2016~2017学年北京西城区北京四中初二上学期期中英语试卷及答案(Word版)

2016~2017学年北京西城区北京四中初二上学期期中英语试卷

单项选择

1. Shandong is the east coast of C hina.

A. in

B. at

C. to

D. on

2. Ms. Liu often gives us some on how to learn English better.

A. advice

B. ideas

C. homework

D. ways

3. It was a long and tiring trip, most of us enjoyed it.

A. and

B. but

C. or

D. so

4. --- Would you please drive ? My plane is taking o ff.

--- I'd like to, but safety comes f irst.

A. faster

B. better

C. earlier

D. more slowly

5. She always does her homework than her brother.

A. more careful

B. more carefully

C. carefully

D. c are f ul

6. Linda is the student in our class because she is very help f ul.

A. tallest

B. strongest

C. most confident

D. most popular

7. We decided the mountain because it was raining heavily.

A. to climb

B. climbing

C. not to climb

D. not c limbing

8. --- is the population of Beijing?

--- It is about 2.15 million.

A. How many

B. How much

C. What

D. Whi c h

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9. Wild animals don't have a safe place to live because people have their land and f orests.

A. taken off

B. taken away

C. taken out

D. taken down

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2016~2017学年北京西城区北京四中初二上学期期中英语试卷及答案（Word版）

10. You missed the bus? , there'll be another one in five minutes.

A. What a pity

B. That's too bad

C. Never mind

D. Bad lu c k

完形填空

11.A

It is Saturday tomorrow, but I am going to school. I am not going for lessons, but to play football. I am in our school team and we are going to play against another school next week. The practice starts at 10 am. We all arrive as early as we can so that we have time to 1 . We are training harder than usual because the other team beat us last year. This year we want to do better.

It is more difficult to practice in winter 2 the days are short and the weather is cold too. It gets dark earlier, so it is important not to be late for after-school pra c ti c e.

Our coach is 3 because we are playing better as a team now. Last year we were sometimes c areless when we passed the ball and we lost to the other team in the final match. What a pity! This year we are training more carefully. This means we have a better chance of winning.

The fan club has fewer people this year. We hope to play well so that we have more fans to watch the matches. It is good to have our fans 4 . They cheer us on loudly and we feel more confident to win the game.

1. A. have lun c h B. warm up C. do homework D. watch mat c hes

2. A. but B. so C. and D. be c ause

3. A. angry B. disappointed C. pleased D. c ross

4. A. around B. along C. away D. about

12. B

Tony's great-grandfather, Papi Luis, lives down the street from Tony and his family. Tony visits Papi a f ter school each day. Tony and Papi sit on the front doorway and talk. Papi tells stories about his life. He tells Tony how the town 1 many years ago. The shopping mall sits on land where there used to be dairy farms. The sandwich shop used to be an i c e-house.

When Papi was a boy, no one had electric lights or refrigerators. They used candles and oil lamps to 2 at night. People bought big blocks of ice. The ice and good that they needed to keep could was put in a special box. It was called an i c ebox.

Papi likes to tell stories about those 3 . He tells about a runaway horse and how hard it was to c at c h.

He tells about the day a small circus（马戏团） came to town. Everyone had so much 4 that day. Papi's brown eyes shine with happiness as he remembers moments from his li f e.