广东省广州市越秀区第七中学2024-2025学年九年级（下学期）期中英语试卷（含答案）

2024-2025学年（下）越秀区第七中学九年级期中考 （考试时量：100分钟 满分90分） 一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） Spending two or three hours 1 outdoors each day can reduce a child’s chance of 2 short-sighted (近视) a research study shows. It challenges the belief that short-sightedness 3 by computer use, watching TV or reading in weak light. The Australian government researchers believe 4 sunlight is good for people’s eyes. They compared the vision and habits of 100 5 children in Singapore and Australia. In all, 30% of the Singaporean children were short-sighted-this rate was ten times 6 than Australian children. 7 groups spent a similar amount of time reading, watching television and playing computer games. 8 , the Australian children spent an average of two hours a day outdoors—90 minutes more than the Singaporean children. Professor Ian Morgan, 9 is from the Australian Research Councils Vision Centre, said, “Humans are 10 long-sighted, but when people begin to go to school and spend 11 or no time outdoors, the number of short-sighted people 12 larger. We’re also seeing more and more short-sighted children in cities all around the world- and the main reason 13 that city children spend less time outdoors.” Daylight can be hundreds of times brighter than indoor light. However, why does 14 outside prevent us 15 becoming short-sighted Scientists believe that natural light has something helpful for people’s eyes. 1. A. on playing B. play C. to play D. playing 2. A. become B. became C. becoming D. becomes 3. A. caused B. is caused C. causes D. causing 4. A. how B. why C. whether D. / 5. A. 7-years-old B. 7-year old C. 7 year-old D. 7-year-old 6. A. his B. higher C. highly D. more highly 7. A. Both B. Neither C. Either D. All 8. A. Therefore B. However C. Though D. Thus 9. A. whom B. which C. who D. that 10. A. naturally B. nature C. natural D. natured 11. A. more B. many C. much D. little 12. A. gets B. getting C. got D. get 13. A. maybe B. may be C. may D. are 14. A. play B. played C. playing D. being played 15. A. off B. out of C. from D. with 二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分） Here is a story in the past, which has great impact on my life. Several years ago while 16 a communication course I experienced a most unusual thing. The teacher asked us to list anything in our past that we felt 17 of or incomplete about and read our lists aloud. Then the man next to me volunteered this story, “When making my 18 , I remembered an incident from high school. I grew up in a small town. There was a sheriff (郡长) whom none of us kids liked. One night my two friends and I decided to play a 19 on him. We climbed the tall water tank, and wrote on the tank in bright red paint: Sheriff Brown is a s.o.b（畜生）. The next day almost the whole town saw our sign. Within two hours Sheriff Brown had us in his office. My friends told the truth but I lied. No one 20 found out. “Nearly 20 years later, Sheriff Brown’s name on my list. I didn’t ... ...