2022-2023学年吉林省长春市榆树市第二实验中学英语九年级第一学期期末质量跟踪监视试题含解析.doc

2022-2023学年九上英语期末模拟试卷
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Ⅰ. 单项选择
1、Lily is my classmate. We each other since she came to our school.
A．know B．knew C．have known D．will know
2、—How is everything going in the school , my boy?
A．I am all right , thank you. B．Not at all.
C．Not too bad, I guess. D．Very well, thank you.
3、—Sam，I called you yesterday，but you were not at home.
—Oh，I at my aunt's.
A．am B．was C．have been D．will be
4、Could you tell me which best among the books on sale?
A．is sold B．sells C．are written D．writes
5、________weather it is! We can’t go boating today.
A．What good B．What terrible C．How terrible
6、—Hi, Li Mei. How is your new school?
—Fantastic. We can choose the course according to our . I love operas, so I took the Beijing Opera class.
A．interests B．talents C．grades D．experiences
7、―I want to borrow the detective novel written by Agatha Christie，but I don’t know how long it can ______.
―For two weeks.
A．keep B．return C．be kept D．be returned
8、It is a pity he lost his way in the forest and had to stay there for the whole night.
A．that B．when C．where D．who
9、You must promise me that you’ll survive, that you won’t give up, no matter what happens, no matter ______ hopeless.
A．what B．when C．how D．who
10、I saw Sam and David in the playground yesterday afternoon They games with their classmates then.
A．play B．will play C．are playing D．were playing
Ⅱ. 完形填空
11、 Tom is only five years old. He likes cartoons(卡通片).When there are cartoons on 1 he always 2 them until they are over. He thinks that they are 3 . So he sometimes goes to bed 4 . In the morning, his mother has to wake him up. Or 5 will be late for school. His mother is worried about him, and sometimes, she even gets angry.
Yesterday. Tom heard there would be an interesting cartoon on TV. In the 6 , when he got up, he turned on the TV, 7 he didn't see the program on it. He had to have 8 and then went to school. After school, he ran home. When he got home, he turned on the TV, but he couldn't find the cartoon. He 9 his mother for help.
“It's only five o'clock now," said his mother. "The cartoon will be on 10 dinner.”
"Well, let's have dinner right now!”
1．A．the phone B．TV C．the Internet
2．A．watches B．looks C．talks
3．A．boring B．tiring C．interesting
4．A．quickly B．early C．late
5．A．his B．he C．him
6．A．morning B．afternoon C．evening
7．A．and B．but C．so
8．A．breakfast B．lunch C．dinner
9．A．went B．asked C．talked
10．A．before B．after C．for
Ⅲ. 语法填空
12、短文填空
Some people think that they 1．(get) ill if they use their brains（大脑）too much. It is not true. Through many researches, scientists 2．(show) us that the more you use your brains, the better they 3．(be), and the wiser you will become.
Of course, if you want to keep your mind clear and be energetic（充满活力的）, you 4．(take) a proper rest and study properly. To the teenagers 5．(use) their brains in the morning is good for their health.
There are many ways 6．(rest). One is a peaceful rest. Sleep is a peaceful rest. Another is an active rest. For example, 7．(take) a walk outdoors, do morning exercises every day. 8．(change) the way of the brains’ activities（活动）is also a good way to rest. In everyday life, 9．(eat) some eggs, meat, fresh vegetable and fruit is also good for the brains. 10．(wish) you a wise man and a happy life.
Ⅳ. 阅读理解
A
13、Mark began to introduce the guest speaker to the listeners, but then stopped for a while. He had forgotten her name.
Barbara hid her valuable things when she went on vacation. When she came back, she couldn’t remember where she’d put them.
Perhaps you’ve had such experiences like these. Most people have. But most of them haven’t realized that they have a memory problem. Neither do they know a simple but important fact: Memory can be improved. If you just accept that, the following will show you how.
First, relax. If you are over worried about something, you’ll forget it. If you keep telling yourself that your memory is bad, your mind will come to believe it and you won’t remember things. When you forget something, don’t follow up with saying like “Oh, my god! I always forget things! ” Such words will have a bad result on you and your memory.
But relaxing isn’t enough. To improve your memory, you’ll need to take an active role. Like your body, your memory can be made strong through exercise. Look for chances to exercise your memory. For example, if you’re learning a language, try to actively remember a lot of new words.
If you don’t take notice of things actively, you won’t remember them. So, you can make pictures of what you see in your mind every day. For example, don’t just put your keys down! If you want to find them again, make a mind picture of the place where you’re putting them.
1．The first two paragraphs just tell us ________.
A．examples of memory problems
B．Barbara was a very rich person
C．language problems of two persons
D．Mark often forgot his friends’ names
2．When you forget things, you ________.
A．must be too careless
B．must accept the fact
C．should be confidence in your memory
D．can know your memory is bad
3．According to the article, ________ can make your memory better.
A．doing sports every day
B．talking to your friends
C．realizing your memory problems
D．making mind pictures of what you see
4．The purpose of the article is to help you________.
A．introduce the guest B．improve your memory
C．remember new words D．forget unhappy things
B
14、Mark Twain is someone Americans are taught to love. Older relatives, English teachers and the media always praise him. But when you actually take the time to read The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you find that his work is more wonderful than you could ever imagine.
The novel describes a young boy named Tom Sawyer growing up in a small town along the Mississippi River. He explores the countryside on a riverboat with his friends, falls in love with girls, starts secret clubs and searches for treasure. Twain’s idea of childhood is magical – a time of imagination, wonder and, of course, adventure.
More importantly, through the eyes of Tom Sawyer, Twain cleverly makes fun of US culture. For example, Tom hates going to church, and Twain uses scenes of Tom there to mock religion and its old traditions.
Twain’s writing is full of these kinds of critical (批判的) points about culture and politics. That’s why he is so loved in the US – he wasn’t afraid to state his opinions, and he did so clearly.
He also believed strongly in women’s right to vote in elections and gave a famous speech on the subject, called “Votes for Women”, in 1901.
“Tom was a great hero once more – the pet of the old, the envy of the young,” Twain writes in Tom Sawyer. But he could just as well be describing himself.

1．According to the writer, after reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, you are likely to think _______.
A．it’s not worth all the praise
B．it’s as wonderful as you imagined
C．it’s better to read it with teachers
D．it’s even better than you imagined
2．What is Paragraph 2 mainly about?
A．A brief description of the novel.
B．Where Twain’s idea of childhood comes from.
C．How naughty and adventurous Tom Sawyer is.
D．What makes Tom Sawyer’s adventures so wonderful.
3．What does the underlined word “mock” mean?
A．make changes to B．make fun of
C．give reasons for D．give examples of
4．Why is Twain so loved in the US according to the article?
A．He supported women’s right to vote.
B．He wrote bad things about US wars abroad.
C．He criticized American culture and society clearly and cleverly
D．He showed readers a magical childhood that everyone would love.
C
15、Although most people believe that laughter is one of the nature’s great treatments for a whole range of mental and physical diseases, it is still a serious scientific subject that researchers are trying to figure out.
“Laughter above all else is a social thing,” says Baltimore neuroscientist(神经科学家), Robert Provine, who has studied laughter for many years. “All laughter groups laugh ‘ha-ha-ha’ basically the same way. Whether you speak Mandarin, French or English, everyone will understand laughter. There is a pattern generator(发生器) in our brain that produces this sound.”
Laughing is our first way of communicating. Babies laugh long before they speak. No one teaches them how to laugh. They just do. People may laugh at a prank(恶作剧) on April Fools’ Day. But surprisingly, only 10 to 15 percent of laughter is the result of someone making a joke. Laughter is mostly about social responses rather to a joke. Deaf people laugh without hearing and people on cell phones laugh without seeing, showing that laughter isn’t dependent on single sense but on social interactions.
And laughter is not just a people thing. Chimps tickle(挠痒) each other and even laugh when another chimp pretends to tickle them.
Jaak Panksepp, a Bowling Green University Psychology professor, studies rats that laugh when he tickles them. It turns out rats love to be tickled — they return again and again to the hands of researchers tickling them.
By studying rats, scientists can_____what’s going on in the brain during laughter. Northwestern University biomedical engineering professor, Jeffrey Burgdorf has found that laughter in rats produces a chemical that acts as an antidepressant(抗抑郁药). He thinks the same thing probably happens in humans, too. This would give doctors a new chemical target to develop drugs that can fight depression.
Even so, laughter itself has not been proved to be the best medicine, experts said. Margaret Stuber, a professor at University of California, studied whether laugher helped patients. She found that distraction(分心) and mood improvement helped, but she could not find a benefit of laughter alone.
“No study has shown that laughter produces a direct health benefit,” Provine said, mainly because it’s hard to separate laughter from just feeling good. But he thinks it doesn’t really matter: “Isn’t the fact that laughter feels good when you do it enough?”
1．（小题1）The underlined word “figure out” in Paragraph 6 means “________”.
A．deal with B．work out
C．look out of D．come up with
2．（小题2）According to the passage, scientists studied rats in order to find ______.
A．how they laugh
B．if they like laughing
C．what laughter in rats produces
D．how rats react while being tickled
3．（小题3）What can we know from Robert Provine’s research?
A．Laughter makes a person feel good.
B．Laughter produces a direct health benefit.
C．Laughter depends on all kinds of senses.
D．Laughter is a way of communicating.
4．（小题4）What is probably the best title for this passage?
A．Why Rats Laugh
B．When Laughter Happens
C．How Laughter Works
D．Why Laughter Matters
D
16、 Captain(船长) Nemo invited me and my friends to go hunting with him in the forests of Crespo Island. I asked him why he was so interested in Crespo Island, “I thought you preferred the sea to being on land.”
“I do,” replied the captain. “But these forests are under the sea.”
After going through a door, we were about ten metres under the water. The light from the sun reached us. Everything looked very colourful. We were going deeper and deeper. At 100 metres deep, we could see quite well, and Captain Nemo stopped and pointed to some dark shapes. This was the forest. The “trees” in the forest were giant seaweed(海草), and all their “branches” were vertical(垂直的).We could not stop looking at them. Fish swam around the branches like birds in a forest. 
Suddenly, I saw a large sea spider about a metre tall. It was going to attack me. Captain Nemo's man killed it with his gun, but it reminded me that the sea could be as dangerous as it was beautiful. When we reached 150 metres, it was dark. The sun's light could not reach this depth(深度). We turned on our lights. We could see about 20 metres around us. Finally, we found Crespo Island—where a steep rock wall rose in front of us.
We could go no further, so we walked back towards the Nautilus. Suddenly, Captain Nemo stopped and shot an animal with his gun, it was a beautiful and rare sea otter(水獭). At last, we could see the Nautilus. Several large sharks swam over us. Luckily they didn't see us. We re-entered the Nautilus safely. I was tired but amazed by what I had seen.
1．What do “dark shapes” in Paragraph 3 refer to(指的是)?
A．Trees. B．Seaweed. C．Rocks. D．Fish.
2．According to the passage, which is the correct order?
①Captain Nemo's man killed a sea spider.
②The men returned to the Nautilus.
③The men went to the forest.
④Captain Nemo invited us to go hunting.
⑤Captain Nemo shot an otter.
A．④①③⑤③ B．③④②⑤① C．④③①⑤② D．③④①⑤②
3．What is the best title of the story?
A．A Visit to a Sea Forest B．Death Under the Sea
C．Captain Nemo and the Nautilus D．Attacked by Giant Spide
E
17、Tigers are terrible animals, but a cat is a cute animal. As a mother, the Chinese-American writer Amy Chua is just a tiger . Her book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (《虎妈战歌》) tells us how she gives her two children education. She says that being strict is the only way to train a child’s talent. Her kids had to obey the following rules. To begin with, her kids weren’t allowed to watch TV or play computer games. Then, they were not allowed to “ hang out ” with other kids after school. They had to be the top students in their class. And they had to practice the piano and the violin for hours every day. Of course, she believes this has brought a lot of problems for herself and her kids. But she doesn’t mind because her kids have become great. Chua says, like her, most Asian mothers are tigers because they believe their children can achieve a lot if they’re pushed hard enough. She says American mothers are really cats. They care more about their children’s self-respect (自尊). They don’t want to be strict with their kids because this may hurt their feelings. With soft words and understanding, they encourage their children to choose for themselves. So is a tiger mom better than a cat mom? It may also depend on the child.
1．The writer of this passage wants to _________.
A．tell that Tigers are terrible animals, but a cat is a cute animal.
B．tell us Amy Chua how to give children education.
C．tell the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is about animals.
D．tell that most Asian mothers are cats
2．What does Amy Chua think of training a child’s talent?
A．She says that being strict is the only way to train a child’s talent
B．She says that being soft is the best way to train a child’s talent
C．She says that teaching is the only way to train a child’s talent
D．She says that making the rules is the only way to train a child’s talent
3．To begin with, her kids weren’t allowed to
A．watch TV.
B．play computer games
C．“ hang out ” with other kids af