上海新世纪版2019-2020学年九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷B卷

上海新世纪版2019-2020学年九年级上学期英语期末考试试卷B卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_ 一、 完形填空 (共2题；共2分)1. （1分）完形填空 Zhang, the father of a Junior 3 student in Nanjing, was sitting at home. Suddenly, he1he had not spoken to his sons teachers all the term. He had not even been invited to a parents meeting！Zhang decided to ask his son2.The answer his son gave him was a big3.Zhangs son had paid a man 25 yuan to be his4at parents meetings.I did5in my exams and I was afraid my father would6, says the boy. I didnt want him to be7with me.The boy is not the8student to have paid a stranger to be his or her father.The boy says that six of his classmates have used their pocket money to do this.Some of them did it9they were afraid their parents would beat them. Others just didnt want to make their parents feel unhappy.Ji Ruifang, a teacher at Nanjing Foreign Language School, says parents are to blame for kids buying fathers.Parents are demanding（要求）too10of their children, she says. Junior students often cannot11their demands. And they dont know12to face their parents when they do badly.Yu Yiqun, an13on teenagers at the Beijing Youth and Children Research Institute（北京青少年研究所）, says students should14with theirs parents. Then they will be able to have heart-to-heart talks with them.Be 15with your parents, he says, Try to talk to them often so they can understand your problems.（1）A . understood B . discovered C . offered D . realized （2）A . why B . how C . what D . where （3）A . smile B . reason C . surprise D . meal （4）A . mother B . father C . uncle D . teacher （5）A . well B . badly C . carefully D . wonderfully （6）A . open up B . try out C . clean up D . find out （7）A . terrified B . amazed C . angry D . strict （8）A . same B . right C . only D . clever （9）A . since B . as if C . even though D . because （10）A . high B . hard C . many D . much （11）A . meet B . finish C . correct D . cover （12）A . where B . how C . what D . when （13）A . engineer B . expert C . explorer D . inventor （14）A . get on B . get together C . make friends D . catch up （15）A . honest B . pleased C . quiet D . careful 2. （1分）通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。 Today, I was sitting on a bench(长椅) at a subway station, eating candies. A woman came and sat next to me. She looked very 1. I said hello to her and2her some of my candies. She3politely because she had just eaten something and she was4. But the ice was broken and we5for about half an hour. She told me some6things in her life. I understood her. But I tried to7her to notice the good sides. And then she promised that she would often smile and feel hopeful about8. When we said goodbye, she was a 9person-Her tiredness seemed to be gone. She left with a10, thanking me for talking with her.A few minutes later, I saw a blind man coming. He walked11with a stick in his right hand. I went to him and asked if I could help him and he agreed. 12I walked on his left side so that he could catch my arm. We walked into the train and talked all the way to his13. He gave me his name card before getting off the train, and I promised to14him. I will and maybe we will meet and walk in the park one day.Today I brought smiles and an enjoyable15to two people, and for sure they also made my day brighter.（1）A . excited B . relaxed C . happy D . tired （2）A . bought B . offered C . left D . lent （3）A . refused B . received C . agreed D . answered （4）A . hungry B . lucky C . full D . healthy （5）A . talked B . waited C . discussed D . sat （6）A . good B . unhappy C . strange D . great （7）A . allow B . expect C . help D . make （8）A . life B . work C . family D . train （9）A . bad B . cute C . different D . difficult （10）A . ticket B . card C . gift D . smile （11）A . quickly B . slowly C . quietly D . suddenly （12）A . But B . Or C . Also D . So （13）A . classroom B . house C . office D . station （14）A . call B . thank C . forget D . teach （15）A . story B . time C . meeting D . party 二、 阅读理解 (共4题；共15分)3. （5分）阅读理解 People in India call New Year Diwali or the Festival of Light(光).They often clean their houses before the day of Diwali. Most people clean their houses in the morning. They often decorate their houses with flowers. They also make sweet food look like flowers, people and animals. Then they visit their friends and give them presents and cards.On New Years Day, many people open the doors and windows and light(点亮) candles in front of the doors. They want to bring good luck to their families. After Diwali, people often dean their houses again. Some people like to make loud noises at their houses. They think this can make bad spirits(幽灵 go away.（1）People in India call New Year the Festival of _. A . FoodB . FruitC . LightD . Luck（2）Indian people often decorate their houses with _. A . treesB . grassC . flowersD . cards（3）Indian people make _ look like animals. A . presentsB . sweet foodC . clothesD . paper cuts（4）The underlined word candles means _ in Chinese. A . 蜡烛B . 火把C . 灯D . 灯笼（5）Which of the following is NOT true? A . People in India often light candles on New Years Day.B . People in India often clean their houses before and after Diwali.C . On New Years Day, Indian people often visit their friends.D . Some Indian people make loud noises, because they want to make bad spirits go away.4. （3分）阅读理解 Reading is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.First, reading is fun. You can always keep yourself happy if you like reading. You will never feel bored or tired. Next, you can read a book almost anywhere-in a car, on a plane, or even in the bathroom. All you need is a book!Another good reason for reading is that it is useful. If you read as a hobby, you will get better and better at it. And you will read faster and find it easier to understand what you read. As your reading skills improve, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much better.Some people say that reading is out of date. This is not true. You can read on computers, and the better you read, the better your computer skills will be.Good readers may become writers too. They always have more things to write about. If you wish to become a good reader, here are four important points to remember about speed of reading:Knowing why you are reading-what you are reading to find out-will often help you to know whether to read quickly or slowly.Some things should be read slowly throughout. Examples are instructions for making or doing something, solving math problems, and science and history books, which are full of important information. You must read such things slowly to remember each important idea.Some things should be read quickly throughout. Examples are simple stories for enjoyment, letters from friends and news from local newspapers, which tell what was happening to friends and neighbors.In some of your reading, you must change your speed from fast to slow or from slow to fast as you go along. You need to read certain pages quickly and then slow down and do more careful reading when you come to important ideas which must be remembered.（1）You can read a book _. A . almost anywhereB . when you are driving a carC . only on a planeD . only when you feel bored or tired（2）Which of the following reasons is NOT true that reading is a good hobby? A . It is fun.B . You can read almost anywhere.C . It is out of date.D . It can help you improve your computer skills.（3）According to the passage, your reading speed depends on _. A . how much time you haveB . where you do the readingC . the writer of the bookD . what and why you are reading（4）If you want to read for fun and relaxation, you should read _. A . an instruction bookB . letters from friendsC . a book full of math problemsD . a history book full of important information（5）What is the writer trying to tell us according the last four paragraphs? A . How to be a good reader.B . How to read books quickly.C . How to have fun by reading.D . How to choose your reading materials.5. （4分）阅读理解 In ancient Chinese stories, the moon is home to Change and her pet rabbit Yutu. Now, Change and Yutu are really there!On Dec. 2, 2013, the Change-3 lunar probe（月球探测器）took off from Sichuan, China. On Dec. 14, 2013, it landed successfully on the moon. Several hours later, Yutu, Chinas first moon rover（月球车）, walked out of the probe and onto the moon.Yutu is a big robot that weighs 140 kg. It is about 1.5 meters long and 1.1 meters tall. It has six wheels and travels at 200 meters per hour.There are cameras on both Yutu and Change-3. They can take pictures of each other. Thats how Yutu got is first picture on the moon.Yutu and Change-3 will explore（探索）the moon.Yutu can walk around and work for three months. It can look for natural resources（资源）on the moon. Change-3 can work at the landing site for one year and it can watch the space from the moon.They both get energy from the sun. So they get up to work when the sun rises, and go to sleep at night.China is now the third country in the world to soft-land on the moon after the US and the former Soviet Union.Also, China is planning to send its Change-5 lunar probe around 2017. The probe will fly back to the Earth and bring natural resources from the moon.When will China fly a human to the moon? Theres no plan yet. But the door is now open.（1）The Change-3 lunar probe was sent into space to . A . land on MarsB . explore the moonC . build a space stationD . carry the astronauts into space（2）According to the passage, Yutu can . A . fly around in spaceB . look for natural resourcesC . watch the space from the moonD . bring natural resources to the Earth（3）Yutu can work on the moon for . A . six yearsB . one yearC . three monthsD . two weeks（4）Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage? A . Yutu is a big robot with six wheels.B . Yutu and Chaange-3 work day and night.C . Yutu and Chaange-3 can take photos of each other.D . The Chaange-5 lunar probe wont carry a human to the moon.6. （3分）阅读理解 The famous director（导演）of a big and expensive movie planned to film a beautiful sunset（日落）over the ocean, so that the audiences could see his hero and heroine in front of it at the end of the film as they said goodbye to each other for over. He sent his camera workers out one evening to film the sunset for him. The next morning he said to the men, Have you provided me with that sunset?No, sir, the men answered. The director was angry. Why not? he asked. Well, sir, one of the men answered, were on the east coast here, and the sun sets in the west. We can get you a sunrise（日出）over the sea, if necessary（必要）, but not a sunset. But I want a sunset! the director shouted.（Go to the airport, take the next flight to the west coast, and get one.But then a young secretary had an idea. Why dont you photo a sunrise, she asked, and then play it backwards? Then itll look like a sunset.Thats a very good idea! the director said. Then he turned to the camera workers and said, Tomorrow morning I want you to get me a beautiful sunrise over the sea.The camera workers went out early the next morning and filmed a bright sunrise over the beach in the middle of a beautiful coast. Then at nine oclock they took it to the director. Here it is, sir, they said, and gave it to him. He was very pleased. They all went into the studio（工作室）. All right, the director explained, now our hero and heroine are going to say goodbye. Run the film backwards so that we can see the sunset behind them. The sunset began, but after a quarter of a minute, the director suddenly put his face in his hands and shouted to the camera workers to stop. The birds in the film were flying backwards, and the waves on the sea were going away from the beach.（1）Why did the director want to send his workers to the west coast? A . Because he changed his mind about getting a sunset.B . Because he was angry with his crew.C . Because he wanted to get a photo of sunset.D . Because it was his secretarys advice.（2）The director wanted to film a sunset over the ocean because . A . it went well with the separation（告别）of the hero and heroineB . when they arrived at the beach it was already in the eveningC . it was more moving than a sunriseD . the ocean looked more beautiful at sunset（3）After the sunset began, the director suddenly put his face in his hands . A . because he was moved to tearsB . as he saw everything in-the film moving backwardsC . as the sunrise did not look as beautiful as he had imaginedD . because he was sad with the performance of the hero and heroine（4）Which of the following is NOT true? A . The workers had to follow the secretarys advice.B . If you want to see a sunrise, the east coast is the place to go.C . The camera workers wasnt able to film the photo the first day.D . The director told his workers to stop filming the sunset.三、 完成句子：根据所给汉语意思，用单词或短语完成下列英文句子。 (共5题；共5分)7. （1分）这本字典不是我的。它是杰克的。 The dictionary isnt_. Its_.8. （1分）我们坐飞机去的北京，太棒了！ We took a plane to Beijing. _ _ _!9. （1分）好习惯通常来自于我们儿时的兴趣。 Good habits usually _ _ _ _ when we were little kids.10. （1分）南北方的菜肴有共同之处。 The dishes in the north and south have something _.11. （1分）有时候你的业余爱好会妨碍你的学习。 Sometimes your hobbies may _ _ _ _ _ your study.四、 选词填空 (共1题；共1分)12. （1分）从方框中选择正确选项，完成短文。 A. thought of B. reading C. by D. to write E. came up withF. looking for G. what H. pages I. anything J. read K. happier I. howA wife came to see her husband and gave him a suggestion, I read in an article on_to make our marriage(婚姻)stronger. I want each of us_a list of things that make each other annoyed. Then, we can talk about how we can fix them together and make our lives_than ever together. The husband agreed. So each of them went into a different room in the house and_the things that really made the other angry. They thought and thought the questions for the rest of the day and wrote down what they_. The next morning, at breakfast, the wife started. She took out her list. There were many points on it, enough to fill three_. In fact, as she started reading the list, she noticed that tears(泪水)were starting to appear in her husbands eyes. The wife continued to read the list until she finished_all the points on the paper to her husband. Then she placed her list on the table and put her hands over the top of it. Its time for her husband to read his list. But quietly the husband said, I dont have anything on my list. I think you are perfect. I dont want you to change_about you. The woman was moved_her husbands words and began to cry. In life, whenever we are disappointed, angry or sad, we shouldnt lose heart because we always have wonderful time that it is full of beauty, light and happiness. Why do we waste time_the bad, disappointing things? Why not enjoy the wonderful things around us?五、 任务型阅读 (共1题；共5分)13. （5分）阅读下面的短文，回答短文后面的各个问题。 Helen has always been interested in helping her community (社区). Her first volunteer experience was for the American Red Cross when she was in high school. When she was a school teacher, she also found time to volunteer. After she retired (退休), she started volunteering to help the old. When her father was older, he was not able to see as well as he used to, which made her sad because he had always enjoyed reading. She decided it would be fun to read to elderly people in her community. She also helped one woman write her stories. Ann was almost 100 years old, and Helen wrote down information about her life when she visited her. She put the information in a book and got it published (出版), Ann was very excited to share her life story with her children and grandchildren. After a strong storm hit some southern cities, Helen volunteered again for the American Red Cross. She prepared food and answered phones in a care centre. One day Helen read an article in the newspaper about refugees (难民) who needed to learn English. She met once a week with Sahra, a 38-year-old woman from Somalia. Helen gave Sahra a camera and asked her to take pictures of her daily life. In the end, they wrote a book together and used the photos in the book. This helped Sahra learn many new words about her everyday life. Helen says, The real value of my volunteer work is becoming friends with the people I help. They enrich my life as well as I enrich theirs.（1）When did Helen first volunteer for the American Red Cross? （2）What did Helen do just after she retired? （3）Why was Ann excited when her book got published? （4）Why did Helen give Sahra a camera? （5）What do you think of Helen? 六、 补全对话 (共2题；共2分)14. （1分）根据对话内容，从方框内选择恰当的句子填入对话相应的空白处，使对话完整，合乎情景（有两个多余选项）。 A. Thats a good idea.B. Yes, I am.C. Im afraid I have no time.D. How about half past seven?E. What kind of movies do you like?F. Where will we meet?G. Would you like to go to the movies with me?A: Sally, are you free tomorrow evening?B: _A: Why not go to the movies?B: _. I like seeing movies very much.A: _.B: Well, I like comedies because they are funny. What about you?A: I like them, too. I hear Mr. Bean is on. _.B: Sure. Lets meet at seven oclock tomorrow evening.A: Oh, its a little earlier.B: _.A: OK. See you tomorrow evening.B: See you.15. （1分）完成对话从方框内选择正确选项，并将其字母序号写在对话后面的横线上。 A. He is my favorite singer.B. I like Jay Chous songs as well.C. How many CDs do you have?D. How often do you listen to music?E. I like music that I can dance to.F. They are wonderful.A: Hi, Bob! Do you like music?B: Yes, I do.A: _B: Every day.A: What kind of music do you like?B: _A: Do you like songs that are sung by Jay Chou?B: Yes, I do. _A: What do you think of his songs?B: _ I feel excited when listening to his songs.A: Oh, you must be an outgoing boy.B: Yeah. How about you?A: _B: Cool. Then we can be good friends.A: I think so.七、 书面表达 (共1题；共1分)16. （1分）据悉，我国青少年的近视率居全球第一，70%的学生有视力方面的问题. 为引起广大青少年的重视，某英语报刊正在开展以 Saving Our Eyesight为题的征文活动. 请根据以下提示写一篇短文投稿，分析造成青少年近视的原因并提出保护视力的合理建议. 要求：1）语句通顺，意思连贯，语法正确，书写规范. 2）所有提示须全部用上，并作适当发挥. 3）文中不得出现真实的人名、校名、地名. 4）80词左右（文章开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数）. Saving Our EyesightAs the saying goes, Eyes are the window to the soul(心灵)However, 70% of us have poor eyesight. What has caused this problem? In a word, lets take care of our eyes so that we