2017-2018学年广东省广州市越秀区九年级（上）期末英语试卷
一、语法选择（共15 小题；每题 1 分，满分15 分）
1．（15.00分）Happiness is for everyone．You don't need to care about （1）people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money（2）so on．Why？（3）those who have big houses （4）often feel lonely and those who have cars want to walk on the country roads in their free
time．
In fact，happiness is always around you if you put your heart（5）it．When you are in trouble at school，your friends（6）you；when you study hard at your lessons，your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health；when you （7），your friends will say congratulations to you；when you do something wrong，people around you will help you to correct it．And when you do something good to（8），you will feel happy，too．All these are your happiness．If you notice those things，you can see（9）happiness is always around you．
Happiness is not the same as money．It is （10）feeling of your heart．When you are poor，you can also say you are very happy，because you have something else that can't be bought with money．When you meet with difficulties，you can say （11）that you are very happy，because you have more chances （12）yourself．So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck．As the saying goes：life （13）like a revolving （旋转）door．When it closes，it also？（14）．If you take every chance you get，you can be a happy and lucky （15）．
1．A．this B．that C．these D．those
2．A．or B．but C．and D．nor
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3．A．For B．Because C．As D．So
4．A．can B．must C．may D．need 5．A．around B．for C．upon D．into
6．A．help B．helps C．will help D．helping 7．A．succeed B．successfully C．successful D．success 8．A．other B．others C．another D．the other 9．A．what B．which C．why D．that
10．A．a B．an C．the D．/
11．A．loudly B．louder C．loudest D．loud 12．A．challenge B．to challenge C．challenging D．challenged 13．A．does B．be C．are D．is
14．A．open B．opens C．opening D．to open 15．A．student B．friend C．person D．people．
二、完形填空（共10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分15 分）
2．（15.00分）Who designed the first helicopter （直升飞机）？Who （16）the most famous pictures in the world？Who knew more about the human body than most（17）？There is a（n）（18）to all these questions ﹣Leonardo de
Vinci．
Leonardo may have been the greatest genius （19）have ever known．He lived in Italy around the year 1500，but many of his inventions seem （20）to us today．For example，one of his notebooks has drawings of a helicopter．Of course，he couldn't （21） a helicopter with the things he had at that time．But scientists say his idea would have worked．
But Leonardo was not just an inventor．He was one of the （22）artists of his day．By the time he was twenty years old，he was called a master （大师）painter，and as he got older he became （23）more famous．
Many of Leonardo's wonderful （24）are still with us today．You may know
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