武汉二中广雅中学九年级第一次月考试题

武汉二中广雅中学九年级（上）英语月考（一）

一、单项选择

26. —Do the dishes, Tim, or I will tell mom! A. duty A. alive

B. business

B. patient

27. —How is Jack’s grandma?

—Mind your own _______ Kate! C. action C. busy

D. way D. active

—She is over eighty, but she is still _______.

28. —Everyone has the right to good medical care, and it has nothing to do with the _______ to pay.

—I can’t agree more. A. ability

B. knowledge

C. pattern

D. activity

29. —_______ weather it is today! Let’s go out for a walk.

—OK. Please wait me for a moment. A. What a fine

B. How a fine

C. What fine

D. How fine

30. —Hurry up. Or we will miss the sea lion show in the Ocean Park.

—_______. We still have fifteen minutes before the show begins. A. Take it easy

B. Good luck

C. I guess so

D. Take care

31. —Do you know _______Dengchao is?

—He is an actor. He is the team leader in the popular reality TV show Running Men now. A. which

B. when

C. what

D. how

32. —Hi, my name is Terry. It’s my first time to be here. A. Very well, thank you! B. It’s all right.

—_______.

C. That would be very nice. D. Nice to meet you!

33. —Why do those middle-aged women dance on the square every night?

—Then just want to be healthier by _______ their arms and legs as much as possible. A. putting out

B. reaching out

C. spreading out

D. coming out

34. —Do you know if the old man is still living?

—I am sorry. He _______. He _______ for two months. A. died; has died

B. died; has died

C. has been dead; died

D. died; has been dead

35. —I’d like to know how to protect our environment.

—The answer must _______ in saving resources(资源). A. exist

B. live

C. lie

D. fall

36. —He must _______ his diet because he doesn’t want to put on weight any more.

—Yes. It’s good for his health. A. pay attention to

B. deal with

C. take care C. laid

D. set

D. look forward to

37. —What happened on Center Street? A. rushed

B. became

—Because of the rain, one of the pipes(水管) broke and the water _______ out. 38. —You know what? Terry lost his wallet yesterday.

—Yes, I heard of that and all the evidence(证据) _______ that it must be Andy, his deskmate. A. suggested

B. appeared C. presented

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D. discovered

39. —Did you have fun swimming? A. told

B. asked

—No, they _______ us against swimming in the river. C. warned

D. kept

—He asked me _______.

40. —What did your teacher say to yhou just now? A. how could I work out C. why I am late for school 二、完形填空

B. when did I go to the library D. if I did my homework

The family had just moved. The young woman was feeling a little 41. It was Mother’s Day and 800 miles separated her from her parents.

She had called her mother that morning to wish her a happy Mother’s Day, and her mother had 42 how colorful their backyard was now that spring had arrived. Later, she told her husband how she 43 those lilacs(丁香花) in her parents’ yard. “I know where we can find some,” he said. “Get the 44 and come on.” So off they went.

Some time later, they stopped at a hill and there were lilacs all around. The young woman rushed up to the nearest 45 and buried her face in the flowers. Carefully, she 46 some. Finally, they returned to their car for the 47 home. The woman sat smiling, surrounded by her flowers.

When they were near home, she shouted “stop”, got off quickly and 48 to a nearby nursing home. She went to the end of the porch(门廊), where an elderly patient was sitting in her wheelchair, and put the flowers in her lap. The two 49, bursting into laughter now and then. Later the young woman turned and ran back to her 50. As the car pulled away, the woman in the wheelchair waved with a smile, and held the lilacs 51.

“Mom,” the kids asked, “ Why did you give her our flowers?” “It is Mother’s Day, and she seems so This satisfied the kids, but not the husband. The next day he 54 some young lilacs around their yard. I was the husband. Now, every May, our yard is full of lilacs. Every Mother’s Day our kids 55 purple

B. worried B. imagined B. grew B. kids B. hill B. picked

C. angry

D. sad D. realized D. showed D. lilacs D. door D. raised D. dinner D. hurried D. chatted D. home D. tightly D. patient D. cheered

52 while I have all of you. And anyone would be 53 by flowers.”

lilacs. And every year I remember that smile of the lonely old woman. 41. A. moved 42. A. learned 43. A. missed 44. A. cars 45. A. bush 46. A. bought 47. A. break 49. A. argued 50 A. family 51. A. sadly 52. A. quiet 53. A. calmed

C. mentioned C. watered C. clothes C. yard C. set C. trip C. drove C. sat C. path C. alone

B. holiday B. pointed B. waited B. mother

48. A. responsed

B. politely B. confused B. troubled

C. quickly

C. disappointed

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54. A. picked 55. A. find 三、阅读理解

B. dried B. gather

C. planted C. receive A

D. hid D. sell

Have you ever worried about the cost of the Christmas shopping? Have you regetted for soemthing that had been sold out? Have you found what you bought at full price last week are now on sale? These suggestions may help you.

Hit the sales

To fight for the better deal, you need to get up earlier and go shopping in the morning markets. Goods there are always at lower price and fresher, especially food and vegetables. Some retailers(零售商) offer certain specials all through the day. If you’re lucky to run into the sale and you can buy more to store.

Pay close attention to advertisements

Once the Christmas shopping season is coming, retailers hungry for business will do just about whatever to get you in the store. Pay very close attention to weekly advertisements of sales, and you may find different prices for the same thing in different shops.

Shop online

Some of us don’t like running from store to store in order to get the best price, and some of us don’t like to go out in the cold at all, we can do online shopping. Online shopping lets people visit all the stores as well as some specialty goods that could only be found on the Internet. Customers can find exactly what they are looking for at the best possible price without leaving their house. 56. To fight for a better deal, you can _______. A. directly buy from producers

B. fight with other customers D. buy more to store at one time B. the same thing at different prices D. everything at the same price B. during shopping festivals D. on the Internet

C. Government officials D. Shop asisstants B. attract more readers to do wise shopping

C. do shopping in the morning markets A. the same thing at the same price

57. With the help of advertisements, you may find _______ in different shops. C. different things at different prices A. from store to store

58. We can get the best price on gifts easily _______. C. in the morning markets A. Housewives

59. Who might have the most interest in this passage?

B. Businessmen

60. In this passage the writer means to _______. A. tell us the best way to do shopping

C. show us how hard it is to do Christmas shopping D. give advice on how to get a good deal at Christmas time

B

A nine-year-old kid was sitting at his desk when suddenly there was a puddle(some water or liquid) between his feet and the front of his trousers was wet. He thought his heart was going to stop because he

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couldn’t possibly imagine how this had happened. It had never happened before, and he knew that when the boys found out he would never hear the end of it. When the girls found out, they would never speak to him again as long as he lived.

He prayed this prayer, “Dear God, I need help now! Five minutes from now I’m dead meat!” He looked up from his prayer and here came the teacher with a look in her eyes that said he had been discovered. As the teacher was walking toward him, a classmate named Susie was carrying a goldfish bowl of water. Susie tripped(绊倒) in front of the teacher and dumped(倒) the bowl of water in the boy’s lap. The boy pretended to be angry, but all the while he was saying to himself, “Thank you. God!”

Now all of a sudden, instead of being the object of ridicule(嘲笑), the boy was the object of sympathy(同情). The teacher rushed him downstairs and gave him gym shorts to put on while his trousers dried out. All the other children were on their hands and knees cleaning up around his desk. The sympathy was wonderful. But as life would have it, the ridicule that should have been his had been transferred(转移) to someone else— Susie. She tried to help, but they told her to get out.

When school was over, the boy walked over to Susie and whispered, “You did that on purpose, didn’t you?” Susie whispered back, “I wet my trousers once, too!” 61. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 1 means _______. A. the boys would never play with him

B. the boys would treat him as usual

C. he would hardly hear any praise from the boys D. he would be laughed at by the boys endlessly 62. After Susie dumped water in his lap, the boy was in a state of _______. A. excitement

B. relief

C. anxiety

D. anger

63. What did the other kids do after the incident? A. They offered him dry clothes

B. They laughed at the boy rudely D. They urged the boy to get out angrily B. She just did it by accident D. She knew the boy’s embarrassment

C. They helped the boy do the cleaning A. The boy asked her to do so

64. Why did Susie dump water in the boy’s lap? C. The teacher tripped her on purpose

65. Which of the follow is true according to the text? A. God helped the boy to solve the problem

B. Besides Susie, maybe the teacher also knows what had happened to the boy C. Susie wet the boy’s trousers because she was angry with him D. After the incident, the boy would never talk to Susie.

C

The story is about a teacher who spent a whole week teaching her class about aerodynamics(空气动力学). To finish off the unit she organized a paper airplane contest. Each student was given a piece of paper. The plane that would fly the farthest won a prize.

The students went to work immediately, carefully folding their paper. Before long, everyone was ready to go outside to start the contest except Jeff. He usually had his own view of life that was not always the same as the others in the class. Jeff didn’t make a paper plane. He just sat there looking out of the

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