上海版2020届九年级上学期英语期中检测试卷A卷一、、完形填空( 共15小题；每小题1分，共15分) (共1题；共15分)1. （15分） A teacher once told each of her students to bring a clean plastic bag and a bag of potatoes to school. For every person they didn’t want to forgive(原谅) in their lives, they chose a potato, wrote the person’s 1and the date on it and put it in the plastic bag. Some of their bags were very2 . They were then told to carry this bag with them 3 for one week. They would put it beside their bed at night, on the seat when sitting in a car or on a bus , and next to their desks at 4 . The 5 carrying the bag around with them made students get to know what a weight they were carrying in their minds. They had to pay attention to(注意) it all the time so that they wouldn’t 6it or leave it in embarrassing(尴尬的) places. As time passed by, the potatoes went 7 and smelt terrible. Too often we think of tolerance(宽容) as a 8 to other people, but it clearly is for 9! If we choose to keep our sadness and hatred(仇恨) in our hearts, we will have to 10 them around all our lives.（1）A . ageB . nameC . hobbiesD . weight（2）A . smallB . beautifulC . lightD . heavy（3）A . everywhereB . nowhereC . somewhereD . where（4）A . homeB . workC . nightD . school（5）A . studentsB . daysC . potatoesD . teachers （6）A . forgetB . buyC . rememberD . find（7）A . bigB . wrongC . badD . good（8）A . feelingB . wasteC . giftD . greeting （9）A . themselvesB . ourselvesC . yourselfD . itself （10）A . missB . meetC . carryD . enjoy二、阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，共30分) (共4题；共30分)2. （6分）阅读理解A desert is a very dry land where there is hardly any rain. In the day, it can be so hot that you could fry an egg on the ground. But during the night it is sometimes so cold that water would turn into ice.Many deserts are covered in sand. But some have mountains, rocks, or lakes that have dried up in the heat. The Great American Desert has cliffs（悬崖）that have been made into amazing and beautiful shapes by the wind. The Sahara Desert in Africa is mostly sand. The Australian Desert has red sand.Sometimes it does not rain for a whole year in the desert. But there is water deep under the ground and some plants have roots that go very deep to find it. Other plants have roots that spread out a long way so they can suck up the rain as soon as it falls. One desert plant is the cactus, which has long, spreading roots. The cactus stores water inside its hard skin. This skin protects it from heat and cold. Camels are a bit like cactus plants! They store water too—inside their bodies. They have special fur which protects them from the sun during the day and keeps them warm at night.Some other animals live in deserts, too. They have to be very good at seeing and hearing because most of them only come out at night. This is why many desert animals have extra big eyes or ears. A desert fox has bigger ears than a normal fox. A gerbil has huge eyes, so that it can see at night. It stays cool in the day by staying underground, like most desert animals.Some people live in the desert but they always make their homes near an oasis. An oasis is where water comes from an underground river. Near an oasis, people can grow lots of plants and keep animals.Life is hard in the desert, for people, animals and plants. But desert people like to live there.（1）What is the passage mainly about？A . Animal.B . Plants.C . Cliffs.D . Desert.（2）What do the underlined words “suck up” in paragraph probably mean?A . give away.B . take in.C . hold on.D . put down.（3）Which of the following is true?A . Desert people like to live in the desert though life is hard.B . People in the desert usually fry eggs on the ground.C . Camels have special fur to store water.D . All the deserts are covered in sand.（4）Some desert animalshave extra big eyes or earsbecause ________.A . it is very cold at nightB . the sunlight is too strong in the dayC . they store water in themD . they need to see and hear well at night（5）Most desert animals stay cool in the day by ________.A . staying undergroundB . growing lots of plantsC . storing water inside their bodiesD . drinking water as much as they can（6）Which of the following shows the structure of the passage?A .B .C .D .3. （8分）阅读理解Find Which Direction Is SouthDo you have a good sense of direction? If not, please take with you a compass. But if you forget to take a compass, you can still find your way.It's never a good idea to imagine that the family member who was entrusted (委托) with the job of map-reading actually knows where the family is. You can tell by the slightly confused load on their faces that nothing on the ground seems to match the map. Never mind. The sun is shining and it's still morning.If you don't know the exact time, you can still find out where south is, but you'll need to be patient.①Find a straight stick and put it in the ground in a place where you can mark its shadow.②Try to position the stick as vertically(垂直)as you can. You can check this by making a simple plumb line (铅锤线) with a piece of string and weight. You haven't got any string? OK, use a thread from your clothes with a button tied at the end to act as a weight.③Mark the end of the shadow cast by the stick.④Wait approximately half an hour and mark the end of the shadow again.⑤Keep doing this until you have made several marks.⑥The mark nearest the stick will represent the shortest shadow, which is cast at midday, when the sun is highest in the sky and pointing to the exact south.⑦Pick a point in the distance along the line between the sh ortest shadow and the stick.⑧That point is south of where you are.⑨Now you can turn the map, like you did before, and find which way you should be travelling.（1）To find the direction, we ought to be patient probablybecause ____ .A . it is not easy to find a proper stickB . it is not easy to position the stickC . it takes hours to make the marksD . it takes about half an hour to make the marks（2）The passage would probably be most helpful to ____.A . those who draw mapsB . those who get lostC . those who make compassesD . those who do experiments（3）Which of the following pictures best shows the way of finding the direction of south?A .B .C .D .（4）The writer presents this passage by _____.A . telling an interesting storyB . describing an activity in a lively wayC . testing an idea by reasoningD . introducing a practical method4. （8分）阅读理解。
