广东省广州市荔湾区2016届九年级上学期期末考试英语试题.doc

2015-2016 学年第一学期荔湾区期末初三统考试卷英语一、语法选择（共15 小题；每小题1 分，满分15 分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1-15 小题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中选出一个最 佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Many, many years ago most people did not have beautiful books. Some families did not have books at all. The people ____1_____ did have books had only a few. Instead of ____2_____ books, people told stories. They would remember things ____3_____ happened to them and would retell these tales to friends. Some stories you read in books today ____4_____ to children many years ago by their fathers and mothers. ____5_____ those girls and boys grew up, they, in turn, told their children the same tales. Sometimes the stories changed as one man told ____6_____. That is why today there are different beginnings and different endings to the same folk tales. You ____7_____ different names for all kinds of characters in the different versions(版本) of the tales. In this way the stories almost seem ____8_____ different ones and not your favorite tales at all. Some people _____9____ stories. They would suppose ____10_____ things which had happened could not really have happened. Such people became ____11_____ as storytellers. In many of the tales, animals did the talking. In others, good men came to help bad men. Strange, exciting things ____12_____. The different ideas made interesting stories. Some of the early tales, ___13______ them Mother Goose verses were told in rhyme. The poems were learned by boys and girls at home and at school. What Mother Goose rhymes do you know and remember? Do you think there was _____14____ a Mother Goose? Mother Goose stories and rhymes are ____15_____ good ones that we read and enjoy them today, years after they were first told. 1. A. which　 B. whom 　C. who 　　　　D. when 2. A. read 　　B. to read 　C. reads 　　　D. reading 3. A. who 　　B. that 　　C. what 　　　D. where 4. A. tell　　 B. told 　　　C. was told 　D. were told 5. A. When 　B. Though 　C. While 　　　D. Which 6. A. other 　B. another 　　C. the other 　D. the others 7. A. even find 　B. even found