湖北省武汉市武汉外学校2023-2024学年英语九年级第一学期期末统考模拟试题注意事项1．考生要认真填写考场号和座位序号。
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Ⅰ. 单项选择1、---How can I get along well with others, Father?---Try to smile to others. You will find it _____ to make new friends than before.A．easy B．more easily C．easier D．easily2、---If your parents wanted to have a ______ child, would you agree?---Of course. But they should make it in _____ yeas’ time.A．second; second B．two; two C．second; two D．two;second3、—Do you still remember our primary school teacher, Mrs. Liu?—Yes, she always encouraged us and gave us support we met difficulties.A．whatever B．whenever C．however4、Susan her friend’s invitation because of an impor tant meeting.A．took down B．put down C．turned down D．wrote down5、——My father says we won't go on a trip to Shanghai Disneyland.——__________You are looking forward to it.A．Enjoy yourselves! B．Never mind.C．What a pity! D．Don't worry about it.6、Mom didn’t feel well. The doctor ________ her but failed to find anything wrong.A．required B．examined C．praised7、---When the car ?---I am not sure.A．did,invent B．was,invented C．does,invent D．in,invented8、He was _______ in the traffic accident.A．injure B．injuring C．injured D．injures9、--- What do you think of quiet music?--- Pretty good. It used to make me feel sleepy, but now I have _____ gotten used to it.A．heavily B．gradually C．possibly D．directly10、—I can’t open the window. —Well , let me have a(an) _____.A．hand B．open C．go D．kickⅡ. 完形填空11、Y ou want to run across the street to catch the bus which is leaving soon? But 1 ! Y ou’d better not. If apoliceman sees you, you’ll have to pay a fine (罚款).New traffic laws (交通法) say that 2 people cross the street when the light is red, they can be fined as much as 50 yuan.Traffic accidents 3 more than 104,000 people in China last year. Chinese cities have 4 cars than ever. Drivers and pedestrians (行人) must work together to make the streets 5The law has new rules for drivers and pedestrians. Drivers have to 6 down when they are close to crosswalks. If people are in a crosswalk, cars must 7 to let them pass.There are 8 for bus drivers, too. If bus drivers smoke, drink or make phone calls 9 driving, they can be fined. Buses that carry too many people are 10 against(违反)the law.Pedestrians will have to walk more safely under the new law. They must cross streets at crosswalks. Also, they shouldn’t climb over the fences (栅栏) 11 streets.Do you ride a bike to school? It’s not a good idea to12 classmates on the back. You could be fined 50 yuan. And stay in the bike lane (慢车道) when you’re riding. The big roads are13 cars and buses.If you see a hit-and –run (肇事逃逸), tell the police. They may give you a reward (奖赏). And don’t be14 to help people to the hospital if they are hurt in an accident. Don’t worry about money. The new law says that15 must take care of them even if they can’t pay righ t away.1．A．hurry B．look C．wait D．listen2．A．if B．when C．so D．though3．A．did B．killed C．died D．ran4．A．fewer B．more C．less D．larger5．A．safer B．happier C．lighter D．slower6．A．slow B．play C．run D．pass7．A．like B．go C．turn D．stop8．A．rules B．articles C．letters D．exercises9．A．if B．while C．because D．as10．A．also B．sometimes C．never D．often11．A．through B．across C．into D．along12．A．carry B．take C．bring D．move13．A．in B．on C．for D．at14．A．happy B．afraid C．sad D．great15．A．policemen B．doctors C．teachers D．farmersⅢ. 语法填空12、Srikanth Bolla, 24 years old, is the first blind CEO in the world, who built a company valued at over $75 million. Today, he considers himself the 1．(lucky) man in the word, not only his 2．(succeed), but also for having great parents and friends who always stand by him.When Srikanth was born, some of his 3．(parent) friends and relatives them not to keep him, because it was difficult for a poor family 4．(raise) a blind baby. But his parents didn’t follow them. They decided to give Srikanth a positive, loving environment.Life was not easy for Srikanth. He had to face many challenges all his life. He 5．(refuse) by his village school. So he had to go to school for special children. He did very well in studies and also developed many hobbies such as chess and cricket. Later Srikanth found a teacher who was kind enough to turn all his lessons into audio clips, and helped him 6．his exams.7．high school was difficult for a blind student, Srikanth didn’t give up. Instead, he worked very hard and tried his best to go to MT(麻省理工), and graduated from 8．university in 2012. After his graduation, he returned to India, and decided to start to a company 9．employed disabled people like him.Srikanth said, “Compassion(怜悯) is showing somebody the way to love and giving them the opportunity to grow up. If you do something good, it 10．(come) back to you.”Ⅳ. 阅读理解A13、Considered as one of the English language’s most talented poets, John Keats wrote poems that focused on imagination, human nature, and life. Although Keats didn't receive much education on literature, his own studies and interests brought him much success. Also, his own life situation made a great difference to his poems.Growing up as a young boy in London in a lower middle-class family, the young John didn't attend a private school, but went to a public one. His mother was not well educated. His teachers and his family’s friends considered him as a common boy who preferred playing and fighting much more to minding his studies. After his fa ther’s death in the early 1800s, followed by his mother's because of tuberculosis(肺结核), he began seeing life differently. He wanted to keep away from the world and did so by reading anything he could get his hands on.At around the age of 16, the teenage John Keats began studying medical treatment so that he too might become a doctor. However, his literary dream had taken too much of his life，especially with his love for the poems of Ehmund Spenser. He was able to have his first full poem published in the Examiner in 1816, named O Solitude!If I Must With Thee Dwell. Within two months in 1817, Keats had written another full poem, but was sharply criticized (批评) by a magazine. However, it didn’t stop his dream of poems．John Keats’ next work was Endymion, which was published in May 1818. The story includes a farmer who falls inlove with the moon and leads him to a trip of one boy's hope to deal with the limitations (限制) of being human. Following Endymion, however, he tried something more story-based and wrote Isabella. During this time, John Keats began seeing his limitations in poetry because of his own limit in life experiences. He would have to have the “knowledge” connected to his poems. His next work was Hyperion that would like to mix all that he learned together. However, a bout (发作) with tuberculosis while visiting Italy would keep him from his work and finally take his life in 1821.1．John Keats' thoughts about life changed because of __________ .A．Edmund Spenser's poetry B．the deaths of his parentsC．the criticism of a magazine D．his early education from school2．What is the common thing between John Keats and his mother?A．They received little education. B．They went to a private school.C．They died of the same disease. D．They showed strong interest in poetry.3．What can we infer from the passage?A．Keats once had a chance of becoming a doctor.B．The poem Hyperion wasn’t completed by Keats.C．Edmund Spenser was the greatest poet in Keats’ time.D．Keats’ family must have been very poor when he was young.B14、The stereotype(模式化的思想) is that Americans are lazy, but studies show that people in the USA get less vacation time than people in other parts of the world. A typical American worker gets two or three weeks off out of a whole year for vacation, but most US workers cannot. They usually have to be spread out throughout the year. Even when US workers are on vacation. they are often expected to be in communication with their bosses by email and mobile phone. Most US businesses do not encourage their employees(雇员) to take all the vacation days they are allowed to. In fact. most US companies discourage it.Other countries, especially countries in Europe, have much more vacation time. In Germany many people have six weeks of paid vacation. Maybe this is why Europeans and other travellers take a vacation in far-off foreign places. Most American families like to stay closer to their homes, hardly leaving the country.Most companies in countries outside the USA have to give paid time off to their employees. However, in the USA there is no law requiring employers to give workers paid vacation. In fact the USA is the only developed country that doesn't promise to give yearly time off to workers. There have been efforts to pass laws giving US workers one week of paid vacation, but so far those efforts have not been successful.Even when US workers do have time off, many are afraid to take it because they worry they may lose their jobs. Other workers worry that if they go on vacation, they will have a mountain of work when they return.1．The underlined word "discourage" in Paragraph 1 means .A．encourage B．protect C．look forward to D．ask someone not to do2．From Paragraph 3, we can infer Americans probably expect .A．to get one week of paid vacation B．to pass a law that protects childrenC．to work in foreign companies D．to travel in foreign countries3．Americans choose not to have a vacation because .A．they feel tired when they travel in a faraway place B．they are afraid to lose their jobs when they returnC．the law in the USA doesn't allow them to go to a faraway place D．it's not easy to communicate with their bosses outside4．Which is the right order of the passage?a. Many Germans have six weeks of paid vacation.b. Many American workers are afraid to take their vacations.c. The USA has no law requiring employers to give workers paid vacation.d. US workers usually keep communicating with their bosses on vacation.e. US workers have less vacation time than people in other countries in the world.A．d-b-e-a-c B．e-d-a-c-b C．d-a-e-b-c D．e-a-b-d-c5．What are Americans like from the passage?A．Hard. B．Free. C．Lazy. D．Silly.C15、They say music is universal, and it seems to be true since wherever we go, we see people listening, playing or dancing to it. We tend to think that music is larger than our cultural differences and shows the deeper connections between us.But according to a recent study published in the Current Biology, music doesn’t speak to everyone. There is a condition, the researchers argue, called “musical anhedonia”. They say that those who have this condition may have few abilities to experience pleasure from music.For the study, 30 people listened to the same, mostly classical music pieces. They were then asked to complete a questionnaire on how they felt about the music. At the same time, the researchers measured their heart rate and skin reaction, which are considered physiological measures of feelings.According to the researchers, most of the people in the study got pleasure from the music. They had a quicker heartbeat and sweatedmore. However, a small number of them had very little and even no pleasant feeling while they were listening to the music. These people had none or very few of the physical signs which the others in the study experienced. T he researchers say that this means people have different abilities to enjoy music and that “there are people who specifically can’t enjoy music at all”To study the condition more deeply, another group of scientists, at Columbia University, US, researched brain activities. They found that the key is the blood flow to the reward system in the brain. People who got less pleasure from music had comparatively lower blood flow to areas involved in the reward system of the brain when they were listening to music.The lower blood flow makes it more likely that the brain’s “reward system” will be inactive. And it will produce less of the “pleasure chemical” dopamine. As a result, people get less pleasure from music.If the research is correct, according to National Public Radio, there are simply people who just don’t get music. They may get pleasure from many things, but a good tune isn’t one of them.1．The people who is called musical anhedonia _______.A．avoid listening to musicB．like to listen to certain types of music.C．can’t feel the pleasure that music brings to others.D．believe cultural differences are larger than music.2．What was the purpose of the study mentioned in Current Biology ?A．To learn what music people love the most.B．To learn how music influences people’s feelings.C．To understand the relationship between music and the body.D．To see whether music works in the same way for all people.3．What happened in the study when people listened to music?A．All of them had faster heartbeat and sweated more.B．Those who enjoyed music had slower blood flow.C．They showed different physical signs as the music changed.D．Those who enjoyed music had more dopamine produced.4．Which part of a magazine may the article appear in?A．Science. B．Sports. C．Health. D．Fashion.D16、Long long ago, there was a swan(天鹅) with gold feathers. She lived in a lake. A woman lived in a small house near the lake with her two daughters. They were very poor. They worked hard all year round, but still, they lived a hard life and sometimes they even didn’t have enough money to buy food.The swan was sad to see that. She said to herself, “I’ll give one of my feathers to them each day, then they can live a happy life with the money selling my feathers.” That evening, she flew to the poor woman’s house and left a golden feather on the table without saying anything. From then on , the swan came every day and gave them a feather. The woman was very happy because their life was much better than before.But day after day, the woman became greedy(贪婪的). She said to her daughters, “The swan may fly away one day. If so, we will be poor again. We should take all her feathers when she com es next time.”“Oh no, Mom!” cried the daughters. “This will hurt the swan. She helps us a lot!” But the mother wouldn’t listen. When the swan came as usual, the mother caught her and took all her feathers. But suddenly, the golden feathers changed into chicken feathers.Then, the golden swan said, “Poor Mother, I came to help you, but you wanted to kill me. Now, I am leaving and will never come back. Never be greedy!” With these words, the swan flew away.根据材料内容选择最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。
