石景山区2012初三期末考试5

石景山区2011—2012学年第一学期期末考试试卷
四、单项填空（共13分，每小题1分）
22. Mr. Black is very kind to others. We all like _______ very much.
A. us
B. them
C. him
D. her
23. Li Na won the tennis match ______ June 4th, 2011.
A. in
B. at
C. to
D. on
24. —______ is your best friend? —Linda, I guess.
A. What
B. Who
C. Why
D. Where
25. Put on more clothes, ______ you may catch a cold.
A. or
B. but
C. and
D. so
26. There ______ still some milk in the fridge. It’s not necessary to go to the store today.
A. are
B. be
C. am
D. is
27. The question is too hard. ______ can answer it.
A. Anybody
B. Somebody
C. Nobody
D. Everybody
28. You ______ lose your way if you walk alone in the mountains at night.
A. need
B. may
C. should
D. have to
29. —The coffee is good.
—That’s right. It’ll taste much ______ if you drink with some milk.
A. good
B. better
C. best
D. the best
30. —How was your day off?
—Pretty good! I ______ the Science Museum with my classmates.
A. visited
B. visit
C. will visit
D. was visiting
31. —Look! What a great palace!
—Yeah! It ______ nearly 500 years ago.
A. builds
B. built
C. will build
D. was built
32. I _________ here since my childhood.
A. live
B. have lived
C. lived
D. am living
33. Ann’s birthday is coming. Many friends ______ to her birthday party tomorrow.
A. invite
B. will invite
C. were invited
D. will be invited
34. The photo shows the rich culture ______ makes Beijing so famous.
A. which
B. whose
C. who
D. whom
When I entered Berkeley, I hoped to win a scholarship（奖学金）. Having been a straight-A student, I believed I could take tough subjects and really learn something. One such course was World Literature given by Professor Jayne. I was very interested in the ideas he 35 in class.
When I took the first exam, I couldn’t believe that I got a 77, C+, on my test paper, 36 English was my best subject. I went to Professor Jayne, who listened to me carefully but remained（保持）37 .
I decided to try harder, although I didn’t know what that meant because school had always been easy for me. I read the books more carefully, but got another 77. Again, I 38 with Professor Jayne. Again, he listened but wouldn’t change his39 .
One more test before the final exam. One more 40 to improve my grade. So I redoubled my efforts（努力）, but they did no good and everything 41 as before.
The last problem was the final. No matter what grade I got, three C+ were still there. I might as well kiss the 42 goodbye.
I stopped working hard. I felt I knew the course material as well as I ever would. The night before the final, I even 43 myself to a movie. The next day I decided for once I’d have fun with a test.
A week later, I was surprised to find I got an A. I hurried into P rofessor Jayne’s office. He seemed to be 44 me. “If I gave you the As you expected, you wouldn’t continue to work as hard.”
I looked at him, realizing that his strategy（策略）was 45 . I had worked my head off, as I had 46 done before.
At the end of the term, my course grade arrived: A+. It was the only A+ given. The next year I received my scholarship. I’ve always remembered Professor Jayne’s lesson: you alone must set your own standard of excellence.
35. A. wished B. presented C. found D. trained
36. A. but B. or C. for D. so
37. A. uninterested B. unhappy C. unbelievable D. unmoved
38. A. reasoned B. troubled C. fought D. connected
39. A. duty B. attitude C. mind D. plan
40. A. chance B. step C. progress D. race
41. A. passed B. changed C. worked D. went
42. A. subject B. scholarship C. course D. grade
43. A. helped B. treated C. avoided D. accepted
44. A. expecting B. questioning C. checking D. developing
45. A. boring B. funny C. correct D. wrong
46. A. yet B. ever C. already D. never
A
There is an interesting program on TV named “Animals and I ”, which invites pet （宠物） keepers who are like their pets. Those who attend the program have to fill out the form and send pictures of their pets. The program received the following forms and pictures this week. pet p et’s keeper name Andrew Arthur age 1 year 29 years description sleeping all day working all day others We look alike, but we act differently.
47. Who has the same name as his / her pet?
A. Ruby.
B. Arthur.
C. Tom.
D. Rose.
48. Which pet is the oldest of all?
A. Ruby.
B. Andrew.
C. Dave.
D. Jack.
49. How does Rose describe her pet?
A. Sleeping all day.
B. Quiet and shy.
C. Guarding the house.
D. Always doing pull-ups.
pet p et’s keeper name Ruby Ruby age 3 months 6 years description playing balls and doing pull-ups playing balls and doing pull-ups others Mom says both of the Rubies are naughty boys! pet p et’s keeper name Dave Tom age 10 years 50 years
description guarding my house
guarding my
neighborhood others My wife
says Dave
and I like to
“bark ” all
day long. pet p et’s
keeper name
Jack Rose age 25 months 25 years description quiet and shy talkative others Jack always listens to what I complain about.
B
Julia Hill, an American woman, was born in 1974. She was 23 years old when she discovered that a company wanted to cut down part of a forest in California. In the forest there were lots of redwood trees. One of the trees was 70 metres tall and 1000 years old.
Julia wasn’t happy about this. She travelled to California and climbed up the tree. ‘If I sit in the tree,’ she said, ‘the company can’t cut it down.’ At the beginning, Julia planned to stay in the tree for two weeks. She lived in a small tree-house and her friends were very happy–they cooked food for her every day. She used her mobile phone to talk to her family and to news reporters. She stayed in the tree day and night.
Environmental organizations supported her, but other people weren’t on her side and they tried to stop her. The company used a helicopter that stayed near her tree-house for a long time. The helicopter was very noisy and there was a lot of wind. Julia didn’t like it, but she stayed in the tree.
In the end, she was successful. The company agreed not to cut down the redwood. Finally, after two years and eight days in the tree, Julia Hill climbed down and walked on the ground again. She and her friends were very happy.
50. Why did Julia plan to stay in the tree?
A. To ask her friends to cook food for her.
B. To let environmental organizations support her.
C. To talk to news reporters with her mobile phone.
D. To stop the company from cutting down the trees.
51. How long was Julia up the tree?
A. For two weeks.
B. For more than two years.
C. 70 days all together.
D. Day and night all the time.
52. What was the result according to the passage?
A. The company cut down the redwood.
B. News reporters refused to support Julia.
C. Julia succeeded in protecting the forest.
D. Julia and her friends built more tree-houses.
C
Tell a story and tell it well, and you may open wide the eyes of a child, open up lines of communication in a business, or even open people’s mind to another culture or race.
People in many places are digging up（挖掘）the old folk stories and the messages in them. For example, most American storytellers get their stories from a wide variety of cultures and times. They think storytelling is not only a useful tool in child education, but also a meaningful activity that helps adults understand themselves as well as those whose culture may be very different from their own.
“Most local stories are based on a larger theme（主题）.” American storytel ler Opalanga Pugh says, “Cinderella, or the central idea of a good child protected by her goodness, appears in various forms in almost every culture of the world.”
Working with students in school, Pugh helps them understand their own cultures and the general messages of the stories. She works with prisoners（囚犯）too, helping them know who they are by telling stories that her listeners can write, direct, and act in their own lives. If they
don’t like the story they are living, they can rewrite the story. Pugh also works to help open up lines of communication b etween managers and workers. “For every step forward in business,” she says, “there is a greater need for communication.” Storytelling can have a great effect on either side of the manager-worker relationship, she says.
Pugh spent several years in Nigeria, where she learned how closely storytelling was linked to the everyday life of the people there. The good points of storytelling are found everywhere, she says.
“I learned how people used stories to spread their culture,” she says.“What I do is to focus on the value of stories that people can translate into their own daily life. We all have a story to tell. We tell everybody’s story.”
53. What do we learn about American storytellers from Paragraph 2?
A. They keep the same way of storytelling.
B. They like stories from other cultures better.
C. They prefer the stories from their own cultures.
D. They find storytelling useful for both children and adults.
54. The underlined sentence in Paragraph 4 suggests that prisoners can ______.
A. start a new life
B. become good actors
C. direct films by themselves
D. move to another place to live in
55. What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Storytelling can change the way people think.
B. Storytelling is good for the growth of businesses.
C. Storytelling is the best way to educate children in school.
D. Storytelling helps people understand themselves and others.
D
Parents and kids today dress alike, listen to the same music, and are friends. Is this a good thing? Sometimes, when Mr. Ballmer and his 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, listen to rock music together and talk about interests they both enjoy, such as pop culture, he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.
“I would never have said to my mom, ‘Hey, the latest film is really great. How do you like it?’” says Ballmer. “There was just a complete gap in taste.”
Film was not the only gulf. From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations, earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in their own circles.
Today, the generation gap（代沟）has not disappeared, but it is getting smaller in many families. Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago. Now they are common. And parent–child activities, from shopping to sports, involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.
No wonder greeting cards today carry the message, “To my mother, my best friend.”
But family experts warn that the new equality（平等）between parents and kids may also result in less respect for parents. “There’s still a lot of strictness and power on the part of parents out there, but there is a change happening,”says Kerrie, a psychology professor at Lebanon Valley College. “In the middle of that change, there is a lot of confusion（困惑）among parents.”
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these changing roles and attitudes. They
see the 1960s as a turning point. Great cultural changes led to more open communication that encourages everyone to have a say.
“My parents were on the ‘before’ side of that change, but today’s parents, the 40-year-olds, were on the ‘after’ side,” explains Mr. Ballmer. “It’s not something easily carried through by parents these days, because life is more difficult to understand or deal with, but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”
56. What does the underlined word “gulf” in Paragraph 3 probably mean?
A. Interest.
B. Distance.
C. Difference.
D. Connection.
57. Which of the following shows that the generation gap is getting smaller?
A. Parents share more interests with their children.
B. Parents show less strictness to their young children.
C. Parents help their children find interests in activities.
D. Parents share more cultural changes with their children.
58. The change in today’s parent–child relationship is _________.
A. more confusion among parents
B. 1ess respect for parents from children
C. new equality between parents and children
D. more strictness and power on the part of parents
59. The writer writes the passage to _________.
A. describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with
B. discuss the development of the parent–child relationship
C. suggest the ways to deal with the parent–child relationship
D. compare today’s parent–child relationship with that in the past
七、阅读还原句子（共8分，每小题2分）
Ｉwent abroad for the first time when I was 18. I travelled to England to study English, but I didn’t learn to speak well. The main problem was that I made friends with other French people, so I spent too much time speaking French. It’s important to make English friends and to spend a lot of time with your English host family. 60. __________, it’s even better. The children in my host family were great teachers.
Another problem was that I was worried about making mistakes when I spoke, so I didn’t say much. 61. __________. English people are usually polite and helpful. You can’t learn to say things if you don’t talk. You should have your dictionary at home and say what you can.
To help your listening, try to understand the conversations of English people in shops and on buses. I heard some very interesting things! Listening isn’t easy at the beginning, but don’t give up!
62. __________. All the students in my class did this, and it helped a lot. Of course, the cinema is a fun way to practise your English. And listening to songs is helpful, too – there are lots of good English bands.
63. __________. Give yourself lots of time for fun, but try to have fun in English way.
Everyone knows the advantages of using email. It’s much faster than ordinary mail．It’s much cheaper than the telephone. However, it is not always good to use email at work.
One reason is that email is only one – way. You send out your message and then you have to wait for an answer. This is not a problem if you need to send simple information. But if the message is more complicated, email is not so good. In that case, it’s better to talk on the phone. Or, if you’re in the same building, you should go meet in person. Then you can also take a little walk and you can get to know each other better.
There is another problem with email: You don’t get much information from the message. You have only the words themselves. This doesn’t matter if the message is just about facts or if it is not important. But it might cause trouble if the message is about something important. You can’t tell much about the person who sent the message. You have no idea what she was thinking or feeling. You may put your own feelings into the message. And this can lead to communication problems in a company.
In England, psychologists（心理学家）did some research about using email at work. They studied office workers opening their email. The psychologists measured the blood pressure（血压）of the workers. They found that blood pressure went up if the messages seemed angry or negative（消极的）. It also went up if the messages were from the boss. It went up the highest when the messages were both negative and from the boss.
The psychologists said that people should be careful how they use email at work, especially those with jobs in a company. Their messages can easily hurt or upset（使心烦）people. So never send important news by email. Try to meet face to face with the person. Then everyone will understand each other better and will work together better.
64. Is it a problem to send simple messages by email?
________________________________________________________
65. What was the psychologists’ research about?
________________________________________________________
66. When did the office workers’ blood pressure go up the highest?
__________________________________________________________
67. Why should people be careful about using email according to the psychologists?
___________________________________________________________
68. What does the writer mainly tell us in the passage?
____________________________________________________________
69. 这台电脑坏了，我们明天买台新的吧。

This computer is broken. _________________________ buy a new one tomorrow.
70. 你的车出什么问题了？根本没法发动。

___________________________________________ your car? It can’t start at all.
71. 我怎样才能尽快提高英语口语呢?
How can I improve my spoken English ________________________________?
72. 我不再害怕游泳了。

I ______________________________________________________________.
73. 这座桥真长，坐车通过都要20分钟。

The bridge is _________________________________________ cross it by car.
十、文段表达（15分）
根据中文大意和英文提示词语，写出意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于60词的短文。

所给英文提示词语供选用。

请不要写出你的真实姓名和校名。

74. 每个人的一生都有很多第一次，比如第一次外出旅游，第一次在电脑上做家庭作业，第一次说英语，第一次学画画……English on Line杂志开办了以“My first time to ….”为主题的专栏讨论，假设你是张明，请你写一篇短文参加交流，请先将题目补充完整，然后在文中写明你第一次的经历是什么，过程怎样，再谈谈你的感受和体会。

提示词语：first, experience, share, succeed, proud, because…
My first time to ____________________________
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