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2021-2022 学年北京市人大附中九年级（上）期中
英语试卷
知识运用（共16分）
一、单项选择。（共8分, 每小题1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. Mary’s birthday is coming. We’ve decided to make a cake for ________.
A. him B. her C. you D. them
2. Space Day of China falls ________ April 24th every year.
A. on B. by C. at D. in
3. —Sam, ________ I join you in the community service?
—Of course you can.
A. can B. must C. should D. need
4. — Hi, Mary. Did you have fun last night?
— Well, yes and no. The weather was terrible but we _______ the concert.
A. enjoy B. enjoyed C. will enjoy D. are enjoying
5. —Peter, what are you doing?
—Oh, I ________ a report about national heroes.
A. will write B. am writing C. wrote D. have written
6. My grandma ________ watch TV at home after supper. But now she always goes for a walk.
A. used to B. didn’t used to C. are used to D. was used to
7. Today, the Spring Festival ________ in many Asian countries.
A. celebrated B. has celebrated C. is celebrated D. is celebrating
8. —Could you please tell me ________?
—Next Thursday morning.
A. when we visited the Capital Museum B. when did we visit the Capital Museum
C. when we will visit the Capital Museum D. when will we visit the Capital Museum
二、完形填空（共8分, 每空1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.
,
When most of us get a text message（短信）on our cell phone from an unknown person we usually say
“sorry, wrong number.” and move on. But when Dennis Williams received a text that clearly wasn’t intended for
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司him, he did something ___9___.
On March 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn’t know were at the hospital,
waiting for the ___10___ of a baby.
,
“Congratulations! But I think someone was mistaken ” Denis replied. The baby was born and update texts
were coming in quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa. In her ___11___, she didn’t seem to realize that
she was sharing the baby’s photos with a complete stranger.
“Well, I don’t know you all but I will get there to take pictures with the baby,” replied Dennis before asking
which room the new ___12___ were in.
Dennis stuck to his promise! He ___13___ at the hospital bringing gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her
baby boy. Lindsey’s husband was really surprised by the unexpected visits. “I don’t think we would have randomly
invited him over but we appreciated it and the gifts.”
Teresa ___14___ a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website; accompanied by the
touching words: “What a blessing this young man was to our family! He was so ___15___ and kind to do this.”
The post has since gained the ___16___ of social media users all over the world, receiving more than 184, 000
shares and 61, 500 likes in just three days.
9. A. strange B. special C. necessary D. harmful
10. A. change B. recovery C. growth D. arrival
11. A. disappointment B. worry C. excitement D. effort
12. A. parents B. doctors C. patients D. visitors
13. A. made B. showed C. gave D. looked
14. A. found B. chose C. developed D. posted
15. A. smart B. calm C. sweet D. fair
16. A. belief B. attention C. control D. trust
三、阅读理解（共34分）
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。
（共24分, 每空2分）
A
Below is a housing guide for students going to London.
University accommodation（住所） office
Many university accommodation offices have their own lists of registered landlords （房东）. The advantage
of using them is that you can get some support if you have a problem. But they are unlikely to have enough
registered landlords to house all their students.
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司Accommodation companies
They usually have a large number of accommodations. A good company can save your time in looking for the
right accommodation quickly.
Notice boards
Around the universities you will find a number of notice boards. These will either be from landlords or from
students. Some universities also have online notice boards where students can advertise to other students.
Word of mouth
Some of the best housing in London is never advertised but is passed on from one group of students to another
by word of mouth.
Loot
Loot offers information about private housing for co-renters. The advantage of using Loot is that there are
some good bargains（特价房）.
17. How many ways of housing offer can you find in the text?
A. Three. B. Four. C. Five. D. Six.
18. If you want to get the right house quickly, you’d better go for ________.
A. the Loot B. the university notice boards
C. a good accommodation company D. the university accommodation office
19. What is the advantage of using Loot?
.
A You can save your time. B. There are some good bargains.
C. There are many online notice boards. D. You can get support if you have problems.
B
I bought a jasmine plant for my office. When I bought it, I was told it would bloom（开花） and the sweet smell
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司would fill my office. I had the plant for two months, and every day I looked at it, but there weren't any flowers or
pleasant smell. I was not happy, so I gave the plant to my friend Linda.
One day, another friend Mary called and invited me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised
me. I reached out to touch the flowers. Mary cut some and gave them to me. I couldn't help smelling them.
Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly understood something.
Mary bought her plant the same time I did. It took a year for her jasmine to bloom. I was so impatient for mine to
bloom; regretfully, I gave it away.
In a way my life is like the jasmine plant. I need to be patient and let things happen.
Last Sunday Linda told me that she was going abroad the next week. Before she left, she returned the plant to me.
This time I am going to wait. I have learned that when we want something in our life, we have to be patient. I am
slowly learning to have that patience to wait for my jasmine to bloom.
20. Before she gave the jasmine away, the writer had it for .
A. one day B. one year C . two weeks C. two months
21. When the writer saw Mary's jasmine, she felt____________ .
A. unhappy B. peaceful C. hopeful D. surprised
22. What has the writer learned from her experience?
A. Patience is needed in life.
B. Flowers can make life better.
C. Friendship is necessary for us.
D. Jasmine can be a wonderful plant.
C
When we think of leadership, we often think of strength and power. But what are these really and how do they
operate?
Leadership today is not about forcing others to do things. If this is even possible it is short-term, an tends to
backfire. If you order someone to do something against their will, they may do it because they feel they must, but
the anger they feel will do more harm in the long-term. They will also experience fear.
Fear causes the thinking brain to shut down, making the person unable to function at his or her best. If they
associate (联系) you with this emotion of fear, they will become less functional around you, and you will have
succeeded in not only shooting yourself in the foot, but possibly making a very good employee or partner unable to
perform effectively. Fear has no place in leadership.
The way we influence people in a lasting way is by our own character, and our understanding and use of
emotion. We can order someone to do something which may be part of the work day; or we can employ them at the
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司emotional level, so they became fully devoted to the projects and provide some of their own motivation. Today’s
work place is all about relationships. Anyone works harder in a positive environment in which they’re recognized
and valued as a human being as well as a worker. Everyone produces just a bit more for someone they like. Good
leaders usually understand the way things work. They know the pay check is not the single most encouraging factor
(因素) in the work life of most people.
The true strength of leadership is an inner strength that comes from the confidence of emotional intelligence—
knowing your own emotions, and how to handle them, and those of others. Developing your emotional intelligence
is the single best thing you can do if you want to develop your relationships with people around you, which is the
key to the leadership skills.
23. The underlined phrase “shooting yourself in the foot” means ________ in this passage.
A. to walk in a right direction B. to make progress in work
.
C to hurt others by stepping their feet D. to harm one’s own interests
24. An employee may have a feeling of fear in the work place when ________.
A. he cannot work at his best B. he is forced to do things
C. he is unwilling to do things and criticized D. he shuts down his brains and his head goes blank
25. To positively influence employees, a leader should first of all ________.
A. develop his own personality so that he can have high emotional level
B. provide better suggestions to make his employees have the emotional intelligence
C. give his employees a pay raise in order to please them
D. hide his own emotion of fear to set a good example for his employees
D
Suppose we built a robot to explore the planet Mars. We provide the robot with seeing detectors（探测器）
to keep it away from danger. It is powered entirely by the sun. Should we program the robot to be equally active at
all times? No, the robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any. So we would probably
program it to stop its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning.
According to evolutionary（进化的） theory of sleep, evolution equipped us humans with a regular pattern
of sleeping and waking for the same reason. The theory does not deny that sleep provides some important
restorative（促使恢复的） functions. It only says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at
a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous. However, sleep protects us only from the sort of
trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us. So we sleep well when
we are in a familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent.
The evolutionary theory explains the differences in sleep among animals. Why do cats, for instance, sleep so
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司much, while horses sleep so late? Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horses do.
But cats can afford to have long periods of inactivity because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be
attacked while they sleep. Horses must spend almost all their waking hours eating, because what they cat is very
low in energy value. Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival depends
on their ability to run away from attackers.
26. The author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us ________.
A. the differences between robots and humans B. the reason why we humans need to sleep
C. about the need for robots to save power D. about the importance of humans working at night
27. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Sleeping helps us keep up an irregular pattern life.
B. Sleeping prevents trouble that comes looking for him.
C. We might sleep more sound in our own bedroom than in the tent in the wild.
D. Cats spend more time sleeping because they need more repair and restoration.
.
28 What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking.
B. Evolutionary theory of sleep plays the key role in improving the sleeping quality.
C. Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots.
D. The sleeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eats.
四、阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分, 每空2分）
阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
Do you like playing video games when you have free time? Lots of people do. There are many types of video
games. Some people like action games. Others like driving games. But the most popular game of all is a puzzle
game.
Tetris (俄罗斯方块) is a game about making lines. Blocks fall from the top of the screen. They fall one at a
time. The player moves the blocks. Once the blocks hit the bottom, they are locked in place. Players try to make
lines go across the screen with no gaps (缺口). Complete lines disappear, which gives players more room. The
blocks pile up during the game. The game ends when the blocks get to the top of the screen.
A man named Alexey made Tetris in 1984 while working at a science academy (学院) in Moscow, Russia.
Alexey named his game after tetra and tennis. The word “tetra” means four. So all the piece in Tetris have four
blocks.
Alexey made his game on a screen that only showed letters. He could not use blocks. The blocks were made
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司out of letters in the first game of Tetris. Still, all Alexey’s friends loved his game. It was easy to learn and fun to
play.
Soon the game spread across the world, which was on every computer. It came with every one of Nintendo’s
Game Boy. More than 100 million Game Boys were sold. Tetris was all over the place. Even today Tetris comes
with many phones.
Dr Richard Haier who has studied Tetris players ran many tests. He found that playing Tetris improved mind
and thinking activity. I agree with this finding. Now go and play some Tetris. It’s just what the doctor orders.
29. What is Tetris?
________________________________________
30. Why did all Alexey’s friends love his game?
________________________________________
31. How many Game Boys were sold?
________________________________________
32. According to Dr. Richard, what were the benefits of playing Tetris?
________________________________________
33. What is the second paragraph mainly talking about?
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五、文段表达。（共10分）
34. 正是秋高气爽时，也是出游的最佳季节。我们年级计划去郊外（countryside） 旅游，假如你是李
华，Peter是来自友好学校的交流生。请给Peter发一封邮件，诚挚邀请他参加我们年级的秋游。请结合以
下问题和提示词语展开邮件的内容：
要求：根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的
校名和姓名。
提示词语：weather, scenery, pick, relax, nature
提示问题：
1. When and where will you meet?
2. Why is autumn the best season to go outing and what are your plans for it?
3. Why do you have this activity?
Dear peter,
I feel highly honored to invite you to our autumn outing.
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Yours,
Li Hua
35. 进入初三以来，我们的学习更紧张了，但是你依旧从容应对，这和你的自律是分不开的。假如你
是李华，请你以“自律”为题，谈谈在过去这两个月，你是如何让自己在学习上自律的，以及这样做给你带
来的好处。
要求：根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50 词的文段写作。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你
的校名和姓名。
提示词语： self-disciplined （自律的）, listen carefully, finish homework, habit , make progress
提示问题：
1. What did you do to be self-disciplined in study?
2. What benefits have you got by doing so?
Self-discipline plays an important role in my study.
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