广东省广州市铁一中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期开学考试英语试题
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一、语法选择
Ten years ago, most of the museum’s visitors were gray-haired people. Nowadays, however, most visitors are young     1    especially young parents with their children, and they know clearly     2    they want to see and learn from museums.
It’s reported that thousands of tickets to Henan Museum     3    out in minutes recently. One of the key reasons for the growing popularity of museums is that they are becoming     4    than before. Henan Museum is such an example.
In 2021,     5    dance program, Night Banquet in Tang Dynasty Palace (唐宫夜宴), was performed and filmed at Henan Museum. It became very popular     6    the Internet. The dancers wore Tang Dynasty clothes and makeup of that time. Now, it is common     7    visitors wearing the same style in the museum. The service(服务) is provided by Henan Muse
um.
    8    popular program at the museum is its concert. People can see musicians play ancient pieces of music     9    traditional instruments that are replicas of antiques (古董复刻品) collected by the museum.
“The idea of the concert came about from the antique musical instruments in our museum collection. To show them in an exhibition     10    is not as interesting as playing them and bringing them to life,” says Ma Xiaolin, director of Henan Museum. He adds that     11    the excellent performance, the orchestra (管弦乐队) is often invited by big TV stations.
    12    performances, the museum’s blind “dig boxes” are star cultural products. Many visitors bought them. With them, visitors     13    try unearthing a cultural relic (文物). In 2021, the sales of its dig boxes     14    about 30 million yuan.
“    15    museums interesting is always our goal.” says Ma.
1．A．one    B．ones    C．one’s    D．ones’
2．A．where    B．why    C．what    D．when
3．A．sold    B．have sold    C．has been sold    D．have been sold
4．A．interesting    B．more interesting    C．interested    D．more interested
5．A．a    B．an    C．the    D．/
6．A．in    B．to    C．at    D．on
7．A．see    B．seeing    C．to see    D．seen
8．A．Other    B．Others    C．The other    D．Another
9．A．for    B．by    C．with    D．of
10．A．success    B．successful    C．successfully    D．succeed
pulleys11．A．because    B．because of    C．since    D．as
12．A．Except    B．Besides    C．Beside    D．Except for
13．A．can    B．should    C．need    D．must
14．A．reach    B．reaches    C．reached    D．will reach
15．A．Make    B．Makes    C．Made    D．Making
二、完形填空
The first time, Hank, a two-year-old cat, went out of his yard, he got stuck (被困住) in a 40-foot-tall tree for five days, with no food or water.
One day, when Delores, the     16    , returned from a market, she found Hank didn’t come in for his lunch. As it got     17    , she began to look for him around the house. Then she heard the mew of a cat,     18    , and saw Hank on her neighbor’s tree. He must have climbed onto the tree while some dogs were running after him, and became too afraid to climb down.
Delores called the firemen immediately. But it was not easy because they didn’t have such
a tall ladder (梯子) to     19    the cat. She asked a tree company to help them.     20    , they failed for safety reasons.
Delores could do nothing but sit under the tree. A kind neighbor offered her some cat food,     21    it would make the hungry cat come down. Nearby dog owners took their pets for     22    instead of letting them run free in their yards, so that Hank would not climb even     23    with fear.
Nothing had worked until it came to day five. When a neighbor talked of a clever way of getting the cat down from a tree, Delores decided to try it at once. They produced a system of pulleys (滑轮) and lifted a     24    with some of Hank’s favorite things up to him. To their excitement, Hank jumped into it.
Delores was really thankful. “I feel good living in such a     25    neighborhood. It gave me hope when Hank was in trouble,” she said.
16．A．owner    B．visitor    C．sister    D．neighbor
17．A．cold    B．dark    C．quiet    D．dirty
18．A．ran away    B．turned back    C．fell down    D．looked up
19．A．feed    B．train    C．reach    D．watch
20．A．Again    B．Instead    C．Besides    D．Anyway
21．A．expecting    B．promising    C．realizing    D．remembering
22．A．help    B．sale    C．baths    D．walks
23．A．better    B．slower    C．higher    D．harder
24．A．toy    B．fish    C．rope    D．basket
25．A．peaceful    B．friendly    C．popular    D．safe
三、阅读单选
For her 85th birthday, I gave my mother Susan an iPad. She’d never used a computer. She had a trying relationship with her TV remote control and a painful experience with her mobile phone. However, this time she was dying to learn about the iPad. She believed that if she didn’t keep up with technology, she would find herself in a computerized kitchen “unable to open a can of soup”.