初二年级期中考试英语试卷 2006.4
(考试时间：100分钟 满分：100分 命题：城南中学 宰小琴)
听力部分( 15分)
一、听录音，选择合适的应答句。(5 分)
( )1.A. That’s a good idea.
B. Oh, let me have a look.
C. Let’s try our best.
( )2.A. Of course. B. You’re welcome. C. The same to you.
( )3.A. I can watch TV only once a week.
B. I don’t like watching TV too much..
C. I often watch TV in the study.
( )4. A. She works hard. B. She is a zookeeper. C. She is very busy.
( )5. A. Here you are. B. Oh, no, not very much. C. Thank you.
二、听对话及问题录音，选择正确答案。（5分）
( )6. A. B. C.
( )7. A. To the Children’s Park.
B. To the Children’s Library.
C. To the Children’s Hospital.
( )8. A. A cat. B. A panda C. A bear.
( )9. A. It’s raining hard. B. The rain is coming. C. It’s cloudy and windy.
( )10.A.She is not interested in it.
B. She is too busy to go.
C. She does not know.
三、听短文，选择正确答案。（5分）
( )11.Why did Miss Wang go to Tokyo?
A. To see her friends
B. To study Japanese.
C. To have a meeting.
( )12.When was the meeting over?
A. On November 15. B. On November 11 C. On November 7
( )13.What did Miss Wang want to eat?
A. Some cakes B. Some noodles C. Some apples.
( )14.Where did Miss Wang get a piece of paper?
A. From another man. B. On the table C. In her handbag.
( )15.What languages did the waiter know?
A. English and Japanese.
B. Japanese and Chinese.
C. Chinese and English.
笔试部分
一、词汇 （15分）
A:根据提示和句意完成下列句子。（5分）
1.I never feel ________ (无聊的) or unhappy when he is with me.
2.My favourite s___________ are Science and Chinese.
3.Mr Wu ______________ (邀请) me to join in their trip yesterday.
4.Peter fell off the ladder yesterday. L___________, he didn’t hurt himself.
5.If someone shows bad manners to others. He is i____________.
B:用所给单词的适当形式填空。（5分）
6.Every year, many___________ (tour) go to Zhalong to watch birds.
7.--Is drawing as difficult as swimming ?
--No, it’s much ____________ (easy), I think.
8.The children always enjoy _____________ (they) at the weekend.
9.Speak louder, please. I can’t hear you ____________(clear).
10.Tigers are ___________ (protect) animals. We can’t hunt them .
C:用所给动词的适当形式填空。（5分）
11.Listen! Hw wonderfully the girls _____________ (sing)!
12.Simon will leave here if he ____________ (finish) the work tomorrow.
13.______ you _________ (go) to the World Park in Beijing next week?
14.--What did you do last night?
-- I __________ (write) a letter to my parents.
15.The zookeeper told them __________ (not leave) litter there.
二、选择填空 （15分）
( )1. --Tomorrow evening I’ll have a birthday party.
Would you like to come?
--______________.
A. Yes, I would B. Sure, I like
B. Yes, I love D. Sure, I’d love to
( )2. --When were you born, Lily?
--I was born _______ July 18, 1990.
A. in B. on C. at D. to
( )3. Listen ______ in class, and you will pass the exam more easily.
A. carefully B. more careful C. to carefully D. careful
( )4. ________ weather we have today!
A. What a fine B. How a fine C. What fine D. How fine
( )5. What _____ you do this weekend if it _________ ?
A. do, will rain B. will, rain C. do, rains D. will, rains
( )6. --When did the train ______? --Half an hour ago.
A. reach B. get to C. arrive at D. arrive
( )7. You must be tired. Why not ________ a rest?
A. stop taking B. to stop taking
C. to stop to take D. stop to take
( )8. We can go there by bus. It _____ about an hour to get there.
A. has B. spends C. takes D. costs
( )9. Hurry up, _____ you’ll miss the train. It’s leaving soon.
A. or B. so C. and D. but
( )10.This kind of bike looks_____ and sells _______ in the shop.
A. nice, well B. good, good C. nicely, well D. good, nice
( )11.Which symbol means “and”?
A. ﹩ B. ＠ C.＆ D. ﹪
( )12.They say there______ a report on wildlife this afternoon.
A. will have B. will be C. is going to give D. has
( )13.Paul is __________ in my class.
A. the strongest boys B. one of the strongest boy
C. strongest boy D. one of the strongest boys
( )14.—What is your cousin like? -- __________
A. He’s fine, thank you. B. He’s watching TV now.
C. He’s tall and thin. D. He’s a famous doctor.
( )15.Daniel has _____tomatoes than Amy, but _______ rice than Kitty.
A. more, fewer B. fewer, more C. less, more D. more, least
三、句型转换（5分）
1. Sandy is not as slim as Amy. (改为同义句)
Amy is _________ ___________ Sandy.
2. John’s tie is not the same as Tina’s. (改为同义句)
John’s tie is _____________ ___________ Tina’s.
3. At weekends we can go shopping. We can listen to music at home.
（合并成一句）
At weekends we can go shopping _______ __________ to music at home.
4. She speaks French fluently. （对划线部分提问）
_______ does she __________ French?
5. Nancy lives four kilometers from the school. （对划线部分提问）
_________ _________ does Nancy live from the school?
四、从所给七个选项中选出五个补全对话（5分）
| A. I’m glad to see you. B. How do you like the city? C. I’m sure you will have a good time. D. Are you Mrs Green from Canada? E. Is this you first visit to Nanjing? F. It’s a nice place to visit. G. Would you like to visit Nanjing? |
Li Mei: Excuse me. 1
Mrs Green: Yes, and you are...?
Li Mei: I’m Li Mei. Your fiend Miss Wu is busy at the moment. She asked me to meet you. Welcome to Nanjing, Mrs Green.
Mrs Green: Thank you.
Li Mei: By the way, 2
Mrs Green: No, this is my second time. I came here in 2000 for the first time.
Li Mei: 3
Mrs Green: I like it very much. It’s very beautiful and famous. And people here are quite friendly. 4
Li Mei: I’m glad you like the city. And now Nanjing is becoming more and more beautiful. 5
Mrs Green: I think so. Thank you very much for meeting me.
Li Mei: It’s my pleasure.
1._______ 2. _______ 3. _______ 4. _______ 5. _______
五、完形填空（10分）
Most people in the USA speak English. There are over 2000 languages spoken all over the world. You know that every language has 1 own words. 2 you want to learn a foreign language, you must know 3 the words mean, and you must say them in the 4 . Words are 5 up of sounds, different languages have different sounds. There are thousands of language sounds. When you 6 English, you are using only about fifty of them.
Some languages are spoken faster than 7 . English is spoken 8 slowly than French. Women speak 9 than men. In America women speak about 175 words every minute, 10 men speak about only 150. How many words every minute do you speak?
( )1. A. itself B. their C. it’s D. its
( )2. A. When B. What C. If D. Why
( )3. A. what B. where C. that D. which
( )4. A. idea B. country C. right way D. street
( )5. A. make B. makes C. making D. made
( )6. A. say B. speak C. to say D. to speak
( )7. A. the other B. other C. others D. another
( )8. A. much B. more C. most D. best
( )9. A. faster B. slowly C. fastest D. most slowly
( )10.A. and B. or C. while D. get
六、阅读理解 （15分）
A
Mr Robinson worked in Africa. His son was born there. His name was John. One winter Mr and Mrs Robinson went to England, and they took John there. John was seven years old then. One day it snowed. The boy went into the garden, and he played in the snow. He said, “Snow is very beautiful, but it is very cold ,too.” But it was not glass. It was ice . It was on the a bucket (桶) of water. John said, “Who put the glass here? I am going to put it into the house.” He took the ice to his father and said, “ This is a beautiful piece of glass, but it is very cold and wet. It was on a bucket of water in the garden.” Mr Robinson smiled and said, “Take it to the kitchen, put it in front of the stove there, and dry it.” The boy took the ice to the kitchen and put it in front of the stoves. He dried his hands, because they were very cold and wet, and then he went to the ice again. He looked at it, and then he took it to his father again. He said, “I put the glass in front of the stove, but it does not get drier. It becomes wetter and smaller.”
( )1. John didn’t know what the ice was because
A. he was very foolish B. he was young
C. he was born in Africa D. he didn’t go to school
( )2. One winter Mr and Mrs Robinson went to England with
A. their son B. a boy of their friends
C. their daughter D. one of their friend’s son
( )3. One day John found on a bucket of water.
A. a piece of glass B. a piece of ice
C. some snow D. some water
( )4. What did Mr Robinson ask John to do ?
A. He asked John to take the ice out.
B. He asked John to put the ice in front of the stove.
C. He asked John not to play with ice.
D. He asked John to dry his hands at once.
( )5. After John put the ice in front of the stove, he found that it became .
A. dry B. wetter C. bigger D. colder
B
When Ben Franklin was only a boy, he always wanted to know about things. He was always asking his father and brothers “What?” and “ How?” and “Why?”.
They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know.
When they couldn’t tell him, Ben try to find the answer by himself.
Many times Ben did find out things that no one knew before. The other would say, “That Ben Franklin! He is always finding out something new!”
Ben lived close to the water. He liked to go there to see the boats. He saw how the wind blow them across the river.
One day Ben said to himself, “ Why can’t the wind help me float(漂浮) across the water? And I’m going to try.” Ben got his big kite. He took hold of the kite’s sting and ran with it. The wind took the kite up into the air. Then Ben jumped into the water.
The wind blew the kite high into the sky. Ben began to float across the water. Soon he was on the other side, and he did not work at all.
One boy shouted, “Look at Ben floating across the water! His kite takes him to the other side without any work!”
( )6. When he was a child, Ben .
A. liked to fly a kite by himself
B. always asked easy questions
C. always liked to play with water
D. always liked to find out how things worked
( )7. His father and brothers .
A. couldn’t answer all his questions
B. could answer all his questions
C. tried hard to find out something new for him
D. were too busy to answer his questions
( )8. How did Ben Franklin float across the water?
A. The other boy took him across it.
B. The water carried him across it.
C. The flying kite took him across it.
D. A boat took him across it.
( )9. He found out many things that .
A. children didn’t know
B. his father and brothers knew
C. people didn’t know
D. most people knew
( )10.In the passage, “and he did not work at all” means .
A. he worked hard to cross the water
B. he didn’t go to work that day
C. he didn’t cross the water at all
D. he crossed the water in an easy way
C
Jack London was a famous American writer. He was born on January 12, 1876,in San Francisco, California. His family was very poor, and Jack had to leave school to make money. He worked hard in many different jobs.
Later, Jack returned to school, but he didn’t stay. He wrote, “ Life and pocketbook(袖珍书) were both too short.
In 1897, he went to Alaska to find gold. Instead, he found ideas there for his books and stories. He returned home and started to write. His writing were successful(成功的)，and he became rich and famous in his twenties.
Jack London was not a happy man, however. In poor health, he took his own life in 1916. He was only 40 years old.
( )11.Jack London was .
A. a musician B. a writer
C. a basketball player D. a teacher
( )12.He went to Alaska .
A. for holidays B. because his wife lived there
C. to find gold D. to meet his parents
( )13.Jack London became rich and famous .
A. when he was thirty B. when he was over twenty
C. in his thirties D. when he was a child
( )14.Which of the following sentences is true?
A. Jack died in Alaska.
B. Jack was born in London.
C. Jack found gold in Alaska.
D. Jack was a successful writer, but he didn’t live happily.
( )15.Which of the following sentences is not true.
A. Jack didn’t find gold in Alaska, instead he found ideas for writing.
B. Jack didn’t like to go to school.
C. Jack died in 1916.
D. Jack had only a little education(教育) when he was young.
七、改错（5分）
Swimming is very popular in summer.
People like swimming in summer because of
water makes people feeling cool. If you
like swimming and swim in a wrong place,
it may not be safely. These years, more than
nine hundreds children died while they were
having a good time in the water most of
them were students.
八、书面表达 （15分）
野生动物协会要求写一份80词左右的关于丹顶鹤的报道，以呼唤人们来保护丹顶鹤。要求描述丹顶鹤的外貌、能力、性格特征和面临的危险。要点如下：
Appearance: tall; red-crowned; white feathers; long neck, long legs,
long beak
Ability: can walk or fly; good at catching fish
Character: like to walk in the wetlands; never hurt people
Dangers: people change many wetlands into farms → no space for the
to live
Report: Red-crowned cranes are in danger!
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附：听力内容 初二年级期中考试英语试卷
听力部分 一、听录音，选择合适的应答句。（读两遍）
1.Why not go and have a look at the museum?
2.Thank you for helping me plant the trees.
3.How often can you watch TV?
4.What does your mother do?
5.I like your new coat. It looks nice on you.
二、听对话及问题录音，选择正确答案（读两遍）
6. M: Hello!
W: This is Mary speaking. Is Simon at home?
M: I’m afraid you have the wrong number.
W: Isn’t it ?
M: No, it’s .
Q: What number does the woman want?
7. M: Excuse me, is this bus to the Children’s Park?
W: No, sir. To the Children’s Library. The No.12 bus will take you there.
Q: Where does the man want to go?
8. M: Which animal do you like best?
W: You can guess. It has black and white eyes. It likes eating bamboo.
Q: What’s her favourite animal?
9. M: It’s getting dark. The rain is on its way. You’ d better take my raincoat.
W: It’s not a long way from here. I can get home before the comes.
Q.: What’s the weather like?
10.W: I say , do you want a ticket for the science report?
M: Why not? Don’t you like it?
W: I’d like to, but I ‘ve got a lot of things to do for the coming exams.
Q: Why isn’t the woman going to the science report?
三、听短文，选择正确答案。（读两遍）
Miss Wang speaks very good English., but she knows little Chinese. She went to Tokyo on November 11for a meeting. The meeting was over on November 15. The next morning she went to a park and then did some shopping. At noon she was hungry. She went to he nearest restaurant and sat down at a table. A man came up to her and asked what she needed. She said she wanted some noodles, chicken and some vegetables. She spoke to him in English, but the man did not know English. Miss Wang looked around. No one was eating noodles.
When she saw a piece of paper on the table, she had an idea. She took a pen out of her handbag and wrote the Chinese words for the food on the paper.
She showed the paper to the man. The man said, “OK!” Very soon he brought her a bowl of delicious hot noodles with chicken and vegetables.
参考答案
听力部分
1-5 A B A B C 6-10 C A B B B 11-15 C A B B B
笔试部分
一、 1.bored 2.subjects 3.invited 4.Luckily
5.impolite 6.tourists 7.easier 8.themselves
9.clearly 10.protected 11.are singing 12.finishes
13.Will you/ Are going 14.wrote 15.not to leave
二、 1-5 D B A C D 6-10 D D C A A 11-15 C B D C B
三、 1.slimmer than 2. different from 3. or listen
4. How speak 5. How far
四、 1. D 2. E 3. B 4. F 5. C
五、 1-5 D C A C D 6-10 B C B A C
六、 1-5 C A B B B 6-10 D A C C D 11-15 B C B D B
七、 1.of 2. feeling—feel 3.safely— safe
4.hundreds—hundred 5.most—and most
八、 略