北京市昌平区2020届九年级上学期期中考试英语试题
一、单项填空（共6分，每小题0.5分）
从下面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. My brother will come to see me tomorrow. I’ll meet _______ at the airport.
A. her B. you C. him D. them
2. ---________ were you late again? --- Because I missed the early bus.
A. When B.Where C. How D. Why
3. More and more young people go skating ________ winter.
A. at B. in C. on D. to
4. Be quiet! The students ________ an English exam.
A. are taking B. take C. have taken D. took
5. The lady was _______ angry ________ she couldn’t speak anything.
A. as; as B. so; that C. such; that D. not; until
6. Peter spent half a day fishing by the river, _______ he didn’t catch anything.
A. but B. so C. or D. and
7. Beihai Park is one of ____________ parks in Beijing.
A. beautiful B. more beautiful C. the most beautiful D. the less beautiful
8. ---When will your sister go to England?
--- She _______ London since four months ago.
A. went to B.have gone to C. go to D. has been in
9. The mobile phone __________ in 1973.
A. invents B.is invented C. invented D. was invented
10. There was a big earthquake in that country, but luckily many people________.
A. save B. were saved C. are saved D. saved
11. ---Do you know __________ the Great Wall? ---- Next Monday.
A. when they will visit B. when will they visit
C. when did they visit D. when they visited
12. ---Did you notice________ in her office?
--- Yes. She was going over our writing.
A. what was Miss Lin doing B. what Miss Lin was doing
C. what does Miss Lin do D. whar Miss Lin does
二、完形填空（共8分，每小题0.5分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Passage 1
A group of successful men got together to visit their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into ___1___ about stress in work and life.
The professor offered his students coffee. He went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and ___ 2___ cups--- some are plain looking, some are nice looking, some cheap, and some expensive. The professor told them to ___ 3___ themselves to the coffee.
When all the students had a cup of coffee at hand, the professor said, “Whether you have noticed or not, all the nice looking and expensive cups were taken up. Only the plain and cheap ones were left ___ 4___. You just want the best for yourselves, and that is the source of your problems and stress. In fact the cup itself adds no ___5___ to the coffee. What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, but you went for the best cups.
Life is just like the coffee, ___6___ the jobs, money and position in society are like the cups. They are just tools to hold life, and the ___7___ of cup does not change the quality of life. Sometimes, by concentrating only on the cup, we ___8___ to enjoy the coffee. There is a saying, “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything. They always pursue the best things.”
