2015学年第二学期天河区“五校”联考

九年级英语

一、语法选择(共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分)

I know a little girl called Lucy. I used to watch her ____1____ basketball every day from my kitchen window. One day I asked her why she practiced so ____2____. She said: “I would like to go to college. The only way is ____3____ a scholarship. I like basketball and I want to be the ____4____ player in the college. And my dad told me if there is a will, there is a way.” She never changed ____5____ mind to be a basketball player.

I watched her through those junior high years and into senior high school. One day before she graduated ____6____ high school, I saw her sitting on the grass ____7____.

I asked her what was wrong. Here was the story. Her coach said she was ____8____ a short girl that she couldn’t be a good basketball player and she should stop ____9____ about going to college. She was heartbroken and ____10____ also made me feel sad.

However, after a while, she smiled and ____11____ me her father thought the coach was wrong. He did not understand the power of dream. Her father said to her: “If you really want to play for the scholarship of a good college, nothing but you yourself can ____12____ your dream.”

The next year, she and her team joined in a big game. She ____13____ by a coach of a famous college team and was offered a scholarship to the ____14____ basketball team of their college. She was about to get the college education ____15____ she had dreamed of and worked towards for all those years.

“If your dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.” It is true.

1. A. to play                 B. plays          C. play                  D. played 

2. A. many                   B. much         C. most                 D. more 

3. A. to get                   B. get             C. got                   D. gets  

4. A. better                   B. good          C. well                  D. best 

5. A. her                      B. hers           C. herself.             D. she 

6. A. in                        B. to                     C. from                 D. at 

7. A. sad                      B. sadly          C. sadness              D. sadder 

8. A. too                      B. such           C. so                     D. very 

9. A. dream                  B. to dream    C. dreams             D. dreaming 

10. A. it                       B. its              C. it’s                   D. these 

11. A. tell                            B. tells           C. had told            D. told 

12. A. stopped                     B. stop           C. stops                D. stopping 

13. A. saw                    B. was seeing  C. was seen            D. see 

14. A. women’s            B. woman’s    C. womans’           D. womens’

15. A. whom                B. who           C. that                   D .where 

 

二、完形填空(共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分)

Once, in a small village, lived a family with eight children. Two of the children loved ____16____very much. But the family was so poor that it was ____17____to send both of them to study at the art university at the same time. After many discussions, the two boys finally worked out a plan. They would toss(抛) a coin. The loser would go down into the mines (煤矿) with his ____18____ and pay for his brother's fee for the university. And, when the brother who won the toss finished his studies, after four years, he would ____19____ the other brother to study at the university.
     James____20____ the toss and Jack went down into the mines. James worked with all his heart and his paintings were even better than those of most of his teachers, and by the time he____21____, he began to make a lot of money.   

James ____22____home. When he told Jack to go to the art university, Jack said____23____, "Brother, the four years in the mines has done too much to my hands, so it’s too ____24____.Now I can’t even hold a pen. "

   To show his great love and respect, James drew his brother's ____25____with fingers pointing towards the sky. He called his drawing "The Praying Hands", which became very famous later.

 

16. A. swimming          B. skating              C. painting                   D. dancing

17. A. important           B. possible            C. unimportant             D. impossible 

18. A. family                B. money                     C. art                           D. college

19. A. pay                   B. support             C. provide                   D. feed

20. A.won                   B. lost                  C. liked                       D. accepted

21. A. waited                      B. graduated         C. studied                    D. worked

22. A. returned             B. left                  C. came                       D. gathered 

23. A. happily              B. bravely             C. sadly                       D. angrily

24. A. late                   B. early                C. good                       D. old

25. A. legs                   B. feet                  C. arms                       D. hands

 

三、阅读理解(共两题，满分45分)

第一节阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分）

 (A)

There’re many rich people in this part of the country because gold was once found here. I was only a small child at that time. Men came from everywhere to look for gold. They bought all the ground near the banks of the river. They made big holes in it, trying to find more gold. Some men found a lot, and others could not find anything at all.

　　Peter Fullerton was one of those who came to find gold. He bought nearly the last piece of the ground. It was a long way from the river so no one else wanted to buy it. But Peter paid all his money for it. He worked hard month after month until the ground was full of holes. But Peter found nothing.

　　Then one night, just before he was going to leave, it began to rain. It rained for three days and three nights. When at last the rain stopped, Peter came out of his small wooden house and looked at his piece of ground. It didn't look the same now. The holes were not there anymore. But there were small plants everywhere.

　　“There may be no gold here,” Peter said, “but this ground is rich. I can grow things here.

I can grow flowers and I can sell them. The women in this town have money now. They have beautiful houses and they will want to put flowers in their houses. If I can grow good flowers here, I will make money, too.” So he did. And soon his piece of ground was covered with beautiful flowers. Later he was able to buy more fields until he owned all the ground near the river.

“I was the only man who found true gold here, ” he often said, “ The others took their gold out of the ground and went away. But my gold is still here.”

26.Why did many people come to this part of the country?

A. To buy the wooden houses.                   B. To sell gold.

C. To dig for gold.                                          D. To buy and sell gold.

27. What was the difference between Peter's ground and the other people's grounds?

A. It was near the bank of the river.           B. There was only a little gold in it.

C. It was covered by holes.                        D. It was far away from the river.

28.________ stopped Peter from leaving the ground.

A. The small wooden house                       B. A new idea of growing flowers

C. The small plants after the rain                D. The heavy rain

 

29. What did Peter mean when he said, "But my gold is still here"?

A. He became the richest man.

B. He could stay here forever.

C. He enjoyed flowers.

D. He made money from flowers year after year.

30. What does the writer want to tell us in this passage?

A. Peter was successful in planting flowers.

B. Peter became richer than any other people here.

C. Peter owned a lot of fields at last.

D. Peter found the best way to grow flowers

(B)

John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California on February 27, 1902. He attended Salinas High School between 1915 and 1919. At the age of 18, he studied marine (海洋的) biology at Stanford University but he left in 1925 without finishing his degree.

He began to write. And in his books, Steinbeck wrote about the hard lives of migrant(移居的) workers and the strength of the human spirit. At various times, during his early years of writing, Steinbeck also did various jobs to make a living. Hard lives could be read in his novels here and there.

Over his lifetime he wrote a lot of fiction and non-fiction. Of Mice and Men (1937) became Steinbeck’s first big success. His novel The Grapes of Wrath, which was published in 1939, brought him even greater success. A year later he won the Pulitzer Prize for this novel. It is also for this novel that he is best remembered. Many of his books have been put on films and theatres. The latest film version(版本) of one of his stories is Of Mice and Men, which was made in 1992.

Steinbeck was first married to Carol Henning in 1930. The marriage lasted for 12 years. In 1943 Steinbeck moved to New York City and he lived there for the rest of his life. He married the singer Gwyndonlyn Conger in 1943 and had two sons, Tom, born in 1944, and John, born in 1946. Steinbeck and his second wife divorced in 1948 and two years later he married his third wife, Elaine Scott.

In 1962 Steinbeck was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. And in 1964 President Lyndon B. Johnson presented him with the United States Medal of Freedom.

Steinbeck died of a heart attack in New York on December 20, 1968.

 

31. The passage tells us mainly about________.

A. Steinbeck’s life                                                     B. Steinbeck’s marriage

C. Steinbeck’s success                                                D. Steinbeck’s novels.

32. Steinbeck achieved his first success in ________.

A. 1929                          B. 1937                              C. 1939                              D. 1964

33. In paragraph 3, the underlined word “which” refers to“________”.

A. the latest film                                                      B. his stories

C. Of Mice and Men                                                 D. The Grapes of Wrath

34. In what order did the following things take place?

a. Steinbeck lived in New York City.

b. Steinbeck married Carol Henning.

c. Steinbeck received the United States Medal of Freedom.

d. Steinbeck left Stanford University.

e. Steinbeck won the Pulitzer Prize.

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

35. What can we infer from the passage?

A. Steinbeck became very famous as a writer when he was still a university student.

B. Steinbeck divorced three times during his life.

C. Steinbeck cared a lot for the lives of workers.

D. Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature after he died.

 

(C)

    CBC is a well-known air company which has over twenty planes flying along 12 fixed lines all over the world. Its service is very good but some passengers are still not satisfied with it and that is why in 2007 and 2008 the company received letters of complaints from consumers or passengers. Over a dozen kinds of problems are divided in groups in the following table.

Those about passengers’ things that are carried by the plane are baggage problems. Customer serve refers to service work which passengers are not satisfied with. Over sales (超额销售) of seats are about the fact that more seats are sold and as a result the plane is too crowded to be safe. Refund problems appear when passengers fail to receive the money that should be paid back to them because of what they have lost. Fares are problems about the price of tickets.

Consumer Complaints Received By the CBC

Category	2007	2008
Flight problems	20%	22.1%
Baggage	18.3%	21.8%
Customer service	3.1%	11.3%
Over sales of seats	10.5%	11.8%
Refund problem	10.1%	8.1%
Fares	6.4%	6.0%
Reservation & Ticketing	5.8%	5.6%
Tours	3.3%	2.3%
Smoking	3.2%	2.9%
Advertising	1.2%	1.01%
Credit	1.0%	0.8%
Special passengers	0.9%	0.9%
Others	6.0%	5.3%
Total Number of complaints	3,001	2,000

 

36. What does the underlined word “refund” mean?

A. 发现                         B. 基金                       C. 现金                       D. 退款

37.Which graph shows a white part that is about Flight problems and baggage problems in 2007 together?

 

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38. How many complaints about Credit were received by the CBC in 2007?

A.28                                    B.29                                   C.30                     D.31

39. From the passage we can know that ________

A. Customers are quite satisfied with CBC.

B. Sometimes CBC sells more tickets than its plane’s fixed seats.

C. CBC has more than twenty planes which fly to all the capital cities of the world.

D. Customers can only buy tickets with ready money.

40. This passage is a/an________.

A. advertisement           B. newspaper report             C. story                 D. science diary

 

(D)

About 20 years ago, Nissan introduced the world's first "talking car". Actually, it was just a recorded voice and it wouldn't stop telling you to close the door until you really heard and did it.

    Times have changed and the talking car of the near future is a car that you can talk to, rather than a car that talks to you. You'll be able to control your radio by giving voice orders. And you can get traffic reports or directions, and send or receive emails in the talking car. To do all these, you needn't push a button at all.

This is good news for those who spend more and more of their lives in their cars. In fact, the new type of cars will be more like offices on wheels because it has computers, wireless internet and satellite radio inside. Companies are hoping that time wasted in traffic could be put to better use. If workers are able to check their emails, faxes, and meeting time on the way to work, they can spend more time at the offices doing more important tasks.

Microsoft, of course, is hoping that every one of those mobile offices will use Windows. "It's a great goal. " says Dick Brass, VP of Microsoft's automotive division( 汽车分部)."But we'd like to have one of our operating systems in every car on earth. "There are already 650 million cars in the world, and every year about 50 million new cars roll off the production lines. If Brass' wish came true, cars could become a bigger business for Microsoft than computers.

 

41. When was the world's first "talking car" introduced?

A. About 10 years ago.            B. About 15 years later

C. About 20 years ago.            D. About 25 years later.

42. What can you give if you want to control the radio of the new talking car?

A. Music           B. Voice orders            C. Light         D. Energy

43. The underlined word "wireless" in the passage means_________.

A.带线的           B.无线的              C.带电的              D.无电的

44. Companies may be happy with the new type of cars because_________.

A. their workers will get to the office earlier

B. much time will be wasted in traffic

C. their workers will check emails, faxes and meeting time at home

D. their workers will have more time to do more important work at the offices

45. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? 

A. The new type of talking car has a recorded voice inside.

B. The talking car of the near future is a car that talks to you.

C. All of the mobile offices will use Windows.

D. About 50 million new cars are produced every year.

 

第二节 阅读填空（共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分）

 “Homestay is a form of study—abroad program. It allows the visitor to stay with a local family to better understand the local lifestyle. It also helps to improve the visitor’s language ability. If you wish to learn more about foreign cultures or to get foreign experience, you should join this kind of holiday. (46)_______”. Said a teacher during a school meeting last term.

 After this meeting, (47) ______. At last, I had such a chance to go on such a holiday with some of my schoolmates last month. We went to London, a place where I had wanted to go since years ago. 

 After we got to London, we went to stay with different families. I was lucky that my host family was very nice and they had a daughter about my age. (48)_______. They were interested in me and I learnt a lot of things from then on. 
     (49)________. After breakfast, a local teacher would come to take us in his car. Then we would have classes or go on a sight—seeing trip to different places of interest like Big Ben, London Bridge, and Buckingham Palace. We would go back to our own homes after the activities. 
     The holiday was a valuable experience for me. (50)_______. Three weeks later, we had to leave ‘home’ for Hong Kong.

A. I enjoyed every minute of it B. I am sure you won’t be disappointed C. I always thought about this kind of holiday D. They treated me as a daughter of their family E. The holiday was filled with activities every day

 

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）

51.Father’s day falls on the third Sunday in J________.

52.Since he was b________ hurt, please send him to hospital at once. 

53.The newly married c________ are having a very happy life. 

54.Before the Sun came out, the sky was very d________ and you could see nothing. 

55.Li Ping was very sad because he f________ in the English test yesterday. 

56.Our world is in d________ now, and we must do something to protect it. 

第二节 完成句子（共7小题，每小题2分，满分14分）

57.舞蹈和健康的饮食能使你越来越漂亮。

   Dancing and a healthy diet can make you ________ ________ ________ ________

58. 我们应该尽可能多地回收利用物品。

   We should also try to recycle ________ ________ things ________ we can.

59. 我想知道你是否已经买了电影票。

   I wonder ________ ________ ________ ________ the film ticket.

60. 这件衬衣太小了，我穿不了。

   The shirt is not ________ ________ ________ me ________ wear.

61. 滑雪的时候，保持身体平衡是很重要的。

   ________ important for you ________ ________ ________ while skating.

62. 根据奶奶的建议，这汤应该煮上两个小时以上。

According to grandma, the soup ________ ________ ________ for more than two hours.

63. 真是令人讨厌的天气！已经下了数天的雨了。

   ________ ________ weather! It’s been raining for several days.

第三节书面表达（共1题，满分15分）

人们对于“网上交友”持不同意见，请你就学生网上交友的事情，用英语写一篇短文，介绍人们的不同观点并表达你的看法。

内容提示：

赞成	1.可结交朋友； 2.可自由表达思想； 3.有利于学习外语。
反对	1.浪费时间，影响学习； 2.可能上当受骗。
你的看法	……（至少一点理由）

 

注意：（1）词数：80词左右（开头已给出，不记入总词数）；

（2）内容必须包括上表中的要点，可适当发挥，但不要逐字翻译；

（3）文中不能出现真实的校名和人名。

Should students make friends on line?

 

 

 

 

 

2015学年第二学期天河区“五校”联考

九年级英语参考答案

语法选择

1-5：CBADA        6-10：CBBDA             11-15：DBCAC

完形填空

16-20：CDBBA            21-25：BACAD

阅读理解

26-30：CDCDB            31-35：ABDBC            36-40：DCCBB            41-45:CBBDA

46-50:  BCDEA

单词拼写

51. June         52. badly        53. couples            54. dark         55. failed        56. danger

完成句子

57. more and more beautiful         58. as many as              59. if/whether you have bought

60. big enough for to            61. It’s to keep balance         62. should be cooked     63. What bad

书面表达：

 

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