浙江杭州市上城区四校九年级上期中英语试卷

Happiness is for everyone. You don’t need to care about those people who have beautiful houses with large gardens and swimming pools or those who have nice cars and a lot of money and so on. Why? Because those who have cars may want to walk on the country roads in their free time.
In fact, happiness is always around you if you put your heart into it. When you are in trouble at school, your friends will help you; when you study hard at your lessons, your parents are always taking good care of your life and your health; when you get success, your friends will say congratulations to you; when you do something wrong , people around you will help you to correct it. And when you do something good to others, you will feel happy, too. All these are your happiness. If you notice a bit of them, you can see that happiness is always around you.
Happiness is not the same as money. It is a feeling of your heart. When you are poor, you can also say you are very happy, because you have something else that can’t be bought with money. When you meet with difficulties, you can say loudly you are very happy, because you have more chances to challenge yourself. So you cannot always say you are poor and you have bad luck. As the saying goes, life is like a revolving (旋转的) door. When it closes, it also opens. If you take every chance you get, you can be a happy and lucky person.
Those who have big houses may often feel _____.

When you fall down in a PE class, both your teacher and your classmates will _____.

What will your friends say to you when you make great progress?

Which idea is not right according to the passage?

Which of the following is this passage about?

There were two McDonalds—Mac and Dick—and they were brothers. In 1948 they owned a restaurant in California. They liked working in the restaurant, but they got tired of the customers ordering so many different things to eat.
“If we gave customers a smaller menu, we could make some of the food before they came, and they wouldn’t have to wait so long for their meals,” said one of the brothers. The other brother agreed and said, “And if we made the customers come to the counter, we wouldn’t need any waiters or waitresses. We could also use plastic plates so there wouldn’t be any washing-up.”
These were such good ideas that the McDonald brothers used them, and the customers were very pleased. They got their meals very quickly—in less than a minute—and they paid only 15 cents for hamburgers and 10 cents for fries (炸薯条). The first McDonald’s restaurant had no seats for customers to sit on. This meant that people had to take their food away, and that no one had to clean up any tables after them.
Then a man called Ray Kroc came to the brothers and asked to buy their business. They agreed to sell it to him for $ 27 million. After that, people paid Ray Kroc to open their own restaurant using the McDonald’s name and menu. Before long, there were McDonald’s restaurants all over the United States, and nowadays, they are all over the world—even in China and Russia. The most successful McDonald’s business is in Hong Kong of China. The Hong Kong McDonald’s sells more hamburgers every day than any other McDonald’s in the world.
McDonald’s restaurants are so successful that children love going to them. They like the food，and they like the toys and games they can get at McDonald’s.
The McDonald brothers offered customers fewer kinds of foods so that _____.

Customers “paid only 15 cents for hamburgers” means the hamburgers were _____.

The first McDonald’s customers took their food away because _____.

Nowadays, the owners of McDonald’s restaurants pay for _____.

This story mainly tells us _____.

Children have their own rules in playing games. They seldom need a referee (裁判) and rarely trouble to keep scores. They don’t care much about who wins or loses, and it doesn’t seem to worry them if the game is not finished. Yet, they like games that depend a lot on luck, so that their personal abilities cannot be directly compared. They also enjoy games that move in stages, in which each stage, the choosing of leaders, the picking-up of sides, or the determining of which side shall start, is almost a game in itself.
Grown-ups can hardly find children’s games exciting, and they often feel puzzled at why their kids play such simple games again and again. However, it is found that a child plays games for very important reasons. He can be a good player without having to think whether he is a popular person, and he can find himself being a useful partner to someone of whom he is usually afraid. He becomes a leader when it comes to his turn. He can be confident, too, in particular games, that it is his place to give orders, to pretend to be dead, to throw a ball actually at someone, or to kiss someone he has caught.
It appears to us that when children play a game they imagine a situation under their control. Everyone knows the rules, and more importantly, everyone plays according to the rules. Those rules may be childish, but they make sure that every child has a chance to win.
To become a leader in a game the child has to __________.

What is true about children when they play games?

Why does a child like playing games?

What do we know about grown-ups?

The writer believes that __________.

任务型阅读(共5小题：每小题2，满分10分）
阅读下列材料，根据1-5题中的文字信息从A到F的六个选项中选出与其对应的电影介绍。有一项为多余项。
The actress isn't a professional dancer, but she dances so well in the movie.
It’s a fantastic cartoon that features characters looking like real people.
The hero risks his life to get his wife out of prison in this crime movie.
It’s about an adventure with three heroes who fight against the evil (邪恶).
The hero finally gives a talk for several minutes and wins the nation’s respect.
A

B

C

D

E

F

完形填空(共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项A、B、C、D中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
One summer evening I was sitting by the open window, reading a good novel. I was so        the story I was reading that I didn't       that it was getting dark. When I realized that it was too dark for me to read      , I put the book down and got up to turn on the light. Just then I heard someone     , "Help! Help!" It seemed to come from the trees at the end of the yard. I looked out but it was too dark to see anything clearly. Almost immediately I heard the cry again. It sounds like a child, but I could not      what someone would be doing in our backyard, unless one of my neighbor's children had climbed a tree and had not been able to      .
I decided that I should go out and have        in the yard, just in case someone was     . With a flashlight and a stick in my hands, I went out into the yard. Once again I heard the cry and this time there was no doubt that it came from the trees at the far end of the yard. "Who is there?" I        as I walked across the yard towards the trees. But there was no        . With the help of my flashlight, I      all over that end of the yard, including the branches of the trees. There was no         of anybody or anything. I came to the conclusion that my         made fun of me, probably nothing is happening there.
I had to go back into the house and sat down to read my book again. Not long after that, I was       by the loud cry of "Help! Help!" This time it was from right behind me! I dropped my book and jump up. There, sitting on the table was my neighbor's large green and red       .

A．tired of B．worried about C．surprised at D．interested in

A．mind B．expect C．notice D．hope

A．quietly B．noisily C．quickly D．easily

A．laughing B．talking C．speaking D．shouting

A．choose B．imagine C．question D．understand

A．hurry off B．send away C．come off D．get down

A．a look B．a rest C．a sleep D．a walk

A．in shock B． at work C．on holiday D．in trouble

A．read B．called out C．whispered D．sang

A．noise B．sound C．voice D．answer

A．cut B．searched C．touched D．beat

A．seat B．sign C．place D．kind

A．imagination B．brother C．neighbor D．dog

A．encouraged B．told C．called D．frightened

A．cock B．chicken C．parrot D．hen

（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面材料，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。
In most classes, students sit at desks and listen to teachers in a classroom. But in a new class at Chapman Middle School (CMS)     Kansas, US, students are leaving the blackboards behind for blue skies and green grass. They are      (actual) taking an outdoor life class. It is not a typical class,   teachers are trying it out. “We want kids to experience the outdoors,” the teacher John Harris said. Twenty-six students will attend the semester long class. The class    (include) four parts: archery (射箭), hunter, life skills   fishing. Also, students will discuss protecting     (nature) resources. Before Harris’ class this year, archery teacher Andy Fewin     (teach) a 9-week outdoor life class. He believes everyone needs   “enjoy life” and “get outside”. “The outdoor life class aims to get the kids interested in coming to school, really    (enjoy) their class time.” Harris said. But he said everyone needs to finish their other work    (one). “It really teaches them to focus and pay attention in class. If they don’t, then they’ll miss out on the fun things they’re doing,” he said.

单词拼写（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）
It’s really c____________ to live in downtown, you can buy everything you need easily.
He is a basketball fan, and the person he a_________ most is Yao Ming.
The students didn’t find much i_________ about the topic on that website, Baidu.
Wednesday is the f______ day of a week.
P________ bicycles are widely used in Hangzhou and some other cities in China. They are very popular to people.
The nineteenth Asian Games will be h_______ in Hangzhou in 2022.
I hope you’ll stay here for the night. It’s raining hard. B_______, it is very dark outside.
It’s a piece of cake to you, but for me it’s quite d__________. I can’t make it.
Tell the students not to do something d___________. After all, safety comes first.
English is very widely used for business between different c___________.

书面表达（共1小题，满分15分）
假如上周日你参加了春江社区的Yard Sale活动。请给报社的English Club 栏目写一篇关于此次活动的介绍。要点如下：
1. 有300多人参加了此次活动；
2. 有的人出售旧衣物，如：衣服、玩具、自行车等；
3. 有的人出售自制的蛋糕、卡片、书签等；
4. 还有的人交换旧书；
5. 请写一至两点你对本次活动的看法。
注意：1.字数80左右，文章的开头已给出，不计入总词数；
2.文中不得透露个人名字和学校名称。不要逐条翻译。
参考词汇：Chunjiang Community,  n.春江社区   exchange, v.交换   used, adj.旧的
It was fine last Sunday.
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