湖北武汉市部分学校九年级4月调考英语试卷

--Let's go swimming. --_________.

-Is your aunt a teacher?   --Yes, she is. She _______  junior students.

-A nice car! Is it yours?   --No, it isn't. I ________ it from a friend of mine.

--Where are the flowers?   --You see, someone_______ them at the window.

--I hear Tim is leaving.     --_________ why?

--Would you like tea or coffee?    --_______. I really don't mind.

--Could I borrow your bike, please?    --_________.

--Hi,! My name is Tim. It's my first time to be here.     --__________.

The students are fed up with their studies because they are_______ to do far better than they can.

--I feel really _______ about the exam tomorrow, dad.    --Never mind, dear. Believe in yourself.

--What should I buy here? --If you have friends who smoke, Winston is a well-known ____ of cigarette here.

--Why are you taking a basket with you for shopping?
--The stores doesn't_______ plastic bags for shoppers to protect the environment.

--What do you do in the club?     --One of my job is to_______ the prizes to the winners.

It is usually quite warm in my hometown in March, but it_______ be rather cold sometimes.

--What were you and the policeman talking about?   --He asked me_______.

Mel Kiser was driving along a busy highway in Columbus, Ohio. He saw an armored truck （运钞车）a few cars ahead of him. Suddenly the back door of the armored truck___     , and a blue plastic bag fell out of the truck. A car in front of Mr. Kiser hit the bag. And money spilled （洒落）out of it. Then another bag fell out of the truck, and another. Money was____     __ everywhere.
At first, drivers thought the ___     _ papers on the highway were leaves. Then they realized that the papers were not leaves—they were money! Drivers quickly stopped right in the middle of the highway and jumped out of their cars. They began ____     _ money! They were putting ten, twenty, and one-hundred-dollar bills into their pocket. Mr. Kiser also got out of his car. He took hold of a bag of money, put the bag in his car, and drove away.
Later, Mr. Kiser____      the money. He had＄57000. For the next two hours Mr. Kiser thought about the money. He ____      about spending it. He needed a new TV set for his house. He wanted to take a vacation in Florida. But he decided to return the money. He drove to the police station and gave the police the＄57000. There other people____     _ money, too. But most of the money—almost one million dollars were still missing. The truck company____      a 10 percent reward. “If you return ＄1000, for example, we will pay you＄100,”the company said.
Then the company got some ___     _ . A man telephoned and said, “I was driving along the highway when I saw the traffic jam and the money. People were___     _ everywhere. I had a camera in my car and I took some pictures. Would you like the pictures?”
“Yes!” answered the truck company. The company gave the pictures to the police. The police looked____     _ at the pictures. They looked at the cars, the license plates, and the people's ____     . They tried to find the people who had taken the money, but they didn't have much ___     _.
One man who had taken money___     _a Columbus newspaper. The man did not give his name. “I took two bags of money,” he said, “I'm going to take this money and ____      Columbus. I have enough money for the rest of my life. ”

A．broke B．dropped C．shut D．opened

A．lying B．falling C．flying D．showing

A．green B．yellow C．red D．white

A．looking for B．picking up C．putting away D．laughing at

A．spent B．hid C．counted D．exchanged

A．complained B．dreamed C．worried D．cared

A．made B．received C．refused D．returned

A．paid B．offered C．accepted D．wasted

A．help B．trouble C．money D．time

A．running B．jumping C．watching D．stealing

A．quickly B．carelessly C．angrily D．closely

A．pockets B．faces C．names D．ages

A．chance B．fun C．luck D．experience

A．visited B．helped C．telephoned D．invited

A．leave B．buy C．traveled D．developed

We may read the above material mostly____

It’s clear that the advertisement is given by___.

The advertisement suggests that people go to Stansted____.

The train services are available___.

If one wants to know about the train services, he can___.
A. save￡14. 50.    B. get on the train
C. take the plane to M. A. G D. check online

Five years ago, Rachel Lopez graduated from college with a degree in history. Today she works for a large software company. Now twenty-seven, Rachel takes classes twice a week after work. She is learning to use the computer program PowerPoint. “I enjoyed college, but my job doesn’t use information I learned when I was doing my degree,” Rachel says,” This course is helping me to do my job better. In the future, I might go back to school and got an MBA. ”
In the past, when students graduated from college and got a job, they usually stopped studying. Today, lifelong learning is becoming more common. In the United Stated, people can return to school in their late twenties, thirties, or older to get a higher degree, such as a master’s or Ph. D. Like Rachel many more are taking training courses to improve their workplace skills. With many classes now available through the Internet, it is easier for people to get degrees or training by distance learning.
Mayumi Hosoya, who is forty, teaches Japanese at a community college in New York. “Next term, I’ll be teaching some of my classes using the Internet. This is new for me,” says Mayumi, “At the moment, I am taking a course to learn how to teach this way. ” At the same time, Mayumi’s seventy-year-old mother and father are taking a distance learning course in Art History. “We love the subject,” says Mayumi’s father, ”and now we can study with people from all over the world. I never thought learning could be this much fun. ”
The reading is maily about_____.

Rachel is sure that _____
A. getting an MBA is necessary for her job
B. colleague studies didn’t prepare her well for her job
C. it’s not clever to get a master’s or Ph. D. in later thirties.
D. students needn’t to study when they get a job
The underlined words ‘distance learning’ in the reading means___

Mayumi’s parents are taking a course ____.

We know from the reading that ___.

At a day care center in Taxes, children were playing outside. One of the children was Jessica McClure. She was 18 months old. Jessica’s mother, who worked at the day care center, was watching the children. Suddenly Jessica fell and disappeared. Jessica’s mother cried and ran to her.
A well was in the yard of the center. The well was only eight inches across, and a rock always covered it. But children had moved the rock. When Jessica fell, and she fell right into the well.
Jessica’s mother reached inside the well, but she couldn’t feel Jessica. She ran to the phone and called 911 for help.
Men from the fire apartment arrived. They discovered that Jessica was about 20 feet down in the well. For the next hour, the men talked and planned Jessica’s rescue(营救). Then they told Jessica’s parents their plan.
“We can’t go into the well. ” they said “It’s too narrow. So, we’re going to drill(钻) a hole next to the well. Then we ‘ll drill a tunnel across Jessica. Then we’ll bring her up through the hole. ”
The man began to drill the hole on a Wednesday morning. “We’ll reach Jessica in a few hours ”, they thought. The men were wrong. They had to drill through the solid rock. Two days later, on Friday morning, they were still drilling,. And Jessica McClure was still in the well.
During her days in the well, Jessica sometimes called her mother. Sometimes she slept, sometimes she cried, and sometimes she sang.
All over the world people waited for the news of Jessica. They read about her in the newspapers and watched her rescue on TV. Everyone worried about the little girl in the well.
At 8 P. M. on Friday, the men finally reached Jessica and brought her up from the well. Jessica was dirty, hungry, thirsty and tired. Her foot and forehead was badly injured. But Jessica was alive. A doctor at the hospital said, “Jessica was lucky she was young. She’s not going to remember this very well. ”
Maybe Jessica will not remember her days in the well. But her parents, her rescuers, ans many other people around the world will not forget them. After Jessica’s rescue, one of the rescuers made a metal cover for the well. On the cover he wrote, “To Jessica, with love from all of us. ”
Jessica fell into the well because____.

To rescue Jessica, the rescuers___.

What the doctor said meant that ____.

We learn from the passage that___.

Which of the following can most probably be the tittle of the reading?

词与短语选择填空（本题共10分，每小题2分，满分10分）

If you don't________ a flash, then it may be OK.
When it began to rain, Ben was helping his mom_________ dinner.
It could be May's hair band. Or it might________ Linda's. They both have long hair.
The British teacher is very________. He always tells us interesting jokes.
If you are always_______ from class, you will fail the examination.

Just before the Christmas in 1997, a German girl called Juliana was flying over a big forest of America. The plane was flying high in the sky. Suddenly, there was a cloud noise. Juliana found herself falling through the a ______ . She closed her eyes. She b______ that she was going to die.
She fell 3,000 meters. When she opened her eyes again, she found she l______ in a tree in the middle of the forest. She was not dead! She was g______ surprised that she was not only alive, nut she wasn’t badly h_____. She was sitting in her s______. She was holding a bag of sweets.
She managed to stand on a big branch of the tree and c_____ down. But she could see nobody else. She was alone except for a few dead b______ here and there.
She began to walk. At first she had nothing to eat except the sweets. Later she found a little fruit. She had never seen this kind of fruit before. She found the fruit was s______ after she saw some monkeys eating it.
After four days, she came to a deep river. She walked by the side of the river for six m______ days and at last arrived at an Indian village. She found people!

书面表达(本大题15分)
假如你是李明。明天周六，你打电话邀好朋友去看电影 。请你用英语草拟电话内容。要点如下：
1. 上午9:00中华路码头碰面，一起乘船去汉口新华电影院；2. 可能下雨，带伞；3. 电影完后去旁边的图书城；4. 一部有趣的美国电影《狮子王》上映；5. 其他可能的建议或活动安排。
要求：1. 不要逐条翻译，内容要连贯；2. 词数：60---80。
参考词汇：图书城 Book City  '狮子王' the Lion King 码头 port
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