湖北咸宁市崇阳县大集中学2026-2027学年九年级上学期9月阶段检测英语试题

大集中学一分校2026年秋第一次段考 英语试题 一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个能填入空白处的最佳选项。 Helen used to be a very shy and quiet girl.In primary school,she 1spoke in class and had few friends.She was afraid of talking to strangers and always2 taking part in group activities.She never attended 3because she wouldn't like to express her opinions.Her classmates often described her 4 "the girl who never smiles". For Helen,entering junior high school 5 big changes.On the first day,her teacher Mrs Brown noticed her quietness and encouraged her to join the drama club."You might 6 a lot from it,"Mrs Brown said kindly.At first,Helen refused because she was afraid of performing in front of others.However,her teacher didn't give up and kept 7 her.Slowly,Helen started to attend the club meetings.At first,she only watched,but later,she tried small roles.To her 8 she enjoyed acting. With time,Helen became more 9.She made new friends in the drama club and even played a bigger role in the last school play.Her classmates were shocked by her 10."I used to. think she was too shy to speak,but now she is so 11!"one of them said. Now,Helen is a completely different person.She 12 being on stage and isn't afraid of expressing herself.She still feels a little nervous sometimes,but she knows that facing her fears has made her 13.Her story shows that people can't change 14 they accept advice from others.As Helen says,"I used to be afraid of trying something new,but now I believe in 15 Change is possible if you dare take the first step." ( )1.A.often B.seldom C.always D.sometimes )2.A.avoided B.remembered C.considered D.preferred )3.A.lessons B.activities C.programs D.discussions )4.A.as B.of C.by D.for )5.A.came out B.went with C.took over D.brought about )6.A.lose B.find C.benefit D.hear )7.A.supporting B.forcing C.punishing D.introducing )8.A.interest B.pain C.anger D.surprise )9.A.honest B.confident C.bored D.famous )10.A.health B.dream C.experience D.change )11.A.hard-working .B.outgoing C.energetic D.patient )12.A.loves B.minds C.forgets D.practises )13.A.lazier. B.busier C.stronger D.healthier )14.A.unless B.yourself C.although D.because )15.A.himself B.yourself C.herself D.myself 二、 阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分) 1 第一节（共15小题，每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读以下三篇短文，从每小题所给的四个选项中，选出一个与短文内容相符的最佳选项。 (A) Everyone knows China is changing and developing quickly.Many young people from home and abroad thought about the changes.The following are comments young people made on a website message board. Carmon I'm a Chinese student.I'm very proud of China.When I finish my training in Canada,I will go back to China and start a business. Zhou Li I'm a Chinese student in America.People in my hometown used to live in small and old houses.But now most people have a good quality of life.I'm happy with these changes and proud of them. I spent four years in Beijing as a student starting in 2018.I flew to Beijing from Jackson London on holiday last month.I couldn't believe the changes in such a short time.I think China will continue developing because its people have excellent qualities. Susan I hope that China will become a rich and strong country.There is still a long way to go,but I am sure we can succeed if we work together. )16.What will Carmon probably be in the future? A.Ateacher.B.A doctor. C.A policeman. D.A businessman. )17.What was Zhou Li's hometown like in the past? A.Very poor.B.Very rich. C.Very quiet. D.Very busy. ( )18.In which year might Jackson leave Beijing? A.2014.B.2016. C.2018. D.2022. )19.What can we learn from the text? A.Susan may be an American girl. B.More and more Chinese people go abroad. C.Jackson dislikes Chinese people's qualities. D.China is changing and developing very fast now. ()20.What's the type of the text? A.Aletter.B.An introduction.C.Areport. D.Anotice. (B) Have you ever heard of Wang Zhenyi?Perhaps most of us didn't know this great name until she was introduced in a CCTV programme. Wang Zhenyi was a great Chinese scientist.She was born in the Qing Dynasty.At that time, 2 girls had no chunce to get a formal education.However,her father and grandfather were open-minded.Thcy thought girls should share equal opportunities with boys.They encouraged her to rcad the books in thcir home library.Wang Zhenyi educated herself and read a lot about astronomy(天文学)，maths,geography as well as medicine.Later,she decided to focus on astronomy. In her time,many people expected the stars to tell what was going to happen.They thought certain events in the sky,such as lunar eclipses(),happened when gods were angry.But Wang Zhenyi thought differently.She believed in facts and observations.In order to explain those "strange"events,she did some experiments.In one,she used a table as Earth,a lamp as the sun and a mirror as the moon.She moved them around to show what actually happens during a lunar eclipse: When the earth is passing directly between the sun and the moon,the sunlight cannot reach the moon and the moon“disappears'”. During her short life,Wang Zhenyi wrote many articles about her research.In her articles, she explained difficult ideas in clear and simple ways so that people could understand science more easily.She made science available to more people. ()21.What does the underlined word "equal"in Paragraph 2 mean? A.Same. B.Different. C.Important. D.Unusual. )22.How did Wang Zhenyi get educated? A.A famous teacher taught her in her home. B.She went to a school for girls. C.She learnt by herself. D.Her family taught her at home. ()23.How did Wang Zhenyi explain the strange events? A.She used the knowledge learnt from books.B.She did some useful experiments. C.She drew some simple pictures. D.She used her imagination and made new tools. ()24.What words can be used to describe Wang Zhenyi? A.Hard-working and humorous. B.Poor but lucky. C.Curious and brave. D.Creative and knowledgeable. )25.What's the best title for the passage? A.A Great Woman Scientist in Ancient China B.A Meaningful Story C.An Interesting Experiment D.The Ways to Study Astronomy (C) Betty lived in a small and beautiful town.Because of her shyness,Betty just stood with few words in public.The shy girl was often considered as a quiet girl in the community.She felt like a wallflower and wondered if she would get noticed all the time. However,her closest friend,Fiona,was different.Fiona loved to communicate with others and she encouraged Betty to change.She told Betty that life wasn't always beautiful at once,but everyone was able to make it full of room. With the encouragement of Fiona,Betty began to change.Instead of being a wallflower,she started attending a community theatre class.She took an active part in acting in the theatre group. Her gift for acting began to shine.However,new difficulties were never far away.One of Betty's classmates was not satisfied with her achievement and always tried to put her down,but Betty kept 3 working hard.She showed her best in every performance.Slowly,her classmate saw her efforts and changed her attitude.They became friends.All these changes made Betty feel fresh every day. Betty's hard work paid off when the town's famous director,Mr Johnson,watched onc of her plays.He liked her acting so much that he offered her the lead role in his new play.Betty's moment arrived.People were happy to watch her show. Finally,Betty became a confident girl.Her change was like a beautiful rose in full flower. She encountered many difficulties which taught her that there's no rose without a thomn ().But those thomns helped her develop her abilities.Betty proved that personal changes were possible for anyone. ()26.Why did Betty stand with few words in public? A.Because she was shy. B.Because she was poor. C.Because she was lonely. D.Because she was fat. ()27.What is Paragraph 3 mainly about? A.Betty's encouragement. B.Betty's changes. C.Betty's gift for acting. D:Betty's difficulties. ()28.What can we infer from Paragraph 4? A.Johnson was good at writing. B.Directors often act in plays. C.Betty did well in her show. D.Betty helped Mr Johnson. )29.What does the underlined word"encountered"probably mean in Paragraph 5? A.feared. B.avoided. C.forgot. D.experienced. )30:What does Betty's story tell us? A.Everyone should make friends. B.Friendship makes it possible for everyone to change. C.It's possible for everyone to make a change. D.The more changes we make,the more confident we are 第二节（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分） 阅读短文，从方框内所列选项中，选出最佳选项填入对应空白处，使短文通顺、连贯。 (选项中有一项多余) “The only constant(不变的)in life is change,”Heraclitus said in about500BC.That could be more true today.31.Technology is out of date almost by the time we buy it.We get plenty of information every day.Francis Bacon said,"Knowledge is power."In fact,there is more information in a newspaper than someone would have experienced in his whole life. 32 .That's because our brains want to protect us.After all,who knows what new dangers might appear?However,change is also the only way of development.Nobody can stop it in life.Luckily,our brains become stronger when meeting the unknown.33.To be more imaginative and creative,you should look for and find environments you have no experience with. You can learn how to face the changes in daily life.You can try a new restaurant.You can also go to a concert you normally wouldn't attend.34.So when bigger things happen, you'll be more fully prepared for them. People who fear change often stick to a certain lifestyle.They believe they can control the 4 future by doing so.Changes whether you ask for it or not. 35 A.Why are we afraid of change? B.What can you do to face the changes? C.We live in a world that is changing every minute. D.Small changes can help you gradually get used to uncertainty. E.Dealing with the unexpected needs imagination and creativity. F.If you can actively find it out and deal with it,you will be successful 三、短文填空（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分） 阅读短文，从方框中选出恰当的单词并用其适当形式填空，使短文通顺、意义完整。每 空仅填一词，每词仅用一次。 discovery kind admire greatly in science valuable he make or Li Shizhen is known as the.“sage(圣人)of medicine'”in Chinese history..And his work, Compendium of Materia Medica(《本草纲目》)，has36._influenced medicine across the world. When Li Shizhen was young,he became interested 37. medicine and began to read related (books.He discovered many mistakes in those books.He worried these mistakes would cause problems 38. even death.So Li Shizhen decided to write a new book and make new 39. about herbs().To look for herbs,he travelled everywhere and repeated his own tests.He even tested herbs on 40. and his relatives.Li Shizhen collected and recorded over 1,890 herbs.He also looked up facts in 900 medical books to know more about herbs.He worked day and night to 41. sure all the information was correct. When there were patients,he showed 42. and treated them with his herbs in person. Finally,the 43. book,Compendium of Materia Medica,came out.It then got great attention not only in China,but also in many other countries around the world.People have 44. him for his great work and devotion()to medicine so far. Today,this book has been translated into many foreign languages.Most doctors know this book.What we can learn from Li Shizhen is his attitude()to knowledge and his spirit of doing 45. research. 四、读写结合。（共5小题，第46小题1分，第47、48、49小题2分，第50小题3分，满 分10分)。阅读短文，用英文填空或回答问题。（注意每小题的词数要求） During the Eastern Jin Dynasty(317~420),there was a child named Che Yin.He was smart and loved to read.He grew up in a poor family and couldn't afford()lamp oil to study at night. One night,he saw fireflies()outside his house and came up with an idea.He caught some fireflies in a cloth bag and hung the bag up as a lamp.It was said that he spent all of his summer nights reading like this. Another child named Sun Kang who lived during the same period also loved reading.One night during winter,Sun used up all of his lamp oil and couldn't study at night.When he suddenly woke up at midnight,he saw the snow reflecting the moonlight outside his house.His first thought was"Oh,I can use the reflected light to read!"He took out his books and read,even though he was freezing cold. Both of these kids later became successful government officials.People were touched by their 5 hard-working spirit.Their stories inspired the Chinese idiom nangying yingxue(囊萤映雪)，orto read by the light of bagged fireflies or the reflected light of snow". In the past,people had a harder time studying than we do now.They had to copy books by hand because books were rare back then.For poor families,paper and writing brushes were too expensive to afford.Students even had to travel over mountains and rivers in order to find a good teacher.However,these conditions did not stop young minds from pursuing()knowledge. 46.Both Che Yin and Sun Kang loved .（仅填1词) 47-48.Fill in the blanks according to the passage. Two Successful Men During the Eastern Jin Dynasty Names Stories Che Yin On a hot night,he came up with a good idea He47. and then studied.(不超过l5词) On a winter night,when he saw the snow,he took out books and read by Sun Kang the 48. (不超过3词) 49.What did the two boys become later? (不超过8词) 50.What can you learn from the two men?Use your own words. (结合自身实际，不超过20词) 五.书面表达（共1题，满分15分） 假设你是张明，你的美国朋友To来信询问你所在城市近年的变化。请结合提示用英语 回信。提示： 1.交通：过去公交少、道路崎岖不平，现在有地铁，出行更方便； 2.环境：过去垃圾随处可见，现在垃圾分类、公园增多； 3.生活：过去在小超市用纸币购物，现在可以网上购物，并且用手机支付； 4.感受：变化让生活更美好，.欢迎他来游玩。 要求：包含所有要点，适当发挥；词数80左右（开头结尾已给，不计入） Dear Tom, I'm happy to receive your letter.Great changes have taken place in my city in recent years. Welcome to my city some day! Yours, Zhang Ming 6