云南省昆明市昆一中山海2025-2026学年九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷

2025～2026 学年九年级上学期期中检测

英语 试题卷

(全卷三个部分，共8页；满分70分，考试用时120分钟)

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第一部分 英语知识运用（共两节，满分20分）

十一节 单项填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选习

1. ________ saving money every month, he finally bought a new bicycle.

A. Far B. With C. By D. At

2. To improve basketball skills, the players find ________ important to repeat practice every day before competition.

A. this B. that C. what D. it

3. Looking back at the past three years, I’m ________ to find myself much more active and confident now.

A. proud B. poor C. polite D. patient

4. On Mid-Autumn Day, families in China have been eating mooncakes together for hundreds of years. This is not only a happy time, but also a special family ________.

A. attention B. tradition C. expression D. invitation

5. To make good use of your time, you should ________ plan your day the night before.

A. normally B. exactly C. wisely D. generally

6. Four mice, two males and two females, ________ to the space station aboard the Shenzhou XXI spaceship on October 31st.

A. have brought B. were brought C. will bring D. are bringing

7. The environment in my hometown is much better now. There ________ be a lot of pollution here.

A. used to B. is used to C. use to D. was used to

8. To achieve the aim of “Carbon Neutrality” (碳中和), we should ________ using plastic bags and use more environmentally friendly products.

A. take up B. look up C. make up D. give up

9. ________ exciting news it is! China’s C919 airplane has started international flights.

A. How B. What a C. What an D. What

10. In today’s physics class, we learned about famous Chinese scientists. Our teacher told us ________.

A. when did Chen-Ning Yang make his most important discovery

B. if Chen-Ning Yang still works at Tsinghua University now

C. that Chen-Ning Yang received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957

D. how many awards has Chen-Ning Yang won in his lifetime

第二节 完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。

In China, people use the idiom loumajiao (“to reveal a horse’s foot”) to describe a situation in which a secret is revealed. There is a story behind it.

There was a time that women with small feet were believed to be more ____11____. Then young girls would be asked to painfully bind (捆绑) their feet to prevent them from getting bigger.

Empress Ma, wife of Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ____12____ to bind her feet because she liked to practice martial arts (武术). So her feet grew larger than ____13____ women’s feet.

After she became empress, Ma kept her feet a ____14____ wearing long gowns (长袍). One day, ____15____ she was sitting in a carriage (马车) near a busy street, a strong wind blew her gown up Taken by surprise, she was not able to hide her feet in time. Many people saw her feet and quickly ____16____ the word across the country. The idiom loumajiao comes from this story.

However, research shows that loumajiao may have ____17____ come from a kind of ancient practice. The qilin is a mythical (虚构) animal that is a ____18____ of good luck. In ancient times, people would paint a “qilin skin” on a large piece of cloth and put it on a horse so that the horse would look like a qilin. ____19____ the horse’s feet were hard to cover up and could easily be seen. Gradually, loumajiao came to ____20____ “revealing a secret”. In English, the idioms “spill (泼洒) the beans” or “let the cat out of the bag” have the same meaning.

11. A. beautiful B. comfortable C. convenient D. helpful

12. A. planned B. refused C. failed D. managed

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

14. A. secret B. game C. memory D. diary

15. A. once B. though C. because D. when

16. A. copied B. spread C. gave D. learned

17. A. actually B. finally C. hardly D. badly

18. A. symbol B. practice C. example D. custom

19. A. Also B. Instead C. Besides D. However

20. A. present B. meet C. mean D. decide

第二部分 阅读理解（共三节，满分 30 分）

第一节（共5小题；每小题1.5分，满分7.5分）

根据短文内容，判断正误（正确“T”，错误“F”）。

Bees are smarter than we think! When a bee finds food, it does a special wiggle dance (摇摆舞) to tell others where to go. The way it moves shows where the food is, and how long it waggles tells how far away the food is. However, the bee dance doesn’t always work. Scientists have been puzzled (困惑的) by this for years. Now they have found something new.

In a new US study, scientists used a hive (蜂箱) with clear walls to record the bees dancing. They trained some bees to get food at a certain place. These bees returned and danced to show others where to go. If a new bee found the food after watching a dance, the scientists checked the video to see which part of the dance led the bee to the food.

They found that bees often succeeded when the dance was longer, showing that the food was farther away than it actually was. This way, bees would fly past the food, then see it on their way back, giving them two chances to find it. Also, if all bees danced the same way, they might miss the food more often. Small mistakes in the dance made bees search more, increasing their chances of finding the food.

21. Scientists used a special hive with clear walls to watch how bees dance.

22. The research found that bees were more successful when the dance showed the food was closer than it really was.

23. If every bee danced the same way, they would find the food more quickly.

24. Small mistakes in the dance can help bees because they make the bees search over a larger area.

25. This passage is mainly about the different types of bee dances.

第二节（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

根据短文内容，从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Will It Grow?