江苏省徐州市鼓楼区东苑中学2024-2025学年九年级上学期10月月考英语试题

2024—2025学年第一学期第一次学情调研

九年级英语试题

（全卷共140分，时间90分钟）

一、选择填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

1. Read the magazine, ________ you will learn about the newest lifestyle of the young in China.

A. so B. and C. but D. or

2. After answering the telephone, he turned his ________ back to his homework again.

A. choice B. feeling C. silence D. attention

3. My art teacher is so ________ that he can make different changing pictures with sand.

A. common B. brave C. creative D. friendly

4. I ________ have any time for my hobbies. How boring my life is!

A. always B. hardly C. perhaps D. certainly

5. Football is a popular sport. But ________ Jim ________ Jack likes watching football matches.

A. not only; but also B. neither; nor C. both; and D. either; or

6. — Do you think Andy can be a good policeman?

— Yes, I think so. He has the ability to stay 　　　 when something dangerous happens.

A calm B. excited

C. afraid D. nervous

7. Whether to go for a picnic tomorrow all ________ the weather.

A. belongs to B. happens to C. depends on D. comes on

8. I prefer to ________ the sad children by giving them some toys they like.

A. clean up B. put up C. cheer up D. take up

9. —Do you know ________?

—We can try to produce less waste, reuse or recycle things.

A. why can we live a green life B. how we could live a green life

C. when we can live a green life D. how we can live a green life

10. —I love Douyin. I’ve come to know many friends on it. They are all famous live bloggers.

—________. Few of them would become your real friends.

A. I can’t agree more B. Don’t say like this

C. That’s not the case D. Never mind

二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分）

Do you know why different animals or pests (害虫) have their special colours? Colours in them seem to be mainly used to ____11____ themselves.

Some birds like eating locusts (蝗虫), but birds cannot ____12____ catch them. Why? It is because locusts change their ____13____ with the change of the colours of crops. When crops are green, locusts look ____14____. But as the harvest time comes, locusts change into the same brown colour ____15____ crops have. Some other pests whose colours are ____16____ plants are easily found and eaten by ____17____. So they have to hide themselves to survive and appear only ____18____.

If you ____19____ animals, you’ll find the main use of colours is to protect ____20____. Bears, lions and other animals ____21____ quietly through forests. They cannot be easily seen by hunters ____22____ their colours are much like the trees.

Colours are useful not only on the land, but also in the ____23____. A kind of fish can ____24____ a kind of black liquid (液体) when they face danger. The liquid spreads quickly, so they cannot be found by their enemies and can quickly swim away. That is ____25____ they can live safely though they are not strong at all. So colours are really useful to animals.

11. A. show B. protect C. kill D. interest

12. A. easily B. freely C. safely D. differently

13. A. sizes B. smells C. colours D. shapes

14. A. yellow B. red C. black D. green

15. A. so B. as C. for D. with

16. A. different from B. the same as C. similar to D. opposite to

17. A. other B. others C. the others D. another

18. A. in the morning B. at noon C. at night D. in the daytime

19. A. study B. write C. draw D. work

20. A. him B. themselves C. it D. itself

21. A. run B. fight C. move D. eat

22. A. because B. so C. and D. although

23. A. forest B. desert C. sea D. mountain

24. A. keep out B. come out C. look out D. give out

25. A. why B. when C. what D. where

三、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

A)阅读短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

A

The TENGFEI SCHOOL of English
-maximum (最多) 40 students -40-hour course -every day of the week -experienced teachers	-maximum 15 students -30-hour course -Monday to Friday -native teachers	-maximum 30 students -12-hour course -Saturday and Sunday -experienced teachers
Opening Time        Address Monday-Friday    8 a.m.-5 p.m.    32 Qinghua East Road Saturday-Sunday    9 a.m.-4 p.m.    Haidian District Find us        Beijing, China Tel: 010-38167295        www. tfedu.Cn Email: tengfei@163.com

 

26. How much should a student pay for the writing course every hour?

A. ¥8. B. ¥20. C. ¥40. D. ¥240.

27. On Saturday, a student can ________ in Tengfei School.

A. practice speaking English B. have speaking and writing courses

C. talk with the native teachers D. take writing and listening courses

28. If you want to get more information about the school, you can NOT ________.

A. go to 32 Qinghua West Road B. visit www.tfedu.cn

C. send an email to tengfei@163.com D. call at 010-38167295

B