2020初三英语下学期期中考试(含答案)

2020春学期初三英语期中考试一听力（每小题1分，共20分）第一部分听对话回答问题本部分共有10道小题，每小题你将听到一段对话，每段对话听两遍。

在听每段对话前，你将有5秒钟的时间阅读题目；听完后，你还有秒钟的时间选择你认为最合适的答案。

在听到“嘀”的信号后，进入下一小题。

1.Which picture shows Peter’s personality?A B C2.What does the man probably do?A B C3.What’s on this evening?A B C4.What were the couple (夫妇) doing when the murder happened?A B C5.When will the concert start?A.At 6:00.B.At 6:30.C.At 7:00.6.What does John admire Audrey Hepburn for?A.Her beauty.B.Her kindness.C.Her acting skills.7 . What's the man's job ?A.A detective.B. An artist.C. A reporter.8 . What's the relationship between the speakers ?A.A manager and a worker.B.A father and a daughter.C.A teacher and a student9.What kind of music did the boy like in the past?A.Jazz.B. Pop music.C.Classical music.10.Where did the conversation probably take place?A. In a street.B. In a shop.C.In a school.第二部分听对话和短文答题你将听到一段对话和两篇短文，各听两遍。

听每段对话或短文前，你将有时间阅读相关小题，每小题5秒钟。

听完后，每小题你仍有5秒钟时间选择你认为最合适的答案。

听一段对话，回答11-12小题。

答题完毕，请等待“嘀”的信号，进入第一篇短文11 . What does Alice think of programs about history ?A.Interesting.B.Boring.eful.12. Who spends the most time watching TV?A.Tom. B . Alice C.Tom’s brother听第一篇短文，回答第13-15小题。

请根据短文内容，选择正确答案，完成信息记录表。

答题完毕，请等待“嘀”的信号，进入下一篇短文14. A.Mike B.Jane C.Jack15.A.Did his homework B.Watched films on TV C.Played computer games听第二篇短文，回答第16-20小题。

16.How long will these students stay in London?A. For two weeksB.For a monthC.For months17.Where will the students live while in London?A. At a hotel.B. At school.C. At a family.18.What colour shirts should the students wear when they arrive in London?A.Red.B.Blue.C. Yellow19. What does the speaker tell the students to take with them?A.An umbrella . B . A school letter . C . A small present20.When can the students call Mrs Belcher for help?A. At 8:30 a.m.B. At 1.30 p.m.C.At 5:30 p.m.二、单项选择（每小题1分，共14分）21.—A serious study of physics is impossible ________ some knowledge of maths.—I couldn’t agree more. So we should also learn maths well.A. amongB. withoutC. againstD. between22. Friendship is ______________wine. The longer we keep it, the tastier it will be.A. as long asB. as well asC. as good asD. as soon as23.—You look pale today, Madam! What's the matter with you?—___________ serious. Just a cold.A. SomethingB. NothingC. AnythingD. Everything24.My mother has a poor _____of direction, so she is always afraid to go out alone.A.sceneB. silenceC. serviceD. sense25. —Where are the teachers now?—In the meeting room. They _________ the meeting for 10 minutes.A. have begunB. have been onC. have hadD. have been open26. Those young firemen were brave enough to _________ the fire in the forest.A. work outB. put outC. hand outD. look out27. —Do you have this T-shirt in a small_______?— I'm afraid not. It only comes in medium.A. sizeB. colourC. materialD. taste28.—Can you help me________those exercise books？—I got a different number each time．A. carry B．move C．write D．count29. —Some people don't show their talents at the very beginning.—I agree. Even Einstein ____________ read until he was seven.A. can'tB. mustn'tC. couldn'tD. needn't30.—The drama series Serenade of Peaceful Joy （《清平乐》）hits screens these days.—Oh. What a pity! I ____________ any of them yetA.doesn't watchB. didn't watchC. won't watchD. haven't watched31. A black young man named Sheku Kanneh-Mason is __________ enough to show that people ofcolour can take on any challenge of classical music.A. modestB. humorousC. confidentD. curious32.—Could you tell me ________________________?—Not until 2 o’clock in the morning. It’s just 9 p.m.,so enjoy your meal.A.when the hot-pot restaurant closesB.how long the hot-pot restaurant closesC.when is the hot-pot restaurant openD.how long is the hot-pot restaurant open33.I always tell my children to work together to solve a problem. After all, _____________ .A.two heads are better than oneB.actions speak louder than wordsC.a good beginning is half doneD.you can’t burn the candle at both ends34.—Amazingly, I’ve managed to finish the project by myself.—__________ I told you it was not so difficult.A.With pleasure.B. Guess wha t?C. It doesn’t matter.D. There you are!三、完形填空（每小题1分，共10分）Poor Jennie sat at her window, with a look of weariness（疲倦）on her face. Suddenly she saw a schoolboy racing down the street. Looking up to the window, he took off his hat and bowed（鞠躬）with a bright, pleasant smile. “What a__35___ boy he is,” said Jennie to herself, as he ran out of sight. “When he smiles, it seems like making the sun___36____.”“Mamma,” said George West, as he came from school, “I can't help thinking about that poor li ttle girl I told you of the other day. She looks so___37___. I smiled and bowed to her today. I wish I could do something for her.”“Suppose you should carry her a handful of pretty __38____some time when you go to school,” said Mrs West. “I’ll do that,” said George, “if I can find my way into that old house.”The next morning, Jennie saw George with a a handful of beautiful flowers___39___picking his way across the street. Jennie welcomed him into her___40___room. Until then, George knew that Jennie's family used to live in a nice house in the country before her papa died, and her mamma was__41____so long that the money was all gone. Then her mamma had to__42___ the house, and she moved here to the city to work. “Mamma,” said George, after he had told her w hat Jennie said, “papa must give them some __43___, so they can go back to their home.” “No, he cannot do that, and they would not wish him to do so,” said his mother. “But there is one thing we can always give, and it does more good than money.”“What is that,mamma,__44____?” asked George, looking up. “Yes,” answered his mother, “and it is a good plan to throw in a kind word or two with them when you can.”（）35. A. lazy B. busy C. curious D. nice（）36. A. rise B. set C. shine D. shade（）37. A. tired B. nervous C. bored D. relaxed（）38. A. flowers B. balloons C. sweets D. coins（）39. A. quickly B. carefully C. wisely D. slowly（）40. A. dirty B. large C. empty D. special（）41. A. sad B. scared C. sick D. guilty（）42. A. leave B. close C. return D. sell（）43. A. food B. money C. time D. energy（）44. A. smiles B. books C. flowers D. clothes四、阅读理解（每小题2分，共26分）A45.Where can you find such a picture？A. A news reportB. A science posterC. A comicD. A story book46.What can we learn from the picture？A. You can do it without others' help．B. At least two different drinking glasses are needed．C. Cold water seems much heavier than hot water．D. You don't have to touch the water to find it's cold or hot．47.What is the way to see temperature according to the picture？A.By watching．B. By weighing．C. By feeling．D. By touching．BHave you ever taken a flight from Bejing Daxing International Airport(BDIA)? After opening on Sept 25, BDIA drew attention not just for its design, but also for its many high-tech facilities (设施) and services.The new airport, in the southern part of Beijing, is made up of a main terminal(航站楼),asupporting service building and a parking lot.They cover an area of about 1.4 million square metres, which is equal to 63 Tian'anmen Squares.The new airport is expected to hold 45 million passenger trips a year by 2022 and 72 million by2025. With more runways planned, the new airport will eventually hold morethan 100 million passengers each year. That's around the total population of the UK and Canada.The airport has many new technologies that make it smarter and more efficient. It is the world's first airport with a double-deck departure and arrival(双进双出) design for its terminal building."It's more efficient for passengers than any other large airport terminal of the same size in the world, "Guo Yanchi, the chief engineer in charge of construction said.According to the Civil Aviation Administration of China, 86 percent of check-ins can be done through self- service check- in kiosks and 76 percent of luggage can be checked automatically with the help of self-service bag-drop machines.Other technologies, such as a facial recognition system, allow passengers to have a quicker check-in and boarding process.The airport will also use a robot- operated parking system Drivers just need to park their cars in given areas. Robots will then carry them to an empty space. When collecting their cars，drivers simply need to scan a parking ticket to find out where to collect their cars.48.What do we know about BDIA？A.It is very largeB. It is in the city centre.C. It’s not completed yet.D. It’s the same size as Tian'anmen Square.49.What do we know about from Paragraph 5？A.Robots will help passengers board.B.Passengers will spend less time boarding at BDIA.C. Passengers needn’t check in in person.D. Machines will replace human workers at the airport.50.The smart parking lot show us ______________.A.It’s not easy to park cars at BDIA.B.how new technologies make BDIA more efficient.C.BDIA is the largest airport in the world.D.building the airport is difficult.CSteven Stein likes to follow garbage trucks. His strange habit makes sense when you consider that he's an environmental scientist who studies how to reduce litter, including things that fall off garbage trucks as they drive down the road. What is even more interesting is that one of Stein's jobs is defending an industry behind the plastic shopping bags.Americans use more than 100 billion thin film plastic bags every year. So many end up in tree branches or along highways that a growing number of cities do not allow them at checkouts. The bags are prohibited in some 90 cities in California, including Los Angeles. Eyeing these headwinds, plastic-bag makers are hiring scientists like Stein to make the case that their products are not as bad for the planet as most people assume.Among the bag makers' argument: many cities with bans still allow shoppers to purchase paper bags, which are easily recycled but require more energy to produce and transport. And while plastic bags may be ugly to look at, they represent a small percentage of all garbage on the ground todayThe industry has also taken aim at the product that has appeared as its replacement: reusable shopping bags. The stronger a reusable bag is, the longer its life and the more plastic-bag use it cancels out. However, longer-lasting reusable bags often require more energy to make. One study found that a cotton bag must be used at least 131 times to be better for the planet than plastic.Environmentalists don't dispute these points. They hope paper bags will be banned someday too and want shoppers to use the same reusable bags for years.51. What has Steven Stein been hired to do?A. Help increase grocery sales.B. Recycle the waste material.C. Stop things falling off trucks.D. Argue for the use of plastic bags.52. What does the word “headwinds” in paragraph 2 refer to?A. Bans on plastic bags.B. Effects of city development.C. Headaches caused by garbage.D. Plastic bags hung in trees.53. What is a disadvantage of reusable bags according to plastic-bag makers?A. They are quite expensive.B. Replacing them can be difficult.C. They are less strong than plastic bags.D. Producing them requires more energy.DYou may have heard that humans only use ten percent of their brain, and that if you could unlock the rest of your brainpower, you could do so much more. This “ten-percent myth”has excited people’s imagination. In the movie Lucy, for example, a woman develops godlike powers thanks to drug that set free the hidden 90 percent of her brain.However, scientists have shown that humans use their whole brain throughout each day. Over the years, brain scientists have shown that different parts of the brain are responsible for specific functions, whether it's recognizing colours or solving problems. Different from the “ten- percent myth”, scientists have proved that every part of the brain is used for our daily functioning thanks to bring imaging techniques.Studies haven't found a brain area that is completely inactive yet. Even studies that measure activity at the level of single neurons have not found any inactive areas of the brain. Many studies that measure brain activity when a person is doing a specific task show that different parts of the brain work together. For example, while you are reading a text on your smartphone, different parts of your brain work together. However, some parts of yourbrain, including those responsible for vision（视觉）, reading comprehension（理解）, and holding your phone, will be more active. A more direct counter to the “ten- percent myth” lies in people who have suffered brain damage and what they can no long er do, or do as well, as a result of that damage. If the “ten-percent myth” is true, then damage to some parts of their brain shouldn't affect their daily functioning.Another line of evidence against the “ten- percent myth” comes from evolution. The ad ult brain only takes up two percent of the body, yet it uses over 20 percent of the body's energy. The brain has been shaped by millions of years of natural selection, which passes down favorable points to increase the likelihood of survival.It is unlikely that the body would devote so much of its energy to keeping only 10 percent of the brain functioning.The main charm of the “ten -percent myth” is the idea that you could do so much more if you could unlock the rest of your brain. The idea is in line with messages from some self-help books. For example, Lowell Thomas’s preface（序言）to Dale Carnegie’s popular book, How to Win Friends and Influence People, says that the average person “develops only 10 percent of his mental ability”. This statement was firstl y put forward by Williams James, who refers to people 's potential（潜力）to achieve more rather than how much of the brain they have used.54. What is the “ten-percent myth”?A.people just use small parts of their brain.B.People don't know about themselves fully.C.It is impossible for people to use their brain fully .D.Only a small number of people use their whole brain.55. What do we know about the brain according to Paragraphs 3？A.Some parts of it are completely inactive.B. Some parts of it use more energy than others.C. Some brain damages will not affect our daily life.D. Some parts of it will be more active when performing a task.56. What might William James believe according to the last paragraph?A.People need to know more about their brain.B. Every part of people's brain has been fully used.C. People should depend on themselves more than on others.D. Everyone should be encouraged to realize their full potential.57. Which of the following can be the best title for the passage?A.How Can Human Beings Use the Brain Fully?B.What Percentage of the Human Brain Is Used?C.Why Do Human Beings Only Use 10 Percent of the Brain?D.Is It Possible that Human Beings Achieve More By using More Brain?五、词汇运用（每小题1分，共8分）(A)根据句意和汉语注释, 写出单词的正确形式。