吉林省长春市外国语学校2025--2026学年九年级上学期开学考试英语试题

长春外国语学校2025-2026学年第一学期期初考试

初三年级英语试卷

本试卷包括四道大题，满分100分，考试时间为90分钟。考试结束后，将答题卡交回。

注意事项：

1.答题前，考生先将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡上，并将条形码准确粘贴在条形码粘贴区。

2.答题时，考生务必按照考试要求在答题区上指定域内作答，在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。

一、基础知识（共25分）

Ⅰ.单项选择（共25小题：每小题1分，满分25分）

从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个最佳答案。

1. There ________ some flowers in my room. I often water them.

A. is B. are C. was D. were

2. In a DIY club, the more we practice, ________ we become.

A. the worse B. the worst C. the better D. the best

3. We often hear “Mind your step.” when we ________ a high-speed train.

A. put off B. turn off C. get off D. cut off

4. The water bottle ________ be Mr. Liu’s. The name on the bottle isn’t his.

A. must B. may C. mustn’t D. can’t

5. ________ eyes healthy, we students should spend less time on screens.

A. To keep B. Keep C. Kept D. Keeping

6. The movie Ne Zha 2 ________ with the public since it came out.

A. has been popular B. is popular C. was popular D. will be popular

7. —Helen, your hat is cute. Could you tell me ________?

—Thanks. At Huaxing Store.

A. where did you buy it B. where you bought it C. when did you buy it D. when you bought it

8. My cousin can cook many dishes, ________ he is only 10 years old.

A. because B. so C. until D. although

9. ________, Tutu, or you will be late for class. Only two minutes left.

A. Hurry up B. To hurry up C. Hurrying up D. Hurried up

10. ________ beautiful the poem Mom Knows Best is! I want to read it to my mom.

A. What B. What a C. How D. How a

11. It’s _______ unusual project for the volunteers to raise money on the street.

A. a B. an C. the D. /

12. It’s believed that everyone is born ________ the ability to learn.

A. of B. into C. with D. for

13. He won’t borrow money from his friends ______ he really has to.

A. when B. as long as C. as soon as D. unless

14. This red crayon is ______ and the black one belongs to ______.

A. mine; hers B. me; her C. mine; her D. me; hers

15. —Mary has never kept a pet.

—________.

A. Neither did I B. So have I C. Neither have I D. So am I

16. —When did you buy your iPad?

—I ________ it for four years, but it still works very well.

A. had B. have bought C. have had D. bought

17. ---I don't want to ______ my old friends.

---You can still communicate with them after going to a new school.

A. clear out B. check out C. help with D. part with

18. ----When will your sister go to England?

----She      London since four months ago.

A. went to B. has gone to C. has been to D. has been in

19. —What were you doing when the rainstorm came?

—Oh, I ________ a shower in the bathroom.

A. have taken B. was taking C. took D. will take

20. —Jane won the first prize in the English speech contest.

—________ big progress she has made! She used to be weak in English.

A. How B. How a C. What D. What a

21. ________ how much we care about her, we bought all the school things she needs.

A. Show B. To show C. showing D. Showed

22. ______ useful advice he has given to us!

A. What B. How C. How a D. What a

23. —I wonder _______. I am really worried about them.

— They made it this morning.

A. when did they reach the top of the mountain B. when they reached the top of the mountain

C. how did they work out this problem D. how they worked out this problem

24. _______ ways to get on well with your classmates, or you will get yourself very lonely.

A. To find B. Find C. Finding D. Found

25. —Would you please help me buy some vegetables on your way home?

—______________.

A. That’s all right B. My pleasure C. It doesn’t matter D. With pleasure

二、阅读（共50分）

Ⅱ.完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

Xu Dawei grew up in a village in Shandong. He learned much knowledge through reading. This self-education and growth ___26___ him to his success. He opened a library in 2010 after several years of working.

The library is different from ___27___ ones. It doesn’t set the time when the books should be ___28___. A reader can take one book every two weeks. The reader is ___29___ to pass it on to someone else when he finishes reading. Xu often shares his book lists online. If readers cannot find those books in their local libraries, he will mail the books to them for free as ___30___ as possible.

Sitting in a small hutong in Dongcheng district, Beijing, the library is just seven square meters in size. It ___31___ thousands of books about different subjects.

The library was moved because of money problems. The ___32___ of the library has changed three times. However, the library is still ___33___ now.

“It might be the ___34___ library in the world,” said Xu. “But in another sense, it’s also the biggest because the books keep ____35____. I don’t even know where some of them have ended up.”

Xu recalled the ____36____ of one reader who borrowed an English book on Chinese garden history. Later, the reader ____37____ passed it to a neighbor, who took it to Germany. “Just imagine it: that book started out from a small hutong, and ____38____ all the way to Europe. The ____39____ cannot be seen, yet powerful,” Xu said.

It’s the most ____40____ thing Xu has done for the society. He will pass the library on and it can keep reading from disappearing to some degree.