扬州中学教育集团树人学校九年级第二次模拟考试英语试卷
2014年
扬州中学教育集团树人学校九年级第二次模拟考试
英语试卷 2014.5
一、单项选择（共15小题；每小题l分，计15分）
在下列各题A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个能填入题干空白处的最佳答案。
1. Throughout________ history, ________ English language has gone through many changes.
A. /; /
B. the; the
C. the; an
D. /; the
2. --- What would you like to drink, tea or juice?
---_______ is OK. They are both my favourite.
A. Both
B. All
C. Either
D. None
3. --- Did you hear that John lost his job?
--- It _____ that he had made some serious mistakes in his work.
A. felt
B. smelt
C. seemed
D. looked
4. Thank you for the _______ that you gave me when I felt English too difficult to learn.
A. praise
B. encouragement
C. prize
D. award
5. The patient’s progress was encouraging, as he could ______get out of bed without help .
A. nearly
B. only
C. hardly
D. badly
6. --- Look! Someone ______ the floor. It’s clean.
--- Well, it wasn’t me. I went shopping just now.
A. is sweeping
B. was sweeping
C. had swept
D. has swept
7. After a short time, the bad news had ______all over the city and everybody knew it．
A. showed
B. spread
C. covered
D.
explored
8. --- Mr. White asked me to remind you of the meeting this afternoon .Don’t forget it !
--- OK, I _______.
A. won’t
B. don’t
C. will
D. do
9. Chairperson Xi calls on us to do what we can _______ as much as possible.
A. save
B. to save
C. saved
D. saving
10. --- How can we help the children in the mountain village?
--- We can __________leaflets to ask people to donate money.
A . give in B. give off C. give up D. give out
11. --- Could you tell me ___________?
--- Until tomorrow afternoon.
A. how long you will stay there
B. how soon you will stay there
C. when will you stay there
D. how often will you stay there
12. --- This kind of sports is exciting.
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---Yes, but it’s dangerous. One can’t do it _______ he or she has got some training.
A. if
B. after
C. when
D. unless
13. --- How do you like this piece of music by Tan Dun ?
--- Well , of all the music that he has written ,I think this is his ________ one.
A. better-known
B. well-known
C. best-known
D. most-known
14. Ladies or gentlemen, whether young or old, _______ some money of yours to the poor
people in the mountain area who are suffering.
A. to donate
B. donating
C. donate
D. will donate
15. --- The young man who entered our factory last month has made some mistakes this
week.
--- Well. __________________________.
A. He that climbs high falls heavily.
B. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing
C. He who laughs last laughs best.
D. He that will not work shall not eat.
二、完形填空（共15小题；每小题l分，计15分）
阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Joe Azougar was walking his dog when a bear appeared suddenly.
“When it came up, the first thing my dog did was 16 me and attack the bear,”Azougar said from his __17__in Lady Minto Hospital.
Then Azougar ran into his house and began to __18___his neighbors, warning them what was going on. “As I looked around I saw the bear pull my dog into the __19__. And to my great sadness, the dog was killed,” he said.
Then suddenly, the bear __20___and it broke through the house’s back window. Azougar began throwing things at the bear and making loud noises. Then he stood on a chair to make himself look much ___21___.
“It seemed as if the bear was very __22__,” said Azougar. “I thought my best chance was to run outside __23__ someone could find me.”
Azougar began running, but the bear ___24___him.
“It had four paws on top of me,” he said.” Then, it __25___my body and tried to bite my stomach. That gave me just a few ___26___ to turn into a ball and protect my head.”
The bear began to pull Azougar’s body. “By that time I could feel my body becoming ___27___,” Azougar said.
Luckily, two women, who were ___28___, saved him. Their car was such a(n)
___29___thing in the bear’s eyes, that it ran quickly into the woods.
“I am just thankful to those two angels that saved me in time,” he said.
“People, who have lived here for 20 or 30 years, said they had ___30____ seen anything like this,” said Azougar. He is the first one, and he hopes that he will be also the last one. “Now I’m planning to move somewhere else once I come out of hospital.”
16. A. protect B. follow C. leave D. stop
17. A. office B. lab C. bed D. desk
18. A. calm B. visit C. save D. call
19. A. water B. fire C. woods D. grass
20. A. ran away B. came back C. gave up D. jumped up
21. A. larger B. kinder C. smaller D. cleverer
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22. A. sick B. lazy C. bored D. hungry
23. A. ever since B. so that C. even if D. as if
24. A. ate B. forgot C. caught D. changed
25. A. turned over B. put up C. cut off D. poured into
26. A. days B. hours C. minutes D. seconds
27. A. warm B. lifeless C. strong D. healthy
28. A. walking by B. running by C. driving by D. cycling by
29. A. funny B. interesting C. modern D. frightening
30. A. sometimes B. once C. never D. often
三、阅读理解（共l5小题；每小题2分，计30分）
阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
A
Biking is an amazing family activity, but finding a route that is suitable for different ages is a little difficult. Lee McNeil and his
family are crazy about biking. They have seven children, from 4 to 24
years old. When looking for a route, they look for enough protection
from traffic, good surface condition and interesting views.
Here are some great routes for biking with your whole family which are suggested by McNeil.
Iron Horse Trail
This is the McNeil family’s favourite ride .The route is 26 miles and goes through the 2.1 mile Snoqualmie Tunnel . “Beautiful views , the tunnel, and places to stop and watch the rock climbers make it special ,”McNeil said . “All our kids have taken their turn to go through the black tunnel bravely for the first time and we celebrate it at the end of the ride.” If you prefer, check http://bit.ly/Mlt9y4 for more information.
Centennial Trail
The Centennial Trail runs for 23 miles from Snohomish to Bryant. The trail is wide and smooth ,and is safe for kids as it is off the roads . A nice stop is Lake Cassidy east of Marysville .A dock （码头）on the lake is fun to explore . It also has picnic tables and washrooms for a convenient （方便的）lunch –time stop . For a map , go to
http://bit.ly/L5qCeY.
Cascade Trail
The Cascade Trail is 23 miles . The slope （斜坡） is gentle and it makes for an easy family ride. McNeil said it is a “beautiful ride up the Skagit Valley, with lots of places to watch wildlife along the river .”Go to http://bit.ly/PR4wOW to see a map showing the trail , parking areas and bus stops .
Other good choices
Snoqualmie Valley Trail: https://www.doczj.com/doc/2b11142152.html,/nWGWO
Guemes Island : http://bit.ly/LJ3RxL
Burke-Gilman Trail : https://www.doczj.com/doc/2b11142152.html,/s33li
31. Which of the following route do McNeil’s family like best ?
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A . Cascade Trail B. Iron Horse Trail C. Centennial Trail D. Burke-Gilman Trail
32. If you choose the Centennial Trail, you can _________.
A. watch the rock climbers
B. see a small valley
C. go through a tunnel
D. have a picnic for lunch
33. The main purpose of the passage is to ____________.
A. ask people to learn from Lee McNeil
B. tell people how to make a family ride
C. introduce some routes for family rides
D. encourage more people to ride bikes
B
Please sit down and enjoy your meal. Just don't talk about it.
These are the requirements at a popular dining party that is known as "silent dinners". It encourages people who take part in the dining party not
to speak for one to two hours and not to use electronic devices. Instead, the idea is to just on the food.
"Silent dinner parties are fast growing" said Honi Ryan, who has hosted 32 silent dinner parties in 11 cities across eight countries, including Germany, Australia and the United States. "The way we communicate is changing so fast that we need to stop and think about it."
According to a 2013 nationwide survey, restaurant noise came in second only to poor service among customer（顾客）complaints. And 19 percent of diners who took part in the survey said noise and crowds disturbed them most while eating out.
Though silent dinners may seem curious, the idea is not a new one. Yogis（瑜伽信徒） have long enjoyed silent meals as part of a deepened practice. In fact, it was a trip to a temple(寺庙) in India by a man that encouraged one Brooklyn restaurant recently to add a silent dinner to its event programming.
"We'll make a small speech at the beginning of the meal to make sure everyone understands what is happening and ask them not to speak or use their mobile phones for at least an hour," said EAT Greenpoint owner Jordan Colon. And background music will be turned off, too.
"It's funny, when I first opened EAT, I didn't play music for some time and people had very different reactions（反映）to that," said Colon. "Some people who come out to eat are ready to party , but it was so quiet without music . But I wanted to create an environment that makes you relaxed."
Although personal reactions to a silent dinner may be various, in general they are more likely to get into a lot of talk afterwards, said Ryan. "At the end of the night people
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always have a lot to say about silence. But the most reaction is that there is always a good laugh."
34. The first paragraph is written to be a(n)______________.
A. conclusion
B. introduction
C. argument
D. warning
35. At silent dinner parties, people should not _______________________.
A. leave before they finish eating
B. just pay attention to the food
C. use a mobile phone or listen to music
D. take electronic devices to the party
36. What does the writer try to tell us in Paragraph 5?
A. Silent meals help people live longer.
B. Yogis are the first to hold silent dinners.
C. More and more people like eating in silence.
D. The idea of eating in silence appeared long ago.
37. In Jordan Colon’s opinion, silent dinners ____________________.
A. make people comfortable and relaxed
B. are hard to be accepted by most people
C. can help him to attract more customers
D. provide a chance to get to know others
C
Nearly eight hundred million people in this world cannot read or write, most of them in developing countries. Two-thirds are women and girls.
John Wood who started the Room to Read campaign（运动）, has opened 1,650 schools and 15,000 libraries in some of the world’s poorest communities（社区）. He said that from the beginning, Room to Read’s goal was to reach 10 million children around the world in the poorest countries.
In 1998, on a three-week vacation journey in Nepal, Wood met a local headmaster who invited him to visit his school in a far mountain village. The experience changed Wood’s life.
“This headmaster had 450 students at the school, but he didn’t have any books,”Wood said.” He had a library that was empty.”
Wood promised to fill the library shelves and returned to the village year later with some of his friends with 3,000 books. And that was just the start. Later, Wood used some of his personal money to start Room to Read. He believes that world change begins with educated children. Today, the programme can be found in 10 countries across Asia and Africa.
Wood believes the key to the program’s success is local support .While Room to Read gives away money and provides books, communities offer land and parents help build the school. Agnes, a Room to Read teacher in Zambia who also runs the library, is proud to say the literacy at her school has improved. Room to Read’s biggest challenge is the huge need. Hundreds of communities have asked for literacy programmes. One way of Room to Read’s success is that it will achieve Wood’s goal of reaching 10 million kids by 2015, five years earlier than it is planned.
38. The purpose of the Room to Read campaign is to __________.
A. ask parents to read together with their children
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B. help poor children to learn to read and write
C. tell more people the importance of reading
D. help 10 million children to go to college
39. When John Wood travelled in Nepal in 1998, he __________.
A. visited many local schools
B. sent many books to local children
C. started the Room to Read campaign
D. met a man who changed his life
40. The underlined part “the literacy” in the last paragraph refers to（指的是）
__________.
A. the teaching conditions
B. the teaching quality
C. students’ ability to read and write
D. the money teachers earn every month
41. John Wood is a person that is ____________.
A. helpful and generous
B. honest and brave
C. careless but active
D. strict but friendly
D
When you watch 3D movies or TV, you have to wear a special pair of glasses. The
3D glasses make the images from the screen look like they are there in the room with you.
Three-dimensional, or 3D, means having three dimensions（维度）: width, height and depth. 3D technology（技术）is based on the way the human brain（大脑）and eyes work. Because the pupils of a person’s eyes are about 6.5cm apart（分开）, when we look at something, each eye sees it from a different angle（角度）.Our eyes send the two images to our brain, and the brain puts them together. The small difference between the image from the right eye and the image from the left eye allows us to see depth.
When we view pictures and television in two dimensions, each eye gets the same information. That is because the image has no real depth, and there is only one of viewing it. So the goal of 3D technology is to get a different image into each of the viewer. It uses two film projectors. One projects a left eye image and the other projects a right image. The 3D glasses allow us to see a different image in each eye.
While watching 3D films, we feel that we are in the same environment as the things we’re watching. However, it also has its disadvantages. The 3D glasses work by controlling the amount of light that reaches the eyes. It makes the screen look darker. What’s more, people with eye problems may get headaches if they spend too much time watching 3D movies, because their brains need to work harder to “read” the images.
42. According to the passage, we can see 3D TV with the help of _______.
A. the exciting games
B. the special glasses
C. the dark screen
D. the image in the room
43. The second paragraph mainly tells us__________.
A. how we see things in 3D
B. how 3D films are made
C. what the human brain does for our eyes
D. how different images get into the brain
44. The underlined word “pupils” in the passage means __________ in Chinese.
A.学生
B.视线
C.睫毛
D.瞳孔
45. Which of the following is true?
A. 3D glasses make the screen look brighter.
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