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北京市西城区九年级模拟测试试卷
英 语
2024. 5
考 生 须 知
1. 本试卷共11页, 共两部分, 共38题。满分60分。考试时间90分钟。
2. 在试卷和草稿纸上准确填写姓名、准考证号、考场号和座位号。
3. 试题答案一律填涂或书写在答题卡上, 在试卷上作答无效。
4. 在答题卡上, 选择题用2B铅笔作答, 其他试题用黑色字迹签字笔作答 5. 考试结束, 请将本
试卷、答题卡和草稿纸一并交回。
第一部分
本部分共33题, 共40分。在每题列出的四个选项中, 选出最符合题目要求的一项。
一、单项填空(每题0. 5分, 共6分)
从下面各题所给的 A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. Tom and Mike are very kind. We like _______ very much.
A. him B. her C. us D. them
2. We start our first class _______ 8:00 in the morning.
A. on B. in C. at D. for
3. We have to hurry up, _______ we will be late for the talent show.
A. and B. but C. so D. or
4. —Mum, may I go to the cinema this Saturday?
—Of course you ________, but finish your homework first.
A. must B. can C. should D. might
5. Technology has made our life _________ than before.
A. convenient B. more convenient
C. most convenient D. the most convenient
6. —______ are tickets for two adults and one child?
—$15.
A. How far B. How often C. How much D. How soon
7. Now, some of our classmates ________ basketball on the playground. Let’s join them.
A. are playing B. have played C. were playing D. played
8. We _______ for a picnic if the weather stays nice tomorrow.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司A. will go B. go C. have gone D. went
9. Dad ________ dinner when I arrived home.
.
A cooks B. is cooking C. was cooking D. will cook
10. My grandparents’ hometown _________ a lot since they moved away.
A. changes B. was changing C. will change D. has changed
11. The Dragon Boat Festival ________ in late May or June every year.
A. celebrates B. celebrated
C. is celebrated D. was celebrated
12. —I missed the last English class. Could you tell me _________?
—Yes. We talked about world food culture.
A. what did you discuss B. what you discussed
C. what are you going to discuss D. what you are going to discuss
二、完形填空(每题1分, 共8分)
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A 、B 、C 、D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Billy and his classmates were busy preparing for the end-of-year play under the guidance of Miss Tompkins,
their drama teacher.
Billy did the sound effects. He worked hard during rehearsals (彩排). As the actors and actresses spoke their
lines, Billy___13___ them in his head. He also noted the action cues (提示). He needed to make sure the right sound
effect came at the right time.
Everything was going ___14___until, just two days before the performance, Billy came home with bad news.
“Grandad, Anthony broke his arm while practicing his bike jump on his way home.”
“Oh, I’m sorry to hear that.”
“He’ll make a full recovery. But by losing Anthony, we now don’t have a main character, the Keymaster. Miss
Tompkins says we might have to___15___ the play. You know, after all that hard work, rehearsals, artwork, lights
…”
Billy and Grandad fell silent, thinking about the situation.
After a few minutes, Grandad broke the___16___, “I know—” he said. “Each evening that you’ve come back
from rehearsals, you always recite (背诵) the lines. You must know them all by now. Why don’t you play the
Keymaster?”
“Because I can’t do it. ”
“How do you know unless you___17___? It doesn’t matter how well you do, as everyone will be on your side
and cheer you on.”
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司“Yeah. Maybe I should give it a go,” Billy said.
The next day, Billy told Miss Tompkins about his ___18___.
“Well, Billy, that’s fantastic!” Miss Tompkins smiled. “And I will take over sound effect responsibilities.”
The performance turned out to be a success and Billy did a great job. At the close of the performance, Miss
Tompkins congratulated everyone, “Well done. Everyone did so well. I especially congratulate Billy for stepping in
at such short notice. I know Anthony would have made a wonderful Keymaster—as I saw from rehearsals—but Billy
really did ___19___the day.”
With everyone cheering loudly, Billy felt as if he were flying. He liked the feeling and was so___20___ that he had
done it. He now believed that he could do more than he thought.
13. A. tested B. repeated C. guessed D. crossed
14. A. secretly B. slowly C. separately D. smoothly
15. A. review B. write C. see D. cancel
16. A. silence B. words C. arms D. limit
17. A. rush B. focus C. try D. wait
18. A. trouble B. idea C. mistake D. progress
19. A. save B. celebrate C. start D. miss
20. A. nervous B. interested C. pleased D. sorry
三 、阅读理解(每题2分, 共26分)
(一)
A
阅读下列餐厅介绍，请根据人物需求匹配最适合的餐厅，并将其对应的 A、B 、C 、D选项填在相应的
位置上。选项中有一项为多余选项。
A B
If you like hot pot (火锅), this restaurant is a Don’t leave the city without trying the roast
must. It gets fresh meat and vegetables duck. This restaurant is famous and has a long
delivered every day. There are more than 10 history. If you order the whole roast duck, the
choices of soup bases to pick from, and the skilled chef (主厨) serves it up in an artistic
chicken soup is one of the best in the city. way in front of your table. A nice outdoor
The restaurant is perfect for get-togethers. seating area is provided in summer and fall.
C D
If you are hungry late at night, this 24-hour If you are a seafood lover, pay this restaurant a
Cantonese restaurant can help. It has many visit. It specializes in Lu dishes. Seafood takes
snacks and dumplings to choose from. Many center stage here and the most popular dish is
dumplings have a seafood filling. The sweet and sour carp (鲤鱼). The restaurant
restaurant also serves favorites such as pays much attention to freshness, so you will
wonton noodles and spring rolls. never regret eating here.
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(二)阅读下列短文, 根据短文内容, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选 项中, 选择最佳
选项。
B
For as long as I can remember, I’ve always been in the middle. I’m the middle child in my family. I’ve always
sat in the middle of the classroom at school. Even my first and last names, Miguel Martinez, start with an M—the
middle letter of the alphabet. Luckily, I’m also in the middle of a large circle of friends.
However, starting middle school in September brought me a painful change. All of my closest friends went to
a different middle school, leaving me alone. The only classmate I know from my old school is Jake, who is good at
math. But since it’s not my favorite subject, we never became friends.
By the end of October, Jake and I became good friends. It happened because I was so hopeless when trying to
do my math homework. I hated math—especially fractions (分数). So, one day, I turned to Jake after school. To my
surprise, Jake not only knew my name but was also willing to help me.
That night, Jake and I studied math together. He used pieces of a pizza to explain fractions, and by the end of
the night, I finally understood!
The next day in class, I was even able to answer one of the math problems. My math teacher was surprised
when I raised my hand, and guess what—so was I!
The other day, our math teacher gave us a math brainteaser (谜题). She asked, “If you were to write all the
numbers from one to one hundred, how many times would you write a nine?” The question was harder than it
seemed.
All of our classmates were wrong. Jake and I were the only ones with the correct answer! After that, more and
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司more classmates wanted to study math with us.
Jake and I plan to hang out together during winter break. It won’t just be the two of us, since all my new
friends from middle school will go with us to the Math Museum downtown. Though I now see math differently,
some things haven’t changed. I’m still in the middle of a large circle of friends!
24. How did Miguel feel when he started middle school?
A. Lucky. B. Surprised. C. Lonely. D. Tired.
.
25 Miguel changed his attitude towards math because _________.
A. Jake helped him to get better at it
B. his teacher taught him math with a pizza
C. he won first prize in the math competition
D. his friends advised him to do more exercises
26. At the end of the story, Miguel ________.
.
A finds pleasure in different subjects
B. enjoys the company of his new friends
C. plans to go abroad during winter break
D. solves his problems at the Math Museum
C
A 2, 000-year mystery (谜) has moved one step closer to being solved. AI software developed by researchers
has successfully deciphered (辨读) the text from a burnt scroll (卷轴) found in the remains of an ancient Roman
building in Italy. This could help us better understand the ancient world.
In the centuries after the scrolls were discovered, many people have tried to open them, but ended up
destroying some of them. Brent Seales, a computer scientist, has been trying to read these hidden texts for nearly 20
years. His team developed software to read the surface of scrolls using 3D CT images (图像). As the results were
not satisfactory, they wondered whether machine-learning models might be trained to read the scrolls But making
sense of all the information was a huge task for his small team.
Luckily, in March 2023, the Vesuvius Challenge was introduced, offering a large prize to researchers
worldwide. Researchers were asked to decipher four passages, of at least 140 characters each, before the end of the
year.
The key to the challenge’s success was the mix of competition and cooperation (合作), with Seales doing his
part by sharing his software and images online. Smaller prizes were presented along the way to encourage progress,
with the winning machine- learning algorithm (算法) shared at each stage to “level up” the community, so
competitors could build on each other’s progress.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司The turning point came in the middle of last year, when physicist Casey Handmer noticed something that
seemed to form the shapes of Greek letters—he called it “crackle”. In late October, an American university student
studying computer science used the crackle to train a machine-learning algorithm, uncovering the word porphyras,
“purple”. This won him the prize for discovering the first letters. An Egyptian student, who followed with even
clearer images of the text, came second. At last, the two young researchers together with a Swiss student worked
out over 2, 000 characters from one scroll, sharing the $700, 000 prize.
The text of the already-opened scrolls is related to Greek philosophy (哲学), and researchers are likely to find
more of the same in the scrolls. Also, the machine-learning techniques pioneered by researchers can now be used to
study other types of hidden text. The progress suggested the future decipherment of the hundreds of scrolls that had
been given up on before. The real gains are still ahead of us.
27. The Vesuvius Challenge was set up to __________.
A. raise more money to develop AI software
B. attract scientists to find more burnt scrolls
C. collect more information on 3D technology
D. involve more people in deciphering the scrolls
28. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Casey Handmer won first prize for discovering the word “purple”.
B. Researchers volunteered to teach students to read the hidden texts.
C. Sharing among competitors helped to make the challenge successful.
D. Different machine-learning models were trained to write Greek letters.
29. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. AI unlocks secrets of 2,000-year-old scrolls
B. Young adults take the lead in AI development
C. Technology awakens curiosity about philosophy
D. Big prizes bring about technological achievements
D
The popularity of self-help books and happiness workshops shows our constant desire (不变的渴望) to make
life better. But could it be that many of our lives are already better than we recognize?
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司While we may have a loving family, a good place to live, and a worthwhile job, we often fail to notice those
things. It’s not because we are unthankful or stupid. It’s because of a basic characteristic of our brain, known as
habituation.
Habituation is the process in which neurons (神经元) fire less and less in response (反应) to things that are
constant. You enter a room filled with roses and after a short while, you cannot catch the pleasant smell any longer.
And just as you get used to the smell, you also get used to a loving relationship, to a nice home, to a beautiful work
of art. Your brain cares about what recently changed, not about what remained the same. And so, what once took
your breath away becomes part of life’s furniture. You habituate to it—you fail to respond to what you used to find
attractive.
The good news is that you can dishabituate. The key is taking small breaks from your daily life. For example
,
when people return home from a long business trip, they often find their normal life has “resparkled”. Time
away, however short, will enable you to see your life with fresh eyes. Similarly, you can change your environment
using your imagination. Create a clear picture of life in your mind, but without your home, your job, or your family.
This small act might make you feel lucky about what you have.
Why, though, have we evolved (进化) a brain that gets less and less pleasure from good things that are
constant? Wouldn’t it be great if you wondered at your job or house just as you did at the very beginning?
Maybe, or maybe not. Habituation to the good drives you to move forward and progress. If you did not
experience habituation, you would be satisfied with less, which means you would have reduced motivation (动力)
to learn, to develop, and to change.
A balance must be found here. On the one hand, without habituation, we may not have ended up with the
technological development and great works of art we do. But on the other hand, habituation can lead us to be
unsatisfied, bored, and restless. Perhaps then, rather than focusing completely on how to better our life, we need to
also learn how to see our life better—to notice the great things we have habituated to a little bit more.
30. What do we know from Paragraphs 2 and 3?
A. It’s not always easy for us to get used to new things.
B. We need to pay more attention to our work and family life.
C. We’re more likely to notice something bad over something good.
D. Our brain responds less to something after repeated presentations.
31. The word “resparkled” in Paragraph 4 most probably means
.
A stayed the same day by day B. suddenly seemed amazing again
C. returned to a boring condition D. completely changed in a short time
32. From the passage, we learn that _________.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司A. dishabituation may lead us to be unthankful for what we have
B. habituation to the good may decrease our satisfaction with life
C. we cannot dishabituate without moving away from our environment
D. we hardly have motivation to go from good to great when habituation sets in
33. What's the writer’s main purpose of writing this passage?
A. To motivate us to make great progress in daily life.
B. To suggest keeping a balance between life and work.
C. To stress the importance of experiencing habituation.
D. To remind us that our life may be better than we think.
第二部分
本部分共5题, 共20分。根据题目要求, 完成相应任务。
四、阅读表达(34—36题, 每题2分；37题4分。共10分)
My biggest regret in 2023 was my relationship with my smartphone. The screen time report showed I spent
more than five hours a day on it. While some of the time was for activities that enrich my life or are unavoidable:
work, family messages, reading the news and staying in touch with friends, the total amount troubled me deeply
flip phone.
In 2024, I made a big change—I traded my smartphone for a basic flip phone which can only make calls and
send text messages. I bought it online for only $30. At first I missed my smartphone. But as time passed, I got used
to the flip phone and even grew to like it. It is more durable since the screen is better protected and it doesn’t need
to be charged (充电) as often—it can last for over a week!
However, there are some limitations. To type a text message, I have to repeatedly press buttons (按钮) on the
keypad. Also, I can’t open Internet links on it, which means I’m missing out on the Internet and its countless
pleasures and benefits. Some people doubted I could manage without certain common apps, let alone having the
world’s knowledge at my fingertips.
True, not having the smartphone and its apps can be inconvenient at times. For example, one day, when I
visited a public charging station, I found that I couldn’t charge my electric car without using a smartphone app.
Additionally, I used to depend on online maps to go anywhere over 15 minutes away, but now I have to search for
directions beforehand and remember them.
Even with the challenges, I found it refreshing to disconnect from the Internet. In the past few months, I was
able to focus on the tasks, people, and world before my eyes instead of a phone screen. I read four books and spent
more time with my family.
I even noticed I’d lost the habit of checking my phone every now and then.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司“Our health is competing with many of these services and companies that are fighting for our time, energy and
attention,” said Matthew Buman, a professor at Arizona State University. I told him about my solution — a basic
flip phone. He said it probably made my mind feel more free and feel as if I had more time, but that “in our society,
it’s hard to keep that in the long term.”
34. How much time did the writer spend on the smartphone every day in 2023?
_________________________________________________
35. According to Paragraph 2, what change did the writer make in 2024?
_________________________________________________
36. What trouble did the writer have at a public charging station one day?
_________________________________________________
37. Would you like to follow the writer’s example? Why or why not? (Please give two reasons.)
_________________________________________________
五、文段表达(10分)
从下面两个题目中任选一题, 根据所给提示, 完成一篇不少于50词的英语 文段写作。文中已
给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不 要写出你的校名和姓名。
题目①
38. 假设你是李华。你校将开展“旧物漂流”主题校园活动，旨在重现闲置物品的价值。校学生会现
向全体学生征集相关物品，如：教材、练习册、文具、玩具和校服等。作为校英语广播站站长，请你用英
文写一篇广播稿，说明此次活动的目的，告知同学们需要做什么前期准备，号召大家踊跃参加。
提示词语：reuse, donate (捐赠), benefit, collect, textbooks
提示问题：● Why should we hold this activity?
● What preparations should we make?
Dear schoolmates,
I’m giving this speech to call on you to donate the things you don’t need.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司Looking forward to your support.
题目②
39. 假设你是李华。毕业临近，你班正在制作毕业纪念册。每位同学将会在英文寄语区写下最想对同
学们说的一句话。请你准备一份英语发言稿，在英语课上分享你的寄语，并谈谈你写这句话的原因。
提示词语： thank, love, friendship, proud, wish
提示问题： ●What would you say?
●Why would you say it?
I would say…
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