2024-2025学年（上）莆田九年级质量检测英语

1、阅读下面的短文，将划线部分译成英文或中文。

       Yang Peijie, 71, has been performing Haian flower-drum dances（海安花鼓）for more than fifty years.

       The Haian flower-drum dance dates back to more than 400 years. It became popular in the areas of the Yangtze River and the Huaihe River in the Ming Dynasty（1368-1644）. 1. 在过去，它被用来展现当地人们的生活。“It’s more gentle compared to flower-drum dances in other places such as in Anhui and Hunan, ” Yang said. Many of its dance steps came from daily life and express positive feelings. For example, fengbailiu （风摆柳） means you have to twist （弯曲） your body like the wind blowing willow trees.

       Yang started to learn the dance from old artists in the 1960s. At that time, people could only learn it this way. There were no textbooks. 2. Worrying it might get lost, Yang spent five years studying the history of the dance and recorded its steps in detail. He visited almost all the local artists and wrote a book about it.

       3. In recent years, Yang has kept on spreading the dance among all age groups. He set up a team to work on this. The team members have visited about eight schools to teach students. It has been combined （结合）with break-time exercises in many schools. 4. To interest kids, they separate difficult dance steps into several simple ones. Xu Hongxuan, a pupil from Haian Elementary School said, “I have been practicing it for three years. I think it’s more interesting than the radio gymnastic exercises（广播体操）. We beat drums to the music in all kinds of ways. Some dance steps are difficult, 5. 但当我掌握了它们之后，我感到开心和自豪。 Now I am a member of the flowerdrum dance club. ”

       Besides schools, Yang and the team members also go to communities and parks to teach older people. “I don’t want to see the art fail to be passed down from me, ” Yang said.

【1】______________________

【2】______________________

【3】______________________

【4】______________________

【5】______________________

2、You warm clothes in Shanghai, for it’s quite hot this month there.

A. needn’t to wear

B. needn’t wearing

C. don’t need to wear

D. don’t need wearing

3、There is something wrong with his TV. He wants to get it _______ this afternoon.

A. repairing   B. repaired   C. to repair

4、The headmaster is out at the moment． He______ back in half an hour．

A.was B.will be C.has been D.had been

5、— We are going to have a picnic in Shanghai Botanical Garden this Sunday.

— .

A．Congratulations!

B．Enjoy your time there.

C．All right.

D．No problem.

6、— Have you _____ had dumplings?

— No, not _____.

A. ever; yet B. ever; ever C. yet; yet

7、— Class begins now. Stop ________, please!

—OK.

A. talk   B. talking

C. to talk   D. talked

8、—Do you have plans for this Sunday?

—I’m not sure. I_______go to Xiangshan Park to see the autumn leaves.

A. can   B. must   C. may   D. need

9、________ all of us can learn to love, everything around us will be a wonder.

A．Because

B．If

C．Before

D．Although

10、The lake in the village is ________．

A. 30 metres deep   B. 30­metre deep

C. 30 metre deep   D. 30­metre­deep

11、—Could you please tell me ________ a hospital near here?

—Sure. It is behind the post office.

A．if is there

B．whether there was

C．whether is there

D．if there is

12、I _______ dinner at my friend’s house when you called me yesterday evening.

A.had B.have had C.was having D.are having

13、The computer needs_________. I think I need ________ to ask Mr. Zhang for help.

A. fixing; going   B. to fix; going   C. fixing; to go   D. to fix; to go

14、—I can’t imagine ________ the work in such a short time.

—But we have no choice but ________ it.

A．fishing; do

B．finishing; to do

C．to finish; to do

D．to finish; doing

15、—Did you go to Jenny’s goodbye party, Jill?

—No. I ______.

A. didn’t invite   B. wasn’t invited   C. am not invited   D. haven’t invited

16、Orange is a warm colour, and it can make you   when you feel sad.

A. give up   B. wake up   C. pick up   D. cheer up

17、—Could you please tell me ________ the 2020 Beijing International Automotive Exhibition?

—Last Tuesday.

A．when they visited

B．when will they visit

C．when they will visit

D．when did they visit

18、We should leave early tomorrow morning， _____ we won’t get there on time.

A. and   B. so   C. or   D. but

19、_______ woman in the picture saved a lot of people's lives.

A.A B.An C.The D./

20、I believe there   less pollution in the future.

A. will have B. will be C. are going to be

21、Could you tell me   a meeting in Guangzhou next week?

A. if there was going to be

B. if there is going to be

C. whether is there going to be

D. whether there is going to have

22、根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

【1】The time is too short. It’s   (possible) for Daniel to finish this work.

【2】Mother’s Day is coming. He’ll use what he has   (buy ) his mother a new dress.

【3】Take care, children. Don’t hurt   (you) when you play football.

【4】I’m surprised that Gavin is 50. I thought he was   (young), for he seems to be in his thirties.

【5】Are you satisfied with these   (sing) performances in the opera?

23、从A-G选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项补全对话。（选项中有两项是多余的）。

A: Excuse me. Do you know where the nearest bookstore is?

B: Yes, but it’s miles away.

A: 【1】

B: The buses don’t take you directly there. 【2】 I suggest you walk there.

A: Then how can I get there on foot?

B: Go straight till you pass the square and turn right. 【3】

A: Tall building ... 【4】

B: The right side. The bookstore should be on the first floor.

A: OK. I’ve got it. Thank you very much.

B: 【5】

A．That’s all right.

B．You have to change buses twice.

C．Which side of the road is the building on?

D．Do I need to take a bus?

E．All right.

F．Walk past two traffic lights and look for a tall building.

G．What directions should I go in?

24、Thirty years ago, Lake Ponkapog in Hartwell, New Jersey, was full of life. Many birds and animals lived beside the water, which was full of fish. Now there are few birds, animals, and fish.

The lake water is polluted (污染的). It is in a color of dirty brown, and it is filled with strange plants.

How does this happen? First we must think about how water gets into Lake Ponkapog. When it rains, water comes into the lake from all around. In the past there were forests all around Lake Ponkapog so the rain water was clean.

Now there are many homes around the lake. People often use chemicals (化学品) in their gardens. They use other chemicals inside their houses for cleaning or killing insects (昆虫). There are also many businesses. Businesses use chemicals in their machines or shops. Other chemicals fall onto the ground from cars or trucks. When it rains, the rain water picks up all the chemicals from homes and businesses and then carries them into the lake. They pollute the water and kill the animals.

Boats on the lake are also a problem. Lake Ponkapog is a popular place for motorboats. But oil and gas (油和汽)  from boats often get into the lake. So more bad chemicals go into the water this way.

People in Hartwell are worried. They love their lake and want to save it. Will it be possible? A clean lake must have clean rainwater going into it. Clean rainwater is possible only if people are more careful about chemicals at home and at work. They must also be more careful about gas and oil and other chemicals on the ground. And they mustn't use motorboats any more on the lake. All these may change people's lives. Only then can Lake Ponkapog be a beautiful, clean lake again.

【1】In the past, the water in Lake Ponkapog was made clean by ______.

A. forests   B. rain   C. birds   D. fish

【2】Chemicals from homes and businesses ______.

A. are always clean

B. can help the animals

C. are good for the lake

D. get into the rainwater

【3】Cleaner rainwater will mean ______.

A. more boats on the lake

B. more dirty things in the lake

C. a cleaner lake

D. a dirtier lake

【4】To save Lake Ponkapog, people need to ______.

A. be more careful about chemicals

B. use less water

C. grow fewer plants in the gardens

D. use more motorboats on the lake

【5】The passage is about ______.

A. boats on Lake Ponkapog

B. why the water is dirty in Lake Ponkapog

C. clean rainwater

D. dirty lakes

25、There are many deserts on the earth. And the following are some facts you may find interesting.

What are deserts like?   

Deserts can be hot and dry places. Rain may not fall there for months or years. Some deserts are sandy and stony（多石的）. Deserts can also be very windy places. The wind can change the shape of the deserts. It moves sand around from place to place.

Temperatures in the desert can be different so much. During the daytime, the temperature may reach 40℃ even in the shade（阴凉处）. At night deserts can become very cold. In winter there may even be a frost（霜冻）in the early morning.

Living in the desert

The camel is sometimes called “the ship of the desert”. It stores food in its hump（驼峰）and can go for days without water. It has large feet which help it not to fall into the soft sand. Its long eyelashes（睫毛）keep out the sand during sandstorms.

An oasis is an area of the desert where water may be found. The water may be in pools or under the ground. People and animals visit an oasis for water and food. Plants grow at an oasis. Some farmers are able to grow crops here.

The Arabian Desert

The Arabian Desert lies between the Red Sea and the Arabian Gulf（海湾）. In some parts of the desert, it is too hot for people to live. Oil was discovered under parts of the desert and in the Arabian Gulf. This oil has made some countries in the area very rich. Much of the money has been spent building fine cities with lovely parks and lakes, and people live a comfortable life there.

根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

【1】Which of the following can best describe deserts?

A．Hot and dry.

B．Sandy and rainy.

C．Windy and snowy.

【2】The underlined word “oasis” in the passage means “____” in Chinese.

A．陆地

B．草地

C．绿洲

【3】The camel has long eyelashes to________.

A．help it not to fall into the soft sand

B．keep out the sand during sandstorms

C．go for days without water

【4】According to the passage, people and animals visit an oasis for ________.

A．money and oil

B．sand and stones

C．water and food

【5】What is the best title of the passage?

A．What is the weather like in deserts?

B．What do you know about deserts?

C．Where is the Arabian Desert?

26、   Stonchenge is a famous place in England, one of the oldest and most mysterious（神秘的）places in the world. It was probably put up between 1800 B. C. and 1400 B. C. It lies in the city of Salisbury, which is about 13 km south of Stonchenge.

Stonehenge was a ring of standing stones, including upright（垂直的）stones with a horizontal（水平的）stone lying across the top. When it was completed, it was made up of a double circle of stones with two more groups of stones outside the circles. Over time, however, many of the stones have been broken by wind and rain, only a small number is still standing today.

It is unclear who built Stonchenge or even how it was built. Many of the stones must have been transported over 250 miles to Stonchenge. Single stones, some of them weighing about four tons, must have been sent on rivers and rolled over land on tree trunks（树干）. They can’t have been carried! The men who moved the stones didn’t have wheels or horses. Each stone had to be moved by hand.

The purpose of Stonchenge is just as mysteries. It has been called a place to honor ancestors, a sun temple, an ancient clock and a calendar. Some people think the stones have been built in a special way to mark sunrise and sunset at certain times during the year, because the sun shines directly into the center of the stones. Others have even thought that it was an ancient generator, which is a machine to produce electricity, because it was built along energy lines in the earth and was used to make use of the earth’s natural energies.

根据短文内容选择最佳答案。

【1】The underlined word “generator” in the passage means “________” in Chinese.

A．发热机

B．发电机

C．发动机

【2】Stonehenge was a ring of standing stones with ________.

A．upright stones lying across the top

B．two more groups of stones outside the circles

C．a double circle of horizontal stones

【3】According to the passage, what may be the purpose of the Stonehenge?

A．It has been a place to honor ancestors.

B．It was a special way to mark where the sun rises and sets at certain places.

C．It was used to gather the sun’s energy.

【4】Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

A．Stonchenge lies about 13 km east from the city of Salisbury.

B．All single stones weigh four tons.

C．People used hands to move each stone.

【5】What’s the best title of this passage?

A．Stonchenge—a Mysterious Place

B．Stonehenge—a Cultural Place

C．Stonchenge—a Natural Place

27、

How do we know the time? A clock, a watch or a mobile phone can help us. However, many years ago there were no clocks and knowing the time was not so easy. Over the centuries people have developed different ways of telling the time.

About 5,500 years ago, the Egyptians (埃及人) invented the sun clock. This was a tall stone building. Its shadow (影子) showed the movement of the sun. So people were able to know midday. The Egyptians made a sundial (日晷) about 3,500 years ago. It was smaller than the sun clock and could let people know the time for half a day. On cloudy days or at night it was impossible to tell the time with a sun clock or a sundial. Water clocks were the first clocks not to use the sun. The idea is simple. Water flows (流动) from one bottle to another. When the water reaches a certain level, it shows the hours. The Egyptians used water clocks about 3,400 years ago. These clocks were popular in the Middle East and China. But they failed to make people know the exact time.

In the 13th century, the mechanical (机械的) clock was invented. This was more exact, but it was expensive to make one. Over the next few centuries it was developed. In 1927, the first quartz (石英) clock was developed. It’s cheaper for ordinary people to own a clock. People began depending on them more and more to run businesses, markets and so on. In 1956, came the digital (数字的) clock. And nowadays satellites send our mobile phones the time to the exact second.

There has been a lot of progress in timekeeping. Clocks are always changing but some things never change. Many of us still have trouble getting out of bed on time and not being late for school or work.

【1】According to the passage, we can’t use a ________ to tell the time on a rainy day.

A．water clock

B．sun clock

C．digital clock

D．mechanical clock

【2】How many kinds of clocks are mentioned in the passage?

A．Four.

B．Five.

C．Six.

D．Seven.

【3】What’s the meaning of the underlined word “ordinary”?

A．现代的

B．特殊的

C．富有的

D．普通的

【4】What does the passage mainly talk about?

A．The importance of time.

B．The development of timekeeping.

C．The inventions of clocks.

D．The history of a digital clock.

28、阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的词，要求所填的词意、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。

“Every day, we see the sunrise 16 times. Do you know why? Well, we circle the Earth every 90 【1】 (minute)!”

Do you still remember these words? It was June 20, 2013. Chinese astronaut Wang Yaping give a 【2】 /ˈsaɪəns/ lesson in space. Six million school children and teachers across China listened to it. Were you one of them?

Now, Ms. Wang is 【3】 /ˈredi/ to give her “ Lesson Two.” On October 16, she and two other Chinese astronauts set off for the Tiangong space station. Wang 【4】 (become) the first-ever woman to work in Tiangong.

Wang’s space dream began when Yang Liwei became China’s first man in space in 2003. “When will our country have a space-woman?” She thought to 【5】. Wang was a fighter pilot. Because of her excellent performance, in 2010, she was chosen to train as 【6】 astronaut. After lots of hard training, the woman 【7】 (final) realized her space dream in 2013.

This time, Wang and her team will stay in space 【8】 183 days. She is set to become the first woman to ever complete a spacewalk. We will also hear the first-ever Chinese New Year’s greetings coming from space. But 【9】 /pərˈhæp/ the most exciting part for you is Ms. Wang’s “Lesson Two.” What will she teach us this time around? What experiments will she do? After 【10】 (listen) to this new lesson, will you have your own space dream, too?

29、   We have returned from our holiday. We went with our friends Jim and his wife Gina to the Yorkshire Moors. This is a beautiful place. It is a nature park. There _____ a lot of places to walk on the tops of the hills, miles of grass and with no people, just sheep _____ birds. Jim just came out of hospital. He could not walk as _____ as before. However, this meant that we walked in the mornings for about three hours, and then stopped at a cafe for _____ each day, before returning to the place we live. Then Jim and I slept in the room all _____, while the ladies went for another walk. When they came back, we had supper together. Very pleasant!

I _____ a lot of photos from the place where we lived, across the river near the hotel, of the morning sunrise, and the thin cloud in the valley(河谷). _____, in England, the old steam-powered(蒸汽驱动的) trains are very popular. I took many photos of the train and from _____.

Yesterday, we had the first _____ of this winter. It snowed all day, then stopped in the evening. Today we have bright sunshine!

We are going back to _____ tomorrow. After a pleasant travel, I'm sure we can enjoy our work.

【1】A.is B.are C.has D.have

【2】A.or B.but C.and D.so

【3】A.far B.near C.long D.short

【4】A.breakfast B.lunch C.supper D.dinner

【5】A.morning B.noon C.afternoon D.evening

【6】A.took B.did C.got D.made

【7】A.Too B.Either C.As well D.Also

【8】A.them B.it C.him D.her

【9】A.wind B.rain C.snow D.cloud

【10】A.school B.hospital C.hotel D.work