2014~2015
学年第二学期期末教学质量调研测试
初二英语
听力部分(20分) 一、听力选择 (共20小题, 每小题1分, 满分20分)
请先熟悉听力试题, 然后再动笔答题。做题时, 请先将答案标在试卷上。录音内容结束后, 再将试卷上的答案转填到答题卷相对应的空格内。 A) 听对话回答问题 1. Where is Robin going?
2. Which can help learn English well?
3. Which charity are they talking about?
4. What is the man?
5. What’s the girl looking for?
A. A basketball. B. A football. C. A volleyball. 6. What can we learn about Tom?
A. He is a top student. B. He doesn’t work hard now. C. He never plays computer games.
7. Where does the dialogue most probably take place?
A. In a restaurant. B. in a library. C. In the dinning room. 8. What’s the weather like now?
A. Windy. B. Rainy. C. Sunny. 9. Where is the CD player now?
A. On the table. B. On the floor. C. In the desk. 10. What time is it now?
A. 3: 30 P. m. B. 4: 00 P. m. C. 4: 30 p. m.
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B) 听对话和短文回答问题
听一段长对话, 回答11～12小题。 11. How is Kate feeling these days?
A. Bored. B. Excited. C. Tired. 12. Where does the man advise Kate to go at last?
A. To Hollywood. B. To Sydney. C. To Paris. 听一篇短文, 完成信息记录表中13～15小题。
13. A. shopping B. swimming C. boating 14. A. go to college B. stay with her family C. get a job 15. A. worker B. doctor C. teacher 听一篇短文, 回答16~20小题。 16. Which floor are the two rooms on?
A. The 2nd. B. The 5th. C. The 4th. 17. What’s near the hotel?
A. The mountain. B. The park. C. The beach. 18. How much does Peter have to pay for his rooms for a night?
A. $200 B. $400. C. $600. 19. Which meal doesn’t Peter have to pay for?
A. Breakfast. B. Lunch. C. Supper. 20. When can Peter arrive at this hotel?
A. Today. B. Not decided. C. On August 10.
笔试部分(110分) 二、选择填空 共25小题, 每小题1分, 满分25分)
从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳选项, 把其编号填入答题卷
相应的位置上。
A) 单项选择 (共15小题, 每小题1分, 满分15分) 21. —Is Russia European country? —Yes. But a large part of it is in Asia.
A. a; an B. an; an C. a; ／ D. an;／ 22. —I hear your mom for a week. How is she now? —Better. But she still can’t go home.
A. was in hospital B. has gone to hospital C. will go to hospital D. has been in hospital 23. We sell CDs educational books in our shop.
A. also B. either C. as well D. as well as 24. Simon is to make us all .
A. enough funny; laugh B. enough funny; to laugh C. funny enough; laugh D. funny enough; to laugh
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25. The farmer provides some money the poor girl selling vegetables. A. with; in B. with; by C. for; in D. for; by
26. Though it was dangerous Tom to save the baby from the fire, it was really brave him to do so.
A. of; of B. of; for C. for: for D. for: of 27. —Is your sister ill?
—No, , only a little cold.
A. serious anything B. nothing serious C. serious nothing D. anything serious 28. —When shall we go and play basketball?
—Not until the work tomorrow.
A. will finish B. has finished C. will be finished D. is finished 29. It's a bad habit to leave the office without the lights.
A. putting out B. handing out C. taking off D. turning off
30. people have planned to have a holiday in Beijing, and have decided to stay
at home.
A. Some; others B. Any; others C. Some; the others D. Some; any other 31. Millie does and she can help a lot of people.
A. such important job B. so important job C. such an important job D. so an important job 32. It five years since we last each other.
A. is: have seen B. is: saw C. was; saw D. was; have seen 33. —Sam, can you tell me ? —Try Music World on Huangyuan Street.
A. why to buy a CD B. where to get a CD C. how to choose a CD D. when to listen to a CD 34. —I follow you. Would you please repeat it? —No problem.
A. can’t B. needn’t C. mustn’t D. shouldn’t 35. —Would you mind my sitting next to you? — Mr. Wu will sit here.
A. Yes, of course not. B. No, you can’t sit here. C. Yes, you can. D. Better not. B) 完形填空 (共10小题, 每小题1分, 满分10分)
先通读下面的短文, 掌握其大意, 然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选
出一个最佳选项, 将其编号填入答题卷相对应的空格内。
When teachers are teaching, they often give students lots of help. But a new study shows this may not be the best way for the students to 36 something.
Manu, a doctor, thought that struggling (奋斗) can help students learn 37 . He made students into two groups. In the first group, students were 38 to work out maths problems with the teacher’s help. In the second group, students 39 the same problems by helping one another, instead of getting help from the teacher.
With the teacher’s help, students in the first group could 40 the right answers. Students in the second group did not work out the problems 41 . But they did come up with a lot of good ideas. The students were then tested on 42 they have learned. The first group
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got low marks while the second group got 43 marks in the same test. So it's more 44 for students to learn something by themselves.
Here’s Manu’s 45 for kids: “The more you struggle while you are learning new information. the better you can remember it later. ”
36. A. learn B. teach C. read D. answer 37. A. worse B. slower C. harder D. better 38. A. said B. spoke C. asked D. talked 39. A. realized B. solved C. clicked D. gathered 40. A. see B. think C. find D. hear 41. A. correctly B. quickly C. carefully D. fast 42. A. when B. where C. what D. how 43. A. high B. low C. tall D. bad 44. A. popular B. important C. serious D. different 45. A. words B. advice C. feelings D. ideas 三、阅读理解(共15小题, 每小题2分, 满分30分)
阅读下面短文, 从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项, 把其编
号填入答题卷相应的位置上。
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Dan Robinson has been worried all week. Last Tuesday he received a letter from the local police. In the letter he was asked to call at the station. Dan wondered why he was wanted by the police, but he went to the station yesterday and now he is not worried any more. At the station, he was told by a smiling policeman that his bicycle had been found five days ago, the policeman told him, the bicycle was picked up in a small village four hundred miles away. It is now being sent to his home by train. Dan was most surprised when he heard the news. He was amused too, because he never expected the bicycle to be found. It was stolen twenty years ago when Dan was a boy of fifteen!
46. Dan was worried because .
A. he received a letter B. the police wanted him
C. he went to the station yesterday D. he didn’t know why the police wanted him 47. Dan
A. had probably forgotten all about his bicycle B. probably expected to find his bicycle again C. probably expected to get a letter from the police
D. was probably sorry to learn that his bicycle had been found 48. Where was the bicycle picked up?
A. In a small village. B. At the station. C. On the train. D. 40 miles away. B
“Three apples have changed the world. One is for Eve. one is for Newton. The third is in the hands of Steve Jobs. ”said someone.
Steve Jobs was the former CEO of the Apple computer company which was set up in his parents’ garage (车库) on April Fool’s Day, 1976. Through many years’ hard work, Jobs and his Apple products were a great success. People believe he has made the world a better place. Many young people also think of Apple products (产品) as a fashion icon.
Because of his great achievements in this area. he was honored with a number of awards,
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including the National Medal of Technology in 1985, the Times cover character (封面人物) and the Most Successful Manager in 1997.
Jobs’ road to success wasn’t an easy one. He experienced several ups and downs, but he was still standing. Just as Hemingway in The Old Man and the Sea said, “A man can be destroyed, but not be defeated (打败). ”So he was considered as an American hero. What did Jobs' workers and family members think of him?
On one hand, some workers described him as a strange, bad-tempered (坏脾气的) boss. They said he was impatient with those who disagreed with him or didn’t understand his ideas. On the other hand, his family members thought of him as a home-loving dad with each of his four children. He worried about all the things of them, such as their boyfriends, travel, safety and even skirt length. Though he was quite busy, he still attended his daughter’s graduation (毕业) party.
49. What do you think of Steve Jobs according to the passage?
A. Home-loving. B. Honest. C. Jealous (妒忌的). D. Humorous. 50. What award did Steve Jobs achieve in 1985?
A. The Most Successful Manager. B. The Top Richest Man.
C. The National Medal of Technology. D. The Times cover character. 51. Why was he considered as an American hero according to the passage? A. Because he developed lots of Apple products. B. Because he set up the Apple computer company.
C. Because he devoted (致力于) himself to the area of computer. D. Because he wasn’t defeated after several ups and downs. 52. From the passage, we know that .
A. Steve Jobs was very famous only in the USA
B. Steve Jobs was too busy to care about his children
C. Steve Jobs changed the world a lot with his Apple products D. Steve Jobs never got into any trouble on his way to success C
When we see well, we do not think about our eyes very often. It is only when we cannot see perfectly that we realize how important our eyes are.
People who are near-sighted can only see things that are very close to their eyes. Everything else seems blurry (模糊的). Many people who do a lot of work, such as writing, reading and sewing become near-sighted. People who are far-sighted suffer from just the opposite problem. They can see things that are far away, but they have difficulty in reading a book unless they hold it at arm’s length. If they want to do much reading, they must get glasses, too.
Other people do not see clearly because their eyes are not exactly the right shape. They have what is called astigmatism (散光). This, too, can be corrected by glasses. Some people’s eyes become cloudy because of cataracts (白内障). Long ago these people often became blind. Now, however, it is possible to operate on the cataracts and remove them.
Having two good eyes is important for judging (判断) distances. Each eye sees things from a slightly different angle. To prove this to yourself, look at an object out of one eye; then look at the same object out of your other eye. You will find the object’s relation to the background and other things around it has changed. The difference between these two different
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