中小学教育资源及组卷应用平台 浙江省外研版初中英语九年级下学期期中模拟试卷（2） 一、完形填空（共1题；共10分） 1. 阅读下面短文，理解其大意。然后从各题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 ??? In a small town in France, there was a farmer who lied alone. Every day, he 1 a pound of butter to his neighbour, who was a baker. One day the baker decided to 2 the butter to see if he was getting a pound. After he weighed it, he found that he wasn't. The baker then took 3 farmer to the judge(法官）. ??? The judge asked the farmer if he had any way to weigh the butter. The farmer replied, "I am so 4 that I do not have enough money to buy anything to weigh it, 5 I do ha)e a kind of scale(天平)." The judge asked, "Then how do you weigh the butter?" The farmer replied, "Before the baker started buying butter from 6 , I had bought bread from him. So now every time when I bring home the bread from the baker, I put it on the scale and give him the butter of the same weight." 牋 We 7 what we give to others in life. Whenever you take action, ask yourself this 8 , "Am I honest?" 牋 Honesty or dishonesty can become 9 . Some dishonest people can lie(说谎）without a red face. Others lie so much that they do not e)en 10 what the truth is any more. But who is it bad for? As a matter of fact, those who lie will hurt themselves by their own dishonest behaviour. 1. A. gave B. fed C. threw D. sold 2. A. weigh B. watch C. cut D. use 3. A. / B. a C. an D. the 4. A. rich B. poor C. honest D. quiet 5. A. and B. so C. but D. or 6. A. I B. my C. me D. mine 7. A. get back B. look back C. give back D. turn back 8. A. answer B. question C. help D. idea 9. A. difference B. habit C. mistake D. difficulty 10. A. study B. mean C. imagine D. know 二、阅读理解（共4题；共30分） 2. 阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 ??? I came to study in the United States a year ago. Yet I did not know the real American society until I was hurt in a car accident because after the accident I had to see a doctor and go to court. 牋 After the accident, my roommate called a doctor for me. I was very thankful and decided to repay him one day. But the next day, he asked me to pay him $200 for what he had done. I was surprised. He had good reason to charge me, he said. And if I wanted to collect money from the person who was responsible(负责的) for my injury(受伤), I'd have to have a good lawyer(律师). And only a good doctor can help me get a good lawyer. Now that he had helped me find a good doctor, it was only fair(公平的) that I should pay him. But every day I went to see the doctor, I had to wait about 50 minutes. He would see two or three patients at the same time, and often stop treating one so as to see another. Yet he charged me $115 each time. The final examination report only has ten lines, and it cost me $215. 牋 My lawyer was all smiles the first time we met. But after that he didn't want to see me at all. He knew very well the other party was responsible for ... ...
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