扬州中学教育集团树人学校九年级第二次模拟考试
英语试卷 2015.5 （满分：120分 考试时间：100分钟）
注意事项：
考生在答题前请认真阅读本注意事项及各题答题要求：
1.本试卷共8页，包含选择题（第1题～第45题，共60分）、非选择题（第46题～第81题，共60分）两部分。本次考试时间为100分钟，满分120分。考试结束后，请将答题纸交回。 2.答题前，请考生务必将自己的学校、班级、姓名、准考证号用0.5毫米的黑色签字笔写在答题纸上相应的位置。请在答题纸指定区域作答，在试卷或草稿纸上作答一律无效。
一、单项选择（共15小题；每小题l分，计15分）
在下列各题A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个能填入题干空白处的最佳答案。 1. ---I think _______ wild animals should be allowed to live in ____ wild. --- I can’t agree more.
A. the; the B. / ; / C. /; the D. the ; / 2. Think about what I have told you, but ______, don't breathe a word of it to others. A. at all B. after all C. in all D. above all 3. ---Will your mother be at home this Saturday?
---Hard to say. She _________ go to the countryside to see my grandparents. A. must B. may C. can D. would 4. --- What’s the matter, young man?
--- I have a problem and I do not know __________.
A. how to deal with it B. what to do with C. how to do with it D. what to deal with it 5.---Your spoken English is so good．Have you been abroad?
--- Yes．I ______ in America for three years and now I’m living in Beijing. A. will live B. lived C. have lived D. was living
6. more and more people may surf the internet for the latest news, it is unlikely
that the newspaper will disappear． A. Though B. Because C. Since D. As
7. Don’t you remember the first example __________ Mr. Green gave you last time, dear ? A. what B. which C. who D.that 8. The country life that the old man was used to_______ a lot since 2010．
A. change B. has changed C. changing D. changed 9. --- Cindy hasn’t come back yet. I’m afraid she doesn’t know the way. --- Don’t worry. She has a pretty good of direction．
A. sense B. feeling C. experience D. idea 10. --- When shall we go to West Slender Lake, this afternoon or tomorrow morning? --- ______ is OK. I’m free these days. A. Both B. All C. Either D. Neither 11. --- How do you like the book?
---Very useful. Community safety is_______ introduced in it.
A .probably B. naturally C. usually D. specially 12. ---How was your May Day holiday?
---Just so so, we drove to Hangzhou and tried to find a place for parking, but they were all . A. given up B. taken up C. stayed up D. put up 13. --- What are you doing, Amy?
--- I’m making a list of my kids will need for the coming season． A. why B. how C. what D. which 14. --- Mike, your doctor's advice or you will get worse． --- Ok, thank you.
A. follows B. following C. followed D. follow
15. ----Sorry to say I can’t go shopping with you this afternoon, for I’ll have to prepare for the coming
examination.
---________. Have some fun!
A. Don’t be a wet blanket B. It never rains but it pours C. Don’t put all your eggs in one basket D. It’s never too old to learn 二、完形填空（共15小题；每小题l分，计15分）
阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Sixteen-year- old Josh is a junior high school student. He was running a five-kilometre race in a field of 261 16 on Sept. 16. With the race less than half done, he 17 a scream and saw a runner he didn’t know fell down in a lot of 18 ---holding a bleeding ankle（足踝）.
With his own coach trying to find out why Josh hadn’t passed the halfway mark as expected, his coach found him soon. “I was 19 what was going and why he was so far back,” said Scott Clark. “Then I saw Josh. He had got the kid in his 20 .”
The injured athlete was Mark, a student from another junior high school. Josh just 21 him up without saying anything and started carrying him and trying to 22 him down, saying, “It’s going to be OK. Your ankle will recover （痊愈）soon. I’m going to 23 you to your coaches.”
Josh carried Mark about a quarter mile! He took him to his 24 and then---completely last in the field of runners now---sped off to start his race again. He 25 50 kids to finish the race as the 211th out of 261 runners.
When 26 by one teammate why he had fallen so far behind after the race, he 27 said, “Oh, I picked up a kid.” No excuses. No explanation. No disappointment. He just finished what he had started.
Mark’s ankle 28 fully a week later and then he personally thanked Josh at his home. “Josh has 29 me again that there are wonderful people out there. They are always doing kind and good things with no 30 of being noticed or rewarded,” he said. 16. A. athletes B. winners C. teams D. events 17. A. touched B. guessed C. felt D. heard 18. A. trouble B. pain C. fear D. shame 19. A. preparing B. discovering C. wondering D. realizing 20. A. feet B. arms C. shoulders D. legs 21. A. picked B. woke C. called D. set 22. A. turn B. take C. calm D. put 23. A. show B. get C. move D. give 24. A. coaches B. relatives C. friends D. classmates
25. A. followed B. encouraged C. led D. passed 26. A. told B. warned C. repeated D. asked 27. A. simply B. exactly C. mostly D. generally 28. A. suffered B. ached C. recovered D. developed 29. A. supported B. suggested C. reminded D. required 30. A. imagination B. expectation C. mention D. organization 三、阅读理解（共l5小题；每小题2分，计30分）
阅读下列内容，从每小题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
A
Georgia Aquarium is open 365 days a year. Please note that hours of operation are different. You can buy the last ticket and enter it 30 minutes before closing time. Regular Hours
Sunday – Friday: 10 am – 5 pm Saturday: 9 am – 6 pm Summer Hours: May 27 – August 16
Monday – Saturday: 9 am – 9 pm Sunday: 9 am – 6 pm Full Price Total Ticket
Adult (ages 13-64): $38.95 Child (ages 3-12): $32.95 Senior (age 65+): $34.95 Total Ticket Online Discount (折扣)
Adult (ages 13-64): $35.95 Child (ages 3-12): $29.95 Senior (age 65+): $31.95 Animal Encounters
Interact with a dolphin daily at 11:30 am and 1:45 pm. Spots are limited and not included in Total Ticket, so it’s best to book in advance. Price: $59.95 AT&T Dolphin Tales
Our new dolphin theater and show are now open. Show times are different each day, so check for times when you are buying tickets. Don’t forget – AT&T Dolphin Tales is included in Total Ticket, so don’t miss this special show! Journey with Gentle Giants
Swim or dive (潜水) in the Ocean Voyager. Swims are daily at 4:30 pm, and dives are daily at 3 pm and Saturday and Sunday at 11 am. You have to pay extra money for them. Price: $234.95 Beluga & Friends Interactive Program
Interact with belugas and harbor seals in the Georgia-Pacific Cold Water Quest gallery. This animal interaction happens daily at 10 am and 1:30 pm. It’s not included in Total Ticket. Price: $179.95 31. If you plan to visit Georgia Aquarium on a Sunday in June, you should enter it before ______. A. 5:30 pm B. 5:40 pm C. 6 pm D. 8:30 pm
32. Grandparents in their seventies with a 10-year-old boy can save as much as ______ visiting Georgia Aquarium if they buy their total tickets online.
A. $3 B. $6 C. $9 D. $12 33. With a Total Ticket, visitors are allowed to visit ______.
A. Animal Encounters B. AT&T Dolphin Tales
C. Journey with Gentle Giants D. Beluga & Friends Interactive Program
B
Some years ago on a hot summer day in south Florida, a little boy decided to go for a swim in the lake behind his house. He ran out of the back door, leaving behind shoes, socks and shirt as he went.
He flew into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward the middle of the lake, an alligator(短吻鳄) was getting close. The mother in the house was looking out of the window and saw the two as they got closer and closer together. In great fear, she ran toward the water, shouting to her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the little boy made a U—turn to swim to his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her, the alligator reached him. The mother caught her little boy by the arms just as the alligator pulled his legs. That began an unbelievable tug-of-war(拔河比赛) between the two. The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but the mother did her best not to let go. A farmer happened to drive by, heard their screams, rushed from his truck and helped them.
Luckily, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the little boy survived. His legs were seriously scarred（疤痕）by the terrible attack of the animal. And on his arms, were deep scars where his mother’s fingernails dug into his arms in her effort to pull the son she loved.
The newspaper reporter, who interviewed the boy asked if he would show him his scars. The boy lifted the legs. And then, he said to the reporter, “Look at my arms. I have great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my mum wouldn’t let go.”
34. The underlined part “the two” in the second paragraph refers to . A. the son and the alligator B. the mother and the son
C. the driver and the alligator D. the mother and the alligator 35. From the passage we can infer . A. The son was proud of his scars on his legs B. The son was proud of his scars on his arms C. The mother was unwilling to let the alligator go D. The mother was stronger than the alligator in fact 36. What’s the best title of the passage?
A. A Terrible Attack B. The Scars on the Legs
C. The Scars of Love D. An Unforgettable Tug-of-war 37. In what way does the writer organize the passage?
A. Time order. B. Space order. C. General to specific. D. Specific to general.
C
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest thinkers in the world, began his career as an artist. Very little is known about Leonardo’s early life. He was born in 1452 in the town of Vinci. As a boy, Leonardo showed a great interest in drawing, sculpting and nature.
However, because Leonardo was born to parents who were not married to each other, he was barred from some studies and jobs. He trained as an artist after moving to Florence with his father in the 1460s. It was an exciting time to be in Florence, one of the cultural capitals of Europe. Leonardo trained with one of the city’s very successful artists, Andrea del Verrocchio. He was a painter, sculptor and gold worker. Verrocchio told his students that they needed to understand the body’s bones and muscles(肌肉) when drawing people.
Leonardo took the teacher’s advice very seriously. He spent several periods of his life studying the human body using dead bodies. While training as an artist, Leonardo also learned about and improved on quite new painting methods at the time. One was the use of perspective (透视) to show depth. A method called “sfumato” helped to create a cloudy effect to suggest distance. “Chiaroscuro” is a method using light and shade as a painting effect. Leonardo’s first known portrait（肖像）now hangs in the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. He made this painting of a young woman named Ginevra de’ Benci around 1474. The woman has a pale
face with dark hair. In the distance, Leonardo painted the Italian countryside.
He soon received attention for his artistic skills. Around 1475 he was asked to draw an angel in Verrocchio’s painting “Baptism of Christ.” One story says that when Verrocchio saw Leonardo’s addition to the painting, he was so amazed by his student’s skill that he said he would never paint again. 38. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage? A. Verrocchio thought Leonardo’s work was excellent. B. Leonardo thought his teacher’ s advice was wrong.
C. “Sfumato” is a method to show depth by using light and shade. D. “Baptism of Christ” made Leonardo known across the world.
39. The underlined word “barred” in the second paragraph probably means ________.
A. chosen B. protected C. suffered D. prevented
40. Which of the following words can be used to describe Leonardo according to the third paragraph?
A. Energetic. B. Creative. C. Confident. D. Organized. 41. Which is the correct order of the things that happened to Leonardo? a. He finished the painting of Ginevra de’Benci. b. He moved to Florence.
c. He finished drawing an angel in his teacher’s painting. d. He began to learn art from Andrea del Verrocchio. e. He began to study the dead body.
A. b, c, e, d, a B. a, b, c, d, e C. b, d, e, a, c D. b, e, d, a, c
D
Mark Hoffman and his wife, Guia, own a bed-and-breakfast guesthouse in Kempton, Illinois. They often serve their guests with fresh vegetables from the garden.
The Hoffmans have been growing food and flowers for twenty-five years. Mr. Hoffman has been trying working with shade plantings. He says visitors to his website — greenhousebed.com — often ask how to plant in shade spaces. He said, “It’s certain that most plants will produce more in full sun. But if you do not have full sun, there are other choices.”
For example, he grows tomatoes near the trees. Trees can produce a lot of shade. But Mr. Hoffman says his tomato plants grow as long as they get five hours a day of direct sunshine, especially morning sun. This does not only go against the traditional advice that tomatoes need six, eight, even twelve hours a day of full sun, it also shows how plants and trees roots can share nutrients（营养） and water. Mr. Hoffman also planted asparagus（芦笋） around a tree. When it rains, all the rain from the leaves of the tree drops down right on the asparagus.
Mr. Hoffman says plants with wider leaves seem to do better in shady environments. He also found that his potatoes did better in partial shade than in full sun.
Moving them out of the sun helped control an insect problem with leaf hoppers. Mr. Hoffman does not use pesticides (农药). Instead, he planted the potatoes near the tree, especially on the east side of the tree. The potatoes get morning sun, but they are shaded during the hottest part of the day. Leaf hoppers dislike shade, and the hottest part of the day is when they do the worst of their damage. Time of day, brightness of the sun, shadows from trees, walls and buildings, these all influence how much sunshine falls or does not fall on plants. People who are interested in shade planting should also consider different conditions while planting vegetables in the shade. 42. What’s the writer’s purpose of writing the passage? A. To introduce Mark Hoffman and his family.
扬州中学教育集团树人学校九年级第二次模拟考试英语试卷
