新世纪初二英语期中考试摸底测试卷

新世纪初二下学期期中考试摸底测试卷（chapter1-chapter4）命题人：郑丽丽，刘学芬，虞倩倩，乔玮
Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar （40分）
I. Choose the best answer.（20分）
( )1.A: How can I send _________urgent letter, sir?
B: Oh, you'd better ask the clerk over there for help .
A. a
B. an
C. the
D./
( )2.The Moonlight Sonata sounds___________.
A.well
B. beautiful
C. wonderfully
D. badly
( )3.To tell _________the truth, I am very sorry for the dead children in the earthquake.
A.you B .your C. yours D. yourself
( )4.The boss wanted to hire _______workers to do _____work.
A.few, more
B. more, few
C. fewer, more
D. more. Less
( )5.What will our life be like________?
A.in ten year's time
B. in ten years' time
C. for ten years' time
D. for ten year's time ( )6.Your clothes are________. Maybe you should buy some new clothes.
I think so, I don't look cool.
A.in style
B. out of the style
C. out of style
D. in the style
( )7.What are some things _______ happen on soap operas?
A.that
B. what
C. it
D. where
( )8.It made me think about differences ________food culture ________China and western countries.
A.in, between
B. between , in
C. from, between
D. between, in
( )9.On their way home they ________a group of boys talking near the park.
A.saw
B. looked
C. found out
D. watched
( )10.Could you tell me when ______ leave for London ?
A.will you
B. you will
C. would you
D. you would
( )11.Are you sure you can make the baby_________?
A.stopping crying
B. stops to cry
C. to stop cry
D. stop crying
( )12._______did he weigh when he was six years old ?
A.How big
B. How much
C. How many
D. How weight
( )13.Let me tell you what the job ______ . I’m sure you will be interested.
A. include
B. involve
C. includes
D. involves
( )14.Little Kate didn't go to school yesterday, did she ?
Yes, she did, _________it rained heavily yesterday.
A.because
B. though
C. but
D. if
( )15.When we got to the station, the train________.
A.left
B. has left
C. had left
D. had been left
( )16.It’s going to rain this afternoon.. _______ you go, you’d better take your umbrella with you.
A. No matter
B. No matter how
C. No matter what
D. No matter where
( )17.The teacher told me ______late for school again.
A.not to be
B. don't be
C. don't to be
D. not be
( )18. China is larger than ____ in Africa.
A. any other country
B. other countries
C. the other country
D. any country
( )19.He _______the Army by the end of 1989. He ______in the army since then.
A. joined...is
B. has joined...has been
C. had joined...is
D. had joined...has been ( )20.If you have any trouble, be sure to call me.
---________________.
A.I am able to hear that
B.I will, thank you very much
C.I hope so
D. Thank goodness
II. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms. (8分)
1. My sister works as__________ (library)
2.Everyone knows the ____________ of keeping healthy. ( important)
3. Let' s take the lift up to the restaurant on the floor. (twenty)
4.The Bird’s Nest has become one of the most _________ places of interes t in Beijing.(attract)
5.Outdoor education camp provides a lot of outdoor __________ for students. ( act)
6. _________ is the most important thing to us. (honest)
7. The ______ exams usually take place at the end of June. (finally)
8. Wang Wei, the young pilot, _________for our country. (dead)
III. rewrite the sentences as required. (12分)
1.The doctor advised the patient to take this medicine three times a day.(对划线部分提问)
________ __________ _________ the doctor advise the patient to take this medicine?
2.The square is very big. It can hold thousands of people.(合并为一句)
The square is _________ __________ _______ hold thousands of people.
3.It’s fun to have a picnic on a mountain . (改感叹句)
________ _______ it is to have a picnic on a mountain!
4. Put on your coat, or you'll catch a cold. (保持原句意思)
__________ you __________put on your coat, you'll catch a cold.
5. My classmates wrote the article just now. (改为被动语态))
The article _________ _______ by my classmates just now.
Part 3 Reading and Writing
I. Reading and comprehension. （47分）
A True or False（判断下列句子是否符合短文内容，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示，填入空格内）：（共6分）
(A)
Today people can use the telephone to talk with others almost anywhere on the earth. But when you use the telephones, you don't see the person you are talking with. That may change in the future.
Today some people are using a kind of telephone called the picture phone. With it, two people can see each other while making a telephone call.
Picture phones may have other uses in the future. One day you may be able to call a library and ask to see a book. Then you' II be able to read the book right over your picture Phone. Or you may be able to go shopping through your picture phone. If you want to buy something, you may go to your phone and call the shop. People at the shop will show you the thing you're interested in right over the phone. You'll be able to shop all over town and never even leave your room.
( )1. Today people can use the television to talk with others almost anywhere on the earth. ( )2. Today everybody is using the picture phone.
( )3. Picture phone may have a lot of uses in the future phone.
( )4. You may be able to go shopping through your picture.
( )5. The picture phone will show you the thing you're interested in automatically.
( )6. You can shop all over town with the picture phone.
B Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案，用A、B、C或D表示，填入括号内）：（共5分）
(B)
Modern life is impossible without traveling. The fastest way of traveling is by plane. Modern airliner you can travel one day to places which it took a month or more to get to a hundred years ago.
Traveling by train is slower than by plane. But it has its advantages. Modern trains have comfortable seats and dining cars. They make even the longest journey enjoyable.
Some people prefer to travel by sea when possible. There are large liners and river boats. You can visit many other countries and different parts of your own country on them. Ships are not as fast as trains or planes, but traveling by sea is a pleasant way to spend a holiday.
Many people like to travel by car. You can make your own timetable. You can travel three or four hundred miles or only fifty or one hundred miles a day, if that's all you feel like. You can stop wherever you wish. —where there is something interesting to see, at a good restaurant where you can enjoy a good meal or at a hotel to spend the night. That’s why traveling by car is popular for pleasure trips, while people usually take a train or a plane when they are traveling on business. ( )1. From the passage we know the fastest way of traveling is _______.
A. by train
B. by sea
C. by plane
D. by car
( )2. If you travel by car, you can _______.
A. make even the longest journey enjoyable
B. travel a great distance very quickly
C. make our own timetable
D. travel only fifty or one hundred miles an hour
( )3. When people travel on business , they usually take_________.
A. a plane or a car
B. a car or a boat
C. a boat or a train
D. a train or a plane
( )4. How many ways of traveling are mentioned in this passage?
A. 4.
B.3.
C.2.
D.6.
( )5. If you want to stop wherever you want during the trip and have pleasure trips, the writer suggest you go_______
A. by plane
B. by car
C. by train
D. by bus
C. Choose the word or expression and complete the passage.（10分）
The difference between life in one country and that in another is quite often not so big as the difference between city life and village life in ___1 country. In an English village, every body 2 everybody else. They know what time you get up, what time you go to bed and what you usually have for dinner. If you want any help, you will always get it. In a large city, 3 London, there are many things and places for people to see and to go to, but people often don't know each other well. It sometimes happens that you have 4 seen your next-door neighbour, don't know his name or anything about him. People living in London are often very lonely, especially after work. Many of them usually spend evenings, weekends and holidays in the country. If you walk through a street in London on a Sunday, it is almost like 5 town.
( )1. A. same B. the same C different D. a different
( )2.A.needs B. knows C helps D. calls
( )3.A.like B. as C. of D. in
( 4.A.ever B. already C. never D. no
( )5.A.a noisy B. a beautiful Ca large D. an empty
D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：（14分）
Dear Editor,
Why do newspapers carry so many advertisements for electronic appliance? Last Sunday I
.c 1 advertisements for seven kinds of televisions and thirteen kinds of radios in the News Express. B 2 that, there were pages and pages of advertisements for radios and tape recorders.
Don't you realize what electronic appliance is doing to our d 3 life? Everywhere you go you may hear loud music and advertisements over radios; this noise is ruining（毁坏）our ears. Children ruin their eyes with hours of watching not only the programs for children but also those for grown-ups. Husbands don't talk to wives any more; they are a 4 watching the
news or a ball game. And even w 5 , hidden microphones find out about our private lives, and computers k 6 records of personal information about us. Enough is enough! I think you should limit（限制）the a 7 of advertising of electronic appliance in the News Express. Otherwise it will make life terrible for us all.
Jason Collins E Answer the following question（阅读短文，然后回答问题）：（共12分）
(E)
The world is not only hungry, but h is also thirsty. This may seem strange to you, since nearly 7054 of the earth’s surface is covered with water. But about 97% of that is sea water, or salt water. Man can only drink and use the drinking water. Even worse, some of it has been made dirty. However, as things stand today, this water is still enough for us. But our need for water is becoming larger and larger almost day by day. We should take steps to this problem now and in this way we can get away from a serious world-wide water shortage latex on.
We have to atop wasting our valuable water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it. Today in most large cities, water is used only once and then sent out into a sewer system. From there it returns to sea or into underground place.
But even if every large city reused its water, we still would not have enough. All we have to do to make use of sea water in the world is to remove the salt. If we take steps we'll be in no danger of drying up.
1. What problems the earth is faring now?
2. Why isn't the water enough for the people since nearly 70% of the earth is covered with water?
3. What actions will you take to stop wasting the water?
4. How can we make use of sea water in the world?
5. What is the best title for this passage？
6. Will we have enough water if each large city reuses its water?
II. Writing （13分）
write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic “My favourite singer”(以“我最喜欢的歌星”为题，写一段不少于60字的短文)
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Keys:
Part I:
I. 1-5. B B A C B 6-10 C A A A B 11-15 D B D B C 16-20 .D A D D B
II. librarian, importance, twentieth, attractive, activities, Honesty，died，final
III: 1.how often did 2.bid enough to 3. what fun/how funny 4.if don’t 5. was written
part II.
A：1-6 T F T T F T
B：1-5 C C D A B
C：1-5 B B A C D
D：1.collected 2.Before 3.daily 4.always 5.worse 6. keep 7.amounts
E：1. The world is not only hungry, but it is also thirsty.
2. About 97% of that is sea water. Even worse, some of the drinking water has been made dirty.
3. We have to stop wasting our valuable water. One of the first steps is to develop ways of reusing it, and the best step is to make use of sea water.
4. We can remove the salt of sea water to make use of it.
5. Our Valuable Water/ We Should Protect Water… (Any reasonable answer is right.)
6. No, we won’t have enough water.。