2020-2021学年福建龙岩九年级上英语期末试卷
一、单选题
1. Although the girl is from ________ European country, she knows Chinese culture very well.
A./ B.a C.an
2. Keep trying, ______ you might surprisingly find hidden abilities within you.
A.and B.but C.or
3. —Perfect photos! Good skills! —Thank you. They ______ by my Huawei mobile phone. In fact, I'm not skillful at all.
A.will be taken B.took C.were taken
4. China is getting better at making hi-tech products ______ can be bought in all parts of the world.
A.which B.what C.who
5. —The radio says there will be a rainstorm this weekend. —So we have to ________ the hiking to Nanshan.
A.join B.cancel C.support
6. —Look! Someone ______ the classroom. —Well, it wasn't me. I didn't do it.
A.has cleaned B.is cleaning C.was cleaning
7. —How strange! You sit in your room ______ for a long time, Tom. —I just want to be quieter for a while. I'm sorry, dad. I failed the test again.
A.in public B.in silence C.in fact
8. —Who helped you repair the computer? —______, I repaired it all by myself.
A.Anybody B.Somebody C.Nobody
9. —Don't ______ the waste paper. We can collect and recycle it. —You're right. Everyone should be a greener person.
A.put away B.blow away C.throw away
10. —Are you ready for your trip to Beijing? —Yes, I can't wait ______ there!
A.getting B.to get C.get
11. I'm afraid to talk with foreigners because of my poor ______.
A.information B.introduction C.pronunciation
12. —What do you think of Helen? —She is a(n) ________ girl who never tells lies.
A.busy B.honest C.brave
13. —I think Miss Wang is the most excellent teacher in our school. —______, she teaches us well and cares about us a lot.
A.Exactly B.Simply C.Mainly
14. —I wonder if Jenny is doing well in her school. —______ She is old enough to look after herself well.
A.It's a pity. B.You're welcome. C.No need to worry.
15. —Helen, could you tell me ______? —I'd like to join the English club.
A.whether there are clubs in your school
B.why you like the English club
C.which club you are going to join
二、完形填空
16.
I can't wait to introduce my idol to you. She is Li Ziqi, a popular video blogger. The（1）________ energy she spreads has earned her growing popularity.
I admire Li for many of her good（2）________. Firstly, she is patient and is always able to spot the beauty in everyday life. For example, she once wanted to（3）________ a perfect picture of snow. She（4）________ nearly eight hours in the heavy snow and pressed the shutter（快门）of her camera hundreds of times（5）________ she got the shot she wanted. Secondly, although Li has been faced with all kinds of（6）________, she has never stopped working hard for a brighter future. Furthermore, her filial piety（孝心）has deeply touched me. She started cooking with her grandfather at a very young age. And upon hearing that her grandmother was ill, she hurried back to（7）________ hometown with no hesitation（犹豫）. While she was there, she took good car（8）________ her grandmother every day and（9）________, her grandmother became fit and well again.
An idol（10）________ an important role in our lives. After learning about Li's life, I have learned to spot beauty in my daily life and to show more filial piety to my parents and grandparents. I hope you can also learn a lot from Li and your own idols.
（1）
A.positive B.bad C.happy
（2）
A.knowledge B.interests C.qualities
（3）
A.draw B.take C.want
（4）
A.wasted B.borrowed C.spent
（5）
A.because B.until C.unless
（6）
A.challenges B.mistakes C.situations
（7）
A.their B.her C.his
（8）
A.in B.for C.of
（9）
A.gradually B.easily C.hardly
（10）
A.gets B.plays C.keeps
三、阅读理解
17.
（1）The charity drive is organized by ________.
A.Sunshine Gardens Club B.Five Children'sClub C.Grace Orphanage D.Youth Sports Channel
（2）What is the purpose of the charity drive for Grace Orphanage?
A.To encourage children through reading.
B.To teach children to draw pictures.
C.To raise money for children aged 6 to 12.
D.To introduce some local performers.
（3）According to the text, we can ________ in the charity drive.
A.give away used books to kids
B.play yo-yo with the volunteers
C.enjoy children's TV programs
D.watch performances on Friday
（4）Which of the following is TRUE according to the text?
A.The charity will last two days from Friday to Saturday.
B.You can donate any kinds of books and magazines.
C.You can donate your used books with your names on them.
D.You can make a donation at 5:30 pm on June 23rd.
（5）Where is the text probably from?
A.A novel. B.A health report. C.A science fiction. D.A poster.
18.
Each year on Feb. 21, UNESCO（联合国教科文组织）holds an International Mother Language Day（IMLD）. The event is to help people to pay attention to the disappearance of the world's languages: many of them are disappearing each year. UNESCO sees this as a terrible fact.
What happens when a language dies out? Something great is lost—not just sounds and marks but the way that people understand the world and communicate with each other. We keep different cultures and traditions through languages. Kill a language and all these are killed, too.
Through IMLD, more and more people come to realize the terrible situation and try to stop it. The 2018 Endangered（濒临灭绝的）Languages Project is a good example. Many speakers and protectors of endangered languages upload（上传）texts, audio and videos to the project website. They want to introduce the way that people communicate and express themselves around the world.
The Myaamia Project is the same kind of effort to revive the language spoken by the Miami tribes（部落）of the United States. Project members work to encourage people to study and communicate with this language, which died out in the 1960s.
These activities give life to those endangered languages. People who work to keep languages alive are not limited to the past. Many young people design apps and use social media to support their activities. They "spread the word" to save the word.
So, while the problem of disappearing languages remains a very serious one, there is hope. We all have a special feeling of our mother language. This is why we should remember the wise words of late president of South Africa, Nelson Mandela: "If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to a man in his own language, that goes to his heart."
（1）UNESCO holds IMLD every year in order to help people to ________.
A.practice reading skills of mother languages
B.learn and use endangered languages
C.realize the situation of endangered languages
D.show their talents in learning languages
（2）What did people do in the 2018 Endangered Languages Project?
A.Share materials about endangered languages online.
B.Discuss how to make good use of IMLD.
C.Translate endangered languages into mother languages.
D.Offer online courses on endangered languages.
（3）What does the underlined word "revive" mean in paragraph 4?
A.复活 B.创造 C.清除 D.学习
（4）What can we infer from Paragraph 5?
A.Young people don't care about endangered languages.
B.It's more difficult to protect endangered languages.
C.Young people have creative ways to protect languages.
D.The disappearance of languages has already stopped.
（5）The writer mentions Nelson Mandela's words in order to ________.
A.tell the trouble in learning endangered languages
B.tell the importance of one's mother language
C.show the possibility of protecting mother languages
D.show his contributions to language protection
19.
Do you want to know how and why a fall leaf changes color? We first have to understand what leaves are and what they do.
Leaves are the world's food factories. Plants take water from the ground through their roots and take CO2 from the air. Plants use sunlight to turn water and CO2 into glucose（葡萄糖）, a kind of sugar. Plants use it as food for energy and growing.
A chemical called "chlorophyll" in the leaves gives plants their green color. As summer ends and autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter, and trees "know" to begin getting ready for winter.
During winter, there is not enough sunlight or water. Trees rest during this time and live on the food they store during the summer. They begin to shut down their food-making factories. As the green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves, we begin to see yellow and orange leaves.
The bright reds and purples we see in leaves are made mostly in autumn. In some trees, like maples（枫树）, sunlight and the cool nights of autumn turn the glucose in the leaves into a red color. And we can enjoy the beautiful red leaves during autumn.
（1）Which should be in the box?
A.sugar B.air C.wind D.water
（2）The underlined word "chlorophyll" means ________.
A.脂肪 B.叶绿素 C.淀粉 D.蛋白质
（3）The leaves turn yellow because they are short of ________.
A.glucose and energy B.water and CO2 C.sunlight and CO2 D.sunlight and water
（4）Which of the following is NOT true?
A.During winter trees live on the food they store in summer.
B.When autumn comes, the days get shorter and shorter.
C.Trees begin to stop making food in summer.
D.During winter some of yellow and orange colors are still in the leaves.
（5）This passage tells us ________.
A.there are all kinds of plants on the earth
B.the plants can grow well only with the sunlight
C.maple leaves change the color as other trees
D.not all the colors of the leaves are from chlorophyll
20.
According to the China Manned Space Engineering Office, the Tiangong space station has made key technology breakthroughs in its major system. It is expected to be fully used around 2022.
The Long March 5B carrier rocket（长征五号B运载火箭）made its first flight in the first half of 2020. The flight was the first of China's manned space station missions.
China's space station program includes three periods. Long March 5 B's first flight belongs to the first phrase, which will include six missions. The second phrase will also include six such missions.
The Tiangong station will consist of a core module（核心舱）and two space labs. When it starts to be used, Shenzhou manned spaceships will transfer astronauts while Tianzhou cargo spaceships（运货飞船）will carry supplies.
The space station is designed for a ten-year service life. This could be extended through repairs according to future research needs. The station can provide room for three astronauts to have long stays or six astronauts to live for short periods.
China has made many achievements in its manned space program. Up to now, it has successfully launched six manned spaceships. Eleven Chinese astronauts have gone into space and returned to the Earth safely.
（1）When will the Tiangong space station be completely used?
A.In ten years. B.Before 2021. C.Around 2022. D.In five years.
（2）What will the Tiangong station be made up of?
A.Six rooms for astronauts to live in.
B.One core module and two space labs.
C.One lab and two cargo spaceships.
D.Five Long March carrier rockers.
（3）The space station is designed ________.
A.by eleven Chinese scientists B.for ten astronauts to live in C.to use for ten years D.as six different parts
（4）Which of the following is the best title for the passage?
A.China's First Space Station B.China's First Flight into Space C.Manned Space Program D.The Greatest Flight in China
（5）In which section of a magazine can you read the text?
A.Weather and nature. B.Health and food. C.Travel and geography. D.Science and technology.
四、五选五
21. 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的五个选项中选出能填入短文空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺、连贯，意思完整。
There are always great people among us.
（1）________ Wang Dewen, also known as Grandpa Amu, is from Liaocheng, Shandong. He lives with his son in Guangxi now.
（2）________ Lu Ban was a great carpenter（木匠）who invented the saw（锯子）and other tools around 2,500 years ago. Wang's most popular works are the Lu Ban stool（凳子）and the apple-shaped Lu Ban lock. His grandson's favorites are a walking Peppa Pig and a bubble blowing machine.
（3）________ "Some of them I invented on my own, and some I learned online," Wang said. He began to learn to do woodwork at the age of 15. He has been a carpenter for about fifty years.
（4）________ "We came up with the idea of making the videos because we wanted to bring our traditional culture to others and let people learn about the ancient Chinese science," he said.
（5）________ The carpenter has had nearly 600,000 followers on YouTube so far. "All your works are amazing," one YouTube user wrote. "It makes me smile every time you give your work to your grandson."
五、情景交际
22. 根据情景提示，完成下列各题。
（1）你向好朋友咨询学好英语的建议，可以这样问： ______ on how to learn English well?
（2）你想知道在中国别人能否听懂外国朋友Ben的话，可以这样问他： Can you ______, Ben?
（3）今晚学校将会放映电影《攀登者》，你可以这样告诉大家： The Climbers ______.
（4）你希望朋友梦想成真，可以这样说： ______.
（5）你确信电脑在科技和商业上都很有用，可以这样说： ______ in technology and business.
六、看图写话
23. 根据每小题所提供的图画情景和提示词，写出一个与图画情景相符的句子。
（1）Shanghai, tomorrow ________
（2）be made of ________
（3）when, invent ________
（4）be not sure ________
（5）ought to ________
七、语法填空
24. 根据短文内容及所给提示，在文中的空白处填写一个正确的单词。
During the coronavirus lockdown（封锁期）, Grigori Lup, a shoemaker in Romania, found（1）________（he）with a lot of free time on his hands.（2）________ thinking about it for a while, Mr. Lup came up with an unusual idea—making "social distancing shoes".
The（3）________ [meɪn] section of the shoes fits the foot normally, but the "toe" of the shoes is really long. "If two people who were（4）________（wear）my shoes were placed in front of each other, there would be a separation of about a（5）________ [ˈmiːtə(r)] and a half between them," he says.
Mr. Lup's shoes are about "size 75". For comparison, the average（平均的）men's shoes size in the US is about 44. Mr. Lup originally（最初）（6）________（plan）to make 3 pairs of the shoes and post pictures of them on his website. His（7）________ [ɡəʊl] was to remind people how important social distancing is.（8）________ surprisingly, Mr. Lup soon realized he had a hit. He has had orders coming（9）________ around the world, and now features several different（10）________（style）of social distancing shoes on his website. The shoes sell for about $115.
八、书面表达
25. 发明创造改变了世界。不少青少年都梦想成为一名发明家。我们应该怎样做才能实现这样的梦想呢？请根据下面的要点提示，以“How to become an inventor”为题，写一篇短文，谈谈你的观点。词数80左右。 要求： 1. 必须包含所有提示信息，可适当拓展，开头已给出，不计入总词数； 2. 意思清楚，表达通顺，行文连贯，书写规范； 3. 请勿在文中使用真实的姓名、校名。
How to become an inventor
Great inventors keep changing our world and they make our life become better and better. ________