初三英语读写竞赛试卷

初三学生读写竞赛
一、阅读理解（50分）
第一部分：（30分）
阅读下面短文，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

本题共有三篇英语短文，15小题，每小题2分，计30分。

1. Who are the best people protecting their skin from the sun?
A. Women in America.
B. people in Thai.
C. Women in Europe.
D. people in Asia.
2. What are the right clothes to protect your skin during 10 am to 2 pm?
A. A sun hat.
B. A hat with a brim.
C. A hat and long sleeves.
D. Light-colored clothes.
3. Which statement is WRONG about SPF protection?
A. Moisturizer with SPF protection may stop again sighs.
B. SPF 15 is better than SPF 30 to keep away sunlight.
C. Sensitive skin needs a foundation(基础) with SPF protection.
D. A sunscreen stick helps protect areas around your eyes.
4. How can we enjoy outdoor activities under the sun?
A. spend time making up.
B. Do what we like to do.
C. Know how to keep our skin safe and healthy.
D. Hide on the rays of the sun, dust pollution.
5. According to the text which of the following is TRUE?
A. You can‟t do outdoor activities in order to protect your skin.
B. Only people in Thai care for their skin.
C. We‟d better go out at noon during the day.
D. Proper skin protection can make people look young.
B
“Polly wanna cracker(饼干)!” You may have heard a bird on television, in a movie, or in real life say these words. Does the bird really want to eat a cracker? T he answer is yes... and no. Polly probably will eat a cracker, but what she really wants is
some attention.
Certain kinds of birds are excellent talkers. They like to copy the sounds they hear around them. They also like the attention that people give them when they talk.
Best Talking Birds
Many wild birds have the ability to mimic or copy sounds. Crows, jays, and starlings all can do it. But these birds rarely make good pets because they need lots of room, and they are not often comfortable around people.
Some pet birds, such as parrots, can be great talkers. Among the large parrots, the best talkers are African greys and Amazons. The most popular smaller parrots are the budhies, otherwise known as parakeets.
One should remember that just because a certain kind of bird can talk does not mean it will l talk. Each bird has a different personality. Some birds never learn to talk. Some may learn only a few words or sounds. Others seem to learn a large vocabulary easily, soaking up new words like some sort of feathered sponge.
Although each bird is different, younger birds are more likely to learn to talk than older birds. Also, male birds are usually better talkers than females. However, if you teach a bird to whistle before it learns to talk, it may never learn to talk. This might be because whistling is easier for the bird.
Teaching Your Bird to Talk
Pet birds often learn to talk just as a child does. They babble first, and then speak more clearly later. The easiest words for a bird to learn are short words with a strong consonant sound, such as “cracker” or “pretty bird.”
It is important to repeat the word or phrase often when you are teaching a bird to talk. One way is to buy a tape that has words and phrases repeated on it and play the tape for your bird when you leave the house. You can also make a tape of your own to play when you are not around.
Some birds learn by “association(联系),” which means they connect a word with something they see or hear. For example, many birds will say “hello” when they hear a telephone ring. Some may say “goodbye”when they hear keys jingle. One bird owner always said “Good morning”when she removed the sheet covering her bird‟s cage every morning. Soon the bird began saying “Good morning”
as soon as she began to remove the cover---even before the owner had said a word!
Warning: Bird Listening
If you are training your bird to talk, be careful what your bird hears. Birds can copy more than just words. They imitate(模仿) the sounds they hear, too. Those sounds could be annoying noises like a baby crying, the ringing of a telephone, or the clatter of a computer printer. One bird owner left his bird in front of a television all day. The TV was on a sports channel. After several football games, the pet was squawking “charge,”“defense,” and other football cheers. Even if you‟re a sports fan, squawks of “defense”probably will not be as comforting as hearing your feathered friend say “I love you” as you enter the room.
6. According to the passage, a bird is more likely to learn a word if _______.
A. it listens to another bird
B. it learns how to whistle(吹口哨) first
C. it hears the word many times
D. it knows what the word means
7. According to the passage, which of these birds will most likely learn to talk?
A. An old male bird
B. A young male bird.
C. An old female bird.
D. A young female bird.
8. If a bird says “hello”as soon as it hears a telephone ring, this is an example of _______.
A. imitating sounds
B. repeating short words
C. soaking up new words
D. learning by association
9. What type of information is mainly given in the section under the heading “Warning: Bird Listening”?
A. How birds enjoy attention.
B. How birds tend to copy sounds.
C. How wild birds make good pets.
D. How to choose a bird that will talk.
10. Read this sentence from the passage. Those sounds could be annoying noises like
a baby crying, the ringing of a telephone, or the clatter of a computer printer. In this sentence, “annoying” means that the noises _______.
A. bother people
B. comfort people
C. sound like birds
D. sound like music
C
"Ok," I said to my daughter as she bent over her afternoon bowl of rice. "What's
going on with you and your friend I?" J. is the leader of a group of third-graders at her camp—a position Lucy herself occupied the previous summer. Now she's the one on the outs, and every day at snack time, she tells me all about it, while I offer up the unhelpful advice all summer long.
"She's fond of giving orders ," Lucy complained. "She's fat," Lucy mumbled（含糊地说）ineo he bowl "We are going upstairs," I said, my voice cold, "We are going to discuss this." And up we went.
I'd spent the nine years since her birth getting ready for this day, the day we'd have to have the conversation about this horrible word. I knew exactly what to say to the girl on the receiving end of the teasing（嘲笑）, but in all of my imaginings, it never once occurred(浮现) to me that my daughter would be the one who used the F word一Fat.
My daughter sat on her bed, and I sat beside her. “How would you feel if someone made fun of you for something that wasn't your fault?” I began. “She could stop eating so much,” Lucy mumbled, mouthing the simple advice a thousand doctors and well-meaning friends and relatives have given overweight women for years.
"It's not always that easy,” I said. “Everyone's different in ter ms of how they treat food” Lucy looked at me, waiting for me to go on. I opened my mouth, then closed it. Should I tell her that, in teasing a woman's weight, she's joined the long, proud tradition of critics(批评) who go after any woman with whom they disagree by starting with "you're ugly" and ending with “no man would want you and there must be something wrong with any man who does"? Should I tell her I didn't cry when someone posted my picture and commented, “I'm sorry, but aren't authors(作者) who write books marketed to young women s upposed to be pretty?”
Does she need to know, now, that life isn't fair? I feel her eyes on me, waiting for an answer I don't have. Words are my tools. Stories are my job. It's possible she'll remember what I say forever, and I have no idea what to say.
So I tell her the only thing I can come up with that is absolutely true. I say to my daughter, “I love you, and there is nothing you could ever do to make me not love you, But I'm disappointed in you right now. There are plenty of reasons for not liking someone. What she looks like isn't one of them.”。