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2016/2017 学年度第二学期第一阶段学业质量监测试卷
九年级英语
注意事项：
1. 本试卷分选择题和非选择题两部分，共 10 页，满分为 90 分;考试时间 90 分钟。
2．答案一律填涂或书写在答题卡上。选择题必须使用 2B 铅笔填涂，非选择题必须使用墨
水笔书写。
选择题（共 40 分）
一、单项填空 （共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项
涂黑。
1. —Dad, I will try to study in an ideal senior high school. Believe me.
—If you make a ______, you must keep it.
A. joke B. design C. mistake D. promise
2. The underlined letter “i” in the word “______” has a different pronunciation from the others.
A. village B. invite C. notice D. friendship
3. Many people ______ this cultural TV program can get the public interested in ancient Chinese
poems.
A. invent B. expect C. manage D. devote
4. —If you are buying today’s Nanjing Daily, could you get ______ for me?
—I am glad to help you.
A. it B. this C. one D. that
5. Life is like climbing a mountain. ______ you feel tired, you will enjoy the beautiful view at
the top of the mountain.
A. Since B. Unless C. Though D. Because
6. As the market ______, I think it will be easier for people to buy the things they want.
A. opens up B. stays up C. takes up D. picks up
7. —We should always consider how much we have done for our society.
—I quite agree. It is _______ for us to give than to receive.
A. less important B. more important
C. the least important D. the most important
8. As a new kind of transport service, public bicycles ______ in more Chinese cities in the
following years.
A. use B. are used C. will use D. will be used九年级英语 第 2页 共 10 页
9. In Sanya, you can enjoy all the water sports, or ______ lie on the beach.
A. simply B. hardly C. nearly D. especially
10. —Daisy, go and see what is happening to the windows.
—Nothing serious. The heavy rain is beating ______ them.
A. against B. across C. through D. above
11. Mr. Wu ______ someone, so I just smiled at him and went away peacefully.
A. called B. is calling C. was calling D. has called
12. Some citizens are talking about ______ the libraries in universities of Nanjing should be
open to the public.
A. what B. which C. where D. whether
13. —I hope to take the DIY course at weekends.
—Good idea. ______ more about it, visit the website.
A. Know B. Knew C. Knowing D. To know
14. —Joe, I hear that Carl got full marks in the English speaking and listening test.
—Exactly. ______. He practises hardest in our class.
A. No pain, no gain B. A miss is as good as a mile
C. Many hands make light work D. Actions speak louder than words
15. —How about going shopping together at one o’clock this afternoon?
—______. Will three o’clock be OK?
A. Sorry, I can’t make it B. Certainly, no problem
C. Sure, it depends on you D. Sorry, I’m not free today
二、完形填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 10 分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项(A、B、C 和 D)中，选出可以填入空
白处的最佳选项, 并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Summer time in the United States generally means people have a lot more free time to
enjoy the outdoors. The sun is out for 16 , so there are more hours in the day to enjoy.
Having more free time does not mean you need to spend a lot of money, 17 there are
plenty of ways to enjoy your city or town for little or no money.
In summer, many parks offer free concerts. Sometimes these concerts 18 bands (乐队)
and musicians that are well known. Other times the concerts are given by up and coming artists.
These free concerts in the park are a great way to enjoy music outdoors. If you arrive at the park
early with your friends, you can 19 have a picnic.
Many parks also offer free outdoor movies. It’s always a good idea to arrive early to get a
good viewing 20 . In fact, being too close to the movie screen is no fun. The loud sounds
from the movie are bad for your ears. Your neck will also 21 . Sitting too far means your
eyes get tired easily.
If theater is one of your favorite, most major cities have some Shakespeare-in-the-park九年级英语 第 3页 共 10 页
programs. These programs show different works of Shakespeare performed 22 and
outdoors. Many of these programs are free. Some of these Shakespeare-in-the-park programs are
so 23 that people have to line up for several hours to get free tickets. As for the tickets,
first come, first 24 . If all the tickets run out before you get to the front of the line, then you
are out of 25 . So get there early!
If you don’t have air conditioning, many museums offer free ticket days or hours. The
museums are cool places to relax. They are also cool because you can see amazing works of art.
16. A. shorter B. bigger C. longer D. further
17. A. so B. and C. or D. but
18. A. increase B. describe C. interview D. include
19. A. ever B. already C. never D. even
20. A. programme B. environment C. licence D. location
21. A. hit B. fit C. hurt D. fight
22. A. live B. alive C. living D. lovely
23. A. boring B. popular C. difficult D. cheap
24. A. serve B. sell C. show D. spend
25. A. need B. luck C. order D. control
三、阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C 和 D）中，选出最佳选项, 并在
答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
AMES Australia-Flagstaff is glad to offer you a place in Certificate (证书) in Spoken and
Written English. This course is part of the Adult Migrant English Program, founded by the
Australia Government Department of Education &Training.
Course dates are: 03.10.2017-14.12.2017
● Timetable
DAYS TIME ROOM
Monday 9:00 am – 11:00 am
11:15 am – 1:15 pm
Level 4 Room 5
Level 4 Room 5
Tuesday
9:00 am – 11:00 am
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
12:15 pm – 1:15 pm
Level 1 Room 2
Level 2 Library
Level 1 Room 2
Wednesday
9:00 am – 11:00 am
11:15 am – 12:00 pm
12:00 pm – 1:15 pm
Level 4 Room 5
Level 4 Room 5
Level 2 Computer Room
● This is 12 hours per week.
● If you can’t attend on the first day, you must tell us. Please contact the office on 99264717.
● If you neither contact us nor attend on the first day, you may lose your place in the class.
● If your children need care, please contact us.九年级英语 第 4页 共 10 页
● If you need to give up the course, you must tell both your counselor and your teacher.
26. How long will the Spoken and Written English course last?
A. About three days. B. Over 2 months.
C. About 11 months. D. Less than 2 months.
27. Which of the following is TRUE according to the course?
A. Room 5 is only for Level 4 students.
B. People of all ages can take this course.
C. You can have lessons in Room 2 on Monday.
D. You’re sure to lose your place unless you attend on the first day.
B
Many people think that keeping a diary is something that teenage girls do. It’s seen as a place
to write down secrets, things you don’t want anyone else to know. The
stereotype (模式化观念) is that only women keep diaries. In fact,
keeping a diary is a very old tradition. It can be useful for many
different types of people. Many famous people have kept diaries.
Many powerful people have kept diaries. Some of these people
include famous writers and presidents.
Keeping a diary is said to have health advantages. Studies show that keeping a diary, that is,
writing out thoughts daily, can reduce asthma symptoms (哮喘症状).
Writing uses your left brain, which is thoughtful and organized. While your left brain is busy,
your right brain is free to create and feel. This allows you to use all of your brain power to better
understand yourself, others, and the world around you.
The key to successful diary keeping is not stopping any thoughts from coming through. This
even means allowing thoughts that influence you to come out in your writing. It helps make
your feelings clearer, and is especially useful if a person is faced with a hard decision.
Sometimes just writing down the ideas you agree and disagree helps you better understand a
problem. You begin to see a problem from different ways. This is helpful if you don’t agree with
others.
28. What does the word “it” in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Keeping away from illness.
B. Using your right brain to create.
C. Stopping some thoughts coming through.
D. Allowing thoughts to come out in your diary.
29. According to the passage, keeping diaries can help ______.
A. get along with others B. understand things better
C. know more about the old tradition D. become famous in the future
30. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. The advantages of keeping diaries. B. Keeping a diary with your left brain.
C. The ways of keeping a diary successfully. D. The reasons girls like keeping diaries.九年级英语 第 5页 共 10 页
C
Like people from most countries, the people of the British Islands speak their own dialects
(方言). A dialect is a different version (版本) of a main language. It has different words and is
related (相关的) to the culture of the place in which it is spoken. It is usually spoken with a
certain accent (口音). Although it may be different, a dialect is usually not so different that an
outsider can’t understand what is being said.
Speakers of dialects in Britain are often proud of them. For this reason, when you visit an
area with a dialect, especially when it is a place visited by tourists, gift stores will sell books
about the local words.
The dialects of Northern Ireland have many words that the other British have never heard of.
An unusual example I recently learned from this part of the world is “boke”, which means
“vomit (呕吐)”. The nearly poetic (诗意的) words of the Cockneys (伦敦东区的人) of the East
End of London are famous throughout the world because they can be so clever and humorous.
Here is a piece of rhyming slang (押韵俚语): A “whistle and flute” is Cockney for “suit”.
It is true that there are fewer dialects in Britain today than there were a hundred years ago，
and far fewer than there were 200 years ago. The reason is quite clear: The modern world and its
chances for communication have made the differences between people much smaller. When
people speak and listen to more people from a much larger area than their mothers and fathers
did, the differences between the ways they speak get smaller.
This means that there are now far fewer problems understanding each other for the people of
the British Islands. Also, English speakers from all over the world can generally understand each
other. Of course, without dialects, it will be much more difficult for English as a second
language to have such a big success all over the world!
31. According to Paragraph 1, we know that a dialect ______.
A. represents the main language
B. has nothing to do with culture
C. is a local version of a main language
D. is too difficult for an outsider to understand
32. How do people in Britain usually feel about their dialects?
A. They take no notice of them.
B. They are not satisfied with them.
C. They are glad to show them before others.
D. They are too shy to speak before other people.
33. According to the passage, which of the following about the dialects in Britain is TRUE?
A. A “whistle and flute” has a different meaning from “suit”.
B. There are more dialects in Britain than in other countries.
C. The number of the dialects in Britain is getting smaller now.
D. It is easier for English to be more successful without these dialects.九年级英语 第 6页 共 10 页
34. Now people of the British Islands can understand each other better because ______.
A. they don’t speak in dialects any more
B. they seldom talk to their mothers and fathers
C. they like to stay there instead of going outside
D. they speak and listen to more people from a much larger area
35. Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A. The influence of British culture B. Dialects in the British Islands
C. The dialects with certain accents D. The speakers of dialects in Britain
D
Do you look like your name? Scientists say there’s a good chance you do.
This comes from a new study published in a magazine. Researchers from Israel found that
our given names may have something to do with our facial (面部的)
appearances.
Lead writer Yonat Zwebner of a university, along with her team,
did eight different experiments ( 实 验 ) in Israel and France. The
different experiments were set up to answer two main questions:
whether people can correctly guess a person’s name based only on a photo of a face and what is
behind this matching effect.
During the experiments, researchers asked students to look at photos of people’s faces and
guess each person’s name from a list of four choices. They correctly guessed the right name 38
percent of the time, which was better than the 25 percent of a random (随机的) guess.
What’s more, when the faces the students looked at came from within their own country,
they were able to best match the faces to the names. French students were better at matching
only French names and faces while Israeli students were better at matching only Hebrew names
and Israeli faces.
Researchers believe it is possible that people change their appearances without paying
attention to it, to match their names. One study especially backed up this idea, showing that a
hairstyle, something that can be changed by people easily, was enough to guide others in
correctly guessing their names.
“Earlier research has shown there are cultural stereotypes carried by names, including how
someone should look. For example, people are more likely to imagine a person named Bob to
have a rounder face than a person named Tim. We believe these stereotypes can, over time,
influence people’s facial appearances,” Zwebner said.
The results of the experiments may even make parents think twice when choosing a name for
their children.
“If a name can influence appearance, it can influence many other things. This research opens
an important direction that may suggest how parents should consider better the names for their
children,” said Zwebner, who recently had a baby herself.
“As parents, it was really difficult for us to name our 12-day-old daughter as we know the
meanings of names.”九年级英语 第 7页 共 10 页
36. One of the purposes of the experiments is to ______.
A. give the students a chance to know each other
B. explain what influences our facial appearances
C. find out different characteristics carried by different names
D. see if people can correctly guess a person’s name based only on a photo of a face
37. People could match the faces to the names more easily ______.
A. when they did a random guess
B. when the faces are from other countries
C. when the faces are from their own country
D. when they have more knowledge themselves
38. The underlined part “backed up” in Paragraph 6 most probably means “______”.
A. supported B. changed C. compared D. cancelled
39. Paragraph 6 and Paragraph 7 are mainly to show ______.
A. the results of changing names
B. names have something to do with appearances
C. the importance of cultural stereotypes carried by names
D. the importance of a hairstyle in guessing different looks
40. According to Zwebner, we know that ______.
A. facial appearances may influence names
B. we shouldn’t think of others just according to their names
C. a name may influence many things and should be well chosen
D. we should pay less attention to the meanings of names and be ourselves
非选择题 （共 50 分）
四、填空（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
A) 根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡
标号为 41—45 的相应位置上。
41. Farmers in these small villages aren’t able to pay their ▲ (账单) in time.
42. We all know Father’s Day falls on the ▲ (第三) Sunday of June every year.
43. It’s reported China’s second aircraft carrier will ▲ (进入) service by 2020.
44. “Double Eleven” has been considered a special day for ▲ (单身的) men and
women in China.
45. Square dancing is becoming hot ▲ (在…中) Chinese citizens, but the loud music is
terrible.
B) 根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号
为 46—50 的相应位置上。
46. ▲ (read) as often as possible, and you’ll find your life meaningful.
47. Mary believes she won’t live with her parents when she can depend on ▲ (she).九年级英语 第 8页 共 10 页
48. Many ▲ (activity) are held in different countries to celebrate “World City Day”
every year.
49. The ▲ (week) talk show “Readers” hosted by Dong Qing has become popular in
China.
50. If the whole of our society keeps ▲ (try), we will have more and more blue skies
with each passing year.
C) 根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使短文内容完整正确，
并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 51—55 的相应位置上。
famous invention plenty of used to have fun
The history of the Lantern Festival is not certain, but people have been lighting lanterns for
spiritual (精神的) purposes since before paper was invented. Lanterns 51 be made of cloth.
But they probably were not bright or colorful then. With the 52 of paper, Chinese started
to make colorful paper lanterns. The traditions and days of celebrating the Lantern Festival are
different in different places of China. In Nanjing, the Confucius Temple and the Lantern Festival
have been 53 in Chinese history. At this time of year, lots of people from different areas
come to 54 . Now the lantern show has spread out to Ming Dynasty City Wall. Bright lights
decorate the 600-year-old wall. There is also a light and firework show. There are 55
pretty paper lanterns at the lantern market. The government of Nanjing has made the festival
bigger and bigger and is trying to make it an international market.
五、阅读填空（共 20 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 20 分）
A) 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后 56—65 小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的
单词，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 56—65 的相应位置上。
注意：每个空格只填 1．个单词．．．。
Mobile phone history
Not long ago, mobile phones were used mainly by business people and government officers
in society. In the US, mobile phone users were about 340,000 in
1985. Now there are 205 million mobile phone users in the US.
Studies also show that over 50 percent of children in the US
own their own personal mobile phones. The mobile phone
explosion ( 激 增) has led to a huge number of waste phones.
The number of mobile phones users has also increased
throughout the world. In the middle of 2005, the number of total users jumped to 2.4 billion
worldwide.
Mobile phone waste
When people throw their mobile phones away, they usually end up in the open air. Mobile
phones include some materials like lead, mercury and cadmium. They can go into public
drinking water and food and do harm to people’s health. About 75 percent of mobile phone users九年级英语 第 9页 共 10 页
don’t throw their phones away. Instead, they prefer to keep the waste ones sitting around the
house as they are not worth very much. People are also afraid that others may know their
information if they sell their waste phones. Less than 20 percent of them are recycled each year.
Benefits (益处) of recycling mobile phones
Mobile phones have valuable materials inside. The most valuable material is gold, which is
used in the phone circuit boards. Recycling can reduce greenhouse gas emissions (排放物) and
keep natural resources like gold. If all of the waste phones in the US are recycled, it will save
enough energy to offer over 194,000 U.S. families electricity (电力) for one year.
How mobile phone recycling works
Many people do not know how mobile phone recycling works. One method of recycling
mobile phones is to take the working parts of broken phones, then combine (使结合) them with
the working parts of other used mobile phones to make one ready-to-use mobile phone. Another
method of mobile phone recycling is to melt ( 熔 化 ) down and separate parts of the phone,
getting the valuable natural resources, such as gold and platinum. Plastic and glass can also be
recycled from used mobile phones.
The used mobile phones
Mobile phone history
Compared with the condition in 1985, there’re 56
mobile phone users at present.
More than 57 of the children in America have their
own personal mobile phones.
It has 58 a huge number of waste phones because of
the mobile phone explosion.
Mobile phone waste
Some materials, such as lead, mercury and cadmium in the
mobile phones are 59 to people’s health.
Three-quarters of the users would rather 60 the waste
ones sitting around the house.
Benefits of recycling
Some materials are of great 61 . They can be used
again.
It can 62 plenty of electricity for American families if
the waste phones are recycled.
How recycling 63
One way is to join working parts of 64 or used phones
together.
We can also melt down and separate parts of the phone to
65 natural resources.
B) 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 66—75
的相应位置上。
It’s never been easy to let young people accept the ways of the old. It’s become e 66
more difficult in the face of new technologies. So officers gathered in Wuhan, Hubei Province
that is proved to be good at m 67 children interested in tradition. They shared some lessons.九年级英语 第 10页 共 10 页
As we all know, many students know little about traditional things. Officers d 68 how to
make local operas popular in elementary and middle schools. Officers also agreed that every
student should get the chance to w 69 a traditional opera show for free every year.
The work of the theatre was d 70 into three parts: speech, teaching and performance. By
the end of November, they had held about 146 events of these k 71 . Opera artists are often
been invited to schools to communicate with students and teachers. Traditional opera lessons are
t 72 in more than 80 percent of its elementary and middle schools. More than 6,600 opera
shows were performed at schools that year, and that was h 73 praised by students and
parents.
In this way students can have a taste of the traditional beauty of China. “At first I was afraid
these events could be a distract ( 分 心) from study. Now I r 74 that our children have
learned a lot from them,” said one parent of No.71 Middle School. One of the officers said
o 75 parts of the country could learn some lessons from Hubei Province’s experiences.
They hope students all over China will have the chance to learn the art of traditional operas by
the end of 2018.
六、书面表达（满分 15 分）
如今人们对手机过度依赖的现象十分严重。请阅读下面两幅漫画，按要求用英文写一
篇短文。
内容要求：
1. 描述两幅漫画的内容；
2. 分析这些现象可能导致的问题；
3. 就如何解决上述问题提出你的看法。
注意：
1. 文中不得出现你的真实姓名和学校名称；
2. 语言通顺，意思连贯，条理清楚，书写规范；
3. 词数 80 左右，文章的开头已经给出，不计入总词数。
With the development of the Internet and related technology, many people are getting more
and more reliant (依赖的) on their mobile phones.
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