江苏无锡市南长区九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷

_________ unusual experience you had in the USA!

--- Did you enjoy the outdoor training yesterday?
--- No, not at all. I was _________ dead after so much hard training.

Mary is very sad now. Would you please go and _________?

--- Can you come here today or tomorrow?
--- I’m afraid _________ day is possible.

Read this article, _________ you’ll understand that not everything can be bought with money.

--- Have you seen the movie Firestorm?
--- Yes, I have. It’s worth _________.

Don’t worry _________ about your son. He’s still a little child.

--- Why didn’t you follow us to get on the underground?
--- I tried to, but it started moving _________ I could get on it.

Tom said he would tell us _________.

--- My cousin Tom hardly spent any time on his subjects, did he?
--- __________, so that’s why he does badly in all his lessons.

He has given me _________ help, so I can make such great progress in Physics.

--- How long does it take you to do the projects?
--- It _________ the survey. I’m not sure whether the survey will last long.

The fashion show I looked forward to for long _________ successful at last.

--- Did Peter come to school last week?
--- No, I didn’t know ___________.

-- I’m afraid I have to give up my dream of being a singer.
--- ___________. No dream is too big and no dreamer is too small.

完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。（本大题共10分，每小题1分）
Years ago, while I lived in England, part of my college task was to help the children with special needs. I was chosen to        in a school with disabled children. The teacher asked me to            Nancy, a ten-year-old girl. One of         hands could not move. At her school the teachers would think it was an achievement(成就，成绩)          she was able to put on her own coat. But I saw more in her. She had always wanted to put a string      the hole of a key.
For the 5 years Nancy was in the school, the teachers always            to help her, but always ended up doing all the work for her. I knew Nancy could do         , so I encouraged her to do something herself. At first Nancy often failed and got very       . Sometimes I wanted to give up too.       , after a week Nancy was able to do         she had wanted to alone for so many years. Her teachers cried        when they saw the thing she was able to do with just some encouragement.
Disabled people should     be told they can’t do this or that. With just some encouragement they can do it. The look       that girl’s face when she was able to do it herself meant         to me. I hope everyone will encourage people to do all they want by themselves          telling them they can’t do it.

A．read B．study C．work D．visit

A．look after B．look for C．look at D．look over

A．his B．her C．my D．your

A．before B．through C．if D．until

A．through B．across C．over D．into

A．failed B．refused C．agreed D．tried

A．less B．More C．nothing D．anything

A．excited B．pleased C．unsafe D．unhappy

A．And B．However C．But D．So

A．which B．that C．what D．how

A．in danger B．in fear C．with care D．with joy

A．never B．always C．often D．sometimes

A．of B．in C．on D．at

A．the earth B．the sun C．the moon D．the world

A．instead of B．because C．together with D．more than

If you are a fan of the Korean actor, you may go to ___________ in April.

Who directed the film Frozen?

Part 2 is probably from ___________?

A pretty, well-dressed young lady stopped a taxi in a big square, and said to the driver, “Can you see that young man at the other side of the square?”
“Yes,” said the taxi-driver. The young man was standing outside a restaurant and looking impatiently at his watch every few seconds.
“Take me over there.” said the young lady.
There were a lot of cars and buses and trucks in the square, so the taxi-driver asked, “Are you afraid to cross the street?”
“Oh, no!” said the young lady. “But I said that I would meet that young man for dinner at one o’clock, and it is now a quarter to two. If I arrive in a taxi, it will at least seem as if I have tried not to be too late.”
How did the young woman get to the square?

The young lady was ___________.

She wanted to take a taxi because she _________.

Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence (智力) developed by our environment and our experience? Strangely enough, the answer to these questions is yes. In some degree, our intelligence is given to us at birth, and no education can make a genius (天才) out of a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in a boring environment will develop his intelligence less than one who lives in a rich environment. Therefore, the limits（限度) of a person’s intelligence are fixed at birth, whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his environment. This point of view is now held by most experts.
It is easy to show that intelligence is something that we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people is, the closer their intelligence is likely to be. If we take two strangers by chance from the population, it seems that their degree of intelligence will be completely different. If, on the other hand, we compare two twins, they will very likely be as intelligent as each other. Relatives like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have similar intelligence, and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth.
Imagine now that we take two twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example, to a university and the other to a factory separately where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this shows that environment as well as birth plays an important part. This result is also suggested by the fact that people who live in close contact with each other, but who are not related at all are likely to have similar degree of intelligence.
How is man’s intelligence given?

What does the underlined word mean in the first paragraph?

According the passage, if a child is born with low intelligence, what might happen to him later?

What can we learn from the example of the twins going to a university and to a factory?

根据句意，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
After discussing for two hours, one of the most important ____________ (decide) was made.
We ____________ (simple) couldn’t wait for the first lesson given by Dong Qing.
Susan is an even ____________ (lively) girl loved by everyone.
We got excited when we ____________ (success) in working out the difficult problem.

根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的适当形式。
Your spoken English is so poor, please correct your ___________（发音）.
His parents have_______________（答应）to buy a new mobile phone for him．
The manager is strongly against ___________（回复）to that foreign company at once.
Lu Xun is one of the ___________（先锋）of modern Chinese culture.

动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空。（本大题共8分，每小题1分）
Let’s see if your favourite colour _____________ (match) your personality.
Mr Black wrote a letter first, and went on ______________ (watch) a basketball match.
--- Tell us something about Canada.
--- I’m sorry. Neither I nor Jack ______________ (be) there yet.
--- Mum, don’t forget to come to the parents’ meeting tomorrow afternoon.
--- I won’t, dear. I _____________ (tell) just now.
--- I nearly hit a tree yesterday.
--- I’m afraid you ______________ (drive) too fast.
I wonder when our sports meeting _____________ (hold). Can it be next week?
It’s true that a new high-speed railway ___________ (connect) Hefei to Fuzhou is now in service.
--- Jenny, the package you’re looking forward to __________ (arrive) just now.
--- Great！

完成句子 按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，并将答案写在答题卷上标有题号
的横线上。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）
出生在虎年的人宁可接受挑战也不愿轻易放弃。
People born in the Year of the Tiger would ­­_____________________________________.
晚饭后散步会让你更容易入睡。
Walking after supper will __________________________________________________ .
你们的新老板在工作上对你们要求更加严格吗？
Is your new boss _______________________________________________________?
她和她的父亲被迫躲藏在一个秘密地方。
She and her father ___________________________________________ in a secret place.
一个八岁的男孩毫不费力地表达了自己的观点。
An _____________________________________________________ expressing himself.
直到他获得了奥斯卡奖，人们才注意到他的巨大成就。
Nobody ______________________________________________ until he won the Oscar.

任务型阅读 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容在空格内填入一个适当的词，使短文意思完整。(本大题共5分，每格1分)
I once believed that a friend is a friend all the way. Now I have changed my ideas about friendships.
1. Friends of convenience（便利）. They can be the people who live next door or the mothers of our children’s closest friends. Friends of convenience are good indeed. They’ll help us when we need them. They’ll look after our cats when we go on holidays. But we don’t ever get too close or tell too much. Between us, we’ll talk about being overweight but not about being sad or heart-broken. However, people still find it necessary to make friends like this.
2. Special-interest friends. These friendships aren’t deeply personal or emotional（感情上的）. They lie in some shared interests, so we may have an office friend, a tennis friend, or even a shopping friend.
3. Historical friends. We all have a friend who knew us when … maybe we were back in the second grade of the primary school, when our family lived in that two-room flat downtown. He or she was the first, the only friend we told our secrets to.
The years have gone by, and we have gone different ways. But we’re still a personal part of each other’s past. We know how we looked before our teeth were straightened, and our getting together makes us think of an earlier part of ourselves, which is important and never lost.
4. Cross-generational friends. These are friendships that from across generations（代）. I have in my own life a true friend, a woman of 65, who is clever, who listens well, and who means not only an ideal mother to me but also the person I’d like to be when I grow up.
Best friends, I believe, totally love and help each other.

Types of friends	Description of friends
Friends of convenience	They can be theor the mothers of our  children’s closest friends.They can    us when we are in need.Though we don’t.alk about emotional topics，this doesn’t mean that there isn’t any to be found in these friendships.
Specialinterest friends	We usually  sortie interests with our specialinterest friends，so we may have anfriend，’a tennis   friend，or even a shopping friend.
friends	This kind of friendship was usually formed when we were children，so we know how webefore our teeth were straightened.Although we have little in common now，our getting together can  us of each other’s happy old  days.
I	Cross-generational friends usually aren’t from the    generation.A friend like this may    an ideal mother or the person 1 want to be when I grow up.

书面表达 （本大题共10分）：
学校英语社团在举办征文比赛，请你根据以下提示内容，写一篇题为“The Person Who Has Influenced Me Most”的英语文章。内容要点如下：
1. 对我影响最大的人是我的妈妈，她四十几岁；
2. 她总是耐心倾听我的问题，并建议我如何解决它们；
3. 作为一名医生，她常说再怎么仔细也不为过。她总是加班，把她的大部分时
间都奉献给了工作；
4. 所以，我认为她不仅是位好妈妈，也是名好医生。
5. 我希望 ……
要求：1. 内容须包含所有要点，语句通顺，意思连贯；
2. 词数90个左右；
3. 第5点的内容需展开合理想象，用2-3句话补充完整。
The Person Who Has Influenced Me Most ____________________________________________________________________________
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