重庆市2019-2020学年九年级下学期期中考试英语试题B卷

重庆市2019-2020学年九年级下学期期中考试英语试题B卷姓名:_ 班级:_ 成绩:_一、完型填空Long long ago, when the great library of Alexandria burned, the story goes that one book was saved. But it was not a _ book. A poor man, who could_ a little, bought it for a few coins.The book wasnt very interesting, but between its_ there was something very interesting _. It was about the _ of the Touchstone (试金石)! The touchstone was a small pebble (鹅卵石) that could turn any common metal into pure gold. The writing explained that it was _ among thousands and thousands of other pebbles that looked exactly like it. But the secret was this: The real stone would feel warm, _ ordinary pebbles were cold. So the man _ his few belongs, bought some simple supplies, camped on the_and began _ pebbles. He knew that if he picked up common pebbles and threw them down again, he might pick up the same pebble hundreds of times. So, when he felt one that was cold, he threw it into the sea. He spent a whole day doing this, but _to find the touchstone. Yet he went on and on this way. Pick up a pebble. Cold-throw; it into the sea. Pick up another. Cold-throw it into the sea. The days stretched into weeks and the weeks into months and the months into years. One day, however, about mid-afternoon, he picked up a pebble and it was warm. He threw it into the sea before he _ what he had done. He had_ a strong habit of throwing each pebble into the sea that when the one he wanted _, he still threw it away. So it is with chance. _we dont pay enough attention, it is easy to miss a chance when it is in hand and its just as easy to throw it away.1 . AcostlyBcheapCmodernDimportant2 . ArecordBreadCspeakDhear3 . ApagesBwordsCbacksDcovers4 . AindeedBperhapsChoweverDsomehow5 . AfunctionBsecretCroleDpurpose6 . AremainingBlayingCfixingDlying7 . AandBwhileCorDyet8 . AsoldBrentedClentDthrew9 . AmarketBfieldCseashoreDhometown10 . AdealingBservedCtestingDcollecting11 . AmanagedBstoppedCforgotDfailed12 . ArealizedBcomplainedCguessedDdiscovered13 . AbuiltBsetCcreatedDformed14 . Apassed awayBcame alongCsent outDtook place15 . AIfBWhetherCAlthoughDUnless二、阅读单选The way we spend our time can be divided into three “bottles”. These are the necessary tasks(任务) bottle, the voluntary(自愿的) tasks bottle and the happiness bottle. Every day, we spend time filling the necessary tasks bottle with useful things, like making money, buying food and paying bills. We then fill another bottle with voluntary tasks. These are things that we do for others, but we may not enjoy them. This bottle gets filled with tasks like taking children to activities, cooking family meals, and washing your husbands socks. Those bottles are very important. If we dont fill them each day, our family wont run well. However, we often forget to fill the third bottlethe happiness bottle that we fill with enjoyable activities. Is your happiness bottle sometimes empty at the end of the day? Between doing all the necessary and voluntary tasks, time flies fast, and before we know it, it is time for bed. We all have days like that. This is why each day we must try to fill our happiness bottle. I usually fill mine by going to the dancing class. But this week, I had the happiness of taking part in a guitar practice in my neighborhood. We showed our musical talent and practiced music for charity. It was a time of fun, friendship and music making. At the end of the evening, my happiness bottle was filled to top. .Will your activities bring joy to your life? Are the other two tasks eating up all your time? Try to find ways to achieve a balance(平衡) between how you fill your three bottles.16 . Which activity is NOT a necessary task?AMaking moneyBPaying billsCSending your son to a piano lesson Sunday17 . What does the underlined word “it” mean in Paragraph 3?ADoing the necessary taskBDoing the voluntary taskCTime flies fast18 . How did the writer fill the happiness “bottle” this week?ABy cooking meals for familyBBy going to the dancing classCBy taking part in a guitar practice19 . Which of the following is the best for “ in the last paragraph?AMake sure to fill the necessary task bottlesBSo think about how you should spend your timeCPeople will be happier by playing music.20 . What is the main idea of this passage?AWe shouldnt fill the task bottles with happinessBWe should balance the three task bottles in lifeCWe should always be happyChuck was not an ordinary frog.He did love eating flies, but he didnt like catching flies himself.He didnt like snapping them from the air while they were flying around.Some frogs thought Chuck was lazy.Others thought he was strange.That didnt matter to Chuck.Each morning, Chuck hid himself under the spider web between the cattails.Then when Lady Eightlegs went off, Chuck took flies from her web.One morning while Chuck was enjoying the flies, Lady Eightlegs returned and caught him.She cried, “Go and catch your own”.Chuck jumped back into the pond.Now there was an idea! Why not make his own web? Chuck got some vines.He put them together until they looked like a spider web.He worked on his web for hours until mid-night.And then he fell asleep.When he woke up the next morning,he was stuck inside and couldnt move.“Help!” he yelled.Lady Eightlegs got there and saved him.“No matter how hard I try, I cant make a spider web, Chuck said.“Of course not, Lady Eightlegs said”. “Youre a frog.Frogs cant make spider webs any better than spiders can swim, I guess.How I wish to swim to the middle of the pond and float peacefully under the sun like you!”Chuck smiled. “I have an idea.”From that day on, Chuck carried Lady Eightlegs out to the middle of the pond, where they floated and played together.When they returned to shore, they shared a breakfast of flies.It wasnt exactly an ordinary friendship.21 . The underlined word “snapping” means_.AcatchingBeatingChidingDbeating22 . Lady Eightlegs was_.AlazyBstrangeCordinaryDkind23 . Chuck got his food by_.Ahiding himself between cattails.Busing his own web to catch flies.Cworking hard till night.Dtaking flies from the spider web.24 . The story tells us_.ANo pains, no gains.BPractice makes perfect.CNever do things by halves.DTeam work increases the success.Hi, Im John Donald, on the Voice of America. We are checking out the top three songs in the Billboard chart（美国单曲排行榜）ending this week.The third place goes to One Republic with “Counting Stars”. This song has already hit number one in the United Kingdom. But how high has One Republic risen in its US homeland? Well, they havent had a US number one single yet. Back in 2007, their first single “Apologize” reached the second place, while hitting number one in more than a dozen countries.The second place comes Lorde with another former（以前的）title-holder（冠军保持者）, “Royals”.Up at number one is a famous partner Eminem and Rihanna with “The Monster”. How many times have they worked together? If you said twice, youre wrong. This is their fourth. You probably remember their huge 2010 hit “Love The Way You Lie” and they also sang together “Love The Way You Lie (Part II)”. Finally, the pair worked together on “Numb”, which appears on Rihannas latest album（唱片）Unapologetic.Thats it for now, but lets meet again next week for a new chart.25 . Which song once reached No. 1 in the US?ARoyalsBCounting StarsCApologizeDNumb26 . Which were the songs Eminem and Rihanna sang together?ANumb, Unapolotetic and Love The Way You LieBNumb, Apologize and Love The Way You Lie(Part II)CLove The Way You Lie, One Republic and UnapologeticDLove The Way You Lie, Numb and Love The Way You Lie(Part II)27 . What is the passage mainly about?ANew songs introduction.BSome singers recent situation.CSome singers private lives.DThe three most popular songs in the Billboard chart this week.People often say that the earth is like our mother. She gives life to all the living things on the earth and provides us with air, food, water and other essential things we need for living.Once she was beautiful and rich, but now she becomes dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer. It is due to what we have done to her. Please have a good look at her: polluted rivers and lakes, growing deserts, the destruction of the forests and wild life, and the depletion (消耗，用尽) of the ozone layer (臭氧层).Can she bear to see her children putting the waste here and there? Can she bear to see her children cutting down the trees and destroying the grassland, to see the acid rain destroying everything? Can we bear to see our mother suffering (受苦) so much? Isnt it time for us to ask ourselves whether this is the way to treat our mother?Floods, droughts, acid rain., these are the punishments (惩罚) from nature. Everyone should know that there is only one earth. If we go on treating her like this, it wont be fit for us to live in any longer. Its time for us to love her, take good care of her and cure her. We should save the earth so as to save ourselves.28 . What does the earth look like now?A. It has clean rivers, lakes and green forests.B. It is like a beautiful girl.C. It is more beautiful and richer.D. It is dirtier and dirtier, poorer and poorer.29 . What is the meaning of the underlined word?A. Know B. Stand C. Imagine D. Hear30 . What is the best title of the passage?A. The earthour mother.B. Defenders of the Earth (地球卫士).C. The earth is very beautiful and healthy.D. The water on the earth is very clean.三、用单词的正确形式完成句子选词填空get on well with would like good at ready to what about take part in31 . To keep healthy, We should _school activities.32 . Mary is a kind girl and she is always _ help others.33 . _the weather in your hometown?34 . Everybody likes her because she _ others.35 . Tom plays football and is _ sports.36 . _you _ one of these moon cakes？四、单词填空根据短文内容和所给中文提示,写出空白处各单词的正确形式,每空限填一词。Many people go to Utah because they love hiking in Bryce Canyon National Park. They enjoy 37 . (岩石) climbing, camping and so on. However, some people go to Utah for a very 38 . (不同的) experience.The Boulder Outdoor Survival(生存) School(BOSS) in Utah is the worlds oldest survival school. It teaches people how stay alive without tents, or even backpacks. In Bryce Canyon, the days are very 39 . (热的) and the nights are very cold. Not everyone wants to go and experience life without modern 40 . (发明) like smart phones and e-books. Students at BOSS quickly learn that it is important to work hard and 41 . (尝试) new things if they want to complete the training.In survival camps at BOSS students dont just practise camping, hiking or42 . (骑) horses. They go into the wild for days or weeks. They learn how to find 43 . (新鲜的)water for drinking. They also learn how to make a fire, use a 44 . (小刀) and find food to eat. Nature can often give them 45 . (每件事) they need so survive.After these people go back to the real world, they may never use these skills again. Even if they dont, at 46 . (至少) they will always know that they can live without computers, electricity, and smart phoneseven if it is only for a few days!五、语法填空Srikanth Bolla, 24 years old, is the first blind CEO in the world, who built a company valued at over $75 million. Today, he considers himself the 47 . (lucky) man in the word, not only his48 . (succeed), but also for having great parents and friends who always stand by him.When Srikanth was born, some of his 49 . (parent) friends and relatives them not to keep him, because it was difficult for a poor family 50 . (raise) a blind baby. But his parents didnt follow them. They decided to give Srikanth a positive, loving environment.Life was not easy for Srikanth. He had to face many challenges all his life. He 51 . (refuse) by his village school. So he had to go to school for special children. He did very well in studies and also developed many hobbies such as chess and cricket. Later Srikanth found a teacher who was kind enough to turn all his lessons into audio clips, and helped him 52 . his exams.53 . high school was difficult for a blind student, Srikanth didnt give up. Instead, he worked very hard and tried his best to go to MT(麻省理工), and graduated from 54 . university in 2012. After his graduation, he returned to India, and decided to start to a company55 . employed disabled people like him.Srikanth said, “Compassion(怜悯) is showing somebody the way to love and giving them the opportunity to grow up. If you do something good, it 56 . (come) back to you.”六、多任务混合问题The day when the jobs were handed out was one of the most exciting for all the children in the class. Some jobs were more interesting than others. When giving them out, the teacher took account of(考虑) which pupils had been most responsible before. Among them Rita stood out. All the children knew Rita was the favorite to be given the best job of all: to look after the class dog.But this year there was a big surprise. Each child received one of the normal jobs, like telling the time, cleaning the blackboard, looking after pets and so on. But Rita was given a little box with some sand and one ant （蚂蚁）. Most of her classmates felt sorry for her. Even her father became very angry with the teacher. However, Rita preferred to show the teacher by doing something special with such a boring job. So Rita started studying all about her little ant. She gave the ant the very best food, and as a result it grew quite a bit bigger than anyone had expected.One day a man came into the classroom. The teacher said with great joy, “This is Doctor Martinez. He has come to tell us a wonderful piece of news. Isnt that right?”“Exactly! said the Doctor. “This class has best cared for the little ant given to you. You have been chosen to go with me, this summer, on a journey to the rainforest. Congratulations!”That day everyone thanked Rita for having been so patient and responsible.57 . What is Ritas job this year? (no more than 9 words)58 . What did Ritas classmates think after the teacher gave the job to her? (no more than 5 words)59 . Why did everyone in Ritas class thank her? (no more than 13 words)60 . 请将文中画线的句子翻译成汉语。61 . 请给短文拟一个适当的英文题目。七、材料作文62 . 书面表达运动有利于身心健康，青少年应加强体育锻炼。某英文网站举办以“I Like Taking Exercise”为题的征文活动。请根据下表内容，写一篇英语短文。内容包括：你喜欢什么运动，运动的好处以及你对体育锻炼的倡议。提示：1.短文应包括表中的全部全息，条理清楚，行文连贯。2. 短文中不能出现真实的人名和地名；3. 词数不少于80，开头已给出，不计入总词数。I Like Taking ExerciseExercise1. Run, swim2. Play ping-pong and basketballBenefits1. Keep healthy2. Help brains have a rest3. Its good for studyMy ideasI Like Taking ExerciseI like taking exercise.第 11 页 共 11 页