《2025年卓越英语九年级上册译林版》

三、完形填空(10％)
For Pineda, it was a long way to succeed.
His story began in El Salvador; where he was born with something wrong with his mouth. He had great 1 ______ in speaking. At age 2, his family’s house burned down. Pineda was hurt 2 ______, and his legs needed to be cut. His mother died when he was 8, and he 3 ______ years on the streets before he was taken in by an orphanage(孤儿院).
Finally, at the orphanage, Pineda began to receive support and encouragement. He taught himself to play the guitar. He began his 4 ______ with other musicians. Then the group went to Chicago and Pineda 5 ______ the attention of many people there. They wondered what they could do to help him.
A hospital offered him free medical care. A rich man agreed to 6 ______ for Pineda’s tickets to and from El Salvador.
When he was in the hospital, Pineda began 7 ______ music, and wondered if he might be able to record his own album(音乐专辑). Soon with the help of a musician, “The Sound of Gratitude(感激)” was born. On October 15th, Pineda went to a Chicago club to 8 ______ his new songs to strangers, and to the friends who had helped him come so far.
It was 9 ______ that Pineda had come into such a good luck, after having so many years of hardship(艰难). “We have a 10 ______ in El Salvador, ‘Suffer(受难) first, then enjoy.’ I guess that’s what’s happening,” he said.
(B)1. A. preparation B. difficulty C. development D. achievement
(D)2. A. carelessly B. hardly C. simply D. seriously
(A)3. A. spent B. used C. cost D. took
(C)4. A. speech B. education C. performance D. business
(B)5. A. influenced B. caught C. refused D. separated
(C)6. A. ask B. look C. pay D. wait
(A)7. A. writing B. enjoying C. selling D. praising
(D)8. A. learn B. lead C. find D. play
(B)9. A. true B. amazing C. certain D. impossible
(C)10. A. feeling B. training C. saying D. meaning

答案： 1.B 2.D 3.A 4.C 5.B 6.C 7.A 8.D 9.B 10.C

四、阅读理解(16％)
A
School holiday activities at the library

(D)1. Who is this poster for?
A. Cartoonists. B. Librarians. C. Writers. D. Children.
(C)2. On which day are there two different activities?
A. Tuesday. B. Wednesday. C. Thursday. D. Friday.
(A)3. Why are there two cartooning classes on the program?
A. Because the classes are for different age groups.
B. Because more time is needed to learn cartooning.
C. Because there is a strict limit on numbers for each class.
D. Because some children may want to do both the classes.

答案： 1.D 2.C 3.A

B
No one knows exactly when jazz was invented(发明), or by whom. But it is said that it began in the early 1900s. Jazz was a new kind of music, for America and the world, and New Orleans was its birthplace.
Who were the jazz pioneers? Most were blacks. This music was not written down, and at first only blacks played it. It was hard for white musicians to learn the new style. But soon they, too, were playing jazz. The popularity of this music spread. From New Orleans, it traveled up the Mississippi to Chicago, then to Kansas City and New York. By the 1920s, there were many jazz musicians, both black and white were famous. One man was better than the rest. His name was Louis Armstrong.
Louis Armstrong was a born musician. He was not only talented but also hard-working. He also had a good sense of humor and a big, good-natured smile. These personal qualities were valuable in his rise to fame(出名). After he became famous, he traveled around the world. It seemed that everyone wanted to hear Louis play. But life was not always easy, especially at the beginning.
Louis Armstrong was born in 1900 in New Orleans. His father never went to school and his mother could hardly read. When Louis was still a kid, his parents separated, and Louis lived with his mother. How hard their life was can easily be imagined. Yet Louis smiled through everything. He later wrote, “My whole life has been happiness. Life was there for me and I accepted it. Whatever happened has been beautiful to me. I love everybody.”
(C)4. What can we know exactly from the first paragraph?
A. Who invented jazz. B. When jazz was invented.
C. Where jazz was invented. D. Why jazz was invented.
(D)5. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 2 refers to “______”.
A. New styles. B. Jazz pioneers.
C. Black musicians. D. White musicians.
(B)6. What made Louis Armstrong become the best jazz musician?
A. His family background. B. His talent and hard work.
C. His good sense of humor. D. His big, good-natured smiles.
(C)7. Which of the following best expresses Louis Armstrong’s attitude(态度) to life?
A. He laughs best who laughs last. B. Failure is the mother of success.
C. When you smile, the world smiles back. D. Without music, life is a journey through a desert.
(D)8. What is the passage mainly about?
A. The development of jazz.
B. The influence of jazz on Americans.
C. The achievements of Louis Armstrong.
D. The development of jazz and its best musician.

答案： 4.C 5.D 6.B 7.C 8.D