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北京市首都师范大学附属苹果园中学分校 2022-2023 学年
上学期九年级期中英语试卷
第I卷（选择题）
一、单选题（本大题共12小题, 共6.0分）
1. Miss Lin is very kind. ________ always helps people in need.
A. He B. She C. They D. It
2. Let’s meet ________ the bus stop after school and then go home together.
.
A at B. to C. of D. with
3. Grandpa is over 70 years old, ________ he still looks young.
A. but B. because C. so D. or
4. Unluckily, Mr Brown drove so _________ that his car crashed into a tree yesterday evening.
A. careless B. careful C. carefully D. carelessly
5. Look at the sign. You ________ take photos in this museum.
A. wouldn’t B. needn’t C. mustn’t D. couldn’t
6. My father is a tea lover. He often ________ tea after supper.
A. drinks B. was drinking C. will drink D. is drinking
7. The more you use the new words, the ________ learning English will be.
A. easy B. easier C. easiest D. easily
8. Both Chinese and English ________ by more people in the world than any other language today.
A. use B. are used C. was used D. used
9. Mr. Smith ________ in a panda protection center since 2001.
A. works B. has worked C. worked D. will work
10. I saw Lucy in the school hall. She ________ for her speech at that time.
A. prepares B. will prepare C. was preparing D. has prepared
11. Chinese spacecraft Chang’e 5 ______ into space on November 24th, 2020.
A. sends B. sent C. is sent D. was sent
12. —Do you remember ________ in her class last week?
—Sure. About Chinese culture.
A. what will Mrs. Li talk about
.
B what Mrs. Li will talk about
C. what did Mrs. Li talk about
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司D. what Mrs. Li talked about
二、完形填空（本大题共8小题, 共8.0分）
J.K.Rowling is the writer of the Harry Potter series, one of the most popular books.
J.K.Rowling was born in Gwent in 1965. She has one sister who is two years younger than her. Both girls loved
listening to bedtime ____13____. They loved stories about the magical world. Rowling ____14____ her first story
called Rabbit at the age of six.
After she graduated from university, Rowling worked in London. During that time, on a long train trip in the
summer of 1990, the idea of a boy who has magic but doesn’t know it himself came to her ____15____. In 1992,
Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her daughter, Jessica, and ____16____ much time finishing the
first Harry Potter book for the young. It came out in 1997. To her surprise, the book was very successful. The film
came out in 2001. Now the Harry Potter series is ____17____ with people of all ages.
Why is the series so successful? Many other magic stories ____18____ place in faraway lands in the past or
future times, but Harry lives in modern England. He’s also a very normal boy. When other children read the story
about Harry, they can ____19____ being like him.
J.K.Rowling is very ____20____ with her success. She says she will go on writing children’s books.
13. A. songs B. stories C. subjects D. novels
14. A. told B. read C. wrote D. touched
15. A. mind B. plot C. theme D. mission
16. A. took B. cost C. paid D. spent
17. A. popular B. helpful C. usual D. related
18. A. celebrate B. raise C. take D. rush
19. A. finish B. consider C. practise D. imagine
20. A. bored B. glad C. careful D. disappointed
三、阅读理解（本大题共13小题, 共26.0分）
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Do you want to know how other people see the world? Listed below are three of the best books for children.
This book was voted the best book of the 20th century in France. In
the book, the little prince leaves his own planet to travel across the
universe. In his journey, he finds that the adult world is really strange and
boring. At last, he goes back to his planet which is full of love. In this
book, the loneliness, friendship and love are not easy to understand.
The Little Prince
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司This book was published in 1952. It was welcomed by adults and
children across the world. It tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his
friendship with a spider named Charlotte on a farm. When Wilbur is in
danger of being killed by a farmer, Charlotte writes messages praising
Wilbur in her web to save him. Wilbur is safe in the end.
Charlotte’s Web
This story is about an emperor who loves clothes very much. Two
brothers want to get silver and gold from the emperor. They tell the
emperor that they can make special clothes for him, and people can’t see
the clothes unless they are clever. In the parade, everyone says the
emperor’s new clothes are wonderful except a little boy, who tells the
truth that the emperor wears nothing.
The Emperor’s
New Clothes
21. The three books are mainly written for ________.
A. children B. adults C. parents D. teachers
22. Friendship is mentioned in ________.
A. The Little Prince and The Emperor’s New Clothes
B. Charlotte’s Web and The Emperor’s New Clothes
C. The Little Prince and Charlotte’s Web
D. The Little Prince, Charlotte’s Web, and The Emperor’s New Clothes
23. The emperor is such a man who ________.
A. wants to gel silver and gold B. is clever enough
C. can see the clothes in fact D. is fooled by the two brothers
B
The Good Son
Once there was a jeweller, who was known as a good man. People always bought jewelries from him.
One day, a rich man and his wife came to buy some diamonds (钻石) which would be put on a special dress
for their mother. She would wear it for her eightieth-birthday party.
The couple told the jeweller what they wanted, and offered him an honest price. He replied that he could not
let them see the jewels at that moment, and asked them to come back later. However, they wanted the diamonds
without delay (耽搁). They also thought that the jeweller might be trying to get more money for the diamonds. So
they offered him double, then three times, what the diamonds were worth. But he still refused to give them the
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司diamonds. They went away, very angry.
Some hours after, the jeweller went to them and gave them the diamonds. They offered him the last price for
the diamonds, which was three times what the diamonds were worth. But the jeweller said, “I will only accept the
first price that you offered this morning.”
“Why, then, did you not sell us the diamonds right away?” they asked in surprise. He replied, “My father had
the key to the box where the diamonds were kept. He was asleep, and I did not want to wake him. He is old and
every hour of sleep does him good. For all the gold in the world, I would not disrespect my father or cause him
discomfort.” The couple were deeply moved by the man’s words, so the husband said to him,
“You are so kind! Thanks for the lesson you taught us — honour your father and your mother. One day your
own children will give you the same respect and love that you have shown.”
.
24 The rich couple came to the jeweller to .
A. get a special dress B. make some jewelries
C. buy some diamonds D. visit the jeweller’s dad
25. When the jeweller refused to give the diamonds, .
A. the couple agreed with him B. his father was still sleeping
C. the couple’s mum was angry D. he wanted to raise the price up
26. The couple was deeply moved because the jeweller .
A. brought them the diamonds at once B. gave love and care to his father
C. sold the best diamonds to them D. showed great respect to them
C
A spacesuit is much more than a set of clothes astronauts wear on spacewalks. A full spacesuit is really a one-
person spacecraft. The spacesuit protects the astronaut from the dangers of being outside in space.
Spacesuits help astronauts in several ways. Spacewalking astronauts face different temperatures. Around the earth,
conditions in space can be as cold as around -156 ℃. In the sunlight, they can be as hot as 121 ℃. A spacesuit
protects astronauts from those extreme temperatures.
Spacesuits also provide astronauts with O to breathe while they are in the space. They contain water to drink
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司during spacewalks. They protect astronauts from being hit by a small object in space. It may not sound very
dangerous, but when even the small object is moving many times faster than a bullet, it can cause injury. Spacesuits
also protect astronauts from radiation(辐射) in space. The suits even have parts to protect astronauts’ eyes from the
bright sunlight.
The spacesuit includes several pieces. The body equipment covers the astronaut’s body. The arm equipment covers
the arms and connects to the gloves. The helmet (头盔) and another equipment are designed to protect the
astronaut’s head while still allowing him or her to see as much as possible. The Lower equipment covers the
astronaut’s legs and feet. These parts have different functions(功能), from keeping O within the spacesuit to
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protecting from being hit.
Under the spacesuit, astronauts wear a set of cooling equipment. Tubes (管子) are put into this tight-fitting piece of
clothing that covers the whole body except for the head, hands and feet.
Water moves through these tubes to keep the astronaut cool during the spacewalk. On the back of the spacesuit is a
backpack. This backpack provides the O that astronauts breathe during a spacewalk. It also takes CO away. The
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backpack also provides electricity for the suit. A fan moves the O through the spacesuit and life support systems,
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and a water tank holds the cooling water that moves through the cooling device.
Another device called the Simplified Aid for Extravehicular Activity Rescue, or SAFER is necessary. If an
astronaut became separated from the space station, he or she could use SAFER to fly back.
27. What does a spacesuit provide according to the passage?
A. CO. B. Food. C. Radiation. D. Electricity.
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28. What can we learn from the passage?
.
A A small object hurts a little to astronauts in space.
B. SAFER helps astronauts return to the space station.
C. A spacesuit is just a kind of clothes to wear in space.
D. An astronauts needs to wear the spacesuit all the time.
29. Which question can be answered in Paragraph 2&3?
A. What are the parts of a spacesuit?
B. What do astronauts wear in space?
C. Why do temperatures change a lot?
D. Why do astronauts need spacesuits?
D
Technology Progress
On June 22, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew into Dayton, Ohio, for dinner at Orville Wright’s house. It had been
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司just a month since the young pilot's first ever individual nonstop crossing of the Atlantic, and he felt he ought to pay
respects to the pioneer of flight.
Forty-two years later, on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was allowed to bring a personal
guest to the Kennedy Space Center to view the launch of NASA's towering Saturn V rocket. Armstrong invited his
hero, Charles Lindbergh. That's how fast technology advanced in the 20th century.
However, progress isn't what it used to be now. Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon argues that
by 1970, all the key technologies of modern life were in place: electricity, highways, telecommunications, and the
like. After that, innovation （创新）and economic growth simply couldn't keep going as fast as the last 100 years-
a period Gordon calls "the special century". Gordon argues the lives of people in developed nations look and feel
the same in 2020 as they did in 1979 or 1989.
Slowing down is good in one small way, though bad in most of the ways that count. Rapid changes can
sometimes be disorienting （令人迷惑的）. And when things develop at a lower speed, people and institutions do
have more time to breathe and fit in. But slowing down isn't what it should be. In many areas of technology, the
forward movement today feels tragically slow, even nonexistent.
Consider consumer robotics. There's huge potential for robots to help us. But home robotics companies seem
to keep folding. For example, social robot maker Jibo closed in March after raising almost $73 million.
Our century’s one signature technology achievement is smartphones. At this point, we've had them in our
pockets long enough to begin to appreciate their dangers. Meanwhile, the list of possibly world-changing
technologies that get people's attention but still remain in the original stage is very long. Self-driving cars, AR
glasses. Need I continue?
Indeed, these are all hard problems. But historically, solving the big problems has required continuous, large-
scale investment（投资）, often with private markets and taxpayers sharing the cost. In this century, we need to
undo some bad results of the last great boom （繁荣）by developing affordable zero-and negative-emissions
technologies right now. That's another hard problem-and to solve it, we'll need to rethink what made the "special
century" so special.
30. The writer mentions Charles Lindbergh in Paragraphs 1 and 2 to show that __________.
A. Charles has contributed greatly to technology
B. Charles paid respects to the pioneer of flight
C. technology developed rapidly in the 20th century
D. technology has advanced to a higher new level
31. The underlined word "folding” in Paragraph 5 probably means _____________.
A. shutting B. separating C. growing D. operating
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司32. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Some world-changing technologies are not making progress.
B. Home robotics companies failed because of little investment.
C. It's time to realize the disadvantages of fast development now.
D. It doesn't take us long before we realize the dangers of smartphones.
33. The writer probably agrees _______________.
A. markets and taxpayers have a duty to develop technologies
B. innovation and investment are needed for technology advance
C. what made the last century special will happen in the new century
D. rapid changes in technology are bad in most of the ways that count
第II卷（非选择题）
四、任务型阅读-多任务混合（本大题共1小题, 共10.0分）
任务型阅读-多任务混合
Sylvia Earle is one of the world’s most famous ocean scientists. She loves to go diving（潜水） in the ocean.
She has spent a lot of her life both in and under the waves. Earle has led more than a hundred explorations and she
set a record for diving in 1, 000-metre-deep water on her own. In total, she has spent more than 7, 000 hours
underwater.
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Earle describes the first time she went to the ocean “I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave.
The ocean certainly got my attention! It was exciting. And since then, I have been attracted by life in the ocean.”
Now, Earle’s job is to focus on developing a worldwide network of areas on the land and in the ocean. This
network will protect and support the living systems that are important to the planet. She explains why this is important,
“When I first went to the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea looked huge and blue. It seemed to be too large and
too wild to be destroyed by the action of people. Then, in only several tens of years, the blue wilderness of my
childhood disappeared. By the end of the 20th century, about 90 percent of the sharks, whales, and many other large
creatures had disappeared from the Gulf. They had been there for millions of years.”
Some people don’t understand why the ocean is so important to life on Earth. Earle explains, “The ocean is the
foundation of our life support system. The ocean is alive. The living things in the ocean produce O and take up
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CO. If we don’t have the ocean, we don’t have a planet that works.”
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The Gulf of Mexico has had many problems, especially after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster（灾难） of
2010, but Earle says, “In 2003 I found good signs in clear, deep water far from the mouth of the Mississippi River. It
was full of life. Large areas of the Gulf are not destroyed. Protecting the most important places will be good for the
future of the Gulf and for all of us.”
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学科网（北京）股份有限公司34. Who is Sylvia Earle?
__________________________________
35. How long has Earle spent underwater in total?
__________________________________
36. When did Earle get knocked over by a wave?
__________________________________
37. What will Earle’s worldwide network do?
__________________________________
38. What do you think of Earle? Why?
__________________________________
五、书面表达（本大题共1小题, 共10.0分）
39. 请根据中英文提示，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。
某英文学习杂志社正在向同学们征集有关英语学习策略的文章。请你以“How to learn English”为主题写
一篇英语短文，把你三年来的英语学习经验介绍给同学们，说说英语学习的重要性并给出你对他们学习英
语的建议。
提示词语：important, as much as possible, write down
提示问题：Do you think learning English is important? Why?
What is your advice on learning English?
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