甘肃省兰州市第八十一中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试题

2024—2025 学年度第一学期期中试卷九年级英语 本卷满分 90 分，考试时间 90 分钟。 一．完形填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，计 10 分） There are many ways for you to learn language, from taking classes ___1___ self-learning. Hello English is ___2___ app that will help you learn English. Two years ago, my English was very poor, I didn’t know ___3___ . Finally, a friend of ___4___ introduced this app to me. In the past two years, I ___5___ my English a lot with the app’s help. Now my English is ___6___ than most of my classmates. When you first start the app, you’ll have to choose your own language to learn. Twenty-two languages ___7___ . Make sure that you choose the right one because the app will work in your own language from then on. After that, you’ll be given a 20-question test so the app will know your English level. Hello English uses games to teach different English lessons. By ___8___ the tasks, you’ll learn more difficult lessons. There are lessons for all levels of ___9___ from children to adults. Hello English is free for its users ____10____ its money comes from advertisements (广告). 1. A. at B. of C. to D. with 2. A. a B. an C. the D. / 3. A. what I should do B. what should I do C. how I should do D. how should I do 4 A. I B. my C. me D. mine 5. A. has improved B. have improved C. am improving D. are improving 6. A. bad B. worse C. good D. better 7. A. provide B. provided C. are provided D. is provided 8. A. to complete B. completing C. to fail D. failing 9. A. teacher B. teachers C. learner D. learners 10. A. because B. although C. before D. so that 二．阅读理解（共 15 小题，每小题 2 分，计 30 分） A When I was a boy, I used to travel by bus or by motorbike. My grandparents used to live in a small town, but my parents used to work in another town. It’s far from my home to my grandparents’. It’s about 100 miles. We used to take a bus or ride a motorbike to visit my grandparents. There were always many people on the bus. I used to feel terrible when I was on it. Therefore, but it was too cold in winter. We must stop to stay warm for a while and have a short rest for several times on the way. Now, it has changed a lot. My father bought a nice car three years ago. We can drive to my grandparents’ home. And I am an 18-year-old college student. I don’t feel terrible even though I travel by bus. I usually feel comfortable when I travel by car. 11 How did the writer use to travel when he was young? A. By bus. B. By motorbike. C. By car. D. A and B. 12. Did his parents use to live with his grandparents? A. Yes, they did. B. No, they didn’t. C. Yes, they didn’t. D. We don’t know. 13. How far is it from his parents’ home to his grandparents’? A. It’s about 10 miles. B. It’s about 100 kilometers. C. It’s about 100 miles. D. It’s very near. 14. How did the writer use to feel when he traveled by bus? A. Cold. B. Terrible. C. Comfortable. D. Nervous. 15. How old is the writer now? A. Eighteen. B. Eight. C. Eighty. D. We don’t know. B Beijing Opera (京剧) is our national opera. It came into being after 1790 and has a history of over 200 years. Its music and singing came from Xipi and erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. There are four main roles in Beijing Opera: Sheng, Dan, Jing and Chou. Beijing Opera is full of famous stories, wonderful gestures and fighting. Some of the stories are from history books, but most are from famous novels. The people in the stories usually can’t agree with each other. They become angry, unhappy, sad and lonely. Sometimes they are frightened and worried. Then they find a way to make peace with each other. Everyone is usually happy in the end. Beijing Opera is an important part of Chinese culture. In China it used to be popular with old people but young people didn’t like it. However, more and more young people are becoming interested in it now. And more people around the world are learning about Beijing Opera’s special singing and facial paintings. 16. How long is the history of Beijing Opera? A. 203 B. 213 C. 234 D. 245 17. Beijing Opera’s ________ came from Xipi and erhuang in Anhui and Hubei. A. music and singing B. acting and fighting C. music and acting D. singing and fighting 18. How does everyone feel in the end? A. Angry. B. Sad. C. Happy. D. Frightened and worried. 19. Which of the following is TRUE? A. Beijing Opera used to be popular with old people and young people. B. More people are interested in Beijing Opera now. C. Beijing Opera isn’t a part of Chinese culture. D. There are five main roles in Beijing Opera. 20. What’s the best title of the passage? A. The History of Beijing Opera B. Beijing Opera C. The Roles of Beijing Opera D. The Changes of Beijing opera C Zhi Nong was born in a small town in Yunnan Province. When he was young, he moved to Kunming with his mother. Feeling like a caged (笼中的) bird in a big city, he was bored with the busy and noisy city life and looked forward to nature. His chance soon came. In 1983, he helped shoot (拍摄) a documentary about birds. That experience led him to learn photography and take photos of flying birds. In the 1980s, the Internet was not that popular in China and cameras were expensive. He managed to borrow a camera and threw himself into studying how to use it. During that time, the library became his favorite place where he first read some magazines about nature. It opened a door for him to connect with nature. In 1992, a research program was organized to protect a type of unusual monkeys which only live in China. Usually, the home of these monkeys has half-a-year-long winters. It created great challenges for Zhi Nong’s work, but he never drew back “I didn’t see the monkeys in the wild until I went into the mountains the third time,” said Zhi Nong. He went into the snow mountains six times just to get valuable photographs of the monkeys. Three years later, his works won international prizes. People around the world began to pay attention to the protection of wild animals in China. And he is the first Chinese winner of the world Wildlife Photographer of the year. ★ , he started “China Wildlife Photography Training Camp”. He hopes that more young people will join in for the nature protection. 21. What can we know about Zhi Nong from this passage? A. He made a documentary about birds. B. He moved to Yunnan Province and fell in love with nature there. C. He learned to take photos of flying birds in the 1980s. D. He felt like a free bird. 22. What did Zhi Nong do to help protect the unusual monkeys? A. He went into the snow mountains three times. B. He organized a research program about the monkeys C. He went to the library to read some magazines about nature. D. He took some valuable photos of the monkeys. 23. What do the underlined word “drew back” mean in Paragraph 4? A. Gave up. B. Grew up. C. Set out. D. Put on. 24. Which sentence can be put in ★ ? A. In order to help people know more about wildlife B. In order to call up tons of people to protect wildlife with cameras C. In order to teach more people how to take photos D. In order to make more young people fall in love with wild birds and monkeys 25. What is the best title for the passage? A. Photographer’s Way of Protecting Nature B. Door between Magazines and Nature C. Difficulties of Taking Wildlife Photos D. World Attention to Animal Protection 三．任务型完形填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，计 15 分） 请用括号内词语的正确形式填空。 visit so paint at new city idea one spend he Pablo Picasso (毕加索) was born in Spain in 1881. His father was an artist and also an art teacher. He gave little Picasso the ____26____ lesson in drawing. The boy showed great interest in it and learned it very quickly. Picasso drew ____27____ well that he won a prize— “Science and Charity” for his first important painting ____28____ the age of 15. Later he studied in several ____29____ in Spain. But no one could teach ____30____ because he had known so much. When he was 19, he ____31____ Paris. At that time, Paris was the center of the world for artists. Everything in the painting world was ____32____ to Picasso. When he was 23, he moved to Paris to live and ____33____ the rest of his life in France. In his 80s, Pablo Picasso still worked like a young man. He kept on looking for new ____34____ and new ways to work. He never stopped ____35____ all his life. Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest artists in the world, died in 1973. 四．任务型阅读理解 阅读下面的语篇材料，根据所读内容，完成下列各题。 Tea bag drinking is most Westerners’ favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how tea bag drinking came about? The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk (丝绸) bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added hot water. 3 The tea tasted better, and people thought it was easier to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose (散的) tea again. Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular, they were changed from silk to gauze (薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided (四面的) tea bag. Tea bags were soon popular in the UK, and today 85% of tea in the UK is packed in paper bags. 4 ________, many people still prefer loose tea. This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers, tea bags are still the easy, tasty way to go. 1—2题回答问题；3题将短文中划线的句子译成汉语；4题在空白处填入恰当的词汇（仅限一词）；5题给短文拟一个适当的英文标题。 36. Who invented the tea bag? ____________________________________ 37. What is most tea in the UK packed in today? ____________________________________ 38. ____________________________________ 39. ____________________________________ 40. ____________________________________ 五．词汇考查（请用括号内单词的正确形式填空，共 10 题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 41. Autumn is coming and ________ (leaf) are turning yellow. 42. Could you please give me an ________ (introduce) of yourself? 43. Have you ever been to Paris, the capital of ________ (French). 44. I find it hard to make friends in a new school because of ________ (shy). 45. Don’t cut in while others are speaking. It is very ________ (polite). 46. We use chopsticks in China while knives and forks are ________ (wide) used in western countries. 47 A lot of trees ________ (plant) in our city in spring every year. 48. Lucy, can you tell me where ________ (get) the CD of Jay’s? I like it so much. 49. The hen ________ (lay) an egg just now, and it felt excited. 50. — I wonder when Mr. Zhu ________ (leave)? — Maybe next Tuesday. 六．书面表达(15 分) 51. 假如你叫韩梅，刚转到一所新学校。你英国朋友Candy希望了解你最近的经历和变化。请根据下面表格中的信息，以韩梅的身份写一封信，告诉她你的变化。 过去 现在 有很多朋友，性格开朗 几乎没有朋友，变得沉默寡言 花很多时间和朋友一起玩 多数时间用在功课上 对功课没有兴趣，成绩不好 变得爱学习了，成绩提高很快 要求： 1. 语言流畅，内容连贯，书写规范，卷面整洁，短文词数 80 词左右。 2. 文中不能使用你的真实姓名、校名。 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 2024—2025 学年度第一学期期中试卷九年级英语 本卷满分 90 分，考试时间 90 分钟。 一．完形填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，计 10 分） 【1~10题答案】 【答案】1. C 2. B 3. A 4. D 5. B 6. D 7. C 8. B 9. D 10. A 二．阅读理解（共 15 小题，每小题 2 分，计 30 分） A 【11~15题答案】 【答案】11. D 12. B 13. C 14. B 15. A B 【16~20题答案】 【答案】16. C 17. A 18. C 19. B 20. B C 【21~25题答案】 【答案】21. C 22. D 23. A 24. B 25. A 三．任务型完形填空（共 10 小题，每小题 1.5 分，计 15 分） 【26~35题答案】 【答案】26. first 27. so 28. at 29. cities 30. him 31. visited 32. new 33. spent 34. ideas 35. painting 四．任务型阅读理解 【36~40题答案】 【答案】36. Thomas Sullivan. 37. Paper bags. 38. 茶尝起来更好喝，而且人们认为杯子更容易清洗。 39. However 40. The History of Tea Bags 五．词汇考查（请用括号内单词的正确形式填空，共 10 题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） 【41题答案】 【答案】leaves 【42题答案】 【答案】introduction 【43题答案】 【答案】France 【44题答案】 【答案】shyness 【45题答案】 【答案】impolite 【46题答案】 【答案】widely 【47题答案】 【答案】are planted 【48题答案】 【答案】to get 【49题答案】 【答案】laid 【50题答案】 【答案】will leave 六．书面表达(15 分) 【51题答案】 【答案】例文 Dear Candy, I hope this letter finds you well. I have changed a lot since I moved to this new school this term. I used to have many friends and be outgoing, but now I have few friends, and I become a little quiet. In the old school, I used to spend much time playing with my friends, but now I have to spend most of my time on my schoolwork. I used to have no interest in my lessons, so I usually got bad grades. However, now I become more interested in my studies, and my grades have improved a lot. I hope you are doing well, too. Yours Han Mei 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$