闵行区2011学年第二学期九年级质量调研考试

　　英 语 试 卷

　　（满分150分，考试时间100分钟）

　　考生注意：本卷有7大题，共99小题。试题均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题纸上完成，做在试卷上不给分。

　　Part 1  Listening (第一部分 听力)

　　I. Listening Comprehension (听力理解): (共30分)

　　A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片): (共6分)

 

 

　　1. ______  2. ______  3. ______  4. ______  5. ______  6. ______

　　B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案): (共10分)

　　7. A) Cartoons.       B) Western films.

　　C) News.       D) Talk shows.

　　8. A) By plane.       B) By bus.

　　C) By taxi.       D) By train.

　　9. A) March.   B) April.

　　C) May.   D) June.

　　10. A) She made a phone call.  B) She went to see a film.

　　C) She went to the library.     D) She had dinner with Andrew.

　　11. A) Mark.               B) Harry.

　　C) Mary.       D) Judy.

　　12. A) She draws pictures.   B) She searches information.

　　C) She sends e-mails.        D) She plays computer games.

　　13. A) A month.            B) Five weeks.

　　C) Seven weeks.            D) Two months.

　　14. A) In the supermarket.       B) At the post office.

　　C) In the bar.        D) At school.

　　15. A) Husband and wife.            B) Neighbours.

　　C) Classmates.          D) Manager and secretary.

　　16. A) John likes hot dogs.           B) Sandra will give John a puppy.

　　C) John doesn't like dogs.      D) Eddie will give John a hot dog.

　　C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的短文内容，符合的用"T"表示，不符合的用"F"表示): (共7分)

　　17. In America, people don't mind sitting with strangers at the same table while eating.

　　18. In America, only at coffee shops, you are served cold water before you order.

　　19. Most cities and towns never make rules about opening and closing time for bars.

　　20. You can ask for a doggie bag if you want to take the food home.

　　21. "Sunday dinner" is an especially big evening meal for Americans.

　　22. In some restaurants, you should put the money on the table for the bill.

　　23. From the last paragraph we know tips are expected in U.S. restaurants and bars.

　　D. Listen to the dialogue and complete the following sentences（听对话，完成下列内容。每空格限填一词）:（共7分）

　　24. Mostly it was ________ while Maria was travelling.

　　25. Maria went walking, climbing, swimming, ________ and fishing.

　　26. Maria and his friends cycled to the West Hill and went to the ________ many times.

　　27. They borrowed the bike from the ________ villagers.

　　28. The village is about ________ kilometres from the beach.

　　29. Baker didn't take a warm coat and slept ________ at night when he was once there.

　　30. Maria and her friends forgot their________ when they left the village.

　　Part 2  Vocabulary and Grammar (第二部分 词汇和语法)

　　II. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案): (共20分)

　　31. Ben studied the menu for ______ while and then ordered his meal.

　　A) a B) an C) the  D) /

　　32. - Simon could look after ______ when he was five.

　　- Really? How independent he was!

　　A) he  B) him C) his  D) himself

　　33. Shelly plans to visit Shanghai with her parents ______ August.

　　A) at B) on C) in  D) by

　　34. Martha is happy as her daughter has made much ______ in her study recently.

　　A) progress B) fun C) mistakes  D) friends

　　35. I'm too sleepy to go on reading, I'd better have ______ cup of coffee.

　　A) other B) the other C) another  D) others

　　36. Nowadays even a small personal computer ______ store huge amounts of information.

　　A) must B) need C) should  D) can

　　37. ______ terrible weather we've been having these days!

　　A) What B) What a   C) What an  D) How

　　38. Ipad 2 is ______ accepted by the young people than those of other brands.

　　A) widely B) more widely C) most widely  D) the most widely

　　39. A moment, please. I'm checking if Mr. Smith ______ free tomorrow．

　　A) is            B) will be C) was  D) has been

　　40. My uncle ______ as an engineer in a company since five years ago.

　　A) will work B) worked C) has worked  D) had worked

　　41. You'd better not disturb Tony now as he ______ his speech for tomorrow's meeting.

　　A) is preparing B) will prepare C) was preparing D) has prepared

　　42. The plane ______ by the terrible storm so the passengers had to wait at the airport for nearly 2 hours.

　　A) would delay B) was delayed C) will delay  D) has been delayed

　　43. The river here is seriously polluted and I've warned Jack ______ in it.

　　A) not to swim B) to not swim C) don't swim  D) doesn't swim

　　44. In the kindergarten, all the children liked to play with Miss Guo as she seemed so ______.

　　A) gently B) friendly C) beautifully  D) sadly

　　45. Tom rarely visits her aunt during work days, ______?

　　A) has he  B) hasn't C) does he  D) doesn't he

　　46. Sonia never cleans ______ even offers to wash the dishes. How lazy he is!

　　A) but B) and C) so  D) or

　　47. I really enjoyed your lecture ______ there were some parts I didn't quite understand.

　　A) because  B) unless  C) though  D) when

　　48. The young man has denied ______ the motorcycle near the Wal-Mart store.

　　A) steal B) to steal  C) stealing  D) stole

　　49. - I'm afraid French is too difficult for me.

　　- ______ You can do it!

　　A) Don't give up.   B) I'm sorry to hear that .

　　C) So am I.   D) It's too awful.

　　50. - We plan to go out for a picnic next weekend. Would you like to come along?

　　- ______ It's my favourite.

　　A) Enjoy yourself.  B) It doesn't matter.

　　C) You're welcome.     D) That would be very nice.

　　III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each word or phrase can only be used once（将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一个单词或词组，每词只能填一次）:（共8分）

　　A. nice   B. instead of   C. chance  D. understood   E. wrong

　　F. have a break G. member  H. promised I. came out of

　　Once a small boy lived on a farm which seemed so far away from everywhere.

　　He needed to get up before sunrise every day to help his father on the farm. During sunrise he would    51    and climb up on the fence along the side of the farm. He could see a house with golden windows. "If they could afford golden windows, then there must be other    52     things inside the house." He imagined how great it would be to live there. Then he    53    himself, "Some day I will go there and see this wonderful place."

　　One morning, his father would go to the town and told him to stay at home for a rest. Knowing that this was his    54   , he took a sandwich and headed across the field towards the house with the golden windows.

　　As the afternoon went on, he began to realize how    55    he was. The house was much farther than he had expected. As he went near the house, he saw a place in bad need of a painting    56    golden windows. A small girl very close to his age    57    the poor house and stood by the broken fence. He asked her if she had seen the house with the golden windows. The girl said, "Sure, I know." And invited him to sit on the porch. As he sat there, he looked back from where he just came. There he saw the sunset turned the windows of his house to gold! Now he    58    that everyone had his own house with golden windows.

　　IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their suitable forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子。每空格限填一词）:（共8分）

　　59. The book Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone sold millions of ________.  (copy).

　　60. The actor who acted in the TV series last night became famous in his ________. (thirty)

　　61. When the horse finished the race, ________ sides were wet all over with sweat.  (it)

　　62. They were ________ with the recent case the young detective had dealt with. (pleasure)

　　63. Last month we received Peter's ________ and went to his birthday party happily. (invite)

　　64. I don't go out much, ________ because I have to look after the kids. (main)

　　65. Most people think that traveling abroad can ________ one's knowledge. (rich)

　　66. Nowadays blogs are much more ________ than traditional diaries and especially welcomed by young people. (useless)

　　V. Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子。每空格限填一词): (共14分)

　　67. There were some free seats when I got on the bus. (改为否定句)

　　There ________ ________ free seats when I got on the bus.

　　68. We had to stay at home last Sunday because I coughed a lot. (对划线部分提问)

　　________ ________ you have to stay at home last Sunday?

　　69. The medical team is made up of 20 doctors from different hospitals. (保持句意基本不变)

　　The medical team ________ ________ 20 doctors from different hospitals.

　　70. The students will be back from the lab in ten minutes. (对划线部分提问)

　　________ ________ will the students be back from the lab?

　　71. Eva will sleep with the window open unless it's really cold. (保持句意基本不变)

　　Eva will sleep with the window open ________ it ________ very cold.

　　72. Some people from the Philippines go to Hong Kong to work in order to have a better life.  (保持句意基本不变)

　　Some people from the Philippines go to Hong Kong to work ________ ________ they can have a better life.

　　73. Mary asked.  Has Angela known about that?  (改为宾语从句)

　　Mary asked ________ Angela ________ known about that.

　　Part 3   Reading and Writing (第三部分 读写)

　　VI. Reading comprehension (阅读理解): (共50分)

　　A. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案): ( 12分)

　　There! I have drawn the chairs into the right corners, and dusted the room nicely. How cold mum and daddy will be when they return from their long ride! It is not time to toast the bread yet, and I am tired of reading.

　　What shall I do? Somehow, I can't help thinking about the pale face of that little beggar girl all the time. I can see the glad light filling her eyes, just as obvious as I did when I laid the dime (一角硬币) in her little dirty hand.

　　How much I had thought of that dime, too! Grandfather gave it to me a whole month ago, and I had kept it ever since in my red box upstairs; but those sugar apples looked so beautiful, and were so cheap―only a dime a piece―that I made up my mind to have one.

　　I can see her―the beggar girl, I mean―as she stood there in front of the store, in her old hood(风帽) and faded dress, looking at the candies laid all in a row. I wonder what made me say, "Little girl, what do you want?"

　　How she stared at me, just as if nobody had spoken kindly to her before. I guessed she thought I was sorry for her, for she said, so sadly, "I was thinking how good one of those gingerbread rolls would taste. I haven't had anything to eat today."

　　Then, I thought to myself, "Mary Williams, you have had a good lunch and a good dinner today, and this poor girl has not had a mouthful. You can give her your dime; she needs it a great deal more than you do."

　　I couldn't resist that little girl's hungry look, so I dropped the dime right into her hand. And without waiting for her to speak, I walked straight away. I'm so glad I gave her the dime, if I did have to go without the apple lying there in the window, I didn't mind.

　　74. Mary got the dime from her ________.

　　A) parents    B) grandfather

　　C) good friend     D) neighbour

　　75. The underlined word "one" in paragraph three refers to(指的是) ________.

　　A) a piece of bread    B) a red box

　　C) a piece of sugar apple D) a chair

　　76. From paragraph four and five we know that ________.

　　A) Mary didn't like the beggar girl    B) the beggar girl wanted sugar apples

　　C) Mary's family used to be poor    D) the beggar girl was really poor

　　77. We can learn from the underlined sentence of the last paragraph that Mary was a ________ girl.

　　A) kind  B) honest

　　C) funny  D) lonely

　　78. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

　　A) Mary dropped the dime in the beggar girl's hand and then talked with her.

　　B) The beggar girl hadn't eaten anything before she met Mary that day.

　　C) Mary toasted some bread while waiting for her parents coming back.

　　D) The beggar girl had some gingerbread rolls before she got a dime from Mary.

　　79. The best title for the passage is "________".

　　A) A Poor Beggar Girl   B) A lucky Beggar Girl

　　C) Mary's Present     D) Mary's Dime

　　B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文):（12分）

　　It was my first week in Kansas City, the USA. My friend, Sharon, asked me whether I'd like to try McDonald's for a quick lunch. So, we went. American fast food is quite popular in China, so I could   80   pick something that I used to have in Beijing-a super burger, a coke and French fries, though the names of the food were in English.   81  , the burger was much bigger than what I had back home. I thought to myself, after all, most Americans are bigger than Chinese. They must need more for lunch.

　　With my lunch set in front of me, I wanted some tomato sauce to   82   my French fries, so I went to the waiter and asked him for some tomato sauce.

　　"What?" he looked puzzled. "Tomato sauce?"

　　I started to feel uncertain. I had studied English for six years. He should be able to understand me without any problems. Maybe, it was not called "tomato sauce" here, I    83   .

　　"I'm not sure what you call that thing," I tried again, "but it's American food, and you put tomato sauce on everything."

　　"Sorry , Miss," he said, shaking his head, "but we don't have tomato sauce here. Never have."

　　I walked back to Sharon and asked her the question. She smiled and asked me to wait for a moment. A few minutes later, she came back with several packages that I had asked for. So, they never used the   84   packages for the tomato sauce. Oh, no, it's written right there, "Ketch-up".

　　"What's the difference between Ketch-up and the tomato sauce?" I asked.

　　"I don't know   85   we call it this name," replied Sharon. "Never thought about it."

　　Sharon's smile suddenly made me realize that the difference between Ketch-up and the tomato sauce lay not so much in the food itself as in our different cultures.

　　80. A) carefully  B) happily  C) easily D) hardly

　　81. A) To my surprise B) For example C) In addition D) In this way

　　82. A) compete B) match  C) mix  D) cook

　　83. A) wondered B) believed C) agreed  D) apologized

　　84. A) expensive  B) attractive  C) natural   D) same

　　85. A) how B) where C) why  D) when

　　C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):（14分）

　　In the movie 2012, the volcano(火山)in Yellowstone National Park  erupts（爆发）,  smoke flies thousands of meters into the air, and car-sized pieces of stone and ash fly out.

　　Now, some scientists say, it's very possible that the Yellowstone volcano will soon erupt in r  86    life for the fourth time in history, after about 640,000 years. According to the Daily Mail, the volcano in the Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, US, has been rising at a record rate since 2004. Its magma (岩浆) surface has gone u  87    3 inches (7.6 centimeters) per year over the last three years alone. This rise is one of the main s  88    that a volcano is about to erupt. However, scientists are not certain when the eruption will happen or what it will cause.

　　Unlike what happens in the movie 2012, a volcano eruption would not destroy the whole world, b  89    it could cause huge damage to people living nearby. For example, the 2010 eruption of the Iceland Volcano caused more than 800 people to l  90    their homes and many airports in European countries to shut down for a few days.

　　There are more than 1, 500 active volcanoes in the world. A volcano is c  91    active  if it has erupted at least once during the last 10, 000 years. In ancient times, more than 80 percent of the earth's surface was volcanic. Volcanic eruptions formed the sea floor and some mountains over many years. Gas from volcanoes formed the earth's atmosphere（大气）.

　　Volcanoes come from very hot liquid rock, that is magma, inside the earth. When magama comes upward and breaks through the earth's surface, it forms volcanoes.

　　The rising magma heats water, which leads to explosions of steam. This pushes rocks and ash high into the sky. T  92   different things erupt from a volcano: hot liquid rock, volcanic ash and gases.

　　D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题): ( 12分)

　　My mother's dream of becoming a teacher was interrupted by an unexpected child: me. So she had to leave college to marry my father. Even though my mother left the field of education formally, she did not leave it entirely.

　　That first day of kindergarten, I opened my lunch box, inside which I found a note from my mother written on a napkin(一小块布), saying that she loved me, that she was proud of me and that I was the best kindergartner in the world! Because of that napkin note, I made it through my first day of kindergarten ... and many more school days to follow.

　　There have been many napkin notes since the first one. There were napkin notes in elementary school when I was struggling with maths, telling me to "Hang in there. You can do it!" There were napkin notes in high school, when my basketball team was the first team in our school's history to play in a state championship, telling me, "There is no 'I' in team. You have got this so far because you know how to share." And there were even napkin notes sent to me in college and graduate school, far away from my mother's physical touch. Despite the changes of college, majors, boyfriends, and the way I looked at the world, my mother's encouragement, support and teachings, repeated in years of love and napkin notes.

　　For Christmas this year, my 46-year-old mother was finally going back to school to earn her degree in teaching. I also gave her a Christmas gift for school: a lunch bag filled with her favorite foods. As she opened up her "You can do it!" napkin note to me, tears began running down her face. When her eyes met mine, I saw she passed my unspoken message: My mother is, and has always been, a teacher.

　　93. What was the writer's mother's dream?

　　_________________________________________.

　　94. Where did the writer's mother put the napkin note on the first day of her kindergarten?

　　She ______________________________________.

　　95. The writer once met some trouble in maths in elementary school, didn't she?

　　______________, _________________________.

　　96. Why did the writer's mother keep on sending napkin notes to her?

　　__________________________________________.

　　97. When was the writer's mother going back to school to earn her degree in teaching?

　　__________________________________________.

　　98. What does the writer think of her mother?

　　_________________________________________.

　　VII. Writing (作文): (共20分)

　　99. Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic "_______ makes me learn a lot". ( 以"……使我学到了很多"为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。)

　　（ 注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。）

　　Use the following points as a reference（以下问题与图片仅供参考）:

　　What makes you learn a lot?

　　Reading books       Being a volunteer    Using computers       Travelling

　　…

　　What have you learned from it? (Give at least two examples)