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九年级英语上学期期中试题 一、听力部分：（20分）1.听下面5段对话。每短对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的abc三个选项中选出最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前的括号内。每短对话读两遍。（ ）1.how often does li jie go to the english club?aonce a month b. once a week c. twice a week( )2. what are the speakers talking about?a. how to save trees .b. how to save paper . c. how to save water.( )3.whats the garden like? a. beautiful b. dirty c. clean ( )4. who works in a chemical factory?a. johns mother b. pauls father c. pauls mother( )5. who cares for the young labors?a. victor b. the woman c. the boss2.听下面几段对话或独白。每短对话后有几个小题，从题中所给的a、b、c三个选项中选出最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前的括号内。每短对话或独白读两遍。( )6. what wasnt there in mr wangs hometown 30 years ago?a. streets b. bars c. farmers( )7. how did the people get clothes and shoes 30 in the past?a. by making them by hand.b. by changing them with crops.c. by buying them in the big stores. 3.听下面的一段对话，回答8至9两个小题。( )8. what will jim do in april.?a. he will take part in a baseball game.b. he will practice baseball.c. he will be free .( )9.where will jim take part in october? a. in america b. in china c. in russia 4. 听下面的一段独白，回答10至12三个小题。( )10. how old is li huan? a.12 years old b.13 years old c.14 years old ( )11. when does li huan get up every day? a. at 5:00 b. at 5:30 c. at 6:00( )12.how long does it take li huan to get enough water a day? a. at least two hours. b. .at least four hours. c. .at least six hours.5. 听下面的一段对话，回答13至15三个小题。( )13. when did jerry lose his mother? a. in 2004 b. in 2006 c. in 2008( )14.when did bill begin to collect empty glass bottles? a. last june. b. last august. c. this july.( )15. how many empty glass bottles has bill collected so far? a. 906 b. 916 c. 9606. 听下面一段短文。根据短文内容的先后顺序重新排序，并将其标号填在题后的横线上。短文读两遍。a. mr. smith was pleased with dora.b. dora got a job at a bookstores.c. dora got more money than others.d dora gave the money to the manager.e. there was some money on the floor.16 _ 17_ 18_19_20_二、单项选择（ ）21. could you provide us _ some information about your school? of course .its my pleasure. a. to b. of c. from d. with（ ）22. i havent seen the film pirates of the caribbean. _ . a. neither have i b. so have i c. neither i have. d. so i have（ ）23. not only the twins but also their brother _ to paris several times, so they know paris very well. a. has been b. has gone c. have been d. went（ ）24. the volunteers _ a lot of help to the community for nearly ten years. a. offered b. will offer c. are offering d. have offered（ ）25. im worried about my english. _ harder _ you will catch up with your classmates. a. working ;and b. to work ;or c. work; and d. worked; or（ ）26. its our duty to _ people _ too many trees. a. stop ; cutting down b. prevent; to cut down c. keep; cutting down d. make ;cut down（ ）27. in the past, i used to _ at six, but now i get used to _ at half past five. a. got up ; get up b. gets up; get up c. get up ; getting up d. getting up; get up（ ）28. can you tell me _ the prize, tom? last year.a. when you got b. when did you get c. when will you get d. when you will get （ ）29. she got up to get some sleeping pills but found there was _ left at home. a. nothing b. none c. something d. nobody（ ）30. you wont arrive at the airport on time _ you hurry up. a. if b. so c. when d. unless（ ）31. will you go shopping tonight? if you go,_. a. so will i b. so i do c. so am i d. so i will（ ）32. you _ get a watch as a present. a. supposed to b. are supposed to c. should be supposed d. are suppose to （ ）33. where would you like to go for vacation? id love to go _. a. somewhere relaxing b. anywhere relaxed c. somewhere relaxed d. everywhere relaxing（ ）34. dirty water shouldnt be poured into rivers. _ .it will cause pollution. a. dont say like this. b. never mind c. i agree with you d. the same to you.（ ）35. the light in the classroom is on. how strange ! i remember _ . a. to turn it off b. to turn on it c. turning it off d. turning off it三、完形填空。（每题1分，共15分）sarah winchester lived in california. she was a very _36_ woman. she didnt buy many jewels(珠宝) or _37_ clothes. _38_, she spent millions of dollars in _39_ a house. she began to do it at the age of 45. the strange thing about sarahs _40_ was that it seemed never finished. the work on the house went for 38 _41_ because sarah was afraid to _42_ building it. sarahs house was near san jose. every day, a lot of _43_ arrived there to work for her. sarah wanted more rooms and more doors and more windows, _44_ the workers kept on building them. the house was seven floors high and had 160 rooms. there were 200 doors and 1,000_45_. there were also three lifts, nine kitchens, and 47 fireplaces. why did sarah want a house to keep getting _46_? it was because sarah was afraid of _47_. she thought she would die when the house was finished, so she didnt want her house to be finished. sarah winchesters _48_ seemed to have worked(奏效) _49_ she lived to be 83 years old. but _50_ her house was finished. （ ）36. a. poor b. rich c. useful d. brave（ ）37. a. cheap b. expensive c. simple d. old（ ）38. a. still b. usually c. instead d. even（ ）39. a. building b. buying c. selling d. setting（ ）40. a. door b. window c. kitchen d. house（ ）41. a. years b. months c. weeks d. days（ ）42. a. keep b. enjoy c. stop d. help（ ）43. a. drivers b. workers c. farmers d. visitors（ ）44. a. but b. until c. since d. so（ ）45. a. floors b. kitchens c. windows d. rooms（ ）46. a. bigger b. smaller c. stronger d. cleaner（ ）47. a. working b. dying c. living d. growing（ ）48. a. age b. family c. plan d. husband（ ）49. a. or b. because c. neither d. nor（ ）50. a. hardly b. usefully c. carefully d. finally四、阅读理解。（每题2分，共40分）(a) almost every child in cities has the chance to go to school, but not all children in the countries are so lucky. there is a girl called xiao fang. she is eight years old and lives in a small village in guangxi. when she was young, she wanted to go to school. but she could not, because her family was too poor to afford the school fees for her, so her parents had to keep her at home. instead of studying, xiao fang worked in the fields with her parents every day. then hope project heard about xiao fang. it agreed to help xiao fang to go to school. her wish of study came true, and now she is studying in a school. unluckily there are many thousands of children who can not go to school. you can join in hope project and help these children. you know all the good work needs money. hope project needs your help. if you give hope project ￥300 each year, it can pay for one child to go to school for a whole year. with more money, hope project can build new schools, buy good desks, chairs, blackboards and books. lets help the children together and give them a chance to have a good start in life.（ ）51. can go to school. a. almost every child in china b. almost every child in big cities c. almost every child in the world d. almost every child in small villages（ ）52. the words school fees in the second passage mean _. a. 交通费 b. 住宿费 c. 学费 d. 生活费（ ）53. hope project helped xiao fang because a. it heard about her b. she knew someone working there c. she went to ask for help d. she wrote a letter to the newspaper（ ）54. which of the following is true? a. hope project helps to build new schools b. hope project helps the poor children to go to school c. hope project helps schools to buy desks, chairs, books, etc. d. all the above (b) what do you think of a forest, what do you see? just trees? or do you see many other things, such as singing birds, colorful plants and wild flowers? the forest is a whole of its own. it is full of many different living things. but even though they are all different, they have one thing in common: they all need each other in order to live on. the trees feed the forest people by making food in their leaves; by using sunlight to join water and minerals （矿物）from the soil and air. their deep network of roots(根) joins the soil together and stops it from disappearing, making it possible for living things to live in it. human beings are like the living things in the forest. we need one another in order to live. we need the farmers to grow our food, railroad and truck drivers to bring it to our shops and clerks (售员)to sell it to us. we need people to prepare our food and cook it and others to take our waste things away. then, of course, we need doctors, nurses, government leaders, mailmen, telephone operators, and many others. we also need other human beings in another way. we need people for friendship, to talk over our problems, exchange ideas. think how lonely and unhappy you would be if you lived all alone. life is a matter of giving and taking. we need to help other people as much as we need other people to help us. think what a good feeling you have when you have done something for someone else. you know, being a volunteer is so great!（ ）55. according to the text, colorful plants and flowers live on a. the leaves of the trees b. water and minerals c. the soil and air d. all of the above（ ）56. it is the _ that make it possible for living things to live in the forest. a. birds b. trees c. plants d. farmers（ ）57. the writer mainly wants to tell us _. a. we need people for friendship b. the forest is a whole world of its own c. we need one another in order to live d. the forest is full of different living things（ ）58. which one is the relationship (关系) between a forest and your life? a. we are trees in the forests. b. we like the living things in the forest. c. we need farmers to grow our food in the forest. d. we are the same as the forest: we need each other to live on. (c)what are your predictions for the future? futurologists(未来学家) predict that life will probably be very different in 2050. first of all, tv channels will disappear in 2050. instead, people will choose programs from a “menu” and a computer will send the programs to the television. we will be able to smell and touch the things on television. sadly, water will become one of our most serious problems. the demand for water will increase by ten times, and there will be serious shortages. in transportation, we will use new, clean fuels(燃料) in cars, and cars will run faster. the computers in cars will control the speed and there wont be any accidents. robots will work in factories instead of people. they will work 24 hours a day. by 2050, we will see robots everywhere in factories, schools, offices, hospitals, shops and houses.last but not least, medicine technology will cure many diseases. by 2050, we will be able to help some disabled people see and hear again. ( )59. how many ideas does the passage have about the future?a. 3. b. 4. c. 5.d. 6. ( )60. according to the futurologists, what will not exist（存在） in 2050?a. robots. b. new fuels. c. water. d. tv channels.( )61. the underlined word “shortage” means “_” in chinese. a. 缺少 b. 缺点 c. 缺陷 d. 缺席 ( )62. according to the passage, people will _ in 2050.a. cure cancers b. not have accidents c. work 24 hours a day d. have more water to drink (d)one morning in 1973, mr. goldman opened a grocery store（杂货店）in oklahoma city. mr. goldmans neighbor, mrs. hope, walked by.“good morning, mrs. hope,”he said. mrs. hope just smiled. she was paying attention to the full shopping basket she was carrying. the basket was very heavy because she had put so much food in it.that was when mr. goldman had a great idea： a shopping basket on wheels （轮子）. then his customers wouldnt have to carry the heavy basket. shopping would become easier, and more customers would prefer to shop at his store.before long goldman had some shopping carts（手推车） made. however, on the first day none of his customers used the carts. goldman was a little disappointed. but he didnt give up. he knew he needed to show his customers how easy it is to use the shopping carts. so the next day he asked some people to come and wheel the carts around his shop and pretend to buy things.“how did it go today？”mrs. goldman asked when her husband came home from work.“great!”he said.“when my customers saw people using the carts, they realized how much easier it would be to shop with them, so they all started using the carts. whats more, they filled the carts with more groceries than they ever did with the baskets. im going to be a rich man soon. so are my new shopping carts!”( )63what did mrs. hope do when mr. goldman greeted her？a、she smiled and then said hello to him.b、she just smiled but said nothing to him.c、she stopped putting more food in the basket.d、she dropped her shopping basket.( )64what made mr. goldman want to invent the shopping cart？a、that she wanted to open a grocery store.b. that mrs. goldman told him to do that.c . that he wanted to save money on baskets.d. that he saw mrs. hope carrying a heavy basket.( )65who used the shopping carts on the first day？ano one. bmrs. goldman. cmrs. hope. dmr. hope.( )66how did mr. goldman feel about his shopping carts on the second day？ahappy. bdisappointed. csad. dnervous(e) every year, many foreign students go to america to study english. some of them will live in an american family, but others will make a different decision, theyll live with friends who come from their own country, i believe that if a foreign student thinks carefully about the two ways, hell decide to live with an american family. even though there are one or two disadvantages(不利之处) to the first way, there are far more advantages. in making his decision about how to live in the usa, the foreign student is careful to think about one or two disadvantages to live with an american family. first of all, he must know that hes going to feel homesick(想家的) at first. living in an american family may make this feeling become stronger. also, the american family may do too much to take care of him. they may ask him where hes going, when he leaves home, and when hell return. if a foreign student lives in an american home, hell know the country and its people much better. for example, hell see how the parents teach their children. hell feel better because the american family will help him get used to a new life. in an american family, he can learn english fast. family members can help him with his homework. when he speaks english, they can help him correct (改正) the mistakes he makes. in this way, he can learn english more easily. although there are some disadvantages to live in an american family, there are more advantages.( ) 67.which of the following isnt seen as advantages in living with an american family?a. the student may know the country better.b. the family may do much to look after him.c. the student can learn english fast. d. the student can get some help from the family.( ) 68.what is the best title of the text?a. living with an american family.b. getting to know america better.c. making english better with the help of an american family.d. two ways of living in the usa.( )69.the two ways of living in the usa for foreign students in the text are_.a. living with a