2024—2025学年度第二学期阶段性检测
九年级英语试题
（全卷110分，考试时间为100分钟）
一、选择填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
1. Look at the pictures. Which sign should be put on the bench?
A. No Picnicking!
B. Watch Out! Snakes!
C. Wet Paint!
D. Keep Off the Grass!
2. After introducing her favourite shop, Jenny asked the students about ________.
A. them B. their C. theirs D. themselves
3. In China, red is the ________ of luck and happiness.
A. name B. show C. nature D. symbol
4. —Look at the mess! Mom will be mad ________ we tidy it up before she comes back.
—OK. Hurry up! Let’s do it now!
A. if B. until C. though D. unless
5. If you have difficulty learning maths, Deepseek ________ help you with it. Because it is good at reasoning.
A. can B. should C. must D. need
6. No university would invite him to play basketball ________ because he was only 170 cm tall.
A. hardly B. simply C. highly D. probably
7. Art is like life. It almost never ________ the way we plan. Sometimes going in a different direction is the very thing that makes it amazing.
A. turns out B. works out C. puts out D. tries out
8. The saying “A drop of water in need shall be returned with a spring in deed.” tells us ________.
A. why we respect nature B. why should we be grateful
C. how can we save resources D. how we should treat kindness
9. Our knowledge of the universe (宇宙) ________ all the time.
A. is grown B. has grown C. is growing D. was grown
10. —We will be high school students soon. Managing time is very important to us.
—________. Time is valuable.
A. I can’t agree more B. It’s nothing C. All right D. Not at all
二、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中。选择最佳答案。
In the small town of Riverbend, the children loved playing a game called Tower (塔) Builders. The goal was simple: stack (叠) wooden blocks as high as possible without letting the tower fall. Every year, the town held a ____11____ to see which team could build the tallest, strongest tower.
This year, four ____12____ —Jake, Emma, Leo and Sofia—decided to enter. They were excited but soon realized they had different ideas.
“We should build ____13____ to make it tall,” Jake said.
“No, we need a strong base (根基) first,” Emma ____14____.
Leo and Sofia also had their own ideas, and soon, they were arguing rather than building. As a result, their first tower was shaky and fell ____15____ it got very high. They tried many times, but it didn’t work.
Feeling ____16____, they sat down. “It’s too difficult.” Sofia complained.
Just then, Mr. Howard, an old carpenter (木匠), ____17____. He smiled and said, “A strong tower, like a strong team, needs balance. Everyone has different strengths. Use them ____18____.”
The friends looked at each other and realized their mistake. They had been working separately rather than as a ____19____.
