2017-2018老调重谈学年度第一学期期中学情调研试卷
九年级英语
注意事项：
●本试卷共8页，全卷满分90分，考试时间为90分钟。试卷包含选择题和非选择题。考生答题全部答在答题卡上，答在本试卷上无效。
●请认真核对监考教师在答题卡上所粘贴条形码的姓名、考试证号是否与本人相符合，再将自己的姓名、考试证号用0.5评价一个人的词语毫米墨水签字笔填写在答题卡及本试卷上。
●答选择题必须用2B铅笔将答题卡上对应的答案标号涂黑，如有改动，请用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答非选择题必须用0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔写在答题卡的指定位置，在其他位置答题一律无效。
第I卷 选择题（共40分）
一、单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答卷纸上将该项涂黑。
1. —It’s everyone’s duty to join the Clean Your Plate Campaign.
—Sure. We should try to ______ all the food that we’ve ordered.
A. give up B. eat up C. turn up D. show up
2. —I could ______ recognize my hometown!
—That’s true. Great changes have taken place in Nanjing in the past five years.
A. simply B. hardly C. possibly D. nearly
3. Amy never dreamed of receiving a letter from a girl ______ her own age in the USA.
A. of B. with C. at D. for
4. War Wolf II has won high ______ from all over the country.
A. prize B. price C. promi D. prai
5. The high-speed railway “Fu Xing Hao” ______ Beijing with shanghai has been in rvice since
June 26, 2017.
A. connects B. to connect C. connected D. connecting
6. Jack is from Canada. To my surpri, he speaks ______ English ______ French. Instead, he
speaks German.
A. either, or B. not only; but also C. neither; nor D. both; and
7. We thought ______ generous of him to donate so money and things to the poor.
A. it B. it’s C. that was D. Both A and B
8 Friendship is ______ wine. It gets better as it grows older.
A. as soon as B. as good as C. as well as D. as long as
9. —Oh, so many people are standing outside the hall. When will the film start?
—______ ven o’clock.
A. Not until B. Till C. Since D. Until
10. The teacher told us much more attention should ______ when we take exams.
A. pay to B. be paid C. be paid to D. pay
11. —I hope I won’t forget my promi to come to your party next Friday.
感人的红色故事
—Don’t worry. You will ______ the time one day earlier.
A. remind B. be reminded C. remind of D. be reminded of
12. —Could you tell me ______?
—“Rome was not built in a day.” You should practi more.
A. how can I have a good memory B. how I can do to have a good memory
C. why I should have a good memory D. what I can do to have a good memory
13. “background” is a compound word. Which of the following words is formed in the same way?
摄相A. careless B. unlucky C. basketball D. discovery
14. —How do you like The Diary of a Young Girl written by Anne Frank?
—I think it is worth ______.
A. eing B. to e C. reading D. to read
15. —I am sorry that what I did was not helpful at all.
—______. I think it was the most valuable.组长工作总结
A. Not at all B. Don’t mention it C. Sure it was D. Thanks anyway
二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题天堂来信1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C、D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Two brothers decided to dig a deep hole behind their hou. As they were working, a couple of older boys 16 to watch.
“What are you doing?” asked one of the 17 .
“We plan to dig a hole all the way through Earth!” one of the brothers answered excitedly.
The older boys began to laugh, telling the younger ones that digging a hole all through Earth was 18 .
梦见大象是什么预兆After a long silence, one of the diggers 19 a jar full of spiders, worms and incts. He removed the lid （盖子） and showed the wonderful things to the visitors.
Then he said quietly and 20 , “Even if we don’t dig all the way through Earth, look at what we’ve found along the way!”
Their goal was far too ambitious （有雄心的）, but it did cau them to dig. And that is what a goal is 21 —to cau us to move in the direction we have chon.
郭牌西瓜
But not every goal will be fully 22 . Not every job will end 23 . Not every hope will come to pass. Not every love will last. Not every dream will be realized.
But when you fall short of aim （达不到目标）, perhaps you can say, “Yes, but look at what I’ve found along the way! Look at the 24 things which have come into my life becau I tried to do something!”
It is in the digging that 25 is lived. And I believe it is joy in the journey, and in the end that truly matters.
16. A. left B. required C. stopped D. followed
17. A. visitors B. workers C. brothers D. diggers
18. A. difficult B. harmful C. uless C. impossible
19. A. deal I with B. picked up C. worked out D. showed off
