D
Every year on my birthday, from the time I turned 12, a white gardenia(栀子花) was sent to my house. No card came with it. Calls to the flower shops were not helpful at all. After a while I stopped trying to discover the sender's name and was just very pleased with the beautiful white flower in soft pink paper. But I never stopped imagining who the giver might be. Some of my happiest moments were spent daydreaming about the sender. My mother encouraged this imagining. She'd asked me if there was someone for whom I had done a special kindness. Perhaps it was the old man who I looked after when he was ill. As a girl, I had more fun imagining that it might be a boy.
One month before my graduation, my father died. I felt very sad and didn't want to go to the coming graduation dance at all. And I didn't care whether I had a new dress or not. But my mother, in her own sadness, would not let me miss any of those things. She wanted her children to feel loved and lovable. In truth, my mother wanted her children to see themselves much like the gardenia—lovely, strong and perfect with perhaps a bit of mystery.
My mother died ten days after I was married. I was 22. That was the year the gardenia stopped coming. 63. Which statement is true according to the passage?
A. The author found the sender by calling the flower shops. B. In fact, the flower was sent by a boy.
C. It was a pleasant moment for the girl to imagine the sender. D. The author got a gardenia every year after she was married. A. she hoped she would miss her father B. she thought education was most important C. she hoped she would find a friend D. she wanted her to be happy and strong A. A Childhood Dream. C. A Graduation Party.
B. A Mother's Love. D. A Special Birthday.
64. The mother let her daughter go to the graduation dance because . 65. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
七、短文7选5(5选5等)（共5小题；共10分）
New rules and behavior standards (行为规范) for middle school students came out in March. The Middle School is going to use a new way to decide who the top students are. 66. They should not dye(染) their hair, smoke or drink because they are students. The following are some of the new rules. Have you ever copied someone else's work in an exam? Don't do that again! 67. Do more at school. 68. April is Bird-loving Month in China. Is your school doing anything to celebrate it? You should join! And you can learn more about animals and how to protect them. Be friendly to the people around you. Try to think of others, not only yourself.
69. Do you think people can live on the moon? Maybe you'll find another earth someday. Don't look down upon new ideas. Everyone's ideas are important. You should welcome them, because new ideas make life better for everyone.
Protect yourself. Has someone ever taken money from one of your classmates? Don't let it happen to you. If you have to go home late, you should let your parents know.
Use the Internet carefully. The Internet can be very useful for students. 70. So try to look at web pages that are good for you.
A. Be open to new ideas.
B. But some things on the Internet aren't for children. C. That's not something an honest student should do. D. Good students love animals and care for other people. E. The best students won't only have high marks.
八、阅读与表达(问答式)（共5小题；共10分）
Tea bag drinking is most Westerners' favorite way of drinking tea. Do you know how it came about? The tea bag was invented in 1908 by Thomas Sullivan, an American tea seller. He was sending out free tea in silk(丝绸) bags for people to try. People put the bags together with the tea leaves into the cup and added hot water. The tea tasted good, and people thought it was easy to clean the cup. They were not happy when Sullivan started sending them loose(散的) tea again.
Sullivan realized that he had a hot new thing in his hands, and he built a machine to pack the bags. As tea bags became popular, they were changed from silk to gauze(薄纱) and later paper. In 1952, Lipton Tea made the tea bag even more popular with its invention of the four-sided tea bag. Tea bags were soon a hit in the UK, and today 85% of tea in the UK is packed in paper bags. However, many people still prefer looseleaf tea. This is because some tea companies put not very good tea in their tea bags. But for most drinkers, tea bags are still the easy, tasty way to go. 根据短文内容，完成下列小题。
71. Who invented the tea bag?
72. Why was the tea in silk bags welcome? 73. What's the usual material of the tea bags now? 74. What does the underlined sentence mean? 75. What does the reading mainly talk about? 答案
一、单项选择 1. B 6. B
2. A 7. C
3. A 8. C
4. A 9. A
5. C 10. B
11. A 12. A 13. D 14. A 15. B 二、单词拼写(单句首字母填空) 16. relative 17. stolen
18. dessert 19. business 20. punish 21. warns 22. spread 23. tradition 24. pounds 25. Christmas
三、单词拼写(根据中文提示拼写单词) 26. admire 27. treat 28. warmth 29. punish 30. warn 31. business 32. traditions 33. steals 34. relatives 35. stranger
四、翻译(根据中文提示完成句子) 36. What a beautiful 37. How; is 38. if there is
39. that; invented by accident 40. ended up 五、完形填空 41. B
42. A 43. D 44. B
48. B
49. C
45. A 50. A
46. A 47. B 六、阅读理解 51. D 52. B 61. B
53. A 54. A 55. C
59. B
60. B
64. D 65. B
56. D 57. A 58. C
62. D 63. C
七、短文7选5(5选5等) 66. E
67. C
68. D 69. A 70. B
八、阅读与表达(问答式)
71. Thomas Sullivan.
72. Because the tea tasted good and the cup was easy to wash. 73. Paper.
74. Tea bags soon became popular. 75. The history of tea bags.
人教新目标Go For It!(2012)初中英语九年级全册Unit 2 I think that
