江苏省苏州市工业园区2012届九年级上学期期末调研试卷
（英语）
注意事项：
1．本试卷分第一卷（选择题）和第二卷（非选择题）两部分。满分120分；考试时间
100分钟．
2．答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考点名称用钢笔或圆珠笔写在答题卷的相应位置
上。
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橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。作答非选择题，请按题号用0.5毫米的黑色签字笔在答题卷上各题目规定的答题区域内作答，不能超出横线或方格，在其他位置作答一律无效。
第一卷（三大题，共65分）
一、听力（共两节，满分20分）
A)听对话回答问题（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
听下面10段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。每段对话读两遍。 1. What does Millie want to buy?
2. What is the boy going to do?
3. What does the boy want to borrow?
4. How does Kate learn Chinese?
5. Where are the two speakers?
A. In the zoo. B. In a supermarket. C. In the classroom. 6. What are they talking about?
A. A big fire. B. An earthquake. C. A rainstorm. 7. What is the girl going to do?
A. Take a photo of the boy. B. Show the boy a picture. C. Ask for the boy's picture. 8. How did May feel at the party? A. She enjoyed herself very much. B. She disliked the noisy music. C. She disliked the gentle music. 9. What does the man want to do? A. He wants to borrow a computer. B. He wants to repair the printer. C. He wants to print something.
10. How does the man often contact his friends abroad?
A. By e-mail. B. Over the phone. C. Through letters. B)对话和短文理解（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
听下面的对话或短文。对话或短文后有几个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项。对话或短文读两遍。 听下面一段材料，回答第11、12题。 11. What is the topic of the conversation?
A. Their trip to Hainan. B. A volunteer's job. C. Their holiday plans. 12. How long is the man going to stay in the west of China? A. For a week. B. For a month. C. For a year.
听下面一篇短文，回答第13至15题。请根据内容从A、B、C、D三个选项中选择正确的选项，完成信息记录表。
13. A. walk cats B. walk dogs C. feed dogs 14. A. pick up B. look for C. throw away 15. A. young students B. old people C. young children 听下面一段材料，回答第16至20题。 16. Who is speaking?
A. An answer phone. B. A salesman. C. A policeman. 17. Where is the North Seas Travel Office now?
A. Near the park. B. At 68 Bank Road. C. At 86 Park Road. 18. How long does the Travel Office keep open?
A. For seven hours. B. For eight hours. C. For nine hours. 19. What's the new telephone number of the North Seas Travel Office? A. 8487669. B. 8748996. C. 8478696. 20. What present can you get if your holiday costse5007
A. A free ticket. B. A special price. C. A travel bag. 二、英语知识应用（共25小题；每小题1分，满分25分）
A)单项选择（共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分）从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并将选项填写在答题卷相应的位置上。 21. It's easier to make _______ decision than to take _______action. A. a; an B.／; an C.／;／ D. a;／ 22. --- Who helped you with your French? . I taught myself.
A. Somebody B. Anybody C. Nobody D. Everybody 23. --- Too many cars have a harmful effect _______the environment.
--- Sure. But we have much difficulty _______controlling the number of cars. A. on; in B. in; in C. on; on D. in; on 24. _______I could say anything more, Holmes had rushed off towards the station. A. Before B. Until C. After D. When
25. John is very lazy. He falls _______behind in his studies.
A. very B. far C. more D. still 26. ---What do you think of Han Hong?
---She趣my favourite singer. I think no one can sing _______. A. best B. better C. worst D. worse
27. ---Do you dare to go out alone at night? ---No, I don't. There's a ______of getting robbed. A. risk B. crime C. clue D. mystery 28. ---What was the Christmas party like?
---Great. Not only the students but also their teacher_______ interested in it. A. were B. are C. was D. is
29. While other children his age were playing games and having fun, Lang Lang _____the piano. A. practised B. was practising C. is practicing D. practises 30. --- Do you_______ that Amy's been a little too quiet these days? --- Yes. She didn't even say a word this morning.
A. watch B. believe C. notice D. review 31. --- Have you considered _______as a detective in the future? --- No, never.1 want to be a reporter.
A. work B. working C. to work D. worked 32. --- Will you please show me how to do the role-play exercise? ---OK Now let me tell you _______first.
A. which to do B. how to do C. when to do D. what to do 33. --- Why not wait here a few minutes and I'll get my car? --- No, thank you. I _______take the bus home.
A. ought to B. have to C. would rather D. used to 34. Their house _______last week and many things were lost.
A. was got into B. got into C. broke into D. was broken into 35. --- Thank you for recommending me as the new chairperson. ---_______, David. A. With pleasure B. You're right C. Never mind D. It's our pleasure B)完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可
以填入空白处的最佳选项，并将选项填写在答题卷相应的位置上。
A trip to the bookstore with my granddaughter is always a big event. She 36 in it for hours, touching the books, running her hands over the covers(封面),looking at a few pages here and looking at a few pages there.
I never 37 me full importance my five-year-old Grand Angel put on these trips, until the day I asked her to pick the book she liked best, 38 we could go home for dinner. Her answer was great.
“But Granny, I like them all the best. All the covers are be-yoo-tiful and all the pictures are bee-yoo-tiful and they're all 39 .Just like people. Remember when you told me about people?\ I most certainly remembered when I told her about people. I had 40 mat we are all beautiful in our own different way. Each of us has a story to tell and no two stories are 41 . We learn by listening to the stories of others and sharing our stories. Difference is the thing that makes each and every one of us 42 .I had no idea that she'd connected the lesson with books. Actually, no book was better than any other book. They were 43 beautiful and special. As dinner was still 44 and our stomachs were beginning to make noise, decision time was finally at hand. But how to choose? I suddenly thought of the right question, \to go home the most with you today?\ 45 ,her eyes lit up. She ran to a specific book and took it from the shelf. The main reason was the picture on the cover, a tortoise with sad eyes. \36. A. stands B. struggles C. studies D. stays 37. A. realized B. asked C. supported D. showed 38. A. but B. if C. so D. or 39. A. different B. cheap C. expensive D. valuable 40. A. forgotten B. required C. explained D. understood 41. A. different B. similar C. realistic D. imaginative 42. A. smart B. kind C. special D. clever 43. A. hardly B. equally C. probably D. obviously 44. A. preparing B. arriving C. cooking D. waiting 45. A. talking B. thinking C. walking D. sleeping 三、阅读理解（共10小题：每小题2分，满分20分）