浙江省嘉兴市平湖市2022-2023学年九年级上学期期末英语试题

2022 学年第一学期九年级人文（阅读）素养试题卷

第二部分：英语

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一、完形填空（本题15小题，每小题1分，共15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Throughout her life, Mckenna Reitz was known for her long, thick brown hair. The 33-year-old mom’s hair    1    falling out after the birth of her second daughter. She went to many hospitals, but    2    could stop her hair falling. By December of 2015, she had no hair and was told that she had alopecia（秃头症）.

Mckenna was    3   . She spent months visiting doctors and trying anything to regrow her hair. She wouldn’t leave the house without a    4   . Mckenna says she couldn’t    5    look in the mirror after her hair fell out. She could hardly get out of bed in the morning, but it was her young daughters who finally    6    her out of her fear.

Understanding that alopecia is genetic（遗传）and could someday happen to them too, she decided to    7    her daughters that hair loss is not the end of the    8   . “I needed them to understand that if it does happen to them, they could    9    it, just like they saw their mom do.” she explained.

From then on, she stopped trying to make her hair grow back and started to    10    herself as she is. She stopped wearing hats in public.    11    she learned to love public and then herself. She felt    12    now. My mom always said to me, “Life gives the    13    people the hardest challenges. It’s made me understand that every person has their own    14   .”

Mckenna is a beautiful person, inside and out.    15    showing us that we are much more than our physical body, her strong mind is also helping remove the shame about hair loss.

1. A. continued B. started C. minded D. stopped

2. A. nothing B. nobody C. something D. somebody

3. A. careful B. different C. serious D. disappointed

4. A. scarf B. key C. hat D. coat

5. A. only B. just C. still D. even

6. A. pushed B. pulled C. kept D. led

7. A. suggest B. show C. teach D. warn

8. A. life B. beauty C. world D. week

9. A. come across B. get off C. care about D. get through

10. A. accept B. know C. notice D. hate

11. A. At present B. In a while C. In time D. At a time

12. A. calm B. cool C. comfortable D. confident

13. A. greatest B. smartest C. strongest D. happiest

14. A. story B. luck C. idea D. value

15. A. after B. until C. unless D. while

二、阅读理解（本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

阅读下面材料，从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

A Special Day

One day when I was seven years old, I went to a park with my parents and sisters. We played on the grass and sat on the see-saw（跷跷板）. It was a wonderful day.

Now, as a parent, I often think of how my words and actions might influence my children. Something ordinary might just become a special memory for them.

Last year, when my son turned four, we had a special day. In the morning, we drove to the train station and bought two tickets. We stood on the platform, enjoyed the sunshine and watched the trains come and go. Soon afterwards, we caught our train. We took two window seats and watched houses, bikers and cars whiz by（呼啸而过）.

After getting off the train, we walked to a restaurant. We sat, looked through the menu and asked each other what we would like to eat. We waited patiently for our food and tried everything we had ordered. The foods were all our favorite.

Then, we walked around the city center. We visited a toy shop and ended up buying a train. After all, it was the little man’s birthday. We also enjoyed some hot chocolate at a coffee shop. Finally, we made our way back to the train station and returned home.

Every so often, my son will look at me with dreamy eyes and ask, “Mama, when can we have a special day again?”

Sometimes, we go to a park; sometimes, we try out a new restaurant. We don’t do this too often, or it won’t be special. But we don’t do it too rarely, either, or we might forget how much we both love having them.

16. How does the writer lead in the topic?

A. By showing her opinion.  B. By setting an example.

C. By telling a warm story.  D. By sharing her experience.

17. The “special day” in the title most likely refers to（指代）______.

A. the fourth birthday that the author and her son spent

B. one recent day when the author and her son went to a park

C. a happy day that the author had when she was seven years old

D. the happy memories that the author and her son create together

18. The underlined sentences mean parents should ______.

A. make their children’s birthday a special day

B. create the value of special days for their kids

C. love such wonderful days and never forget them

D. know how often they spend special days with their kids

B

An international team of scientists says it has discovered two new “super-Earth” type planets about 100 light-years away, one of which may be suitable for life.

Unlike any of the planets in our solar system, the nearly 1,600 known super-Earths are larger than Earth, but lighter than icy planets like Uranus and Neptune.

Researchers at Belgium’s University of Liège said that they found another one while using Earth-based telescopes to check the existence（存在）of a different planet first discovered by a NASA satellite in the same solar system.

NASA’s satellite found planet LP 890-9b, which is about 30% larger than Earth and orbits its sun in just 2.7 days. ULiège researchers used their telescopes in Spain to take a closer look at the planet. That’s when the stargazers（天文学家）discovered another planet, LP 890-9c, which is 40% larger than Earth and takes 8.5 days to orbit its sun.

Francisco Pozuelos, a researcher, said that the planet could be suitable to life though being a 3.7 million miles from its sun. Earth, by comparison, is located over 93 million miles away from our sun. “Although this planet orbits very close to its star, at a distance about 10 times shorter than that of Mercury around our Sun, the amount of stellar irradiation（照射）it receives is still low, and could allow the presence of liquid water on the planet’s surface, if it has enough air,” Pozuelos said. “This is because the star LP 890-9 is about 6.5 times smaller than the Sun and has a surface temperature half that of our star.”

19. How did ULiège researchers discover LP 890-9b?

A. They discovered it by accident.

B. They discovered it with NASA’s help.

C. They discovered it with Pozuelos’ advice.

D. They discovered it with telescopes in Belguim.

20. What do we know about super-Earths?

A. They are all suitable for life. B. They are much bigger than Earth.

C. They are heavier than Neptune. D. They are 100 light-years away from Earth.

21. What is the last paragraph mainly about?

A. How the planet was discovered. B. Why the planet may be the suitable to life.

C. Pozuelos’ role in the discovery of the planet. D. Comparison’s role between LP 80-9 and earth.

C

Good sleep is really important to our health. But global heating is leading to increases in night-time temperatures that are happening faster than they are during the day. This makes it harder for us to get quality sleep. As global temperature increases, the average global citizen is already losing 44 hours of sleep every year, a recent study revealed.

The study used sleep and outdoor weather data collected from 2017 to 2022. It found that higher temperatures reduced sleep by putting off its onset. People’s bodies need to cool every night as they fall asleep, but this is harder to do when it is warmer.

“Some groups, however, will be affected much more than others.” said Kelton Minor, a researcher from the University of Copenhagen. The sleep loss per degree of warming is about a quarter higher for women than men, twice as high for those over 65 years old, and three times higher for those in less wealthy nations.

“Women usually have higher levels of fat than men, which may make the cooling time longer. Older people are known to sleep less at night and have poorer body temperature regulation（调节）. People in poorer nations could lose more sleep, as it’s harder for them to get cooling machines.” he explained.

The studies have also shown that rising temperatures hurt health, including increasing the possibilities of heart diseases, mental health problems, accidents and injuries. They have also been found to reduce one’s ability to work and study. Poor sleep has also been shown to have these effects. However, disturbed sleep may be a key reason why researchers are seeing these heat related health problems.

Worryingly, there were no signs of people being able to adapt to hotter nights. The growing numbers of people in many countries around the world are simply not getting enough sleep.

22. People are losing their sleep because high temperature ______.

A. puts off the happening of falling asleep

B. increases the possibilities of waking up

C. makes it harder for people to get quality sleep

D. destroys the ability of body temperature regulation

23. According to Kelton Minor, we can know that ______.

A. older people sleep less because of poor health condition.

B. women usually have higher body temperature than men.

C. people in rich countries usually have more sleeping time.

D. old woman in poor countries are more likely to lose sleep.

24. Paragraph 5 mainly wants to tell us ______.

A. the damage of high temperatures B. the effects of poor sleep

C. the key reason of heat related problems D. the ways to get enough sleep

25. What does the underlined phrase “adapt to” probably mean?

A. get used to  B. put an end to

C. pay attention to  D. look forward to

三、词汇运用（本题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分）

阅读下面短文，然后根据括号内所给汉语意思写出单词的正确形式。

Born in Shaoxing, Zhejiang province, in1868, Cai Yuanpei had a thirst for knowledge from a young age. He    26   （接受）a classical education and traveled to Beijing at age 25, where he placed 37th in the country in the imperial examinations and got the high level jinshi    27   （学位）in 1892. Then he went to the Hanlin Academy.

By the turn of the    28   （第二十）century, the Qing dynasty was in a mess. Cai was    29   （不满意）with Qing rule. He decided to study German and dreamed of continuing his education in    30   （欧洲）.

In 1907, his dream of studying came true. He learned some good teaching    31   （方法）. In1911, Cai returned to China, look forward to taking part in the building of a new nation.

Cai returned to Peking university    32   （后来）in 1919 as a headmaster. Cai    33   （传播）the values of free thinking in his class and was loved by his students. This great educator    34   （死亡）in Hong Kong in 1940 at the age of 72. But his    35   （承诺）to open discussion and effort in improve the level of education left a lasting mark on the period. He is thought as a hero to this day.

四、语法填空（本题有8 小题，每小题1分，共8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。

When Mancina was young, he would skateboard during the winter seasons. At the beginning, he knew nothing    36    skateboarding and couldn’t play it so well. It wasn’t until he moved to a different neighbourhood and met a group of    37   （skate）that Mancina began to truly love skating.

However, at just thirteen years old, doctors told Mancina that he had an eye problem.    38    just a year and a half, he lost vision in his left eye. Mancina stopped skateboarding. After a few years, he picked up the board again and    39   （film）a video of himself skateboarding with the help of a cane（杖）. The video    40   （share）online. It made Mancina decide to return to the sport although he is now    41   （complete）blind.

“Being a blind skater, I have to take my time to feel obstacles（障碍物）and have a good understanding of    42   （it）before I start skating,” said Mancina. “I depend on my white cane the most. I use it to know my environment and to find obstacles while skating.”

Mancina hopes to perform at the Paralympics in 2028. His future plans include breaking his own record and building a skate park. Once it’s built, he    43   （introduce）blind kids to the world of skating.

五、任务型阅读（本题有5小题，其中44--47每小题1分，第48小题3分，共7分）

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

In recent years, Chinese online novels have become popular at home and abroad.    44    Sixteen works have now found their place on the bookshelves of the British Library. The British Library is one of the world’s largest libraries. It chooses books based on their cultural value and their popularity among readers. This is the first time that Chinese online novels have entered the collection of the British Library. The 16 books cover a variety of topics. They’re considered as some of the best Chinese online novels from the past 20 years.

   45    His work Great Power, Heavy Industry is among the 16 novels that were added to the British Library. The novel tells the story of how China’s manufacturing industry（制造业）has been able to grow so strong since the 1980s. “This may help foreign readers get to know China better,” Qicheng said.

   46    “Many may think that all online novels are fast-food love stories,” one of them said. “It’s time for their value to be recognized. Perhaps in a few years, we’ll have some foreign fans who have grown up reading Chinese novels.”

   47    In 2021, nearly half of foreign readers said that they were willing to pay for Chinese works. There are, however, still challenges ahead. The greatest one is in the area of translation. There have been more English books translated into Chinese than the other way around. Making Chinese books available is only a first step. Good translations will be the key to the future of Chinese online novels.

A. This fan might just end up being right.

B. And their popularity continues to grow.

C. The news came as “a surprise” to Qicheng.

D. Fans of Chinese online novels were excited about the news.

E. Foreign readers have different opinions about Chinese works.

48. In your opinion, the news shows that _________________（回答字数在20-30内）
               2022 学年第一学期九年级人文（阅读）素养试题卷

   第二部分：英语参考答案

一．完形填空

1-15BADCD/BBCDA/CDCAD

二．阅读理解

16-18DDD 19-21BDB 22-25ADCA

三．词汇运用

26-35received/degree/twentieth/unsatisfied/Europe/methods/later/spread/died/promise

四．语法填空

36-43about/skaters/In/filmed/was shared/completely/them/will introduce

五．任务型阅读

44-47BCDA 48.Chinese online novels have risen to a new level both at home and abroad, and the good translations need improving.