1 . 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

How can I describe the wonder I felt the first time I saw my favorite painting, George Seurat’s A Sunday on La Grande Jatte? I     1    (admire) the work for years in art books, but I had never thought I would see the actual painting,     2     was housed far from where I lived.

The first thing that struck me as I     3    (enter) the room where the painting was displayed was the size of the work. It was huge! It covered a large part of     4     even larger wall. The painting was painted with dots, a technique     5    (call) pointillism. To create such a huge painting     6    (use) this technique seemed an almost impossible task. Seurat had done it, though, and had made it look easy!

What’s more impressive, however, was the     7    (beautiful) of the painting. Viewed from a distance, the colors looked soft and gentle, describing the happy and     8    (peace) mood of a summer day in the park.

When I approached the painting, though, its colors exploded into many more colors, showing the artist’s skill in combining colors     9    (create) a mood. Even the parts of the painting that appeared white from a distance were lively and had many different colors when viewed up close. I sat and stared     10     the painting in wonder for a good part of the afternoon.

2 . A dictionary is very useful for the people who are learning English. People will use a dictionary for help when they have difficulty in reading a passage or doing English exercises. You will make more progress if you know how to use a dictionary efficiently (有效地)     1    

Choose a suitable (合适的)dictionary.     2     You can choose a dictionary which is suitable for your English level, needs and interests. For a middle school student in Grade 9, you can choose OXFORD INTERMEDIATE LEANER’SENGLISH-CHINESE DICTIONARY.

Try to guess the meaning of a new word before you use a dictionary. You may have had such an experience when you are reading a passage：there are some new words in it and you have difficulty in understanding the full passage. What will you do in this situation?    3    Learn culture from a dictionary. You don’t just learn a new word’s pronunciation, meaning, part of speech and other usages.     4    

A dictionary is a good friend for learning English. It’ s a waste for you not to use a dictionary in your study. But don’t think the more you use a dictionary, the better result you can get.     5     If you can do as I have told you, I think you will improve your English soon.

A．You can learn some cultural knowledge from a dictionary as well.

B．You should use your dictionary in the right way.

C．Here are some ideas on how to use a dictionary efficiently.

D．Choosing a good dictionary is very important for an English learner.

E．I think you should guess the meaning before you use your dictionary

3 . On my first day in America, I was excited, but nervous as well. It was my dear neighbor Susan who helped me   _________ my new life far away from home.

There was a knock at the door. When I _________ it. Susan came in with a homemade apple ple. She hugged me and said, “Wow, you   _________ be the precious (珍贵的) Chinese dull (娃娃)!”

With a big smile, she   _________, “Alice, I am sure you have never tried a home-made apple pie before! You are going to _________ it so much!”

To be honest, I was greatly surprised by this welcome from a _________. And the apple pie made me _________.

Susan was very helpful to me.

When I was thinking about the clothes to wear on Halloween, she suggested I _________like a traditional Chinese girl. “I happen to have a traditional Chinese dress and guess _________, I’m a great make-up artist!” She said. Susan did not hide (隐藏) her excitement, when she pushed me to the __________ to examine our work after an hour of hard work. The clothes fit me perfectly! I am sure that I stood out from the crowd that Halloween, and I am __________ for her help.

My first Thanksgiving was another highlight (亮点). __________ the festival morning, I was surprised to find a gift box in my front yard. There was a note on it: “Hello Alice, I’m the Thanksgiving bunny (兔子)! Enjoy your __________!” I looked around and caught Susan looking at me from her porch (走廊). Seeing that she had been __________, she hurriedly picked up a newspaper and pretended (假装) to __________ it. I couldn’t help __________. When I walked up to her, she said, “ __________ was not me. It was the Thanksgiving bunny!” Susan is such a __________ person; She is the American above all others I need to thank.

I saw that the spirit of the Chinese saying, that “Neighbors carry more__________ than distant relatives”, is alive and well in America. Susan filled my heart with   __________ and joy, just as angels do.

1.

A．look forward to

B．get away from

C．look up to

D．get used to

2.

A．opened

B．dosed

C．locked

D．got

3.

A．must

B．can

C．need

D．got

4.

A．stopped

B．continued

C．paused

D．broke

5.

A．love

B．hate

C．eat

D．take

6.

A．friend

B．stranger

C．relative

D．partner

7.

A．lonely

B．moved

C．free

D．sad

8.

A．look up

B．pick up

C．dress up

D．take up

9.

A．when

B．that

C．what

D．whom

10.

A．door

B．mirror

C．hospital

D．window

11.

A．thankful

B．angry

C．tired

D．satisfied

12.

A．In

B．At

C．On

D．For

13.

A．box

B．note

C．dinner

D．gift

14.

A．heard

B．looked

C．caught

D．fooled

15.

A．look

B．see

C．do

D．read

16.

A．crying

B．laughing

C．shouting

D．walking

17.

A．It

B．That

C．This

D．She

18.

A．naughty

B．strange

C．boring

D．lovely

19.

A．trouble

B．difficulty

C．weight

D．matter

20.

A．coldness

B．sorrow

C．happiness

D．warmth

6 . An expert says being a morning person is the best way to make the most of your day How can you train yourself to be a morning person?    1    .

●Train yourself to go to bed earlier

Going to bed earlier will make it easier to get up in the morning since you are well-rested. Dr. Stanley said, “In order to be energetic next morning,    2    .”

●Do some exercise during the day

If you are training yourself to be a morning person, it can be a good idea to start your exercise before you go to work. Dr. Stanley suggested, “Being awake and active during the day will help you get a good night sleep.    3    .”

●Turn on a light as soon as you wake up

As soon as your alarm goes off,    4    . “The thing that tells you to be awake is light,” Dr. Stanley said. “Turning on the lights helps to create a positive mental attitude which will help you get up and go.”

●    5    

Set your old-school clock for the time you need to get up. Not your phone’s clock, but an old-school clock with an alarm on it. This means your phone should be nowhere near you when you’ re sleeping. Put it on the other side of the room or in another room.

A．Use your phone’s clock

B．Use an old-school clock

C．train yourself to go to bed earlier

D．You should go shopping everyday

E．turn on a light to help you wake up

F．Here, Dr. Neil Stanley gives his top tips to achieve it

G．This means you should do some exercise during the day

7 . The 46-year-old Chinese Zhang Hong has successfully climbed the highest mountain in the world from the Nepal side, becoming the first blind man in Asia and the third in the world to climb Mount Everest. Born in southwestern Chinese city of Chongqing, Zhang lost his sight at the age of 21.

“Whether you’re disabled or normal, whether you have lost your eyesight or you have no legs or hands, it doesn’t matter. If you have a strong mind, you can always complete a thing that other people say you can’t,”Zhang told Alexander, a reporter from Reuters.

Zhang was inspired by Erik Weihenmayer, a blind American mountaineer(登山运动员)who climbed Mount Everest in 2001, and began training under the guidance of his friend Qiang Zi.With much hard work and great efforts, he completed the 8, 849 metre-high Himalayan feat(壮举)on May 24 along with three high altitude guides, and returned to the base camp on Thursday, May 27.

Nepal reopened Mount Everest in April for foreigners after it was shut last year because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was still very scared and frightened, because I couldn’t see where I was walking and I couldn’t find my centre of gravity, so sometimes I was afraid that I would fall, ”said Zhang.” But I kept thinking even though it was hard, I had to face those difficulties and dangers and this is the meaning of climbing.

1. From the text, we can know that Zhang Hong lost his sight at the age of       .

A．24

B．27

C．21

D．46

2. Who inspired Zhang to climb Mount Everest according to Para.3?

A．A mountaineer	B．A guide
C．A reporter	D．A student

3. What does Zhang think of the meaning of climbing according to the last paragraph?

A．It can make him rich

B．It can make him famous

C．It can help him find real friends

D．It can help him face difficulties and dangers

4. What is the text mainly about?

A．A blind Chinese man climbed Mount Everest

B．A blind American man climbed Mount Everest

C．Nepal shut Mount Everest in April for foreigners .

D．The COVID-19 pandemic broke out around the world

8 . 阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。(注意：每空不多于2个单词，其中有4个单词的形式无需改变)

At 2.54 meters, Leonid is probably the tallest man in    1    world.33-year-old Leonid suffers from a rare illness. So    2    (he)body can produce too much growth hormone(荷尔蒙).

Leonid lives with his    3    (mother) in a small house with four rooms, sleeping on two double beds pushed together. He has to    4    (walk) with his head bowed because he is so tall. Several years ago, he    5    (graduate) from university, and used to work as a doctor on a local farm, but he lost his job as he could no longer ride his bicycle.

“I don’t    6    (real) have any friends. I rely on my mother,”he says. “I don’t    7    (know) what I’ll do. I don’ t even know how    8    (buy) food. I haven’t been to the market for five years.”It’s a lonely life, but he is happy working in his garden. Luckily, nobody laughs at Leonid in the village. His neighbors are all very fond of him. “We’ re going to take him on a     9     (trip) to the mountains,”says one of them, “to show him there’s something in the world    10    (tall) than he is.”

9 . 阅读下列材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。答案写在题号对应的横线上。

Over the past few months, game players in China     1     (become) attracted by a traveling frog. In the game, a cute little green frog     2     (raise) in a place where it eats, writes and sharpens its pencil. Players often check their phones to see     3     their pet frog has done. But the     4     (own) has no control over where his or her frog will go or when it leaves or returns. If the players are     5     (luck) enough, they might receive postcards showing where it has been, or they have no choice but     6     (wait). However, sometimes the frog may be     7     (complete) forgotten because players don’t have to spend a lot of energy     8     it. In     9     nutshell, after raising the frog, young people can understand the feeling of       10     (be) a parent.

10 . Linda likes to knit (针织). Since she suffered a stroke (中风) five years ago,_______has been a way for her to focus her mind and keep her_______busy.

Every day she knits a snowman and she sells it for a pound. Every_______goes to the local Children’s Hospital. The first year she knitted 160 snowmen, and then she got to 200 and she made another 200. At the moment she has knitted over 800_______.

Linda’s stroke took most of her eyesight away and made her almost_______but nothing can stop_______. She’s just handed over a 300-pound check to Derian House,an organization for charity (慈善机构), which offers care to children across the North West of England. It costs nearly five million pounds a year to _______ care like this. Less than 10% of that comes _______ the government. For the rest they depend_______donations (捐赠) like Linda’s. Every penny is important to the organization. So it doesn’t matter how much money people________to it.

Derian House exists to make money for seriously ill________and their families and to help them in their most terribly________times. So it’s easy to see why Linda will always be________her knitting wherever she is. “Every time I pick up a needle, I’m________the children, and that’s so important to me,” said Linda.

This Christmas angel (天使) is going on Linda’s tree, but there are some who would say that the real________is Linda herself.

1.

A．painting

B．knitting

C．cooking

D．singing

2.

A．hands

B．nose

C．feet

D．mouth

3.

A．book

B．pet

C．magazine

D．pound

4.

A．shirts

B．socks

C．snowmen

D．hats

5.

A．stupid

B．deaf

C．clever

D．blind

6.

A．him

B．her

C．them

D．you

7.

A．refuse

B．dislike

C．stop

D．offer

8.

A．from

B．to

C．after

D．at

9.

A．on

B．in

C．under

D．with

10.

A．lend

B．lose

C．give

D．spend

11.

A．parents

B．children

C．men

D．women

12.

A．lucky

B．happy

C．difficult

D．bright

13.

A．afraid of

B．busy with

C．bored with

D．sad about

14.

A．helping

B．fooling

C．warning

D．beating

15.

A．dancer

B．driver

C．reader

D．angel