广东省深圳市宝安区西乡中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期10月月考英语试卷

2023-2024学年第一学期 初三英语

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第一卷 选择题（50分）

I. 完形填空（10分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no money to get food for his large family. “You look ___1___. Why don’t you work?” I asked. “Simply because I cannot get work, sir.” “If I give you work, what pay do you want?” “As long as I can get bread for my family, sir.” he answered.

I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. “OK. I’ll give you one pound an hour, if you ___2___ a brick（砖块）under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping.” “Thank you, sir. I will.”

I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my ___3___. I never thought he would do what he had said.

When I came back five hours later, I saw him still ___4___, with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him five pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had ___5___ to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He said they would give him work directly, but he ___6___. Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the ___7___, I did.

Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he ___8___ that he was the brick man and had his own business now. “You know, I still keep that brick and always consider it as the most ___9___ thing I have because it has brought me luck and success.”

In fact, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness（坚定）in doing ___10___ a very little thing.

1. A. strong    B. young    C. smart    D. honest

2. A. break    B. carry    C. fix    D. hide

3. A. business   B. home    C. bookshop   D. office

4. A. crying    B. talking    C. doing    D. walking

5. A. continued   B. forgotten   C. offered   D. refused

6. A. accepted   B. refused   C. ran    D. walked

7. A. bread    B. pay    C. brick    D. job

8. A. explained   B. imagined   C. realized   D. supposed

9. A. beautiful   B. important   C. expensive   D. interesting

10. A. even    B. nearly    C. so    D. out

II. 阅读理解（40分）

第一节 阅读下列短文，从下面每题的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

The singer and actress Eartha Kitt was born into a poor family in South Carolina in1927. When Eartha was eight, her stepfather（继父）didn’t want Eartha to live with them. She was sent to New York City to live with an aunt. The relationship was difficult. The aunt helped pay for piano and dance lessons for Eartha. But she also treated the girl badly.

Eartha lived on the streets and worked in a factory as a young teenager. But she kept up her dance lessons. One day, she decided to try out for a famous African-American dance company called the Katherine Dunham Company. Soon, Eartha was performing in shows around the world with the company.

In Paris, Eartha left the dance company to sing in a nightclub. Her voice was unusual. People there liked her singing. She learned French quickly and had many French fans.

The film director Orson Welles discovered Eartha singing in Paris. He called her “the most exciting woman in the world”. Welles asked her to play a lead part in a play that he was directing（执导）and also playing a part in. Later, Eartha returned to NewYork and appeared in the Broadway show New Faces of 1952. A humorous song she sang about a bored, spoiled woman became famous. Eartha appeared in the 1957 movie The Mark of the Hawk. She was very careful about choosing her roles in films. Her other films in the 1950s included St. Louis Blues and Anna Lucasta. Throughout the rest of the 1950s and early 1960s, Kitt recorded, worked in films, television, and nightclubs, and returned to the Broadway stage. In 1964, Kitt helped open the Circle Star Theater in San Carlos, California. In the late 1960s, she played “Catwoman” in the television series Batman. This role made her really famous.

11. What can we know about Eartha when she was young?

A. She lived with her stepfather all the time.

B. She lived happily with her aunt.

C. She had a difficult relationship with her aunt.

D. She had no chance to learn to dance.

12. What did Eartha do in the Katherine Dunham Company?
 A. She sang in clubs.      B. She danced in shows.

C. She taught dance lessons.     D. She played a role in a play.

13. What made people in Paris like Eartha’s singing?

A. Her unusual face.      B. Her special voice.

C. Her good French.      D. Her unusual beauty.

14. How did Eartha become an actress?

A. By calling herself the most exciting woman in the world.

B. By discovering Orson Welles playing a part in New Faces.

C. By playing a lead part in a play directed Orson Welles.

D. By singing a song about a bored and spoiled woman.

15. What did the writer mainly want to tell us about Eartha in the last paragraph?

A. The movies she liked best.     B. Her great film The Mark of the Hawk.

C. Her career in the 1950s and 1960s.   D. The film that made her really famous.

B

Spider monkeys are.New World primates（灵长类）. They get their names because they have very long limbs（四肢）and tails, which make them look like spiders. They are often seen with their limbs on different branches.

Spider monkeys can be in tropical forests of Central and South America, from southern Mexico to Brazil. They are 35 to 66 centimeters long and weigh 13 to 26 pounds. They have long tails that they use to catch tree branches, kind of like a 5th hand.

Spider monkeys live in groups. One group usually has dozens of spider monkeys. They communicate with each other through screeches（尖叫声）. A night, spider monkeys break off into smaller sleeping parties of about half a dozen or fewer. Unlike many other primates, males（雄性）stay together throughout their lives with the females. They leave their first groups to find another group.

When they go out to look for food, spider monkey groups take separate actions in order to avoid competition for it. They mainly eat fruit and nuts. They also eat other things like insects, honey, leaves, spiders and bird eggs. Spider monkeys actually play an important part in the spreading of seeds throughout the South American rain forests. Enemies that they need to keep an eye out for include animals like lions and crocodiles.

Spider monkeys are dying out. Woodcutting, which leads to the loss（丧失）of their natural living places, is playing a big role in their loss. These monkeys are also hunted for food, or to sell as pets. Spider monkeys are actually one of the most popular monkey pets around because of their look and their behavior. We must do something to protect them. After all, such good and interesting monkeys should live with humans for many years to come.

16. Why do spider monkeys get their names?

A. Because of their living habits.    B. Because of the sounds they make.

C. Because of the food they eat.    D. Because of their appearance.

17. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. It can use its tail as a hand.     B. It can only live in Mexico.

C. It stays in one group all its life.    D. It usually weighs 13 to 26 kilograms.

18. What does the underlined word “it” in Paragraph 4 refer to?

A. The action.        B. The food.

C. The group.        D. The spider monkey.

19. Which paragraph shows why spider monkeys are endangered?
 A. Paragraph 2.  B. Paragraph 3.  C. Paragraph 4.  D. Paragraph 5.

20. What does this passage mainly show us?

A. Some facts about spider monkeys.

B. The living places of spider monkeys.

C. The food spider monkeys like eating.

D. Some ways to protect spider monkeys.

第二节 短文填空

以下是一篇短文。请阅读全文并从下列方框里的六个句子中选择五个还原到原文中，使原文的意思完整、连贯。

Why do you open a school? If you ask Nadia Lopez this question, she would simply answer: to close a prison. Lopez is the founder of Mott Hall Bridges Academy, a public school in Brooklyn. ___21___

To set up the school, Lopez faced many challenges. The greatest challenge was to get in touch with children without hope. At first, Lopez only had 45 kids. She once asked some girls, “___22___” The answer was, “I don’t know if I’m going to live that long.” or “I have a lifelong goal of working in a fast-food restaurant nearby.” These students had no idea that there were great chances outsider their neighborhood.

___23___ And they have tried their best to keep their students active an hopeful. “We call our students students ‘scholars（学者）’ because they are lifelong learners. I chose the colors purple and black to remind students that they are excellent. ___24___ They can be future engineers, scientists and even leaders who can and will take over this world,” Lopez said.

A popular New York blogger heard about the school and wrote a post about it, telling people how the children struggled（挣扎）, and why people must make education the most important thing. ___25___ About 1.4 million dollars were raised for the school and its students got to take field trips to colleges and universities.

“Up to now, we have had three graduating classes（毕业班）. They have nearly 200 children,” said Lopez.

第三节 信息匹配

下面的材料A-F是六条建议，请根据下面各题中人物的情况，帮他们选择合适的建议，并将其标号填入题前括号内。

A. Students should listen to the teacher carefully in class. You should listen to your physics teacher carefully to make progress in that subject and finish your homework on time. You should also ask your physics teacher for help.

B. You should visit your grandparents every weekend to help them clean the house and do some housework. Then, you should call them every two days to make them happy. You can also draw some pictures to send them as gifts.

C. You should talk with your parents first to find out why they don’t allow you to watch TV. Then, you can tell your parents watching TV or playing computer games for a short time is also necessary because you also need some time to have fun.

D. You can send an email to your headteacher to tell the teacher that you don’t like the rules. You can discuss the school rules with the headteacher. The headteacher may make different rules if you have good reasons.

E. You should call your friend or leave a message to your friend to talk about it. Maybe your friend just forgot to invite you. Good friends should tell each other their own feelings. Then, you will be happy again.

F. The first thing to do is to say sorry to your father. Students should also help parents do housework when they have time. Then, you have to change your attitude towards housework and help parents do housework as much as possible.

26. Dick isn’t happy these days. He can't watch TV or play computer games at home on weekends. The only thing he can do is read different books.

27. Jimmy doesn’t like the school rules because he can’t listen to music in school. The headteacher says students shouldn’t be allowed to take music players to school.

28. Sarah is very worried about her physics now She usually doesn’t finish her physics homework. What’s more, she doesn’t listen to the teacher carefully in physics classes.

29. John had an argument（争吵）with his father yesterday, because he was asked to do some housework. But John thought students shouldn’t be asked to do any housework.

30. Amy is a little sad these days. Her best friend didn’t invite her to the birthday party. Amy thinks good friends should share happy things with each other.

第二卷 非选择题（25分）

III. 语法填空（10分）

阅读下面短文，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Zhu Yanjun won the second place in the Chinese Poetry Competition for his excellent poetry skills.

Born in ___31___ village in Jingning County, Gansu Province, Zhu only received primary and middle school education. His love for ___32___(read) poetry and books came from his Chinese teacher who has published many ___33___(article) in magazines. “I also wanted to publish stories, ___34___ I started to read,” he told China Daily.

Although Zhu left school so early, he didn’t stop his poetic journey. He worked ___35___ more than 10 cities. Whenever he got to a city, he visited the bookstores and libraries there. He took a notebook to write down paragraphs from books and recite（背诵）___36___(they).

Most of his favorite poems from the Tang Dynasty, and some of them ___37___(write) by Chairman Mao Zedong. Why? Because he found them easy ___38___(remember). Over the years, he has read thousands of poems and he can recite more than 1,000 of them now.

Reading poetry ___39___(help) Zhu stay calm and he never complains about hard work. “Whenever I face any difficulty, I think of a famous saying ‘Nothing in the world is difficult for one who sets his mind to it’,” he told China Daily.

Zhu’s children were ___40___(interest) in poetry too. They were accepted into universities in different cities.

IV. 书面表达（15分）

下周，你们班将举行主题为“The person I admire”的英文演讲比赛，请你根据以下信息，写一篇演讲稿，向大家介绍丁真珍珠。

提示词：

四川文化旅游宣传大使（the promotion ambassador of Sichuan culture and tourism）；做出贡献（make contribution to）；自身形象（self-image）

要求：

1. 词数80左右（开头已给出，不计入总词数）；

2. 要点齐全，可适当发挥；

3. 不得出现真实姓名和校名；

4. 条理清楚，语句通顺，意义连贯，书写规范。

Good morning, everyone! I’d like to make a speech about Tenzin Tsundue.

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参考答案

I. 完形填空（10分）

1~5  ABDDC  6~10 BBABA

II. 阅读理解（40分）

11~15 CBBCC  16~20 DABDA  21~25 CBEDA

26~30 CDAFE

III. 语法填空（10分）

31. a; 32. reading; 33. articles; 34. so; 35. in

36. them; 37. were written; 38. to remember; 39. helps; 40. interested

IV. 书面表达（15分）

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