甘肃省武威市第二十三中学20xx届九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷

甘肃省武威市第二十三中学20xx届九年级上学期期中考试英语试卷内容摘要：

C. work hard D. study hard ( )33. The sentence It is difficult to answer that question means ____. A. that question is not difficult to answer B. that question is difficult to answer it C. it is difficultly to answer that question D. it is hard to answer that question ( )34. Their own language means ____. A. Chinese B. English C. French D. Japanese ( )35. What39。 s the Chinese of study by themselves? A. 和他们一起学习 B. 自学 C. 向他们学习 D. 通过学习 B Once upon a time, there lived a rich man. He had a servant (仆人 ). He and the servant loved wine and good food very much. Each time the rich man left his home, the servant would drink the wine and eat up all the nice food in the house. The rich man knew what his servant did, but he had never caught his servant doing that. One morning, when he left home, he said to the servant, “Here are two bottles of poison (毒药 ) and some nice food in the house. You must take of them.” With these words, he went out. But the servant knew that the rich man had said was untrue. After the rich man was away from his home, he enjoyed a nice meal. Because he drank too much, he was drunk and fell to the ground. When the rich man came back, he couldn’t find his food and his wine. He became very angry. He woke the servant up. But the servant told his story very well. He said a cat had eaten up everything. He was afraid to be punished（惩罚） , so he drank the poison to kill himself. ( ) the story, _______ liked wine and good food very much. A. the rich man B. the servant C. both A and B D. neither A and B ( ) rich man knew that it was _______ that drank the wine and ate up all the nice food. A. the cat B. himself C. nobody D. the servant ( ) rich told the servant that there was poison in the two bottles, because ________. A. there was in fact poison in the bottles B. did not want the servant to drink his wine C. he wanted to kill the cat D. he wanted to kill the servant ( ) fact, _______ ate all the nice food and drank the wine. A. the servant B. cat C. the rich man D. nobody ( ) the story, we know that the servant is very _______. A. lazy B. bad C. clever D. kind C The world is not hungry , but it is thirsty . It seems strange that nearly 3/4 of the earth is covered with water while we say we are short of (短缺 ) water. Why? Because about 97% of water on the earth is sea water which we can39。 t drink or use for watering plants directly (直接地 ) . Man can only drink and use the 3% the water that es from rivers and lakes. And we can39。 t even use all of that, because some of it has been polluted (污染 ) . Now more water is needed. The problem is: Can we avoid (避免 ) a serious water short。