2023-2024 学年上学期第一次月考
九年级英语
注意事项：
1.此卷分试题卷和答题卡两部分，满分120分，考试时间100分钟。
2.请用钢笔或圆珠笔在答题卡上答题，答题前请将姓名、准考证号填写清楚。
一、听力理解(20小题，每小题1分，共20分)
第一节
听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。每段对话读两遍。
( )1. Where is the bad smell from
A.300 yuan. B.450 yuan. C.550 yuan.
( ) 3. How does the girl like the city life
A. Excellent. B. A little busy. C. Very boring.
( )4. Why does the woman hate living in the city
A. Because there is too much noise. B. Because the traffic is terrible.
C. Because the air isn't clean.
( )5. What does the boy advise Lucy to do
A. To ask her father for help. B. To stay longer at school. C. To talk to her neighbor.
第二节
听下面几段对话或独白。每段对话或独白后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案，并将其标号填入题前括号内。每段对话或独白读两遍。
A. To China. B. To England. C. To Australia.
( )7. What did the girl do during her holiday
A. She learned to paint. B. She learned to play chess. C. She learned to dance.
听下面一段对话，回答第8至第9两个小题。
( )8. What day is it today
A. It's Sunday. B. It's Saturday. C. It's Friday.
( )9. What will they do for Earth Day
A. Help clean up the park. B. Plant some trees.
C. Give a speech on environment.
听下面一段独白，回答第10至第12三个小题。
( ) 11. How are the roads in the village now
A. Wide and clean. B. Narrow but clean. C. Wide but dirty.
( ) 12. How do Liu Ying's family usually go shopping now
A. By bike. B. By bus. C. By car.
听下面一段对话，回答第13至第15三个小题。
( ) 13. How does Li Ya ń like her hometown now
A. Terrible. B. Beautiful. C. Crowded.
( ) 14. How many kinds of pollution does the paper factory cause
A. One. B. Two. C. Three.
( ) 15. What did Li Yan do to solve the problem
A. She wrote to the TV station. B. She wrote to the government.
C. She sent an article about it to the newspaper.
第三节
听下面一篇短文。按照你所听内容的先后顺序将下列图片排序，并将其标号填写在题号后的横线上。短文读两遍。
二、阅读理解(20 小题，每小题2分，共40分)
阅读下面四篇语言材料，然后按文后要求做题。
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Do you love animals Do you have a talent If your answer is yes, we need your help!At Second Chance Animal Services, we need volunteers to complete some tasks.
★How to Become a Volunteer
Dog's Day Out
If you have completed our dog care training, you can take part in our new Dog's Day Out program. You will take one of our dogs out for a field trip. The program wants to get our shelter dogs out and give them more chances to meet adopters(收养者).
You can pick up dogs from Mondays to Saturdays, beginning at 10:00 am. You should spend at least two hours on your field trip. You must return no later than 4:00 pm on Fridays and 5:00 pm on other days. (Sorry, there are no field trips on Sundays.)
You may do many other volunteer jobs. To learn more about us, click HERE.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
( )21. How can you become a volunteer
A. By sending your information. B. By making a telephone call.
C. By learning to care for animals. D. By showing many talents.
( )22. What should you do before you take part in the Dog's Day Out program
A. Be a volunteer for at least one year. B. Complete the dog care training.
C. Prepare everything for the trip. D. Have a pet dog of your own.
( )23. What can you know about the Dog's Day Out program
①Volunteers can have a trip with dogs every day.
②They want to find adopters for the shelter dogs.
③Volunteers should have trips with the dogs 3 hours a day.
④Volunteers can walk dogs even if they don't have dogs.
A. ①② B. ①④ C. ②④ D.③④
( )24. Which of the following is TRUE if you take part in the Dog’s Day Out program on Friday
A. You can set out at 3:30 pm and return at 5:30 pm.
B. You can set out at 9:45 am and return at 11:45 am.
C. You can set out at 1:30 pm and return at 3:30 pm.
D. You can set out at 2:00 pm and return at 5:00 pm.
( )25. Where is the text most probably from
A. A website for animal lovers. B. A magazine about zoo.
C. A website about zoo. D. A science report.
B
I am a plastic bottle. A week ago,I was on a supermarket shelf. I had a normal life,the same as all my brothers and sisters——other bot-tles full of water. I felt really happy.
Then a tall woman picked me up and put me in her basket! The woman took me home and put me in the fridge. It was cold, but I soon made friends with the cans and bottles in it. However, only a few hours later, she took me out of the fri dge and drank the water inside me. Then she threw me into a dustbin. How lonely I felt!
Early the next morning, a man took me out of the dustbin. He threw me and the other rubbish into the back of a truck. There were so many terrible smells. Then I was pushed together with the rest of the rubbish. Soon I was completely flat. I couldn't beli-eve how thin I became.
I slept for a while. When I woke up,I found myself in a terrible place. Everything around me was ugly and had terrible smells. I felt afraid. I kept expecting that I would be moved somewhere else. Then huge trucks came and covered us with a layer(层) of soil.
I asked another bottle what would happen to us. He said that we would never leave this terrible crowded place, but would have to stay here for thousands of years.
“Why can't they reuse or recycle us ”I cried.
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
( )26. How did the plastic bottle feel at first
A. Happy. B. Sad. C. Excited. D. Scary.
( )27. What happened to the plastic bottle on the next day after the woman threw it away
A. He was put into the dustbin. B. He was thrown into the back of a truck.
C. He slept for a while. D. He was put into a basket.
( )28. What will happen to this plastic bottle
A. He will be reused. B. He will be recycled.
C. He will be moved to somewhere clean.
D. He will be covered under the ground for thousands of years.
)29. What does the underlined word“flat”mean in Chinese
A.废弃的 B.膨胀的 C.破的 D.扁平的
( )30. What's the topic of this passage
A. Reuse or recycle. B. A plastic bottle.
C. The jo urney of a plastic bottle. D. A bottle of water.
C
Frida Kahlo was a famous Mexican painter. As a child she dreamed of becoming a doctor, but a traffic accident changed her whole life. At the age of 15, Kahlo was riding on a bus in Mexico City. It suddenly hit a trolley car(有轨电车). Kahlo was seriously hurt and had to stay in the hospital for a long time. She felt her dream of being a doctor was over.
In the hospital Kahlo grew bored. She began to paint to fill her time. She once had taken art lessons from a teacher who thought she had great talent. Kahlo now hoped she could make a living by selling her paintings.
Most of Kahlo's works at that time were self-portraits(自画像). They showed the pain that she felt in her body. Many of her works show symbols from Mexican history. She also liked to paint herself in traditional clothing and jewelry. So people praised(赞扬) her art for being so original.
At the age of 22, Kahlo married(嫁给) Diego Rivera. Then many of Kahlo's new paintings showed her feelings about marriage and children.
Sadly, Kahlo's pain never left her. She had 35 operations in her lifetime. Yet she producedmany works of art that people still greatly admire(赞赏).
根据材料内容选择最佳答案。
( )31. Kahlo had once dreamed of being .
A. an artist B. a writer C. a doctor D. a teacher
( )32. Why did Kahlo begin painting
A. Because she loved painting.
B. Because she wanted to make money.
C. Because she grew bored in the hospital.
D. Because she wanted to be an artist.
( )33. An art teacher thought Kahlo .
A. should work for him B. had great talent
C. had little talent D. needed classes
( )34. Most of Kahlo’s paintings were about before she married Diego . Rivera.
A. herself B. nature C. children D. plants
( )35. The underlined word“original”means“ ”in Chinese.
A. 流行的 B.华丽的 C. 原始的 D.幽默的
D
Natural resources are pretty important to us today. We should learn more about our earth. 36 Hot water and steam come up un-der the ground there. It is on a large island in the Pacific Ocean. The island is North Island in New Zealand.
The earth on which we live is a ball of very hot rock. 37 If it were not, no one could live on the WORD BANK earth. The earth's shell has cracks(裂缝) in it in some eracks 裂缝places. In New Zealand this shell seems to have more shell 壳cracks than in other places on the earth. 38 In some places, hot water shoots into the air from time to time. In other places, you can see st-eam coming up from pools of hot water. 39 Some of them cook in the hot pools.They food into basketball and then put it into the water. Washing clothes is done in mu-ch the same way. 40 They do this by putting a pipe ahundred feet or more into the ground. In this way they get hot water and steam for cooking and washing, and for hea-ting their homes.
根据材料内容， 从下面五个选项中选出能填入文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、内容完整。
A. Many people bring the hot water into their homes.
B. There is a place on our earth.
C. It is a good thing for us that the outside shell is cold.
D. The people there make use of the heat from inside the earth.
E. There are places where ground is so hot that it burns your shoes.
36. 37. 38. 39. 40.
三、完形填空(15 小题，每小题1分，共15分)
先通读短文，掌握其大意，然后从 A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。
My neighbor is a doctor. He and his wife are two of the 41 people I have ever met.A few years ago, we started a kind of“favor(善意的行为) war”. When we do 42 kind for them, and next time they would 43 to do another favor for us.
Yesterday morning there was about 2 or 3 feet'of s now on the ground. I 44 he shoveled(铲) my driveway for me when I was out on a business trip last 45 . So I took out my shovel and shoveled both our sidewalks and driveways because it was my turn to do a favor 46 . It took a while but I finished it and got into my car for work.
That night I got a 47 on my door, it was my neighbor. He immediately shook my hand and thanked me for shoveling 48 driveway and sidewalk, so that he was able to get to work earlier and 49 a boy.
“As soon as I started the car early this morning, a(n) 50 came through that a young boy in our neighborhood was seriously ill. 51 , my partner and I were only about 2 minutes away, but the closest ambulance(救护车) 10 minutes,”added he. “A young boy got to live his life 52 you did me the favor earlier this morning.”
It wasn't too much work to shovel a driveway, 53 what I did got a young boy to see his family again, go back to school again and live his life again.
54 favor is too small. Even the smallest favor can make the biggest difference. One favor will always be followed 55 another.
( )41. A. richest B. happiest C. nicest D. busiest
( )42. A. something B. anything C. everything D. nothing
( )43. A. stop B. agree C. refuse D. try
( )44. A. thought B. saw C. expected D. remembered
( )45. A. spring B. summer C. autumn D. winter
( )46. A. first B. again C. back D. soon
( )47. A. kick B. note C. gift D. knock
( )48. A. my B. your C. his D. our
( )49. A. saved B. met C. encouraged D. supported
( )50. A. letter B. invitation C. card D. call
( )51. A. Suddenly B. Luckily C. Finally D. Probably
( )52. A. because B. though C. when D. unless
( )53. A. and B. but C. or D. so
( )54. A. Some B. Any C. Each D. No
( )55. A. by B. on C. to D. in
四、语篇填空(分两节，15 小题，每小题1分，共15分)
第一节：阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。
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Hundreds of years ago, life was much simpler than it is today in China. People didn't have modern 56. , and they had no time or money to enjoy 57. activities. Many children couldn’t get an education. However, things have changed greatly 58. China’s reform and opening-up in the 1980s. People’s living conditions have 59. a lot now. People can have more 60. time and get more incomes(收入). So they have more chances to travel 61. and live a colorful life. They move into tall and bright buildings. Most children study in schools with new classrooms and modern teaching equipment(设备). After school, they can also take part in club activities or play sports. 62. are becoming easier and quicker—people can use tele-phones, cellphones, QQ or WeChat and the Internet to keep in 63 . with each other. Sending a message to your friends far 64. only takes you a few seconds. Because of these modern inventions, our life is becoming much more 65. th an before.
57. 58. 59. 60.
61. 62. 63. 64. 65.
第二节：阅读短文，根据语篇要求填空，使短文通顺、意思完整。每空限填一词。
Just imagine a world where air pollution is no longer a problem. Clean air is all around us. People don't have to worry 66 polluting the air every time they drive their cars.They no longer need to face the problem of not having enough fuel either.
Recently, car engineers 67 succeeded in creating a new kind of car that runs on gasoline and electricity. This is the famous“hybrid car”. This car gets its name from the fact that it has a gasoline engine and an electric motor inside. Hybrid cars do not pollute the environ-ment as much 68 the cars that are commonly used today. They al- so cost
drivers less money 69 they need less fuel than ordinary cars. Hybrid cars are becoming widely popular in the United States. They 70 expected to become widely used around the world soon.
66. 67. 68. 69. 70.
五、补全对话(5小题，每小题2分，共 10分)
根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。
A: I haven't seen you for some time. 71.
B: I've been to Mount Tai.
A: 72.
B: No, this is the first time I have been there.
A: 73.
B: I have stayed there for three days.
A: Did you see the sun rise on the top of it
B:74. .It was beautiful.I felt excited when I saw it.
A: What do you think of the mountain
B:75. . I hope to go there again next summer.
A: May I go with you
B: Sure.
六、书面表达(20分)
国家的强大和民族的复兴与家庭和个人息息相关。请根据以下提示，以“Great changes in our country”为题写一篇短文，向你的外国朋友介绍建国以来我国所取得的成就。
Great changes in our country
☆Scientific progress: high-speed rail(高铁)…
☆Education al development: Project Hope...
☆Life improvement: shopping online, tall buildings...
要求：1. 意思清楚，表达通顺，行文连贯； 2.不少于80词。
