辽宁省铁岭县莲花第二初级中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期期末检测（一）英语试题

 Unit 1 综合测试卷

一、阅读理解(每小题2分，共40分)

第一节 阅读下面语言材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

 Normally you learn English by reading textbooks, listening to tapes and having conversations with partners. Have you ever tried any new ways? Now the following apps can make your English learning more fun.

Podcast	This app(应用程序) is great for training your listening skills, with all kinds of radio programs and talk shows at your fingertips. For example, if you are a basketball fan, you can find talk shows from US basketball experts on the app. Of course they speak great American English. Interest is the best teacher. You can find something you like on the app and have fun.
Fun Dubbing	Fun Dubbing includes videos like the hottest American TV shows, movies and songs. You can dub the videos to learn English. In this way, you can improve your listening as well as your spoken English. At the same time, the app can translate some words you don't know. You can increase your vocabulary. The app increases the joy in learning a language.
Baicizhan	The app Baicizhan helps you divide(分开) the work into a daily task. For example, to learn all the words of junior high school, you need to spend10 minutes memorizing 15 words a day for 3 months. Instead of showing the Chinese and English meanings of a new word, you will learn words with pictures and sentences. So memorizing the words becomes a pleasure.

(   )1. What can you find in Podcast?

A. English videos.      B. Talk shows.    C. Pictures and sentences.     D. English stories.

(   )2. What can you improve by using the app Fun Dubbing?

A. Listening, speaking and vocabulary.              B. Speaking, reading and grammar.

C. Listening, speaking and writing.                    D. Speaking, writing and vocabulary.

(   )3. How can the app Baicizhan help you remember words?

A. By helping you memorize words for a long time.

B. By showing you the Chinese and English meanings.

C. By asking you to make sentences with the words.

D. By letting you connect the word with the picture.

(   )4. Where can you probably read this passage?

A. In science fiction.                           B. In a traveling diary.

C. In an English newspaper.                      D. In an English novel.

B

 So, it's exam time again. Have you done the necessary work to get good marks? Sleeping with the textbook under the pillow(枕头) doesn't work. The best way is to space your practice out, rather than cram(塞满) it all together. Just as a scientist called Tom Stafford advises, if you organize five hours of study into one hour a day, you' ll remember more than if you study for five hours in one day.

 Don't depend on memory alone. Get pens and paper and start working! Students who can test themselves earlier will be better at retrieving the knowledge from the memory and keep it in the long run. John Dunlosky, a professor in the US, suggests that“you start by reading a textbook with your favorite pens and colors, and then write down the important ideas on small cards. While doing so, you actually try to test yourselves on them.”

 Good revision(复习) should give you confidence, but if you are still worried, it's not harmful to follow some special customs. In Japan, it seems to be a tradition for students to eat Katsudon before

a test. This is a bowl of rice with egg and pork pieces. The name of the dish makes people think of the word“katsu”, meaning “winning”. For some students in South Korea, the key to success is not washing their hair before an exam, because they believe they could wash all the knowledge out of their heads. And in different parts of the world, there are always those who believe in their“lucky underwear”.

 The bottom line is that you need to study, eat a good meal, sleep well on the eve of the test, and believe that your efforts will pay off.

 Good luck in your exam!

(  )5. When you “space your practice out”, you         .

A. study for at least 5 hours in one day

B. sleep with your textbook under the pillow

C. organize 5 hours of study into one hour a day

D. study for the exam without sleeping

(  )6. The underlined word“retrieving” would probably mean“        ” .

A. filling in           B. getting back         C. giving away     D. putting down

(  )7. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 3?

A. The word “Katsudon” sounds similar to “winning” in South Korea.

B. In some countries, washing hair brings bad luck after having exams.

C. Some people might wear special underwear before important events.

D. It's harmful to follow some special customs before exams.

(  )8. What does the writer advise students to do before tests?

A. Prepare their exams well and be confident.

B. Choose their favorite pens.

C. Follow some customs and enjoy themselves.

D. Study hard for their exam day and night.

C

 Jung Gui-bae is a teacher at a school in Seoul. He comes up with some new teaching ways. He thinks newspapers are a very good tool to learn English. During the 30 years of his teaching career, Jung has always tried to discover how to encourage students to enjoy learning English.

“Reading is a big part of the College Scholastic Ability Test(CSAT), but textbooks sometimes don't cover the standard of the test questions in terms of length of text and vocabulary level,” Jung said.

 Jung picks English newspapers to make his students follow national and international topics, and at the same time, to make them know news articles well to prepare for the reading part of the English section of CSAT. Lots of English teachers think his teaching ways are very useful.

 He says that his goal is to avoid making his English classes difficult. He just picks one or two articles. After the students first read them, he asks them to summarize(概括) the articles and write what they think about the topics. Jung said the most useful part of the activities is that the students can learn new vocabularies that are often not included in the textbooks.

(  )9. What's a big part of the College Scholastic Ability Test?

  A. Writing.             B. Listening.         C. Reading.             D. Speaking.

(  )10. Jung Gui-bae picks English newspapers in order to make his students        

a. read more English stories           b. follow national and international topics

c. prepare for the reading part of CSAT         d. improve their spoken English skills

 A. a,c                  B. b,c              C. c,d                  D. b,d

(  )11. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A. Jung Gui-bae thinks textbooks are not useful.

B. Jung Gui-bae has been a teacher for less than thirty years.

C. Only a few English teachers think Jung's teaching ways are useful.

D. In Jung's opinion, it's important for students to have rich vocabularies.

(  )12. What's the best title for this passage?

1. A New Teaching Way                         B. A Clever Teacher       

C. The Importance of Newspapers           D. How to Read Newspapers

D

 As an English, I can speak three languages— English, German and French, so do you think the British people are very good language learners? The fact is that they aren't.

 Some statistics(数据) from the survey done by the European Commission(欧盟委员会) showed that 62% of the British people only speak English. 38% speak at least one foreign language and 18% speak two or more. Compared with the British people,56% of the people in other European countries speak at least one foreign language and 28% speak two or more. From this you can see that the British people are famous for not speaking foreign languages and that they are not good language learners in Europe.

 And the survey also showed that English is the most widely- spoken foreign language. Many European people can have a conversation in English. That's why many people don't think it is necessary to learn a foreign language.

 In Britain, students are not required to learn a foreign language. That means learning a foreign language is only an option at school. In UK schools it is common for children to start learning a foreign language at 11 and many of them give it up at14. So why don't students continue learning foreign languages at school? Because they think it is more difficult to get good marks in languages than in other subjects such as science or history.

 To solve this situation, the British government is looking for different ways to improve language learning at school. One way is to start learning it at a much younger age. Another one is to give school children more choices.

 Changing the British attitude(态度) to learning foreign languages may be a hard task but the government decides to try!

(   )13. Which of the following about the British people is TRUE?

A. They are good language learners.

B.62% of them speak two or more languages.

C. They are famous for speaking foreign languages.

D. More than half of them only speak English.

(   )14. According to the passage, students in Britain prefer to learn         .

1. science or German               B. history or German          

   C. science or history               D. German or French

(   )15. The underlined word “option” means“        ” in Chinese.

A.选择                B.游戏        C.错误                D.活动

(   )16. What is the best title of the passage?

A. Speaking English

B. Foreign Language Learning in the UK

C. Schools in the UK

D. Young English Learners

第二节 阅读短文，根据短文内容，从下列方框中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，使短文意思完整、通顺。选项中有一个多余选项。

 If your children are learning to read, it's wonderful! But the fact is, reading is a skill.17.         

 Create a comfortable reading space.

 Choose a special place for your children and put a bookcase of your children's books. 18._____           If your children have got their own special place for reading, they will probably spend time in their little space with their favorite books.

 Set aside time(留出时间) to read together.

 If you want your children to learn to love reading, set aside a few minutes every day to read