江苏省苏州市西安交通大学附属初级中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试卷

这是一份江苏省苏州市西安交通大学附属初级中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试卷，共11页。试卷主要包含了字体工整,笔迹清楚， What des Mr等内容，欢迎下载使用。

注意事项:
1.本试卷满分120分,考试时间100分钟;
2.所有的答案均应书写在答题卷上,按照题号顺序答在相应的位置,超出答题区域书写的答案无效;书写在试题卷上、草稿纸上的答案无效;
3.字体工整,笔迹清楚。保持答题纸卷面清洁。
一、听力（共20小题,每小题1分,满分20分）
（一）听对话回答问题。本部分共有10道小题,每小题你将听到一段对话,每段对话听两遍。
1. Hw will the by g hme tday?
2. What is the wman cking?
3. What des Mary Smith lk like?
4. What des the wman d at 8:30?
5. What des the man suggest the wman d?
A. Eat less. B. Have a rest. C. Take sme medicine.
6. What is the wman ging t d n Friday?
A. G t a cncert. B. Visit her brther. C. Have dinner with the man.
7. What des the man want t d?
A. Read the bk. B. Return the bk. C. Put the bk away.
8. Why is the man upset?
A. He didn’t catch the bus.
B. He waited fr the bus in the rain.
C. He culdn’t get a seat n the bus.
9. Hw much chicken will the speakers buy?
A. One pund. B. Tw punds. C. Three punds.
10. What des Mr. Chen mst prbably d?
A. A teacher. B. A secretary. C. A student.
（二）听对话和短文回答问题。
你将听到一段对话和两篇短文,各听两遍。听每段对话或短文前,你将有时间阅读相关小题,每小题5秒钟;听完后,每小题你仍有5秒钟时间选择你认为最合适的备选答案。
听一段对话,回答第11-12小题。
11. What is the man's favrite music?
A. Western music. B. Pp music. C. Classical music.
12. What instrument is the man mst interested in?
A. The vilin. B. The guitar. C. The pian.
听第一篇短文,回答第13-15小题。请根据内容从A、B、C三个选项中选择正确答案,完成信息记录表。
The Tp Three Htels in Twn
Name
Rm
Cst
Other infrmatin
The Rialt
● 100 rms
● Mst rms with great
views f the 13.
Frm $120 a night fr a duble, a simple breakfast included
● In the city center
● Perfect fr a city break
The Plaza
A new htel with 80 rms
Frm $150 a night fr a duble
● Attracts lts f business peple as
well as turists
● Famus fr having the best 14.____
The Grand
One f the biggest htels
with 120 rms
Frm $15.
a night fr a duble
The ldest htel in the city
13. A. sea B. city C. muntain
14. A. psitin B. service C. breakfast
15. A.80 B.180 C.280
听第二篇短文,回答第16-20小题。
16. What is the speaker mainly talking abut?
A. The mvie theaters arund.
B. The gd mvies fr children.
C. The mvies n shw this weekend.
17. What des the speaker think f Get Me Out f Here?
A. Exciting. B. Scary. C. Funny.
18. What des Bella d in Falling fr Yu?
A. She ges skating. B. She has a car race. C. She camps in the wds.
19. Which mvie is fr children?
A. Dark Wds. B. Space Pigs. C. Andrmeda 25.
20. Why des Samuel L. Dawsn g n a jurney?
A. T meet Juan. B. T find a planet. C. T lk fr a her.
二、完形填空（共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分）
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
In February 2007, abut tw hundred paragliders （滑翔伞运动员） were in Australia t prepare fr the Wrld Champinship. They included Ewa Wisnierska, a German paragliding champin. One mrning, as the cmpetitrs were getting ready t take ff, they nticed that a terrible strm was cming. Hwever, they decided t 21 . After all, these were the best paragliders in the wrld.
Unluckily, as the cmpetitrs （参赛者） tk ff, the weather quickly became 22 . Ewa tried t get away frm the strm, but tw huge 23 came tgether and caught her.
The cluds pulled Ewa up inside the strm like a leaf in the 24 . She flew higher and higher, with lightning and hailstnes （冰雹） all arund her. "I was dreaming," she tld reprters afterwards. "The last thing I 25 . it was dark. I culd hear lightning all arund me."She 26 t abut 10,000 meters high and then lst all her senses. At that height, the temperature was abut -40℃.
After frty minutes Ewa wke up. She was still inside the strm. It was dark and hailstnes were 27 past. They were as big as tennis balls. Finally, Ewa came ut f the strm clud and jumped twards a small farm and landed 28 . She fell t the grund, t 29 t call fr help. When her team reached her, she was 60km away frm the place where she tk ff. She was cvered in ice-but alive!
Ewa was sent t a hspital fr treatment at nce, but a few days later, she cmpeted in the Wrld Champinship. "Flying is t fantastic t stp 30 an accident," she said.
21. A. get up B. turn n C. lk up D. carry n
22. A. clder B. cler C. wrse D. wetter
23. A. strms B. cluds C. birds D. hands
24. A. wind B. rain C. tree D. wrld
25. A. decide B. repeat C. cnsider D. remember
26. A. guided B. drve C. returned D. rse
27. A. flying B. walking C. crying D. pushing
28. A. cmfrtably B. safely C. sadly D. secretly
29. A. prud B. nervus C. weak D. brave
30. A. next t B. accrding t C. because f D. instead f
三、阅读理解（共15小题:每小题2分,满分30分）
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
31. The sngs fr the musical Oklahma! were written by _____.
A. Layne Tish B. Jnna McCarthy
C. Richard Rdgers and Oscar Hammerstein II D. Agnes De Mille and Layne Tish
32. What d the bldface （粗体字） headings tell us?
A. the names f actrs in the prductin B. histrical infrmatin abut Oklahma!
C. names f the musical’s sngs D. peple’s rles in the musical
33. Where wuld yu prbably find the name f a persn wh has a large singing and acting rle in the musical?
A. abve the title B. under the heading "Starring"
C. under the heading "Als with" D. under the heading "Directed by"
B
Yu must have read r heard f the sad lve stry between Jia Bayu and Lin Daiyu. But can yu imagine the tw singing pera in English instead f speaking petic Chinese?
Jia and Lin are tw characters frm the classic Chinese nvel A Dream f Red Mansins（《红楼梦》）, written by Ca Xueqin （1715-1763）. Nw the bk has been made int an English-language pera. After being perfrmed in San Francisc, the US, the perfrmance came t Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan in 2017.
Many f the pera's creatrs have backgrunds in bth Chinese and American cultures, including the directr and playwrights （剧作家）. Their understanding f bth cultures helped them change a Chinese classic int a freign-language pera.
The bk, which cvers the rise and fall f the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds f characters. But pera writer David Henry Hwang cut dwn the number f characters t just seven. Hwang, a Chinese-American, fcused n the lve stry between Jia and Lin and tried t write a tragedy （悲剧） that everyne wuld understand.
The art directr Timmy Yip, frm Hng Kng, tried t help freign peple understand the characters using cstumes （服装） and stage decratins. He cmpared Lin t water and gave her a light green cstume. When Lin shwed up n stage, there was usually water arund her n the stage.
The creatrs thught the wrk f intrducing a Chinese classic t Western audience was wrth ding. Hwang tld China Daily he was happy t "have made a cntributin （贡献） t the land where my parents were brn".
34. Where was the pera first perfrmed?
A. In Beijing. B. In Changsha. C. In San Francisc. D. In Wuhan.
35. What d we knw abut A Dream f Red Mansins frm Paragraph 4?
A. It is mainly abut the rise and greatness f the Qing Dynasty.
B. It tells the happy-ending lve stry between Jia and Lin.
C. The bk is lng and rich in characters.
D. The bk has seven characters in ttal.
36. The art directr cmpared Lin t water prbably because f her _____.
A. dressing style B. character C. appearance D. life habits
37. What can we infer frm the passage?
A. A Dream f Red Mansins has been translated int English.
B. Hwang's parents were brn in America.
C. The English-language pera was n tur in the US.
D. Timmy Yip knws a lt abut Chinese culture as well as American culture.
C
One day, Helen shuts, "Rger, cme and lk at the egg! It's cracking （裂开）."Slwly a lng beak （喙） appears. They are unsure what it is.
Dad checks n the cmputer, "Hey, lk! It's a pterdactyl（翼手龙）.""A pterdactyl?" shut the children. "Yes, it’s a type f dinsaur. Pterdactyls can fly," says Dad.
Then Helen names it Dacty.
A mnth later, he grws up. But there is smething wrng with his wings. "My rm is t small and Dacty keeps banging （碰撞） his wings n the walls. I feel srry fr him," says Helen. Finally, they take Dacty t a vet.
Tw weeks later, Dacty's wings are better. Hwever, he isn't willing t fly. They phne Aunt Elizabeth. Sn she arrives. "My ffice is very big. It’s perfect fr Dacty during the day. And at night, when the museum is empty, Dacty can fly arund happily."Then she takes them t the museum. On arriving, they take Dacty ut f the basket. He stretches （伸展） his wings, flies high up and lands n a stne statue.
"Lk, he likes here," shuts Helen. "Can he see in the dark?" asks Rger. "Yes, they see clearly in the dark, just like wls （猫头鹰）,"says Aunt Elizabeth.
Six mnths passes and Dacty is very big nw. One night, Dacty sees lights mving inside the museum. Tw men---Bert and Eric cme in with trches （手电筒）. They are wearing masks and trying t pen a case. Inside it is a mummy （木乃伊）. Suddenly Eric lks up and sees Dacty. He is very scared. "Lk, Bert, there is a huge bird up there."Bert lks up. Dacty desn’t mve, "Eric, dn't be silly. It’s nly a statue," says Bert."Cme n. I will pen the case. Yu lk fr the gld medallins （大奖章）."At the mment, Dacty flies dwn and catches Eric. The thief is very scared and he can't say anything. Dacty flies up and lifts him n tp f a statue. He’s stuck. At nce, Dacty flies dwn again and catches Bert, t. Bth f them are stuck there.
The next mrning, when Aunt Elizabeth cmes in, she sees the brken mummy case and the tw men. They are shuting ludly.
Dacty flies dwn t her. "Here yu are, Dacty," she says and pets his head. "Thank yu, yu did a great jb." Then she phnes the plice.
The mayr （市长） shakes Dacty's wing and puts a big shiny medal ver his head. "Cngratulatins, yu did a great jb."Then he turns t Aunt Elizabeth, "It’s great t have a big bird as a guard!"
"Dacty is a pterdactyl!" Rger says.
"Dacty is a her nw," says Aunt Elizabeth.
"A pterdacty!" shuts anther man. "Ww! They lve warm weather and jungles. I wrk in the Btanical Gardens （植物园）. We have a wnderful palm（棕榈） huse, big and warm, just like a jungle. He will lve there. Yu can cme t visit it anytime."
S nw Dacty is living in the Btanical Gardens. Rger and Helen visit him every day.
（Adapted frm The Surprise）
38. Hw des Dacty hurt his wings?
A. He plays games with the children. B. He falls ff the tree when flying.
C. He bangs n the walls in Helen’s rm. D. He practises flying in the museum.
39. Which wrd can best describe Dacty?
A. Curius. B. Hnest. C. Generus. D. Smart.
40. What is the crrect rder f what happens in the stry?
a. Dacty is taken t see a vet.
b. Helen names the pterdactyl Dacty.
c. Dacty lives in the Btanical Gardens.
d. The thieves steal things in the museum.
A. b-d-a-c B. d-a-b-c C. b-a-d-c D. c-d-a-b
41. What can we infer （推断） frm the stry?
A. All dinsaurs enjy cld weather and jungles.
B. Humans and animals shuld care abut each ther.
C. Children think it necessary t raise an animal at hme.
D. It is better fr a dinsaur t live with humans than in nature.
D
The scientific methd is used fr simple experiments （实验） that students may d in the classrm r very difficult experiments that scientists are ding all ver the wrld. It is a way f thinking that helps yu t avid drawing incrrect cnclusins.
There are usually fur steps in the scientific methd, including bservatin （观察）, hypthesis
（假设）, experiment, and cnclusin. The steps may nt always be cmpleted in the same rder, but the first step is usually bservatin and asking a questin abut yur bservatin. Fr example, yu had a sick stmach, and ate a candy bar. An hur later, yu bserved that yu felt much better. Here, yu can ask a questin, such as, "What makes a sick stmach feel better?"
The secnd step is t state a pssible answer t the questin, r a hypthesis, such as " " A gd hypthesis includes three things: The explanatin fr the bservatins, it is able t be tested, and it will usually predict new utcmes r cnclusins.
The third step is the experiment, t test the hypthesis. An experiment is a test which will either challenge r supprt the hypthesis. The hypthesis will then be true r false.
The final step is t think abut what happened when yu tested the hypthesis and draw a cnclusin. The cnclusin will either clearly supprt the hypthesis r it will nt. If the results supprt the hypthesis, a cnclusin can be written and yu can share it with the rest f the wrld. If it des nt supprt the hypthesis, yu may chse t change the hypthesis r write a new ne based n what was learned during the experiment.
42. Which sentence best expresses the main idea f the passage?
A. Hw d the fur basic steps in the scientific methd wrk?
B. What makes a gd hypthesis based n the bservatin?
C. The cnclusin will always clearly supprt the hypthesis.
D. Learning the scientific methd may help students succeed in science.
43. Which sentence shuld g in the empty bx in Paragraph 3?
A. A candy bar makes a sick stmach feel better.
B. It was the medicine yu tk an hur earlier that made yu feel better.
C. Eat a candy bar again, and see what happens t yur sick stmach.
D. Ask peple if eating a candy bar has made a sick stmach feel better.
44. What des the underlined wrd "it" in the last paragraph refer t （指的是）?
A. The hypthesis. B. The cnclusin. C. The questin. D. The bservatin.
45. Which f the fllwing sentences abut the experiment is TRUE?
A. An experiment is a test t always supprt the hypthesis.
B. An experiment des nt have t be part f the scientific methd.
C. An experiment is a test t either challenge r supprt a hypthesis.
D. An experiment is nly used when scientists are trying t prve a hypthesis.
四、信息还原（共5小题;每小题1分,满分5分）
请认真阅读下面短文,从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。选项中有两项为多余选项。
Bamb is a wnderful plant fr many peple arund the wrld. 46 Peple make tables, clthes, medicine, and musical instruments with it. Pandas may eat bamb every day, but peple can als eat it.
47 Sme bamb grws s quickly that peple say they can watch it grw. The speed f grwth depends n the type f bamb, the earth and the seasn. Nrmal bamb grws 3-10 cm a day. It usually grws in trpical （热带的） areas. 48 Bamb plants are fund in Asia, Australia, parts f Africa, and Suth America.
One f the wrld’s ldest building materials is bamb. Like tday, peple use it because it’s very strng. They used it t build huses, bats, and bridges. The Chinese made a bamb bridge ver the Min River in Sichuan, China almst 1000 years ag. 49 Als, bamb is still used t make huses tday, especially in China and Philippines.
As a part f histry, bamb is very imprtant. The great scientist Thmas Edisn did nt invent the light bulb （灯泡）, but he made it perfect. He wanted the material inside t burn fr a lng perid f time. He tried ver 1000 different types f materials. 50 One day, he tried t use a piece f bamb and the light bulb lit up fr ver a thusand hurs. This inventin helped ther scientists t make the mdem light bulb we use tday.
五、词汇运用（共13小题;每小题1分,满分13分）
第一节 根据下列句子所给汉语注释或首字母,在答题卡标有题号的横线上,写出空缺处各单词的正确。每空限填一词。
51. The music by the little girl is as wnderful as ther wrld-famus ________ （音乐家）.
52. What difficulty did they have ________ （录制） Happy Camp because f the bad weather?
53. --- Is that yur twin sister?
--- Yes. We lk s similar that we are ften ________ （误认为） fr each ther.
54.Our gvernment is develping lcal ________ （产业） t prvide mre jbs fr lcal peple.
55. Tm always makes mre mney than his brther. He is the w_________ f the tw.
56. Thugh Paris and Lndn are cities in different cuntries, they still share a lt in c________.
57. Daniel is thught h _________ f because he always tries his best t help peple in need.
58. U________ necessary, we are advised nt t drive n snwy days.
第二节 选词填空 请认真阅读下面短文,从方框中选择适当的单词或短语,在答题卡标有题号的横线上,填入其正确形式。每个单词或短语仅用一次。
Nw it is a great time t think abut getting yur garden, balcny r ther pen space ready fr spring. Grwing plants is gd fr the planet. Hwever, smetimes traditinal gardening can still harm the planet. S, why nt see if yu can change hw yu garden? If yu need cmpst （堆肥）, the peat-free （无泥炭的） ne is yur best 59 . It has 60 a base fr making gardeners’ cmpst, but it’s better fr the envirnment t leave in the grund. Yu shuld als try t avid 61 using plastic plts （小块土地）. Use sme envirnmental-friendly nes 62 the sil wn't be harmed. If yu buy plants in plastic pts, clean them up and be sure t recycle them 63 .
六、短文填空（共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分）
请认真阅读下面短文,在答题卡标有题号的横线上,填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Sapy was a hmeless man lking fr smewhere t stay during the winter. He sat n a seat in Madisn Square, New Yrk, and lked up at the sky. A 64 （die） leaf fell nt his arm. Winter was cming, and Sapy knw that he must make his plans. He mved 65 （happy） n his seat. He wanted three mnths in a nice, warm prisn （监狱）, with fd and gd friends. This was 66 he usually spent his winters. And nw it was time, because, at night n his seat in the square, three newspapers did nt keep ut the cld.
67 （ne）, he planned t eat in a restaurant withut paying, but the waiter lked at his clthes and wuld nt let him in. Then he brke a stre windw and waited fr the plice. When a plice fficer arrived at the stre, he did nt believe Sapy did it because Sapy did nt run away.
After trying several times in a day, Sapy failed t g t prisn. He 68 （begin） t walk back t Madisn Square and hme--- his seat.
But n a quiet crner, he suddenly stpped. Here, in the middle f the city, was a beautiful ld church （教堂）. 69 ne purple windw he culd see a sft light, and sweet music was 70 （cme） frm inside the church. The mn was high in the sky and everything was quiet. Fr a few 71 （secnd）, it was like a cuntry church. Sapy thught f the days when he had a mther, and friends, and beautiful things in his life.
Then he thught abut his pr life nw. And then a wnderful thing happened. Sapy decided t change his life and be a new man. "Tmrrw," he said t 72 （he）,"I'll g int twn and find wrk. My life will be gd again. I’ll …"
Just then, he felt a hand n his shulder. He jumped and lked rund quickly-int the face f a pliceman!
"What are yu ding here?" asked a plice fficer.
" 73 ," replied Sapy.
"Then cme alng," said the fficer.
"Three mnths in prisn," said the judge the next mrning.
七、阅读表达（共3小题:74题2分,75题2分,76题3分,满分7分）
请认真阅读下面材料,在答题卡标有题号的横线上,用英语回答材料后的问题。
Zhu Shen is a singer with a magical vice. He can sing different kinds f
sngs, frm Cantpp t Italian pera. Hwever, he is best knwn fr bringing traditinal Chinese ideas int pp music. He helps mre peple fall in lve with gufeng music.
In Silver Linings, Zhu sings sme lyrics （歌词） in the Peking Opera style. In Painting Silk, peple can hear sunds frm the Chinese instrument xia （箫）.
Sme ppular sngs have internet buzzwrds （流行语） in their lyrics. But yu can hear
Chinese petry in Zhu's sngs. "These ancient pems and sngs in pentatnic scales （五声音阶） are very Chinese," Zhu tld China Daily. "When ur lives are full f buzzwrds, peple may suddenly feel tuched when bearing an ancient pem. I have ften been amazed at the things ur ancestrs （祖先） made. Their wrks were simple in wrds but rich in meaning."
Zhu said music is a gd way t spread culture and tell China’s stries. "When I was studying abrad, my teachers listened t my sngs fr the first time. They felt that Chinese music is s beautiful. They really liked my sngs using the Chinese pera style."
Zhu als said that gufeng music is a kind f exchange between the mdern and the classic. "We always say art has n bundaries. It’s the same with music," he said.
74. What des Zhu think f wrks by ur ancestrs?
75. What rle can music play in Zhu’s pinin?
76. Please write anther gd way t spread Chinese culture and explain yur reasn.
（Avid the way that is mentined in this article.）
八、书面表达（共1题;满分25分）
阿拉丁神灯里的精灵（genie）会给找到他们的人实现两个愿望。如果你找到了一个精灵而他又给你实现两个愿望的机会,你想实现什么愿望呢?为什么?请以下列句子为开头,写一篇英语作文。
One day, I fund a genie and he gave me tw wishes. I …
要点:
1. What were yur tw wishes?
2. Why did yu want t make them cme true? Explain yur reasns with examples fr each
wish.
3. Culd yur wishes help thers r ur sciety? Hw did the wishes wrk?
注意:
1.词数:100左右。
2.内容完整（照抄阅读语篇不得分）
3.文中不得出现与考生相关的真实校名和姓名等信息。
One day, I fund a genie and he gave me tw wishes. I






A. Yu can still visit it tday
B. There are ver 1000 uses fr it.
C. Hwever, nne wrked very well.
D. Bamb is light because it is empty inside.
E. It can als be fund in ther parts f the wrld.
F. Chinese peple like drawing pictures f bamb.
G. The fastest grwing plant in the wrld is bamb
be used as chse crrect cnsider s that