广东省深圳市宝安区西乡中学2023-2024学年九年级上学期10月月考英语试卷（含答案，无听力原文及音频）.docxVIP

2023-2024学年第一学期 初三英语 ★注意：请把所有答案填涂或书写在答题卡上相应位置，书写在试卷上无效。 第一卷 选择题（50分） I. 完形填空（10分） 阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。 One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no money to get food for his large family. “You look ___1___. Why don’t you work?” I asked. “Simply because I cannot get work, sir.” “If I give you work, what pay do you want?” “As long as I can get bread for my family, sir.” he answered. I decided to find out if he really meant what he said. “OK. I’ll give you one pound an hour, if you ___2___ a brick（砖块）under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping.” “Thank you, sir. I will.” I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my ___3___. I never thought he would do what he had said. When I came back five hours later, I saw him still ___4___, with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him five pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had ___5___ to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He said they would give him work directly, but he ___6___. Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the ___7___, I did. Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he ___8___ that he was the brick man and had his own business now. “You know, I still keep that brick and always consider it as the most ___9___ thing I have because it has brought me luck and success.” In fact, it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness（坚定）in doing ___10___ a very little thing. 1. A. strong B. young C. smart D. honest 2. A. break B. carry C. fix D. hide 3. A. business B. home C. bookshop D. office 4. A. crying B. talking C. doing D. walking 5. A. continued B. forgotten C. offered D. refused 6. A. accepted B. refused C. ran D. walked 7. A. bread B. pay C. brick D. job 8. A. explained B. imagined C. realized D. supposed 9. A