江苏扬州邗江美琪学校九年级上学期期中英语试卷

— My dream is to build ________ university on the moon some day.
— It sounds like _______ unusual dream. I wish you could realize it.

The box was too heavy for me to carry, ＿＿＿I pulled it into my room. 

----Don’t forget ________ the letter on your way home.-----Ok, I_________.

He hasn’t come back home     the end of last week.

－ It seems that Mr Wu is standing there.
－ It       be him because he called me from Canada just now.

My parents are strict       me __________my studies.

The old man     cancer. His           made us very sad.

When I have some worries, my close friends always advise me _______ too much.

______it is to jump into the river to swim in summer!

－ When will you go shopping with me?－       .

During his stay in the USA, Yao Ming returned to China______he was needed.

—Mom, when shall we go to Meilanfang Park this weekend?
—I’m free this weekend. ____ Saturday ____Sunday is OK.

_______he failed,he didn’t____________.

—You haven’t been to the West Lake, have you?
—_______. But I will go there with my parents this summer vacation.

—Thank you, Mille and Kitty. It was kind of you to help me with my lessons.
—_______.

完形填空
One afternoon, my son Adam asked me, “Are all people the same even though they are different in color?”     
It was a serious question. I        for a while, and then said, “I’ll explain it sooner. Let’s go to a fruit shop. I have something interesting to show you.”
At the fruit shop, we bought some apples in different       —red, green and yellow ones. After we got home, I told Adam, “It’s time to        your question now.” I put one apple of each kind colour on the table. Adam        carefully. He had a        look on his face.
“People are like apples. They come in all different colors, shapes and sizes. On the       , some of the apples may not even look as delicious as       .” While I was talking, Adam was      each one carefully. Then, I took each of the apples and peeled(削皮) them, placing them back on the       , but in a different place.
“Okay, Adam, tell me which is which.”
He said, “I       tell. They all look the same now.”
“Take a         of each one. See if that helps you decide        one is which.”
He took big bites, and then a huge smile came across his face. “People are         like apples! They are all different, but once you take off the outside, they’re pretty much the         on the inside.”
He totally         it. I didn’t need to say or do anything else.

A．discussed B．waited C．answered D．thought

A．colours B．tastes C．sizes D．shapes

A．solve B．answer C．tell D．improve

A．listened B．found C．smelled D．watched

A．worried B．sad C．curious D．glad

A．outside B．upside C．beside D．inside

A．other B．the others C．the other D．another

A．checking B．listening C．drawing D．picking

A．sofa B．chair C．bedside table D．table

A．mustn’t B．shouldn’t C．can’t D．needn’t

A．feel B．touch C．bite D．look

A．what B．which C．that D．who

A．just B．always C．only D．never

A．delicious B．kind C．different D．same

A．made B．took C．got D．did

We surveyed (调查) 300 young people on what they like to do at weekends. One hundred people are from the ages of 11-18, one hundred 19-26 and one hundred 27-35. The following shows their answers:

How many people enjoy playing computer games in the 11-18 group?

The people of 19-26 enjoy ______ most.

According to (根据) the survey, which two activities do most people enjoy doing?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the chart (图表)?

One day, when I arrived at school, an ice cream truck was parked in the schoolyard. Ice cream men usually drove their trucks to primary schools. I had never thought one ice cream truck would come to bring ice cream to us older kids. When I went up to the truck, I was quite surprised to hear the man call out, "Free ice cream!" To make sure of his words, I asked, "I'm sorry, what did you say?" "Free ice cream. Choose whichever you like." he said, smiling.
After I was certain that the man was just giving away the ice cream, I talked with him for a long time. He told me that his dream had always been to travel around giving away ice cream, and that's what he was now doing. With his mother's support, he kept doing what he loved even during hard times. Now, however, some large companies are helping him his plan.
The man said he wanted to encourage people to do exactly what their heart told them to do with their lives. I kept asking him, "So your dream was just to drive around and give away ice cream? It seems like a very unusual goal." "Yes, just meeting people and making them smile," he replied. At that point he handed me my ice cream. I thanked him, but what I got from him was much more than just an ice cream. It can't easily be explained in words. I believe what he is doing is exactly what a great person does all the time: small acts of big love.
From the story we know that the writer was most probably_______ at that time.

Why did the writer ask the ice cream man what he had said again?

With his mother's and some large companies' support, _______.

Gabriel Garqacia Marquez , who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1982, passed away at the age of 86 on April 17, 2014. The world paused (停顿) to
remember the cultural giant.
Garcia Marquez was born in Colombia, but he spent most of his adult life in Mexico City. As one of the most famous writers, he was widely regarded as “a giant of 20th- century literature.” Garcia Marquez wrote in a style called “ magical realism(魔幻现实主义).” In such works, people live a daily life in a certain period of time in history. But meanwhile , magical things happen to them.
Garcia Marquez is best known for his 1967 novel, One hundred years of Solitude （《百年孤独》）, which has sold about 50 million copies. It tells the tale of the small and isolated town of Macondo which was separated from the outside world- of its founding and its troubled history over a hundred years. The story is a metaphor(暗喻)for the development of Colombia since the 19 century. As Colombian President Juan Manuel Santons said, Garcia Marquez wrote about “the essence(本质) of the Latin American beings.”

Garcia Marquez was born in _________.

We can know from paragraph 2 that Garcia Marquez __________.

The underlined word “ isolated “ means _________.

The writer quotes （引用）from the President to __________.

The Beijing Underground’s Line Ten will soon have 40 “reverse vending machines（有偿自动回收机）”,which will pay people for their empty plastic bottles.
“We have placed two such machines at Beijing Capital International Airport and four at the city’s underground stations. They have been well received so far,” said Feng Juan, an engineer from the company which makes the machines. “People are encouraged and paid for turning waste into treasure. More than 30,000 empty bottles have been collected since December,” she said.
If something else, such as waste paper, is thrown into the machine, the machine will spit(吐) it out.“Supported by the government, the reverse vending machines will be introduced to colleges and universities soon,” Feng said.
The company is also considering covering more recycling materials, including used books and teaching materials.
“Long-term plans call for about 2,000 reverse vending machines to be place throughout the city in the next few years, including 80 at colleges and universities, shopping malls, communities and office buildings,” Feng said.
Chang Tao, director of the company, said that if the new project works well in the city, the company will consider offering the waste-to-treasure service to other developed cities in the eastern part of China.

At present reverse vending machines are used at __________.

Which sign probably represents the meaning of the underlined word “recycling”?

Which of the following is an opinion rather than a fact?

Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

词汇应用
Let’s look at the  _________ (日历) to make a better plan.
The teacher’s advice on how to make friends is very _______ (宝贵的) to me.
He scored 41 points in a game_________(对抗) the Atlanta Hawks .
My uncle has ___________ (从事) as a policeman for ten years.
The whole world was surprised at many __________ (成就) of China these years.
I can’t ________ (simple) wait for my trip to Australia this winter holiday.
You can call me when you have trouble in making _______ (decide).
The­­          （speak）made by Putin always attract a large number of people.
A scream broke the __________（silent）of the night。
“You are old enough to look after _________ (you) now.” the mother said to the twins.

任务型阅读。
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 it. 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 disappointed(失望). 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 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(矫正), 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 precious(珍贵的) 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.

of friends	Description of friends
Friends of convenience.	They can be theor the mothers of our children’s closest friends. They can help us when we are in need. Though we don’t talk about all the topics, this doesn’t mean it is for us to have friends like this.
friends.	We usuallysome interests with our special-interest friends, so we may have different friends like an office friend, a tennis friend, etc.
Historical friends	We got to these friends when we were very, so we know how webefore our teeth were straightened. Over these years we havegreatly, but our getting together can help us remember each other’s happy old days.
Cross-generational friends	Cross-generational friends usually aren’t from own generation. Maybe a friend like this is the one I want to be like in the.

短文填空 根据短文内容及首字母提示，补全空格内单词，使短文完整、通顺。
In one way of thinking, failure is part of life. In away, failure may be a way towards success. Edison, the iof the light bulb（灯泡）, made hundreds of models that failed before he found the right way to make one. Once he was asked whe kept on trying to make a new type of battery when he had failed so often, he smiled and said, “Failure? I have no failure. Now I know 50,000 ways that won't w.
So what? First, always think about your failure. What caused it？Were conditions right? Were you in top from yourself? What can you change? Then you can decide wto keep on working hard or try it in a better way, and things will probably not go wrong ntime.
Second, is the goal you're trying to reach the right one? Try to do some thinking about what your real goals may be. Think c about this question. “If I am able to achieve my goal, where will it get me?" This may help you prevent failure in things you shouldn't be doing anyway.
The tthing to keep in mind about failure is that it's mother of success. Don’t give up easily. Learn to “live with yourself" even tyou may have failed. Maybe this will help you sin what you are doing in the end.

根据中文意思，翻译下列句子。
我爸爸和妈妈周末都不上班。
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我无法想象没有颜色世界将会是什么样子。
_______________________________________________________________
他自从很小的时候就对绘画很痴迷。
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他宁愿把忧虑埋在心里而不愿与他人分担。
_______________________________________________________________
使我们感到惊奇的是，这位新作家的书值得一读。
________________________________________________________________________.

写作
某英语报开展“How to Deal with the Exam Stress”征文比赛，请你根据表格中提示的内容，简要描述并适当发表自己的观点，写一篇英语短文。

 
注意事项：
1. 词数90词左右（给出的提示词不计）；
2. 文章中不能出现真实姓名校名等信息；
3. 文章中必须包含主要信息，并作适当发挥；
4. 请写出自己的看法，至少二点。
How to Deal with the Exam Stress
Everyone may have the exam stress. A little bit of stress can be a good thing to us.