深圳莲花中学2016-2017学年度第一学期期中考试初三年级英语试卷

深圳莲花中学2016-2017学年度第一学期期中考试
初三年级英语试卷
命题人：谢芷静陈舜珍审核人：谢芷静陈舜珍
（满分100分完卷时间90分钟）
听力部分（15分）
I. 听力测试
ⅰ). 听句子，根据你所听到的句子，选择正确的答语，每个句子读一遍。

（共5小题，每小题0.5分）（）1. A. It doesn’t matter. B. Well done. C. It’s my pleasure
（）2. A. Yes, it’s sunny. B. It’s really hot. C. It’s green and beautiful （）3. A. It’s kind of you. B. That’s right. C. Of course not
（）4. A. Don’t mention it. B. Thank you. C. It’s nothing.
（）5. A. He’s tall and thin. B. He’s strict. C. He likes sports.
ⅱ). 听下面五段对话，从各题所给的A，B，C三个选项中选择最佳选项。

每段对话读两遍（共5小题，每小题0.5分）
（）6. What does the woman want to drink?
A. Tea
B. Water
C. Coffee
（）7. What will Mary go to buy?
A. Sugar.
B. Salt
C. Butter
（）8. Who is Jack probably talk with?
A. His aunt.
B. His classmate.
C. His mother.
（）9. Why was the man late?
A. It was raining.
B. The traffic was too heavy.
C. He missed the bus.
（）10. How did the man take these pictures?
A. With a camera.
B. With a computer.
C. With a mobile phone
ⅲ). 听下面几段对话或独白，从各题所给的A，B，C三个选项中选择最佳选项。

每段对话读两遍（共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）
听下面一段对话，回答第11至12小题
（）11. What would John like for breakfast?
A. Bread and milk.
B. Bread and an egg.
C. Bread, milk and an egg
（）12. What’s the relationship between the two speakers?
A. Brother and sister
B. Mother and son.
C. Husband and wife
听下面一段对话，回答第13至15小题
（）13. What was Susan doing when Robert called her last night?
A. She was seeing a film.
B. She was singing.
C. She was reading
（）14. Why can’t Susan climb the Yuelu Mountain tomorrow morning?
A. Because she’ll call up Robert.
B. Because she’ll see a film in the cinema.
C. Because she’ll have to stay at home and study.
（）15. How will they get there?
A. By bike
B. By bus.
C. By taxi.
听下面一段对话，回答第16至20小题
（）16. What did Mrs. Brown want go buy?
A. A sweater.
B. A pair of jeans.
C. A coat
（）17. Why didn’t Mrs. Brown buy it at once?
A. She didn’t like the color
B. She didn’t have enough money
C. She was busy
（）18. Why didn’t her husband want her to buy?
A. She had so many sweaters.
B. It was too expensive
C. It was not good enough
（）19. When did her husband agree to buy it?
A. The next day
B. After a week
C. The third day
（）20. Who bought the sweater at last?
A. Mrs. Brown
B. Mr. Brown
C. Nobody
笔试部分（85分）
II. 词汇选择（15分）
ⅰ). 从下面每小题的A，B，C三个选项中选出可以替换划线部分的最佳选项。

（共8小题，每小题1分）
（）21. If you want lose weight, you’d better not eat too much meat.
A. grow fatter
B. become thinner
C. become taller
（）22. My sister hopes to go abroad to study.
A. go a rich country
B. to a beautiful country
C. to a foreign country
（）23. At last we experienced the joy of victory.
A. prize
B. success
C. failure
（）24. Eating plenty of vegetables every day is good for our health.
A. a few
B. a bit of
C. a lot of
（）25. He went into the room and took a seat.
A. lay down
B. sat down
C. slept
（）26. As students, we should obey the school rules and come to school on time.
A. follow
B. expect
C. praise
（）27. —Will you help me to solve this puzzle?
—Certainly. It’s a piece of cake.
A. certain
B. easy
C. awful
（）28. You shouldn’t play a joke on the ugly old man. It’s impolite.
A. take care of
B. make a mess
C. make fun of
ⅱ). 从下面每小题的A，B，C三个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

（共7小题，每小题1分）
（）29. —Yeah, we _______their team by 5:4.
—_______! Congratulations!
A. won, That’s great
B. beat, Well done
C. failed, Good job
（）30. —How do you make yourself _______in your free time?
—I like listening to music. I think it’s good way _______stress.
A. relaxing, reduce
B. relaxed, reducing
C. relaxed, to reduce
（）31. The athlete felt _______of himself because he let his fans down.
A. nervous
B. ashamed
C. mad
（）32. _______the way to school, I often learn the new words _______heart.
A. On, in
B. In, by
C. On, by
（）33. —He is very careless and often makes mistakes.
—You should tell him to pay attention to them and avoid _______the same mistakes.
A. making
B. to make
C. make
（）34. You’d better _______the computer games. You have to study for exams.
A. have a habit of
B. stay away from
C. treat yourself
（）35. Our geography teacher told us _______the Moon _______round the Earth.
A. that, moved
B. that, moves
C. where, moves
III. 完型填空（15分）（共10小题，每小题1.5分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从35-45各小题的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳答案。

（共10小题，每小题1.5分）
Once when I was in my junior high school, our biology（生物）teacher, Mr. McGuire, saw the school garden as a classroom for his lessons. He thought it is a place for 36 to learn about plants. As
gardeners, we had to be 37 when caring for different plants because some needed a lot of water, while others were ok with just a little. From the gardening 38 , we learnt how to tell the non-harmful weeds from 39 ones. Many times, plants died because of the bad weather, or because it wasn’t planted 40 the right way or even because a mouse ate it. All these events 41 sad at first, but I learnt to consider it as nature taking its course. For example, a grape vine died of a 42 storm two winters ago. But in this spring, it came back to life, growing even stronger and 43 of life. It’s so amazing! Life seems to always 44 us. But if you know that gardening is only a simple cycle of nurturing（培育）growth and 45 , you will understand that mother nature is always on time.
（）36. A. students B. teachers C. parents
（）37. A. happy B. careful C. successful
（）38. A. experience B. job C. excitement
（）39. A. good B. different C. harmful
（）40. A. widely B. seriously C. exactly
（）41. A. seemed B. heard C. listened
（）42. A. light B. weak C. heavy
（）43. A. full B. little C. few
（）44. A. surprise B. change C. ask
（）45. A. birth B. sicknesses C. death
IV. 阅读理解（25分）
ⅰ). 阅读下列短文，选出最佳选项。

（共25小题，每小题1分）
A
（）46. If you want to learn about _______, you should watch A Bite of China.
A. Chinese food
B. British singers
C. Chinese news
D. scientific knowledge
（）47. The V oice of China is a TV _______competition programme.
A. speech
B. painting
C. dancing
D. singing
（）48. _______is the oldest of the following four programmes.
A. A Bit of China
B. Britain’s Got Talent
C. The Voice of China
D. The V oice of Holland
（）49. Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman are _______.
A. cooks
B. singers
C. TV hosts
D. dancers
（）50. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Only children have a chance to show their talents on Britain’s Got Talent.
B. The Voice of China is completely different from the V oice of Holland.
C. The Voice of China started on Zhejiang TV.
D. MythBusters is one of the youngest shows on Discovery Channel.
B
A woman was waiting at an airport one night, with several long hours before her flight. She bought an interesting book and a bag of cookies, then, she found a place to sit.
She was focused on her book. There was an ugly man sitting beside her. He took a cookie or two from a bag between them. The woman was upset about it. She thought he was stealing her cookies! She tried to ignore（忽视）it but the cookie thief kept eating.
She got more annoyed as time went by, she thought: “I want to hit him a thousand times!” But she didn’t do anything. And whenever she took a cookie, he took one, too. When there was only one left, she wondered what he would do. With a smile on his face, and a nervous laugh, he took the last cookie and broke it in half. He offered her a half, and ate the other. She took it from him and thought angrily, “Oh, my God! He’s so rude! Why he didn’t even thank me!”
Suddenly, she heard that her flight was called, so she took her bags and went to the gate, didn’t look back at the rude thief. She got on the plane, sat in her seat, and looked for her book. As she reached in her bag, she was shocked-there was her whole bag of cookies. The cookies were in her bag all the time!
（）51. Where did this story happen?
A. At an airport.
B. At a bag shop
C. At bus station
D. At a book shop.
（）52. The woman was upset because she thought _______.
A. the man sat beside her was ugly.
B. the man kept eating her cookies.
C. the man was focused in her book.
D. the man ate cookies slowly and noisily.
（）53. Which of the following is TRUE about Paragraph 3?
A. The woman offered half of the cookie to the ugly guy.
B. The woman wanted to eat the last cookie by herself.
C. The ugly man ate the last cookie by himself cheerfully.
D. The ugly man shared his last cookie with the woman.
（）54. We can infer from the passage that _______.
A. The ugly guy made friends with the woman.
B. The ugly guy thanked the woman for the cookies.
C. The woman misunderstood the ugly guy.
D. The woman hate the ugly man at last.
（）55. How would the woman possibly feel?
A. brave
B. cheerful
C. ashamed
D. happy
C
People use their mouths for many things. In the English language, there are many expressions using the word “mouth.” But some of them are not so nice.
Sometimes, people say something that they’ll regret it later because it hurts people’s feelings. Or they tell something that they shouldn’t say. They might say “I really put my foot in my mouth this time.” If this happens, the speaker might feel “down in the mouth.”In other words, he might feel sad for saying the wrong thing.
Some people have lots of money because they were born into a very rich family. You might say such a person was “born with a silver spoon in his mouth.”This rich person is the opposite of a person who lives “from hand to mouth.” This person is very poor.
Sometimes when one person is speaking, he says the same thing that his friend was going to say. When this happens, their friends might say: “You took the words right out of my mouth!”
Sometimes a person has a bad or unpleasant experience with another person. He might say that experience “left a bad taste in my mouth.” A person may have a very frightening experience, for example, an angry dog is running after him. He might say “I had my heart in my mouth.”
（）56. If a person says “I really put my foot in my mouth this time”, he means that _______.
A. he is horn into a rich family.
B. he regrets to say the wrong thing.
C. he has a frightening experience.
D. he says the same thing with his friends.
（）57. What does the underlined phrase “from hand to mouth” mean?
A. rich
B. fierce
C. annoyed
D. poor
（）58. After escaping（逃离）from a wolf in a forest, John might say _______.
A. “Do not badmouth me!”
B. “I had my heart in my mouth.”
C. “It left a bad taste in my mouth.”
D. “You took the words right out of my mouth!”
（）59. What does the passage mainly talk about?
A. Some unpleasant expressions about mouth
B. How people use their mouths
C. Mouth is very important.
D. Mouth can do bad things.
（）60. Which magazine can you possibly read this article?
A. English Week
B. Sports Time
C. Fun life
D. Health
D
The rabbit and the tortoise（乌龟）have become very famous in the forest after their world-wide known race. The rabbit lost that running race because he took the race lightly. He was sad and regretted so much. His good friends encouraged him to challenge the tortoise for another race. He did so and decided to win back his reputation.
It’s a race of honor! The rabbit got well prepared and rushed out immediately as the starting gun went off. He ran as fast as a falling star. He would never be so stupid to sleep again. Thinking of this, he smiled and ran even more quickly. The finish line became closer and the victory was so clear. Just as he wondered where the tortoise was, he felt someone catching up with a sound of roller skating（滑板）. Before he looked back, the tortoise had passed him with his four feet in roller skates. Funny enough, but the tortoise did learn roller skating so well that he won again.
All cheered for the tortoise, leaving the rabbit aside. When he was about to go away, the fox came and said to him, “Why not ask the tortoise for a sit-up race next time, which he would never win?” The rabbit then began to plan for their third race…
（）61. How did the rabbit feel after losing the race for the first time?
A. He felt regretful.
B. He felt angry.
C. He felt it was nothing.
D. He felt it was interesting
（）62. What does the underlined phrase “win back his reputation” mean!
A. Show people that the tortoise need to use some tools to win
B. Show every one that he is still the best.
C. Treat the race importantly.
D. Beat the rabbit.
（）63. How did the tortoise win in the passage?
A. He ran fast all the way.
B. He skated all the way.
C. He lied to the rabbit again.
D. He took a car.
（）64. What is the PIGHT order of the story?
①The gun went off. ②The fox gave a suggestion.
③The rabbit got well prepared. ④The tortoise passed by the rabbit.
A. ②①③④
B. ①③④②
C. ③①④②
D. ③②①④
（）65. What can you learn from this story?
A. Be confident.
B. Always be prepared.
C. Thinking makes you succeed.
D. Listen to the wise.
E
Shenzhen Meteorological Observatory Department（气象观察局）said that for most of the days in the coming week, the weather will be cloudy with sunny periods or overcast（阴天的）with showers. Rainfall will become stronger over the weekend, the observatory said.
Heavy rain Saturday stopped 90 flights at Shenzhen International Airport and more than 50 flights were delayed for more than two hours.
In the Huaide New Village housing estate in Fuyong, Bao’an District, on Friday the heavy rain also caused that more than 30 cars were flooded with sea water that came through an underground tunnel of the Metro Line 11 project.
“In the morning when I got a phone call, I learned that more than 20 cars had been towed away by insurance（保险）companies and my car was also flooded by the water,” a driver said.
A housewife there said their house was flooded.
“I hear the wall fell down at around 2 a.m. and found water rushing into my home. We immediately ran up to the second floor. All the things on the first floor have destroyed,” Zhang said. The flood caused about 100,000 yuan losses to her family.
（）66. According go the Meteorological Observatory Department, what day may rain the most heavily?
A. Monday
B. Tuesday
C. Thursday
D. Saturday
（）67. The underlined phrase “towed away” in the fourth paragraph refers to _______.
A. driven away
B. paid money
C. found out
D. taken away
（）68. Which place was flooded by the heavy rain?
A. Metro Line 4
B. paid money
C. found out
D. taken away
（）69. How many cars were flooded by sea water according to the news?
A. 90
B. 20
C. 30
D. 50
（）70. Where can you read this article?
A. A story book
B. Newspaper
C. A diary
D. A car magazine
V. 语法填空题（共10小题，每小题1分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

There was a TV quiz at a studio. Debbie and Angela went there 71. _______(watch) it. When they got there, Debbie was a little nervous while Angela was quite confident and hoped to be a contestant. Suddenly 72. _______of the contestants fainted and fell across her desk, The director had to find another contestant instead of 73. _______(she). Soon Angela raised her hand and 74 _______(take) part in the quiz show 75. _______she didn’t get ready for it, she wasn’t nervous at all and answered the questions without 76. _______(difficult). Later the questions were getting more and more difficult, but she still kept 77. _______(answer) them correctly.78 _______(final) she beat 79. _______other contestants and won the big prize—a trip 80. _______two to Paris.
VI. 用适当的词语完成句子（10分）（共20个空，每空0.5分）
81. 辛迪刚才在办公室昏迷了，我们打120吧。

Cindy _______ ______________in the office just now. Let’s call 120.。