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安徽省芜湖市无为市2021-2022学年九年级上学期期中英语试题 学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________ 一、单项选择 1．—You need to ________ the milk first. It’s too cold for a baby. —Oh, I will. Thank you. A．clear B．heat C．drink D．weigh 2．________ one-third of the students at this school are left-behind children. A．Most B．Nearly C．Hardly D．Once 3．—I’m afraid the box will break in such cold weather. —Don’t worry. This kind of material can stand very ________ temperatures. A．normal B．cool C．high D．low 4．—What’s your secret ________ happiness, Mr. Smith? —Try to live life to the full and make every day meaningful. A．to B．on C．for D．in 5．It’s amazing that birds always know the correct ________. They never got lost when they’re traveling from one place to another. A．answer B．choice C．direction D．journey 6．—I’m quite nervous about tomorrow’s competition, Mom. —Take a walk with me. It will be helpful in ________ your stress. A．cutting down B．finding out C．turning off D．dealing with 7．—What’s the name of this tea? It tastes fantastic. —lt’s Biluochun, a kind of green tea. It ________ in Suzhou. A．produces B．produced C．is produced D．is producing 8．—You went to Shanghai last week. I wonder ________ you went there with. —Oh, some of my pen friends. A．whom B．which C．what D．whose 9．—Excuse me, I want to know if my parents can collect the mail instead of me. —-No. You must collect it ________. Remember: take your ID card with you. A．in public B．in time C．in person D．in fact 10．—What do you think of the art and science fair? —________! And I like the model plane best. A．Pretty good B．Just so-so C．No problem D．Sounds great 二、完形填空 Once there was a king in China. He was deeply in love with his wife who told the best stories. ____11____, his wife died of illness. He was sad and ____12____ caring about what happened to the country. This ____13____ his minister (大臣). One day he passed some children playing with their dolls. The dolls made dancing shadows (影子) on the wall. This gave him a(n) ____14____. He asked people to make different puppets (木偶). One evening, he ____15____ the king. The king was looking up at the stars sadly. “How I miss my dear wife!” he said. “The evenings seem so ____16____ without her.” The minister told the king that he had a ____17____ for him. He asked servants to bring a cloth screen and a lantern. Then some people came with puppets from the ____18____ the king’s wife used to tell. They made the puppets move between the lantern and the screen. When a puppet that ____19____ the king’s wife appeared, the king was very surprised. It seemed as if his wife was spending time with him. The king was no longer ____20____. At the end of each busy day, he visited his shadow wife and heard her stories once again. 11．A．Anyway B．However C．Simply D．Instead 12．A．enjoyed B．continued C．suggested D．stopped 13．A．interested B．encouraged C．worried D．touched 14．A．idea B．object C．wish D．speech 15．A．asked B．visited C．missed D．invited 16．A．enjoyable B．crazy C．relaxing D．boring 17．A．report B．promise C．surprise D．party 18．A．secrets B．stories C．jokes D．lies 19．A．looked like B．looked after C．listened to D．cheered up 20．A．weak B．private C．shy D．sad The merry-go-round（旋转木马）moves, and its music fills the air. Riders on it are quite ___21___ as their colorful horses go up and down and around. Merry-go-rounds have a long history. In the 1400s soldiers（士兵）in Europe liked to play a ball game on horseback. They had to ___22___ and catch the ball while their horses were moving. So the soldiers ___23___ a way to help practice for the game.      This invention was ___24___ the first merry-go-round. It was different from modern merry-go-rounds. Some real ___25___ turned it as they moved in a circle. Years later, people began using merry-go-rounds for fun. By the 1800s, motors（发动机）took the place of horses. Later, merry-go-rounds began to be made in the US. Workers ___26___ the merry-go-round horses with bright colors. Some horses had flowers around their necks, ___27___some had a wild look in their shiny glass eyes. No two horses were the ___28___. One of the oldest rides in the US is in Massachusetts. It’s called the Flying Horses. It was ___29___ around 1880. Riders on it can have some special ___30___. As it moves, riders try to catch rings from a post （杆） on the wall. The person who gets the most rings is the winner. 21．A．worried B．excited C．bored D．tired 22．A．find B．buy C．search D．throw 23．A．imagined B．described C．invented D．prepared 24．A．mainly B．probably C．quickly D．clearly 25．A．machines B．horses C．visitors D．riders 26．A．painted B．mixed C．filled D．pushed 27．A．if B．and C．so D．or 28．A．same B．special C．cheap D．perfect 29．A．completed B．mentioned C．influenced D．produced 30．A．rest B．help C．fun D．time 三、补全对话7选5 根据对话内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，其中有两个为多余选项。 A: Guess what? I met Alfred yesterday. B: Oh, really? I haven’t seen him since he went to London. ____31____ A: He’s tall and a little hea