江苏省镇江市润州区2018届九年级第二次模拟考试英语试题

一、单项选择。（共15题, 每小题1分，满分15分）

1. English is considered as ______ useful language, so more and more people try to learn it well.

A. a B. an

C. the D. /

2. --- Could you please show me which boy in the picture is Patrick? --- The one________ a pair of glasses. A. in

B. at

C. of

D. with

3. --- Can we leave Mike alone at home for a while?

--- Of course. He is twelve years old now and he can take care of ________ well. A. himself

B. herself

C. myself

D. yourself

4. Spud Webb has influenced me most. His stories give me much to face all kinds of difficulties. A. luck

B. wealth

C. decision

D. courage

5. --- Some say drinking coffee can cause cancer.

--- Well, coffee drinking hasn’t been shown to ___________ your risk of cancer. A. invite B. introduce C. imagine D. increase 6. Betty will keep on learning French ________ she has enough time for it. A. but

B. though

C. unless

D. if

7. Parents are the people who love us most in the world. It is not _____ of us to shout at them. A. possible

B. polite

C. perfect

D. proud

8. --- Peter, keep an eye on your younger brother. It is easy to ______ when babies learn to walk.

--- OK, mum. I will take good care of him. A. fall over

B. fall behind

C. get away

D. move away

9. --- I’m afraid I can’t afford the ticket for the art show. ---You worry about it. It’s for free. A. can’t

B. wouldn’t

C. mustn’t

D. needn’t 10. --- Eric, can you bring me the scissors?

--- Just a moment. I the paper-cutting with them. A. make

B. made

C. am making

D. has made

11. --- Is it true that in 2020, high school students can take English tests more than once? --- It’s reported that only the highest score ________. A. will take

B. has taken C. will be taken

D. was taken

12. ---Excuse me, how can I find useful information on the Internet?

---____ the information you need, type in the keywords and then lots of websites will appear.

A. Find

B. To find

C. Finding

D. Found

13. --- I think Mrs Ling is the most excellent teacher in our school. --- ______. She teaches us well and cares us a lot. A. Simply

B. mainly C. Exactly

D. Mostly

14. --- I missed the final of the school basketball match this morning. --- It was really great.

A. Never mind. B. I don’t agree.

C. Of course not. D. What a pity!

15. Smart phones are developing so fast that no one can tell in 2027. A. what will they be like C. how they will be used

B. where we can buy them

D. what materials are they made of

二、完形填空。（共10小题，每小题1分，满分10分）

I ever worked as a volunteer in a nursing home. One day, a 90-year-old lady moved into the nursing home. Although she was nearly 16 , her hair and clothes looked very nice.

Her husband passed away recently, 17 she had to move out of her old house. After many hours of 18 patiently in the hall of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when I told her that her room was 19 . In the elevator(电梯), I began to 20 her room, including the old sheets hung on her window.

“I love it,” She smiled with the excitement of an eight-year-old girl who has just been given a new toy.

“But you haven’t seen the room. Just wait.”

“That doesn’t have anything to do with it,” she replied. “Happiness is 21 you decide on ahead of time. Whether I like my room or not doesn’t 22 the furniture. It’s

how I arrange my mind. I already decided to 23 it. It’s a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have two choices: I can spend the day in bed complaining about the parts of my body that 24 work, or get out of bed and thank the ones that still do.

If you want to be happy, please remember these five simple rules: free your heart from hate; free your mind from 25 ; live simply; give more; expect less. Then your happiness will increase every day. 16. A. blind B. deaf 17. A. so

B. if

C. homeless D. sad C. before C. jumping

D. because

18. A. running B. talking 19. A. open B. closed 20. A. enter B. describe 21. A. nothing

D. waiting

D. locked D. clean

D. everything

C. ready

C. tidy

B. something

C. anything

22. A. pick up B. care for 23. A. leave 24. A. still 25. A. worries

C. depend on

C. love

D. think about

D. buy D. hardly

D. experiences

B. forget B. always B. works

C. without C. memories

三、阅读理解。（共10小题, 每小题2分，满分20分）

A

It is two in the morning. The wind is getting stronger and there is a chance that it will rain. Though the weather is bad, Al Gehrke sits 110 floors above the ground, 442 meters above the earth. You may be wondering what he is doing so far off the ground. If you asked him, he would say, “I am just doing my job!”

Al Gehrke has a very special job that not many people would want to have. He manages one of the tallest buildings in the world — the Wills Tower in Chicago. His team washes and changes the windows. The Wills Tower has 16, 000 windows and each window weighs over 90 kilos. Gehrke and his team work from seven in the evening until four in the morning. They clean 18 windows each night. Each window takes almost 30 minutes. Al Gehrke is not afraid of high places and he is a good man for the job.

Mary Ann also has an unusual job. Instead of hanging high above the earth washing windows,