初三英语上学期期末试题

初三上学期期末测试题Ⅰ卷Ⅰ单选(20分)1. It ________ nearly two weeks _________ I had received his letter.A. is, thatB. was, thatC. is, sinceD. was, since2. It is five years since my dear aunt __________ here.A. leftB. has leftC. is leftD. had left3. Nobody in _________ right senses would play such a silly joke.A. theirB. hisC. herD. one's4. —May I speak to Lucy?—This is ________ speaking.A. herB. sheC. she'sD. hers5. I forgot Tom's address. But I found his telephone number in the _________.A. phone booksB. book of phoneC. phone's bookD. phone book6. He said that he watched TV every ________ day.A. anotherB. threeC. the secondD. other7. We are going to be on our holidays _________.A. in three days' timeB. after 3 daysC. three days laterD. in three day's time8. Look at these clouds, ________.A. It'll rainB. It's going to rainC. It'll be rainingD. It is to rain9. Nobody knows what _______ happen next.A. is toB. is goingC. is about toD. are to10. China should do _________ best to be a strong and modern country.A. hisB. itsC. herD. our11. Y ou'd better __________ his opinion before making a decision.A. look forB. search forC. find outD. work out12. —Could you tell me who invented _________ telephone?—_________ Scotch scientist named _________ Alexander Graham Bell.A. /, A, /B. a, The, /C. the, A, /D. /, A, an13. Did you break _________ windows?A. the bothB. both ofC. both theD. either of14. Let's put ________ of these pictures on the wall.A. some oneB. someoneC. some onesD. everyone15. —I'd like to go hunting with you, but I have a meeting ________. —If you don't go, __________.A. to attend, so do IB. attending, so will IC. attend, neither will ID. to attend, nor will I16. What will be the results _________ the students in our class?A. ofB. forC. toD. with17. —Hurry up, you _________ on the phone.—Oh, I' coming. Thank you.A. are wantedB. are being wantedC. wantD. are wanting18. I, _________ your friend, will try my best to help you out.A. who isB. that isC. who amD. who are19. I asked him to __________ me a few minutes so that we could talk over the matter.A. spendB. saveC. shareD. spare20. There they got married and ________ their young.A. fedB. feltC. raisedD. roseⅡ阅读(40分)AFirst Frenchman: I once heard someone shout, “Look out.” I put my head out of a window and a bucket of water fell on me. It seems that “Look out” may mean “Don’t look out.”Second Frenchman: I was once on a ship and heard the captain shout, “Al l hands on deck. I put my hands on the deck and someone walked on them.”Third Frenchman: I once went early in the morning to the doctor’s and his nurse came to the door and said, “He’s not up yet. Come back in half an hour.” When I went a second time for him, she said, “He’s not down yet.” I had to go away again. Later I thought the doctor should be in the house in the evening, so I went there once more. “Oh, how sorry I am! He’s not in! I’d better tell him to wait for you if you could come tomorrow.” said the nurse. “Well! He’s not up, he is not down, and he isnot in. Please tell me where he stays!” I said angrily.21. When the first Frenchman heard someone shout “Look out.” here “Look out” means “____”.A. Put your head outB. Take careC. Hurry upD. Help me22. When the captain shouted “All hands on deck.” what he meant is _____.A. to put your both hands on deckB. to put up your handsC. to give your hands to meD. that “All the sailors(船员) on deck”23. When the nurse said “He’s not up yet.” she meant that _____.A. he has not stood up yetB. he has not yet got upC. he has not woken up yetD. he has not yet come downstairs24. When the third Frenchman went back for the second time, the doctor _____.A. was still in an upstairs roomB. was readingC. was having his breakfastD. was washing himself25. Which do you think is the best title (标题) for the passage ?A. Three FrenchmenB. Three French StoriesC. What a language!D. The English LanguageBI shook hands with my father in the truck, and for a long time he looked straight ahead and didn’t say a word. But I knew he was going to say a little to me. “I can’t tell anything,” he finally said. “I never went to college, and none of your brothers went to college. I can’t say don’t do this and do that, because everything is different and I don’t know what is going to come up. I can’t help much with money either, but I think things will work out. ”He gave me a new check-book. “If things get pushing, write a small check. But when you write one, send me a letter and let me know how much. There are some things we can always sell.” In four years all the checks I wrote were less than a thousand dollars. My part-time jobs such as reading to the blind student and sitting with the teachers’ kids filled in the financial gaps.“Y ou know what you want to be, and they’ll tell you what to take,”my father went on. “When you get a job, be sure it’s honest, and work hard.” I knew that soon I would be alone in the big town, and I would be missing the cool winds and a life where your thinking was done for you.Then my dad reached down beside his seat and brought the old, broken Bible that he had read so often, the one he used when he wanted to look something up in a friendly quarrel with one of the neighbours. I knew he would miss it. I knew, though, that I must take it.He didn’t say read this every morning. He just said, “This can help you if you will let it.”Did it help? I got through college without being a burden on the family. I have been able to make money since.26. What is the writer’s main purpose(目的) in writing thispassage?A. To tell the readers his life story.B. To tell people what kind of person his father was.C. To let people know how poor he was.D. To tell the readers what present he got from his father.27. Why did the father not ask his son not to do this and do that?A. Because he felt quite confident of him.B. Because he was born from a poor family.C. Because he was a man of few words.D. Because he didn’t want to be much too strict with him.28. What would someone learn from this passage?A. How to live by oneself.B. How to stand on one’s own feet.C. What a good father should do.D. What the self-important is like.29. What may be the proper Chinese for the underlined part in thepassage?A. 闲暇时光.B. 学费.C. 经济不足.D. 精神空虚.30. What kind of book did the Bible seem to be to the writer’s father?A. It was a book which told you how you should get on well with others.B. There were many good examples for you to copy in it.C. It was a book that told you how to get a good job and a good future.D. It was a good book that could help you when you were in trouble.CWomen’s fashions change more rapidly than men’s. In the early 1990’s, all women wore their skirts to the ankle. Today, some skirts are even longer than before, but some are very short. Women’s shoes have also gone through all sorts of boots for women were very common at the beginning of this century. Then for years, they were not considered fashionable. Today, they’re back again in all colours, lengths and materials. In fact, today’s women can wear all types of clothes on almost any occasion. While all of these changes were taking place in women’s fashions, men’s clothing remained almost the same until a few years ago. And, in fact, most men are still dressed in the kinds of clothes they used to wear.31. What kind of skirts do women like to wear today?A. Long skirts.B. Short skirts.C. Both long skirts and short skirts.D. Neither long skirts nor short skirts.32. Now boots are considered ______now.A. fashionableB. unfashionableC. uncommonD. fit for girls most33. When today’s women go to the party, they wear _______.A. skirts down to the ankleB. red long bootsC. long skirts and short bootsD. any kinds of clothes they like34. Men’s fashions _______.A. are changing fast these yearsB. have changed as wellC. keep unchangedD. change as women’s fashions do35. The passage tries to tell us _______.A. boots for women have been thought fashionable since 1900B. women’s shoes are back again in all colours, length etc.C. today men are dressed in the kinds of clothes they used to wearD. fashions for clothes, shoes and so on always changeDOn Children’s Day 2004, Hong Kong held an interesting activity. In this activity children and their parents played the rich and the poor. In the dinner, the rich could have delicious food, but the poor could only have bread with porridge.Parents all hoped to have the dinner for the poor with their children. They hoped that their children could be taught a lesson from the dinner.Now many people on earth don’t have enough food or clothing. Every day only half of the world could enjoy enough food.The activity was held to make the families understand the differences between the poor and the rich and also make parents know that too much material life won’t always do good to the children.36. Which of the following sentences is true?A. Half the poor and half the rich joined in the activity.B. Children played the rich and parents played the poor.C. Parents played the rich and children played the poor.D. Some of the children and their parents played the poor.37. In the dinner, parents hoped to ______.A. have bread and porridge with their childrenB. give the poor delicious foodC. give delicious food to both the rich and the poorD. give their children delicious food38. Today only half the people in the world _______.A. enjoy material lifeB. have enough to eatC. live in the west part of the earthD. can go to Hong Kong39. From the activity, parents knew ______.A. the poor wanted to be richB. the rich wanted to have the life of the poorC. the poor were different from the richD. the rich could have better care from the school40. From the news report we’re clear that _______.A. children often change their mindsB. children of the poor work harder at schoolC. children of the rich don’t like the activityD. children shouldn’t be given too much material lifeⅢ动词填空（10分）Two months after beginning the new work hours，good results 41 ________(report) in Wenzhou.New work hour 42 ________(start) at 9 in the morning，an hour later than before.But people still go back home at 6 in the afternoon.“With one more hour’s sleep every day，I 43 ________(feel) much better，”said a worker there.Now people still work as long as before，but not from 8:00 to 6:00.They 44________(go) to work an hour later，but have a shorter lunch break.In the past they had two hours for lunch，but now they have only one.Many people welcome the new work hours.“Why 45________ we 46 ________(have) to waste a lot of time in the middle of the day and rush in the early morning？”Two months ago，many people got up at 6:30 a.m. every workday and left home at 7:00 a.m.It usually 47________(take) them about an hour to get to the office from home.Morning time was always like a battle(战斗).People went to work in a hurry，48________(feel) very tired.Sleep 49 ________(need) for good health.Doctors say that eighthours’sleep is good for people，but few people 50________(sleep) that long.Ⅳ首字母填空 （10分）Two friends were walking through a desert. During the j_________ 51 they had a quarrel, and one hit the other in the face.The one who got hit felt t________52 because he was badly hurt, but he wrote in the sand, w_________53 saying anything, “Today my best friend hit me in the face.”They kept on walking u_________54 they found an oasis（绿洲）, where they decided to have a swim. The one who had been hit got in trouble in the water and started s_________55 . His life was in danger but the friend saved him at once.After he came to h_________56 , he wrote on a stone, “Today my best friend saved my life.”The friend who had hit and saved him asked, “After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now you write on the stone. Why?”He r_________57 , “When someone hurts us, we should write it down in the sand w________58winds of forgiveness（宽恕）can erase it away. But when someone does s________59 good for us, we must write it on the stone where wind can hardly erase it.”Learn to write your hurts in the sand and to write your t_________60 on the stone.Ⅴ书面表达（1）根据汉语完成句子。