外研版九年级英语期中试卷（含答案，无听力原文及音频）

外研版九年级英语期中试卷 学校:_____姓名：_____班级：_____考号：_____ 一、阅读理解 My father is a salesman. His job is to sell computers. He works very hard. Every morning he gets up at seven. He does some exercise and has a light breakfast. 1 It takes him forty minutes. He usually gets there earlier than others. 2 In this case, he plans his work very carefully. He keeps a diary to help him remember things. He meets and talks with many people. He makes lots of telephone calls. 3 He travels to cities in China like Shanghai, Tianjin and Dalian, and also some other countries. 4 Then he can stay with my family. Last summer my father, my mother and I had a good rest. We went to a town near the sea. 5 When it rained, we stayed in the hotel, doing some reading or watching TV. We had a lot of seafood! We were there for half a month. We had a lot of fun. A．He often goes out and visits people. B．We went for a swim every day. C．He is very busy every day. D．Then he drives to his office. E．Every year he has a long holiday. There is a poor man. He has an orange tree. On the tree, there are many fine oranges. One of them is very, very big. It is as big as a football. Nobody sees so big an orange. The poor man is very happy. He takes it to the king. The king is so_____that he gives the man a lot of money for it. When a rich man hears of it. He says to himself, “It’s just an orange. Why does the king give so much money for it I’ll take my gold cup to the king. He’ll give me more money.” The next day when the king receives(收到) the gold cup, he says to the rich man, “What a beautiful cup! I’ll show you something wonderful. Please take this great orange away.” 6．How many people are there in the story A．four B．two C．three D．five 7．The orange is _____ A．fine and big B．fine and nice C．good and fine S. small 8．The rich man takes his gold cup to the king for _____. A．the orange B．the orange tree C．a football D．money 9．What does the underlined(画线) word “pleased” mean A．有趣的 B．请 C．高兴的 D．生气的 10．The king receives the orange and the gold cup _____. A．on the same day B．the next day C．last week D．on different days Humans and dogs have been living and working together for thousands of years. Because of their protective (保护的) and playful nature, people often get dogs as pets for children. Today, because of their natural curiosity and excellent sense of smell, many dogs are being trained to help with different kinds of search and rescue (救援) jobs, for example, when a skier is lost in a snowy wilderness area or a child disappears in a forest. The first known use of dogs to help rescue people took place in the Great St. Bernard Pass, a route (路线) in the mountains between Switzerland and Italy. There, hikers often became lost during bad winter weather. For many centuries, a group of monks (僧人) ran a small hotel there where travelers could spend the night. In the 17th century, the monks began taking dogs with them when they w ... ...