《2025年优学1+1评价与测试九年级英语全一册人教版》

Ⅲ.完形填空。(本题共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分)
根据短文内容,在A、B、C三个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
There are purple clothes, purple handbags, purple bicycles, purple furniture, even purple
computers! So purple is one of the most 1 colors today. But in the past, purple was a very
ex-pensive and unusual color. Let’s take a look at the rich 2 of the color purple.
Some scientists believe that the first plants to appear on Earth over 500 million years ago 3
looked purple, not green. Plants today are green because 4 use green chlorophyll(叶绿素) to
produce energy. 5 these early plants probably used something called retinal, which is a dark
purple color.
During the time of the Roman Empire(37 BC - 476 AD), it was very 6 to make purple
dye(染料). The dye came from sea snails(海螺). But 10,000 dead sea snails 7 you just
one gram(克) of purple dye... as well as a very bad smell! This 8 purple dye was called
Tyrian purple, and it was the preferred 9 of emperors.
In 16th-century England, purple was 10 for the king’s family members. Queen Eliza-
beth’s clothes were purple, but ordinary people were not allowed to 11 the color.
In 1856, William Perkin, an 18-year-old 12 student, noticed something strange while
doing an experiment(实验). The chemicals(化学药品) he used to clean his instruments 13
with the chemicals he used in his experiment and produced a bright purple color. This 14
led Perkin to start a company using this chemical mixture to make purple dye. The dye was much
15 than sea snail dye. Thanks to Perkin, now anyone can afford to wear purple clothes.
( B )1.A. peaceful B. popular C. exciting
( A )2.A. history B. style C. research
( C )3.A. especially B. exactly C. probably
( B )4.A. others B. they C. we
( C )5.A. And B. So C. But
( C )6.A. dangerous B. common C. difficult
( A )7.A. got B. wasted C. cost
( B )8.A. harmful B. special C. perfect
( A )9.A. color B. smell C. plant
( C )10.A. even B. never C. only
( A )11.A. wear B. sell C. make
( B )12.A. geography B. science C. art
( A )13.A. mixed B. collected C. kept
( C )14.A. survey B. suggestion C. discovery
( C )15.A. healthier B. thicker C. cheaper

答案： 1.B 2.A 3.C 4.B 5.C 6.C 7.A 8.B 9.A 10.C 11.A 12.B 13.A 14.C 15.C