山西省太原市实验中学校2024-2025学年九年级上学期12月月考英语试题（含答案）

太原市实验中学校2024-2025学年九年级上学期12月月考 英语试题 一、单项选择 1. —What are the special shoes with lights used for —Nobody knows for sure. They _____ be used for seeing in the dark. A. can’t B. must C. might 2. When I finish my middle school, I hope I can _____ the life in my new high school soon. A. get used to B. used to C. be used for 3. — You know music and art will be added in entrance examination of high school (中考). — Yes. It is for the students’ all-round (全面的) _____. A. development B. position C. popularity 4. —I have to say sorry to take away your notebook _____ in the library. —It doesn’t matter. I know you didn’t mean to. A. by hand B. by accident C. by mistake 5. —China sent another satellite into space! What good news! —Yes. Scientists tried their best to pay attention to every detail. To them, _____ . A. no pains, no gains B. a miss is as good as a mile C. it never rains but it pours 6. —_____ is China Tiangong space station from us —About 400 kilometers above the earth. A. How long B. How often C. How far 7. Liu Yang is _____ excellent astronaut and she has entered the space station for _____ second time. A. an; a B. an; the C. a; the 8. The dress is made _____ hand and it is made _____ silk. A. by; of B. by; from C. in; of 9. When people relax themselves, they prefer _____ TV or listen to music rather than _____ newspapers. A. watching; read B. watching; to read C. to watch; read 10. The 17-year-old student is trying to _____ a robot which can think like a human. A. discover B. make C. invent 二、补全对话 根据对话内容，从选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。 A: Wow! There are so many great inventions in the Science Museum. B: Yes. Look at the light bulb. ____11____ A: Of course. Almost everyone knows it. It was invented by Thomas Edison. ____12____ B: He was really a great inventor. ____13____ It is widely used in today’s world. When was it invented A: ____14____ B: Who was it invented by A: It was invented by some American scientists. Those people were really great! B: I agree ____15____ A: Me, too. Let’s work hard to make our dreams come true. A. It is said that he invented over two thousand things in his lifetime. B. It was invented in 1971. C. Here is a personal computer. D. I want to be a scientist and invent many useful things in the future. E. Do you know who invented it 三、完形填空 Does money buy happiness In October 2018, someone in South Carolina won the lottery (彩票) of $1.5 billion. The possible chances of winning were 1 in 302.5 million! It’s easy to imagine what one could do with this lucky ___16___, but would this money actually make someone happy Based on the ___17___ of several lottery winners, it probably wouldn’t. Suddenly coming into huge sums of money can ___18___ a person’s life in unexpected and sometimes unpleasant ways. For example, William Post won $16.2 million in a lottery in 1998. Within three months, he was back to be broke (破产) ___19___ he spent a lot on worthless b ... ...