广州市一中外国语学校2017学年第二学期第一次月考

九年级英语

本试卷共四大题, 12 页, 满分 110 分。考试时间 120 分钟。

注意事项：

1． 答卷前, 考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号, 再用 2B 铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。

2． 选择题每小题选出答案后, 用 2B 铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动, 用橡皮擦干净后, 再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。

3． 非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答, 答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上；如需要改动, 先划掉原来的答案, 然后再写上新的答案, 改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。

4． 考生必须保持答题卡的整洁, 考试结束, 将答题卡交回。

一、语法选择(共 15 小题；每小题 1 分, 满分 15 分)

阅读下面短文, 按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求, 从 1～15 各题所给的

A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项。

My name is Philippe and my wife’s name is Sophie. Recently we met 1 difficult situation while travelling by car in the mountains with a driver. Just as we began to feel sleepy, the car 2 a strange, loud noise and then stopped 3 .

We tried communicating with the driver but with little 4 because he couldn’t speak French. He tried to tell us with body language 5 he was going to get help and then he left.

In the poor area, we started to hear the cries of wild animals 6 made Sophie very afraid. We didn’t have much food and it was getting 7 and darker. I began to lose confidence. 8 we leave the car? Would our driver ever return? Was he a trustworthy man? We were very worried.

Suddenly, the headlights from 9 car appeared in the dark. A man got out of the car.

Finding us cold and hungry, he 10 asked us to get into his car.

Before we left, he put a note on the windshield of the car 11 his phone number on it. Then he drove us to a nearby village, and we met his family. Everyone was excited 12

unexpected guests.

Later that evening, the phone rang. It was 13 driver. We thought he just left us behind, 14 he kept his words and fixed the car.

I 15 the warmth we received on that day forever because we depended on a complete stranger for help.

1. A. a B. an C. the D. /

2. A. makes B. made C. has made D. was made

3. A. work B. to work C. working D. worked

4. A. succeed B. successful C. successfully D. success

5. A. that B. what C. whether D. when

6. A. who B. which C. when D. where

7. A. cold B. colder C. the coldest D. the colder

8. A. Must B. Can C. Should D. May

9. A. the other B. other C. another D. the others

10. A. kind B. kinder C. more kindly D. kindly

11. A. with B. by C. from D. for

12. A. have B. had C. having D. to have

13. A. we B. our C. ours D. ourselves

14. A. and B. or C. but D. so

15. A. remembered B. am remembering C. have remembered D. will remember

二、完形填空(共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分, 满分 15 分)

阅读下面短文, 掌握其大意, 然后从 16～25 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中, 选出最佳选项。

In the early hours of 7 September 1838, one of the worst storms in history was roaring along the coast of England. The lighthouse keeper 16 at a ship. “It will be gone in a few more minutes,” he said sadly. His daughter, Grace Darling, looking from an upstairs window, found the great ship had 17 against the rocks and broken into halves.

“Can’t we save them?” Grace asked when she saw the 18 people on the ship. “Isn’t there any way to help them?”

“No one can take a lifeboat out in that water,” her father answered. “The waves are too

large.”

Grace had great 19 . She simply did not know how to give up. Filled with pity, she ran to the lifeboat quickly. Her father 20 . With tears running down his face, he begged his daughter not to get into the boat, but she would not listen. Her father could not let her go

alone. He climbed in, too. The two of them rowed（划船）in a great 21 . They had no time

to lose. Each wave seemed ready to throw them into the sea at any time.

22 there was a terrible roar. The storm had cut the ship in two. People were holding on to each half tightly. They had to be saved soon.

Grace and her father rowed 23 . Soon they reached the ship and began filling the lifeboat with survivors. Then the father and daughter brought their lifeboat safely to shore.

As news of her 24 saving action reached the public, the whole country considered her as a national 25 . Grace and her father received the Silver Medal award from the British government.

第一节 阅读理解(共 20 小题；每小题 2 分, 满分 40 分)

阅读下列短文, 从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中, 选出最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

(A)

Recently I got a plant for Christmas. At first it wasn’t growing and I thought I did something wrong. But then once it did grow, it was growing pretty fast. It has “I love you”

and a heart cut into the side. Is it strange I sometimes talk to it? I really love my plant. I can’t have a pet, so I kind of treat it as my pet instead. But I’m always worried that something is going to happen to it. I don’t even know what it is. But I feel like I’d be just talking to myself.

I love plants for many reasons. I used to enjoy watching my grandmother in her yard how she would talk to them and water them, and how she loved to be out in the garden barefooted

(赤脚). I loved the smell of her home when she would cut the flowers and bring them indoors,

and how she collected and dried them, and put them up to make the house look so nice. Grandma loved to tell stories of her fairies that lived in her yard. She said no matter what kind of day you had, you could come home and relax in your yard and enjoy the view. She was right!

My mother also loved plants. She talked with and cared for all her plants. She didn’t let my sisters water her plants, but she let me. She said they didn’t water them enough or too much, but she said I had the green thumb.

Today I have the love for plants as my grandmother and mother did. Believe it or not, I still have plants that Grandma had and Mom had. Now that they are gone, I still share their company in my garden. So when I step outside the garden barefooted, of course I also share the ground with my favorite ladies. I so enjoy seeing their plants grow, bloom and come back every year bigger and better.

26. What does the writer do to show her love for her plant?

A. She bought it for Christmas. B. She knows what it is.

C. She talks to it. D. She bought a pet for it.

27. Which of the following is TRUE about the writer’s grandma?

A. She told stories about her plants. B. She never talked to her plants.

C. She grew her plants indoors. D. She never cut her plants.

28. The underlined “they” (Paragraph 4) refers to .

A. the plants in the garden B. Grandma and Mom

C. the writer’s sisters D. fairies living in her yard

29. What can we learn about the writer’s mother?

A. She never watered her plants. B. She didn’t like the writer’s sisters.

C. She visits the writer every year. D. She has been dead for some years.

30. The writer loves plants probably because of her .

A. sisters’ carelessness in watering plants B. quiet and peaceful garden

B. grandma’s interesting stories D. grandma and mom’s love for plants

(B)

How often do you travel by plane? How much electricity do you use? These days everyone is worried about the size of their carbon footprint. In order to reduce global warming we need to make our carbon footprints smaller. But how much CO2 are we responsible for?

A new book by Mike Berners-Lee (a leading expert in carbon footprint) might be able to help. How Bad are Bananas? The Carbon Footprint of Everything looks at the different things we do and buy, and calculates the amount of CO2 they produce. For example, to calculate the footprint of a bottle of juice, he tried to find out how much CO2 all of the following created: the ingredients, the electricity used in the factory, the equipment, the travel of the juice, and the packaging. It’s amazing how many different things need to be included in each calculation. And it’s frightening how much carbon dioxide everything produces. But all of this can help us decide which juice to drink. From Berners-Lee’s calculations, it’s clear that a bottle of locally-made juice has a smaller carbon footprint than a bottle of imported one. This is because the imported juice has been transported from far away, and it uses more packaging.

Berners-Lee has even calculated the carbon footprint of cycling to work. Nothing is more environmentally friendly than riding a bike, surely? Well, it depends on what you’ve had to eat before. To ride a bike we need energy and for energy we need food. So if we eat a banana and then ride a kilometer and a half, our footprint is 65g of CO2. However, if we eat bacon before the bike ride, it’s 200g. In fact, bananas are good in general because they don’t need packaging, they can be transported by boat and they grow in natural sunlight.

So, does this mean that cycling is bad for the environment? Absolutely not, for a start, if you cycle, you don’t use your car, and the fewer cars on the road, the fewer traffic jams. And

cars in traffic jams produce three times more CO2 than cars traveling at speed. Cycling also makes you healthy and less likely to go to a hospital. And hospitals have very big carbon footprints!

So maybe it’s time for us all to start making some changes. Pass me a banana and a bottle of local juice, please.

31. According to the passage, a carbon footprint shows .

A. how often someone travels by plane

B. how much electricity people use

C. how much carbon dioxide something produces

D. how responsible someone is for the environment

32. What can we learn from the research on the carbon footprint of a bottle of juice?

A. Locally-made juice has used more packaging.

B. Imported juice is friendlier to the environment.

C. Locally-made juice includes many kinds of things.

D. Imported juice has a bigger size of carbon footprint.

33. Why are bananas good in general?

A. They produce less CO2. B. They grow naturally.

C. They don’t need packaging. D. They provide energy for cycling.

34. To make our carbon footprints smaller, we should often .

A. drink more local juice B. cycle to work

C. calculate the amount of CO2 D. buy cheap things from the markets

35. The writer is trying to ask people to .

A. live a low carbon life B. read Berners-Lee’s new book

C. change ways of going out D. buy more local products

(C)

The American astronaut Neil Armstrong was the first person to walk on the moon. Neil Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930. He was the eldest of three children of Stephen and Viola Engel Armstrong. He became interested in airplanes from the age of six, when he took his first airplane ride. He began taking flying lessons at fourteen, and on his sixteenth birthday he got a pilot’s license.

Teenage Armstrong was also interested in outer space because he was excited about the views of the planets he saw through his neighbour’s powerful telescope.

Armstrong entered Indiana’s Purdue University in 1947 with a U.S. Navy scholarship. After two years of study he was called to join the navy. After the war Armstrong returned to Purdue and completed his degree. At the beginning of 1962 he decided to become an astronaut and applied for NASA selection and training. In September 1962 he became America’s first nonmilitary astronaut. In January 1969, Armstrong was selected as commander for Apollo 11, the first lunar landing mission. On July 16 at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), Armstrong, with astronauts Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin, lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Apollo 11 passed into the gravitational influence of the moon on July 18 and circled the moon twice. Armstrong and Aldrin entered a small spacecraft named the Eagle, which then disconnected from the larger part named Columbia. At 4:17:40 p.m. EDT on July 20, almost everyone on Earth was listening to Armstrong’s radio transmission reporting that the Eagle had landed. At 10:56 p.m. he set foot on the moon, saying, “That’s one small step for a man,

one giant leap(飞跃) for mankind.” Armstrong and Aldrin spent nearly two and a half hours

walking on the moon. The astronauts left behind a metal plate reading, “Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the moon. We came in peace for all mankind.”

36. According to paragraph 1, we know that Neil Armstrong was .

A. the only child in his family

B. the first person to walk on the moon

C. an American astronaut born on April 5, 1930

D. an American pilot with the license he got at 14

37. What made Armstrong become interested in outer space?

A. His first exciting airplane ride.

B. The flying lessons he took at the age of 6.

C. His neighbour’s strong power.

D. Planets he saw through the telescope.

38. In what order did Armstrong do the following?

a. was selected as commander for Apollo 11

b. applied for NASA selection and training

c. became America’s first nonmilitary astronaut

d. completed his degree at Purdue University

e. was called to joined the navy

A. e-d-b-c-a B. e-d-a-c-b

C. d-e-c-a-b D. d-b-e-c-a

39. Which of the following is NOT true about the first moon landing mission?

A. Apollo 11 circled the moon twice.

B. Only Armstrong stepped onto the moon.

C. The Eagle landed on the moon on the afternoon of July 20.

D. Armstrong spent nearly two and a half hours walking on the moon.

40. By saying the underlined sentence in the last paragraph, Armstrong meant that .

A. he took giant steps while walking on the moon

B. he could jump far and even fly on the moon

C. mankind had made great progress in space travelling

D. mankind could walk faster and farther on the moon

(D)

Content

On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. … Learn more

Comments (5)

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41. We can probably see the information .

A. in a magazine READER B. on an online bookstore

C. in a reading section of a newspaper D. on a poster of a new novel

42. Mr. Brown wants to order three copies of Wave. How much should he pay? A. $ 75.00. B. $ 72.00. C. $ 39.99. D. $ 32.01.

43. Which of the following is TRUE about the book?

A. Wave is recommended by the editors.

B. Wave is the best seller in March.

C. Wave was written by Neal Thompson.

D. Wave was written on December 26, 2004.

44. From the comments, we can learn that .

A. Three of them have already read the book.

B. Most readers are interested in the book.

C. Readers can always get the book soon after they pay.

D. Only one of them starts to read the book for the third time.

45. A Grade 9 student wants some second-hand books for school. Which section will she probably check first?

A. The Best Books of the Month. B. Best Sellers.

C. New and Used Textbooks. D. Children’s Books.

第二节 阅读填空（共 5 小题；每小题 1 分, 满分 5 分）

阅读短文及文后 A~E 选项, 选出可以填入 46~50 各题空白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The soldier and the horse

A poor soldier was one day passing along a street in London. 46.

“I know him! I know him!” cried he, as he ran across the street. “He is my own old horse.

Dear old fellow!”

The horse seemed to know the voice. 47.

After a few moments, the poor soldier put his hand in his pocket. As he did so he said, “Yes, he shall have it, though it were my last penny! I have enough to buy him a feed of corn.”

Away he went to bring it. 48. He stood kindly feeding the horse with his own hand.

49. Perhaps, he might go and see him some other day.

He then went his way, saying to the driver as he left, “Be good to him, poor fellow! And use him well.”

It was a beautiful sight; and it was no wonder that a little boy who stood near, cried out, “Hurrah!” 50.

It was a lesson on kindness to animals which they were not likely soon to forget.

四、写作(共三节, 满分 35 分)

第一节 单词拼写(共 6 小题：每小题 1 分, 满分 6 分)

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母写出所缺单词。(每空只写一词)

51. There is only one r to follow while playing the game.

52. Bob is a great fisherman. He can c plenty of fish every day.

53. Mr Cliff’s advice is really h to those in trouble. You’d better turn to him.

54. When you w something, you can learn how heavy it is.

55. Taking a deep breath kept me r and calm before going on stage.

56. The old c lived here happily with their three children 20 years ago.

第二节 完成句子(共 7 小题：每小题 2 分, 满分 14 分)

根据所给的汉语内容, 用英语完成下列句子。(每空只写一词)

57. 昨天下午三点，莉莉在山坡上放风筝。

Lily a kite on the slope at 3 p.m. yesterday.

58. 广场上得人全都吃惊地看着国王。

All the people on the square looked at the King .

59. 你每天晚上花多长时间入睡？

How long does you asleep every night?

60. 昨天，直到我安全到家，我哥哥才吃晚饭。

My brother dinner I came home safely.

61. 每当生日蛋糕出现，所有的灯都会关掉。

All the lights whenever a birthday cake appears.

62. 你知道他在什么时候扔掉这本书的吗？

Do you know this book?

63. 英语老师告诉了我们一个多么重要的消息啊！

news the Engilsh teacher told us!

第三节 书面表达(共 1 小题, 满分 15 分)

体育考试将至，学生参加体育运动的热情空前高涨。请你以用英语给报社写一篇文章，谈谈你的学校开展体育运动的情况和自己的一些看法：

♦ 体育运动很有趣，佷具挑战性；

做运动的主要原因

如何提高体育运动水平

♦

保持健康，使身体变得更强壮；

♦ 学校里经常举行体育比赛，鼓励同学们参加体育运动；

♦ 体育课上、课余时间，大家积极练习各项运动；

从运动中学到的东西 ？（请你补充至少两点）

要求： 1. 短文应包括表格中所有要点, 可适当发挥；

2. 文中不得出现真实的人名、校名等相关信息；

3. 词数：80 词左右。（开头已给出, 不计入词数）

Sports at school

Since the PE exam is coming, many students at our school are interested in taking exercise at school.

广州市一中外国语学校2017学年第二学期第一次月考 九年级英语（无答案）