[北京]2013届北京市昌平区九年级上学期期末考试英语试卷

--- Where is my bag?
--- _____ is on the desk.

Mary sits in front of Kate, so Kate is _____ Mary.

This shirt is too large for me. Can you show me ___ one?

The teacher always tells us not ___ any chance because it can help you grow up.

---I called you yesterday evening, but no one answered.
---Oh, I ____ shopping with my mother.

--- Can you make a kite for me?
--- Sorry, I _____.

--- How do you like English, Lingling?
--- I think it’s a little _____ than maths.

When I got to Linda’s home yesterday, she _______ her mother with the housework.

John had to start work at an early age, ____ his family was very poor.

---Oh, your computer is so nice. ____ did you buy it?
---Thanks. I bought it in Wangfujing Dajie.

They _______ here for more than ten years.

--- Your classroom is very clean.
--- Sure. It ________ after school every day.

--- Did you know __________?
--- He was ill in hospital.

完形填空。（共12分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Eleven-year-old Angela had something wrong with her nervous system（神经系统）.She was unable to __1__. In fact, she could hardly make any __2_. Although she believed that she had a good chance of recovering, the doctors said that __3__ , if any, could come back to normal after getting this disease. Having heard this, the little girl was not discouraged. There, lying in her hospital bed, she insisted that no matter what the doctors said, her going back to school was __4__. 
She was moved to a specialized health center, and whatever method could be tried was used. Still she would not __5__. It seemed that she was undefeatable(打不败的). The doctors were all fond of her and taught her about __6_ that she could make it . Every day Angela would lie there, faithfully doing her mental exercise.
One day, __7__ she was imagining her legs moving again, it seemed as though a miracle（奇迹）happened: The bed began to move! “Look what I’m doing! Look! I can do it! I moved! I moved! ”she shouted___8___!
Of course, at this very moment everyone else in the hospital was __9__. More importantly, they were running __10__ safety.
People were crying, and equipment was falling .You see, it was an___11___. But don’t tell that to Angela. She has believed that she did it, just as she had never doubted that she would recover. And now only a few years later, She’s back in school. You see, to such a person who can __12__ the earth, such a disease is a small problem, isn’t it?

A．see B．hear C．talk D．walk

A．progress B．difference C．movement D．achievement

A．few B．all C．some D．most

A．true B．doubtful C．certain D．impossible

A．get up B．give up C．turn up D．stand up

A．thinking B．expecting C．pretending D．imagining

A．as B．since C．after D．before

A．quietly B．happily C．quickly D．carefully

A．frightened B．pleased C．touched D．encouraged

A．in B．by C．for D．with

A．appointment B．earthquake C．achievement D．instruction

A．push B．shock C．save D．shake

Birthdays are celebrated（庆祝）all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country：candles，cakes，and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few：

Denmark A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up.	India Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this.
Japan The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys.	Holland The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.

 
When someone is having a birthday in Denmark，you can see _____ outside the window.

In _________  flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child.

In India, birthday children wear _______ clothes to school.

British people are famous for drinking tea. But both Sahar and Bobby Green became young millionaires（百万富翁） when they opened a chain of American-style（美国风味的） coffee shops in the U.K.
Having the idea：It started when Sahar took a weekend trip to New York to visit her brother Bobby. One evening , in a Thai restaurant，Sahar told Bobby how much she wished she could buy American-style coffee  in London . Bobby suggested  they start their own coffee shop. Sahar fell in love with the idea.
Doing the Research: Back in London, she spent a whole day on the London subway, getting off the train at different stations to taste the coffee. “It was terrible, and I know there was a gap （缺口） in the market.” In November 1995, they opened their first Coffee Republic shop in central London.
Making it work：The first year was very difficult. There were problems finding and keeping staff, and British people were not used to the names of American coffees, like Latte and Macchiato. But being successful was their dream and they were not going to give up . Today , there are over 100 Coffee Republic shops all over the country and the company has revenues（收入） of $30 million a year.
Advice for others: Sahar has now written a best-selling book about their experience, called Anyone Can Do It! She hopes it will help other young people to start their own businesses. She believes success is 1% idea and 99% hard work, but she says, “If you think you have the energy, then get out and follow your dream.”
What kind of company do these people run?

What relationship is between Sarha and Bobby?

What is the passage mainly about?

Some people think that as more and more people have televisions in their homes, fewer and fewer people will buy books and newspapers. Why read an article in the newspaper, when the TV news can bring you the information in a few minutes and with pictures? Why read the life story of a famous man, when a short television program can tell you all that you want to know?
Television has not killed reading, however. Today, newspapers sell in very large numbers. And books of every kind are sold more than ever before. Books are still a cheap way to get information and enjoyment. Although some books with hard covers are expensive, many books are printed today as paperbooks (平装本), which are quite cheap. A paperback collection of short stories, for example, is always cheaper than an evening at the cinema or the theater, and you can keep a book for ever and read it many times.
Books are a wonderful provider of knowledge and pleasure and some types of books should be in every home. Every home should have a good dictionary. A good encyclopedia (百科全书), though expensive, is useful, too, because you can find information on any subject. Besides, you can have such books as history books, science textbooks, cookbooks, and collections of stories and poems. Then from time to time you can take a book of poems off your shelves and read the thoughts and feelings of your favorite poets.
It can be inferred from the passage that ____.

What does the sentence “Television has not killed reading, however.” underlined in the second paragraph suggest?

What can we learn from the passage?

When you read an article you will understand and remember it better if you can work out how the writer has put the ideas together．Sometimes a writer puts ideas together by asking questions and then answering them．For example，if the article is about groundhogs（土拨鼠），the set of questions in the writer’s head might be：
What does a groundhog look like？
Where do groundhogs live？
What do they eat？…
In the article，the author might answer those questions．
Sometimes an author writes out her questions in the article．These questions give you signals．They tell you what the author is going to write next．Often an author has a question in her head but she doesn’t write it out for you．You have to work out her question for yourself．Here’s a sample reading for you to practice this method.
Earthworms
Do you know how many kinds of earthworms there are？There are about 1800 kinds in the world！ They can be brown，purple，green．They can be as small as 3 cm long and as large as 3 m long．
The best time to see earthworms is at night，especially a cool，damp night．That’s when they come up from their burrows（地洞）to hunt for food．Earthworms don’t like to be in the sun．That’s because they breathe through their skin，and they can’t breathe if their skin gets too dry．Earthworms must come out of the earth if it rains a lot，because they can't breathe in their flooded burrows．What a dangerous life！
Earthworms don't have eyes，so how can they tell when it's dark？ They have special places on their skin that are sensitive to light．These spots tell whether it’s light or dark．If you shine a flashlight on an earthworm at night，it will quickly disappear into the ground．
Earthworms don't have ears either，but they can hear by feeling movements in the earth．If you want to hear like an earthworm，lie on the ground with your fingers in your ears．Then have a friend stamp his or her feet near you．This is how earthworms feel birds and people walking，and moles digging，near them．
Earthworms are useful．Farmers and gardeners like having lots of earthworms in their land because the worms help to make better soil when they dig．That digging keeps the soil loose and airy（通风的）．In one year earthworms can pile up as much as 23,000 kg of castings in an area about the size of a football field．
What’s the purpose of reading Earthworms?

Which question CANNOT be answered in the passage?

How can you understand Earthworms better according to this passage?

What’s the best title for the passage?

阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。（共8分，每小题2分）
April 22 is Earth Day. Everyone on earth should care about and protect the earth! The earth has warmed by about 1 °F over the past 100 years, but why and how? Well, scientists are not quite sure. Maybe the earth gets warmer and warmer on its own. __1__
First, greenhouse effect (效应) is a very important reason for the change of the earth. People give out too much energy into the air every year. It makes the earth warmer. __2__Sometimes it becomes too hot and sometimes too cold. Sometimes there is too much rain and sometimes too little. The change of the climate makes the earth warmer. In turn, the warmth of the earth changes the climate, too.
When the earth becomes warmer, there may be more rain and a rise in sea level. __3___ On a Pacific island, 100 people have to move to higher ground because the sea is rising. These people can no longer live on the coast. Before that, two islands without people went underwater in 1999. Scientists say that the seas can rise by nearly one metre by 2100.
People can affect the earth's air, land and water. As for us, we can do many things to protect the earth. __4___ We can tell more people about protecting the earth.

阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）
There was a story many years ago of a school teacher—Mrs. Thompson．She told the children on the first day that she loved them all the same．But that was a lie．There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard．He didn’t play well with the other children and he always needed a bath．She did not like him．
Then Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother．Mrs. Thompson was ashamed of herself．She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present, too．It was his mother’s perfume（香水）
Teddy said ,“Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom used to．”After the children left , she cried for at least an hour．On that very day, she stopped teaching reading, writing and math．Instead, she began to teach children．
Mrs. Thompson paid particular attention to Teddy．The boy’s mind seemed to come alive．The more she encouraged him, the faster he improved．By the end of the sixth grade, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class．
Six years went by before she got a note from Teddy．He wrote that he had finished high school and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life．He went to college．Mrs. Thompson got two more letters from him with the last one signed: Theodore Stoddard ,M．D．（医学博士）．
The story doesn’t end there．On his wedding day, Dr．Stoddard whispered in Mrs. Thompson’s ear ,“Thank you, Mrs.Thompson, for believing in me．You made me feel important and showed me that I could make a difference．”
Mrs.Thompson, with tears in her eyes, whispered back ,“ Teddy, you have it all wrong．You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference．I didn’t know how to teach until I met you．”
Did Mrs. Thompson like Teddy at first?
When did Teddy give his teacher a present?
What did Mrs. Thompson do after the children left the classroom?
Why did Teddy thank Mrs. Thompson at his wedding?
What does the passage want to say?

完成句子。（共10分，每小题2分）
根据中文意思完成句子。
夏天保护皮肤不受伤害是很重要的。
________ protect the skin from damage in summer.
今晚大家都想去看电影，而不愿意呆在家里。
Everybody likes to go to the cinema this evening _______ stay at home.
据我所知，他今天不来了。
________ I know, he isn’t coming today.
Gangnam Style以其舞曲而著名.
Gangnam Style ___________ its dance music.
老师告诉我们今年不仅要忙于学习还要坚持锻炼身体。
Our teacher told us ____________ this year.

文段表达。（共15分）
根据中文提示词语，写出意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的短文。（请不要写出你的真实校名和姓名。）
在和谐社会里，人与人之间的互帮互助已经构成了我们生活中的重要组成部分。请你描述一个帮助过你或者你帮助过的人和事，并谈谈感想。