常州市九年级英语新课结束考试试卷

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clothes

running

to

ask

a

building

contractor(

包工头

)

who

was

well

dressed,

11

could

I

become

as

rich

as

you

when

I grow up ?

Looking at the boy, the tall and strong contractor replied,

you a story first about three diggers. The first digger liked

12

a spade

（铲

子）

without doing anything but saying that he wanted to be a boss in the future. The

second digger always liked

13

about working too long and getting little. The

third

digger

liked

quietly

14

himself

to

digging

without

making

any

requirement.

Several

years

later,

the

first

digger

was

still

holding

his

spade

in

his

place

and

the

second

found

a(n)

15

of

work

accident

for

early

retirement(

退休

).

Only

the

third

digger became the boss of the building company. Do you understand this story? Just go

to buy a red

16

and work hard.

The

little

boy

was

puzzled,

so

he

asked

the

contractor

to

explain

17

.

Pointing

to the builders, the contractor talked to the little boy,

are all my workers. I can not remember all of their names, and even I have no

18

of

some

of

them.

But

if

you

look

carefully,

you

will

notice

a

sunburned

man

in

red

among

them. I notice him very early. He seems to be working harder with higher spirits than

19

else. He is always the first one to work every day while the last one to leave.

It is

20

his red shirt that makes him stand out among all the workers. Now I am

about to

ask

him

to

be my task-master and I believe he will work

even much harder from

now on. Maybe he will soon be promoted(

升职

) to my assistant. You know that is also

how

I

got

21

I

am

now.

I

worked

hard

and

wore

a

striped

shirt.

My

boss

noticed

me. I also became a boss finally.

Success can only be born in

22

. The more you achieve from your hard work,

the better understanding of hard work you will have. Life needs action and I hope you

can set up your goal and start your journey right now.

11.

A. When

B. Why

C. How

D. What

12.

picking

13.

discussing

14.

devoting

15.

example

16.

shirt

17.

instead

18.

impression

19.

everyone

20.

quickly

21.

22.

A. where

A. need

B. which

B. danger

C. who

D. that

C. courage

D.

A. exactly

B. highly

C. excitedly

D.

A. someone

B. anyone

C. nobody

D.

A. idea

B. way

C. decision D.

A. again

B. farther

C. further

D.

A. helmet

B. scarf

C. towel

D.

A. chance

B. risk

C. excuse

D.

A. suggesting

B. preferring

C. losing

D.

A. explaining

B. complaining

C. arguing

D.

A. holding

B. buying

C. spreading

D.

action

三、阅读理解（共

13

小题；每小题

2

分，满分

26

分）

阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的

A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中 ，选出最佳选项。

A

Picture 1

Picture 2

Look at the center circles of Picture 1.

Which of the centre circles looks

larger?

Take a first look and you probably think that the centre circle in Diagram A is

smaller than that in Diagram B. In fact, they are exactly the same size.

Then

look

at

the

picture

2

above.

What

do

you

see?

A

vase(

花瓶

)

or

two

faces?

Does

the picture change quickly from one to the other again and again? Maybe or maybe not,

but you can never see them at the same time.

see. Don't worry.

Here is how it goes:

When we look at things, our eyes send messages to our brains and then our brains

interpret

(

解读

)

the

information.

However,

sometimes

our

brains

interpret

the

received

information

in

a

wrong

way.

It

seems

that

our

eyes

are

playing

a

joke

on

us.

This

often

happens and we call it

视觉错误

).

Movie

makers

often

make

use

of

visual

illusions.

They

make

the

objects

around

actors

much

smaller

or

bigger

than

usual.

This

makes

us

believe

that

the

actors

are

much

larger

or smaller than they usually are. The movies

Jurassic Park and Honey I shrunk(

缩小

)

the kids just make use of visual illusions.

23.

A. adbc

What's the right order according to the passage?

a. We look at things with our eyes.

b

.

Our

c. Our brains tell us what we have seen.

d.

Our

eyes

B. cabd

Movie

makers

C. acdb

make

use

of

D. bcad

visual

illusions

brains interpret the messages.

send messages to our brains.

24.

to

.

A. help the actors look better

C. help the actors become stronger

B. make the actors much braver

D.

make

the

actors

seem

different

in

size

25.

In

the

following

picture,

it

seems

that

Line

AB

is

shorter

than

Line CD, but in fact Line AB is as long as Line CD. Which paragraph can explain

what has happened to our eyes?

A. The second one.

B. The third one.

C. The fifth one.

D. The sixth one.

B

When

I

was

a

boy

growing

up

in

New

Jersey

in

the

1960s,

we

had

a

milkman

delivering(

送

)

milk to our doorstep. His name was Mr. Basille. He wore a white cap and drove a white

truck. As a 5-year-

old boy, I couldn’t take my eyes off the coin changer（硬币盒）

fixed to

his

belt. He noticed this one day during a delivery

and

gave me a quarter out

of his coin changer. Of course, he delivered more than milk. There was cheese, eggs

and so on. If we needed

to change our order,

my

mother would

write a

note

“Please add

a bottle

of buttermilk next delivery”

and place it in the box along with the empty

bottles. And then, the buttermilk would magically appear. All of this was about more

than convenience(

便利

). There was a close relationship between families and their

milkmen. Mr. Basille even had a key to our house, for those times when it was so cold

outside

that

we

put

the

box

indoors

,

so

that

the

milk

wouldn’t

be

frozen.

And

I

remember

Mr. Basille from

time to time taking

a break at

our kitchen table, having a cup of tea

and telling stories about his delivery. There is sadly no home milk delivery today.

Big

companies

allowed

the

production

of

cheaper

milk,

making

it

difficult

for

milkmen

to

compete.

Besides,

milk

is

for

sale

everywhere,

and

it

may

just

not

have

been

practical

to

have

a

delivery

service.

Recently,

an

old

milk

box

in

the

countryside

I

saw

brought

back my childhood memories. I took it home and planted it on the back porch

（门廊）

.

Every so often my son’s friends will ask what it is. So I start telling stories of

my childhood, and of the milkman who brought us friendship along with his milk.

26.

What

can

be

inferred

（推断）

from

the

fact

that

the

milkman

had

B. He was a respectable person.

the key to the boy’s house?

A. He wanted to have tea there.

C. He was treated as a family member.

D. He was fully trusted by the family.

What does the underlined word

“

compete

”

mean?

B.

比较

C.

销售

B. A milkman

D.

竞争

C. A milk delivery

A.

完成

27.

28. What is the best title for the passage?

A. The good old days

D. My childhood

C

Science

can't

explain

the

power

of

pets,

but

many

studies

have

shown

that

pets

can

help lower blood pressure (

血压

) and raise chances of recovering(

恢复

) from a heart

attack, reduce loneliness and spread good cheer.

Any owner will tell you how much joy a pet brings. For some, an animal provides

more comfort than a

husband/wife. A study by Karen Allen of the State University of

New York measured(

测量

) stress levels and blood pressure in people - half of them pet

owners-while

they

did

5

minutes

of

arithmetic

(

算术

)

or

held

a

hand

in

ice

water.

People