浙江省杭州市临平区2024九年级下学期3月月考英语试题

 What does the man often do?

 Why does the man make a call?

 What will the speakers do next?

 How long does it take the woman to go to school?

 Where is the woman's MP3 player?

 听下面一段对话，回答问题。

 听下面一段对话，回答问题。

 听下面一段独白，回答问题。

 阅读理解

Opening the time capsule（胶囊）

Schools often ask children to write their plans for the future so they can place the letters inside a capsule along with other things of importance. In 10 or 20 years the capsule will be opened to see how the plans went. Read the plans of a few students.

When I finish school, I will be an astronaut! I will fly to the moon and see all the stars. I will be researching new planets and places where people have never been before! Maybe I will even discover a new planet and name it! — Alex

I want to help people just like my Dad. He is a doctor and he is always working and doing good things for people he has never met. He can be making dinner at home and then, in an moment, he has to leave. "I will be back before you know it", he always says. He is a great man and I will be just like him when I grow up. — Misaki

I have always loved cars and car racing. One day, I will be the best driver in the world. I will be travelling my whole life to compete in all the biggest races on the earth. I will need to practice hard to be a professional（职业选手）car racing driver, but it will all be worth it in the end when I am the best in the game. Every time I step onto the track（赛道）, the fans will be cheering and shouting my name. — Walt

I don't care about school, college or university. As soon as I can, I will be leaving this place to follow my dreams of playing music. I already know how to play the guitar and piano, but I will spend all my time learning seven different instruments instead of worrying about silly things like math! If I practise hard enough, I'll be playing for whichever band I choose. — Laura

 阅读理解

"Hurry up, Kyle," Dad called. "We need to leave for the swim-team tryouts!" 

Kyle sat sadly on his bed. He liked swimming, but he was afraid he wouldn't be fast enough to impress the coach. And he didn't want to embarrass himself. 

"I changed my mind," he shouted back. "I've decided not to go." 

Now Kyle heard his father's footsteps on the staircase（楼梯）. Dad walked into Kyle's room. "Why not?" he asked. "I thought you enjoyed swimming."

"I do, but …"

"… but you're afraid you won't make the team, right?"

Kyle looked up. How had Dad guessed? 

"Listen," Dad said. "You're probably afraid, but why not at least have the coach time（计时） you? There's nothing to lose by trying, even if you don't make the team. And who knows? You might even surprise yourself."

Kyle considered that for a short time. "Okay, I guess I'll go," he finally said.

Half an hour later, Kyle was anxiously waiting with everyone else who wanted to try out. He hated the idea of disappointing his father, so when the coach called his name, he forced himself to the edge（边缘）of the swimming pool. The coach blew his whistle（哨子）and Kyle jumped in, swimming through the water as quickly as he could. When he reached the other side of the pool, he held his head up and took the steel part at the pool's edge, shaking his wet hair out of his eyes. He climbed out of the water and returned to where the coach was standing. 

"How did I do?" he asked in a low voice.

The coach looked at his stopwatch and then smiled at Kyle. "You had a wonderful time! In fact, you got one of the fastest times I've seen today. You'll do a fantastic job on the swim team."

 阅读理解

Everywhere you look you'll find surveys and questionnaires （问卷） in magazines, newspaper articles, best-selling books, TV shows. . . all giving one clear message: women and men are different.

Clearly, we can't get along because we communicate too differently. We don't understand each other. Women think one thing, but men think another. A woman is willing to work together, but a man is competitive. Women are good communicators, and can relate to people well, while men are more driven by results. A woman can do several things at once, but a man prefers to do one task at a time. If you believe everything you read, women even have a stronger sense of smell and of touch. The list of differences goes on and on.

However, Dr. Janet S. Hyde claims （声称） that the differences between men and women are overstated. She reviewed 46 studies of gender （性别） differences, going back 20 years, and found that there are far more similarities than differences between men and women. In fact, Dr. Hyde's results show that there are very few differences in the way we think, act and communicate. What's more, she warns that claims of gender differences actually have a negative effect on women, both in the workplace and in their relationships with their husbands or boyfriends.

Girls also suffer the results of these claims. For example, girls studying in school are not always encouraged to think that they can succeed in math the same way that many boys are. This is because people often believe media claims that girls aren't as good at math as boys. Perhaps it's time to celebrate what brings us together, rather than focus on what divides us.

 阅读理解

People try to make predictions about the future. But what surprises does technology have in store for us? The answer is nanotechnology （纳米技术）. 

Nanotechnology is the science of building tiny machines, so small that they areinvisible. To give you an idea of the size of these machines, the difference between a nanometer and a meter two units of length, is the same as the difference between a rock and the planet Earth! Most scientists agree that nanotechnology will change our lives in the future—but how? At the moment it's difficult to predict whether this new technology will be like a wonderful dream, or a terrifying nightmare （噩梦）.

In the 1966 the film Fantastic Voyage, an inventor develops an amazing new way to treat diseases. He narrows a group of scientists and their machines and injects （注射） them all into a patient. They then travel around the patient's body, visiting the different parts of the body and repairing them. Of course, this is just a film—but the reality of nanotechnology is not very different. Scientists are already making nanobots, tiny robots that are very small. In the future, doctors might be able to inject these into a patient, and the nanobots will travel around the body and repair the diseased parts.

Some people are worried that nanotechnology could be difficult to control. Nanobots might come into the environment and damage people, plants and animals. Others have even more serious worries. Eric Drexler is a futurist, a scientist who makes predictions about the future. In his bookEngines of Creation he predicted the invention of nanobots. He also described a special kind of nanobot that can make a copy of itself using the materials around it—and this is where the nightmare begins. In Michael Crichton's book Prey, nanobots reproduce themselves so quickly that they use all the materials around them and then look for more and more, and more, eventually "eating" the world. Some people are worried that this might really happen. The most serious predictions (that very few scientists believe) say that nanobots could destroy the whole planet in about three hours!

 下面文章中有五处需要添加小标题。请从以下选项（A、B、C、D、E和F）中选出符合意思的内容。选项中有一项是多余选项。

After-school Clubs

It's time to go home, right? Wrong! Come and join one of our fantastic clubs. You can act, sing, cook, do sport—lots of things! You can't say no!

Science is cool! We do experiments and learn about our amazing world. We're in the Science Labs on Mondays from 3:15 pm to 4:45 pm. See you there!

Can you design a webpage, write an article or take photos? Then join our team at the Westfield e-magazine. We meet on Thursdays and Fridays at 3:15 pm. And our new magazine goes online on Monday mornings!

"I want to play chess but I can't understand the rules." No worries. We can teach you! You can play for fun or enter our chess competition. Tuesdays 3:15 pm—4:45 pm!

On Wednesday afternoons, we make fantastic works of art! You can draw, paint, take photos or make masks and sculptures. We're in the Art Studio from 3:15 pm—5 pm!

Do you like football, tennis, basketball or gymnastics? Well, join us at the Sports Hall on Wednesdays from 3 pm to 4:30 pm. You can keep fit and have a great time!

A. Art club B. Chess club C. Sports club D. Drama club E. Science club F. Magazine club

 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出一个最佳选项。

It's 7 a. m. and most teenagers are still in bed. But not Rene Gangarosa. She's already1 and she's had her breakfast. She's2 with her lacrosse （长曲棍球） team, and she's just3 a goal!

16-year-old Rene lives for4 : when she was three years old, she started judo （柔道）. Then, when she was five, she competed in tennis matches. She5 lots of tennis competitions. But Rene's favorite sport isn't lacrosse, Judo or tennis. It's a sport that she plays with the boys. Rene loves ice hockey （曲棍球）!

Rene is really interested in ice hockey—she6 her local team and her favorite player is Jaromir Jagr. However, ice hockey is a7 game for a girl. The boys are8 than Rene. When Rene joined the team, they were9 —they didn't want to lose matches. But Rene has worked hard and today she's one of their best10 !

Rene can compete in so many sports because her11 help her. Her parents take her to lacrosse practice before school and to hockey practice after school. She's so busy that she hasn't got much time for12 ! Rene does most of it at break times in school.

It's 10 p. m. now, and Rene has just13 an ice hockey match. She's very tired! Has she ever wanted to stop14 ? No, she hasn't! This is the price of15 and she wants to be the best!

 阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。

About half of 16- and 17-year-olds in the UK have got jobs, and three quarters of this age group also go to school. They do part-time jobs before or after school and at weekends. The （common） jobs are babysitting （very popular with girls） and paper rounds （popular with boys）. Cleaning and working in a shop （be）also popular jobs.

In the UK, school students （allow）to work less than two hours on a school day, or less than twelve hours in total during  school week. Students are not allowed （work） before 7 a.m. or after 7 p.m. （but babysitters can work later）. They must have at least two （week）holiday from school each year when they don't work  all.

Teenagers do part-time jobs  they want to earn some money. However, they don't （usual）earn very much. In the UK, there is a minimum（最低）wage for adults: £5.52 an hour. For 16- and 17-year-olds, it is £3.40 an hour. For （child）under 16, there is no minimum wage, so many teenagers work for £2 or £3 an hour.

 We usually shake （手）when meeting someone for the first time.

 （一月）1st is celebrated as New Year's Day in many cultures around the world.

 Reading the newspaper is part of my （日常）habit to stay informed.

 In order to stay healthy, it's necessary to （避免）taking too much sugar.

 We're discussing whether to watch films at home or at the local （电影院）.

 Shall we go by bus or on f?

 Can you please tell me your p number so I can reach you easily?

 He c a cold after spending too much time in the cold wind yesterday.

 N the teacher nor the students were satisfied with the experiment results.

 It's too cold. Please come in and w yourself by the fire.

 用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词仅用一次（每空一词）。

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Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, is the most celebrated traditional festival in China. Preparations for Chinese New Year begin well ahead of time. Families clean their homes to away bad luck and make way for good luck. People new clothes, share festive meals, and exchange Hongbao containing money for good luck. The highlight of the celebrations is the dinner on New Year's Eve, where family members to enjoy a big dinner. As midnight comes, fireworks light up the sky, and the atmosphere is with excitement. Chinese New Year is not only a time-honored tradition but also a reflection of the rich cultural heritage （遗产）, which it a truly special and pleasant time for people across the country.

 假定你是学生李平，你的英国交换生Adam在回国后给你写了一封邮件，请你用英语进行回复。词数80左右，可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Hi Li Ping, I hope you're doing well. Since returning to the UK, I become more interested in learning Chinese. However, I'm facing some difficulties. How can I write Chinese well? How can I use four main tones（声调） correctly when I speak Chinese? Could you offer me some advice to improve these skills? Your help would mean a lot. I hope to hear from you soon! Best, Adam

Hi Adam,

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Best regards,

Li Ping