[北京]2014届北京市昌平区九年级上学期期末英语试卷

Good morning, class. Today ____ are going to learn a new unit, Unit 12.

Winter holidays will begin _____ January 17.

I work harder at my lessons this year _____ I have made good progress.

If you have _____ questions, please put up your hands.

—_____were you born, Peter?
—I was born in 1998.

—Which subject is _____, Chinese or maths?
—I think maths is.

I went to Sanya with my family this summer and all of us _____ a good trip.

We _____ more than 1,200 English words already, do you know?

_____ you tell me how to use this digital dictionary?

Although they were tired, they still went on _____.

The teacher told us _____ to the recorder and read the dialogue three times.

—Wow! Your school is so beautiful!
—Thank you! It _____ last year.

I don’t know _____ yesterday.

I was 15 months old, a happy and carefree kid, until the day I fell. It was a bad fall. I ____ on a piece of glass that cut my eye badly. From then on, my ugly, sightless, cloudy grey eye lived on ____ me.
Sometimes people asked me embarrassing (使人难堪的) questions. Whenever the kids played ____, I was the "monster". I was always imagining that everyone looked down on me.
Yet mum would say to me, "Hold your head up high and face the world." I began to depend on that ____.
As a child, I thought mum meant, "Be careful, or you will fall down or run into something ____ because you are not looking." As a teenager, I usually looked down to ____ my shame. But I found that when I held my head up high, people liked me.
In high school I even became the ____, but on the inside I still felt like a monster. All I really wanted was to look like everyone else. When things got really bad, I would ____ to my mum and she would look at me with loving eyes and say, “Hold your head up high and face the world. Let them see the beauty that is ____ instead of your appearance (外貌).”
My mum's love was the ____ that made me bright. I had faced hard times, and learned not only to be ____ but also to have deep compassion (同情) for others.
“Hold your head up high” has been heard many times in my home. I tell ____ to my children. The gift my mum gave me will live on.  286

A．stood B．landed C．found D．worked

A．for B．like C．by D．with

A．games B．jokes C．toys D．sports

A．glass B．topic C．reply D．saying

A．immediately B．accidentally C．continuously D．expectedly

A．show B．meet C．behave D．hide

A．president B．teacher C．teenager D．adult

A．write B．add C．cry D．face

A．beside B．outside C．inside D．alongside

A．suggestion B．experience C．sunshine D．introduction

A．confident B．unusual C．similar D．ordinary

A．it B．them C．that D．those

School Activities for Kids and Teens
January is a month of fun-filled activities for kids and teens as long as you know where to find them. When you want some fun activities for January, think about these ideas happening in this month.

Secret of the Dragon Time: Mon., Jan. 1, 10:30 am Cost: Adult: $7.40 Child (under 15): half Tel.: 3403 2578 Add.: Brisbane Botanic Gardens Note: Secret of the Dragon is a magical story about two children ride a dragon to explore the ocean.	The Search for Life Time: Thurs., Jan. 4, 2:00 pm Cost: Adult: $14.50 Child (under 15): $8.70 Tel.: 3403 7689 Add.: Brisbane Botanic Gardens Note: Are we truly alone in space? Is there any life out there? These are the questions asked in this show.
Magic Class Time: Fri., Jan. 12, 10:00 am Cost: Free Tel.: 3403 8470 to book your seat beforehand Add.: Centenary Community Hub, 171 Dandenong Road Note: Would you like to be a magician? Then join David, the magician, to learn about real magic with playing cards, coins, ring ropes and DIY projects and be able to become the life of the party.	Science with Me Making Your Own Guitar Time: Sat., Jul. 20, 3:00 pm Cost: Free Tel.: 3403 1226 to book your seat beforehand Add.: 10, Egginton Close Note: Do you want to make a guitar with Katy and her mom? Science with Me is going to be with you. Please remember to bring a piece of wood, a hammer, some rubber bands and some nails with you.

If you want to make a guitar, you can call ________.

John and his 10-year-old son want to watch Secret of the Dragon. They will pay ________.

Rita plans to join Magic Class. She may learn about _______.

Alec is strongly interested in space life. He may go to _______.

Yoga is a kind of sport. It is very popular around the world now. Everyone, young and old can do yoga. It’s good for both men and women.

Which of the following is true?

Why do people like yoga?

Many companies use guards and expensive alarm systems to protect their property (财产). Soon a new kind of protection will be used—robots. Engineers have been working on the first mobile robots for businesses. The robots will guard factories, warehouses (仓库) and museums at night.
The mobile robots will move around slowly on wheels. They will be able to detect (察觉,发现) people through walls and pick up sounds, such as breaking glass. They can be fixed with loud sirens to frighten thieves, or radios to signal police or guards.
To protect a building, a robot will have to move around without knocking into the walls. Information about the building will have to be stored in the robot’s small, built-in computer. A floor map could be programmed into the computer’s memory, for example.
A mobile robot will not be able to do everything. Unlike human guards, it will not be able to climb stairs, open doors, or move along rough ground. It won’t be able to tell the difference between friends and enemies. Because of that, people will have to be prevented from entering the area it moves.
One kind of mobile robot will be able to “sense” whether a chair or a box has been moved and go around it. This robot will also judge size well enough so that it won’t send an alarm if a cat crosses the room. And if someone tries to steal this robot, it will sound a loud, painful siren. The three-foot-tall robot is hard to be stolen anyway. It weighs about 200 pounds.
U.S. companies pay almost $10 billion a year to protect their property with alarm systems and human guards. Mobile robots may be cheaper.  (296)
Why is the new kind of robots called mobile robots? Because they can _____.

How will a robot get directions for moving around a building?

What can be the best title of this passage?

Microblog is used by more and more people in China. Do you know what it is?
Micorblog makes the people around the world know each other better. It helps people to find the information that they need more easily, also to get some information about the world they did not know before.
Many famous people are using microblog now, including singers, TV hosts and artists. The first day of Chinese New Year in 2013, people on Sina Microblog sent 9,873 microblogs to wish somebody a Happy New Year. Yao Chen, a movie star, became the queen of microblog because her microblog had over 1.3 million followers; Li Yuchun sent a microblog and got 11,760 comments (评论) within 24 hours; Cai Kangyong, who is a famous TV host and famous writer in Taiwan, had 15,143 followers within 24 hours.
Why is microblog so popular? The most important reason is that it is easy. People need not use too much time to write the articles to express their feelings. They can write at most 140 words, and then send them through computers or mobile phones onto the microblog. As soon as they send it out, their fans will know. They can send it out anytime, anywhere.
Many of my friends use microblogs to share things with others. They can talk about what they see, hear and think in a sentence or a photo. Also, they can follow their friends’ or their favorite stars’. They can even join in any discussion of anything. Microblog is a hit now! Have you microblogged today?  264
According to the passage, ______.

Microblog is very popular. The most important reason is that _____.

The word “hit” in the 5^th paragraph means _____.

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）
The bicycle is one of the simplest yet most useful inventions in the world. What is the most surprising is that it was not invented easily, although the great inventor Leonardo da Vinci had drawn pictures for bicycles and flying machines and some other things. _____________.
_______________, and there is no pollution at all. Even so, in most developed countries most people don’t go to work by bicycle. It is not because the bicycles are expensive or people feel tired if they ride to work. It’s because the number of cars on the roads becomes larger. _____________. As a result, more people put their bicycles away and go to work in their cars. And in this way, the situation is made more serious.
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阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。(共10分，每小题2分)

Mark Twain was the pen name of Samuel Langhorne Clemens. He was born on November 30, 1835, in a small town in Florida, the USA. He grew up with a few naughty boys who later appeared in his stories. Perhaps you are familiar with some of his books, as The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At the age of 12, his father died, and he began to work, first as a printer, then a pilot on a river boat. Those years on the boat went into his book Life on the Mississippi.
During the Civil War he worked as a reporter and used Mark Twain as his pen name. The stories he wrote in this period made him famous and popular. He made a lot of money by writing, lecturing and running his own publishing house. But he spent all of it on his high living and unsuccessful business.
Mark Twain was known as a world-wide famous writer and a humorist, which means funny man. But in fact, he took a serious view of life. Many sad things happened in his own life. All his experiences helped to shape his stories which showed the dark side of the society. He died as an old man of 75 in 1910.  (200)
What did Mark Twain do when he was 12?
Did Mark Twain write himself and his friends in his stories?
When did Mark Twain become famous?
What is Mark Twain’s writing style?
What does the passage mainly tell us and what does the writer think of Mark Twain?

根据中文意思完成句子。
你为什么不查查字典呢？
_________________ look up the words in your dictionary?
他差不多和他父亲一样高了。
He is almost ________________ his father.
你看起来不高兴，怎么啦？
You look unhappy. __________________ you?
养成良好的学习习惯是重要的。
_________________ good learning habits.
李刚帮妈妈做完家务才做作业。
Li Gang _________________ the housework.

根据中文大意和英文提示词语，写出意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的短文。所给英文提示词语仅供选用，请不要写出你的真实校名和姓名。
学校要举行“My dream job in the future”主题演讲比赛，要求大家以此为题，写一篇演讲稿。内容包括：你的梦想职业，你的理由和所做的努力。
hobby, favourite, free time, work hard, try to do, come true
My dream job in the future
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