2020-2021学年山西省晋中市灵石县九年级（上）月考英语试卷（10月份）

一.单项选择（每小题1分，共10分）请你从每小题所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳选项。

• 1．—I want to be like my friend，Dave.He is handsome and popular.
  —Oh，dear son，you don't need to be like anyone.Just be_________.（　　）

  A．myself

  B．himself

  C．yourself
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• 2．The actions and words of celebrities（名人） can have a great __________ because many people may follow them.So they should pay more attention to their behavior and speech.（　　）

  A．knowledge

  B．warmth

  C．influence
  组卷：1引用：2难度：0.7

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• 3．— I've tried hard at my schoolwork but still ___________.
  —Don't be upset.Sometimes losing is only a sign that you really tried.（　　）

  A．failed

  B．repeated

  C．suggested
  组卷：1引用：2难度：0.7

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• 4．—To be honest，I don't want to tell anybody else about it.
  —Everybody has the right to keep his ___________ideas and secret things.（　　）

  A．main

  B．private

  C．general
  组卷：4引用：2难度：0.7

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• 5．—John is so excited.Did he win the competition？
  —Yes.He was lucky and he had__________one minute to complete the special task，no more and no less.（　　）

  A．especially

  B．normally

  C．exactly
  组卷：1引用：2难度：0.7

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• 6．I like reading newspapers every day ________ I can learn what's going on in the world.（　　）

  A．even though	B．as if
  C．so that
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四.词语运用 （每小题10分，共10分）根据语篇内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺连贯。方框中有两个词为多余项。

• 18．

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  One of the most important（1）

  in the United States is Thanksgiving Day.Thanksgiving is usually a family day.So most of the Americans return home to spend time with their whole family.The date of Thanksgiving（2）

  from year to year，but it is held on the fourth Thursday in November.
     The（3）

  of Thanksgiving goes back to 17th century.It was in September of 1620，a group of settlers（移居者）took a ship called the "Mayflower" and then left England.They sailed across the Atlantic（4）

  a new life in the New World （now called America）.During the first winter in the new land，（5）

  they work hard，they still met some problems including poor food，cold weather and serious diseases.By the end of this terrible winter，only about 50 percent of（6）

  survived（生存）.
      The following spring，the Native（本土的）Americans saw the settlers having a hard time and decided to help.They showed the new settlers（7）

  to grow corn（谷物）and how to hunt and fish（8）

  .The friendship developed between them.In 1621，the harvest（收成）was much （9）

  ，and the settlers had a feast（宴会）to thank the Indians for their help.Then this feast became an event to（10）

  the first Thanksgiving feast.This festival is truly a celebration of Thanksgiving.
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五.书面表达（共15分）

• 19．时光如梭，转眼大家已经步入九年级。回想过去两年的初中生活，你是否觉得自己改变了许多？请你根据下列提示，写一篇英语短文，你在学习或生活中的变化。
  内容包括：●你的重要变化是什么？
  ●结合经历谈谈你的变化是如何发生的？
  ●你在变化后的感想如何？
  要求： （1）词数不少于80词（开头已给出，不计入总词数）。
  （2）文中不得出现真实的人名、校名。
  
      How time flies!It has been two years since I went to the middle school.________
  组卷：8引用：2难度：0.5

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