广东省深圳市南山区2022-2023学年九年级上学期12月期末英语试题
一、完形填空(10分)
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出能填入相应空白处的最佳选项。
Ding Yiteng received his early education in America where his mother was doing her medical research. At first, he couldn't   1．   others at school and had few friends there. What's worse, when he and his   2．   returned to China after the sixth grade, Ding couldn't be accepted by kids in China, either.
Difficulties shaped(塑造) Ding's    3．    to communicate with others, and loneliness caused his wish to express himself. In college, Ding became   4．    in theatre and spent most of his time acting. His   5．    for Chinese opera became stronger while acting in Denmark in 2015. A picture of Peking Opera performer Mei Lanfang on the wall of the Danish theatre company made him feel    6．   .
"I felt great need for Chinese culture and its greatness," Ding said. And then Ding   7．   all his time and energy studying Chinese dramas and showing traditional plays, like Tou 0 Yuan, in a new way.
"I understand the Western perspective (视角) of art and beauty, and I love Chinese culture, "said Ding. "So   8．   can't I be the one who integrates (融合) different cultures?"
He   9．   a new method of theatre acting and expression "The Modern Format". It integrates traditional Chinese cultural elements with contemporary performance techniques (现代表演技巧).
   10．   , because of his hard work, he became the winner of the "New Prominent Chinese Director "award in 2018 with Tou O Yuan.
1．A．help B．beat C．remember D．understand
2．A．father B．mother C．teacher D．friend
3．A．opinion B．victory C．ability D．pleasure
4．A．interested B．successful C．rich D．weak
5．A．wish B．love C．change D．reason
6．A．worried B．brave C．proud D．ashamed
7．A．spent B．wasted C．lost D．saved
8．A．how B．why C．when D．where
9．A．changed B．bought C．forgot D．created
10．A．Actually B．Instead C．Finally D．However
二、阅读理解（共15小题，每小题1.5分)
阅读理解
Once a young man loved a girl very much. He folded 1, 000 pieces of paper cranes as a gift for the girl. Although he just worked in a small company, they were happy together. However, one day, the girl told him she was going to Paris and would never come back because she couldn't see any future for both of them, so they