湖北武汉部分学校九年级元月调考英语试卷

— Thanks so much for helping a lot!
— ______.

— I can’t open this door, Jack. I wonder if you could lend me a hand.
—_________.

— How much do you know about the school?
— Oh, a nice one. The school is widely _______ for its excellent teaching.

In Britain today women _______ 44% of the workplace, and nearly half the mothers with children are in paid work.

— What are you cooking, mum? It _______ delicious.
— Chicken soup. Your grandparents will come for dinner.

— Have you done all the washing, dear?
— Not yet. It will take about _______ five minutes.

— Please write down the address and the phone number.
— Sorry, but I have no _________ to write on.

— Would you like this TV set or that one?
— I’m not sure. This one has better sound, _________ the picture is better on the other one.

Money is often _______ to be very important in our life, but in fact there is something more important than it.

— Can I leave my car outside at night?
You ________ better not.

— If I report it to the police, they’ll want to know where I found it.
_______? They might want to know what I was doing there.

— Where are you going for your winter holidays?
Well, we ________ yet.

— Are you scared of the flight?
No, just a little ______.

— How many of you are going to the party?
—________, they are all going to the concert.

I was just beginning to wonder _________.

完型填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分）
When I finished my work and put away my things, I hurried to drive home for my 30^th birthday celebration. My husband called, he would give me a     this evening. Then I came up to a red light and stopped.
As I was        , I saw a young guy standing on my left. He was pale in the face and        a cardboard sign with some writing on it. When you’re in the heart of downtown, it’s pretty        to see homeless people asking for money. Generally, I would        them, but this time when I looked over the sign, I stopped. I didn’t know        , but this sign struck me.
I can’t remember what the sign said     , but it was something like: “Need money /      , have stomach cancer, homeless, anything helps.”
The light had just turned green, and there was a line of supper rush hour traffic        me. I went back and forth in my mind a hundred times in that next second.” Should I do something or just       ?” The traffic moved forward, and I went with it.
About a block or two away, my heart had sunk simply for this guy. I felt so   for him. So, I decided to go back and ask him if I could buy him some food and listen to his       .
It took me about five minutes to turn around and back on to the same       where I had seen him. It was just five minutes--but he had gone.
“Where did he go so fast?” I wondered. So, there was       left to do except going on my driving.
Back at home, I just couldn’t       happy when I thought of the pale face. If you get an idea from inside you, act on it. Don’t miss out--for yourself and for that other person.

A．kiss B．hand C．donation D．surprise

A．shopping B．waving C．waiting D．standing

A．pulling B．pushing C．holding D．throwing

A．common B．hard C．impossible D．strange

A．help B．pass C．stop D．join

A．how B．when C．where D．why

A．suddenly B．gradually C．exactly D．hardly

A．clothing B．food C．medicine D．house

A．beside B．before C．above D．behind

A．wait B．drive C．walk D．greet

A．upset B．thankful C．impolite D．angry

A．advice B．songs C．jokes D．story

A．street B．house C．light D．store

A．everything B．anything C．something D．nothing

A．remain B．appear C．seem D．become

We may probably read the above material in ______.

It’s clear that the program is for the students ______.

Rachel is probably a(n) ______ for the program.

If we want more information about the program, we______.

What do we learn about this summer program?

On Thursday October 3, Adam Harper decided to stop drinking coffee. Adam is a MBA student at Harvard University. He studies long hours, gets very little sleep and as a result, he drinks a lot of coffee---anywhere from five to six cups a day. Recently, Adam felt that drinking thus much coffee was making it hard for him to sleep at all. He also began having problems with his concentration(注意力), and complained of stomachaches. Adam’s doctor made this suggestions: stop drinking coffee altogether.
When Adam got up on October 3, he began his day without his morning coffee. By 11:00 a.m., Adam was in a terrible mood (情绪). He was tired and had a headache. At 11:30, he had a meeting with his student advisor. In the meeting, he found it almost impossible to continue. What was going on?
Caffeine, a chemical found in coffee, was most likely the reason for how Adam felt. Caffeine is a stimulant that boosts(增加) energy levels and improves concentration- but only for a short time. Lowering caffeine consumption(减少摄取咖啡因) often causes a drop in blood pressure and the result is a “coffee headache”, People who stop drinking coffee often say they feel tired and moody, and find it hard to focus.
The good news is that these feeling usually pass after four and five days. During this time, doctors suggested taking some aspirin for the headache. So, if Adam can wait, in less than a week, he may be feeling much better.
We learn from the reading Adam_________.

In fact, coffee can really help us______.

People may feel _____ when they stop drinking coffee.

What happened to Adam on Thursday October 3?

The good news shows that_____.

Can you speak to dolphins? Of course you can but you won’t be able to understand them! We interviewed a biologist and asked her what research on dolphin communication has shown. This is what she told us.
Just like dogs, cats and other mammals, dolphins communicate by using sound, vision (视觉), touch and taste. Each dolphin has its own signature whistle to identify itself and to call others. Dolphins don’t have the ability to smell, but their hearing and eyesight are excellent.
We also asked Jane if dolphins have got their own language. She told us that they have and that dolphins started talking to each other from birth. They make different sounds, including whistles, squeaks and click. Sometimes they even sound like a heavy metal band!
We then asked Jane if any interesting experiments have been done. She told us that a very interesting experiment had been done with a mother dolphin and her two-year-old baby in an aquarium. They talked to each other over the telephone! The two dolphins were in separate tanks which were connected by a special under water system. Unfortunately the biologists couldn’t understand what the dolphins were talking about because they haven’t been able to decode (转换) dolphin language yet. However, it was very clear that the dolphins knew what they were talking about.
Finally we asked Jane if there was hope that we would be able to understand dolphins in the near future. She told us that she and her team have been listening to dolphins for more than 17 years, using special equipment to record and analyze their language. Unfortunately they haven’t been able to decode it yet, but who knows — maybe one day we’ll get a phone call from a dolphin.
It’s clear that ________.

The best title of the reading may most probably be_______.

The word “analyze” in the reading mean________.

Which of the five senses haven’t dolphins got?

The interesting experiment tells us_______.

词与短语选择填空（共5小题，每小题2分，满分10分）
阅读下面五个句子，然后用下面方框中所给的单词或短语填空，使每个句子在结构和意义上正确。（提示：选项中有一个是多余的）

 
The book should be very ____ to parents of disabled children.
How did you____ to persuade him?
The girls were ______ in activities of school life.
He _____my wet boots and made me sit by the fire.
They met a couple of times but they didn’t really _____.

阅读理解填词（共10题，每小题1分，满分10分）
先阅读短文，在其后空白处写出各单词的正确形式，单词的第一个字母已给出。
Soon after Harry Wei moved into the flat downstairs, I met him one morning in the lift. I introduced myself, and could tell him from his v  that he wasn’t British, so I said, Are you from Japan? He looked annoyed, and said, “No, I’m Chinese!” I felt very e .
That evening, I told my flatmate Nick about our new n . “I hope he doesn’t like c   lots of smelly, oily food,” he said. “My uncle used to live above a Chinese r , and he…” “I like Chinese food,” I said. “Anyway, he’s just moved here and maybe he doesn’t know many people yet. Let’s invite him round to our place for dinner.” I went downstairs and knocked on his door. He thanked me for the i , and asked if he could bring his wife along too. “Of course,” I said,
When they came to dinner, I was surprised to find that Harry’s wife was British, not Chinese. Her name was Lisa. “We met in Chengdu five years ago,” She e . “I was an English teacher there, and Harry was my student.” Now Harry was studying in London, and after he had finished studies they p to go back to China.
I asked Harry what he found most dabout life in England. “Oh, I love it here now,” he said, “but when I first arrived, my English wasn’t very good. When I didn’t understand what people said, they would just r the same words very loudly and slowly. English people tend to expect everyone else to speak their language,”
“That’s true,” I said. “But please don’t ask me to learn Chinese!”

书面表达。（共1大题，满分15分）
假如你是李明，准备到美国的一所高中去求学，需要用英文写一篇自我介绍。要点如下：
第一次去国外，希望得到帮助；
来此是为了提高英语水平并为大学学习做准备；
喜欢你们的学校和校园生活，愿广交朋友；
16岁，来自中国武汉，即将初中毕业；
补充一两点个人想法。
注意： 1. 要求包括内容要点，语句通顺，内容连贯，不可逐条翻译；
2. 词数 60-80；
3. 介绍内容的开头和结尾已经给出，不计词数。
Dear Mr. Smith,
I am going to study in your school this summer. And I am very happy to introduce myself to you.___________________________________________________________________________
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