【闵行区】2014学年第一学期期末考试九年级英语试卷

闵行区 2014学年第一学期期末质量测试
初三英语
（满分150分，考试时间100分钟）
考生注意：本卷有7大题，共94小题，试题均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题纸上完成，做在试卷上不给分。

Pare 1 Listening(第一部分听力)
I.L istening Comprehension (听力理解) (共30分)
A.Listen and choose the right picture. (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) (6分)
1. _________
2. _________
3. _________
4. _________
5. _________
6. _________
B.Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear. (根据你所用到的对话和问题，选择最
恰当的答案) (8分)
( ) 7. A) Action movies.B) Funny films.
C) Cartoons.D) Romantic movies.
( )8. A) A pilot.B) A policeman.C) A doctor.D) A teacher.
( ) 9. A) In Beijing.B) In Shanghai.C) In New York. D) In London.
( )10. A) $8.B)$10.C)$12.D)$14.
( ) 11. A) Fine.B) Cloudy.C) Sunny.D) Rainy.
( ) 12. A) Three cups a day.B) Four cups a day.
C) Two cups a day.D) One cup a day.
( ) 13. A) Doctor and patient.B) Husband and wife.
C) Teacher and student.D) Waiter and customer.
( ) 14. A) Peter likes doing something useless.
B) The weather must be fine.
C) Peter always listens to his wife.
D) Peter will not clean the car right now.
C.Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false. (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的
短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示) (6分)
() 15. Mary didn't sleep very well last night because she played music too late.
() 16. Jane and Mary weren't late for school as they went to school by bus.
() 17. Mary had dinner in a fast food restaurant with her parents.
() 18. The man near Mary was smoking during the dinner and this made Mary angry.
() 19. Some people didn't turn off their mobile phones because the movie was boring.
() 20. From the passage we know Mary didn't have a good time today.
D.Listen to the passage and fill in the blanks. (听短文填空，完成下列句子。

每空格限填一词) (10分)
21. Peter was_________________his work, so his boss liked him very much and gave him alot of work.
22. Peter always_________________in his work because he couldn't sleep well at night.
23. Peter was very worried and he went to see the doctor_________________.
24. Ten minutes after taking the medicine, Peter went to bed and_________________soon.
25. As soon as Peter came into_________________, he told the boss he had a good sleep.
Part 2 Phonetics, Vocabulary and Grammar
(第二部分语音、词汇和语法)
II.Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) (共20分)
( )26. Mike played a joke on his classmates after class. Which of the following is correct for the underlined word in the sentence?
A)/dʒəʊk/B)/dʒeɪk/C)/dʒɔ:k/D)/dʒaɪk/
( )27. Farmers plant the seeds of hope in______spring and wait for their growing.
A)/B)aC)anD)the
( )28. Michael Jordan is myfavouritebasketball star andI like ______ very much.
A)heB) himselfC)hisD) him
( )29. Iphone products are becoming more and more popular in China _______ many reasons.
A) asB) onC) forD) about
( )30. Three gunmen broke______a book store and stole many great books last night.
A) upB)down C) outD)into
( )31. -______do you practice your English reading?
- Even day. You know, it is very important.
A) How oftenB) How soonC)How longD)How fast
( )32. The teacher asked what washappening, but ______answered. We were all silent.
A) everybodyB) nobodyC) somebodyD) anybody
( )33. The wonderful special effects make Transformers (《变形金刚》)one of______films of the year.
A) excitingB) more exciting
C) most excitingD) the most exciting
( )34. I he music from the next door sounded______. It almost drove me mad.
A) beautifulB)sweetC) awfulD) healthy
( ) 35. Ben________ lift the heavy box by himself, so he asked his father for help.
A) mustn'tB) needn'tC) couldn'tD) shouldn't
子) (共8分)
54. It is absolutely right that a good detective never jumps to________. (conclusion)
55. On the________day of this year, I wrote to Dad to tell him I love him. (one)
56. Children should learn to look after_______instead of depending on their parents. (they)
57. Surfing the internet, like reading, can also make us learn much________. (know)
58. The speech_________talks about how to have a healthy diet. (main)
59. Keeping pet dogs is a good idea, and we can learn about________from it. (responsible)
60. In the future, Joe would like to________a truck like his father. (driver)
61. We've got ready to___ _____the unknown world with everything we have. (cover)
V.Rewrite the following sentences as required. (根据所给要求，改写下列句子。

62-67题，每空格限填一词。

68题注意句首大写) (共14分)
62.The young man denied stealing the purse from the old lady on the bus. (改为否定句)
They young man__________________stealing the purse from the old lady on the bus.
63. We are going to move into the newly-decorated house in a year.(对划线部分提问)
__________________are you going to move into the newly-decorated house?
64. There were so many people that we couldn't enjoy the beautiful view. (改为简单句)
There were_________many people for us_________enjoy the beautiful view.
65. We're not able to give up the life of the poor girl for the time being. (保持句意基本不变)
We're not able to give up the life of the poor girl_______________.
66. People will talk about the safety of girls during the next meeting. (改为被动语态)
The safety of girls__________________talked about during the next meeting
67. My brother asked, "Has Lin Dan won the game?" (合并成宾语从句)
My brother asked_________Lin Dan_________won the game.
68. easy, to, on the internet, is, book, a ticket, it (连词成句)
___________________________________________________________________
Part 3 Reading and Writing (第三部分读与写)
VI.Reading Comprehension (阅读理解) (共50分)
A. Choose the best answer. (根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案) (12分)
Dmitri is a 12-year-old student in Russia. We asked him about the things he does in a
typical day.
What time do you usually get up?
I usually get up at 7:30 a.m. for school. In winter, it's still dark and cold. You can see the
vapour from your own breath! 1 am reluctant (勉强的) to get out of bed.
My family lives in a small flat. Every morning, I fold up the bedclothes and mattress (床垫) and store them in the cupboard.
What do you have for breakfast?
We have substantial breakfast in the school canteen. I like hot milk, bread with jam, or
cheese and biscuits to keep me from being cold. And I felt quite satisfied after I have the breakfast.
How do you get to school?
My brother and I go to the same school. We either go by bicycle or we walk.
Why do you walk if you have bicycles?
We go by bicycle when there is no snow. When the weather is very bad, it is safer to walk.
Where is your school?
We go to Secondary School 27 in Izhevsk. It is about 30 minutes' walk from home, or 10
minutes by bike. And cycling is the quickest way to go to school.
What time do classes begin?
Classes start at 9 a.m. and finish at 2:30 p.m. We have a break at 11:15 a.m. and lunch break at 12:30 a.m.
What subjects do you study?
We study Russian language and history. And we study English, Maths and Geography. Boys have Manual Work classes while girls have Arts and Crafts.
Are you taking part in any after-class activities?
I have football practice on Tuesdays after school. The other days, I stay with my classmates and do homework for two hours because my home is in a very small space.
( ) 69. Dmitri finds it difficult to get up for school in winter because________.
A) it is still dark and coldB) it is rainy
C) there is water vapour D) his family lives in a small flat
( ) 70. The underlined word “substantial”in line 10 refers to_______.
A) unhealthy B)badC)richD) amazing
( ) 71. Dmitri feels________after breakfast.
A) sad B) satisfiedC) hungryD) cold
( ) 72. Dmitri thinks cycling is the________way to go to school.
A) quickestB) safest
C) most exciting D) best
( ) 73.T he underlined word “it” in line 19 refers to______
A) Izhevsk B) Dmitri's home
C) Dmitri's bicycle D)the distance
( ) 74. You can probablyfind this article________.
A) in a comic B) in a teen magazine
C) in a movie reviewD) in an encyclopedia
B. Choose the words or expressions to complete the passage. (选择最恰当的单词完成短文) (12分)
Emily Mason and George Peters have lived next door to each other as long as they can
remember. When they were little children, they used to play together. They were good
friends, __75__ they sometimes fought over toys or argued about what games they would
play. As they grew older, they played together less. Emily preferred to be with girls and
George preferred to play with boys. When they were about fifteen years old, they almost
stopped speaking to each other,not because they had disagreed with each other about
anything, but because they belonged to different groups. Emily had begun to study French,
and she __76__ French so much that she began to write short plays in French. In addition,
she liked television programmes, and she was interested in watching football games very much. Her mother used to say, "Emily, I've __77__ heard of a girl who likes football as much as you do." Mrs. Mason simply did not approve of her daughter's interest. Football, she felt, was for men and boys.
While Emily was working on her French lessons or watching football games on TV, George was working for his father in his store after school. He liked selling things to people. Mr. Peters found George so helpful that he thought about offering him a higher __78__. When George wasn't working at the store, he would like to be with a group of his boy friends who were organizing a sports team.
__79__, it was football that brought Emily and George back together. When George was going home one afternoon, he looked in the window of Emily's living room and he saw that she was watching a football game on TV. He walked up and knocked at the door. Emily was surprised to see him, but she asked him to come in, and they watched the rest of the game together. At some time during the afternoon, George looked at Emily, and he noticed that she had become a very pretty young lady. Emily and George are good friends again. They still have __80__ ideas about things sometimes, but they agree
with each other that football is the world's best game. Mrs. Mason doesn't seem to disapprove of her daughter's interest in football as much as used to.
( ) 75. A) thoughB) becauseC) unlessD) while
( ) 76. A) likedB) hatedC) createdD) imagined
( ) 77. A) everB) alreadyC) neverD) yet
( ) 78. A) pointB) payC) proofD) program
( ) 79. A) In allB) In returnC) In shortD) In fact
( ) 80. A) famousB) differentC) wonderfulD) similar
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (14分)
At the airport stands a DC 10 aeroplane. From time to time people are taken
c__81__ onto the plane because they are blind. They are not passengers and the
plane is not going anywhere. These people are going to have an operation to restored
(恢复) their sight.
The aeroplane is a flying eye hospital that belongs to a medical charity called
ORBIS. This organization wasestablished by an American eye doctor called David
Paton in 1982. Dr. Paton wanted to treat people who were blind in poor countries. He
r 82 that it would not be cheap to set up hospitals in every poor country. So he
decided to create a hospital which could go to the places where blind people were most in need of eye doctors.
ORBIS has carried out almost 300 medical programmes in over 70 countries and restored the sight of 20000 people. ORBIS has a 83 trained many local doctors and nurses in the skills needed to give blind people back their sight.
The ORBIS team consists of five doctors and six nurses drawn from a group of 600 volunteer eye experts in 30 countries. For each programme the ORBIS team flies to an area where blindness is a main p 84.The team stays in the area for three weeks operating on patients and training local doctors.
The flying eye hospital has a large operating room, a laser treatment room and an audio-visual centre. As the eye experts perform their operations in the operating room, the local doctors can watch the surgery and learn t 85the two-way
audio-visual system (双向声像系统)
ORBIS is not connected with any country. The United Nation has praised ORBIS as a model organization that goes beyond political, religious and cultural differences. ORBIS ise 86__ to run, however. It receives money from private donations and other charities tomeet its 80 million US dollars every year. ORBIS is a great s 87. It continues to fight against the tragedy of blindness wherever it is found throughout the world.
D. Answer the questions. (根据短文内容回答下列问题) (12分)
Tom was a shopkeeper. He had a small corner shop. It was open from seven in the morning until eleven at night and sold many different things. Though Tom worked hard in his shop for too long, he had a good business and he felt happy every day.
Then a supermarket opened across the street. The supermarket was ten times the size ofTom's shop.
The manager of the supermarket wanted to take Tom's customers away from him. He found out what Tom's prices were and then made his prices lower than Tom's.
People quickly stopped buying things from Tom's shop. They bought everything from the supermarket instead. Soon Tom's business was very bad and he was angry.
"It's not fair," Tom thought, "I must do something to teach that supermarket manager a lesson."
The price of steak in the supermarket was $5.00 a pound. Tom put a sign in his window, "Steak-$4.50 a pound."
The next day the price of steak in the supermarket was $4.25 a pound. Tom changed the sign
in his window. "Steak-$4.00 a pound."
An hour later, the sign in the supermarket said, "Steak-$3.75 a pound." Ten minutes later the
sign in Tom's window said, "Steak--$3.5 a pound."
Five minutes later the sign in the supermarket said, "Steak-$2.5 a pound." Twenty seconds later the sign in Tom's window said, "Steak—$1.00 a pound."
The manager of the supermarket ran across the road into Tom's shop. "This price cutting must be stopped," he said, "Steak is costing me $4.00 a pound. I'm selling it at $2.50 a pound. I'm losing money every minute!"
"I'll stop cutting all my prices," Tom said, "If you stop cuttingall yours."
The supermarket manager agreed, and the two men shook hands. Tom smiled. He had not lost any money on the steak. He did not sell steak.
88. Did Tom feel happy though he worked hard for too long every day?
____________,___________________________________________
89. How big was the supermarket across Tom's shop?
It was____________________________________.
90. How did the owner of the supermarket take away many of Tom's customers?
By______________________________________.
91. Why did the supermarket manager ask Tom to stop cutting his prices?
___________________________________________
92. What did Tom and the manager agree to do at the end of the story?
___________________________________________
93. What do you think of Tom? What can you learn from the story?
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
____________________________________________________________________________________
VII.Writing (作文) (共20分)
94. Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic “Learning to be polite”. (以“学会礼貌”为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文。

标点符号不占格。

)
提示：某英语报社正在举办“学会礼貌”的征文活动。

请你以“学会礼貌”为题写一篇不少于60个词的短文，谈谈你对礼貌的理解；请列举至少三个不礼貌的行为，并谈谈怎样才能成为有礼貌的人。

(注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。

)
The following phrases are for reference only. (以下短语仅供参考
．．．．．．．．)
laugh at make noise smoke in public
give a seat to …keep quiet be friendly (helpful…)
闵行区2014学年第1学期初三质量调研
参考答案
Part 1
I. A. 1.G 2. D 3. E 4. A 5. F 6. C
B. 7. C 8. A 9. B 10. C 11. D 12. A 13. B 14. D
C. 15. F 16. F 17. T 18. T 19. F 20. T
D. 21.good at 22.made mistakes 23.on Friday 24.fell asleep 25.the/ his office
Part 2
II.26. A 27. A 28. D 29. C 30. D 31. A 32. B 33. D 34. C 35. C
36. C37. B38. A 39. B 40. C 41. A 42. D 43. C 44. D 45. B
III.46. E 47. B 48. A 49. C 50. A 51. E 52. B 53. D
IV.54.conclusions 55.first 56.themselves 57.knowledge 58.mainly 59.responsibility/ responsibilities
60.drive 61.discover
V.62.didn’t deny 63.How soon 64.too to 65.at present
66.will be 67.if. whether had
68.It is easy to book a ticket on the internet./ Is it easy to book a ticket on the internet?
Part 3
VI. A. 69. A 70. C 71. B 72. A 73. D 74. B
B. 75. A 76. A 77. C 78.B 79. D 80. B
C. 81.carefully 82.realized 83.also 84.problem
85. through 86.expensive 87.success
D. 88. Yes, he did.
89. ten times the size of Tom's shop.
90. making his/the prices lower than Tom's.
91. Because he was losing money. /Because he lost money.
92. They agreed (that) they both/both of them stopped cutting the prices. /They both/Both of them stopped cutting the
prices. /They agreed to stop cutting theprices.
93. I think Tom is (was) smart/clever....
We should be smart (clever) in dealing with trouble. We should be honest when doing business. We should compete with each other equally. /We should be smart as well as honest. /... Any reasonable answers are accepted. VII.94. 略。