2024-2025学年（上）泰州九年级质量检测英语

1、Reading is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.

First, reading is fun. 1.You can always keep yourself happy if you like it.

You’ll never feel bored or tired. Next, you can read anywhere, all you need is a book! Another good reason for reading is that it is useful.2. You will be able to read faster and find it easier to understand what you read. As your reading skills improve, you will probably find your schoolwork become much better.

【1】________________________________

【2】________________________________

2、— Do you often speak English, Linlin?

—No, I ______ English in public. What should I do?

A.am afraid to speak     B. am afraid of speak

C.am afraid to speaking    D.afraid speak

3、——How do you like the dishes, Nick ?

——Oh, sorry, I   them.

A. don’t eat   B. wasn’t eating

C. haven’t eaten   D. hadn’t eaten

4、The Chinese football team don’t know ________ or not they will win the match. However, they will try their best.

A．what

B．whether

C．when

D．which

5、—Do you know ________?

—Yes, of course. It will be hosted by Beijing and Zhangjiakou.

A．which city will host the 2022 Winter Olympics

B．how will be the 2022 Winter Olympics

C．where will be the next Winter Olympics

6、一 Can you offer me some advice on how to learn English well?

一Perhaps you should what you've learnt in class as often as possible.

A. go over   B. put up C. find out D. work on

7、The whole classmates won’t be back home until the project

A. is done B. will be done     C. was done

8、—Would you mind opening the windows? It’s too hot in the room.

—_____.

A.It doesn’t matter.

B. Not at all. Go ahead.

C. Help yourself.

9、 — Another cup of tea?

— No, thanks. I   leave now. Lucy is waiting for me.

A. can   B. may   C. must   D. need

10、—Have you heard that our monitor got full marks in the exam?

—That’s not really surprising. She is ________, you know.

A．a dark horse

B．a green hand

C．an early bird

D．a wet blanket

11、She had to practise in various weather conditions before she passed the test.

A.drive B.to drive C.driving D.to driving

12、—He hardly has any spare time for his hobbies, _________ he?

—________. He has too much homework to do every day.

A.does, No B.does, Yes C.has, No D.hasn’t, Yes

13、_________ I have difficulties in learning math, I never give up.

A.So B.Although C.Because D.Until

14、After reading the texts, the students were asked to go on   .

A. to practise to listen   B. practising to listen

C. to practise listening   D. practising listening

15、Lots of people like to take a walk on Nanjing City Wall since it   .

A. repaired   B. was repaired

C. has repaired   D. is repaired

16、Shanghai is developing very fast. And it is more modern than__ in China.

A. any other city   B. any other cities   C. any city   D. other cities

17、—Which of the two magazines will you take?

—I’ll take______ though I find ______ of them are very useful to me.

A. all; both   B. either; either

C. either; neither D. either; both

18、—Here is a ticket to the magic show,Jason.

—Wow! gift it is!It’s my favorite.

A. What a delicious   B. What a nice

C. How nice   D. How delicious

19、Paul is crazy about basketball, but he ______ football very often.

A. doesn’t play B. isn’t playing

C. didn’t play D. won’t play

20、Yesterday evening someone ________ the shop and took away lots of watches.

A. broke into B. broke down

C. broke in     D. broke out

21、How can a country where teachers devote all their class hours to training students to take exams _______ to compete in the technology race with other countries?

A.expect B.expecting C.be expected D.being expected

22、A :Hi, Li Ming!

B: Hi, Bruce! 【1】

A: Very well, thank you.

B:I know the 30th Olympic Games is coming next month. 【2】

A: Yes, that’s right.

B: Will you go back to your hometown soon?

A: Of course. And I will be a guide during the Olympics.

B: 【3】 I was once a guide in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, too.

A: Thank you! 【4】

B: Sure! We can help people to find their ways. Also, we can introduce the place of interest to the friends both at home and overseas.

A: Excellent! I hope to become a guide like you! 【5】 Thanks a lot!

B: You are welcome!

A.Would you please tell me what to do as a guide?

B.What would you like to do?

C.How is it going?

D.It will be held in your country, won’t it?

E.Oh, congratulations(祝贺)!

F.It’s very nice of you to tell me so much.

G.I’m afraid not.

23、补全短文（共4小题；每小题1.5分，满分6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，每个选项限选一次。

When Andy came to school, he was surprised to find he was the first to arrive that day. “Where is Susie?” he thought.   【1】  She was the smartest student in the class and was always the earliest to class. Andy was always the second smartest and the second earliest.

In class, Andy learned that Susie went to visit her grandma in London and that she would not be back until Friday.  【2】  He was happy because he was the smartest kid and also the earliest to class for four days. He was sad because he could not see Susie, the girl he was secretly in love with.

Over the following days, Andy felt bad about being the smartest kid and the earliest to class.   【3】.

【4】  When Andy entered the classroom, he found Susie was already there. At that moment he decided one thing: Susie was the smartest girl in the class, and he was the smartest boy in the class. And that was enough.

24、Once upon a time if we wanted to make a phone call or wait for someone to contact us, we had to sit at home or at our desks. There were public phones in the street of course, but it could be hard to find one that was working and there were often long queues to use them. And of course you had to bring a lot of coins to pay for the calls.

So people didn't phone their friends as often. Mobile phones, these small pieces of electronic equipment which allow us to talk with friends and family while we are on the move, have greatly changed the way we live. Before the age of the mobile phone, our loved ones would sit around worried sick if we were late coming home. There were no quick calls to tell mum that there would be additional guests coming for dinner. We would have to depend on notes left on fridges or desks to communicate messages.

But mobile phones have also had a negative effect and what people don't seem to realize is that we've lost something very valuable: our privacy. Now our friends and family can contact us wherever and whenever they want to. We can never get away from them. The way people communicate with each other is totally different now. It's difficult to have a conversation face-to-face with a friend without being disturbed every couple of minutes by the ring of their phones, ,most people don't see anything wrong in having a long conversation on their mobile phone while forgetting all about the person sitting opposite. It seems the art of real conversation may be dying.

Of course, people could leave their mobile phones at home or even switch them off but no one ever does that. Why not? Because the worrying thing is we can't live without our phones. We've become communication addicts, unable to spend even a few minutes out of contact, in case we miss something  'important'.

【1】 What does the underlined sentence tell us?

A、 No all-day public phone service was provided in the street.

B、 Public phones were in poor condition and not always available.

C、 Public phones were everywhere but they were always in use.

D、 You could always see people repairing the public phones.

【2】What's the writer's point about using telephones before the invention of mobile phones?

A、 Using a telephone was expensive.

B、 Phone calls were much shorter.

C、 People made fewer phone calls.

D、 People relied on notes a lot.

【3】What does the writer think about life before mobile phones?

A、 Life was less convenient.

B、 People were more punctual.

C、 Things were more relaxed.

D、 Everyone managed very well.

【4】 What's the writer's main argument against mobile phones?

A、 They have damaged relationships.

B、 We give out too much information.

C、 They are harmful to our body and mind.

D、 It's impossible to escape from them.

【5】Which word best describes how the writer feels about the use of mobile phones.'?

A、 Disappointed.  B、 Satisfied.

C、 Worried.   D、 Surprised.

【6】What's the writer's main purpose in writing this article?

A、 To inform people about means of communication in the past.

B、 To show disadvantages of the way people communicate today.

C、 To advise readers to stop using the mobile phone.

D、 To compare different types of phone conversation.

25、Linda Evans was my best friend—like the sister I never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding.

When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding (婚礼) and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address (地址) Unknown. ” I had no idea how to find Linda.

Over the years, I missed Linda very much. I wanted to share (分享) happiness of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.

One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked very much like Linda and whose last name was Wagman — Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her.

She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother. ”

Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled. And there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: We won’t lose each other again!

根据以上短文内容，然后从每题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。

【1】The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans________.

A．at the age of 13

B．before she got married

C．after they moved to new homes

D．before the writer’s family moved away

【2】They didn’t often write to each other because they_________.

A．got married

B．had little time to do so

C．didn’t like writing letters

D．could see each other on special time

【3】There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she_________.

A．was in trouble

B．didn’t know Linda’s address

C．received the card that she sent

D．didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happiness or sadness

【4】The writer was happy when she ________.

A．read the newspaper

B．heard Linda’s voice on the phone

C．met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda

D．wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman

【5】They haven’t kept in touch________.

A．for about 40 years

B．for about 27 years

C．since they got married

D．since the writer’s family moved away

26、In modern society there is a great deal of argument about competition. Some value it highly, believing that it is responsible(负责任) for social progress. Others say that competition is bad; that it sets one person against another; that it leads to unfriendly relationship between people.

I have taught many children who held the belief that their self-worth depended on how well they performed at tennis and other skills. For them, playing well and winning are often life-and-death affairs(事件). The development of many other human qualities is sadly forgotten.

However, while some seem to be lost in the desire(渴望)to succeed, others take an opposite attitude. In a culture which values only the winner and pays no attention to the common players, they are strongly against competition. Most of them are young people who have suffered under competitive pressures from their parents or society. Teaching these youngsters, I often observe(观察) in them a desire to fail. They seem to find failure by not trying to win or achieve success. By not trying, they always have an excuse: " I may have lost, but it doesn't matter because I really didn't try." What is not usually accepted by themselves is the belief that if they had really tried and lost, that would mean a lot. Such a loss would be a measure(估量) of their worth. Clearly, this belief is the same as that of true competitors who try to prove themselves. Both are based on the mistaken belief that one's self-worth depends on how well one performs in the competition. Both are afraid of not being valued. We can discover a new meaning in competition only as this kind of fear begins to disappear.

【1】What does this passage mainly talk about?

A. Competition helps to set up self-respect.

B. Opinions about competition are different among people.

C. Competition is harmful to personal quality development.

D. Failures are necessary experience in competition.

【2】Why do some people favor(赞同) competition according to the passage?

A. It pushes society forward.

B. It builds up a sense of duty.

C. It improves personal abilities.

D. It encourages efforts.

【3】What is the similar belief of the true competitors and those with a desire to fail?

A. One's worth lies in his performance in the competition.

B. One's success in competition needs great efforts.

C. One's achievement is decided by his special skills.

D. One's success is based on how hard he has tried.

【4】Which point of view may the author agree to?

A. Every effort should be paid back.

B. Competition should be encouraged.

C. Winning should be a life-and-death matter.

D. Fear of failure should be removed in competition.

27、 London used to be "foggy" for the same reason that cities like Beijing' or Chongqing are "foggy~ today. The "fog was in fact smog, a mixture of smoke and fog.  In other words, it was made by air pollution  In London, some of this pollution came from factories, but much of it came from the coal that people burnt in their houses to keep warm during the winter. By the 1950s, London's smog problem had become so bad that the-government decided to do something to clean the air.  A new law was made and nobody could bum coal in any British city. Within a few years, the air became much cleaner. There were no more “pea-soupers”. .

Many Chinese cities now face the same sort of' problem with air pollution that . London faced 40 0r 50 years ago.  However, this problem is more difficult for Chinese cities to solve One reason is that more of the pollution comes from the factories, rather than from coal burnt in people's houses  If these factories were closed, this would harm the economy(经济） and lots of people would lose their jobs. Another reason is that changing from coal to cleaner fuel (燃料), like gas, is quite expensive.

However, the air in many Chinese cities is becoming cleaner and cleaner, as the government and people pay more and more attention to cutting down pollution . As a result,there are fewer "pea-soupers" in Beijing than there used to be.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案。

【1】What was the main reason for air pollution in London?

A.There was too much smoke in the sky.

B.People burnt too much coal in the houses.

C.There were too many factories in the city.

D. The city was too big for the cleaners to clean.

【2】 How did the air in London become much cleaner?

A.Many factories in the city were closed

B.There was not so much fog in the winter later.

C.People paid more attention to cleaning their city.

D. A law was made to keep people from burning coal in their houses.

【3】What does the 'underlined word "pea-soupers" refer to?

A. 烟尘 B. 吸烟   C. 毒气   D. 煤气

【4】 In China, air pollution is more difficult to solve  Which of the following is not the reason?.

A. Most pollution comes from the factories

B.Chinese government pays little attention to it.

C.Changing from 'coal to cleaner fuel is quite expensive

D. If factories were closed, this would harm the economy and lots of people would .lose their jobs.

【5】 What's the text mainly about? .

A.Air pollution in Beijing and Chongqing.

B. Air pollution in London

C.Air pollution: different cities, different ways

D. Coal burning.

28、   Need a reason to smile? Then you will be happy to know that today，March 20，2019，is not j【1】 the first day of spring，but also the International Day of Happiness.

Set up by the United Nations in 2012，it is meant to remind us that happiness is an essential human goal and right. This year’s theme，Happier together，e【2】 people worldwide to focus on what we have in common，rather than what d【3】us.

The idea to create this holiday was suggested by the tiny South Asian country of Bhutan（不丹）. A【4】 the country is poor，it consistently ranks among the happiest in the world.

Here are a few  s【5】 to help you celebrate the International Day of Happiness:

Treat yourself

Go ahead and grab a cup of hot cocoa or a tub of your favorite ice cream and cherish the treats，w【6】 watching your favorite television show or reading a good book.

Start a c【7】

We often spend our days buried behind computers or smartphones. Try to set them aside for one evening and spend time t【8】 to your parents and siblings（兄弟姐妹）.

Create a happiness wall

Ask your family，friends or mates to write down one thing that makes them h【9】 on a colorful sticker and create a wall of happiness. This can help remind yourself of all the good things happening around you and keep you s【10】 .

29、Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)

Before the pandemic, it was common to greet others with a hug or a shake of the hand. That’s now being   ________ by some people with an elbow or fist bump (碰手肘或者拳头). In the past, men bowed-bending forward at the body and lowering the head as if to say, “I’m not all that important”. Bowing is elegant (优雅的) and unlike elbow bumps, can totally avoid ________. So, what do you think? Should bowing make a comeback?

Yes, it’s a humble, graceful greeting.

Bowing provides a practical and graceful solution to the problem of how to greet one another in the midst of a pandemic. Bumping elbows might not spread coronavirus but it doesn’t have the elegance of a bow. It can be awkward not knowing how to greet someone, so a bow can sort this out. It means that people know ________ what to do without colliding(碰撞) somewhere between a hug and a handshake. A bow is a gesture of humility(谦逊), which is a sign of strength.

The Victorian writer, Charles Spurgeon, wrote that the humility of a bow leads to feeling invincible(无敌的). ________, in these serious times, it could be fun pretending to be in a novel by a Victorian writer.

No, it’s ________ to greet people in this way.

Physical touch reduces anxiety, stress and even pain. The pandemic has highlighted(突出) how much people want to hug their friends and family. Can you imagine bowing to a grandmother? In the past, bowing was common in the UK when people at the ________—such as royalty(皇室) and the rich—were considered more important than those lower down—such as children and the working classes. Society should not go back to a way of doing things that highlights inequality between groups. There are better ways to greet, such as the Southeast Asian way of saying “Namaste(合十礼)”, with palms together, pointing upwards in gratitude.

【1】

A．changed

B．replaced

C．exchanged

D．turned

【2】

A．contact

B．connection

C．relation

D．link

【3】

A．even

B．early

C．exactly

D．especially

【4】

A．Besides

B．But

C．Instead

D．Still

【5】

A．out of hand

B．in use

C．out of date

D．in business

【6】

A．center

B．bottom

C．palace

D．top