2024-2025学年第二学期
九年级英语第一次模拟考试卷
2025.5
（所有答案均写在答题卡上）
注意事项：
1.本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。试卷满分为90分，考试时间为100分钟。
2.请将答案全部填写在答题纸相应的位置上，在本试卷上答题无效。
第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共56分）
一、单项选择（共10题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳答案。
1. Lucy is not so quick but she has a good habit of working hard, it is like a hidden ________
A. tradition B. treasure C. competition D. influence
2. With developments in AI, robots ______ perform tasks that were once thought to be impossible.
A. must B. should C. can D. need
3. — I’m thinking about how to spend the weekend. What do you ________?
— How about going camping with us? We can have fun together.
A. insist B. imagine C. suggest D. suppose
4. —Who should be responsible(负责的) for this traffic accident?
—It’s not the right time to discuss that. , we should send the injured (受伤的) person to hospital.
A. Above all B. In all
C. At all D. After all
5. It’s possible that in future smart homes, ________ we can control appliances with our thoughts or homes can change the environment by themselves.
A. both B. either C. neither D. all
6. —Julie, you’ve been in a great mood recently! What’s going on?
—Mom hides a small treat in my bag ________ I leave for school.
A. until B. while C. after D. whenever
7. —The queues at the Internet-famous coffee shop are usually ________ to wait in.
—That’s why I’d rather go to a less crowded place where I can enjoy my coffee.
A. too short B. too long C. short enough D. long enough
8. If you wonder________, just go to the lab to find it out.
A. whether H2O2 can produce oxygen B. that can H2O2 produce oxygen
C. how oxygen was made from H2O2 D. why is oxygen made from H2O2
9. —The movie Nezha 2 directed by Jiaozi broke records at the box office.
—________. People across China have shown their support for this film.
A. Practice makes perfect B. The early bird catches the worm
C. It never rains but pours D. Many hands make light work
10. —Camping trips in spring have become very hot in southern China.
—________. That’s because these areas have warmer weather and an earlier flowering season.
A. Great B. Exactly C. Never mind D. Come on
二、完形填空（共12小题；每小题1分，满分12分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Sammie Vance,14, knows there’s nothing worse than feeling left out. For years, she’s been helping kids who feel lonely make friends.
What she was doing was ____11____ the Buddy Bench program. She started it when she was in the third grade in Fort Wayne, Indiana. The idea was that anyone at school who was feeling ____12____ could sit on the “buddy bench”. That let other kids know someone needed a friend. “It’s really helpful to have other people be able to ____13____ you,” Sammie says.
The idea gained popularity. The bench brought kids together ____14____. Since then, Sammie has helped communities all over the country set up buddy benches. “It really ____15____ a lot to me,” she says, “and this is making a difference in people’s lives.”
Sammie got the idea for the Buddy Bench program at summer camp in 2017. She thought it would be cool to have a buddy bench in her school, so she ____16____ the idea to her principal, her teachers, and her parents.
Getting approval (批准) for the project was just the first step. “There have been a lot of small challenges, ____17____ money,” Sammie says.
To reduce costs and be friendly to the ____18____, she asked her community to collect bottle caps. Soon Sammie was getting caps from people in 50 states. She ____19____ got them from people in Germany, the Netherlands, and other countries. In the end, she collected more than 1,200 pounds of bottle caps. A company was able to make these into three ____20____.
Sammie says the effort has helped her overcome ____21____ challenges. “I used to be really, really shy,” she says. “I’m much more outgoing now.” Sammie shows us that we don’t have to be an adult to make a difference. Even kind acts of kids can be powerful. She says, “____22____, just be kind.”
