浙江省温州市南浦实验中学2023-2024学年九年级下学期开学考试英语试题

 阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Hana hated waiting. She couldn't wait for it to snow as soon as leaves turned yellow and whenever1 family started a trip she always asked if they had arrived.

So when Grandma told her she would have a baby cat of her own in2 week (s), it sounded like forever. "How will I know when four weeks is?" "Use the3 ," suggested her brother Randy. That sounded4 to Hana so she took her brother's advice.

"But5 ?" she asked. "What does the moon look like now?" Randy asked. "That is easy. It's a full moon." Hana said. "Will it6 be full tomorrow?" said Randy. Hana hesitated. "Well, almost. But it will be a little smaller." "That's right." Randy said. "And it'll keep getting smaller7 we can't see it at all! And then it'll come back when it's just a skinny (极瘦的) moon, and it'll get fatter and fatter and finally it's a full moon again!"

"It takes four weeks to go from full moon to full moon. By the next full moon, it'll be time to8 your baby cat." Randy added.

Then Hana 9 to draw a picture of the moon every night. Her first picture was round and full and golden. Then the moon started getting skinnier. Every day Hana drew more pictures. When the moon was covered with clouds, she drew clouds instead.

A few nights later, Hana's dad called her to the10 . "Look, Hana—a crescent (月牙形) moon outside!" Now every night the moon got11 . Finally, the night came when Hana12 the window again and covered her paper with a huge, round, golden moon, just13 her first picture. "Is it time?" she asked.

It was time. Father started the car and14 to Grandma's house with her family. At Grandma's house Hana chose a black baby cat. She was black like the night, and her eyes shined like the moon. Hana scooped up the cat and kissed her little nose.

That night, Hana had a sound sleep. Because for her, she not only got a baby cat, but also learnt a lesson—the importance of being 15 .

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	Smartphone Use in Teenagers' Life
	There are about 6.8 billion smartphone users worldwide nowadays. And about 88% of teenagers aged between 13 and 17 use smartphones in their daily life. According to the latest report, they spend about 2 hours on smartphones every day.
How do Teenagers Allocate(分配) Time on the Smartphone?
What do Teenagers Think of the Smartphone? ◆Jenny: My mom and I love shopping on it. It saves time and money. ◆Lueas: When I feel nervous, I like to listen to music on it. It's a good way to relax. ◆Mary: It makes our life convenient, but we should never spend too much time on it. ◆John: It is really useful and helpful and it helps me a lot when I have trouble in study.

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①Japanese-style gardens first got attention in the US in 1893. About 120 years later, they started to be a great part of American garden design. Today, there are over 200 Japanese-style public gardens in North America.

②Japanese-style gardens are different in many. ways. First, they bring together indoor and outdoor spaces. The house-garden relationship is set up to be connected. Gardens are around the house, so it's as if the living space reaches out much further. Wherever a person looks out from their home, a garden should look almost like a painting. In fact, the idea of bringing the beauty of nature into daily lives (is the most important idea in Japan so gardeners in Japan pay special attention to the beauty of rocks and stones.

③What's more, Japanese-style gardens look as if they do not require much work. However, garden designers who are experts in this kind of garden say that Japanese gardens sometimes need even more work than other kinds of gardens.

④In these years, there have been some changes in Japanese-style gardens in the US. "When Japanese-style gardens were first introduced to the US, people paid little attention to whether outdoor scenery was connected to indoor spaces." said John, who received training in Japan in 2000. But today, more Americans prefer the idea of "connecting the indoors to the outdoors."

⑤Another change is that in the past, the trees chosen were often native to Japan. But today, the purpose is to use some trees that grow well in local environments. So now it's very possible to create a wonderful Japanese garden using all native trees.

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Predicting (预测) something in the future seems as if it would need supernatural powers-which doesn't sound very science-y! But there's no magic here. Instead, scientists who study the weather use special tools to help make their predictions.

Weather science is called meteorology. That may sound as if it's about studying meteors (流星), but it's not. The name comes from an ancient Greek word and means "the study of things that are up high." And, to study those high-up things, scientists put tools up there to help. Now let's see how these tools are used to help predict the weather.

First of all, a small tool called the weather station is connected to a weather balloon. And then scientists send both the weather station and the weather balloon high into the sky. There, the weather station takes important information about the things like air pressure and temperature. What's happening way up there can influence what happens in our part of the sky.

After that, the weather stations on the ground throughout the world give correct, real-time information, which help scientists see how the weather is changing from moment to moment. At the same time, the satellites (卫星), both far above our atmosphere and within it, are other tools that also collect facts or important information for weather scientists. After receiving information from weather stations and satellites, radar (雷达) shows rainfall and where it's moving, as well as wind speed and direction.

Finally, all the information is sent into supercomputers, which can tell what might most probably happen next (according to what has happened under those conditions before).

Scientists combine all of this with their own knowledge and experience to let you know what kind of weather might be on the way. Since a change in any factor (因素) can change the final result, weather predictions aremore precisefor upcoming hours and days, rather than weeks. That's why scientists need to change their predictions often-and can't tell you today whether it will rain when you're at camp in July!

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Riya spent the first week of high school trying to get used to the new life here. One of the main headaches for her was finding her way in the huge school building. It was a six-story building. On each floor, stretched in four directions, leading to classrooms, laboratories, and teachers' offices. Riya found it impossible to get around in such a huge building, so she decided only to memorize where her classroom was.

In her first PE class, Riya was shocked when Coach Pitt announced that everyone had to run one mile around the track (跑道) outside. To Riya, "a mile" meant long distances. It was ten miles from her home to her grandfather's, and that always seemed like a long way, even in a car! How she wished for a chance to escape from running. However, she had no choice but to face the challenge.

When the running started, Riya was afraid she would be left behind. However, while some of her classmates ran ahead, others actually fell behind. "It's just the beginning," she thought. "I'll come in last for sure."

Soon Riya began to breathe hard. Feeling hopeless, Riya then started to use a mind trick (诀窍). She stopped thinking about the word "mile." Instead, she focused on reaching the shadow (影子) on the track by the tree up ahead. Then she tried hard to run to the place where the track curved (拐弯). After that, she tried to see if she could complete her first lap (一圈). One lap turned into two, then three, then four.

When Coach Pitt said "Nice work!" to her at the finish line, Riya was surprised. Looking around, she realized what her coach meant. Instead of being left behind, she found she was the third one to finish running. Her mouth curved up into a smile and her face lit up with a sense of confidence and the word "mile" was no longer a big challenge for her.

    ▲    . So she stopped racking her brains for which direction to go. Instead, she created a detailed map of the six-story building, and broke down the routes (路线) into smaller parts. She explored each day, one at a time. Days turned into weeks, and getting around the huge building seems like a piece of cake for her now.

 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的选项（A，B，C，D，E，F）中选出最佳选项。选项中有一项是多余选项。

According to the latest laws (法律) on driving electric scooters (电瓶车) in Zhejiang Province, the drivers will be strictly punished if they do not ride electric scooters legally (合法地) after July 1, 2020. 

. If not, you must replace your electric scooter with a new one. Non-standard electric scooters are not allowed to run on the road.

. When you pass a crossing, wait at yellow lights and don't run red lights. Running a red light can easily cause traffic accidents.

. Wrong-way driving reduces the driver's reaction time. Remember not to do that because it's really a great danger to us.

 We often see several people at the back seat of an electric scooter. Actually this action makes it hard for drivers to control their electric scooters, which may result in serious traffic accidents. And it is also against the traffic safety law.

A．Follow the traffic light B．Do your electric scooters meet the new standard C．There are some reasons why drivers break the law. D．Here are some suggestions on how to ride electric scooters legally. E．Do not drive in the wrong direction. F．Don't carry people illegally on the road.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次

sportsperson                instead                useful                four                pass

根据短文内容和所给中文提示，写出空白处各单词的正确形式。

Xiao Zhan, one of the (亚洲的) actors becomes popular these years. However, do you know his early life was not as easy as we can imagine. He (遭受)a lot when he was young. Luckily, his (全部的) family encouraged him so that he could (继续) learning to sing and act. Xiao didn't give up learning them until he entered the university. Three years later, he returned to the acting and singing areas and performed the theme song Be a Man in a concert. It seemed he became famous overnight. However, Xiao still met many (困难) all the time. In 2015, he entered the designing competition and when he was 21, he managed to become a designer. (在…之中) all the local designers, he was the youngest one in the Chongqing Designers Association. In addition to his entertainment and designing career, Xiao is also a very successful businessman. In 2017, he set up a company with friends and enjoyed (他自己) dealing with all kinds of matters in business.

 (最近), he still spends plenty of time on his work. With his hard work, he has got a lot of  (奖牌). So he  (认为;考虑) as a successful actor and fans expect to see his great works in the future.

 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的词，或填入括号中所给单词的适当形式。

It was 2 o'clock. In Taipan village, small village in Guizhou Province, a basketball game was taking place. Thousands of people came here and called this village basketball match "Village BA".

The 28-year-old Ou Minghui is a Guizhou native. He led his team (win) the match and he won the tournament MVP. Ou started playing basketball the age of eight. Ou's job is farming,playing basketball has always been his dream.

In China, people call the players like Ou "grassroots players". Most of them are farmers, cooks, or drivers. Even people work in nearby provinces, such as Guangdong, take time off to play in the match. "The professional (职业的) players have their dreams and we have(we) too," Ou said. Basketball has a long history in Taipan, where the first basketball court (球场) (build) in 1936．Since then, Taipan village (hold) many basketball matches. In the past, villagers took their own rice and gave it to the winners. Nowadays, the top teams receive special rewards such as cows, (sheep), and pigs.

At halftime, people dressed in special costumes, singing and dancing. For local people, the Village BA is  (simple) an important event. It is more than just a basketball game. It feels like a festival.

烹饪课是我校特色课程。为了使该课程更好地满足学生的需求，现我校英语社公开征求意见。假设你是Lingling，请你根据下图提示，给英语社负责人Lucas写一封电子邮件，谈谈你的课程设想。

注意：1．文中不得出现真实的人名、地名及校名：
2．词数：110词左右（开头结尾已给出，不计入总词数）。

Dear Lucas,

I'm writing to share my ideas about the cooking class.

……

Hope my ideas can be adopted and look forward to your reply.

Yours,

Lingling