[江苏]2013届江苏扬州邗江区九年级下学期期中考试英语卷

Although it seemed to be ______ painful experience, he still found it ______ fun.

______ can make my mother change her mind. She is such a person who never gives up easily.

Traffic is heavy and the price of oil is much ______ so that many people go to work by bus instead.

--- When shall we go to West Slender Lake, this afternoon or tomorrow morning?
--- ______ is OK. I’m free these days.

--- The little girl dances so well. Where was she trained?
-- She learns all by herself. She ______ goes to any training class.

If you really want to pay me back, I hope ______ you see someone in need, you should give him a hand.

--- I called you yesterday but you weren’t at home.
--- I ______ flowers in my garden at that time.

We dislike people ______ talk much but never do anything.

--- I like the program Man and Nature.
--- But I _______Sports News.

--- I feel tired and sleepy.
--- Why not stop ______ yourself?

---Why did you vote for Maggie?
---Because she is very ______. She always shares things with others.

--- Are you going to the bank, Laura?
--- No, I ______ to the bank already.

--- Could you tell me______ in Yanghzou?
--- Of course. I think it’s in Dongguan Street.

Wearing white can help people _______when they feel stressed.

--- I am going to have a job interview tomorrow morning.
--- Well, ______

When I was young, I always helped my grandfather in the fields. As I worked beside him, he    １   to tell a story about a man named Joe, and his wife, who moved to a new farm with their three sons. They were setting into the new place    ２   a nearby farmer told Joe that there was gold in the earth. Joe was very   3 , and told his sons about it.
They began to dig in one corner, and they got to the end of the field. At the same time, Joe thought he would   4   some crops where the earth had been   5  . The plants included corn, tomatoes, potatoes, etc. His sons continued to dig through the soil, made up their mind to find the gold. Since   6   soil was being turned, Joe could plant more crops. Joe had never farmed before, but it had always been his   7  .
As different crops came ready to be harvested, Joe started to   8   that there were more vegetables than he and his family could ever   9  . One of Joe’s neighbors suggested that he   10   a vegetable shop. Joe and his wife did that very thing. They called it Joe and Family Vegetable. Joe even had to leave some crops in the fields,   11   he had more than enough to supply the vegetable shop.
This went on for years, and Joe and his wife became quite   12   from their little vegetable shop. They were even able to   13   their sons to college.
Remember the beginning of the story, when Joe was told by his new neighbor that there was gold in the land? Well, the truth is, Joe’s   14  of the English language was less than perfect. His new neighbor friend actually meant that his land had rich   15  . So you can see where the concept（概念）of gold comes from.

A．feared B．agreed C．used D．failed

A．while B．as C．when D．after

A．happy B．disappointed C．angry D．calm

A．harvest B．plant C．water D．feed

A．controlled B．burned C．destroyed D．turned

A．more B．most C．much D．few

A．job B．problem C．pity D．dream

A．realize B．promise C．relate D．regret

A．feed B．sell C．plant D．eat

A．take up B．set up C．turn up D．make up

A．now B．though C．so D．because

A．careful B．rich C．alone D．cheerful

A．bring B．take C．send D．make

A．understanding B．knowledge C．thinking D．skills

A．mud B．gold C．soil D．material

Welcome to the Grand Hotel. To make your stay as enjoyable as possible, we hope you will use our facilities (设备) .

 
The above service notice can be seen _______.

You have arrived and stayed at the hotel at 11:00 p.m. and want a snack. What should you do?

Which of the following is true?

Prana, our beautiful dog whose name means ‘breath of life’, isn’t with us any more. But she brought such joy and love that we still miss her.
There are so many wonderful stories about the love in this dog, but my favorite is this one.
It was an autumn day in Minnesota, but the weather didn’t know the difference between autumn and winter. Unexpectedly, we were hit with a big snow fall for which no one was prepared.
We have two apple trees in our backyard. Prana loved apples. When she went outside, she’d take hold of an apple, put it far back in her mouth, and sneak into the house to save for eating later. The apples had been on the ground and were often dirty so I wasn’t always happy that Prana had brought them into the house. Feeling my displeasure, she would turn her head so I wouldn’t see her hidden treasure.
On the day that it snowed too early in the season, Prana went outside and I watched her from the window. I noticed that she was madly digging holes and brought the apples to the surface so they could be seen above the snow. I wondered why she was doing this. She seemed to be completely busy with some kind of important task to dig up as many apples as possible during her yard time.
When I called her back into the house, she had her usual one apple in her mouth. About five minutes later, I looked outside. The yard was completely covered with birds. Prana had dug up all those apples for her bird friends to eat. She knew that they wouldn’t have stored enough food to live through such an early winter.
The story about the dog happened _______.

What does the underlined phrase sneak into mean in the fourth paragraph?

Prana was busy digging up the apples in the snow because________.

From the story we can learn that______.

Taking away a city’s rubbish is a big job. Every day trucks come into a city to collect it. Most rubbish is made up of things we can’t eat or use. If we kept these things we would soon have a mountain of rubbish.
In some cities the rubbish is collected and taken outside of the city to a dump(垃圾站). Often the city dump is placed where the ground is low or there is a big hole. The kitchen rubbish is broken into small pieces and sent into the sewage system. The sewage system takes away the used water from toilets, bathtubs(澡盆) and other places.
To keep mice and flies away, some earth is used to cover the newly dumped rubbish. Later, grass may be planted on the rubbish-filled land. Finally, a house or a school may be built there, and then you’d never know that this had once been an old rubbish dump.
In other cities the rubbish is burnt in special places. The fire burns everything but the metal. Sometimes the metal can be used again in factories where things are made of metal. The food parts of rubbish are put in special piles where they slowly change into something called humus(腐殖土), which looks like black earth. It is rich with kinds of things that feed plants and help make them grow.
You can most probably read the passage in _______.

The underlined word “sewage” in the passage means_______.

According to the passage, the food parts of rubbish can be used again_______.

How should we take care of a used metal box according to the passage?

Hi, everybody!
Welcome to our newly-opened Richards Cinema Bookstore!
Now let me introduce to you some of the new film books in our store.
Are you Chinese film fans? OK, here comes the latest 25 New Takes about Chinese films. It is a collection of 25 fresh readings of different Chinese films from the 1930s to the present. In recent years, Chinese films are very popular in the States, such as Crouching Tiger and Hidden Dragon, Hero, and Flowers of Shanghai.
Do you like French films? Well, here is The French Cinema Book. It covers French films from the 1890s to the beginning of the 21st century. It is written for all lovers of French cinema: students and teachers, specialists and fans, and so on.
Maybe you are Indian film fans and star-chasers. Then here is Encyclopedia (百科全书) of Indian Cinema. The book is a complete introduction to all the best Indian films. It also offers a full list of names of the famous and successful film stars in the past ten years. You know, the Indian film industry is the largest in the world after our Hollywood.
If you like British films, we have The British Cinema Book. It is a good review of British cinema. This book contains a good many nice pictures.
In our bookstore, you can also find books about Mexican, Japanese, Australian, German and Italian films.
Well, please help yourselves to some coffee or tea, and have a good time here!
The speaker of the passage is most probably _______.

How many Asian countries does the speaker refer to when he talks about the film books?

Which of the following statements is NOT mentioned in the passage？

The purpose of the speaker is_______.

用括号内所给词的适当形式填空（每空一词）。
I enjoy reading this kind of ______ magazine. （每周）
It is good for your health to _________ deeply. （呼吸）
It ______ on the two sides of the river.（位于）
A large number of new ______ will live in Yangzhou.（移居者）
The small town is becoming more and more ______ and polluted.（拥挤的）
His mother has devoted ______ to the teaching of Home Economics.（she）
The making paper was a Chinese ______. （invent）
It is well ______ that Yangzhou is one of the most beautiful cities in our country.（know）
He had been deeply affected by the ______ death of his father. （suddenly）
There will be ______ no rain tomorrow.（probable）

根据短文内容,完成下列表格,每空一词。
The home of the future won’t be completely different and we will be living in houses and flats as we do today. But people will want to shape their homes to match their dreams. No two homes will be the same. People will be able to buy “house materials” containing moveable walls, doors and windows. They will put together the different parts to create the home they want.
Many jobs that we do today will disappear, others will still be done but will change and new jobs will be created. Skilled workers such as builders, gardeners and electricians won’t disappear because machines can’t take the place of them. We will still have teachers because students need human contact. But they will be using modern technology in class more and students will be working more from home.
Space holidays will develop in the future, but these holidays won’t be for everyone because they won’t be cheap. Short space trips will develop first, then hotels will move around the earth where it will be possible to have a longer vacation. By the end of the next century, there will be holiday centers on the moon with things needed for families.
There will be no paper in the future. Instead, there will be e-paper which people will be able to use over and over again. This will develop in order to protect nature. E-newspapers and e-magazines will take the place of traditional newspapers and magazines and we will download information and news articles from the Internet every day onto our re-useable paper.
As we know, the earth is going to disappear sometime in the future. This isn’t going to happen tomorrow but scientists say that it will happen in five billion years. We will have to find another home. At sometime in the future far away, either we stay on the earth and die with it, or we leave and move to another plant. There won’t be any other choice.

Title: Tomorrow’s
Things talked about	Changes described
Houses	Homes of future will all be    from one another.
	Skilled workers will still be   . Teachers’ work will change a lot    of modern technology.
Vacations	Space trips and staying in space hotels will still only be for    people because they won’t be cheap. Some people can    their holidays on the moon.
Information	E-paper will be used    of traditional paper and the    of the e-paper will protect nature.
The future	People will have to    to another planet.

阅读短文，根据括号中的汉语意思填入单词，使短文意思完整、通顺。每空一词。
I remember when I was young, my parents used to focus on（关注）everything I did. I liked wearing bright red c , but they said the colour was too sharp. I loved listening to rock and roll, but they said it was too n . I hated eating vegetables, but they said they were good for my h .
Later, I studied at a boy’s school. My parents always asked me to study hard. I felt stressed. Every night, I asked myself, “What’s wrong with me?” My parents always tells me that the things I do are b .I gave up many things I liked doing. My life was not as c  as my friends’ lives.
I studied psychology（心理学）when I was at university. I got very good marks, b  I still did not understand why my parents were so strict.
Then I got married and had two c . I heard myself tell them, “Don’t talk on the phone so much! You should focus on your school work. Use your f  time to read…” I began to understand my p . They told me what to do because they cared, just as I told my children what to do because I cared.
Young people, behind all the a  your parents give you, what they are really saying is, “We care about you and we love you.”

根据中文意思,完成下列句子,词数不限。（共5小题；每小题2分,计10分）
他太累了，在公交车上睡着了。
我们不知道将来的生活是什么样子。
由于天气恶劣，飞机起飞晚了三个小时。
除非亲眼所见，否则你无法想象扬州有多美丽。
他们别无选择，只能把所有的能力倾注于工作中。

假如你是李华，住在扬州。你的加拿大笔友Bob来信谈到了他所居住的城市，并希望了解你家乡扬州的情况。请你用英语写一封回信。回信须包括下表中的内容。

 
要求：1）表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；
2）必须包括所有相关信息，并作适当发挥； 
3）词数：100词左右（开头已给出，不计入总词数）；
4）不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。
参考词汇：经济economy n．
Dear Bob，
It's very kind of you to write me and let me know about your beautiful city. Now I'd like to tell you something about my hometown Yangzhou.
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Yours,                                                                                                 Li Hua