Desert is twice larger than the United States in area. 42.Thousands of years ago,the Sahara was not a desert at all. 43.There are no living things in Sahara Desert because of the bad natural conditions. 44.People in the Sahara can move around from place to place with camels. 45.The temperature in the Sahara Desert is not always high. D The Communist Youth League of China(CYLC中国共产 主义青年团)was born in May 1922.It is 102 years old this year.Almost every year in May,hundreds of teenagers get together atTuanyida Square in Guangzhou. 4 In 1932,a special school opened in a small village of Ruijin,Jiangxi. 47 Its first 124 students arrived in December.They were between 14 and 25 in age.They leamed about history,politics,geography and other skills.Every night,the students read books and newspapers. 48 At that time,the young people who wanted to join the CYLC made the application form( 申 请书)by themselves.They needed to write why they wanted to be a CYLC member and how they would do it. 49 The form might be different over time.However,the spirit of the CYLC has never changed. Do you know the song of the CYLC?In 1987,Hu Hongwei wrote the lyrics. 50 Later,Lei Yushengcomposed(作曲)the song.It became the song of the CYLC in 2003. 阅读短文，把A~E 五个句子填入文中空缺处，使短文内容完整。(5分) A.It's the first school of the CYLC. B.It is the place which the CYLC was born in. C.Now the application formisprinted in a standard form. D.He sees young people as a sea offowers in May and the rising sun. E.They not only leamed knowledge,but put what they learmed intopractice. E As an old saying goes in Xunpu,Fujian province,"Put flowers in your hair in this life and you'll also be pretty in the afterlife."In the past,all the women in the small ishing village had long hair,and then they put colorful and special floral(花的)headdresses on their hair.The headdress is known as zorhua.Zanhua was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage(国家 级非物质文化遗产，in 2008. As a child,Huang Rongbing would watch his mother,Weng Xiuzhen,comb(梳理)her long and thick hair.Afer forming a bun(圆髻)at the back ofher head,she would put colorful flowers into her hair,the 34-year-old recalled. The headdress inspired Huang's career( 职 业 )choice.In 2016,he and his older sister opened a salon(美发店).There,tourists can get their hair styled in the Xunpu tradition and have their photos taken.“We have been fully booked and now there are over 200 businesses offering services to dress tourists with a zanhua,"said Huang. The increase in tourist visits has made Huang happy.That's because it not only keeps the business busy but also helps spread the history and culture behind zanhua headdresses. After going through the full zanhua experience,Hu Titi,one of Huang's customers,even brought zanhua culture to Paris in France last year.Under the Eiffel Tower,she shot photos and videos of herself dressed in traditional Chinese clothes with a zanhua in her hair. “It's a duty of every Chinese to spread Chinese culture to the whole world.Seeing foreigners deeply admire my headdresses and Chinese clothes,I felt so proud of being part of Chinese people.”Hu said with excitement. 根据短文内容，回答下列问题。(10分) 51.When was zanhua listed as a national intangible cultural heritage? 52.Are there businesses offering services to dress tourists with a zanhua? 53.Why was the increase in tourist visit made Huang happy? 54.Where did Hu Titi shoot photos and videos of herself dressed in traditional Chinese clothes with a zanhua in her hair? 55.What should we do as a Chinese according to the article? 五、语言运用(共10分) V. 短文填空(10分) 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个恰当的词或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。 In the Ming Dynasty,in order to protect the country and people,the emperor decided to rebuild the Great Wall.However,building a wall with huge stones seemed to be 56 (possible)at that time. Meanwhile,the building of Jiayuguan 57 (require)millions of stones of the same size.People found that neither men 58 horses could carry the stones because they were too heavy. Winter was coming.The workers were 59 (worry)about whether they could finish the work on time.Every day theyhad a _ 60 (discuss)about the way to carry them. One day, 61 worker accidentally poured water onto the road,and he found the water quickly became ice.He stepped on the ice and almost fell down.Thanks to this“mistake,he came up 62 aperfect way to build an“ice”road.In theend,this way was quickly put into practice.On the“ice”road,every stone was carried to the mountain 63 (easy). They finally solved the problem with their wisdom and diligence(勤奋) Today,the Great Wall is not 64 (use)to protect the country any more,but it is always the symbol of our nation's spirit.It givesus the power to create and the courage to move on and get over all difficulties.We'll be fearless,and we'll work together 65 (create) the new"Great Wall"of our time. 六、书面表达(共20分) (A) 假设你是李华，本周六下午四点半要在家里举行乔迁聚会(housewarming party),你 想邀请你的老师 Mr.Cark 参加。请根据要点提示给 Mr.Clark 写一封邮件，邀请他并告诉 他如何到你家。不少于40词。 要点提示： (1)乘坐 No.8 路公交车到光明路下车 (2)直走在第二个十字路口左转，你家就在书店旁边。 Dear Mr.Clark, Yours, Li Hua 人非圣贤，孰能无过?请以“The Mistake Made Me Grow Up”为题，写一篇不少于80词英语短文。 要点提示： (1)简述你犯过的一次错误； (2)谈谈你是的如何改正错误以及你的感悟； (3)适当增加细节，行文连贯； (4)文中不得出现真实姓名和校名。 $$