2017年广州市香江育才实验学校九年级上学期期中考英语试卷.docxVIP

PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT1 2017年香江育才初三期中英语试卷 一、语法选择（共15小题，每小题1分，共15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从所给的四个选项中选出最佳答案。 ???????One day____1____out-of-work clown was visiting the zoo and tried to earn some money as a street artist. When he started to attract a crowd, a zoo keeper appeared and dragged him into his office. He explained to the clown that a gorilla?which?was the zoo’s most popular animal had____2____suddenly and he feared that the number of visitors would fall off. Then he asked the clown____3____up as the gorilla until they could get____4____one. The clown accepted. The next morning, the clown put on the gorilla suit and entered the cage before the crowds came. He discovered that it was a great job____5____he could sleep, play and make fun of people and bigger crowds____6____than he had ever did as a clown. However, gradually he got tired of just____7____on wires. Meanwhile, he begins to notice____8____the people were paying more attention to the lion in the cage next to his. Not wanting to lose his audience, he climbed to the top of his cage,?____9____across the barrier, and dangled from the top of the lion’s cage. Of course, this made the lion very furious, but the crowd loved it.____10____the end of the day, the zoo keeper came and gave the clown a reward for being such a good attraction. Well, this went on for some time, the crowds grew____11____than before and he got more money. Then one terrible day when he was dangling over the furious lion, he slipped____12____and fell down to the lion’s cage. The clown was____13____scared that he began to run round and round in the cage with the lion close behind. Finally, the clown couldn’t help____14____and yelling, Help me! Help me!, but the lion was quick and pounced. The clown soon found____15____flat on his back, looking up at the angry lion, and the lion said, Shut up, you idiot! Do you want to make us both fired? ? (??????) 1.A. a??????????????????????B. an????????????????????? C. the??????????????????????????? D