星海实验中学2021-2022学年九年级下学期英语期初练习（无答案）

2021-2022学年第二学期初三练习卷

英    语                                                             2022.2

第一卷（共90分）

一、听力选择（共20题;每小题1分,满分20分）

第一部分听对话回答问题（共10题,每小题1分,共10分）

1. What will the two speakers have for lunch?

2. What will the woman probably do first?

3. How will the boy cut the paper?

4. How does Miss Gao feel about her students' performance?

5. What kind of Chinese food does Maria like?

A. Dumplings                       B. Chinese tofu                            C. Noodles

6. What will Mr. Smith do during the summer holiday?

A. He will go home.             B. He will visit some places        C. He will stay at home

7. How many countries has Sandy been to?

A. Three                               B. Four.                                        C. Five

8. Why does the man want to change his shirt?

A. Because it is too small.

B. Because it is out of style.

C. Because he doesn't like its colour.

9. Where are the two speakers probably talking?

A. In a mobile phone shop.  B. At a cinema.                            C. In a restaurant.

10. Why was the Mother Teresa honoured with the Nobel Prize?

A. Because she worked hard for the prize.

B. Because she was kind enough.

C. Because she devoted her life to caring for the poor.

第二部分听对话和短文回答问题（共10题,每小题1分,共10分）

听一段对话,回答11-12小题。

11. How long does the coming holiday last?

A. For two days.           B. For six days.                            C. For seven days.

12. How can the two speakers get more information about the travel?

A. By going to the travel agency.

B. By reading some newspapers.

C. By watching TV.

听第一篇短文,回答13-15小题。请根据短文内容,选择正确答案,文成信息记录表。

13.A. German                   B. America                                   C. London

14.A.1,530                        B.5,300                                         C.530

15.A.a blue hat                  B. a red shirt                                C. a red hat

听第二篇短文,回答16-20小题。

16. What does summer vacation mean all over the world?

A. Long days.               B. Activities.                                C.All of the above.

17. What did students do during their summer vacation hundreds of years ago?

A. They studied in extra classes.

B. They worked in the fields.

C. They volunteered.

18. Do students need to go to the classroom during their summer vacation?

A. No, they don't.         B. Yes, of course.                         C. Maybe, some will.

19. What can we do if we want to learn a new skill?

A. Do a part-time job.  B. Sleep.                                       C. Kick off your shoes.

20. What's the best title for the passage?

A. World of summer.   B. Old summer.                            C.Unlucky summer.

二、单项选择（共15题;每小题1分,满分15分）

21. ----Do you know how to spell ___ word "unique"in English?

----Yes. It begins with ____"u".

A. the; a                 B. the; an               C. a; an                  D. the; the

22. He finally found the jewellery made of soil ___ little value, so he sold it for only one dollar.

A. was                   B. with                   C.by                      D. of

23. Shanghai is___ than _____ in China.

A. the most lively; any other cities     B. the li vie st; others

C. more lively; other cities                 D. livelier; the other cities

24._____,when he was already____,he began to learn Russian.

A. In 1870; in his four ties                  B. In the 1870s; in the n in ties

C. In 1870; in the nineties                  D. In the 1870s; in his forties

25.___of the seven actresses came to attend the important event.

A. Everyone          B. Anyone             C. Every body      D. Every one

26. The research he spent most of his time ___ a perfect success.

A. on proved         B. proved was       C. to prove            D. to proving

27. The factory ___ I am going to is the only place ___ my mother used to work in many years ago.

A. that; which       B. which; that        C. which;which     D. what; that

28. Spring Festival is coming. What gifts ___ from your parents?

A. you expect you can receive            B. do you expect can you accept

C. do you expect you can receive       D. you expect can you accept

29. It is reported that all___ is needed is a lot of oil.

A. the things          B. that                   C. what                  D. which

30.---When shall we leave for Hong Kong?          -----_______

A. Not until next week                          B. Till next week

C. For next week                                  D. Nearly a week

31. He was so angry about ___ had happened ___ he left without a word.

A. that; that            B. what; what       C. that;what           D. what; that

32.---Will you go to the music concert tomorrow? ---If you go,_________

A. so do I               B. so can I             C. so will I          D. neither shall I

33. What a day! The car I ___ just now seems to go wrong again.

A. have repaired                                  B. have it repaired

C. had repaired                                    D. had it repaired

34. Franklin told them ___.

A. how he called these animals           B. how long he would leave

C. what is he talking with Mr Li         D. what great difficulty he had coming back

35.----Shall we go shopping tomorrow morning?

-----.I have to hand in my homework today.

A. Sure, it's up to you.                         B. No way.

C. Sorry, I'm not available today.        D. Sorry, I can't make it.

三.完型填空（共10题;每小题1分,满分10分）

Three years ago, a group of researchers at Cornell University's Food and Brand Lab had a guess. They knew that many apples being 36 to kids as part of the National School Lunch Program were ending up in the trash, almost untouched. But unlike others, they 37 if the reason was more complicated（复杂的） than simply that the kids didn't want the fruit.

They thought the fact that the apples were being served_____38 , rather than sliced （切成片的）, was doing the fruit no favor. And they wanted to prove this idea.

They carried out a pilot study （初步研究） at eight schools and found that fruit consumption（消耗）39 by more than 60 percent when apples were served sliced.They then made a follow-up study at six other schools, which not only showed the same result, but further 40 it. Both the overall apple consumption and the percentage of students who ate more than half of the apple served to them were more than 70 percent higher at schools that served 41 apples.

Based on these 42 ,it seems that even the simplest forms of inconvenience can influence us. Sliced apples just make more 43 for kids. The hardest part is getting kids to start eating fruit, and that's exactly why sliced apples are the way to go. A child holding a whole apple has to break the skin, eat around the core （果核）, and 44 the inconvenience of holding a large fruit. These problems might seem silly or unimportant, but they're important when you're 45 teeth or have braces （牙箍）, as so many kids do.

It's one of those situations where what seems like a really small inconvenience actually makes a huge difference.

36. A. sold                  B. served              C. delivered                 D. shown

37. A. noticed             B. imagined          C. expected                 D. wondered

38. A. whole               B. ready                C. alone                      D. unwashed

39.A. decreased          B. jumped             C. reached                   D. slowed

40. A. denied              B. supported         C. impressed               D. described

41. A. sliced                B. delicious          C. juicy                       D. fresh

42. A. plans                 B. guesses            C. methods                  D. results

43. A. excuses             B. sense               C. time                         D. trouble

44. A. deal with          B. think about      C. look into                 D. point out

45. A. brushing           B. cleaning           C. missing                   D. counting

四.阅读理解（共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分）

A

46. Which of the following is NOT the necessary quality for waiter?

A. Having some knowledge of wines.

B. Working well under stress.

C. Having experience of cleaning.

D. Knowing the basics of fine dining and customer service.

47. A college girl can send an e-mail to _______ to apply for the job of babysitter.

A.job-p3b7u-1365632206（@craigslist.org   B.job-tk up e-1329358152@craigslist.org

C. jim@california aquatics.com                     D. rebec har v@aol.com

48. Which job is suitable if a man wants to find a full-time job?

A. Waiter.                                                       B. Office manager.

C. Babysitter.                                                  D. Office cleaner.

49. What can we learn from the passage?

A. The office cleaner has to work three hours each day.

B. One can apply for a waiter or waitress by telephone.

C. The office manager should be good at communicating.

D. Experience is necessary for all these four jobs.

B

Do you know of anyone who uses the truth to lie? When someone tells you something that is true, but leaves out important information that should be included, he can give you a wrong picture. For example, someone might say, "I just won a hundred dollars on the lottery（彩票）. It was great. I took that dollar ticket back to the store and turned it in for one hundred dollars!"This guy's a winner, right? Maybe, maybe not. We then discover that he spent  only one was a winner. He’s really a big loser!

He didn't say anything that was not true, but he left out important information with some purpose. That's called a half-truth. Half-truths are not technically lies, but they are just as dishonest.

Some politicians（政客） often use this trick. Let's say that during Governor Smith's last term,her state lost one million jobs and gained three million jobs. Then she seeks another term. One of her enemy says, "During Governor Smith's term, the state lost one million jobs!"That's true. However, an honest statement would say, "During Governor Smith's term, the state had a net gain of two million jobs."

Advertisers（广告商） will sometimes use half truths. It's against the law to make false statements so they try to mislead you with the truth. An advertisement might say, "Nine out of ten doctors advised their patients to take Yucky Pills to cure toothache."It fails to mention that they only asked ten doctors and nine of them work for the Yucky Company.

This kind of deception happens too often. It's a sad fact of life: Lies are lies, and sometimes the truth can lie as well.

50. How much did the lottery winner lose?

A.                                 B.                                  C.                                 D.

51. Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. Using half truths is against the law.

B. Yucky Pills is a very good medicine for toothache.

C. Half-truths are in fact lies.

D. Governor Smith did a good job during her term.

52. Which of the following best expresses the main idea of the passage?

A. The person who tell half-truths is usually a loser.

B. Sometimes the truth can lie as well.

C. Making false statements is against the law.

D. Half-truths are pretty common in our lives.

53. We may infer that the author believes people should _____.

A. buy lottery tickets if possible                       B. make use of half-truths

C. be careful about what they are told              D. not trust the Yucky Company

C

Watching some children trying to catch butterflies one hot August afternoon, I was reminded of an incident in my own childhood. When I was a boy of 12 in South Carolina, something happened to me that cured me forever of wanting to put any wildlife in a cage.

We lived near a wood, and every evening at dusk the mockingbirds would come and rest in the tree and sing. There isn't a musical instrument made by man that can produce a more beautiful sound than the song of the mockingbird. I decided that I would catch a young bird and keep it in a cage and that way have my own private musician.

I finally succeeded in catching one and put it in a cage. At first, the bird is frightened and fluttered（拍） about the cage, but finally it settled down in its new home, I felt very pleased with myself and looked forward to some beautiful singing from my tiny musician.

I had left the cage out on our back porch（门廊）, and on the second day, my new pet's mother flew to the cage with food in her mouth. The baby bird ate everything she brought to it. I was pleased to see this. Certainly the mother knew better than I how to feed her baby.

The following morning when I went to see how my bird was doing, I discovered it on the floor of the cage, dead. I was shocked! What had happened? I had taken excellent care of my little bird, or so I thought.

Arthur Wayne, the famous ornithologist, happened to be visiting my father at the time and, hearing me crying over the death of my bird, explained what had happened: "A mother mockingbird,finding her young in a cage, will sometimes bring it poisonous（有毒的） berries. She thinks it better for her young to die than to live in captivity."

Never since then have I caught any living creature and put it in a cage. All living creatures have a right to live free.

54. The boy caught a mockingbird because________.

A. he wanted a pet to be with him                    B. he liked its beautiful feather

C. he wanted it to sing for him                         D. he had just got a cage

55. The mockingbird died because______.

A. it refused to eat anything                              B. it was frightened to death

C. it ate the poisonous food its mother gave it  D. it ate poisonous food from by mistake

56. The word "ornithologist" in the last but one paragraph probably means______.

A. a person who believe in gods                       B. a kind and warm-hearted person

C. a master in education                                    D. a person who studies birds

57. The most important lesson the boy learned is that____.

A. birds in a cage won't live long

B. keep the bird away from its mother

C. be careful about the food for young birds

D. freedom is valuable to all living animals

D

Bees in summer are quieter than before. Other pollinators（传粉昆虫）like butterflies are also hard to survive. Loss of food sources （来源） is a key reason for the fall in their populations. But city gardens can provide important food for pollinators, according to the finding of a new study.

Nicholas Te w is a scientist at the University of Bristol in England. He was curious about how much food could be provided in different types of landscapes. Te w and a team of researchers looked at the information they collected from 12 sites across the United Kingdom. The team studied three landscape types: city areas, farms and nature reserves. They recorded 536 types of flowering plants. They found cities had much more flowering plants than other areas. People often plant them for their beauty. Farm sites and nature reserves had fewer types of plants.

Being rich in the types of plants is important because different pollinators prefer different types of flowers, Te w says. They may prefer yellow flowers over purple ones, for example. Or broad flowers over those that are cup - shaped."Flowers have different shapes, sizes, colors and smells, and pollinators are different in their preferences," Te w notes. The more types of flowering plants in one area, the more favorite food pollinators can find.

The researchers looked more closely at city sites. They examined eight types of places within four cities. These included nature reserves, vegetable gardens, flower gardens and other green spaces. The team also looked at parks, sidewalks, parking lots and industrial areas. Flower gardens, the team found, provide 85 percent of food for pollinators in city areas.

"This excellent study shows that small city gardens are important for pollinators," says X in gwen Lo y, who was not in the team. "We should continue to create such places to support city pollinators,"he says.

58. What does the underlined word "they" in paragraph 3 refer to?

A. Pollinators.         B. Scientists.              C. Citizens.                 D. Farmers.

59. Where can pollinators find the most food?

A. Green spaces.   B. Flower gardens.       C. Nature reserves.       D. Industrial areas.

60. What will be written about if there is another paragraph at the end?

A. What to do to help protect pollinators.

B. When to do more research on pollinators.

C. Where to find different types of plants.

D. How to create pollinator - friendly gardens.

五.信息还原（共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分）

Can you imagine life without French fries （炸薯条）? Potatoes are very popular today.

61____.Potatoes grew in South America five thousand years ago.They only became popular in other places two hundred years ago.

In the 16th century, the Spanish took the potato from South America to Europe. 62. ____ Some people thought that if you ate the potato your skin （皮肤） would look like the skin of a potato. Other people could not believe that you ate the underground part of the plant. So they ate the leaves instead. 63._____

In the1800s people started to eat potatoes.In In eland potatoes became the main food.Then,in1845, a disease killed all the potatoes in Ireland. 64. _____ At least another million were forced to leave their homeland.

65._____German seat potato salad,and the United States has the baked（烤）potato.And, of course, the French invented French fries. Now French fries are popular all over the world. The English and the French eat them with salt, and the Americans with tomato sauce.

第二卷（共30分）

六.单词拼写,每空一词（每小题1分,满分15分）

67.I interviewed two ________（纪录片）makers from the USA last night.

68.The book A Brief History of Universe is one of the _______（先锋） great works in physics.

69. He ________（保持不变） general manager of the club until the end of last year.

70.You can only achieve success ________（凭借） hard work.

71.She said sorry for breaking the rule,with her head ________（垂下）in shame.

72. There are a growing number of people ________（呼吸） fresh air in China.

73. What exactly is ________（要求） of education nowadays?

74.-I remembered seeing you talking with someone in them all yesterday.

- I just came back from abroad. You must be ________ me for my twin sister.

75.-Can you come up with some ways to protect our environment?

- How about ________ the waste into the things to recycle and the things to throw away?

76.The teacher read all the ____（章节） the students wrote and gave them marks.

77.My best friend married a _____（欧洲人） and went_____（国外）with her husband.

78. He has many a_____ over others so we will choose her as our monitor.

79. He is so creative that he can always has much great i______.

七.短文填空（每小题1分,满分10分）

In Australia, teenagers are allowed to drive after 80. _____ （reach） the age of 16. But before they can become independent drivers, there are some 81. ____ （instruct） - they must drive for at least 120 hours under supervision （监督）, as well as pass a hazard perception test （危险感知测试） and a driving test. The driving test is probably the 82. ____ （hard） part. The pass rate is very low.

I reached my 120 hours long before I took the driving test 83. ____ I wanted to gain more driving experience. However, I was still a little nervous when the assessor s at next to me. I was worried 84. ______ making some mistakes accidentally and failing the test. Fortunately, the assessor was nice. She saw through my worries and told me to take a deep breath before starting off.

That finally helped me relax.

The test could be 85. ____ （divide） into two parts. The first part was mainly in a residential（居住的） area where I was asked to do reverse parallel parking （反向平行停车）. Luckily, I performed very well during the test – I could see the as sees s or 86. ____ （nod）. The second part was on main roads. The focus would be on driving at 87. _______ safe speed. I checked the speedometer （速度计） every 10 seconds and was being way more careful than normal.

My efforts paid 88._____. When the test was finished, the assessor congratulated me on passing the test. I couldn't have been happier – that 89. ____（mean） I could finally drive independently!

八.翻译句子（15分:4+4+2+3+2）

90.正确的想法是很值得坚持的。

Correct thoughts are _____

91.他承诺不再占用我们的闲暇时间了。

He ____ that he _____ not _____                    ____ our spare time any longer.

92.这个男孩宁愿再等一个小时也不愿意缺课。

The boy ______________________ than ___________________________.

93德国的人口是多少?

What is the ____________ ____________?

94.他正在考虑接下来做什么,而非无所事事。

He is ______________________ next _______________ doing nothing at all.