江苏江阴市青阳片九年级下学期期中考试英语试卷

We work together to achieve our common purpose: ________ world that is safer, cleaner and healthier than ________ one we are living in.

The number of people present at the concert was ________ than we expected.

The old woman has something wrong with her eyes and has to have them______.

---I don’t like action films. They are too noisy.
--- ________. I never watch action films.

---He seldom spends money buying new clothes or going traveling, ______ he?
---______. He can’t save a coin, though.

“_______ you’ve made! But you should still work harder,” the teacher said to the boy.

--- Do you know _______?
---I’m not sure. Maybe an English teacher?

Simon ________Chinese tea with nothing in it. He________ the taste very much.

---I’m going to the post office.
---________you’re there, can you get me some stamps?

The shop in Baolong Square ________ for six years, but I ________ there so far.

How lucky Peter was! Some policemen arrived in time and ________ him out.

He has _______ little money that he can’t even afford to buy__________ little sheep.

--- ________ David be the new chairperson of the Students’ Union?
--- He _______ be, but I’m not sure.

--- Forgotten something? I can keep an eye on your kids if you want to go and get it.
---_____________.Thank you all the same.

When I was in the third grade, I was chosen to be the princess in the school play. For weeks my mother had helped me practise my words. But once on the stage, every word    __   from my head. Then my teacher asked me to change my role to be a narrator (解说者) for the play.       I didn’t tell my mother what had happened that day, she noticed my       and asked if I wanted to take a walk in the garden.
It was a lovely spring day. We could see dandelions (蒲公英) coming out       the grass in bunches (束). I watched my mother bend down by one of the bunches. “I think I’ll remove all these weeds (野草),” she said. “From now on, we’ll       have roses in this garden.”
“But I like dandelions,” I said. “All flowers are       — even dandelions!”
My mother looked at me seriously. “Yes, every flower gives pleasure in its own way, doesn’t it?” she asked thoughtfully. I nodded(点头). “And the same as       ,” she said.
When I         that she had guessed my pain, I started to cry and told her the truth. “But you will be a wonderful narrator,” she said,       me of how much I loved to read stories aloud.
Thanks to my mother’s encouragement, I got to know everybody had his or her own           in the world. I felt proud of the role in the play.

A．developed B．left C．failed D．disappeared

A．If B．Because C．Though D．Since

A．difficulty B．mistake C．danger D．unhappiness

A．through B．past C．beyond D．behind

A．hardly B．only C．still D．also

A．harmless B．healthy C．beautiful D．fresh

A．students B．people C．flowers D．teachers

A．remembered B．realized C．explained D．promised

A．representing B．complaining C．recommending D．reminding

A．prize B．progress C．value D．interest

April Fool’s Day is supposed to be a day to play jokes on others in hopes of getting a good laugh and making one feel like a fool. However, the April Fool’s Day of 2014 was quite different for my mom and me.
That day my friend Jimmy and I were playing a game. I had dropped down from a bar (横木) many times in the past without ever having a problem, but that day the simple act of dropping to the ground became a nightmare (噩梦). I broke my arm.
Jimmy’s dad heard my crying and rushed out to see what was going on. When he saw the problem he quickly put me into his truck and went inside to telephone my mom and let her know he would take me to hospital. As that day was April Fool’s Day, Mom was not buying it and really thought all this was a big joke. Mom was finally convinced by Jimmy’s mom. When she saw me, she broke down in tears because she felt so bad –she originally thought this was just a big prank (恶作剧).
I guess one could compare this to the story of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. Since I had pulled pranks before, it is no wonder that my mom didn’t believe it. I as well as my mom was made to look like a fool that day. We both learned a valuable lesson.
What happened to the writer on the April Fool’s Day of 2014?

Why did Jimmy’s dad phone the writer’s mom?

From the passage we can infer that _________.

If you are lost in the mountains, stay calm in the face of darkness, loneliness, and the unknown. It will greatly increase your chances of survival (生存). Many people think that preparing necessary equipment and knowing how to use it are very important, but actually eighty percent of mountain survival is your reaction to fear.
Find a hiding place
Unnecessary labor will make you sweat and make you cold. Find a hiding place around you before trying to start your own construction. If you are in a snow-covered area, you may be able to dig a cave in deep snow for protection from the wind. You should try to hide yourself in the middle of the mountain if possible. Stay out of the valleys-cold air falls, and the valley floor can be the coldest area on the mountain.
Signal for help
The best time to signal is during the day. Signal for help from the highest point possible-it will be easier for rescuers to see you, and any sound you make will travel farther. If you take a box of matches and a space blanket (a special blanket for traveling), build three smoky fires and put your blanket-gold side facing out on the ground.
Do not walk away
It will make finding you more difficult, as search teams will be trying to follow your path and may miss you if you have gone off in a different direction. Searchers often end up finding a car with no one in it.
If you get frostbite (冻伤), do not rewarm the affected area until you're out of danger.
You can walk on frostbitten feet, but once you warm the area and can feel the pain, you will not want to walk anywhere. Try to protect the frostbitten area and keep it dry until you are rescued.
When lost in the mountains, you can increase your chances of survival if you_____.

According to the passage, people most probably fail to survive if they _____.

What can we infer from the passage?

There are different ways in which people try to deal with the problem of energy. One way is the greater production of common energy sources(能源), such as coal, oil and gas. The trouble with these sources, however, is that they are not renewable.
Another way is energy conservation(节能), which means using energy more efficiently(有效地). In some very cold countries people build special houses to save energy. They place materials between the inside and the outside of the walls of the house to keep the cold out and the warmth in. The house is heated by the lights, the body heat of the people and the other equipment in it.
Finally, renewable energy sources are used even though they are often expensive to develop. One form of these is geothermal energy. In certain parts of the world the temperature of the earth increases thirty degrees centigrade with each kilometre down. At six kilometres, therefore, t rises to nearly two hundred degrees. To get the heat, water is pumped(压;抽)down into the ocks and back up to the surface. Heat from the earth is already used in certain countries.
The writer tells about the "special houses" because they __________

The underlined words geothermal energy in the third paragraph mean________

At a place where the surface temperature is 15℃, how deep do you have to dig so as to get a temperature of 75℃?

Blind imitation (模仿) is self-destruction. To those who do not recognize their unique worth, imitation appears attractive: to those who know their strength, imitation is unacceptable.
In the early stages of skill or character development, imitation is helpful. When I first learned to cook, I used recipes (菜谱) and turned out some tasty dishes. But soon I grew bored. Why follow someone else's way of cooking when I could create my own? Imitating role models is like using training wheels on a child's bicycle; they help you get going, but once you find your own balance, you fly faster and farther without relying on them.
In daily life, imitation can hurt us if we subconsciously (下意识地) hold poor role models. If, as a child, you observed people whose lives were bad, you may have accepted their fear and pain as normal and gone on to follow what they did. If you do not make strong choices for yourself, you will get the results of the weak choices of others.
In the field of entertainment, our culture glorifies celebrities. Those stars look great on screen. But when they step off screen, their personal lives may be disastrous. If you are going to follow someone, focus on their talent, not their bad character or unacceptable behaviors.
Blessed is the person willing to act on their sudden desire to create something unique. Think of the movies, books, teachers, and friends that have affected you most deeply. They touched you because their creations were motivated by inspiration, not desperation. The world is changed not by those who do what has been done before them, but by those who do what has been done inside them. Creative people have an endless resource of ideas. The problem a creator faces is not running out of material; it is what to do with the material knocking at the door of imagination.
Study your role models, accept the gifts they have given, and leave behind what does not server. Then you can say, "I stand on the shoulders of my ancestors" tragedies and stories, and know that they are cheering on.
Imitation proves useful when you _____.

To avoid the bad result of imitation, we should _____.

The trouble a creator faces is _____.

What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?

根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。
He donated all his savings to local education in his ______ (九十).
The boy who won the drawing competition is the ________(骄傲) of his class.
The idea is now _________(普遍地) accepted by most of the people.
We are _______(考虑) moving into a new flat.

根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
The dresses ___________（they）are made of cotton, but they sell well because of the famous designer.
These are _________(act) costumes. They are made for these beautiful ladies.
Recently the Forbes magazine conducted a survey to find out who is the _________ (wealth) person in the world.
I once lived in _________ (centre) Chongqing. People like hot food a lot there.

动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）
Your mobile phones require _______(turn) off while having a meeting.
All the rules ______(explain) clearly before the game starts. Please don’t worry.
Neither my parents nor I ____________ (offer) any information about when and where to meet him yesterday.
Parents always told us that the early bird _______ (catch) the worm.
When he woke up, he found he__________(lie) on a small boat in the middle of the sea.
The purpose of new technology is to make life we have been used to easier, _________ (not make ) it more difficult.
He said the next time he came here, he ______ (stay) for a longer period of time.
--Look! Someone ______ (clean) the blackboard.
-- Well, it wasn’t mine. I didn’t do it.

Have you ever asked your relatives or friends if there is Wi-Fi in their houses? Have you ever searched for Wi-Fi when you are at restaurants or hotels? The answers will probably be "Yes". Most of us want Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can't live without it. But we can only use free Wi-Fi in some public places. We still have to spend some money accessing(连接)the Internet at most time. Here comes a piece of good news.
A rich, powerful organization in the USA called the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF) has decided to change the age of online computing (计算) completely by giving free Wi-Fi to every person on Earth. They will send up hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit(轨道)in 2015.
This is because they have made a survey and found that only 60% of the world's population have been able to get information on the Internet. And this is also because many countries are unable to offer people the necessary infrastructure(基础设施)to access the web.
We can expect to use free Wi-Fi everywhere in the near future.
阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的表格，每空一词。

Present situation	●Many of us want Wi-Fi everywhere as if we can't live without it ●Accessing the Internet      us some money.
What the organization will do	MDIF has made a decision to send up hundreds of satellites into low Earth orbit in 2015 so that for every person on Earth, there will be free Wi-Fi available.
	●Only three    of the world's population have been able to get information on the Internet. ●Many countries can't    people with the necessary infrastructure to access the web.
What we can expect	●Free Wi-Fi will    the world in the near future.

完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子。(本大题共9分，每小题1.5分)
你能告诉我你的车买了多久了吗？
Could you tell me ________________________________________your car?
在作出决定以前务必要考虑周全。
Make sure to_____________________________________________
他难于向我解释为什么他又迟到了。
He ____________________________________________ why he was late again.
Tom 答应明年他会参加学生会主席的选拔。
Tom has promised that he ________________________________the present of Students’ Union next year
老师把那本书介绍给你以便你能了解无锡30年前的面貌。
The teacher introduced the book to you __________________________________30 years ago.
原来他与谋杀案一点关系也没有。
It _________________________________________________the murder.

书面表达（本大题共10分）
近几年，微信（ Wechat）变得时尚而受欢迎，给我们的生活带来了很大的影响。请根据
以下要点，写一篇以微信（ Wechat）为题的短文，阐述你对微信的看法。内容要点如下：
1． 过去我们常常写信，发邮件与他人交流，而现在越来越多的人使用微信；
2． 微信可以发语音，文本信息和图片，视频（video）；
3． 微信使大家交友更容易，还能快速分享自己的经历；
4． 但是，也带来一些困扰，视频聊天，不利于学习，微信交友，并不安全……..
5． 你对使用微信的态度。
注意：词数在90词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数，第四，五可作适当发挥。
In recent years, Wechat is becoming fashionable and popular. It has made a difference to our daily life.
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