永州市祁阳县白水镇中学2016届九年级上期中英语试题及答案
一 知识运用（两节，共25个小题，计25分）
第一节 单项填空。从A、B、C三个选项中选择最佳答案填空。（共15个小题，每小题1分。）
1.—How do you study English so well?
—I study ________ reading English magazines.
A. at B. on C. by
2 . —Tom used to ______ short and fat, didn’t he ?
—Yes, he did. Now he’s tall and thin.
A. do B. like C. be
3.Basketball was invented by ______ Canadian doctor named James Naismith.
A. a B. an C. the
4. —Where’s Bill ?
—He ________ in the office. I saw him playing basketball on the playground just now.
A. can’t be B. must be C. can be
5.. Are you afr aid of _____ alone?
A. sleep B. to sleep C. sleeping
6.. This dictionary must belong to ________.Because I saw him using it yesterday.
A .Tom’s B. Tom C Mary
7.. —I think she should stop wearing those silly earrings.
—________. I like those earrings. She looks so cool.
A. I disagree. B. I think so. C. I agree.
8. If you meet some new words, you'd better ________ in a dictionary.
A．look out them B．look up them C．look them up
9. Alice found _______ not easy to get a driver’s license.
A. it B. that C. this
10.Do you know when the first train __________ in China?
A. was produced B. is produced C. produced
11.You can imagine _________ strange it was!
A. what a B. how C, what
12.Mrs. Wang advised us _______ the math problem in another way.
A. solve B, solving C. to solve
13.The teacher was ______ angry _______ say anything.
A. so, that B. such ,that C. too, to
14. I wonder _______ my parents will come back next month.
A. that B. if C,. what
15.There is not any water here,________ I have to fetch some.
A. but B. or C. so