鲁教版初四上学期英语期末试题

第一学期期末检测
初四英语试题
注: 请将一至四题答案涂在答题卡上，其他题答案写在答题页内。

二、单项填空（15分）
从每小题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入句中空白处的最佳答案。

21. —Tom, you are ___do your homework now, but you are playing computer!
—I have already finished my homework, mom.
A. afraid to
B. able to
C. supposed to
D. willing to
22. —Why didn’t you go to the party last night?
—Because I to the party yesterday.
A. invite
B. was invited
C. invited
D. wasn’t invited
23. It’s rude to make noise while _____ noodles.
A. eating
B. eat
C. eats
D. to eat
24. I find ________very difficult for me____ the meaning of the word.
A. it’s, guessed
B. it, guessing
C. it’s, guessing
D. it, to guess
25. The beautiful lady_____ we met yesterday is our English teacher.
A. whom
B. what
C. which
D. whose
26. —I’m sorry to keep you waiting.
—Oh, not at all. I _________ here for only a few minutes.
A. had been
B. was
C. has been
D. have been
27. I prefer skiing to climbing because I think climbing is __________ skiing.
A. not as exciting as
B. not more exciting as
C. not most exciting as
D. more exciting than
28. My friend to make me feel at home when I visited him.
A. Go out of his way
B. went out of his way
C. goes out of his way
D. goes out their way
29. —My teacher has decided to _________ smoking.
—That’s good news for us. I hope so.
A. give up
B. take out
C. give in
D. turn off
30. I used to up late, but now I am used to up early.
A. get, getting
B. getting, get
C. get, get
D. getting, getting
31. —Sorry, my sister isn’t in at the moment.
—Will you tell her to call me back when you ___him?
A. see
B. will see
C. saw
D. have see
32. —What makes your mother so _____________.
—I work harder than before.
A. angrily
B. angry
C. happy
D. happily
33. There is going to ____ a fashion show tomorrow. Please try ____ late.
A. have; not to be
B. has; not be
C. be; not to be
D. be; not be
34. —You aren’t a stranger, are you ?
—____.don’t you remember____ me at the school gate ten minutes ago?
A. Yes, to see
B. No, seeing
C. No, saw
D. Yes, seeing
35. Excuse me, can you tell me when ?
A. does the ship leave
B. the ship leaves
C. the ship had left
D. did the ship leave
三、完形填空（10分）
阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。

When you sit and watch TV hour after hour, do you ever think of what it may be doing to your health?
More and more children are becoming overweight (超重) and nearsighted 36 they spend too much time in front of the TV. Also, they are growing less and less creative since watching TV doesn’t 37 any active thought.
Last week, the TV-Turnoff Organization began its ninth TV-Turnoff 38 in the USA. The organization encourages people to play games, read books, lie under a tree, talk to family members and friends 39 watching TV.
American school children spend, on 40 , 1000 hours a year watching TV. That’s too much, say the doctors 41 organized this year’s TV-Turn off Week.
Doctors say that the 42 children watch television, the more overweight they may become. And the food children eat while they watch television makes this weight 43 more serious.
To keep mentally(精神上) and physically(身体上) healthy, children need to take exercise, talk with friends and family, read, and 44 the world around them. Could you go a week without television? It might be 45 for many TV lovers, but why not have a try?
36. A. because B. until C. whether D. though
37. A. find B. need C. lose D. know
38. A. Day B. Week C. Month D. Year
39. A. together with B. because of C. lots of D. instead of
40. A. generally B. each C. average D. all
41. A. whom B. whose C. which D. who
42. A. later B. earlier C. longer D. less
43. A. problem B. question C. thing D. lesson
44. A. explore B. invent C. find D. make
45. A. easy B. happy C. dangerous D. difficult
四、阅读理解（24分）
阅读下列短文，并做每篇后面的题目，从各题A、B、C、D中选出能回答所提问题或完成所给句子的最佳答案。

A
Maria is a casher（收银员）in a big shop in New York. People can buy medicine, watchers, sweets, and many other things. They pay Maria for the things they buy.
At the shop people buy lottery tickets. They pay one dollar for a lottery ticket（彩票）. There
are pictures on the tickets. Some pictures are winning pictures ,and some pictures are losing pictures. Most people win nothing. Some people win two dollars. Only one people can win thousands of dollars.
One day Maria was working at the shop. She sold three lottery tickets to a women. The women looked the pictures on the tickets. Then she threw the tickets on the counter and left, “There are losing tickets”, she said to herself.
Maria picked up the tickets and looked them .To her surprise, one of them was a winning ticket!
“Excuse me!” Maria called the women, “you wi n＄50,000!”
The women came back to the counter, She took the winning ticket and looked at carefully .“ I can’t believe it .”she said, “I won ＄50,000.”The women walked slowly, looking at the ticket again and again. Then she turned around , “Thank you! Thank you very much!”she said to Maris excitedly.
Why did Maris give the women the ticket? Why didn’t keep the ticket? Didn’t she want the ＄50,000?
“Of course ,I wanted the money,” Maria said,“but it was her ticket not mine.”
“I’m sorry that you aren’t rich,” her mother said “But I’m happy you are so honest.”
46. What does Maria do at the big shop?
A. She receives and pays out money.
B. She buy medicine, watchers, and many other things.
C. She helps people chose things.
D. She carries thing for old people.
47. How much does a lottery ticket cost?
A. Nothing
B. Three dollars
C. Two dollars
D. One dollar
48. Maria didn’t keep the ticket because_______.
A. She won ＄50,000, too.
B. her mother told her not to do so.
C. she didn’t want to have anything that didn’t belong to her.
D. her mother was very rich
49. What do you think of the women who bought lottery ticket?
A. She is a rich lady.
B. She is a generous lady.
C. She is careless lady.
D. She is a near—sighted lady.
B
Name Personal Information
Ludwig van Beethoven Born in 1770 in Germany A musician
Died in 1827
Florence Nightingale Born in Italy on May 12th, 1820 An English nurse
Died in 1910
Bill Gates Born in 1955 in the USA
Wrote Business@the Speed of Thought Owns Microsoft
Thomas Edison Born in 1847 in the USA Made about 2,000 inventions Died in 1931
Yao Ming Born on September 12th, 1980 in Shanghai, China A basketball player
Playing for the Houston Rockets, USA
50. Thomas Edison was from .
A. Canada
B. Italy
C. the USA
D. China
51. Business@the Speed of Thought is the name of a .
A. song
B. book
C. school
D. film
52. Florence Nightingale died in .
A.1931
B.1827
C.1847
D.1910
53. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. Yao Ming is playing basketball in America.
B. Edison was born in 1820.
C. Beethoven made about 2,000 inventions
D. Bill Gates worked in Microsoft in 1955.
C
Young people and old people do not always agree with each other. They sometimes have different ideas about living, working and playing. But in one program in New York State, adults and teenagers live together in a friendly way.
Each summer 200 teenagers and 50 adults are invited to join the program. They live together for eight weeks as members of a special work group. Everyone works for seven hours a day. They do so not only to keep busy, but also to find meaning and happiness in work. Some teenagers work in the woods or on the farms near the village. Some of them learn to making things like tables, chairs and something like that and to build houses. It is the adults who teach them to do those.
There are a few free hours each day and weekends are free, too. During the free hours some of the teenagers learn to take photos or paint pictures, others sit around and talk, sing or dance. Each teenager has his own way to spend his free time.
When people live together, rules are necessary. In this program the teenagers and the adults make the rule together. If someone breaks a rule, the problem goes before the whole group. They talk about it and ask, “What should we do about it?”
One of the teenagers talks about his experience, “You stop thinking only about yourself. You learn to think about the group.”
54. In one program in New York State, young and old people________.
A. teach one another new ways of building houses
B. are friendly to one another
C. do not work together
D. spend a long time together, working as farmers.
55. All the members spend some time together everyday mainly to ______.
A. learn skills of farming
B. lead a busy life
C. get used to the life on the farm
D. find value and pleasure in work
56. The last paragraph shows that the teenager thinks his experience in the program is _______.
A. tiring
B. unpleasant
C. helpful
D. boring
57. The best title for the passage is ________.
A. The Rules of Living Together
B. Life in the New York State
C. Teenagers in the Special Group
D. Free hours in the Special Work Group
D
Coffee has been a part of people’s lives for thousands of years, and today it is still one of the most popular drinks in the world. Many people in the world begin their busy day by drinking a cup of coffee. They think that a cup of coffee in the morning helps them begin their day in the right way. So they say a cup of coffee is necessary for them in the morning.
Do you know what is in the coffee that makes our bodies and brains active？It is caffeine. Caffeine may increase a person’s mental and physical abilities. For example, two cups of coffee will make you breathe faster and augment body heat. All this makes your heart beat faster, and doctors warn that this may be a little dangerous.
Caffeine is found in tea, coffee, chocolate and some other foods. A little caffeine is probably not harmful. But too much caffeine can make people nervous and sleepless.
58. Caffeine is found in ____.
A. tea and water
B. chocolate, meat and some other foods
C. coffee and jam
D. coffee, tea and some other foods
59. The word “augment” means _____.
A. increase
B. drink
C. stop
D. make less
60. From the passage we learn that drinking a cup of coffee late at night______.
A. give you a headache
B. make you fall asleep
C. keep you awake
D. be dangerous
六、单词拼写（5分）
根据句义完成句中已给出首字母的单词。

66. I try to do well to make my parents p_____of me in the future.
67. The food t_____ good and sells well.
68. The car was running at a s of 150 miles an hour .
69. The l_____ of the Yangtze River is 6,300 kilometers.
70. Breakfast is s____between 7and10 am in the hotel.
七、综合填空（10分）
阅读短文，根据短文内容和已给出的首字母，在空白处填入适当的单词。

Flooding is one of the biggest p 71 in the word. In August 2005, there was a serious flood in northeastern China. In Fushan more than 100millimeters of rain f_72__, and the water level became very high. Eventually about 6,800homes disappeared under the water. Soliders worked hard to save people, and tried to p__73__the water from r_74__ higher by using bags filled with sand.
At the same time on the other side of the world, a typhoon c_75__ a flood that covered the city
of New Orleans in the United States. Much of this city l__76__ three meters below sea level. Many people got away from the city early e__77__, but about 30,000 stayed to try to save t__78___ homes. Then things went from bad to w__79__. The longer people waited for help, the more d_80____ the situation became. In the end about 1,000 people died in the flood. This was one of the worst natural disasters in the history of the United States.
八、阅读表达(10分)
阅读短文，根据要求完成下面各小题。

83 If you lose 12 times in a row, will you just give up?
Dale Carnegie, a pioneer(创始人) in public speaking and self- development, kept trying. And he became famous by showing people how to be successful.
Carnegie was born in 1888 into a poor farming family in the central United States. In his teens, he had to get up at 3 am every day to milk the family cows.
When Carnegie first entered college, he felt hopeless because of his old clothes and ordinary looks. His mother encouraged him, 84 “ Why not try to be better in other things instead of just dresses and good looks?”
Carnegie tried to be more active in college. He joined the debate team（辩论队）. But one after another, he lost 12 times. The young man was very disappointed in himself. He said later that he thought of killing himself after so many failures(失败).
But soon Carnegie was seen practicing public speaking by the river.
His hard work paid off at last. In 1906, Carnegie won a famous speech contest and became widely known.
The young man made his own words come true: “ Believe that you will make it, and you will.”
（一）根据短文内容简要回答问题。

81. Why did Carnegie felt hopeless When Carnegie first entered college?
82. When did he become famous?
（二）将短文中划线的句子译成汉语
83. ___________________________________________________________
84. ___________________________________________________________
（三）请给短文拟一个适当的标题。

85. ____________________________________________________________
九、完成句子（6分）
86.我的学生正期盼着上高中。

My students_______ _______ _______ _______going to senior high school.
87.Jay Chou是最受欢迎的歌手之一.
Jay Chou is_______ _______ the most_______ _______.
88. 她太小了,不能自己拿主意。

She is _______ young _______make her _______ decisions.
89. 你能告诉我，我在哪可以买到字典吗？
Could you please tell me _______ _______ _______ get a dictionary?
90. 对我们来说拥有健康的生活方式很重要。

十、书面表达（共1题，计15分）
假如你是许小凡，你所在学校的爱心俱乐部(Helping Hands Club)将吸收新会员。

你想加入该俱乐部，请根据下面表格的内容，用英语写一封自荐信。

姓名许小凡性别男年龄15 本人特点身体健康；学习刻苦；乐于助人；与同学友好相处
“爱心”表现帮助同学学习；搀扶老人过马路；汽车上让座；保护环境加入目的 1. ……; 2. ……
要求：（1）表达清楚，语句通顺，意思连贯；
（2）要点须包括表格中的信息，表格中“加入目的”一栏内容由考生自拟；
（3）词数：80左右。

信的开头与结尾已给出，不计入总词数。

Dear Chairman（主席）:
I am a 15-year-old boy from Class 1, Grade 3. I’d like to be a member of the Helping Hands Club.
_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ I will be glad if I am received. I am waiting for your answer.
Yours,
Xu Xiaofan
2008-09学年度第一学期期末教学质量检测
初四英语试题参考答案
一、听力选择（20分）每小题1分，与答案不符者不得分。

1—5 BAACC 6—10 BCBCA 11—15BCBAC 16—20 CABBC
二、单项填空（15分）每小题1分，与答案不符者不得分。

21—25CDADA 26—30DABAA 31—35ACCBB
三、完形填空（10分）每小题1分，与答案不符者不得分。

36—40 ABBDC41—45 DCAAD
四、阅读理解（24分）每小题1分，与答案不符者不得分。

46—49ADCC 50—53 CBDA 54—57BDCA 58—60 DAC
五、听力填表（5分）每小题1分。

61.15 pter 63.pigs 64.summer 65.July
六、单词拼写（5分）每小题1分，与答案不同但能使整个句子结构完整、有实际意义者同
样得分。

66. proud 67.tasts 68. speed 69.length 70.served
七、综合填空（10分）每小题1分，与答案不同但能使整个句子结构完整、在整篇文章中有
实际意义者同样得分。

不能使整篇文章意思连贯而仅仅使一个单句有意义的答案不得分。

71. problems 72. fell 73. prevent74 rising 75.caused 76.lies 77.enough, 78.their 79.worse.
80.dangerous
八、阅读表达（10分）每小题1分，与答案不同但回答正确、翻译达意同样得分。

81.Because of his old clothes and ordinary looks.
82. In 1906
83. 如果你连续12次失败，你会不会放弃？
84.为什么不努力在其它方面而不是在衣着和相貌方面表现出色呢？
85. Believe in yourself(Never give up)
九、完成句子（6分）
与答案不同但符合题意，同样得分。

86.arelooking forward to 87. one of popular teachers 88.too to own
89.Where I can 90. It’s important for us to have a healthy lifestyle.
十、书面表达（15分）
Dear Chairman:
I am a 16-year-old from Class 1, Grade 3. I’d like to be a member of the Helping Hands Club.
I am healthy. I study hard at my lessons. I like helping others. I get on well with my classmates and often help them with their lessons. On my way home, I often help old people cross the street. On the bus, I always give my seat to women with babies. Sometimes, I pick up rubbish in the park to protect our environment.
If I join the club, I will be able to make more friends. Besides, I can do more for others.
I’ll be glad if I am received. I am waiting for your answer.
Yours,
Xu Xiaofan 根据内容要点、语言表达和卷面书写情况分档次评分：
1、优秀12 — 15分内容要点齐全，语言准确，行文连贯，表达清楚。

句式富于变化，
语句优美。

卷面整洁，字迹清楚、规范。

2、较好8 — 11分内容要点基本齐全，语言基本准确，行文基本连贯，表达基本清楚。

词汇、语法错误不多。

卷面较整洁三，字迹清楚。

3、一般 4 — 7分写出部分要点，语言表达错误较多，但尚能达意。

卷面较潦草凌乱，
字迹欠规范。

4、较差0—3分内容要点严重不足，语言表达错误很多支离破碎，很难看出要求表达
的意思。

卷面脏乱，字迹难以辨认。