九年级秋季期末测试（英语）（考试总分：120 分）一、听力（本题共计1小题，总分20分）略二、阅读理解（本题共计3小题，总分30分）2.（10分）（1）.You can get cash for recycling the following products except ______.A.iPads and iPodsB.smart phonesC.televisionD.cameras（2）.How much will you get at most if your old phone costs 1000 dollars?A.$100B.$500C.$800D.$1000.（3）.What will happen if your phone is stolen?A.You can't get the bag.B.You can't ask for cash.C.You need to pay for the phone.D.You need to visit the website again.（4）.What is the passage mainly about?A.The steps of how to get cash.B.The price of selling old phones.C.The time of getting your payment.D.The instruction to recycling things.（5）.Where is the text probably taken from?A.A website.B.A tour guide.C.A story book.D.A science report.3.（10分）Matthew Cuthbert lived with his sister Marilla on their farm on Prince Edward Island in Canada. Everybody in the little village knew that the Cuthberts were quietpeople who worked very hard on their farm.One afternoon Matthew drove the horse and cart to the station. “Has the fivethirty train arrived yet?” he asked the stationmaster.“Yes,”the man replied.“And there's a passenger who's waiting for you. A little girl.”“A little girl?”asked Matthew. “But I've come for a boy! The children's home is sending us one of their orphan boys. We're going to adopt(收养) him, you see, and he's going to help me with the farm work.”“Well, perhaps the children's home didn't have any boys, so they sent you a girl,” answered the stationmaster carelessly. “Here she is.”Matthew turned shyly to speak to the child. She was about eleven, with long red hair in two plaits. Her face was small, white and thin, with a lot of freckles, and she had large grey green eyes. She was wearing an old brown hat and a dress which was too small for her.“Are you Mr Cuthbert of Green Gables?” she asked excitedly in a high, sweet voice. “I'm very happy to come and live with you, and belong to you. My real name is Anne Shirley, but I like to imagine my name is Cordelia, it's a very beautiful name.”Matthew felt sorry for the child. He decided to take her home. He was surprised that enjoyed the journey home. He didn't like talking himself. But today, he only had to lis ten, because the little girl talked and talked and talked while they drove along.They were now driving past some very old apple trees next to the road. The trees were full of sweetsmelling, snowywhite flowers. The little girl looked at them.“Aren't the trees beautiful?” she said happily. “But am I talking too much? Please tell me. I can stop if necessary, you know.”Matthew smiled at her. “You go on talking,” he answered. “I like listening to you.”（1）.What did the Cuthberts do?A.Farmers.B.Stationmaster.C.Workers.D.Villagers.（2）.Why did Matthew drive the horse and cart to station?A.To visit a friend.B.To speak to the stationmaster.C.To meet a girl.D.To meet a boy.（3）.What was the little girl's name?A.Cordelia.B.Marilla.C.Anne Shirley.D.Matthew.（4）.What was the girl doing while they drove along?A.She was crying.B.She was talking.C.She was laughing.D.She was worrying.（5）.Did Matthew like listening to the girl?A.Yes, he enjoyed it.B.No, he didn't.C.No, he disliked her.D.We don't know.4.（10分）The next thing happened at one o'clock in the morning when John Straker got out of bed.“What's the matter?” said his wife. “Where are you going?”“To the stables(马腰),” Straker said. “I can't stop thinking about that stranger. I just want to have a look around.”“But it's raining. Wait until the rain stops,” she said.“No, no,” Straker said. “I want to go now.”He left the house and Mrs Straker went back to sleep. At seven in the morning she woke up, but her husband was not there. She quickly got up, called the servant, Edith, and they ran down to the stables.They found the stables unlocked. Straker was not there, and inside, on a chair, Ned Hunter slept like a dead man. Silver Blaze（银光,马名）was gone, and his stable door was open. They called the other two boys from the room over the stables. They were good sleepers and heard nothing in the night.Nobody could wake Ned Hunter, so the two women and the boys ran out to look for the trainer and the horse. Five hundred metres from the stables, they saw Straker's coat on a small tree. Down the hill, just past the tree, they found the trainer. He was dead.There was a long cut in his leg, and his head was broken in three places. In his right hand he had a small knife, with blood all over it, and in his left hand he had a red and black scarf.Edith Baxter knew the scarf at once, and later, so did Ned Hunter.“It's the stranger's scarf,” he told us. “When I went to get the dog, that stranger was still at the stable window. He put something in my meat curry(咖喱烧肉), to make me sleepI know he did. Edith saw him, with his arm through the window.”Ned Hunter was right about his meat curry. There was some of his dinner left, and wefound a lot of opium(麻醉剂) in it. That's why Ned slept like a dead man.What about the horse? Everybody on Dartmoor is looking for Silver Blaze, but there is no news of him.（1）.What did Straker want to do while raining one night?A.He wanted to get out of bed.B.He wanted to go to the stables and sleep there.C.He wanted to stop thinking about that stranger.D.He wanted to go to the stables and have a look around.（2）.Who helped Mrs Straker look for Straker?A.Two women and two boy.B.Edith and two boys.C.Ned and Edith.D.The stranger.（3）.Where was Straker found?A.Down the hill, five hundred metres from the stables.B.On a small tree.C.Just past the tree.D.In the room over the stables.（4）.What was in Straker's left hand?A.A long cut.B.Three broken places.C.A small knife.D.A red and black scarf.（5）.Why did Ned sleep like a dead man?A.Because he had meat curry.B.Because he felt so tired.C.Because the stranger put a lot of opium in his dinner.D.Because somebody locked the door.三、选择句子补全短文（本题共计1小题，总分10分）5.（10分）What should you do when you come to a word and you think you don't know what it means? Following some easy steps can help you.__1___First, sound it out. Then say it to yourself. It might sound like a word you know. Sometimes you know a word in your head but you don't know what it looks like in print. So if you match up what you know and what you readyou have the word!__2___Look at the contextthe other words and sentences around it. Read this sentence: When it rained , the dog looked for shelter(避难所) in the doorway. If the word shelter doesn't look similar, look at the words around it. Rain and in the doorway might give you helpful information.__3___Look at the parts of the word. Does it have any parts you know? These can help you understand what it means. If you don't know the meaning of miner(矿工), try looking at parts of the word. A lot of times, er at the end of a word means “a person who does something”. So a miner might be someone who works in a mine.__4___If the three steps above don't work, you can look it up. You can find the word in a dictionaryeither a book or online.__5___For some new words, be brave to guess the meaning. You can connect the words with your own experience or common sense of life to guess them. Even you can use your imagination. A.Say it. B.Guess it. C.Look it up. e context.e word parts.四、完形填空（本题共计1小题，总分15分）6.（15分）There lives a businessman downstairs under my floor. He does well in his__1___ and has made a lot of money. He also has good relationships with his neighbors. So we all __2___ him for he is such a perfect person.One day, his __3___ , fresh out of college, came back. His wife cooked a big dinner for him. __4___ the family were eating, after they talked a lot, the son said to his father, “Dad, the times are __5___ from when you were young. I think you should read more books about how to __6___ a good business in the modern society.”“Yes, reading is __7___ important, but···” the father smiled. “In order to do your business better, I also think you should take my __8___ on how to do it better. In addition, you __9___ relevant (相关的) schools to study.” continued the son.“What? Do you want me to be a __10___ again?” his father got kind of angry. “I'm your father. I'm a __11___ businessman! Do you know what you're doing? Now I'm telling you'Youare teaching a fish how to swim!' ” his father laughed and __12___ the table.“What? Why did my father ask me to teach a fish how to swim? I was __13___ him some helpful advice!” the son puzzled(疑惑的).“Ha ha, dear, your father didn't ask you to teach a fish how to swim. He means that he has already been so successful that it is superfluous(多余的) __14___ you to tell him how to do business.” said his mother, who had been listening to __15___ conversation silently.“Oh, I see. My father is the same proud father he used to be,” the son said with a smile.1.A.business B.exam C.school D.course2.A.believe B.allow C.praise D.avoid3.A.daughter B.brother C.son D.sister4.A.If B.Because C.Although D.While5.A.different B.dangerous fortable D.difficult6.A.find B.run C.have D.get7.A.ever B.just C.quite D.still8.A.time B.text C.news D.advice9.A.should B.must C.can D.need10.A.worker B.student C.doctor D.teacher11.A.helpful eful C.successful D.careful12.A.broke B.colored C.bought D.left13.A.offering B.bearing C.refusing D.ordering14.A.with B.for C.of D.about15.A.his B.their C.my D.her五、选词填空（本题共计1小题，总分10分）7.（10分）In the Boar's Head we met some friends and started talking. The talk was about the plague(瘟疫), which was coming back again into London.“Have you heard the latest news?” said one man. “They say that more than thirty people are dying every week now.”“And the City Council,” said another man, “wants to close all the theatres. They always dothat when the plague comes to London. There'll be no work for any of __1___ actors.”“But the players can go on tour, __2___ ?” said Will.“Yes,” said the first man. “But it's a hard life. A different town, a different inn, a different play, every night. I think I'll stay in London.”The plague was terrible in any place, but it was __3___ in London. In those narrow streets, with houses so close together, and the dirty water running down the middle of the street, there was no escape. When the plague came, it ran __4___ fire through the town. If someone in a house got the plague, then the doors were __5___ and locked, and a big red cross was put on the door. Nobody could leave the house. You had to stay inside and fight―or die. __6___ you were rich, you left London as fast as you could.In September 1592 the City Council closed the theatres.“Are we going on tour, Will?” I said to him one day. “Or back to Stratford? We can't stay in London.”“You go back to Stratford, Toby,” he said slowly. “I'm going to Lord Southampton's home in Hampshire for a __7___. He __8___ asked me to go and stay with him. I can do some__9___ there, read his books, meet a few people.”I looked at him. “There's a woman in this somewhere, isn't there? You've had a strange look in your __10___ for weeks.”Will laughed, but didn't answer my question.六、短文填空（本题共计1小题，总分5分）8.（5分）Recently, photos of a creative Tshirt have been popular online. Such a Tshirt's purpose is __1___ help tourists to Beijing who can't speak Chinese. On the Tshirt, there__2___ easytounderstand Chinese and English words and symbols, which help visitors communicate their needs.On one side, people can see pictures of Beijing's places of interest along with their Chinese and English names, including the Forbidden City, Tian'anmen Square and the National Stadium. On __3___ other side, it lists basic necessities of four kinds for visitors: transportation, dining, shopping and emergency(紧急) assistance(救助). Each of them has a picture and a simple EnglishChinese description.The Tshirt allows its owner to point at what he's looking for if he needs help and can't finda person __4___ can speak his language. With the Tshirt on, the owner won't worry __5___ getting lost any more.七、对话填空（本题共计1小题，总分10分）9.（10分）(Junfeng and his parents are going to the USA. Michael and Kangkang are going to see them off. Now they are on their say to the airport.)Junfeng: I can't believe that I'm flying to Disneyland. I'm so excited.Kangkang: Of course you are.(Michael sees a stranger putting out his hand with his thumb raised.)Michael: Stop, please!Driver:__1___.Michael: The stranger is asking for a drive. Look at his gesture(手势)!(The driver stops the minibus.)Foreigner: Excuse me, __2___ ?Driver: Sure. We're going to the same place. Get on, please.Foreigner: Thank you very much.(They reach the airport twenty minutes later.)Kangkang: __3___?Junfeng: At 5 o'clock. My uncle is meeting us tomorrow. But I'm still worried about my English. Kangkang: __4___.You can buy the guidebook, A Tour in the USA.Junfeng: Good idea. I hope I won't have much difficulty in communication.Michael: Whenever you need help, send me an email or call me.Junfeng: __5___ . I have to go now. Bye!八、书面表达（本题共计1小题，总分20分）10.（20分）每个人在成长过程中都说过后悔的话或做过后悔的事,请你以I regret what I said 或I regret what I have done 为题,并根据要求,用英语写一篇短文。
