Unit 4 Growing up 提优测试卷（无答案）

2020～2021学年九年级第四单元提优测试卷
（时间：100分钟 分值：100分）
一、单项填空。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
( )1. When Tommy was university student, he dreamed of being NBA Player.
A. a; a B. an; an C. a; an D. an; a
( )2. I'm sorry to hear that some people died the earthquake in the beginning, but
later still more died the diseases after the earthquake in Ya'an.
of; of B. from; to C. of; from D. from; of
( )3. , he had to escape to the USA because a war .
A. In his twenties; broke out B. In his twenties; broke down
C. In his twentieth; broke out D. In his twenty; broke down
( )4. The old mobile phone requires , so you'd better have it in the shop soon.
A. to repair; repaired B. repairing; repaired
C. to be repaired; repair D. to repairing; repair
( )5.Though Mum was very tired, she went on supper after she got home.
A. but; to cook B. but; cooking C. /; cooking D /; to cook
( )6.He was about to tell me the secret someone patted him on the shoulder.
A. as B. until C. while D. when
( )7.Very little of the house now because it caught fire last week.
A. remains B. is remaining C. is remained D. remained
( )8. ---Excuse me, could you please tell me ?
---Sorry, I don’t know. I’m new here too.
A.when the museum opens B.where is Hongguan Village
C.how long the old lady had lived here D.how do you celebrate Easter Day
( )9. Yao Ming is a basketball hero. He is admired millions of people not only his achievements but also for his spirit.
A. for; by B. by; for C. by; as D. as; for
( )10. --Would you mind my sitting here?
-- . It's for my wife.
A. Of course not B. You’d better not
C. Sit down, please D. NO, you can’t
二、完形填空。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
Finding happiness in the lights
Last year, we took a trip to New York City. When we arrived at our l , it was around 2 a.m.
My son, Joseph, looked out at the lights of Times Square and said he wanted to go 2 . I told him it
was too 3 to go out, but he kept looking out of the window and said, "Just for two minutes."
My wife and I just looked at each other, smiled and said, "Two minutes." We got dressed and
walked to the centre of Times Square. 4 we got there, my son pointed at the lights and said, "Dad, 5 !" And then he started to fall asleep. So we had to go back to the hotel.
It took us 20 minutes to 6 for the 20 seconds we spent outside, but it made our son 7 and that meant a lot to us. That night, I learned a lesson about happiness. We sometimes have chances to 8 happy moments in our lives, but we often find a(n) 9 to do something else.
Because of my son, I learned that I am the biggest enemy of my own happiness. 10 happiness is
a door that is always open, we are the ones who have to decide if we are going to walk through the door.
( )1. A. restaurant B. bank C. supermarket D. hotel
( )2. A. inside B.outside C. back D.home
( )3. A. hot B. earlier C.1ate D. cold
( )4. A. If B. Unless C. Because D.When
( )5. A. listen B. touch C. look D. smile
( )6. A. make rules B. get ready C. do sports D. have dinner
( )7. A. sad B. happy C. bored D. patient
( )8. A. create B. forget C. waste D. avoid
( )9. A. place B. book C. excuse D. order
( )10. A. Because B. Although C. Unless D. As soon as
三、阅读理解。（共12小题；每小题2分，满分24分）
A
Taking online classes is becoming increasingly popular, but students have different opinions about it.
Wang Qi, 14 I love taking online courses. They give me a lot more choices and freedom. We can choose to learn whatever we want Also, online classes enable us to study whenever and wherever we want, which is very convenient.
Wu Jun, 13 I don't think taking online classes is a good way to study. There are many temptations on the Internet, Students can be distracted from their courses easily. The whole learning process is not as organized as it is in the classroom.
Zhou Siya, 13 Online classrooms are beneficial. We might feel more focused on learning when we are alone in front of a computer with no one to distract us. In addition, taking online courses also means we can have more time to use a computer, which is a good way to practise our computer skills.
Li Chunjie. 14 I think the idea of taking online courses is crazy. It can increase our exposure(面临) to computers and the radiation(辐射) from them could do harm to the human body. especially our eyes, Also. sitting in front of a computer for a long time without exercising can be harmful to our health
( )1. How many students support online learning?
A. Five. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four.
( )2. Which of the following is NOT Zhou Siya's opinion about taking online courses?
A. Students can feel more focused on learning.
B. Students can practise their computer skills.
C. No one can distract students from the courses.
D. Students can choose to learn whatever they want.
( )3. According to Li Chunjie, taking online courses .
A. can be beneficial in many ways B. causes a lot of distractions
C. will make students go crazy D. is harmful to students health
B
My name is Tim. Daddy didn't know how to show love.He went to work every day and blamed me for the mistakes I had made when he came home.
Once I broke my leg and it was Mum who held me in her arms all the way to the hospital.
Later, Dad pulled the car right up to the door of the hospital.
They asked him to move it, saying the space was saved for the ambulance(救护车). Dad shouted,
"What do you think this is? A tour bus?"
At my birthday parties, Dad always seemed out of place. He just kept himself busy blowing up
balloons, setting up tables and welcoming the guests. It was Mum who carried the cake with the candles on it for me to blow out.
When I learned to ride a bike, I asked him not to leave me alone, but he said it was time. I fell and
Mum ran to pick me up, but he stopped her. I was so mad that I showed him that I could ride it myself.
He just smiled.
When I went to college, Mum did all the writing. He just sent money and a little note about how
great his garden looked now just because I wasn't playing football in it.
Whenever I called home. he acted like he wanted to talk but always said, "Wait, Tim. I'll get your
mother. "
When I got married, Mum cried.
He just blew his nose loudly and left the room.
Daddy just didn't know how to show love, unless...
Was it possible that he showed it but I didn't recognize it?
( )4. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 mean?
A. Haven't you seen a tour bus like this before?
B. Guess what? It's actually a tour bus!
C. Why? Can't I park a tour bus at this area?
D. I parked here because it is an emergency.
( )5. What can we infer from Tim's father's note when Tim went to college?
A. His father liked football. B. His father missed him.
C. His father was very rich. D. His father was good at gardening.
( )6. What's the best title of the passage?
A. Silent father's love. B. My happy family.
C. My father. D. How to show love.
C
Each year on February 21, UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) holds an International Mother Language Day(IMLD). The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages; Many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.
What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost --- not just sounds or marks but
the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures
and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed too.
Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it.
Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of
endangered languages upload(上传) texts. audios and videos to the project website. They want to
introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes
(部落) of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with
this language, which died out in the 1960s.
These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep languages alive
are not limited to the past . Many young people design apps and use social media to support their
activities. They "spread the word" to save the word.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all
have a special feeling of our mother language. This is why we should remember the wise words of late
president of South Africa named Nelson Mandela, "If you talk to a man in language he understands,
that goes to his head.1f you talk to a man in his own language. that goes to his heart."
( )7. What did people do in Google's 2018 Endangered Languages Project?
A. Discuss how to make good use of Google.
B. Offer online courses on endangered languages.
C. Share materials about endangered languages online.
D. Translate endangered languages into mother languages.
( )8. What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A. It is more difficult to protect endangered languages.
B. The disappearance of languages has already stopped.
C. Young people don't care about endangered languages.
D. Young people have creative ways to protect languages.
( )9. The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to .
A. tell the importance of one's mother language
B. show his contributions to language protection
C. tell the trouble in learning endangered languages
D. show the possibility of protecting mother languages
D
Sometimes it seems that time is flying. Perhaps it doesn't need to feel this way. Our experience of
time can be possibly changed. By understanding the psychological processes behind our different
experiences of time, we might be able to slow down time a little.feel this way. Our experience of processes behind our different
One basic law of psychological time is that time seems to slow down when we're exposed to new
environments and experiences. The law is caused by the relationship between our experience of time and the amount of information our minds process. The more information our minds take in, the slower time seems to pass.
It follows, then, that we have different experiences of time in different situations. In some
situations, our life is full of new experiences. Our minds process a lot of information and time seems to
slow down. In other situations, we have fewer new experiences and the world around us becomes more
and more familiar. We become insensitive to our experience, which means we process less information,
and time seems to speed up.
How can we slow down time? Here are two suggestions.
Firstly, since we know that familiarity makes time pass faster, we can expose ourselves to as many
new experiences as possible. We can give ourselves new challenges, meet new people and expose our
minds to new information, hobbies and skills. This will increase the amount of information our minds
process and expand(增加) our experience of time.
Secondly, and perhaps most effectively, we can give our whole attention to an experience --- to
what we are seeing, feeling, tasting, smelling or hearing. This means living through our senses rather
than through our thoughts. For example, on the way home, focus our attention outside of ourselves,
instead of thinking about the problems we have to deal with. Look at the sky, or at the buildings we
pass, travelling among them. This open attitude to our experiences helps take in more information and
also has a time-expanding effect.
To a certain degree, we can understand and control our experience of time passing. It's possible for
us to slow down time by expanding our experience of time.
( )10. According to the writer, we can expand our experience of time by .
A. going to bed on time B. travelling to new places
C. having dinner as usual D. printing the same materials
( )11. What can we learn from the passage?
A.Being familiar with the world around helps us get more information.
B. Understanding psychological time makes life pass more quickly.
C. We can take in more information by living through our senses.
D. We should build a stronger relationship between time and ourselves.
( )12. What's the best title of the passage?
A. Slow down time. B. Only time will tell.
C. Race against time. D. Time will not come twice.
四、信息还原。（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。
As we all know, there are differences between Western culture and Chinese culture. l Let's
look at some words about animals and plants. Most expressions in Chinese are about the dog, for
example, "a homeless dog", "a mad dog", "a running dog" and "a dog catching a mouse", have bad
meanings. 2 In English, people use the dog to describe good actions. For example, "you are a lucky
dog "means you are a lucky person. And "every dog has its day" means each person has good luck
sometimes. To describe a person's serious illness, they say "sick as a dog". The word "dog-tired" means
very tired. 3 But in Western culture, "cat" is often used to describe a woman who is unkind. There
are many other examples of how "cat" is used differently as well.
4 People think the rose stands for love, peace, courage and friendship. And the rose is the
national flower of the UK, America and many other countries.
5 We can learn about many differences in cultures by comparing how some words are used.
Chinese people love cats very much. The words about plants and animals are used in good or bad ways in different cultures.
We can see differences when we pay attention to the way words are used.
However, Westerners love cats very much.
We can see similarities when we pay attention to the way words are used.
The rose is regarded as a symbol of love in both China and some Western countries.
But in Western countries, dogs are considered to be honest and good friends of humans.
1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
五、词汇检测。（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列句子及所给汉语注释、首字母、音标或通过上下文，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词.
1. It's said that the students from Shanghai have （得分）the highest in an international test.
2. You must work hard. Remember: No road of flower （通向）to glory．
3. It seems that they have (成功地)solved the problem, or they can't look so happy.
4. Now more and more (大学) students can make money to support their daily lives.
5. Do you have any c to make a speech in front of a large number of people?
6. They often meet and share their t , feelings and experiences,
7. At ['k?l?d?] , Mike made so many good friends.
8. We all think he is worth [?d'ma??r??]. We should learn from him.
9. While junior high, Jack tried out for the school football team.
10. --- How often is Readers' Digest ?
--- Monthly.
六、句子翻译。（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在横线上。
1．尽管他参加过几个足球队的选拔，但是几乎没有人注意到他的天赋。

这个小女孩在二战期间被迫躲藏在一个秘密的地方。

今天下午的数学考试一结束我们就去看电影。

令我感到惊讶的是，一开始，因为他的身高他是被拒绝的。

无论何时只要有剩余的钱，他总会捐赠给有需要的人。

七、阅读表达。（共3小题；第1小题1分，第2小题2分，第3小题3分，满分6分）
请认真阅读下面短文，用英语回答短文后的问题，并将答案写在横线上。
Who is the most famous fairy tale writer? Many of you may say Danish writer Hans Christian
Andersen. There is a big award that takes his name: the Hans Christian Andersen Award(国际安徒生
奖). It is the highest award for children's stories. A writer can only get it once in a lifetime.
On April 4, Cao Wenxuan won the 2016 Hans Christian Andersen Award. He is the first Chinese
writer to ever win this important award for children's literature.
Cao Wenxuan was born in 1954 in a small village in Yancheng, Jiangsu Province. Some of his
stories are set there. He is now a professor at Peking University. He started to publish children's fiction
in 1979. Many of his novels have been translated into English, French, Japanese and Korean.
If you read Cao's stories, you will find beautiful and poetic descriptions(富有诗意的描写）of
scenery. For example, in The Grass House ( 1997). Cao writes. "The grass grows toughly. When the
Sun shines. the grass shines like copper wire(铜线). When the wind blows from the sea, the grass
makes surprisingly metal --- like sounds. "
Cao also uses love as a theme in his stories, and he describes it with great beauty. You Can find this theme in Bronze and Sunflower（《青铜葵花》）(2005). The ending of the story is sad, but it help make the story more realistic. "Sadness is a beautiful emotion. It helps kids understand the real world when it is expressed properly, " Cao once said.
When Cao creates a story, he does not write specifically for someone, Adults can find beauty in his
stories. and the plots (情节) he invents tend to impress children. "I tell real Chinese stories, but my
stories are related to humans. This might be a key reason why I won this award, "he said.
How many languages have Cao's books been translated into?

In Cao's opinion, why could he win the award?

Would you like to read Cao's stories? Why or why not?

八、 书面表达。（共1题；满分20分）
常言道：“良言一句三冬暖，恶语伤人六月寒”。假设你是李雷，你将要参加学校举办的英语演讲比赛，主题是“语言的力量”。请你根据所给提示，用英语写一篇演讲稿。
提示：
1．你的一次受老师或同学们言语激励的经历，阐述事情的经过以及对你的影响，
2．呼吁同学们要注意自身语言对他人的影响。
注意：
1．词数90左右，开头已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2．文中须包括所有要点，每个要点可适当发挥，使文章连贯、通顺；
3．文中不得提及真实的人名、校名等相关信息。
Hello, everyone! Do you know how words will influence others? Let me tell you one of my
experiences.








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