海宁市第一初中2014年九年级学科调研测试模拟英语试卷

二、完形填空

Some of my sisters work in a village in Australia. Among the villagers, there was an old man. I can assure（向……保证）you that you have never seen a situation as __11 ___ as that man’s. He was completely ___12___ by everyone. His home was disordered (混乱的) and __13___.I told him, “Please let me clean your house, wash your clothes, and ___14___ your bed.”He answered, “I’m okay like this. Let it be.”I said again, “You will be much better if you __15___me to do it.”He finally ___16___. So I was able to clean his house and wash his clothes. I discovered a ___17___ lamp, covered with dust, but still attractive. Only God knows how many years had passed __18___ he last lit it.I said to him, “Don’t you ___19__ your lamp? Don’t you ever use it?”He answered, “No. No one comes to ___20___me. I have no need to light it. Who would I light it for?”I asked, “Would you light it every night if my __21___ come?”He replied, “Of course.”

From that day __22___, my sisters __23___ themselves to visiting him every evening. They cleaned the lamp and lit it every evening.Two years had passed. I had ___24___ forgotten that man. He sent this message: “Tell my friend that the light she lit in my life continues to ___25__ still.” I thought it was a very small thing. We often ignore small things.

11. A. simple B. good C. difficult D. easy

12. A. cared B. hated C. respected D. forgotten

13. A. warm B. dirty C. tidy D. strange

14. A. climb B. share C. make D. sit

15. A. order B. allow C. promise D. ask

16. A. agreed B. refused C. smiled D. sighed

17. A. dangerous B. common C. beautiful D. useless

18. A. since B. until C. before D. after

19. A. change B. light C. hold D. hide

20. A. dress B. save C. blame D. see

21. A. parents B. friends C. sisters D. brothers

22. A. since B. forward C. on D. after

23. A. enjoyed B. devoted（投入） C. forced（迫使） D. prepared

24. A. completely B. often C. always D. hardly

25. A. burn B. shine C. survive（生存） D. travel

三、阅读理解（每小题2分，共20分）

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“Indeed,” George Washington wrote in his diary in 1785,” some kind of fly, or bug, had begun to eat the leaves before I left home.” But the father of America was not the father of bug. When Washington wrote that, Englishmen had been referring to insects as bugs for more than a century, and Americans had already created lightning-bug(萤火虫). But the English were soon to stop using the bugs in their language, leaving it to the Americans to call a bug a bug in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.The American bug could also be a person, referring to someone who was crazy about a particular activity. Although fan became the usual term, sports fans used to be called racing bugs, baseball bugs, and the like. Or the bug could be a small machine or object, for example, a bug-shaped car. The bug could also be burglar（盗窃）alarm, from which comes the expression to bug, that is, “to install(安装) an alarm.” Now it means a small piece of equipment（设备）that people use for listening secretly to others’ conversation. Since the 1940s, to bug has long meant “to cheat”, and since the 1940s it has been annoying.We also know the bug as a flaw in a computer program or other design. That meaning dates back to the time of Thomas Edison. In 1878 he explained bugs as “little problems and difficulties” that required (要求) months of study and labor to overcome in developing a successful product. In 1889 it was recorded that Edison “had been up the two previous nights discovering ‘a bug’ in his invented record player.”

26．We learn from Paragraph 1 that ______.

A. Americans had difficulty in learning to use the word bug

B. George Washington was the first person to call an insect a bug

C. the word bug was still popularly used in England in the nineteenth

D. both Englishmen and Americans used the word bug in the eighteenth century

27. What does the word “flaw” in the last paragraph probably mean?

A. Explanation. B. Finding. C. Origin(起源). D. Fault(错误）.

28. The passage is mainly concerned with _______.

A. the misunderstanding of the word bug

B. the development of the word bug

C. the public views of the word bug

D. the special characteristics(特征) of the word bug

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For years, I thought that my mother would become a centenarian（百岁老人）, but after 98 years and eight months, she recently died of old age. The same as my father, her funeral took place in the countryside. Even after my father died, we continued to think of our parents as one. They were a team in the traditional sense. Family is their lifeline. They worked hard, never complaining.

Once during a conversation with Tom Brokaw, who wrote the bestselling book The Greatest Generation, I told him, “You left out my parents.” They didn’t go off to war, but they belonged to the Greatest Generation. They, too, were part of the foundation that made American truly great.

Our mother is proud of being a housewife and mother. Having been a teacher in her early adult years, when education was more than important than anything else, she gave up her job to raise a family. She was an excellent cook, but she had to cook on a wood stove（火炉）. There was no refrigerator, nothing electric. But nobody was ever better at making do（凑合着用）. In addition to all the housework, she went to the fields every day to help produce a crop to pay the rent to provide food for the family.

She and my dad worked hard to save every penny to buy a farm late in life. They also saved enough money to live out their respective（各自的）lives with home care without taking up residency in a nursing home. They were very independent.

29. What ’s the main idea of the passage?

A. The author’s mother paid a lot for the family.

B. The author’s mother was buried（埋藏）beside her husband.

C. The author’s mother died at the age of 98 years old.

D. The author’s mother survived（活得超过）her husband by many years.

30. It can be inferred from the third paragraph that ______.

A. the author’s mother tried to become a modern housewife

B. the author’s family lived a very poor life

C. the author’s father was in poor health

D. there weren’t many conveniences（便利） then

31. What does the author think of her parents?

A. Brave and hardworking. B. Modest(谦虚的) and warm-hearted.

C. Economical（节俭的）and independent.

D. Kind and satisfied(满足的).

C

People use sailboats mostly for pleasure, but ancient seafaring people depended on the wind in their sails to carry them all over the world.Hot air is lighter than cold air. If you put hot air in a balloon(气球)，it rises and that’s how hot-air balloonists（热气球运动员）go high in the sky. Birds like eagles fly high above the ground, too. They spread their great wings（翅膀）to catch air currents（气流） and rise in circles above us. Airplanes called gliders（滑翔机） are lifted high in the air in much the same way.

The seaside is a perfect place for flying kites, because the wind almost never stops blowing. The sand on the beach warms up faster than the ocean does. As the warm air over the land rises, cool winds blow in from the sea. The beach is a god place to try hang gliding(悬挂式滑翔), too, which is about as close to being a human kite as you can get!

Everyone has seen trees waving in the wind. But the wind isn’t just spreading leaves for you to collect as it passes through. It’s also helping the trees, bushes, grasses and flowers spread their seeds. Wind carries all kinds of seeds to new places, where they can take root（生根） and grow. Maples（枫树）and dandelions（蒲公英）are just a few of the plants that depend on the wind to help them spread their seeds.

All around us the wind is at work. It brings changes in the weather. It carries birds, airplanes, boats and seeds to all over the world. And sometimes, wind just helps people have fun! With the wind in your sail, you can go almost anywhere---on water, on ice, on land, or in the air.

The wind touches us our lives every day. Everywhere you look, things are blowing in the wind!

32. How are gliders lifted high in the air?

A. By hot air in their wings.

B. By warm air currents.

C. By hot air balloonists.

D. By their wings like those of birds.

33. Which of the following pictures describes Paragraph 3?

A. The cold air

The beach The warm air

The sea

B. The cold air

The beach The warm air

The sea

The cold air

C. The warm air The sea

The beach

D. The warm air The cold air

The beach The sea

34. Wind helps most plants by ______.

A. making them moving back and forth（来来回回）

B. blowing their leaves here and there

C. helping them take roots and grow

D. spreading their seeds to new places

35. The main idea of the passage is that ______.

A. wind is at work all around us

B. wind can be used to make electricity

C. we can go anywhere with the help of wind

D. wind is widely used in our daily lives

四、用所给动词的适当形式填空。（每小题1分，共5分）

36. Everyone, ______(include) you and me, should do something to help the poor.

37. My doctor advised me to take the medicine _____(train) a day, in the morning and evening.

38. There are _____(few) apples in this basket. I prefer that one.

39. The mother explained patiently how her daughter should behave ______ (show) the audience she was not afraid at the piano performance.

40. Don’t put off what you can do today till tomorrow even if you can’t help ______(chat) with your new friend online.

五、阅读短文，在文中的空白处填入适当的单词，使其意义完整，语法正确，首字母已经给出，每空一词。（每小题1分，共10分）

People are so busy that these days that many people have no time to cook. This becomes a problem, because most f___41___ love home cooking! The food tastes good and w___42___, and a family meal brings everyone t___43___. In some families, meals are often the only times everyone s___44___ each other at the same time.Another r___45___ people enjoy home cooking is that it is often a way of s___46___ love. A parent who makes some cookies is not just satisfying(满足) a c___47___ sweet tooth. She or he is sending a message. The message says, “I care about you enough to spend an hour making cookies that you will eat up i___48___ fifteen minutes if I let you.”There is also something about the smell of home cooking. The smell of home cooking pleases people of a___49___ ages. It makes most of us feel good and loved even if we are the ones doing the cooking! Next time you smell a cake making, stop for a moment and pay a___50____ to your mood（心情）.

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一、 单项选择（每小题１分，共１０分）

1-5 CCADB 6-10 CCBAA

二、完形填空（每小题１分，共１５分）

11-15 CDBCB 16-20 ACABD 21-25 CCBAB

三、阅读理解（每小题2分，共20分）

26-30 DDBAD 31-35 CBCDA

四、用所给动词的适当形式填空。（每小题1分，共5分）

36. including 37. training 38. fewer 39. to show 40 chatting

五、阅读短文，在文中的空白处填入适当的单词，使其意义完整，语法正确，首字母已经给出，每空一词。（每小题1分，共10分）

41. families 42. warm 43. together 44. see 45. reason

46. showing 47. child’s 48. in 49. all 50. attention

浙江省海宁市第一初中2014年九年级学科调研测试模拟英语试卷