红岭教育集团2025—2026学年度第一学期 九年级期中考试 英语试卷 （说明：本试卷考试时间为70分钟，满分为75分） 第一部分 选择题（50分） Ⅰ. 完形填空（10分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。(共10小题，每小题1分) My parents are both engineers. When I was little, they ___1___ me to become an engineer too. So they bought me some books to show how cool engineering is. With colorful pictures, these books made science and engineering more ___2___ to kids. I was ___3___ by my parents to read more. In the 5th grade, I finished reading them all. Then I got the idea of ___4___ these books in school. I had ___5___ taking the books home at the end of the year, but I forgot about them and left them at the back of the classroom. Years later, I, a college student, came across my primary school ___6___ at the train station. He remembered me and said, “Oh, you’re the kid who ___7___ the colorful books.” I looked at him in ___8___— he could recognize me after all those years, and he even mentioned the fact that I was ___9___ for these books. He told me that he had kept the books in the classroom, which perhaps inspired (鼓舞) hundreds of kids to become engineers because they really enjoyed the books. While sitting on the bus back home, I decided to write this ___10___ and tell the world how proud I am and that there is an army of engineers coming in the future. 1. A. expected B. allowed C. warned D. needed 2. A. common B. valuable C. attractive D. important 3. A. challenged B. trained C. invited D. encouraged 4 A. selling B. reading C. sharing D. reviewing 5. A. ended up B. planned on C. put off D. dreamed of 6. A. friend B. teacher C. deskmate D. classmate 7. A. wrote B. bought C. brought D. returned 8. A. regret B. surprise C. silence D. doubt 9. A. famous B. thankful C. prepared D. responsible 10. A. story B. letter C. report D. guide Ⅱ.阅读理解（40分） 第一节阅读下列短文，从下面每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。（共15小题，每小题1.5分） A Long ago, in ancient China, there was a story about the invention of silk. People believed that silk was first invented by Leizu, the wife of the Yellow Emperor. Leizu learned how to make cocoons (蚕茧) into soft and strong cloth—silk, and it was called “China’s Gold”. Following kings’ orders, the Chinese kept the secret of making silk for centuries. But something amazing happened. During the Han Dynasty, the brave officer Zhang Qian travelled west as far as Central Asia and brought silk there. As years passed, silk became so important that the trade road from China to Europe got its name—the Silk Road. From China, people sold silk and tea. In return, they received treasures such as spices (香料), gold and silver from the West. At the very beginning, it was mainly about trade; then people began to share ideas, technologies and cultures. For example, Chinese inventions like paper-making were spread to the West, while new ideas about math and science came to China. ... ...
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