江西省吉安市吉州区第八中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试题

2024-2025学年第一学期第二次月考

九年级英语试卷

一、听力（本大题共20小题，每小题1分，共20分）

现在是试听时间。请听一段对话，然后回答问题。

What is the boy going to buy?

A. Some juice.  B. Some oranges. C. Some apples.

答案是C。

A)请听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听完每段对话后，你都将有10秒钟的时间回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话读两遍。

1. Who is ready to pick up litter at the park?

A. Mike. B. Lucy. C. Paul.

2. When are the speakers going to meet?

 A. At 7:30 a.m. B. At 8:00 a. m. C. At 8:30 a. m.

3. What sports does Cindy like now?    

A. Yoga. B. Dance. C. Swimming.

4. Why could Jiang get over this difficulty?

A. Because she had a strong mind.

B.  Because she was happy about life.

C. Because her life became better and better.

5. What does the man mean? 

A. He wants to return the bookshelf.

B. He refuses to move the desk away.

C. He wants to move to another house.

B)请听下面4段对话。每段对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。听每段对话前，你将有时间阅读各个小题，每小题5秒钟；听完后，各小题给出5秒钟的作答时间。每段对话读两遍。

请听第1段对话，回答第6、7小题。

6. What's wrong with Tina? 

A. She caught a cold. B. She fell down. C. She had a fever.

7. What's the probable relationship between the two speakers?

 A. Classmates.  B. Guide and visitor.  C. Father and daughter.

请听第2段对话，回答第8、9小题。

8. What did Bill think of the film? 

A. It was boring. B. It was quiet. C. It was amazing.

9. Which of the following is true? 

A. Mary will watch this film.  B. Bill saw this film last weekend. C. They have watched the film together.

请听第3段对话，回答第10至第12小题。

10. How often is the yard sale held? 

A. Once a month. B. Once a term. C. Once a year.

11. What does Daming want to sell? 

A. Old books. B. Old clothes. C. Old bags.

12. Where will the yard sale be held?  

A. Beside Xinhua Street. B. In front of the school library.  C. At the gate of the community.

请听第4段对话，回答第13至第15小题。

13. What activity are the speakers talking about?

 A. The birthday party.  B. The volunteer work.  C. The school graduation.

14. Whose birthday gift is a camera? 

A. Carol's father. B. Carol. C. Dave.

15. How long will the activity last?  

A. For 2 hours. B. For 3 hours. C. For 4 hours.

C)请听下面一段独白，根据独白内容完成下列句子，每个空格不超过3个单词。听独白前你将有50秒钟的时间阅读句子内容。独白读两遍。

16. The speech competition was about the development of our_____________.

17. The competition lasted for________ days.

18. Li Hua was told to_________ information online by his English teacher.

19. Li Hua's___________ surprised his teacher.

20. Li Hua finally won ________the prize.

二、单项填空(本大题共8小题,每小题1分，共8分)

21.  I like acting and I'm in the______ group at school.

A. theater B. chess C. speech D. ping-pong

22. —Has Bob arrived yet?

—No, he's on his way. He'll be here________.

A. daily B. easily C. first D. soon

23. —Tom, can you help me with the housework?

—Sure, but I'm ______right now.

A. lost B. busy C. worried D. lonely

24. —Where is Helen?

—I'm not sure. Maybe she_______ her baseball lesson.

A. had B. was having C. is having D. will have

25. Ted preferred pop music when he ________about his favorite music in the interview.

A. was asked B. asked C. is asked D. asks

26. —Look! The lake is clean. I never throw litter into it.

   —If everyone does this ,it would be_____

  A. dirtier B. the dirtiest C. cleaner  D. the cleanest

27. Oh, I get it —­­ you want me to do all the work _______you sit at home doing nothing

   A. or  B. while C. until  D. unless

28. —Oh hi, I'm looking for a pair of shoes.

—Well, you______ to the right place. We have a lot of shoes in our shop                                                

A. came B. were coming C. will come D. have come

三、完形填空（26 分）

A）请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Li Ming used to be a kid who is not brave enough to express his true thoughts. He always agreed with everything his friends said.

One day, he and his friends were discussing whether middle school students should  29  their phones to school. His friends all thought they should but Li Ming didn’t agree. However,   30  he didn’t dare to share his opinion, he chose to agree with them. But always going against his own will to agree with others made him very

uncomfortable. So he got up the  31  to tell his mom about this.

“I just can’t tell people what I really think or want. It’s too  32   for me.”

“You can’t or you don’t want to?” Mom asked   33 .

“You are right. I guess I don’t want to. I’m afraid to be different,” answered Li Ming.

His mom smiled and handed him a  34  book—The Analects of Confucius (《论语》). Li Ming didn’t know  what his mom 35   , but he started reading the book every night before bed. One day, he read a phrase, “Gentlemen have  36  but disagree; flunkies (小人) agree but have no peace. He didn’t 37   it, so he asked his mom.

“It means gentlemen achieve harmony (和谐), but they don’t just blindly  38  others. They have their own ideas and they can tell the  39  bravely. Flunkies agree easily, but they don’t really work together,” his mom  explained.

Suddenly, Li Ming realized that having different  40  is not a bad thing at all. He is very  41  to the  book. He decided to  42  his own thoughts. He did as he said. From then on, he was no longer  43   To speak his mind. To his surprise, he found that the friendship with his friends became even stronger!

29．A．sell       B．send        C．bring        D．show

30．A．if        B．because      C．when        D．though

31．A．chance    B．time         C．courage      D．memory

32．A．difficult   B．polite        C．important     D．interesting

33．A．angrily    B．happily      C．patiently      D．quickly

34．A．strange    B．funny       C．famous       D．simple

35．A．asked     B．hoped       C．meant        D．answered

36．A．danger    B．noise        C．peace        D．worry

37．A．explain    B．help        C．imagine      D．understand

38．A．give up    B．agree with   C．turn down    D．laugh at

39．A．truth      B．love        C．secret        D．result

40．A．decisions  B．reasons      C．ideas        D．choices

41.  A.  thankful  B．glad        C．sorry         D．friendly

42．A．hide      B．create       C．know         D．express

 43．A．excited    B．certain      C．afraid         D．lucky

B)请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框中所给词的适当形式填空,并将答案填写到答题卡的相应位置。每个词限用一次。

longer-lasting,   important,   invent,   fill,  replace , symbol,  keep , tradition, loud,  experience,   scare

Firecrackers ( 爆 竹 ), known as Baozhu in Chinese have been used for centuries in many celebrations. They are  a(n)    44   part of Chinese folk culture.

Firecrackers   45       a long period of improvement. In ancient China, firecrackers were made from bamboo. That’s because the bamboo bangs (爆炸)   46   when it is burned. In the Tang Dynasty, an inventor called Li Tian was the first to    47   bamboo with powder (火药) to make louder bangs. This    48   won him the name of “Chinese Father of  Fireworks”. Then by the Song Dynasty, bamboo  49     by paper. And the firecrackers were connected together, which allowed for even louder and   50   bangs.

Ancient people used firecrackers to   51   away bad spirits with their loud sounds. And they believed that lighting  firecrackers would bring them good luck in the coming new year.

Nowadays, the use of firecrackers is still a   52   during many Chinese festivals. One of the main reasons is that  firecrackers provide the festivals with joyful sounds. They are still seen as a  53  of joy and happiness in the modern times.  It’s likely that Chinese people will always   54    this tradition alive .