江苏泰州市姜堰区九年级上学期期中英语试卷

— It is reported that both of _______ two kids were saved out of the river by _______ university student.
— True. He was really brave, wasn’t he?

We teenagers shouldn’t be impatient _____ our own problems. _____ they are solved, we can never give up.

— Boys and girls, no hand _______ any other tool can be used in the game, _______ you still need to make it work. Are you clear about the rules?
— Yes, sir.

— I find it's difficult to decide what to wear.
— Try red clothes．They can make       easier totake action.

— We never doubt _______ Millie can deal with the terrible situation by herself.
— I agree with you.

— Need I take actions to lose weight?
—_______ . Your size and body type is just right. e

— Mr. Wang, please             how to get there and the cost of the trip.
— All right. I’ll            it at once.

— How do you like the English talk given by Peng Liyuan in the USA?
— It’s worth              many times.

— The team really looks _______ better because the coach had them _______ every night this week.
— Practice makes perfect.

— He has made little progress in English,          he?
—           . He is good at it now.

— Which of these two dresses _______, the pink one or the red one, Madam?
— Neither, thanks. I _______ take a look at a light green one.

— What’s wrong with your computer?
— It           . I can’t fix it. I will              .

We lost the match yesterday, but our coach didn’t get angry. Instead, he ______ us, because we tried our best.

— It’s really kind of you to care for my pet dog while I was away for the whole year.
— _______. The dog is loyal. We’ve been close friends.

— The picture is, I have to say, not a bit beautiful.
— Why? It’s              than the ones I have ever seen.

—            did Spud Webb join the NBA?
—          one year later after he graduated from Junior College.

— Taiwan lies         the east of China. It’s part of China.
— So it is. We          the same history and culture.

— Do you have any performance at the party?
— Since I am good at violin, I                .

Although Nancy and Lily act differently,            they remain                .

It was in the meeting room                 we had the fashion show.

完形填空 阅读短文，从每题所给选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“A friend walks in when the rest of the world walks out.” Sometimes in 1ife，you find a special friend:
Someone who changes your      just by being part of it；
Someone who makes you laugh until you can’t         ；
Someone who makes you believe that there really is         in the world；
Someone who convinces(使相信) you that there really is an        door just waiting for you to open it. This is Forever Friendship．
When you’re        , and the world seems dark and empty, your forever friend          you up in spirits and makes that dark and empty world suddenly seem bright and        .
Your forever friend gets you        the hard times and the sad times．If you turn and walk away, your forever friend       ． If you 1ose your way，your forever friend guides you，encourages you，holds your          and tells you that everything is going to be OK．
And if you        such a friend, you fee1 happy，because you         not worry．You have a forever friend for life，and forever has no        .
A true friend is someone who gives you a hand and touches your heart．
Remember：         happens，happens for a reason．
How many people have eight true friends in fact? Hardly        I know．But some of us have all right friends and good friends．

A．food B．time C．1ife D．work

A．think B．stop C．harm D．offer

A．good B．health C．human D．scenery

A．unpacked B．unlocked C．unfixed D．unborn

A．high B．above C．up D．down

A．1ifts B．shuts C．catches D．stands

A．natural B．full C．funny D．proud

A．around B．below C．through D．beside

A．leaves B．travels C．moves D．follows

A．head B．hand C．heart D．back

A．help B．treat C．find D．warn

A．need B．must C．may D．have

A．job B．end C．top D．goa1

A．however B．whoever C．whatever D．wherever

A．someone B．everyone C．none D．Anyone

Many people have a fear(害怕) of public speaking. According to a study, it has an influence on 3 in every 4 people. This fact is surprising and worrying, as most jobs require some speaking ability. The following will help you to make a speech better.
Write note cards. Write main ideas on your cards. Don’t write details. Put in some fun facts, questions, and other activities on the cards to share with the class. Don’t look at your note cards for a long time while speaking. If necessary, you’re only going to have a quick look at the card for information, not read every word.
Smile at your class. When it comes time to speak, there’s nothing that draws your class into your speech than a good old-fashioned smile. Be happy, because you’re about to teach your class something they didn’t know before. Studies have shown that smiles are infections. That means once you smile, it’s hard for everyone else not to smile. So if you want your speech to go off well, smile. That will make everyone smile and maybe those smiles will make you actually smile.
Make eye contact. Nothing is more boring than listening to a speaker who looks at the floor or at note cards. Relax. Your class is made up of your friends and you talk to them all the time. Talk the same way now. Have a look at every person in the classroom at least once. That way, everyone will feel like you’re communicating with them. Also, you know you’ll look like what you’re talking about.
Use hand motions. Move your hands along as you talk, using them to express your key points and keep the class interested. It will also lead your nervous energy into a better place.
According to the passage, ______ of people might fear to speak in public.

How many points are mentioned in the passage?

In Paragraph 3 of the passage, “smiles are infections” means ______.

Which picture matches the last paragraph best?

The passage mainly talks about ______.

A habit is any action that we have performed so often that it becomes something that we do almost without thinking. Some of them are thought to be bad habits. People spend countless hours and dollars each year trying to get rid of these bad habits but often fail. Why? Change is hard work and there is no shortcut to achieve it. However, there is still some advice for you to follow.
First, look at why you do it. In other words, what’s the result of doing this thing? If your bad habit is shouting at people when you are unhappy or under pressure, what do you get from it? It may make you feel a little better for the moment. Or maybe you have a bad habit of leaving your homework undone. The result could be that you get more time to spend on the Internet!
Next, take a look on the other hand. What are you losing because of your habit? Shouting at other people is a bad habit because it makes people around you feel bad and unhappy. Leaving your homework undone is a bad habit because you may be punished by your teacher. Having more Internet time means that you are losing the chance to learn the things that you need to learn. When you think that way, you’ll find that it’s not wise to keep your bad habit! Now it is time to make a decision. What will you choose? I’m sure you will choose to do what you think is more important.
From the first paragraph we know that __________.

The underlined sentence “there is no shortcut to achieve it” means that ________.

According to the reading, if you want to get rid of your habits, you have to _____.

Which of the following does NOT happen because of a bad habit according to the reading?

The main purpose of this passage is to __________.

To us, it seems so natural to put up an umbrella to keep the water off when it rains. But in fact the umbrella was not invented as protection against the rain. Its first use was as a shade (遮蔽) against the sun.
Nobody knows who first invented it, but the umbrella was used in very ancient times. Probably the first to use it were the Chinese, back in the eleventh century BC.
We know that the umbrella was used in ancient Egypt and Babylon as a sunshade. And there was a strange thing connected with its use : it became a symbol of honor and power(权力). In the Far East in ancient times, the umbrella was allowed to be used only by those in high office or by royal people such as the kings or queens.
In Europe, the Greeks were the first to use the umbrella as a sunshade. The umbrella was in common use in ancient Greece, but it is believed that the first people in Europe to use the umbrella as protection against the rain were the ancient Romans. During the middle ages in Europe, the use of the umbrella almost disappeared. Then it appeared again in Italy in the late sixteenth century. And again it became a symbol of power.
Umbrellas have not changed much in style during all this time, though they have become much lighter in weight. It wasn't until the twentieth century that the umbrellas for women began to be made in all kinds of colors.
Ancient people first used umbrellas as _________.

According to the passage, the umbrella was probably first used in ancient ______.

The underlined word royal might mean _          in Chinese.

According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?

  This passage is mainly about ___________.

根据汉语提示完成句子（每空一词）。
I want to know if yellow was once the color of the rulers in ________(古代的) China.
The news which kept ________(影响) him a lot was from a little girl.
Please put away those              (德国人) keys to cars. They are going swimming.
             (化学)is becoming closer and closer to people’s life.
We may meet all kinds of difficulties in the future, but we should be confident enough to take on any           （挑战）

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空（每空不限一词）。
Tom didn’t go to bed until midnight yesterday. He feels very______(sleep)at the moment.
Neither Tom nor his twins                (reply) to their friends’ emails during the last two weeks.
When Tom heard the news of getting a scholarship, he ________(simple) couldn’t believe his ears.
Tan Dun is good at making music by                   (control) the sound of running water.
My grandpa looks so healthy though he is already in his              (90).

任务型阅读  请根据短文内容，完成信息记录表，每空一词。
When we think of chocolate, many of us think of candy bars and sweet. But this is not how chocolate comes to us. In fact, it comes from the cacao tree that is found in the tropical(热带的) forests of Central and South America, because cacao beans need to grow in a hot and humid climate (湿热的气候) . The Mayas knew that they could get food and drink from the tree. The Aztecs often took the cacao beans and broke them into pieces in hot water, making a drink that was delicious and energy-producing for the body.
When Columbus and Cortez came to America, they shipped cacao beans back to Spain. However, at first few people accepted the drink because the taste was strange. When Columbus gave the information back to the Spanish Queen and King that one cup of chocolate from the cacao beans could provide a whole day’s energy for a man without the need for other food, attitudes(态度) quickly changed.
The need and the cost for chocolate produced by the cacao beans rose sharply. Soon all Europeans had fallen in love with chocolate. But chocolate was so expensive at that time that only the riches could afford this confection (甜食). At first, too much chocolate made people sick because more than half of the cacao bean is formed from fat, and few people knew how to remove the too much fat content(脂肪含量). Perhaps that is how we arrived at the expression, “Too much of a good thing can be bad for you.”

Places	of chocolate	Function
Central and South America	It comes from the cacao tree that is found in the tropical forests of Central and South America, because a hot and humid climate is     for the growth of cacao beans.	①The       got food and drink from the tree. ②The Aztecs often took the cacao beans and broke them into pieces in hot water, making a drink that was         and energy-producing for the body.
Spain	①When Columbus and Cortez came to America, they sent cacao beans back to Spain by    . ②Chocolate wasn’t widely     before Columbus reported to the Queen and King.	One cup of chocolate from the cacao beans could provide a whole day’s energy for a man with        need of other food.
	Because of the high      , only the riches could afford this confection.	Too much chocolate did harm to people’s    because more than half of the cacao bean is formed from fat.

阅读表达 请根据短文内容，回答下面问题，每空不超过8个词。
Millvina Dean, Titanic’s last survivor, died on May 31, 2009 in Southampton. She was 97 and had been in poor health for several weeks.
The youngest of the ship’s 705 survivors, Ms. Dean was only 9 weeks old when the Titanic hit an iceberg (冰山) on the night of April 14, 1912. She survived with her mother and her 2-year-old brother. Mr. Dean, 29, was taking his family to a new life in Kansas City. He planned to run a tobacconist’s (烟草商) shop there. He was among more than 1,500 passengers and crew members who died in the sinking.
Ms. Dean never married and spent her working life in Southampton. For many years after the sinking, she never spoke of it to people she met or worked with, partly because she remembered nothing about it and partly because she did not want to be seen as drawing attention to herself.
But that changed after Sep. 1, 1985 when the wreck (残骸) of the Titanic was discovered. That set off a wave of interest in the ship, especially after the movie Titanic. “They found the wreck and after they found the wreck, they found me,” she said.
In the last 20 years of her life, she went to gatherings in the USA, Canada and a number of European countries to take part in events related to the sinking. She said she had learned from her mother about what happened during the sinking.
Ms. Dean had never seen Titanic. She explained she was unwilling to be reminded of what had happened to her father.
How old was Millvina Dean when the Titanic sank?
__________________________________________________________
Why did the Deans take the Titanic?
____________________________________________________________
When was the wreck (残骸) of the Titanic discovered?
____________________________________________________________
How many times had Ms. Dean ever seen the movie Titanic?
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What’s the passage mainly about?
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缺词填空 请根据短文内容，填写所缺单词，每空一词。
Parents often believe that they have a good  r     with their teenagers. But last summer, Joanna and Henry noticed a change in their older son: suddenly he seemed to be talking far more to his friends than to his parents. “The door to his room is always c   ,” Joanna noted.
Tina and Mark noticed similar changes in their 14-year-old daughter. “She u     to cuddle up(蜷伏) on the sofa and talk,” said Mark. “Now we joke that she does this only when she wants something. Sometimes she wants to be treated(看待) like a little girl and sometimes like a young l . The problem is figuring out(弄清楚) which time is which.”
Before age 11, children like to tell their parents what’s on their m  .  “In fact, parents are first on the l   ,” said Michael Riera, author(作者) of Uncommon Sense for Parents with Teenagers. “This completely changes during the ten years,” Riera e   . “They talk to their friends first, then maybe the teachers, and their parents l    .”
Parents who know what’s going in their teenagers’ lives are in the best position to help them. To break down the wall of silence, parents should create c     to understand what their children want to say, and try to find ways to talk and write to them. And they must give their children a mental break, for children also need freedom(自由), though young. A     thing parents should remember is that to be a friend, not a manager, with their children is a better way to know them.

你叫王维，你校要评选“德才双馨”的好少年 “ Excellent Teens with both Ability and Moral Integrity”，你打算推选王辉，请你用英语写一封推荐信。内容提示如下：

注意：1. 推荐信须包括所有内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；
2. 展开合理想象，作适当发挥；
3. 词数在90个左右，信的首尾已在答题卷上给出，不计入总词数；
4. 信件内容请写在答题卷指定位置上。
Dear Sir,
I’m writing to recommend Wang Hui to be the Excellent Teen with both ability and Moral Integrity.
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I think Wang Hui is the most suitable person to achieve the title. I hope that you agree with me.
Yours sincerely
Wang Wei