河北省石家庄市第四十三中学(石家庄外国语教育集团)2021-2022学年九年级下学期开学考试英语试题
学校:___________姓名:___________班级:___________考号:___________
一、单项选择
1.You can read ________ introduction to get some useful information.
A.a    B.an    C.the    D./
2.Helen, stop talking with Peter. ________ mom is waiting for him to go home.
A.My    B.Your    C.His    D.Her
3.This story is_________ simple English. My little sister can read it.
A.for    B.in    C.with    D.by
4.Ken was_________ late for school. The bell rang right after he entered the classroom.
A.still    B.always    C.already    D.almost
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5.—I’m a little bit nervous because I’m leaving for New York next week.
—Don’t worry. I’ll give you a map ________ you won’t get lost there.
A.although    B.so that    C.unless    D.as soon as
6.It can be quite windy in the north of China, ________ in spring.
A.actually    B.suddenly    C.especially    D.gradually
7.Don’t be ________, please. We are preparing for the final test.
A.awake    B.nervous    C.serious    D.noisy
8.—Mum, ________ I visit the Shijiazhuang Museum tomorrow?
—I am afraid you can’t. It is closed on Saturday.
A.must    B.could    C.should    D.need
9.—Hello, Jenny, I can’t find my math book ________ . Did you see it?
—Sorry, I didn’t.
A.everywhere    B.anywhere    C.somewhere    D.nowhere
10.--- Why did the car hit the boy?
--- Because the driver ______ on the phone at that time.
A.talk    B.is talking
C.was talking    D.have talked
11.Wow! You______ dinner! Let’s eat now.
A.cook    B.are cooking    C.will cook    D.have cooked
12.Linda helped me with English. I made some ________ with her help.
A.instructions    B.mistakes    C.progress    D.trouble
13.Put on your scarf when going out. Today is the ________ day of the week.
A.colder    B.coldest    C.warmer    D.warmest
14.If you always ________ yourself with others, you may have lots of pressure.
A.compare    B.communicate    C.celebrate    D.compete
15.Billy really ________ his father. They both have blonde hair and blue eyes.
A.feels like    B.looks after    C.takes after    D.cares about
16.Look at the picture. The top five TV plays ________ in it.
A.list    B.are listed    C.will list    D.will be listed
17.Alan often goes to the old people’s home ________ up the old and take care of them.
A.cheer    B.cheering    C.cheered    D.to cheer
18.________ my sister ________ I have finished the project. Could you help us with it?
A.Neither; nor    B.Both; and    C.Either; or    D.Not only; but also
19.--Why don’t you get up a little earlier next time?
--_________.
A.OK, I will    B.Sorry, I don’t know
C.Thank you    D.That’s OK
20.—Welcome back to school, Tim. I want to know ________ online.
—Of course, Ms. Clark. I had lessons and did homework every day.
A.whom you studied with    B.why you studied
C.if you studied hard    D.when you studied
二、完形填空
Once there was a father and his daughter. The father asked his daughter how much she loved him. She said that she loved him as much as she loved   21  . Her answer made the father very   22  . Salt is a simple thing, but it is very important.   23  the father thought his daughter cared a lot about him.
Salt has many   24  . Our bodies need salt. If we don’t have enough, our bodies can’t work properly. We put salt on icy roads to make them   25  . We also use salt to produce other products, like paper and glass. But for many years, salt’s most important job was to   26  food. Like other living things, most bacteria (细菌) need water to live. Salt takes in plenty of water, so most bacteria can’t live   27  a salty environment. Therefore, salt protects food and many other things. For much of human history, this ability has made salt   28  . Every ancient culture from Egypt to China depended on salt. Even today, the hard working useful people are described as “the salt of the earth”.
For centuries, salt was also hard to   29  because its usefulness made it very expensive. Salt could even be used like money.     30    , the word salary (薪水) comes from the word salt.
Today, salt is used more widely and it still plays an important role in our life.
21.A.salt    B.air    C.gold    D.sugar
22.A.angry    B.patient    C.happy    D.worried
23.A.Or    B.So    C.Then    D.But
24.A.forms    B.secrets    C.uses    D.skills
25.A.wide    B.safe    C.smooth    D.thick
26.A.protect    B.provide    C.produce    D.prepare
27.A.in    B.outside    C.for    D.without
28.A.hopeful    B.comfortable    C.valuable    D.successful
29.A.sell    B.get    C.take    D.keep
30.A.As a result    B.In a word    C.At last    D.In fact
三、阅读单选
One day, a farmer was walking along a road with his son Thomas. The father said, “Look! There is a horseshoe. Pick it up and put it in your bag.” Thomas said, “It isn’t worth the trouble.” His father said nothing but picked it up himself.