陕西省西安市20xx届九年级英语下学期第一次月考试题

陕西省西安市20xx届九年级英语下学期第一次月考试题内容摘要：

ok One Small Step Can Change Your Life. “What we try to do is to b egin with such a small step that we can’t find any excuse not to do it.” “Kaizen”, a Japanese word, is used to mean to change behavior and a ttitudes. During World WarⅡ , American factory managers were able to increase productivity by trying small, continuous improvements instead of sudden changes. After the war, the idea was brought to a rebuilding Japan. It made Japan develop fast. The Japanese called it “ Kaizen”, whic h means “improv ement”. Maurer studied the idea and did some experiments with it. “Kaizen” could possibly help people succeed in doing everything. ( )49. Robert Maurer wrote a book to tell us ______. A. we should do everything in big steps B. how to change one’s l ife with one small step C. we should try a lot of sudden changes D. how to find a small step without any excuse ( )50. The underlined part “increase productivity” in the passage means “ ______”. A. 提高生产率 B. 增加成本 C. 增加出口量 D. 提高待遇 ( )51. The writer of the passage suggests we should ______. A. make changes at the end of the year B. do few experiments with “ Kaizen” C. do things with hard to achieve goals D. take a tiny step to achieve big goals ( )52. Which of the following is TRUE from the passage? A. You can achieve your goals if you are not too busy. B. Robert Maurer studied “kaizen” and found it helpful. C. You can’t f ind any excuse not to reach a big goal. D. “Kaizen” was brought to J apan during World WarⅡ . D Yang Nan, 17, was happy to move to her new home in a northern area of Beijing. She was told that her neighborhood used to be farmland planted with vegetables, corn and wheat. But looking at the new road, beautiful park and supermarkets, Yang couldn39。 t see any sign that food was once grown there. Yang is not alone. In recent years, many Chinese people have moved into new houses in country areas. Tall buildings have been built everywhere in the suburbs. The crops and fruit trees are no more. But these changes have caused problems too, warns Gan Zang chun, an official at the Ministry of Land and Resources (国土资源部 ). Chinese cities are growing fast. This has made the area for farmland much smaller. This is really bad for the country39。 s ability to grow food, not to mention the lives of farmers, said Gan last Monday. The country needs farmland to grow food for the people of China. But the recent rise in house prices has made selling land a good business. A lot of land has been used to build new houses for sale. Pollution, which makes land useless, is another reason for the big drop in China39。 s farmland. About million square kilometers of land in China have been polluted and turned into desert. The government wants China to have at least 120 million hectares(公顷 ) of farmland. But there are only about million hectares left. It will be really difficult to reach the goal, Gan said. He said that the government would fight illegal land use and stop farmland from being desert. ( )53. The article seems to tell us that . A. farmland is in danger B. countrysides are turned into towns C. farmland has been sold D. Chinese cities are grown fast ( )54. From what Gan Zangchun said, he is worrying about . A. China39。 s development B. land and resources C. Chinese people39。 s life D. illegal land use ( )55. What size of the land have been polluted and turned into desert? A. 120 million hectares. B. million hectares. C. million square kilometers. D. Millions of square kilometers. 第 II卷 （共 55 分） VI. 完成句子。 （共 5小题，计 10分） 根据所给汉语意思，用单词或短语完成下列英文句子。 56. 不要把垃圾扔入河里 ，它会污染河流。 Don’ t______ _______into the river. It will pollute the river. 57. “ 一带一路 ” 规划将对世界产生巨大影响。 “O ne Belt and One Road” project will a to the world.。 It’ s always hard to ______ ______ people whom you have spent much time with for the past three years. 59. 回首过去的这三年，我想起很多事情。 _______ _______ at these past three years, I remember many things.。 Never fet to be_______ _______the people who helped and supported you. VII．短文填空 （共 10 小题；满分 10分） . 用方框里所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文通顺、完整．（每词限用一次） When I was in Grade 7,I had no interest in history .I didn’ t listen 61 in class and couldn’ t finish homework on time. So I didn’ t do well in this 62 . In the 63 term, there came a new humorous history teacher. I still had no passion for history. One day, she said,: “ We’ ll have a test in the laugh realize face two study silly careful hand take subject afternoon ” .Since I wasn’ t good at history, whenever I 64 a history examination, I had to cheat .At that noon, I made lots of cheat sheets quickly. In the afternoon, I entered the classroom confidently. Soon my history teacher came in, along with our geography teacher .They bot。