2024—2025学年度第一学期期末考试
九年级英语试题
（考试时间：100分钟试卷满分：120分考试形式：闭卷）
一、补全对话（共5小题，每小题2分，计10分）
根据对话内容，从所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，每个选项限用一次。
(Millie’s online friend Shirley from the USA is talking with Millie about New Year celebrations on Wechat.)
Shirley: New Year is coming.
Millie: Yes. ____1____
Shirley: Let me have a look. Why are these people spreading salt on the doorstep?
Millie: ____2____
Shirley: That’s interesting. ____3____
Millie: She’s hanging onions (洋葱) on her door to wish for good luck and health.
Shirley: ____4____
Millie: Parents buy us new clothes and we can get lucky money. Most Chinese people like to wear traditional Chinese clothes.
Shirley: Oh. What type of traditional Chinese clothes do you like best?
Millie: I like hanfu best ____5____
Shirley: Great. I’d like to have one too.
A. What do you usually do to celebrate it in China?
B. And what’s that woman doing?
C. They are not only part of fashion but show the traditional culture of our country.
D. I am watching a video about how people all over the world celebrate New Year.
E. Because they think salt will keep them from bad things in the coming year.
二、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，计15分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
Su Shi, known as Su Dongpo, was a famous Chinese writer, poet and painter.
When he was young, he read a lot of books and wrote many good articles. People thought highly of him. Because of this, he became very ____6____ and wrote a couplet (对联) for ____7____.
Knowing all the words in the world;
Reading all the books on the earth.
A wise old man saw this couplet and thought, “It is ____8____ for Su Shi to learn how to be modest.” So, one day, he came to Su Shi’s house ____9____ a book.
The old man showed Su Shi the book and explained, “So far, I have ____10____ the book several times, ____11____ there are still some difficult words that I can’t understand. I have asked many people, but none of them could understand their ____12____. I have heard that you are a person of rich knowledge, so I come to ask you.”
____13____ confidence, Su Shi took the book from the old man’s hand, but when he opened it, he became very ____14____ because there were many words he didn’t know. At that moment, Su Shi ____15____ that there were many more things that he had to learn.
Actually, the old man knew every word in this book. He just wanted to ____16____ Su Shi the importance of being modest. Su Shi was embarrassed (尴尬 ) and said, “Now I know ____17____ you came. I shouldn’t have been so arrogant (自大的).”
The old man smiled and ____18____. Then Su Shi quickly took his brush and ink, and added some words ____19____ the couplet:
Working hard to know all the words in the world;
Being determined to read all the books on the earth.
From then on, he worked even harder. ____20____, Su Shi made great achievements in many fields, especially in literature.
6. A. modest B. proud C. wise D. creative
7. A. himself B. itself C. herself D. yourself
8. A. useful B. good C. necessary D. interesting
9. A. of B. in C. through D. with
10. A. written B. read C. shown D. bought
11. A. and B. or C. so D. but
12. A. differences B. meanings C. ideas D. spellings
13. A. Full of B. As for C. Thanks to D. Because of
14. A. excited B. surprised C. energetic D. happy
15 A. hoped B. remembered C. realized D. mentioned
16. A. give B. ask C. make D. tell
17. A. why B. what C. how D. that
18. A. came B. left C. ran D. walked
19. A. from B. in C. to D. on
20. A. Finally B. Probably C. Clearly D. Suddenly
