常州市九年級(jí)下英語(yǔ)新課結(jié)束考試

1、常州市教育學(xué)會(huì)九年級(jí)教學(xué)情況調(diào)研測(cè)試暨新課結(jié)束考試2015.4英語(yǔ)試題（統(tǒng)考卷）注意事項(xiàng)：1、本試卷分第I卷（選擇題）和第II卷（非選擇題）兩部分。試卷滿分為90分，考試時(shí)間為100分鐘。2、請(qǐng)將答案全部填寫(xiě)在答題紙相應(yīng)的位置上，在本試卷上答題無(wú)效。第I卷（選擇題共48分）一、單項(xiàng)選擇（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分10分）從A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出可以填入空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)，并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。1、-underground cave!-Yes, the Reed Flute Cave is of Guilin.A.What; proud B.How; the pride C.What

2、a; proud D.What an; the pride2、Frogs, one of Mo Yan' s most famous works,him Nobel Prize for literature（ 諾貝爾 文學(xué)獎(jiǎng)）in October, 2012.A.wonB.presented C.praisedD.increased3、-Tom, why did you have a meeting yesterday?-a better way to have these robots .A.Find; fixed B.To find; repaired C.Finding;fixD

3、.Found; repair4、Nanjing is building a light rail（輕軌）to its northern towns to the city centre.Travelling to Nanjing from this town will take only 20 minutes after the light rail .A.get; will completeB.connect; completesC.connect; is completedD.get; will be completed5、 my father my mother supports me

4、to watch the TV programme Running Man（奔跑口巴兄弟）.They both think it is interesting and meaningful.A.Both; and B.Neither; nor C.Not only; but also D.Either; or6、- with those students, Frank is found te most .-Sure. That ' s why we voted for him.A.To compare; boringB.Compare; boringC. Compared; inter

5、estingD.Comparing; interesting7、-What do you think of the food in the form of pills?-I thought it would be tasty, but it to be tasteless!A.turned into B.turned out C.turned away D.turned off8、-What shall we do to kill time?-Well, it is Wanda Cinema' s haprice day, why not go to watch a film?A.si

6、nceB.whileC.unlessD.though9、The present my parents for me many years ago is still of great value.A.what;bought B.which; was boughtC.不填； have bought D.that; bought10、-Did you buy a smuggled cellphone（水貨手機(jī)）?- A smuggled cellphone is worth half the price of a licensed one（ 行貨）.A.Not exactly B.No doubt

7、C.My pleasure D.All right二、完形填空（共12小題；每小題1分，滿分12分）閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。There was once a boy in ragged（破爛的）clothes running to ask a building contractor（ 包工頭） who was well dressed, 11 could I become as rich as you when I grow up?"Looking at the boy, the tall and strong contractor r

8、eplied,“I would like to tell you a story firsabout three diggers. The first digger liked 12 a spade（鏟子）without doing anything but saying that he wanted to be a boss in the future. The second digger always liked 13 about working too long and getting little. The third digger liked quietly 14 himself t

9、o digging without making any requirement. Several years later, the first digger was still holding his spade in his place and the second found a（n） 15 of work accident for early retirement（ 退 休）.Only the third digger became the boss of the building company.Do you understand this story? Just go to buy

10、 a red 16 and work hard. ”The little boy was puzzled, so he asked the contractor to explain 17. Pointing to thebuilders, the contractor talked to the little boy,“ Look at those people! They are all my workers. Ican not remember all of their names, and even I have no 18 of some of them. But if you lo

11、ok carefully, you will notice a sunburned man in red among them. I notice him very early. He seems to be working harder with higher spirits than 19 else. He is always the first one to work every day while the last one to leave. It is 20 his red shirt that makes him stand out among all the workers. N

12、ow I am about to ask him to be my task-master and I believe he will work even much harder from now on. Maybe he will soon be promoted （ 升職）to my assistant.You know that is also how I got 21 I am now. I worked hard and wore a striped shirt . My boss noticed me. I also became a boss finally.”Success c

13、an only be born in 22. The more you achieve from your hard work, thebetter understanding of hard work you will have. Life needs action and I hope you can set up your goal and start your journey right now.11、A.WhenB.WhyC.HowD.What12、A.holdingB.buyingC.spreadingD.picking13、A.explainingB.complainingC.a

14、rguingD.discussing14、A.suggestingB.preferringC.losingD.devoting15、A.chanceB.riskC.excuseD.example16、A.helmetB.scarfC.towelD.shirt17、A.againB.fartherC.furtherD.instead18、A.ideaB.wayC.decisionD.impression19、A.someoneB.anyoneC.nobodyD.everyone20、A.exactlyB.highlyC.excitedlyD.quickly21、A.whereB.whichC.w

15、hoD.that22、A.needB.dangerC.courageD.action二、閱讀理解（共 閱讀卜列短文，13小題；每小題2分，從短文后各題所給的A、滿分26分）B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng)。Look at the center circles of Picture 1. Which of the centre circles looks larger?Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is smaller than that in Diagram B. In

16、 fact, they are exactly the same size.Then look at the picture 2 above. What do you see? A vase（ 花瓶）or two faces? Does the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not, but you can never see them at the them time."What' s happening? Is something wrong wit

17、h my eyes?” You may wonder at what you see.Don' t worry. Here is how it goes:When we look at things,our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains interpret（解 讀）the information. However, sometimes our brains interpret the received information in a wrong way. It seems that our eyes are

18、playing a joke on us. This often happens and we call it illusion 視覺(jué)錯(cuò)誤）.Movie makers often make use of visual illusions. They make the objects around actors much smaller or bigger than usual. This makes us believe that the actors are much larger or smaller than they usually are. The movies Jurassic P

19、ark and Honey I shrunk （ 縮?。﹖he kids just make use of visual illusions.23 .What ' s the right order according to the passage?a.We look at things with our eyes.b.Our brains interpret the messages.c. Our brains tell us what we have seen. d.Our eyes send messages to our brains.A.adbcB.cabdC.acdbD.b

20、cad24 . Movie makers make use of visual illusions to .A.help the actors look betterB.make the actors much braverC.help the actors become strongerD. make the actors seem different in size25.In the following picture, It seems that Line AB is shorter than Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line

21、 CD,which paragraph can explain what has happened to our eyes?A£ =A.The second one.B.The third one.C.The fifth one.D.The sixth one.BWhen I was a boy growing up in New Jersey in the 1960s, we had a milkman delivering （ 送） milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and dr

22、ove a white truck. As a 5-year-old boy, I couldn ' take my eyes off the coin changer（硬幣盒）fixed to his belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery and gave me a quarter out of his coin changer. Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs and so on. If we needed to change ou

23、r order, my mother would write a note“ Please add a bottle of buttermilk next delivery" and place it inbox along with the empty bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear. All of this was about more than convenience（便禾U）. There was a close relationship between families and their m

24、ilkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold outside that we put the box indoors, so that the milk wouldn' t be frozen. And I remember Mr. Basille fromtime to time taking a break at our kitchen table, having a cup of tea and telling stories about his deliv

25、ery. There is sadly no home milk delivery today. Big companies allowed the production of cheaper milk, making it difficult for milkmen to compete. Besides, milk is for sale everywhere, and it may just not have been practical to have a delivery service. Recently, an old milk box in the countryside I

26、saw brought back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch（門(mén)廊）.Every so often my son ' s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of my childhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.26. What can be inferred （推斷）from the fa

27、ct that the milkman had the key to the boy' s house?A.He wanted to have tea there.B.He was a respectable person.C.He was treated as a family member.D.He was fully trusted by the family.27. What does the underlined word“ compete " mean?A.完成B.比較C.銷售D.競(jìng)爭(zhēng)28. What is the best title for the passa

28、ge?A.The good old days B.A milkman C.A milk deliveryD.My childhoodCScience can ' etxplain the power of pets, but many studies have shown that pets can help lower blood pressure （血壓）and raise chances of recovering（恢復(fù)）from a heart attack, reduceloneliness and spread good cheer.Any owner will tell

29、you how much joy a pet brings. For some, an animal provides more comfort than a husband/wife. A study by Karen Allen of the State University of New York measured（測(cè)量）stress levels and blood pressure in people- half of them pet owners while theydid 5 minutes of arithmetic（ 算術(shù)）or held a hand in ice wat

30、er. People completed the tasks alone, with a husband/wife, a close friend or with a pet. People with pets did it best. Those tested with their pets had smaller change in blood pressure and returned most quickly to usual heart beats. With pets in the room, people also made fewer math mstakes. It seem

31、s people feel more relaxed around pets, says Allen, who thinks it may be because pets don' tell whether you are right or wrong.A study reported last fall suggests that having a pet dog not only raises your spirits but may also have an effect on your eating habits. Researchers at Northwestern Mem

32、orial Hospital spent a year studying 36 fat people and were put on a diet-and-exercise programs; a separate group of 56 people without pets were put on a diet program. They found people lost about 11 pounds, or 5% of their body weight. Their dogs did even better, losing 12 pounds, more than 15% of t

33、heir body weight. Dog owners didn't lose any more weight than those without dogs, say researchers, but got more exercise mostly with their dogs and found it worth doing.29、What does the text mainly discuss?A. What pets bring to their owners. B. How pets help people calm down.C. People's opin

34、ions of keeping pets. D. Pet's value in medical research.30、 According to Allen, why did the people do better with pets around when facing stressful tasks?A. They have lower blood pressure.B. They become more patient.C. They are less nervous.D. They are in higher spirits.31、The research mentione

35、d in the last paragraph reports that.A. people with dogs did more exerciseB. dogs lost the same weight as people didC. dogs liked exercise much more than people didD. people without dogs found the program unhelpfulDA 10-year-old boy decided to study judo（ 柔道）although he had lost his left arm in a te

36、rrible car accident.The boy began lessons with an old Japanese judo sensei（ 老師）.The boy was doing well, but he couldn ' t understand why, after three months of training, the master had taught him only one move.“Sensei, " the boy finally said,“shouldn ' t I be learning more moves? "

37、T This is the only move you know, but this is the only move you' ll ever need to know,sensei replied.Not quite understanding, but believing in his teacher, the boy kept training.Several months later, the sensei took the boy to his first tournament（錦標(biāo)賽）.Surprising himself, the boy easily won his

38、first two matches. The third match proved to bemore difficult, but after some time, his opponent（對(duì)手）became impatient and charged; the boy quickly used his one move to win the match.Still amazed by his success, the boy was now in the finals.This time, his opponent was bigger, stronger, and more exper

39、ienced. For a while, the boy appeared to be overmatched. The referee（裁判）was afraid that the boy might get hurt, so he decided to call a timeout. He was about to stop the match when sensei stopped him.“No," the sensei insisted,“l(fā)et him continue. ”As the match carried on, his opponent made a big

40、mistake: he dropped his guard, Instantly, the boy had won the match and the tournament. He was the mind.“Sensei, how did I win the tournament with only one move?“Youwon for two reasons, " sensei answered. " Fiyou ' valmost mastered one of the most difficult throws in all of judo. Secon

41、d, the only know defense（ 防彳卸）for that move is for your opponent to hold your left arm.32、What does the underlined word“ overmatched " mean in the passage?A. Be more energetic. B. Be badly beaten.C. Be strong-minded. D. Be of low spirit.33、Why could the boy win the tournament with only one move

42、?A. Because he was brave and skillful.B. Because his right arm was quite strong.C. Because his opponents were impatient.D. Because he mastered the hardest move.34、Which of the following is right?A. The boy lost his left arm in a terrible accident at the age of 10.B. The boy understood why his sensei

43、 taught him only one move.C. The only way for the opponent to win the boy is to catch his left arm.D. The sensei stopped the referee to call a timeout because the boy might get hurt.35、The write of the passage wants to tell us.A. a story of a boy without left arm B. a story of a good Judo senseiC. h

44、old on to the lastD. weakness can be strength（非選擇題共42分）四、閱讀表達(dá)閱讀下面短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的填空里填入一個(gè)最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~。Body language sometimes speaks louder than words. Body language can tell you whether someone is happy to see you or not. One of the most important things that body language can tell, however, is whether

45、a person is lying or not. Here' s how can decide whether someone is tellingyou the truth or not, based on body language alone.The eyes are said to be the windows of the soul and of the things that the little windows will show you is whether someone is honest or not. When talking to people, look

46、at their eyes and pay attention to whether they are turning away from your closes watch or not. People are usually uncomfortable when lying to the person that they are talking to. Besides lying, eyes that have a lotof movement usually show that the person is about to lie or that the person has told

47、a lie.People who lie often touch their noses and other parts of their faces. If you notice that someone talking to you unconsciously（無(wú)意識(shí)地） touches his nose, this probably means that he is lying,. The reason why people touch their faces when they lie is that lying usually causes an increase in blood

48、circulation（血循環(huán)）,leading to an uncomfortable feeling in the small blood vessels（M管）in the nose or in the face.According common body language suggestion that someone is lying is when a person crosses his arms. Crossing the arms means that the person is both being defensive（ 防御的） and shutting himself

49、off. People who are telling the truth will usually make an open gesture（ 姿勢(shì)）with the arms on the side to show that they are not hiding anything. However, people will cross their arms when they are lying.If you plan to use body language to tell whether someone is lying or not, make sure that you are

50、noticed and that you are looking in the face and the person' s body all at the same time.TitleHow to read truth in body languageThemeYou can tell whether what someone says is（36）or not by body language.（37）Eyes When talking to people, pay attention to if they ' rerning away when you closely

51、watch them. The person perhaps tells lies if he looks away from your eyes or his eyes （38） a lot.TouchingIf people touch their noses or other parts of face, they probably lie. This is because lying usually （39）anuncomfortable feeling in the blood vessels.Crossed armsThis is a common body language that（40） someone is lying.五、詞匯（共8小題；每小題1分，滿分8分）A）根據(jù)句子意思，用括號(hào)中所給的正確形式填空，每空填一詞。41. These com