浙江省杭州市之江实验中学教育集团2022-2023学年九年级上学期期末英语试卷（含答案）

2022年之江教育九年级第一学期抽测练习

二、阅读理解（本题有20小题；每小题2分；共计40分）

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Maya,

The spring break is coming. We can start our theatre trip soon. There will be Romeo and Juliet in the National Theatre. If everyone in our group goes. there will be just enough people for a 10% discount (折扣)on the ticket price.

I'm really busy this week. So could you please call the theatre to find out how to order group discount tickets, and see if you can get tickets for 12th March?' Make sure they are orchestra (正厅前排) seats. I think this will be an enjoyable outgoing for everyone. We can all take the underground to the theatre together after work. For more information, please check the poster of Romeo and Juliet.

Thanks.

Morris

16. How many people might be in Morris' group?

A. 2. B. 10. C. 15-24. D. 25 or more.

17. What can we know from the passage above?

 A. Orchestra seats are cheaper than balcony seats B. Maya's working place is far away from Morris's

 C. People can go to the National Theatre by subway or bus D. People can watch Romeo and Juliet on Saturday evenings

18. Why does Morris write the letter to Maya?

 A. To share her enjoyable theatre trip with Maya. B. To ask Maya to order some tickets for 12th March.

 C. To tell Maya about her plan during the spring break. D. To invite Maya to join her to watch Romeo and Juliet.

B

A letter written to a 12-year-old girl in Lithuania (立陶宛) arrived in December, almost 51 years after it was sent. Now in her 60s, Genovefa Klorrovska said after being handed the letter, “I thought that someone was playing a joke on me.”

The letter included a handmade, colored rose and two paper dolls. It was sent to Klonovska by Ewa, a young girl in Poland (波兰). They exchanged letters in what is known as a pen friend program when people write letters to each other without actually meeting.

The letter, together with 17 others, was discovered last summer when a wall was taken down in an old post office in Vilnius. Jurgis Vilutis is the owner of the building. “The workers suggested I throw the old letters away, but I called the post office instead,” Vilutis said. “I'm so happy they got interested.”

The letters, from the late 1960s and early1970s, were probably hidden by a postal worker after he searched them for money or valuables, Vilutis said. Lithuania was part of the Soviet Union (苏联) then. The senders were family members or pen friends from places such as Australia, Poland, or Russia. Street names and their numbering have changed in Vilnius.

Post office workers spent months looking for the people who were supposed to get the letters--the recipients. Only five recipients were found. In several cases, children of dead recipients were handed a lost letter. Deimante Zebrauskaite, head of the customer experience department at Lithuania Post, said, “We felt it is a moral (道义上的) duty to do this.”

In the letter Ewa tells Klonovska that buses no longer reach her village, so she has to walk in minus (零下)23 degree Celsius cold, and asks for pictures of actors.

Now, Klonovska has no memory of Ewa. She probably wrote to Ewa after finding her address asking for pen pals in a newspaper. “Their relationship stopped when she didn't get the letter. It was not life-changing,” said Klonovska. “But what will happen if one of the letters was from a suitor(求婚者) to his love, and their wedding (婚礼) never happened?”

19. How did Genovefa Klonovska feel as soon as she got the letter?

A. Happy. B. Angry. C. Moved. D. Surprised.

20. Where was the girl who wrote the letter to Genovefa Klonovska from?

 A. Poland B. Australia C. Lithuania D. the Soviet Union

21. Why wasn't the letter sent to Genovefa Klonovska in time?

 A. A postal worker hid it.  B. We are not sure about it.

 C. The post office was taken down at that time. D. Buses couldn't reach most of the places then.

22. What can we can infer from the passage?

 A. Klonovska's life was changed because of the lost letter 
 B. Ewa wrote to Klonovska because she was a famous actor

 C. Ewa and Klonovska knew each other before Evwa wrote the letter

 D. Klonovska thought these lost letters might cause serious problems

C

①Scientists at the University of Florida have grown plants in soil (土壤) that has come from the Moon. The experiment (实验) marks an important step toward growing plants on the Moon.

②____▲____. It doesn't have many nutrients--things that help plants: grow. However, it has plenty of iron (铁), and is full of tiny pieces of glass. What s more, there's not a lot of it on Earth. In fact, most of it was collected over 50 years ago by NASA. The lunar(月球的) soil is so-valuable that it took the scientists11 years to let NASA allow them to use it.

③The scientists chose a plant called thale cress (鼠耳芥) for their experiment. They put the lunar soil into 12 tiny bottles. They got the soil wet with water mixed with nutrients. Then they added seeds (种子). To compare, the researchers also planted thale cress seeds in volcanic ash (火山灰). After two days of watering, the scientists saw green growths in every bottle. “Everything sprouted (发芽). I can't tell you how surprised we were!” said Anna-Lisa Paul, the report's lead writer.

④As the scientists continued to care for the plants, they began to notice differences. The plants grown in lunar soil weren't as healthy as those grown in volcanic ash. They were smaller and grew more slowly.

Most of the moon plants didn't develop well and some leaves turned red. The researchers say that the plants were “stressed” by the lunar soil.

⑤Now, there's a lot of interest in developing ways to help astronauts keep alive on the Moon. That's partly because of NASA's Artemis project which tries to send people to the Moon for a long period of time in a few years. Plants could help by providing food and oxygen (氧气).

⑥“The ability to take plants successfully with us to the Moon is how we'll grow our own food,” said Dr. Robert Ferl. “Showing that plants will grow in lunar soil is actually a huge step in that direction.”

23. Which of the following sentences can be put in the “____▲____” in Paragraph 2?

 A. Plants can grow very well in lunar soil B. It's not easy to collect soil from the Moon

 C. There are many ways to grow plants in lunar soil D. Soil from the Moon is very different from common soil

24. What does the scientists' experiment show?

 A. Plants can not grow in lunar soil at all.

 B. Plants can grow in lunar soil, but not so healthily.

 C. Plants can't grow in lunar soil unless they are provided with oxygen.

 D. Plants grown in lunar soil are as healthy as those grown in volcanic ash.

25. What is Paragraph 5 mainly about?

 A. How NASA's Artemis project started. B. How long astronauts will live on the Moon.

 C. Why scientists try to grow plants in lunar soil. D. When astronauts in NASA will be sent to the Moon.

26. Dr. Robert Ferl thinks it will be to grow food on the moon.

 A. possible  B. worrying  C. unnecessary  D. unbelievable

D

Do you believe in aliens? During the 1980s, hundreds of mysterious circles appeared in fields all over England. Many people thought the crop(庄稼) circles were created by aliens from outer space. What were these circles? And who had made them?

They appeared like magic in the middle of night. Hundreds of geometrical (几何的) patterns appeared in the middle of English wheat fields. The most common idea was that they were made by spaceships. Before long, books were written on the subject, and many tourists went to see the circles. Two scientists, Pete Delgado and Colin Andrews, became crazy about the subject. They believed the circles were the work of an “unknown intelligence”. By the end of the 1980s, the crop circles had become a full-blown mystery, and there were regular reports in newspapers and on television.

There were other suggestions too. Some believed the circles had been caused by animals such as deer,while others thought the circles were caused by helicopters (直升机). Some experts thought the symbols were from ancient writings. However, no one could really offer a convincing explanation.

1990 was the golden year for the crop circles. Delgado and Andrews's book Circular Evidence came out and sold pretty well. That year, the crop circles were even more elaborate (复杂的) than the ones before. The hit of the year came on July 12th when a huge circle appeared in a field at Alton Barnes.

One day that same year, a group of famous circle experts set up plenty of surveillance equipment (监控设备) on a hill in Wiltshire. They were hoping to record the formation(形成) of a crop circle. Amazingly, the next day six circles appeared in a field just below them, without the team recording anything. Worse still,when the researchers entered the circles, they found man-made tools in the centre of each circle, which seemed to make it believable that the circles had been made by humans.

Finally, in 1991, Today newspaper published a report of how two men (Doug Bower and Dave Chorley)in their sixties had made the circles. The artists showed how they had created the circles at night with rope and flat boards.

However, since then, a great many more crop circles have appeared. Though better and better surveillance equipment, including government and army satellite (卫星) cameras, is used, no one has ever been caught actually making a crop circle. So, who is still making these circles? And why? The mystery remains.

27. How does the writer lead in the topic?

A. By listing numbers.  B. By telling stories.  C. By making a survey.  D. By asking questions.

28. Pete Delgado and Colin Andrews believed the circles were made by

A. Aliens B. animals C. humans D. helicopters

29. What can we know from the passage?

A. The geometrical patterns were ancient writings.

B. Helicopters were used to find out who made the crop circles.

C. The experts who used surveillance equipment recorded nothing.

D. Today newspaper explained the formation of the crop circles successfully.

30. What's the best title of the passage?

A. Do You Believe in Aliens?  B. Scientists and Crop Circles 
 C. Crop Circles-No More Mystery D. Crop Circles-Can Anyone Explain Why They Are There?

任务型阅读（本题有5小题，每小题1分；共计5分）

下面是某记者关于11岁小发明家Prince Nallamothula的采访报告。阅读该报告，然后从方框中所给的A、B、C、D、E五个选项中选出符合各段内容的问题，完成第46-50小题。

三、完形填空（本题有15小题；每小题1分；共计15分）阅读下面短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

Ellison, the owner of a bar (酒吧), got a phone call from a lady, saying she had lost her wallet in his bar. She added that she didn't care about the money, but the__36__her husband bought her.

Ellison spent hours watching__37__. Then he noticed a boy had done this wrong thing. Ellison__38__a notice on his bar's website: “I just want to ask if anyone knows __39__the boy is.”

Within hours, Ellison a message. It was from 16-year-old Chris. He told Ellison that he had taken the wallet because he had __40__ for two days. He said he saw the ring but thought it was fake (假的), so he took the money and threw the wallet into the __41__. Then he bought a sandwich.

Ellison was unsure whether he believed Chris and told the boy to meet him at the port (港口). There, they started __42__. Chris said that he wasn't getting along with his family and had been__43__in the woods for a week. Ellison, a father of two, watched Chris__44__a small body and a red face and saw him for what he was: more a kid than a criminal.

But because the police were already on the case, Chris__45__be put into prison (监狱). If the ring could be found and returned to the owner, she might drop the charges (起诉) against Christ.” So Ellison paid two professional divers to search the waters where Chris had thrown the wallet. In the end, the ring was __46__under the sea.

When Ellison called the owner of the wallet, she burst into tears. After hearing the whole story, __47__decided to drop the charges and permit (允许) the boy to have the $200.

Ellison had been__48__about Chris living in the cold woods, so he gave Chris a place to live fora while in his house. He also gave the boy a job at his__49__. “Most people would have given the video to the police, __50__he chose to help me,” Chris said, “I say thank you' to him every day.”

36.A.wallet B.ring C.handbag D.gloves

37.A.shows B.movies C.games D.videos

38.A.put B.noticed C.got D.answered

39.A.who B.how C.where D.what

40.A.something B.anything C.everything D.nothing

41.A.car B.river C.sea D.woods

42.A.fighting B.laughing C.searching D.talking

43.A.working B.living C.playing D.stealing

44.A.like B.between C.with D.against

45.A.might B.must C.couldn't D.shouldn't

46.A.lost B.found C.hidden D.thrown

47.A.she B.he C.they D.we

48.A.sure B.scared C.excited D.worried

49.A.bar B.farm C.ship D.restaurant

50.A.so B.and C.but D.or

五、语法填空（本题有10小题；每小题1分；共计10分）

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。

We all know that black tea is a traditional Chinese drink. But do you know 51._________ it comes from?

Black tea first appeared in the 1500s in Mount Wuyi in Fujian Province. It is said that an army set up camp in 52 tea factory there. There were many tea bags on the ground, and the soldiers just slept on the bags. By the time the army left, the farms found that the tea 53.________(leaf) were black and couldn't be 54.________(sell) as usual. But they didn't want 55.________(throw) them away. Then they came up with an idea to reprocess them. They decided to roast (炒) them. This gave them a smoky taste. Surprisingly, people loved the taste and this kind of tea was 56.________(wide) drunk. The name of the 57.________ (early) black tea is lapsang souchong.

58.________the tea in this way, they had an easier way to keep it. Lapsang souchong can be used in a trip 59._______ takes up to 18 months. In the 1600s, lapsang souchong was brought to Europe and it later became an important part of afternoon tea in England.

As time goes by, there are different kinds of black tea. It is not only an important part of Chinese tea culture and history, 60.________ also has a strong influence on the tea culture around the world.

六、单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

根据下列句子及所给的首字母，在答题纸上按题号写出各单词的正确、完全形式（每空限填一词）。

61. F_________ is a country which is famous for wine and fashion.

62. The pop star gets used to r_________ presents from his crazy fans.

63. Although my uncle is n_________60 years old, he still looks very young.

64. Everyone went to the school trip e_________Jim because he was ill in hospital.

65. I live in the center of the city, so it's c________for me to buy everything I need.

66. I don't know him very well because we s________communicate with each other.

67. Most people agree that the position of the stones must be for a special p_________.
68. The kind woman I_________out a lot of delicious food and treated the kids nicely.

69. We don't know w_________book it is on the teacher's desk, it has been there for days.

70. The young worker is very clever and always c_________new ideas in his daily work.

七、书面表达（本题有1小题，共计20分）
假定你是李平，请阅读以下邮件并回复。词数80左右，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

To: ToLiPing@mail.com
Cc:
Subject: Exchange Visit

Hi there, Li Ping!
My name’s Jack and I’m going to be at your school for the exchange visit next month. I’m really excited about it!

Well, why am I writing right now? For one thing, I really want to know something about the interesting activities at your school, so could you introduce one of them? Also, I am interested in Chinese culture. So what do you suggest I do after school?

Take care and hope to hear from you soon
                    Yours,

Jack

16-18 CCB  19-22 DABC  23-26 DBCA  27-30 DACD  31-35 EDACB
36-40 BDAAD  41-45 CDBCA  46-50 BADAC
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61.France; 62.receiving; 63.early; 64.except; 65.convenient; 66.seldom; 67.purpose; 68.laid; 69.whose; 70.creates;