【金山中心】上海市金山区2016学年第一学期期中考试九年级英语试

2016学年第一学期期中考试九年级英语试卷

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) (共20分)

26.You shouldn't refuse to help an old friend. Which of the following is correct for the underlined word in the sentence?

A)/ri?fju:s/ B)/?rifju:s/ C)/ri?fju:z/ D)/?rifju:z/

27.Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?

A) We dragged the box out of the room B) There was a lantern hanging over the door. C) He told us about his unhappy experience. D) The successfully landed on the moon by spaceship. 28.Perter is ______ elderly man who lives alone and enjoys going travelling.

A) a B) an C) the D) / 29.--- Lucy's skirt is black. What about yours? --- ______ is white.

A) I B) me C) Mine D) myself 30.Can you tell me the answer ______ the question? It's difficult for me.

A) by B) on C) to D) among 31.Don't worry,Linda. There is ______wrong with your computer．

A) something B) anything C) nothing D) everything 32.The whole class went to the beach ______ Li Wei because he was ill.

A) except B) with C) besides D)including 33.The little girl looked ______ at her mother because she got a few sweets.

A) lovely B) happily C) friendly D) tidily 34.Jane ______ be in the office. She has gone to the meeting room.

A) mustn't B) needn't C) can't D)shouldn't 35.Once you make a decision.you'd better ______ your mind.

A) don't change B)not change C) not to change D) not changing 36.Gong Yangling from Harbin has remembered over 15 telephone numbers.

A).thousand B)thousands C). thousand of D). thousands of

37.All the restaurants are listed on the paper you can choose one to have lunch easily.

A) although B)so that C.)becauseD)if

38.Mary in that housing estate since she came back to Shanghai.

A)is living B).had lived C)would liveD)has lived 39. useful advice she offered us! We all thank her.

A) What B)What a C)How D)How a

40My son knows nothing about his hometown.Hethere.

A)has ever been B.)has never been C)has ever gone D)has never gone 41Can you guess who is doing his work ,Mike or Jack?

A)more carefully B)more careful C)most carefully D)most careful

42. More trees on both sides of the road in our city this coming winter holidays. A)are plantedB)were planted C)have been planted D)will be planted

43.We should say sorry to the teachers when we are late for school .The underlined part means A.)greet B)apologize C)describeD)answer 44-Jill,you look busy.

-Thank you ,Peter,but I can manage it myself.

A)I’m sorry to hear that B)Anything I can do to help C.)That’s all right D)How could you do that?

45Sorry ,I am late,Miss Wang .The minibus broke down,and there were no taxis.

A)You’re welcome B.)That’s all right C.)That’s right D)It’s a pleasure 答案：26-35.CDBCCCABCB 36-45.ABDABADBBB

III. Complete the following passages with the words or phrases in the box. Each word or

phrase can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词或词组只能填一次): (共8分) (A) A.if B.protect C.before D.after E.later There are many things that you should be careful with when you are alone at home.Read the following tips to protect yourself.

First,keep the door locked when you are alone at home.Many people think it’s the best way to ____46____themselves.Second,Keep a list of phone numbers to call for help,such as 110,the station neighbour’s number.Third be care with the electrical appliances.If you don’t know how to use them,ask your parents.Make a safety check____47____going to sleep.Finally,Look through the keyhole when you hear the doorbell.If there are strangers,ask “who is that?”with the door locked and say “Come back____48____”“Don’t tell them that your parents are away.Say “Mum’s having a shower.”Or “Dad’s having a sleep.”To ignore the doorbell is not a good idea because sometimes bad people ring doorbells t see_____49____anyone’s at home.

(B) A.begin B.program C.end D.pleased E.call The is a message for Marco Daniel.My name’s David Dolby.I’m sorry I missed your____50____.I understand that you want some information about the volleyball club.The club meets once a week,on Wednesday evening.There are sometimes matches on Sunday morning,but those are just for our team players.Our meetings____51____at eight,and are two hours long,so we finish at ten.People like to get home in time for the 10:15 sports____52____on television.We meet in the Jubilee Hall in park Lane,behind the High Street.The hall doesn’t have very good heating,so you’ll need to bring a coat t put on afterwards.It’s also quite expensive to rent,so our players pay $2.75 each week.I hope this answers all your questions and we’ll be very____53____to you at our next meeting.

Keys：BCEA EABD

Ⅳ.Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一词)(共7分)

54. On the ______ day.the sick boy came back to life. (four) 55. Make sure that every English word you can spell ______. (accurate) 56. All the ______ in Rio de Janeiro celebrated the coming Olympic Games. (city) 57. Although the old man lost his way in the park.he managed to go home by______.(he)

58. The ______ of Michael Jackson,the King of Pop,made his fans very sad. (die) 59. We hope that more university students will ______ in finding good jobs soon. (success) 60. It's ______ for Jack to climb such a high mountain. He decided to give it up. (possible) 61. He felt that the reporter should be ______ for what he had reported. (responsibility) 答案：fourth accurately citizens himself death succeed impossible responsible

V. Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子。62-67题,每

空格限填一词。68题注意大小写) (共14分)

62.We have already saved enough money to buy a camera.（否定句） Wesaved enough money to buy a camera

63. It rarely snows in Shanghai in winter.（反意疑问句） It rarely snows in Shanghai in winter,

64. The nearest hospital is about fifteen minutes’ ride from our school.（划线部分提问） is the nearest hospital from our school?

65. You should write all the answers on the answer sheet.（被动语态） All the answers should on the answer sheet.

66.Can you help me repair the bike ? Mary asked Jack.（保持句子意思不变） Mary asked Jack he help her repair the bike.

67.Betty is warm-hearted. Everyone wants to make friends with her.（合并成一句） Betty is warm-heartedeveryone wants to make friends with her.

68.spent, the homework,an hour ,more than ,I ,yesterday,on( 连词成句）

答案：haven’t yet,does it ,How far,be written,if could,so that

I spent more than an hour on the homework yesterday.

Part 3 Reading and Writing (第三部分 读写)

VI. Reading comprehension(阅读理解)：

A. Choose the best answer （根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）

On a freeing morning,Myron opened the library in lowa.She heard a cat cry and finally found a yellow kitten in a pile of books.

“His little feet were frozen,”Myron recalls.”We gave him a bath to warm him up and he purred the whole time so that we know he liked us very much.”

That was !988 it was a story for Dewey.the cat who has lived happily among the books ever since.”His story has a life of his own,We have people dive hundreds of miles out of their way just to see Dewey.We even had a Japanese public television crew come here to make a short film of him. “Shortly after the kitten’s rescue.a photo of the library’s “new employee”appeared in local newspapers.Local people were invited to vote for the name of the kitten. “We have never had such a big crowd for a contest and there wasn’t even a prize,”Myron saya with a laugh.

Dewey grew from a popular local “library employee” to a national star with his pictures on calendars.However,he is not the only cat who lives among books.Library cats greet people in about 125 libraries across America.Most live and “work”in comfortable,small town libraries where they don;t get lost in the books.Library cats used to make a living by catching rats,but library cats have more duties:to make the library a pleasant place.

“library cats just create a nice warm atmosphere(气氛）.”says Gary Roma,producer of Puss in Book,the film about library cats.”the cats attract children to the library and the elderly who maybe can’t have pets in their apartments,”Roma says.”Book,libraries,and cats just go together.” 69.The cat Dewey was found by Myron in the____of 1988

A)spring B)summer C)autumn D)winter 70.The underline word “purr”in the second paragraph means “____”.

A)feel angry B)feel happy C)feel hungry D)feel sleepy 71.A contest was held after the kitten’s rescue to ____the cat A)with B)name C)film D)feed 72.Library cats can do many things including____. A)acting for a film B)Calling rats

C)Making people pleased D)All of the above

73.Puss in books was____. A)a book about cats B)A film about Dewey C)A film about library cats

D)A film about popular libraries

74.From the passage we can infer(推断)that

A)Library cats only attract children and old people B)Dewey is one of the cats who live among books.

C)Library cats are not as popular as they used to be. D)Every library in America has at least one cat Keys：DBBBB

B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)（12分）

Doing experiments is one of the most interesting things about learning chemistry. In China it’s often teachers who do the experiment in the front of the class with students 75 . But in the US, students take action by themselves. The first time I took a class in my school’s chemistry lab, I was surprised to find students were fully “armed”

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everyone was wearing goggles (护

目

镜), plastic gloves and aprons , as if there had been a bio-chemical attack! 76 . is always the primary concern for science lab classes in America. The outfit (备

) prevents us from being exposed (

暴

露

) to toxic (

有

装毒

的) chemical materials if they are accidentally spilled My chemistry teacher Mrs Zurolo usually gives us the instruction sheet the night before the lab class and lets us read it. During the class, she first 77 . the procedures and then puts us into groups of two to do the experiments. What’s special is that for every lab class, Mrs Zurolo switches everyone’s lab partner so that we can work with 78 . classmates. The class is often filled with screams and laughs. Once we tried to burn chemicals and observe the color of the flame Different chemicals produced various colors of flames, 79 bright orange and dark green. Many students in my class were amazed. “Wow! That’s so beautiful!” they screamed. Then they excitedly took pictures with their phones, posted them online, and sent them to friends. Mrs Zurolo didn’t get angry with us at all for our “noises”. She even took selfies with us! After finishing an experiment, we need to write a detailed lab report that includes the procedure, our observations, and the final results. If there has been a major error in the experiment, we need to analyze and 80 . we should do to avoid it next time. The reports are important. They are graded and make up around 25 percent of our term grade 75. A.playing B watching C singing D sleeping 76. A.Fun B Time C Money D Safety

77. A.wait for B care for C go over D clean out

78. A.different B same C tall D clever 79. A.during B from C through D including 80. A. how B what C where D when Keys：BDCADB

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（14分）

He was just an ordinary p 81 . Day after day, he shuttled(穿梭) back and forth across the village. For him, life was without waves.

One day, he was delivering mail as usual. When he looked up in the sky, he s 82 lost his balance. It was a little stone that tripped him up（绊倒）. He observed the stone that had embarrassed him, finding it strange but beautiful. In his eyes, this stone was like a lost jewel（宝石） covered with dust. The postman then placed the stone in his bag carefully. Because of this stone’s arrival, his day was lightened. He suddenly had a bold thought—I can b 83 a castle with such beautiful stones. How magnificent it will be!

His ordinary life started to be different since then. He still delivered mail, but he collected every stone he could find along the way. All those dusty stones, in his eyes, glittered like diamonds.

Gradually, his small bag couldn’t hold his stones anymore and he needed to use a wheelbarrow to carry them. People didn’t understand what happened when they saw the postman delivering letters with a wheelbarrow full of stones.

After collecting e 84 stones, he started to build his castle. During the daytime, he passed along the dreams of others; and during the nighttime, he built his own dream. No one was willing to join in. But the postman was unmoved, still happily building his castle. B 85 he knew, the dream and the castle only belonged to him.

After 20 years of working day and night, the postman’s dream castle was finally completed. It was a magnificent castle just as he had i 86 It was a miracle arising from the ordinary.

This is a real story. The postman’s name is Xue Waller. The stone castle has become a famous tourist a 87 in France, which is called“ ideal palace of Ferdinand Cheval.”At the entrance of the stone castle, there is a sentence—“I want to know how far a dream stone can go.” 81p 82s 83b 84e 85b 86i 87a

Keys：postman,suddenly,build,enough,because,imagined,attractions

D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题) (12分)

What will the home of the future look like? A team of architects (建造师) in Hong Kong say that city homes will be tiny, as populations continue to grow and space becomes more expensive. They have designed “space flats”. There are only 30 square meters in size.These flats have

three small rooms, a living room, a bathroom and a bedroom, as well as a balcony (阳台),but everything is carefully planned to make good use of the limited space.

The living room is the main room of the flat. It can be used as an office, a kitchen or even a second bedroom. There is a sofa that can be changed into a bed. The dining table can be changed into a computer desk. And, if not needed, both the sofa-bed and the table can be folded away and stored into a small apace in the wall. There is a flat-screen TV, which can also serve as a computer monitor. In one corner of the room, a small cooker, a microwave oven and a miniature refrigerator are hidden out of sight.

The other rooms are small but useful. The bathroom contains a toilet and a shower. The double bed in the bedroom can also be a sofa, if necessary, The balcony has enough room for two people to sit and enjoy the view from the block of flats. All the rooms have high ceiling to provide as much storage space as possible, while the flat has large windows to let in plenty of sunlight. “Space flats “are now being tested in a building in Hong Kong. “It’s wonderful,” said one resident(居民) “The flat is so well designed that you feel that there is plenty of space”

88. How big are the “spaceflats”? 89. What can the living room be used as? 90.How many things are hidden out of sight? 91.Where can the owner enjoy the nice view? 92. There is plenty of sunshine in the flats ,isn’t there? 93. Would you like to live in the “spaceflats”?Why? Keys：88.Only 30 square meters in size.

89.It can be used as an office, a kitchen,even a second bedroom. 90.Three things. 91.From a balcony. 92. Yes, there is.

93. Yes, I would., because it is interesting and wonderful.

Ⅶ. Writing (10分)

Write at least 60 words about the topic “My opinion on playing computer games”(以”我对玩电脑游戏的看法”为题，写一段不少于60个字的短文，标点符号不占格。) (注意：短文中不得出现任何人名，校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。) Suggested questions:(以下内容仅供参考)

1.What is your opinion about playing computer games? 2.Why do you think so?(Give at least two reasons)

3.What suggestions will you give about playing computer games?

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