二．单项填空  

在A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。（本大题共14分，每小题1分）

(  )21.----______number of cars on the roads is growing too fast.

    ----I agree with you. ______ number of problems have appeared already.

A. A, A             B. The , The        C. The ,a          D. A, the

(  )22. ---How much difficulty did you have________________ this physics problem?

      ---_____________. It's quite easy.

 A. to solve, Nothing   B. solving; None    C. to solve, None    D. solving; Nothing

(  )23.----Have you ever __________ Peter Tchaikovsky before?

     ----Oh,. A Russian  composer of classical music.

A. heard of          B.  listened to      C. heard          D. heard from

(  )24.____Tom ______ his friend know about types of personality.

A. Either ,or         B. Not only, but also  C. Both, and      D. Neither, nor

(  )25.----Look! Our Chinese teacher, Mr Zhang, is playing badminton there.

 ----No, it ________ be Mr Zhang,. He has gone to Guangzhou for a meeting.

A. can’t            B. mustn’t           C.  shouldn’t    D. may not

(  )26. Could you tell us _____ you are getting on well with your classmates?

A. that             B. if                C. what         D. how

(  )27. It _______ ten years since my sister ______ an English teacher.

A. has been, is     B. is, became     C. have been, was    D. is ,has become

(  )28. This problem worried her so much that she didn’t know ___________ with it..

A. what she can do          B. what she could deal  

C.  how to do             D. how to deal

(  )29. Take the paper with you. The details we ought to pay attention to ________ on it already.

 A. writing          B. being written  C. are written        D. have written

(  )30.It is dangerous ____ you  ______ a close look at the tiger in the zoo.

A. for , to have  B. for you, take  C. of  ,to have  D. of  , take

(  )31.My father ___________________________ when he was in his twenties.

A. would rather play basketball than to sing  

B. would rather play basketball to singing

C. prefers basketball to football           

D. preferred playing basketball to singing

(  )32.The Greens used to live in London, but they ___________ in Beijing so far.

A. are used to living                      B. are used to live 

C. have been used to living                D. have been used to live

(  )33.----Would you please ______ the paper for me and see if there are any obvious mistakes?

-----Of course I will.

A. look around              B. look through             C. look up                    D. look into

(  )34 .---Would you mind turning off the TV?

      ----____________, I am listening to an important report.

    A. Of course not      B. No, not at all       C. I’m afraid not       D. Yes, I do

三．完形填空  先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从下面四个答案中选择可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。 （本大题共10分，每小题1 分，共10 分）

Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife  35  two teenage children did something we haven't    36 for ages. It didn't require the Internet, a TV screen, batteries or anything else for that matter. But we all  37  it so much we're thinking of doing it again sometime.

       We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was   38  when I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms, text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the  39  of communicating face-to-face. We all know   40 young people are out on a date(约会)these days, they spend most of that time   41  their mobile phones.  And teenagers nowadays seem to   42 communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather than actually  43  to them.

       If we carry on like this, in the future, we'll lose the use of our  44  . What do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation about it!

四．阅读理解  阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。（本大题共13小题，每小题2分，共26分）

Uncle Li and Uncle Wang are good friends. They live next to each other and their farms are both at the foot of the mountain. So they can help each other. But neither of them likes to use his head. They're both poor though they work hard. Most villagers have built new houses, but they still live in the low and broken houses. They never find out why.

Once Uncle Li went to town to buy some medicine for his wife. In the town he heard the apples in a city were expensive. He told Uncle Wang about it as soon as he went back. They decided to carry some apples to the city. They borrowed some money from their friends and bought nearly 1,000 kilograms of apples in the villages and carried them to the city on a tractor. Bad luck! A lot of apples has already been carried there when they arrived. A few days later they had to sell them at a low price (价格)。They felt unhappy and returned to their village.

'I can't understand why we sustained (蒙受) losses in business while others always profit (盈利)' Uncle Li asked one day.

'The tractor was too small ' Uncle Wang said without thinking. 'We'll carry more apples on a truck next time!'

'I agree!' said Uncle Li. 'How foolish (傻的) we were !'

(  )45 Uncle Li and Uncle Wang live in the low and broken houses because __________.

A. they hope to save money                B. they're both poor

C. their farms are at the foot of the mountain   D. they're not far from their farms

(  )46. The two farmers had to sell their apples at a low price because ________.

A. theirs weren't as good as the others'               B. theirs were much less than the others'

C. a lot of apples had been already carried to the city   D. they forgot to carry them on a truck

(  )47. Which of the following is true?

A. The two farmers found out why they were poor.   B. The two farmers will soon get rich.

C. Neither of the farmers is clever.                D. The two farmers decided to buy a truck.

Although I had left school against the advice of my teacher, I had, without telling anyone, tried to continue my studies in literature at evening classes. It was a tiresome walk from one end of the city to another and to sit among adults was uninteresting. I was the youngest in the class, so the friendship I knew at school was absent, I put up with it for a short period. It was too long a walk on cold winter’s nights and it was hard to put my heart into Shakespeare with wet shoes and trousers. So I continued reading books and started writing poetry at home.

By chance, I won some prizes and rewards for literature. A young woman from a TV company came to the college one day. She wanted to make a short film about me, to which I said, “No, I couldn’t do that.” Not that I had any real excuse, I was just frightened. In the end she advised me that I should do it the following day.

So I did. They made a short film of me reading one of my poems and I became more interested in literature than ever. I wondered what I should do after this, and decided some weeks later that I could not imagine myself spending the rest of my days dealing with machines. So one evening, I hesitatingly（支吾其词地） told my parents that I wanted to return to school. They wanted to know if I was sure, if I knew what it meant and whether I realized that if I gave up my job training, it would be very difficult to get a good job. But nothing could stop me, and they asked about the matter on future.

（  ）48. Which of the following has most probably been discussed in the paragraphs above this text?

A.The writer’s unhappy childhood.

B. The poor teaching quality of the writer’s school.

C. The writer’s leaving school against his teacher’s advice.

D.Whether it was worth leaving school for job training.

（　）49. The writer did NOT feel comfortable at the evening school because __________.

A. he found it difficult to make friends with his classmates

B. he had to walk a long distance to the evening school

C. he could not put his heart into reading books after he was caught in the rain

D. all of the above

（　）50. After his success, he __________.

A. decided to get a good job

B. decided to continue his studies in literature at the evening school

C. decided to return to the school he once left

D. began to feel very important and proud

For a long time, humans have used technology (科技) to study the world around us, and Mars is the latest place we’re using machines to explore. Besides the earth, the “red planet” is seen, as the one place in our solar system most likely to have life.

 Early last month, the first American robot, Spirit, landed on Mars without any problem. Opportunity, the second robot, landed on the planet more than a week ago. Scientists are very excited about these machines’ safe landing on Mars. It means that now we have an excellent chance to look for water and other signs of life. So far, the robots have found some stones that could show Mars was once a wet and warm planet.

 But the trips made by Spirit and Opportunity were dangerous. Mars is often called the “death planet”, because in the past its environment has been unfriendly to the robot explorers. Before Spirit and Opportunity, nearly forty spaceships had been sent to Mars since the 1960s. Two-thirds of them failed. The first spaceship, Korabl, sent in 1962 by Russia was among them. It broke apart (分裂) near the earth.

(    )51. For a long time humans think ________.

       A. they can surely find life on Mars               B. there may be life on Mars        

      C. it’s too late for them to explore Mars now  D. Mars is the only planet that has life on it

(    )52. The two robots ________.

       A. have found out that it is warm and wet on Mars                    

B. were sent to Mars to find some stones           

      C. were the first two American robots that landed on Mars         

D. are the only machines that have landed on Mars so far

(    )53. The third paragraph mainly tell us ________.

A. it’s a very hard and dangerous trip for spaceships to Mars

B. two-thirds of the spaceships sent to Mars have failed

C. Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars successfully

D. Mars is called the “death planet”

In the 1920s and 30s the airlines were just beginning. It was unusual for people to travel by air because it was expensive and dangerous. In those days, there were no flight attendants to look after the passengers. Young men ,or “stewards” helped the passengers onto the airplane and carried the passengers’ luggage(行李)but they did not provide food and drinks. But then in 1930,a woman called Ellen Church invented the “stewardess”.

Ellen Church was born in 1904 on a farm in Iowa. She was a different child. She didn’t want to work on a farm or marry a farmer —she wanted a more adventurous(冒险的)life. Ellen studied to be a nurse at the University of Minnesota and then got a job in a hospital. For the next few years she stayed at the hospital but also took flying lessons and got her pilot’s license.

 Ellen was twenty-five years old when she first got in touch with Boeing Air Transport. She loved flying but she understood that airlines were a man’s world. Although women like Emelia Earheart were becoming famous, she realized it was impossible for a woman to have a career as a pilot .But she had another idea. Most people were frightened of flying because. flying was still an unreliable(不可靠的) way to travel. There were often delays(延误),many crashes and the bad weathers made many passengers sick. Ellen thought nurses could take care of passengers during flights and B.A.T. agreed.

  The young woman from Iowa and seven other nurses became the first air stewardesses.

   At first pilots were unhappy because they did not want stewardesses on airplanes, but passengers loved the stewardesses. In 1940 there were around 1000 of them working for different airlines. The early “stewardesses” had to be under twenty-five-year-old, single and slim. When a woman joined an airline, she had to promise not to get married or have children. It was hard job and not well paid. They worked long hours and earned ＄1 an hour.

  In the 1970s, stewardesses were unhappy in their job and airlines had to make some changes. Since the 1970s, “stewardesses” have been called flight attendants. They are well paid and work fewer hours than in the past.

（  ）54. The last sentence of the first paragraph suggests that _________.

          A. the word “stewardess” was made up by Ellen Church

          B. Ellen Church was the first woman who flew a plane

          C. Ellen Church was the first woman who worked on a plane

          D. Ellen Church was the first woman passenger on a plane

（  ） 55.From the second paragraph, we learn that ________.

        A. Ellen did not behave in the same way as most other girls

        B. Ellen’s family was not rich enough to support her education   

        C. Ellen was fond of working as a nurse in the hospital

        D. Ellen has an unhappy childhood that changed her completely

 （  ）56.The main reason for Boeing Air Transport offering Ellen the job was ________.

          A. her flying experience                      B. her university education

          C. her nursing experience              D. her life attitudes

（ ）57 .The passage mainly talks about _______.

        A. the background of early flying pilots                 B. the experience of flying passengers

        C. the history of early flight attendants            D. the development of airplanes

四．词汇运用 （每小题1分，共8分）

(A) 根据句意，用括号内所给单词的适当形式填空。

1.  Great changes will take place in our city in a few _____(月) time.

2.  Everyone knows that three ________(四分之三) of the earth is covered with water.

3.  The price of the vegetables has ________(上升) greatly in Wuxi in the last few weeks because of the bad weather.

4.  Thank you for giving me some useful ________(建议). It’s of great valuable to me.

(B) 根据句意和汉语注释，写出单词的正确形式。

5.  She invited me to her mother’s ________(forty) birthday party the day before yesterday.

6.  She left her book at home this morning because of her _________(care).

7.  How unlucky he was! He was ________(mistake) for the suspect.

8.  I am sure China will be able to hold the Winter Olympic Games _______(success) in 2022.

 

五． 动词填空  （本大题共8分，每小题1分）

1. What a heavy rain! We have no choice but ________(wait) at the bus stop.

2. Don’t miss Mayun’s wonderful speech. I’m sure each of us __________(attract)

3. ---How soon ______ your friend ________(return)?   ----I’m not sure, maybe in half an hour.

4. The Apple Watch young people were looking forward to ______(come) into the market at last.

5. -----Did you see a woman in a red skirt pass by just now？

  ------Sorry, I didn’t. I ___________(chat) with my online friends.

6. How pleased the girl was! She ______________(choose) to play the lead role in the new film directed by Zhang Yimou.

7. This book is so important that it is worth _______(read) again and again.

8. This is the first time that I ___________(play) baseball, What great fun!

 

六．任务型阅读 （本大题共5分， 每格1分）

The day that a robot wakes you up, cleans your room and walks your dog might still be a few decades （十年）off. But increasingly, engineers are saying that robots are going to make the leap from the factory floor to your family room. 

Companies like Sony and General Electric are working on designs for small robots. Products like the Roomba, a robot that can clean floors, are flying off the shelves. On the cover of a recent issue of Scientific American magazine, Bill Gates predicted the “Dawn of the Age of Robots”.      

What’s behind this new era (时代)? It’s partly a matter of technology. Devices that can recognize and respond to a human voice have been developed. There are now a few different ways for robots to move around. They can walk, crawl or ride on wheels. They are being made smaller and smaller. They are also becoming more and more energy efficient.

A bigger part of the story is on the demand side. From the day Robert Adler invented the television remote control in the 1950s, people around the world have tirelessly searched for ways to get lazier.

Also take into consideration the increasing wealth of rich people, the time appears ripe to introduce robots to ease our daily lives.

 To be sure, robots that walk on two legs and talk like people are still too complex for our present engineering abilities. Today’s robot revolution is to make them for everyday use. Robots will do basic housework such as cleaning or gardening, or just help you have more fun on the basketball court.

 What makes a robot different from an ordinary cleaning machine is not the presence of computer chips (芯片). Nowadays even your microwave has a computer chip. It is the ability to sense and make changes to the environment in real time.

 For example, a floor-cleaning robot should be able to sense your scared cat and move out of the way. Today’s computing ability is, for the first time, able to make machines that could “think”, at least in certain limited ways.

 

七．完成句子  按所给的汉语，用英语完成下列句子，并将答案写在答题卷标有题号的横线上。（本大题共9分，每小题1.5分）

1. 你们务必要妥善保管好学校图书馆借的书。

 Make sure you should __________________________________ from the school library.

2.. 从童年时起他就热衷于绘画。

He _________________________________________ since her childhood.

3. 当她犹豫不决的时候，她过去常向父母老师求助。

She used to ask her parents and teachers for help when she _________________________.

4. 太遗憾了！过去政府很少重视对湿地的保护。

What a pity! Little attention __________________________the wetlands by the government in the past.

5我们想知道他要?开家乡多久。

We wondered how long ______________________________________ his hometown.

6. 恶劣的气候使得他一开始未能成功地把飞船降落到月球上。

The terrible weather _____________________________ on the Moon in the beginning.

 

八．书面表达 （本大题共10分）

假如你的朋友Mike 明年打算去游览上海迪士尼乐园，请你写一封90词左右的信，介绍一下上海迪士尼，并给出你的建议。要点如下：

1.       上海迪士尼将于明年春季开业。 它是由Walt Disney Company 建造的世界上第六个主题公园。

2.       据报道每天会有成千上万的游客去游览。

3.       它和其他迪士尼公园不同，在公园的中央有一个中国式的园林。

4.       你可以在那里欣赏到绿草，鲜花和水的美景。

5.       去太空山乘坐室内过山车很刺激。和迪士尼人物合影你会非常愉快。

6.       请你用2-3句话就交通和园内环保方面提些建议。

Dear Mike,

   I’m very glad to know you want to visit Shanghai Disneyland next year. I’d like to tell you something about it. ______________________________________________________              

   I hope all these can be helpful to you.

Best wishes.                     

 Yours

听力稿

I   W: I never feel time passing when solving maths problems.

M: I don’t think so. Art is more interesting.

2:.  W: I go to school by school bus in the morning and have lunch in the school. How are you?

M: Me , too.

3.  M: What’ wrong ,Betty?

W: Oh ,I fell off the bike yesterday and hurt my leg.

4.  M:  Excuse me, can you tell me the way to the post office, please?

W:  Go straight on. Then turn right , and you will find it.

5.   M: Did you see my watch? It’s not in my bag or on my desk.

W: I saw it on the beside table just now.

6.   M: Hurry up! We will miss the train. Can’t you run faster?

W: Sorry. I’m going as fast as I can already.

7.   M: Your sweater is beautiful. Did you make it yourself?

W: No, my sister bought it for me.

8.   M: It was such an interesting speech. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did.

W:I almost fell asleep in the first twenty minutes.

9.  M: Shall we go boating in the Water Park?

W:I will have to prepare for the English Story Telling Competition.

10. W: Why are you going to climb the mountain this weekend?

M: Mountain climbing is one of the best ways to build your strength, balance and make you in good health.

  M:  What’ s your problem?

  W: I am thinking of the test tomorrow. I’m afraid I can’t pass this time.

  M: You’ve been working very hard these days. There’s no doubt that you’ll pass.

  W: In fact. I always feel nervous as soon as I enter a test room.

  M: Try to relax. Try deep breathing and you will not feel so nervous.

  W: You seem to be well prepared for the test, didn’t you?

  M: Yes. If you work hard regularly, you are always ready for tests.

  W: Nice talking with you. Have a good day!

 

Yesterday was my fifteenth birthday. However, when I woke up,  there were no gifts birthday cards waiting for me. My parents and brother didn’t say “Happy Birthday ”to me.. Perhaps they had all forgotten. I tried to phone my best friend, but none of them were at home.

After lunch, I decided to go for a walk by the river. I was feeling sad that no one had remembered my birthday. When I came back at around three p. m. I found nobody was at home. I was wondering where my parents and brother had gone when all my friends and family jumped out. “Happy Birthday !”they shouted. I was really surprised. They had planned this special birthday party for days.

 

When my parents asked me what I wanted for my birthday. I told them I wanted a DVD of Simon Smith playing table tennis. He is my favorite table tennis player.. He is really fast and never seems to get tired .No one can ever guess where he will hit the ball next. He has won six international competitions. I want to be just like him. I play table tennis for my school team and practice five days a week. However, my parents didn’t give me the DVD. Instead, they took me to see Simon Smith play a real table tennis match! We had wonderful seats that were very close to the court. Of course, Smith won the match. It was the best day of my life.

初三期中考试英语答案（2015.。4）

1-5 BBCCA  6-10 BABBA   11-15 ACCBA   16-20 CCBBB

21-25 CBACA   26-30 BBDCA   31-34 DCBC

35-39 A C D A B   40-44 C D B C B

45-47BCC   48-50 CDC   51-53 BCA    54-57 CACC

(A)       1.months’  2,quarters//fourths  3,risen  4.advice

(B)       5.fortieth  6. carelessness  7..mistaken  8.successfully

1. to wait       2.will be attracted    3. will return      4. came

5. was chatting   6. was chosen       7. reading       8. have played

1. future’s   2. . environment   3. riding    4. wake    5. ways 

1. take good care of the books borrowed

2..has been crazy about drawing

3. had difficulty (in) making a decision

4. were paid to protecting

5 .he would be away from

6. prevented/stopped/kept him from landing his spacecraft successfully

Shanghai Disneyland will open next Spring. It is the sixth theme park built by Walt Disney Company in the world. It is said/reported that thousands of visitors will visit it every day. It is different from others. There is a Chinese garden in the centre of the park. You can enjoy the beautiful view of green grass, fresh flowers together with water there. It is exciting to take the indoor roller coaster on Space Mountain. What great fun you’ll have taking photos with Disney characters .I think you can go there by underground. Remember not to drop litter carelessly in the park.