北京师大附中2020-2021学年上学期初中九年级期中考试英语试卷本试卷有十道大题，考试时长120分钟，满分100分。
听力部分一、听后选择（共8小题；每小题1. 5分，共12分）听下面一段对话，完成第1至第2小题。
1. Where are the children going this weekend?A. To the park.B. To the library.C. To the museum.2. How are they going there?A. By bus.B. By bike.C. By subway.听下面一段对话，完成第3至第4小题。
3. When will Lucy have a meeting this afternoon?A. At 2:00.B. At 3:00.C. At 4:00.4. What does she need to take?A. Her camera.B. Her notebook.C. Her computer.听下面一段对话，完成第5至第6小题。
5. What does the boy think of smart speakers?A. Expensive.B. Fun.C. Popular.6. What are the speakers mainly talking about?A. Types and usages of smart speakers.B. The history and future of smart speakers.C. Advantages and disadvantages of smart speakers.听下面一段独白，完成第7至第8小题。
7. Which is the common pattern（样式）of Chinese Paper Cut Art?8. Why does the speaker make the speech?A. To tell people how to do paper cutting.B. To introduce traditional Chinese art forms.C. To show the beauty in Chinese Paper Cut Art.二、听获取信息回答问题（共16分，每小题2分）9. How can the boy go to the cinema?10. What is Tom's mother doing?11. How long has the boy been on the team?12. Why does the girl want to be a Chinese teacher?13. What animals does Jim like best?四、单选（共6分，每小题0. 5分）19. My mother is leaving for Hongkong, but I can't go with ____________.A. himB. herC. usD. them20. The children are very happy because they are having a trip ____________ Sunday.A. onB. inC. ofD. to21. —Mr. Black, _____________ did you spend on this dictionary?—Oh, it cost me 230 yuan.A. how manyB. how longC. how muchD. how often22. —Can you join us playing basketball after school today?—Sorry, I_________. I have to go home and finish my homework first.A. mustn'tB. can'tC. needn'tD. couldn't23. This coat looks great, ____________ I don't think it looks good on me.A. andB. soC. butD. or24. CITI Tower in Beijing is probably one of ____________ buildings in the whole world.A. tallB. tallerC. tallestD. the tallest25. Every morning, Mr. Green ___________ a coffee on his way to work.A. buysB. boughtC. is buyingD. will buy26. —Where is your father, Linda?—He ______________ my bike in the yard now.A. repairsB. is repairingC. repairedD. was repairing27. I __________ English for nearly 9 years and I can express myself in English now.A. studyB. studiedC. will studyD. have studied28. —What were you doing at 9 o'clock yesterday evening?—I____________ my homework.A. doB. didC. was doingD. am doing29. If you want to visit the History Museum, I________ tickets for you tomorrow.A. bookedB. have bookedC. was bookingD. will book30. —Could you please tell me ___________ the 2020 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition?—Last Tuesday.A. when they visitedB. when will they visitC. when they will visitD. when did they visit五、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class. She could spell difficult words like "encyclopedia" and "amendment" very 31 . She used to get perfect scores during each weekly spelling test.Ms. Daisy, her English teacher, made a 32 for the spelling tests that any child who doesn't get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for next week's spelling test. Seema, who sat next to Stuti always struggled（挣扎）in spellings. Last Thursday, she received 56%, which meant she had to 33 the rest 44% words three times.Stuti was so 34 in her spelling abilities that she decided not to study for her next spelling test. The test began. Ms. Daisy pronounced each word and then repeated it. Everything was OK until she spoke "Handkerchief". Stuti scribbled（匆匆书写）h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h... now what? Her mind was blank.Ms, Daisy started to move on to the next word. An idea came into Stuti's mind that Seema 35 how to spell it! Seema had written this word three times.There was wide open space between Stuti and Seema. Stuti's eyes rolled（滚动）to the right. There it was, spelled out in Seema's handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper and 36 the word with the letters "i-e-f".Stuti remained nervous as Ms. Daisy read the last spelling word. She had 37 just for the first time in her life. She thought, "Is this the way I want to keep my perfect record—by being a cheater?"Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and replaced it with what she knew was, the wrong answer. She wrote "e-i-f". As her hands put down her pencil and passed the test up to the front, she sighed with relief(解脱). She thought, "So what if my perfect scores are no longer being kept? At least my 38 is. "31. A. happily B. easily C. slowly D. carefully32. A. plan B. suggestion C. guess D. rule33. A. check B. copy C. read D. pronounce34. A. special B. unusual C. confused D. confident35. A. knew B. proved C. found D. wondered36. A. changed B. picked C. finished D. replaced37. A. cheated B. asked C. looked D. remembered38. A. choice B. courage C. honesty D. pride六、阅读（共26分，每小题2分）AMisadventure in EnglishLast week, our forum(论坛) asked if you had any funny or strange stories about using39. Who posted the story about buying shoes?A. Sophie.B. Yancy.C. Julien.D. Zheng Xu.40. What happened to Maggie?A. She ate a frog.B. She had a dry throat.C. She lost her pen friend.D. She got a bad comment.41. What does Julien think of his pen friend's grandfather?A. Strange.B. Funny.C. Strict.D. Nice.BDog's Best FriendJarrett Little was road testing his mountain bike outside of Columbus, Georgia, when his riding partner, Chris Dixon, stopped suddenly. Something nearby moving among the trees had caught her attention. It turned out to be a sandy-colored five-month-old dog."He was really thin, and had a broken leg," Little told CBS News. The cyclists fed the friendly dog and shared their water. They also quickly realized that the dog was coming with them, although they had no idea how. They were more than seven miles from downtown and riding bikes." We couldn't leave him," Little said. "Out there next to the Oxbow Meadows, he was going to end up as alligator（短吻鳄）food. "Little, a 31-year-old business owner, had an idea. He carefully picked up his new friend and put the 38-pound dog's back legs into the pockets of his cycling shirt. Then he placed the dog's front legs over his shoulders."He was hurt, so he wasn't trying to fight," Little says. "He was also happy that we were there, touching him, and hadn't taken off on him. "Their 30-minute ride into town ended at a bike store, where they got more water and food for the dog. "That was when Andrea Shaw, a company worker, happened by. The dog went straight to her, smelling and "loving on her," says Dixon. Shaw was touched and, after learning what had happened, decided to keep the dog.Shaw called him Columbo after the town where they'd met and planned an operation on his leg, Today, Columbo is living the high life on a farm with a horse and a 6-year-old boy to keep him company. As Dixon said, "He is really the luckiest dog alive. "42. Why did Dixon stop suddenly during the road testing?A. She noticed something moving among the trees.B. She had cycled seven miles and wanted to rest.C. She met some other riding partners by chance.D. She wanted to share some water with Little.43. What can we learn about the dog?A. He is unfriendly to people.B. He is kept happily on a farm.C. He weighed about 31 pounds.D. He ended up as alligator food.44. According to the passage, the dog's best friend is_____________.A. the alligatorB. the humanC. the horseD. CBS NewsC.There is a famous English saying "You are what you eat", and it means what you put in your mouth will become part of you. Many experts（专家）use it to tell people it's important to have a good eating habit. For example, too much sweet food makes a person overweight. To avoid being fat, kids are told to keep off sweet food. However, a team of American scientists have discovered something new about eating sweet food."When we say some people 'sweet', we mean they are kind and friendly to us. Perhaps this word can help us learn more about people's feelings and acts," said Brian Meier, a scientist from the study team. "Taste is something we experience every day. What we have done is to find whether we can know someone's character and behavior depending on their taste. "In one of their experiments, college students were asked questions about their character-whether, for example, they were soft-hearted or not. Then they were asked to make a list of their favorite food. According to their answers, the scientists found that the students who liked sweet food were nicer.In their another experiment, the scientists found that people who preferred sweet food such as cookies and chocolate were more willing to help other people in need, and those who ate non-sweet food such as chips weren't. For example, people with a sweet tooth were more likely to volunteer to clean up their city, visit sick children in the hospital and so on.The result of the experiments is that people's helpfulness or being nice has something to do with their taste for sweet food. So eating sweet food is a useful way to make people nice and helpful. Next time, try some ice-cream.45. According to the result of the experiments, sweet food can make people __________.A. overweightB. excitedC. relaxedD. friendly46. The purpose of the experiment in paragraph 4 is to show___________.A. character and behavior has something to do with people's tasteB. why some people like sweet food better than other kindsC. people who like cookies and chocolate like helping othersD. Non-sweet food eaters are not willing to volunteer to help those in need47. We can learn from the passage that ____________.A. people's taste decides their characters and actsB. sweet food makes people overweightC. people with a sweet tooth are more willing to help othersD. people's character has nothing to do with their tasteD.Mindlessly checking Facebook makes you an awful lot like a lab mouse continuously pushing a button in order to get a treat.When you check your phone, your brain gets its own little zing; Someone might be talking about you on Facebook! No? Reload. Maybe your Instagram got a heart! Reload. Reload.But you're no rat. Human brains can fight the ways apps hijack our brains, if we learn some skills to deal with this problem.Are Facebook or Twitter "addictions"（瘾）? Recent scientific research about social media doesn't agree on that term, but evidence that we aren't doing well is present at dinner tables where everyone is staring at screens, and at crosswalks where absent-minded people walk into traffic.I became mindful of my early-morning bad habits. Pre-coffee, half awake, I'd lie there for an hour with my phone. So I called up psychologists, brain scientists and app designers for advice on what actually would help me.Surprisingly, they didn't tell me to immediately stop, but instead, they told me I needed the skills for managing social media as part of my life.Limit Triggers(诱因)Our brains are made to quickly eat up, information. So why let social-media companies decide when to attract you? Turn off app notifications on your phone and computer, especially for live video broadcasts. They are designed to create the fear of missing out.Avoid Quicksand（流沙，陷阱）When you're on Facebook, it is easy to read one article, then another. Nir Eyal, author of the 2014 book "Hooked," says he forces himself not to read anything right away. Instead, he savesarticles to a service called Pocket, which reads them aloud while he's at the gym.We hurt ourselves when we use social media as a break from serious work. Our brains need a chance to be empty. Research suggests the best way to help your brain focus is exercise, even for a short period. Staring into space would be better than refreshing Facebook.Make New NormsNot that long ago, you could be fired for not paying attention during a meeting or class, now, many openly use their phones or laptops. Bosses could set a better work culture by providing charging stations at meetings where everyone could leave their phones, then focus on the discussion at hand. Mr. Eyal suggests you try shaming friends who have bad habits-if you do it politely, If someone is not listening to you at dinner, ask, "Is everything OK?" The answer might start an important conversation.Tech Should HelpThe social-media industry has a responsibility here, too. Since companies usually know exactly how much time users spend on their apps, they should offer help to people who have problem behavior. And for the rest of us, let's encourage app makers to make their products more helpful, not more demanding of our time.48. What does the underlined word "hijack" in Paragraph 3 probably mean?A. Wash.B. Hurt.C. Control.D. Empty.49. Why does Mr. Eyal save articles to Pocket?A. To rest his tired brain.B. To refresh his Facebook immediately.C. To get more time to exercise.D. To avoid being attracted by social media.50. What is the best title of this passage?A. Take a break from busy life.B. Free your brain from social media.C. Separate social life from your work.D. Keep your life away from apps.51. What can we infer from the passage?A. The social-media industry should make more app products.B. People with problem behavior should ask brain scientists for help.C. We should decide when to connect to social media by ourselves.D. A company with charging stations must have a better work culture.七、阅读回答问题（共10分，每小题2分）Coronavirus（新型冠状病毒）disease (COVID-19) is an infectious disease caused by a newly discovered coronavirus. More cases are still reported in some cities every day. Please follow the general COVID-19 prevention guidance. Stay cautious when you meet up with friends. Avoid indoor activities and stay away from big groups by sticking to a core group of friends and family. You should only play sports and games with others when you can stay 6 feet apart and wear face coverings. Get tested as quickly as you can if you have any symptoms such as fever, cough and headaches. If you are tested positive, please stay at home and protect those around you by wearing a face covering.To prevent catching the infection, here are some more tips to help you stay safe as you move about the city this fall.●When you go to the gym:√ Wear a face covering that covers your nose and mouth at all times. Don't cover your face with bandanas (印花手帕) or gaiters（鞋套）．They are not acceptable face coverings while at the gym.√ Stop socializing. Keep at least 6 feet away from gym-goers.●When you eat out:√ Do not wait. Make a reservation, check out the menu online and do whatever else you can to avoid long wait times before you get a table and order.√ Keep your face covering on at all times unless you are eating and drinking.●When you shop:√ Use hand sanitizer(消毒液)when entering the store, after touching products and after leaving the store.√ Only touch products you intend to buy, and use contactless（无需接触的）payment methods whenever possible.52. What should you do when you play sports and games with others?53. Why can't you cover your face with bandanas or gaiters at the gym?54. When can you take off your face covering when you eat out?55. How can you pay safely when you shop?56. What is the purpose of the article?八、单词拼写（每题0. 5分，共5分）57. 成功n．58. 自信的adj.59. 鼓励v．60. 照料；小心n；介意；在乎v．61. 提高，改善v．62. 有礼貌的adj.63. 面试，采访n．64. 脸n. ;面对v．65. 健康的adj. 66. 提醒v．8分）67. Suddenly, the rain stopped and the clouds____________. The sun rose behind me and shone on the rocks.68. DengYaping has won many competitions, but says that she isn't cleverer than anyone else, but she has a very strong________________. Whatever she does, she never gives up.69. The Adventure of Tom Sawyer is a great book. It is more than an adventure story. It tells how young people grow, how people love each other and how bad people pay for their_________.70. Son, I took a lot of pictures on your mother's birthday with my camera. If you want to use my camera for your school activity, please check the memory card. It may be________. You need to get an empty one.71. We throw away tons of rubbish every year. If we want a clean world, we have to reduce,reuse and recycle. The first ________________ is to use less. The second is to use things as long as possible. Finally, learn how to do waste sorting for recycling.72. Paper was first ______ about 2,000 years ago in China. After this invention, people started to write on paper to make books.73. The Australians has a_____________ relationship with the British. Many have British relatives, and they are similar in many ways.74. As a boy, like all other boys, I wanted to be a man. But my parents did everything for me. Actually, they ________________ every minute of my life and I did not have any personal space. Although they love me, I felt a bit unhappy with them.十、写作(10分)从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段。
