江苏无锡市惠山区九年级第二次模拟考试英语试卷

----How was _____ dinner at Mike’s house ?
----It was great. Mike’s mum is ______ wonderful cook.

----I’m going to the supermarket. Let me get you some fruit.
----OK. Thanks for your _______.

The boy had already lived in England for a year, _______ he had a big advantage _______ the other students.

In order _______ for the meeting, my sister forced herself to get up early this morning.

The dictionary is ________ to my translation, but that one is ________.

In summer milk quickly go bad _____it is put into a fridge.

The exercises ________to be harder than we thought.
You should practice more before the exam. Remember, practice makes perfect.

Not only the twins but also their cousin Jim _______ been to Japan, but _______ of them can speak Japanese.

It was _______pleasant surprise for the mother to see her son ____had been missing for nearly ten years that she didn’t know what to say.

It’s beyond doubt ______it will ____ later in the day. Take a raincoat with you.

A smile costs ______, but gives much.

She drove so fast at the turning that the car almost went ______ the road.

— It’s hard to believe ______the way out of the forest without the help of the local guide?

---Reading is the best way to pass time on the train.
---______, I never go traveling without a book.

You may have a lot of friends and expect your friendship to last a lifetime. However, lifelong friendships are not ________ what everybody can get. Friends sometimes misunderstand each other. For one thing, you may want your _______ to be near at hand, but also you need your independence (独立).
For example, when one of your friends comes asking _______ it is all right to spend the evening in your house, sometimes you just say “_____” to him or her because it is not convenient for you. Unfortunately, not all your friends _______ this type of independence. They believe that friends can ask for any favor and the answer should always be “yes”.
Also, misunderstanding sometimes happens when you ask for ______. You expect your friends to help you whenever you need. But the fact is, your friends may not always drop everything to satisfy _______ of your needs. This may make you ______ with them and your friendship could end. The most important thing for you and your friends to do is to always show understanding and respect for each other.
Lifelong friendships don’t develop overnights. In a true friendship, both people equally _______ each other. Long-term friendships provide the time to build up a _____ together. As you spend more time with your friend, you are creating special times and stocking up (存储) on memories.

A．always B．sometimes C．never D．ever

A．parents B．friends C．students D．teachers

A．when B．as C．if D．why

A．yes B．no C．good D．OK

A．provide B．understand C．produce D．invent

A．help B．food C．money D．respect

A．every B．each C．both D．either

A．happy B．excited C．cheerful D．angry

A．connect B．compare C．support D．solve

A．story B．family C．character D．history

I have a neighbor we call “Happy”. I have never seen her angry at anything and never heard her say a harsh (苛刻) word to anyone or about anyone.
Happy and her husband Ben, 70, have a huge garden. They spent many happy hours together working on it. Most of the neighbors watched interestingly as Ben doubled the size of their garden. As the cost of food climbed faster than Ben’s beans, we all wished we also had such a large garden. As the rest of us spent our dollars at the market, Happy could be seen picking beans in her back yard.
Last month, Happy and Ben invited most of the neighborhood over for an “all-day food fest”. We were told to bring gloves and arrive very early in the morning. We didn’t know what was about to take place.
By 9:00 am, there were nine of us in the garden picking tomatoes, beans, okra, and squash. By 10:00 am, there was lots of laughter. We shared a lot of stories. By five o’clock, everyone was a little drunk from the wine and beer. After dinner, we played games. As we were leaving, Happy and Ben handed each of us a shopping bag filled with the bounty（收成）of the day, already packaged and frozen. What a delightful gift!
Well, the point wasn’t so much about the food. The true gift was a day of friends enjoying one another’s company. None of it would have happened if it had been for Happy and Ben’s garden. Now they have a blog about gardening in case we decided to plant a garden. And I am so proud of my tomato plants!
According to paragraph 2, people wish they also had a garden so that_______.

For what purpose did Happy and Ben invite the neighbors to their garden?

What did the writer most probably think of the time he spent in the garden?

F. Scott Fitzgerald, born on September 24, 1896, an American novelist, was once a student of St. Paul Academy, the Newman School and attended Princeton University for a short while. In 1917 he joined the army and was posted in Alabama, where he met his future wife Zelda Sayre. Then he had to make some money to impress her.
His life with her was full of great happiness, as he wrote in his diary “My own happiness in the past often got such joy that I could share it even with the person dearest to me but had to walk it away in quiet streets and take down parts of it in my diary.”
This side of paradise, his first novel, was published in 1920. Encouraged by its success, Fitzgerald began to devote more time to his writing. Then he continued with the novel the Beautiful and Damned (1922), a collection of short stories Thales of the Jazz Age (1922), and a play The Vegetable (1923). But his greatest success was the novel The Great Gatsby, published in 1925, which quick brought him praise from the literary world. Yet it failed to give him the needed financial（财政的） security(安全，保障). Then, in 1926, he published another collection of short stories All the Sad Young Men.
However, Fitzgerald’s problems with his wife Zelda had an effect on his writing. During the 1920s he tried to reorder his life, but failed. By 1930, his wife had her first breakdown and went to a Swiss clinic. During this period he completed novels Tender Is the Night in 1934 and The love of the last Tycoon in 1940. While his wife was in hospital in the United States, he got totally addicted to alcohol（酒精）. Sheila Graham, his dear friend, helped him fight his alcoholism.
Which of the following is the correct order to describe Fitzgerald’s life according to the passage?
a. He became addicted to drinking.
b. He studied at St. Paul Academy.
c. He published his first novel This Side of Paradise.
d. The Great Gatsby won high praise.
e. He failed to reorder his life.
f. He joined the army and met Zelda.

We can infer from the passage that Fitzgerald_______.

The passage is probably followed by a concluding(总结的) paragraph about_____.

When I was about 12, I had an enemy, a girl who liked to point out my shortcomings(缺点). Week by week her list grew: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to hear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very angry. I ran to my father with tears in my eyes.
He listened to me quietly, then he asked. “Are the things she says true or not? Janet, didn’t you ever wonder what you’re really like? Well, you now have that girl’s opinion. Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.”
I did as he told me. To my great surprise, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could—and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I go to fairly clear picture of myself.
I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it. “That’s just for you.” he said, “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just close your ears in anger and feeling hurt. When something said about you is true, you’ll find it will be of help to you. Our world is full of people who think they know your duty. Don’t shut your ears. Listen to them all, but hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.”
Daddy’s advice has returned to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice.
What does “Week by week her list grew” mean?

Why did her father listen to her quietly?

Which do you think would be the best title for this passage?

If English means endless new words, difficult grammar and sometimes strange pronunciation, you are wrong. Haven’t you noticed that you have become smarter since you started to learn a language?
According to a new study by a British university, learning a second language can lead to an increase in your brain power. Researchers found that learning other languages changes grey matter. This is the area of the brain which processes information. It is similar to the way that exercise builds muscles.
The study also found the effect is greater when the younger people learn a second language. A team led by Dr. Andrea Mechelli, from University College London, took a group of Britons who only spoke English. They were compared with a group of “early bilinguals” who had learnt a second language before the age of five, as well as a number of later learners.
Scans showed that grey matter density (密度) in the brain was greater in bilinguals than in people without a second language. But the longer a person waited before mastering a new language, the smaller the difference.
“Our findings suggest that the structure of the brain is changed by the experience of learning a second language,” said the scientists.
It means that the change itself increases the ability to learn.
Professor Dylan Vaughan Jones of the University of Wales, has researched the link between bilingualism and maths skills. “Having two languages gives you two windows on the world and makes the brain more flexible (灵活的),” he said. “You are actually going beyond language and have a better understanding of different ideas.”
The findings were matched in a study of native Italian speakers who had learned English as a second language between the ages of two and thirty-four. Reading, writing, and comprehension were all tested. The results showed that the younger they started to learn, the better. “Studying a language means you get an entrance to another world,” explained the scientists.
The main subject talked about in this passage is ________.

The underlined word “bilingual” probably means _______.

We may know from the scientific findings that ________.

In the last two paragraphs, the author wants to tell us that _________.

根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。
Our guests __________ （称赞）the meal as the best they had had for years.
It’s__________(或许) the best movie I have ever seen.
It’s said that many _________（导演）telephone numbers are put on the Internet.
I am wondering which is _________(安全), traveling by train or by air.

根据句意, 写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
Don’t get _______(patient) with your daughter. She is only a three-year-old girl.
Working for _______(she) meant that she could be her own woman.
What a hot day! The temperature must be in the _______(30) today.
here were four famous __________(invent) in the history of China. Paper was one of them.

动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共8分，每小题1分）
How unlucky he was __________ (fall) off the bike yesterday!
No matter how nice this fruit _________ (smell), I prefer not to eat it.
People were told that the plane __________ (not take) off until the rain stopped.
--Be careful not to fall into the river.
---Thank you, we didn’t know we_____(stand) so close to it.
More than a year __________ (pass) since we moved to this new town.
More young men ____________ (require) in this factory if it develops fast.
-- Grandpa has changed a lot.
--- So he has. He spends more time than he used to ________ (play) games with the children.
-- May I see your ticket, please? I think you _________ (sit) in my seat.
--- Oh, sorry. My seat is upstairs.

Beggars are often seen sitting by the side of a street with heads bowed as people pass them by. Some ask people passing by for a small amount of money and some just sit and wait to be given money.
To solve the problem , another giving plan has been suggested. Ten blue money boxes will be placed in busy places such as the market and the railway station. It aims to encourage people not to give money directly to beggars but instead to give generously to local homeless people.
Supporters of this plan think it will be an effective way to solve the beggars’ alcohol and drug problems（酗酒和吸毒）. But the police oppose the plan arguing that beggars who do not receive cash may turn to criminality（犯罪） to feed their addictions. The homeless charity “Crisis” said the success of any plan will depend on its style. They think that imaginative and positive（积极的） plans can help create local understanding and sympathy（同情心） instead of hardness. Most of the beggars dislike the plan because they think they will not get enough money from the boxes for their showers, food and clothes.
Begging is a big social problem both in developing and developed countries. Governments must play a big role in solving this problem. Training beggars to work and helping them to find appropriate jobs is one option. This is especially true for developing countries where many low-skill jobs exist.
The general community should also be educated to see beggars not as dirty and dangerous, but as people who need understanding and help.

Begging problem
An______ to the begging problem	●Some beggars ask passers-by for money ●Some beggars just sit and wait to be given money
A plan to the problem	In some busy places, such as the market and railway station, ten blue boxes will be placed to _____people to give money to the homeless.
Different opinions on the suggested plan	●Supporters of this plan think it very effective to solve the problem related to beggars. ●The police oppose the plan arguing the beggars may turn to criminality because of lack of cash. ●The homeless charity said that it remains to be seen whether this plan would be _____. ●Most of the beggars dislike the plan because the money that they will get from the box will not be ______.
2.How to deal with the problem	●Governments must be actively involved in solving this problem be training beggars to work and helping them to find proper jobs. ●Beggars shouldn’t be ______ as dirty and dangerous people but as people needing help and understanding.

完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）
据说，那个小男孩 在11岁之前有阅读障碍。
It is said that the little boy________________________________________ by the age of 11.
谁能告诉我Tom打算去农场多久？
Who can tell me how long  ____________________________________________________?
那位年轻人太急于求成以至于摔倒了。
The young man was ______________________________________________that he fell over.
Julie是个很有魅力的女性，有一种让人感到宾至如归的天赋。
Julie is a charming lady that______________________________________ people feel at home..
自从他搬到新居，就和隔壁的邻居合不来。
He and his neighbours____________________________________________  since he moved to the new flat.
周杰伦是个天生的音乐人，许多80后是听CD里他的歌长大的。
Jay Zhou is a born musician, many people in the 1980s _______________________________in the CDs.

书面表达 （本大题共10分）
假如你是Simon, 你购买了某公司生产的手机，但出现故障。请根据下列要点，给该公司售后服务部写一封电子邮件。

注意：1.词数90左右。短文的开头和结尾已写好，不计入总词数；
2.短文应把表格中所示内容表达完整，句式规范，字迹工整；
3.省略部分作2-3句合理发挥，使条理清晰，内容完整，意思连贯。
I am writing to you for the mobile phone by your company.
______________________________________________________________________________
______________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________________________________________
Thank you for your attention.
Yours sincerely
Simon