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北京市文汇中学 2022—2023 学年九年级上学期期中考试
英语试卷
一、单项填空共 6 分,每小题 0.5 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. My aunt lives in a big city, but ________ spends most of the weekends on a farm.
A. he B. it C. she D. they
2. Both my parents were born ______ 1970.
A. at B. in C. on D. to
3. Hurry up, ______ you will miss the plane.
A. and B. but C. so D. or
.
4 —________ do you volunteer in the care home?
—Once a week.
A. How much B. How long C. How often D. How far
5. We have a lovely room. It's one of ________ in the hotel.
A. nice B. nicer C. nicest D. the nicest
6. —Can you ride a horse?
—No, I _______.
A. needn’t B. may not C. can’t D. mustn’t
7. Paul and I ______ tennis yesterday. He did much better than I.
A. play B. will play C. played D. are playing
8. Where's Tom? His mother ______ him now.
A. is looking for B. will look for
C. has looked for D. looks for
9. My aunt is a writer. She ______ more than ten books since 1980.
A. writes B. wrote C. has written D. will write
10. I will send you an e-mail as soon as I ________ in Canada.
A. arrive B. arrived
C. am arriving D. will arrive
11. Many accidents ______ by careless drivers last year.
A. are caused B. were caused C. have caused D. will cause
12. —Could you tell me ________?—Sure, we will go to the Nanhaizi Park.
A. where we had the picnic B. where we will have the picnic
C. where will we have the picnic D. where did we have the picnic
二、完形填空 共 8 分, 每小题 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。
阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A, B, C, D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
After school on Friday, I waited at the school gate to walk home with Jemma as usual. Then I saw her talking
and laughing happily with some other girls, She glanced(瞥了一眼)at me and left me alone there. I knew right
then that I had ___13___ my best friend.
After dinner, Mom asked, “Is Jemma coming by tomorrow?” I shrugged(耸肩)and said nothing. The next
morning, Mom asked, “Today is ___14___. What are you and Jemma going to do?” I shrugged again. “How is
Jemma?” Mom took a look at me. Then she said, “Will you take these magazines to Grandma, please?” As I walked
down the street a new girl in the neighborhood came towards me, smiling. But I just went ___15___ her. Grandma
welcomed me at the door with a warm hug.
Sitting on the sofa, I noticed a(n) ___16___ of kids in old-fashioned clothes on the table. Grandma
___17___ at a girl with short fair hair. “That’s Beth Lambert” she said, “My best friend. Until a week before we
took this photo” I was surprised at that, “Beth and I were best friends on school. We did everything together. Then
one day, she made new friends and she didn’t want to hang out with me any mere. Nothing ___18___ more than
that.” I didn’t say anything. I couldn’t. I knew I’d start crying if I opened my mouth.
Grandma hugged me again. “Simone, sometimes friends grow ___19___. It might happen to anyone,” the
continued. “Then, see him?” Grandma’s finger moved to a boy with glasses in the photo. “He lived near me. When
I was walking home by myself. I said ‘hello’ to him. And we became friends.”
“So if we want to start a new friendship,” she smiled, “One ___20___ is all it took.”
,
As I was heading home that new girl appeared again. I went toward her and spoke “Hello”.
13. A. lost B. made C. hurt D. forgotten
14. A. Monday B. Friday C. Saturday D. Sunday
15. A. to B. for C. against D. past
16. A. card B. photo C. poster D. advertisement
17. A. shouted B. smiled C. carried D. pointed
18. A. hurt B. encouraged C. moved D. helped
19. A. old B. separate C. strong D. close20. A. hug B. smile C. word D. question
三、 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 26 分,每小题 2 分.
Since I entered middle school, I have always wanted to become a
translator. I can translate Chinese into English so that people in other
countries can enjoy Chinese poems and stories.
Becoming a translator isn’t easy. It takes great patience and
confidence. I hope that I will be able to go to college and become a
real translator some day.
Susan
My dream is to become a successful doctor, helping those sick
people and saving their lives. I hope everyone can have an
opportunity（机会）to receive wonderful treatments for their
illnesses without having to pay much. It is my childhood dream.
In order to achieve my dream, I need enough knowledge and
experience, so I work hard to improve myself.
Jack
I love to become a great Fashion Designer. Fashion designing is
so much of fun and creative. If I design a costume and have my
signature（签名）on it, the recognition I achieve will go worldwide.
Fashion designing does require lots of study and research and I
need to be myself unique（独特的）. I must work hard to be ready
for the competitions and challenges.
Anna
My dream is to be a, lawyer. Some people think lawyers are
simply out for money but I believe lawyers have a desire（愿
望）to help others, especially those who are unable to defend（维
护）themselves.
I know becoming a successful lawyer will take much preparation
and hard work. I am willing to do what it takes to make my dream
come true.
David
21. Whose dream is to be a doctor?
A. Susan’s. B. Jack’s. C. Anna’s. D. David’s.
22. What does David desire to do?A. To help others in defending. B. To be unique worldwide.
C. To save people’s lives. D. To spread Chinese culture.
23. Susan needs to be ________ to make her dream come true.
A. patient and confident B. creative and funny
C. knowledgeable and experienced D. helpful and careful
The power of the wind
Light winds help us fly kites in spring and cool us in summer. Strong winds take away people’s lives. Winds
can be friendly or dangerous. They can also work for us.
Wind power is not new. Five thousand years ago, the Chinese first used windmills（风车）. In 700 A.D., the
Syrians and Persians used them too. In the seventeenth century, the people of the Netherlands built windmills to get
seawater. Now we can use the wind to make electricity.
In many countries, wind turbines（风力发电机）are everywhere. A group of turbines is called a wind farm.
Wind energy has several advantages. One advantage is that there will always be wind. Wind power is also
clean. It doesn’t make air pollution. Farmers like wind power because electric companies pay them to use their
land. And they can still grow crops and keep animals on their farms.
Wind power also has some disadvantages. One is that turbines are expensive, although the cost has gone down
these years. A second disadvantage is noise pollution. This was a greater problem in the past. Today, if you stand
under a turbine, you hear only a soft sound. You won’t hear turbines at all 100 meters away. For some people, a
third disadvantage is visual（视觉的）pollution, but other people like to see turbines turning together.
Today, wind power is growing fast. A lot of countries get their energy from wind. Denmark gets 20% of its
energy from wind. China is going to get 26% of its energy from wind in 2030. Perhaps one day, all countries will
use this safe, clean energy to make electricity.
24. China is going to get 26% of its energy from wind ________.
A. in 2020 B. in 2030 C. in 2040 D. in 2050
25. According to the passage, how many advantages does wind energy have? ________
A. 2. B. 3. C. 4. D. 5.
26. Which of the following is true? ________A. The cost of wind turbines is getting lower.
B. You won’t hear the sound of turbines at all.
.
C Wind energy causes visual pollution badly.
D. Every country makes good use of wind energy.
When watching sports events, we often notice athletes wearing earphones on while preparing in the locker
room or entering the stadium. They keep their eyes shut, and gently nod along the beats. It seems the music is
giving them power and cheering them up for the competition. We sometimes do the same. You might have a list of
favorite songs for your morning exercises. But is there any science behind such practices?
According to a recent research, it turns out there is. Music actually does make us feel powerful, but not all
songs have the same effect.
The research was led by Dennis Hsu of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwester University in the
US. His team had people listen to 31 songs of different types. The listeners felt powerful after listening to some
songs, such as Queen’s We Will Rock You and 2 Unlimited Get Ready for This.
Researchers also found that high-power music made people want to take control in social events and come
first in competition. That matters a lot in sports. “It’s commonly said that sports are 90 percent mental and only 10
,
percent physical ” The Huffington Post reported.
Great athletes know this idea well. NBA player Kobe Bryant, for example, often puts on big headphones and
even falls into deep thought to boost his game and reduce his anxiety.
As for the reason for music’s magical power, Hsu’s team came up with one possible explanation: when
people hear music that expresses a sense of power, they mimic（模拟） these feelings in their mind.
When choosing music, we also need to look at the type of music, according to researchers.
In previous research by the Music in Exercise and Sports Group at Brunei University in London, they found
that pop was perfect for slower, more repetitive-type tasks. If you’re warming up or cooling down after exercises,
pop songs are the correct choice.
Dance music was found to be best suitable to strength and weight training because it’s “fast and rhythmical
（有节奏感的）.”
During high-intensity（高强度的）workouts, though, you’d better not listen to rock. Its different changes in
tempo（节拍）can affect your rhythm.
27. What is the main purpose of the first paragraph? ________
A. To introduce favorite songs for morning exercises.
B. To lead in the topic that music matters in sports.C. To give an example of athletes’daily life.
D. To explain how to choose music.
28. According to the passage, Dennis Hsu probably agrees that ________.
A. listening to music always makes athletes relaxed
B. powerful music can make people produce similar feelings in their mind
C. the result of a game is mainly affected by the physical condition of the players
D. most athletes still don’t know the effects of high-power music on their performance
29. The underlined word “boost” in Paragraph 5 probably means ________.
A. control B. lose C. continue D. improve
30. What can we learn from the passage? ________
A. Pop music is a reasonable choice for high-intensity workouts.
B. Rock music helps people keep their rhythms when exercising.
C. People are advised to listen to pop music before and after exercise.
D. People should dance to music while doing strength and weight training.
Most of us fear failure. However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success
comes from the Latin succedere, meaning “to come after”. And what does success usually come after? Failure. It
seems that one cannot exist without the other.
Every failure-even the worst ones-helps us learn to do things differently in the future. “Learning from the
past mistakes and making changes helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully,” says mountaineer Pete
Athans, who has now reached the world’s highest peak (山峰) seven times.
Failure also reminds us that things can go wrong-sometimes with terrible results.
Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman to reach the top of all 14 of the world’s 8, 000-meter peaks
without extra oxygen (氧气). In 2007, while climbing in Nepal, she was in an avalanche (雪崩). She survived, but
two nearby Spanish climbers died. The experience taught Kaltenbrunner that no matter how prepared a person is,
bad things can still happen. But Kaltenbrunner decided she had to learn from her experience and move on.
Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are often reluctant to tell people that we are failures
because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. In the past ten years, some
scientific magazines-mostly in medicine-have published reports of failed experiments. The belief is that the science
community can also learn from “negative’ results and that this can finally lead to positive outcomes.
The business world already understands the value of negative results. Eli Lilly and Company has failure
parties to study data about medicine that doesn't work.
In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple’s biggest failures. However, Apple’s
CEO,
Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential (潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the
creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.
The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can
learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same
coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.
31. The writer writes Paragraph 2 and 3 mainly to ________.
A. show how bad things can become important lessons
B. tell us that it's possible for anyone to be successful
C. prove how bad things can happen in any situation
D. teach us what not to do when climbing mountains
32. The underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. unable B. unsure C. unwilling D. uninterested
33. What is the passage mainly about? ________
A. An attitude towards failure. B. The experience of success.
C. A difficult way to success. D. The rewards of failure.
四、 阅读短文, 根据短文内容回答问题。 共 10 分,每小题 2 分.
Chinese Fancy Knot
Chinese fancy knots, also called Chinese knots, refer to the traditional decorative knots in
Chinese culture. They began as a form of traditional art in the Tang and Song Dynasties in China and became
popular in the Ming Dynasty. Long ago, they found their way to Japan and other Southeast Asian countries, and
were well received.
Chinese Fancy Knots there. Now they are taken as one of the most classic symbols of Chinese culture. As
for the name itself, it is surely meaningful. The Chinese word for “knot”, jie, means “connection”. It is related to
lots of cultural ideas—marriage, brotherhood, reunion, etc. Meanwhile, the pronunciation of the Chinese word
jie is very close to that of ji, “good luck”. As a result, Chinese knots perfectly serve as a way to express people’s
strong wishes for good things like joy, love and good luck.Besides, the knots, widely existing in the everyday life of the Chinese culture, come in different sizes.
Small ones are connected to jewelry (珠宝), clothes, gift—packages and furniture in order to attract people’s
attention, while large ones are used to decorate a living room or study. Whether large or small, there are over a
dozen basic knot patterns (图案) named according to their shapes, usages or origins. For example, Double Coin
Knots are called shuangqian Jie because they are in the shape of two ancient Chinese coins, meaning “good
things come in pairs”. However, almost all the main styles of Chinese fancy knots are made up of two exactly
similar parts, and the patterns on the front and the back sides are also similar in every detail.
In addition, Chinese knots are famous for their bright colours. Each of the Chinese knots is made of a
single string of cotton, silk, gold or silver. But the colours of the strings are rich and have different traditional
cultural meanings. Among the most commonly used base colours, red means good luck and happiness, green
means health, and yellow, which was once known as a emperor’s colour, may means wealth and honour.
In brief, the famous Chinese fancy knots fully reflect (反映) the depth of Chinese culture. These brightly
coloured knots of different patterns, with their endless chains of knots, mean that life on earth will continue
forever.
34. When did Chinese fancy knots become popular? __________________
35. What does the Chinese character for “knot” mean? __________________
36. Why do people express strong wishes with Chinese knots? __________________
37. What are the main points about Chinese knots in Paragraph 3? __________________
38. What do Chinese fancy knots fully reflect? __________________
五、文段表达10分.
从下面两个题目中任选一题, 根据中文和英文提示, 完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。文中
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。
39. 假如你叫李华，是校学生会的成员，你们学校原定于本周六上午进行的郊游活动因天气原因取消，
改为参观首都博物馆。请你以学生会的名义拟一则英文通知，告知全校留学生取消郊游的原因；新的活动
安排；以及参观博物馆时应遵守的规则。
提示词语：the Capital Museum, take notes, touch, quiet…
提示问题：
• Why has the school canceled the trip?
• Where will you go instead?
• What are you going to do there?
•What rules should you follow in the museum?Notice
November 5th, 2022
Dear foreign students,
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__________________________________________________________________ .
Students’ Union
40. 掌握了正确的方法，做事往往能收到事半功倍的效果。反之，则会事倍功半。
某英文网站正在开展以“改进学习方法”为主题的征文活动。假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投
稿，谈谈你通过改进学习方法提高学习效果的一次经历，主要内容包括：你学习中遇到了什么问题，你是
如何通过改进方法解决这个问题的，效果如何。
提示词语：remember words, change, write, use, increase
提示问题：●What problem did you have in your study?
●How did you improve your ways of learning to solve the problem?
●What was the effect?
Proper ways of learning bring good results.
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