安徽省阜阳市太和县2023-2024学年九年级下学期期中考试英语试题

英语 注意事项： 1. 本试卷共四部分，十大题，满分120分，考试时间为120分钟。 2. 全卷包括“试题卷”（8页）和“答题卷”（2页）两部分。 3. 请务必在“答题卷”上答题，在“试题卷”上答题无效。 4. 考试结束后，请将“试题卷”和“答题卷”一并交回。 第一部分 听力（共四大题，满分20分） Ⅰ. 短对话理解（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到五段对话，每段对话后有一个小题。请在每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。 1. What does the boy like best? A. B. C. 2. What did Sandy do last Saturday? A. B. C. 3. Where is the woman going? A. To a school. B. To a bank. C. To a bookstore. 4. Who will Simon go to his grandparents’ home with? A. His father. B. His brother. C. His sister. 5. What is the. probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Seller and customer. C. Father and daughter. Ⅱ. 长对话理解（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到两段对话，每段对话后有几个小题。请在每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。 6. How many people went to the old people’s home with Jack? Four. B. Five. C. Six. 7. What did the volunteers do for the old? A. They bought some flowers. B They helped build their rooms. C. They chatted with the old. 听下面一段对话，回答第8至10题。 8. When did Mr. Smith give the report? A. Last Friday. B. Last Saturday. C. Last Sunday. 9. What was the report about? A. How to keep healthy. B. How to protect the earth. C. How to improve English. 10. Why did Cindy get a gift? A. Because she answered the questions well. B. Because she listened to the report carefully. C. Because she interviewed Mr. Smith happily. Ⅲ. 短文理解（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到一篇短文，短文后有五个小题。请根据短文内容，在每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。短文读两遍。 11. When did Ann start helping her mum? A. At the age of five. B. At the age of six. C. At the age of seven. 12. What was Ann good at later? A. Selling nice biscuits. B. Making beautiful biscuits. C. Collecting different biscuits. 13. What kind of things did Ann try to make? A. Dogs and cats. B. Cars and trains. C. Windows and doors. 14. How often did a cake shop ask Ann to offer biscuits and cakes? A. Three times a week. B Four times a week. C. Five times a week. 15. How did Ann feel? A. Bored and tired. B. Worried and nervous. C. Worried but happy. Ⅳ. 信息转换（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到一篇短文。请根据短文内容，写出下面表格中所缺的单词，每空仅填一词。短文读两遍。 How to Get on with Others Fact It is natural to have 16 with someone around us. Some advice to get on with others ·Talk in an open way when we don’t 17 with others ·Respect and 18 them ·Help each other when we are in 19 If we try to be nice to others and be 20 with them, we will get on well with them and make more friends. 第二部分 英语知识运用（共两大题，满分30分） Ⅴ. 单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. —Tony, do you know anything about Confucius? —Yes, he had 72 famous students and he’s one of the greatest ________ in the field of education in China. A. farmers B. friends C. soldiers D. pioneers 2. I never thought of giving up, ________ everyone else felt the task was impossible to finish. A. so B. and C. while D. because 3. —Why do you choose this shop? —Because the food in this shop is nice and ________. You can always get good goods at low prices. A. safe B. cheap C. wealthy D. strange 4. The police are responsible for ________ people’s lives, so we should respect them. A. burning B. leading C. guarding D. enjoying 5. In the past, more Europeans took adventures towards China ________ the Silk Road. A. from B. above C. along D. under 6. —What should I pay attention to when I go to China? —In China, ________, people shake hands as a form of greeting and use chopsticks to eat food. A. luckily B. happily C. finally D. traditionally 7. Chinese basketball team is ________ for the 2024 Paris Olympic Games. Let’s look forward to their wonderful performance. A. training hard B. speaking aloud C. driving fast D. coming late 8. Scientists always ________ what they see so that they can get the truth of nature. A. doubt B. guess C. forget D. expect 9. Scientists are still working hard, although they ________ great progress in their study. A. have made B. will make C. are making D. were making 10. —I will go back to my hometown to celebrate the Spring Festival with my family. —________. See you later. A Hold on B. Good luck C. Have fun D. Excuse me Ⅵ. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 A More and more people are enjoying the outdoors, like hiking and biking in summer, or skiing in winter. Many of us think it’s a valuable ____11____ to see wildlife, such as a deer or a bird, while walking around in the forests. But the animals we ____12____ are usually not so excited to see us. In fact, many animals connect humans with ____13____ and run away or avoid areas with lots of people. According to the study, when we use ____14____ areas like forests and lake for fun, we need to keep in mind that we are ____15____ in the homes of animals that live there. Even when we don’t try to scare animals, our presence (出现) can ____16____ them and make them avoid certain areas. Therefore, nature reserves (自然保护区) need to be ____17____ managed to keep both people and animals happy. And in order to ____18____ harm for animals in forests, we need to take on our responsibility. We should ____19____ the rules of the natural places we visit, like not picking plants or feeding wildlife. Only in this way can we live in ____20____ with animals. And only in this way can we have a brighter future with animals. 11. A. choice B. chance C. suggestion D. collection 12. A. save B. keep C. meet D. catch 13. A. hope B. food C. danger D. kindness 14. A. small B. local C. limited D. natural 15. A. guests B. leaders C. owners D. volunteers 16. A. excite B. worry C. satisfy D. protect 17. A. freely B. crazily C. carefully D. privately 18. A. cause B. consider C. choose D. reduce 19. A. break B. make C. explain D. respect 20. A. line B. advance C. peace D. excitement B Cadi Williams, a seven-year-old girl, received the birthday gifts prepared by her elderly neighbor before he died of cancer. At the time she is looking forward to opening her sixth surprise ____21____ from Ken Watson, who was 87 when he ____22____ five years ago. In Ken’s funeral (葬礼), his family found a package full of 14 presents for the little ____23____ who was only two at that time. Cadi’s parents were very ____24____ by his kindness, because Ken had kept it as a secret from everyone. “It is ____25____ and heart-warming,” said Cadi’s father Owen Williams. Therefore, Cadi began the ____26____ of opening her ‘Ken gift’ every birthday, and so far, she has unwrapped (拆开) toys, books and games. “We tell Cadi about how, on a dark night in December, her neighbor died. She doesn’t really remember him, but you can always keep someone’s memory ____27____ by telling stories.” Cadi’s father said. There’s something quite powerful about a kind neighbor who ____28____ these gifts. Another sweet thing is that we can watch my daughter growing up as well. She was trying to speak words when this tradition ____29____ and now she’s seven. The tradition will continue until Cadi becomes a big girl. It’s like a ____30____ of her growing up. And we should thank Ken forever. 21. A. book B. present C. toy D. game 22. A. gave up B. came out C. passed away D. carried on 23. A. host B. neighbor C. stranger D. relative 24. A. sad B. calm C. angry D. surprised 25. A. simple B. common C. magical D. normal 26. A. job B. search C. challenge D. tradition 27. A. alive B. painful C. absent D. lost 28. A. refused B. received C. exchanged D. prepared 29. A. started B. continued C. remained D. stopped 30. A. symbol B. reason C. record D. behavior 第三部分阅读理解（共两大题，满分45分） Ⅶ. 补全对话（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 根据对话内容，从下面的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有两个为多余选项。 A: Hi, Jane. What are you doing these days? B: Hi, Peter. I’m busy tidying up my school things. A: ____31____ B: I have no idea. I may walk out of the city and get close to the nature. A: ____32____ It’s really a nice place. B: Sounds great. ____33____ A: It’s always colder in the mountain, so remember to wear proper clothes if you go there. ____34____ It’s relaxing. B: Good idea. I like climbing a lot. ____35____ A: It’s my pleasure. Have a good trip. B: Thanks. A. And you can go climbing. B. Thanks for your suggestion. C. Where did you go last year? D. And you can have a camp there. E. But what’s the weather like there? F. Why not go to the Yellow Mountain? G What is your plan for the coming winter vacation? Ⅷ. 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 A Following four simple steps at home can help protect you and your kids from food poisoning (中毒). Stop keeping food together * Keep meat, seafood and eggs away from other foods in the fridge when you store them. * Use one cutting board for meat and seafood, and a separate cutting board for bread and other foods. Wash often under running water Meat, seafood and eggs can spread germs (细菌) to ready-to-eat foods like bread unless you keep them separate. * Wash your hands with soap (肥皂) before, while and after making food, and before eating. * Wash fruit and vegetables under running water. Cook food to the right temperature Food is safely cooked when its temperature gets high enough to kill germs that can make you sick. The only way to tell if the food is safely cooked is to use a food thermometer (温度计). Checking the color won’t help. Use the fridge in a right way Keep your fridge at 8℃ or below and your freezer (冷冻柜) at 0℃ or below, and know when to throw food out. For example, the right temperature for ham is between 0℃ and 8℃, or it will go bad. 36. Who is the text written for? A. Kids. B. Parents. C. Doctors. D. Workers. 37. Which of the following can spread germs if not kept separate? A. Eggs. B. Bread. C. Ham. D. Vegetables. 38. What’s the purpose of the text? A. To share useful cooking skills. B. To ask people to wash hands often. C. To guide people to use fridges correctly. D. To introduce steps to avoid food poisoning. B Eighth-grader Nataley Stejskal from Stillwater Public Schools in Oklahoma, US, did something good for her community. She carried out a blanket (毛毯) drive in November, 2023, picking up blankets from different places and giving them to homeless shelters (庇护所) and organizations such as Home Pantry. “Since she is a Payne County team leader who likes doing community service projects, and she tries to come up with one or two a year to do, this is the one that she decided she wanted to do this year,” Stejskal’s mother told Stillwater News Press. To donate to Stejskal’s community service project, people could either drop off blankets at a local county office or call her to come by and pick the blankets up. The drive resulted in a donation of 125 blankets to the Home Pantry. Stejskal chose to do a blanket drive because schools usually do coat drives while other organizations do gloves drives. A blanket is nice because it can help people stay warm at night, and it isn’t as heavy as a coat, she told Stillwater News Press. She hopes that she can help keep the community warm this winter, as well as encourage others to help people. 39. What did Nataley give to the homeless in her community? A. Gloves. B. Blankets. C. Coats. D. Shelters. 40. How many ways of making donations are mentioned in the text? A. 1. B. 2. C. 125. D. 2023. 41. What can we know about Nataley? A. She is an eight-year-old girl. B. Her family didn’t support her drive. C. She will stop service projects next year. D. The drives in her school did encourage her. C A man in black jumps high into the air. With long white sleeves (袖子), he spread his arms like wings before he lands. Sometimes, he carries a red fan. His dance is eye-catching, often bringing in crowds. He is Chinese dancer Ma Jiaolong. Since 2020, he’s made short videos of himself dancing in London. He has performed at the city’s parks and landmarks like Tower Bridge. The 35-year-old has nearly 5 million followers on Douyin, where he shares his videos. Classical Chinese dance brings martial arts (功夫) movements together with those of traditional Chinese opera. He started to learn it at the age of 12. Later, Ma studied at the Beijing Dance Academy. Since 2019, he has been teaching classical Chinese dance at Goldsmiths, University of London. Three years ago, Ma took his wife’s suggestion and danced at Greenwich Park, a popular place for tourists. She recorded Ma. He then made changes to the video, added music and sent it to friends. “Surprisingly, they loved it, which inspired (鼓舞) me to share it online,” said Ma. Later, Ma made more short videos of his performances. People are often interested in his moves. “Now, making and sharing short videos has become a part of my life and a great way to introduce classical Chinese dance to more people, especially overseas viewers,” said Ma. 42 Where can we probably see Ma dance in London? A. In a park. B. At a coffee shop. C. In a supermarket. D. At a bus station. 43. What does “it” underlined in Paragraph 3 refer to (指的是)? A. Martial arts movements. B. Making Chinese fans. C. Classical Chinese dance. D. Traditional Chinese opera. 44. Who advised Ma to dance outside? A. His wife. B. His friends. C. His workmates. D. His followers. 45. Why did Ma make short videos? A. To get popular. B. To attract crowds. C. To show his dance. D. To spread Chinese culture. D For some children around the world, the environment they grow up in has a huge effect on their lives. This is the case in Madagascar, where 3D-printed schools that run on solar power are now being built. Maggie Grout was just 15 years old when she set up her NGO-Thinking Huts. Now 23, she is celebrating the completion of her first 3D-printed school in Madagascar. She led the whole process (过程) from start to finish, working with a professor supporting her NGO. First, they decided on a place. They chose Madagascar because it needs more schools and has a lot of sunshine, which can be made into energy to power things. Grout then drew a design for the school. She thought about what the people might need and where they worked best. The school could be completed in just a week. To make it more environmentally friendly, they used local materials to build the doors, windows and roof. They also trained local workers to use a 3D printer so that they could build more schools on their own in the future. Grout plans to print a new school in another part of the country where one in five children can’t attend primary school. 46. What is special about the 3D-printed schools? A. They depend on solar power. B. They can be completed in one day. C. They do no harm to the environment. D. They will only be built in Madagascar. 47. How long has Maggie run her NGO? A. For 3 years. B. For 8 years. C. For 15 years. D. For 23 years. 48 What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A. How Maggie trained workers. B. What Maggie did for the school. C. When the school would be finished. D. What materials used to build the school. 49. In which part of a newspaper can we read the text? A. Weather. B. Geography. C. People. D. Travel. E A company called OpenAI has shown a new type of its AI artist, DALL-E 2. Given just a short sentence describing a picture, the tool can create pictures in many different styles. OpenAI had already changed the world once with its AI writing tool, GPT-3. When it was seen for the first time in 2020, it surprised people by quickly creating complete, well-written articles in different styles. DALL-E actually grew out of an effort to apply (应用) GPT-3 to pictures. OpenAI showed the first type of DALL-E last year. DALL-E2 is even more powerful. It can create larger pictures with more information. Its most exciting use; it can edit pictures. The user can choose an area of a picture and ask DALL-E 2 to put something into the picture or take it out. The power of DALL-E 2 has made many people excited, but it also has made some people worried. Some artists are worried that their job might be influenced if a computer system can draw such great pictures according to people’s needs so easily. But I believe DALL-E 2 will only be a tool to help people to show themselves creatively. It helps us understand how AI systems see and understand our world. It is important for our task of creating AI that is good for humans. 50. What can we use DALL-E 2 to do? A. To create pictures. B. To write articles. C. To describe pictures. D. To understand the world. 51. What does the underlined word “edit” mean? A. 下载 B. 删除 C. 保留 D. 编辑 52. What’s the best title for the text? A. Well-Written Articles B. An AI Drawing Tool C. AI that Improves Writing D. A Successful Company, OpenAI F 阅读下面短文，并用英语回答问题 (请注意每小题后面的词数要求)。 Once in a village, there lived a woman. She often got angry at every little thing and said bad things to people around when angry. People living nearby were afraid to talk to her. The woman felt sad about her situation. One day a wise old man came to the village. The woman turned to him for help. After hearing what the woman said, the old man gave a bottle to her and said, “From now on, whenever you get angry, take some of the medicine. That will help you.” The woman was happy after getting the medicine. She thanked him and went back to her home. From that day on, whenever she got angry, she would drink the medicine and slowly she began to stop feeling angry. After 10 days, when the medicine was finished, she went to the old man and said, “You have given me wonderful medicine. The medicine was eaten up. Please give me more of the medicine.” The man smiled and said, “There was no medicine in that bottle. It was filled with water.” The woman couldn’t believe her ears. The man kept saying, “Whenever you got angry and drank something from that bottle, you couldn’t say anything because of the water in your mouth. Always keep silent whenever you get angry. That’s the only way to control your anger.” 53. What did the old man tell the woman to do when she got angry? (不超过10个词) __________________________________________ 54. What was in the bottle? (不超过5个词) __________________________________________ 55. How can we control our anger according to the text? (不超过10个词) __________________________________________ 第四部分 写（共两大题，满分25分） Ⅸ. 单词拼写（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 根据首字母及汉语提示，完成下列单词的拼写，使句意明确，语言通顺。 56. If parents a________ (争论) with us, we should respect their opinions. 57. Tony always eats plenty of f________ (新鲜的) fruit and vegetables. 58. In the first half of 2023, C919 ________ (飞) into the sky for the first time. 59. Spending time with family is one of the happiest m________ (时刻) in life. 60. President Xi praised him for his hard work for world c________ (玉米) development. Ⅹ. 书面表达（共1小题；满分20分） 61. 假定你是李辉，你的英国朋友Allen来信，对你校的劳动实践课很感兴趣，请给他回信。 要点如下： 1. 课程安排； 2. 实践与感受； 3. …… 注意： 1. 词数80～100； 2. 可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯； 3. 文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称； 4. 信的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数。 Dear Allen, Glad to hear from you. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Yours sincerely, Li Hui 英语 注意事项： 1. 本试卷共四部分，十大题，满分120分，考试时间为120分钟。 2. 全卷包括“试题卷”（8页）和“答题卷”（2页）两部分。 3. 请务必在“答题卷”上答题，在“试题卷”上答题无效。 4. 考试结束后，请将“试题卷”和“答题卷”一并交回。 第一部分 听力（共四大题，满分20分） Ⅰ. 短对话理解（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到五段对话，每段对话后有一个小题。请在每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。 1. What does the boy like best? A. B. C. 2. What did Sandy do last Saturday? A. B. C. 3. Where is the woman going? A. To a school. B. To a bank. C. To a bookstore. 4. Who will Simon go to his grandparents’ home with? A. His father. B. His brother. C. His sister. 5. What is the. probable relationship between the two speakers? A. Teacher and student. B. Seller and customer. C. Father and daughter. Ⅱ. 长对话理解（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到两段对话，每段对话后有几个小题。请在每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。 听下面一段对话，回答第6、7题。 6. How many people went to the old people’s home with Jack? Four. B. Five. C. Six. 7. What did the volunteers do for the old? A. They bought some flowers. B. They helped build their rooms. C. They chatted with the old. 听下面一段对话，回答第8至10题。 8. When did Mr. Smith give the report? A. Last Friday. B. Last Saturday. C. Last Sunday. 9. What was the report about? A. How to keep healthy. B. How to protect the earth. C. How to improve English. 10. Why did Cindy get a gift? A. Because she answered the questions well. B. Because she listened to the report carefully. C. Because she interviewed Mr. Smith happily. Ⅲ. 短文理解（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到一篇短文，短文后有五个小题。请根据短文内容，在每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。短文读两遍。 11. When did Ann start helping her mum? A. At the age of five. B. At the age of six. C. At the age of seven. 12. What was Ann good at later? A. Selling nice biscuits. B. Making beautiful biscuits. C. Collecting different biscuits. 13. What kind of things did Ann try to make? A. Dogs and cats. B. Cars and trains. C. Windows and doors. 14. How often did a cake shop ask Ann to offer biscuits and cakes? A. Three times a week. B Four times a week. C. Five times a week. 15. How did Ann feel? A. Bored and tired. B. Worried and nervous. C. Worried but happy. Ⅳ. 信息转换（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 你将听到一篇短文。请根据短文内容，写出下面表格中所缺的单词，每空仅填一词。短文读两遍。 How to Get on with Others Fact It is natural to have 16 with someone around us. Some advice to get on with others ·Talk in an open way when we don’t 17 with others ·Respect and 18 them ·Help each other when we are in 19 If we try to be nice to others and be 20 with them, we will get on well with them and make more friends. 第二部分 英语知识运用（共两大题，满分30分） Ⅴ. 单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） 从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 【1题答案】 【答案】D 【2题答案】 【答案】C 【3题答案】 【答案】B 【4题答案】 【答案】C 【5题答案】 【答案】C 【6题答案】 【答案】D 【7题答案】 【答案】A 【8题答案】 【答案】A 【9题答案】 【答案】A 【10题答案】 【答案】C Ⅵ. 完形填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分） 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 A 【11~20题答案】 【答案】11. B 12. C 13. C 14. D 15. A 16. B 17. C 18. D 19. D 20. C B 【21~30题答案】 【答案】21. B 22. C 23. B 24. D 25. C 26. D 27. A 28. D 29. A 30. C 第三部分阅读理解（共两大题，满分45分） Ⅶ. 补全对话（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 【31~35题答案】 【答案】31. G 32. F 33. E 34. A 35. B Ⅷ. 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 A 【36~38题答案】 【答案】36. B 37. A 38. D B 【39~41题答案】 【答案】39. B 40. B 41. D C 【42~45题答案】 【答案】42. A 43. C 44. A 45. D D 【46~49题答案】 【答案】46. A 47. B 48. B 49. C E 【50~52题答案】 【答案】50. A 51. D 52. B F 【53~55题答案】 【答案】53. Take some medicine/water. 54. Water. 55. Keep silent when angry. 第四部分 写（共两大题，满分25分） Ⅸ. 单词拼写（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分） 根据首字母及汉语提示，完成下列单词的拼写，使句意明确，语言通顺。 【56题答案】 【答案】(a)rgue 【57题答案】 【答案】(f)resh 【58题答案】 【答案】flew 【59题答案】 【答案】(m)oments 【60题答案】 【答案】(c)orn Ⅹ. 书面表达（共1小题；满分20分） 【61题答案】 【答案】例文 Dear Allen, Glad to hear from you. I’m excited to tell you about our labor practice class. It’s held every Friday afternoon, lasting two hours. We learn practical skills like gardening, cooking and cleaning. Last week we planted vegetables in the school garden. Though it was tiring to dig soil and pull weeds, I felt proud when seeing the seedlings grow. Through teamwork, we also made dumplings and shared them with teachers. What’s more, these activities help us understand the importance of labor and develop responsibility. The class not only teaches life skills but also makes us value others’ hard work. I believe you’d enjoy such hands-on learning too! Yours sincerely, Li Hui 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $$