娄底市2015年下学期九年级（上）英语期中考试题一、听对话，选择与所听内容相符的图片1. Go along this street and turn left. Youll see the hospital.2. Could you tell me where I can get an iPod 5?3. Do you know how to get the nearest bank?4. His sister lives next to a supermarket.5. Could you Please Lend we your dictionary?二、听对话，选择正确的答案。6. M: Did you use to read English before you went to school in the morning?W: Yes, I used to do 20 minutes reading.7. W: Who is the woman in the picture?M: My mother. She used to have long hair.8. W: Is that boy Bill?M: Yes, though he used to be short.9. W: You used to study late, right?M: I had to, because I had a lot of work to do.10. W: Steve used to be on the swim team, but now he is interested in soccer.M: Yes, and he is a good football player now.三、听长对话，选择正确的答案。听第一段对话，完成第11-12小题。M: Hi, Melissa. Nice to meet you! We havent seen each other for a long time.W: Yes, we havent seen each other since we left school to years ago. You have changed a lot. You used to wear T-shirts, but its the first time I have seen you in a business suit.M: Yeah, I dont like suits, But now I work in a bank, so I have to.听第二段对话，完成第13-15小题。W: My six-year-old brother started school this week.M: Hes really lucky. Life was great when I was six.W: Really? Why?M: Oh, schoolwork was really easy.W: Not for me. I didnt use to like tests, Now I dont worry about tests.M: And we used to play every day after school, Now we just study all the time.W: Yeah, but we used to walk to school, Now we have to take the bus.M: I remember one bad thing. I used to hate sports, now I love P.E. class.W: Me, too.四、听短文，选择正确的答案。Last Sunday I drove back to my hometown. It used to be a quiet place, but now it has changed a lot. There are tall buildings and wide roads everywhere. So when it gets dark, all the lights are on. Wow! How beautiful it is!But the thing that I was interested in is to chat with my old friends. We used to play together. We often climbed the trees, swam in the river and caught insects, but most of us were terrified of spiders because they were ugly.Now our life is different. We all grow older, but we all miss the old days.笔试部分五、完形填空Manners（礼貌）are important to happy relations (关系)among people. No One 21 a person with bad manners. A 22 with good manners never laughs at people when they are in trouble. Instead, he 23 to help them. When he asks for something, he says “ 24”. And when he relieves something, he 25 says “Thank you”. He does not interrupt (打扰) 26 people when they are talking. He does not talk loudly or laugh loudly 27 public. When he sneezes or spits (吐痰), he uses a 28 If you are late, you 29 make an apology (道歉)to the teacher either at the time 30 after class.( ) 21. A. thinks B. likes C. hates( ) 22. A. boy B. man C. girl( ) 23. A. tries B. wants C. enjoys( ) 24. A. please B. Give me C. Hello( ) 25. A. never B. still C. usually( ) 26. A. every B. some C. other( ) 27. A. on B. In C. at( ) 28. A. hand B. cup C. handker chief( ) 29. A. should B. could C. will( ) 30. A. or B. nor C. and六、阅读理解AWe drink tea every day. But more than 300 years ago most of the people in Europe did not know anything about tea. Some people had heard about it, but very few of them knew what to do with it.There is a story about an English sailor (航海家). He went to Countries in the east, the west and the south. He had been to India and china. One day he came home and brought some tea as a present for his mother. She told her friends about the present and asked them to a “tea party”. When her friends came to the “tea party”, the old woman brought out some tea leaves and asked them to eat. Of course, nobody liked the tea leaves.At that time the sailor came in. He looked at the table and said, “Mother, what have you done with the tea?”“I boiled it as you said.”“And what did you do with the water?”“I threw it away, of course. “answered the old woman.“Now you may throw away the leaves, too.” Said her son.根据短文内容判断下列句子的正（T）误（F）（ ）31. Tea was very popular in Europe more than 300 years ago.( ) 32. The sailor gave his mother some tea as a present.( ) 33. The old woman asked her friends to eat tealeaves instead of drinking tea.( ) 34. Au the friends enjoyed the delicious tea at the party.( ) 45. The sailor knew how to drink tea, but his mother didnt.BConfidence(自信) is very important in daily life. It can help you to develop a healthy attitude. A study shows that the people who are more confident are much happier. They can have more chance to make themselves successful. But how to be more confident? Here are some suggestions:Speak loudly when you are not confident, you cant do well in what you want to do. You speak in a voile so slow that other people can hardly hear you