密云2019初三英语期末试题.doc

密云区 2018—2019学年度第一学期期末考试
初 三 英 语 试 卷

考试须知
1. 本试卷共8页，考试时间90分钟，满分60分。
2. 在试卷和答题卡上准确填写学校、班级、姓名和考号。
3. 各题均在答题卡上作答，在试卷上作答无效，题号要对应，书写要清楚。
4. 考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。

知识运用（共14分）
一、单项填空（共6分，每小题0.5分）
从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
1. My mother is a teacher . _____ works hard every day.
A.She B. He C. I D. We
2.Tom often goes to school 7:30 in the morning.
A. in B. at C. on D. of
3. – do you usually go to school?
– On foot. It’s good for my health.
A. How B. When C. Where D. Why
4.–Rose,you look much than last week.
–Yes, Dad. The final exam is coming.
A. busy B. busier C.busiest D. the busiest
5. – Would you like to go to the movies with me this evening?
– I’d like to go with you, I’m afraid I have no time.
A. and B. or C. so D. but
6. I _____ go now ,or I will miss the first class.
A. can B. may C. must D. could
7. Bill likes reading . He story books every evening.
A. read B. reads C. is reading D. has read
8. My mother for me at the table when I got home yesterday evening,
A. is waiting B. will wait C. was waiting D. waited
9.– Ann, where are you going in the winter holiday?
– I________ the holiday in my grandparents’ small town.
A.spend B. spent C. have spent D. am going to spend
10. Lisa and I are good friends. We each other for ten years.
A. know B. knew C. will know D. have known
11. Some new High Speed Railways ______ in our country last year.
A. build B. were built C.built D. will be built
12. – Tim, can you tell me now?
– I am cleaning my room.
A. what you are doing B. what are you doing
C. what did you do D. what you did

二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个
选项中，选择最佳选项。
I was now five, and still I showed no much interest in things except with my toes. My father took care of me. I could not look after myself, so I used to lie on my back all the time in the kitchen. I felt 13 because I was imprisoned(监禁) in a world of my own, not able to communicate with others.
Then, suddenly it happened on the afternoon of a cold December day. All the family were gathered round the big kitchen fire. Mona and Paddy were drawing funny animals, using a bright piece of yellow chalk. It was the chalk that 14 me so much because I had never seen anything like it before.
Suddenly, I wanted to do what my sister was doing. Then without thinking or knowing exactly what I was doing. I reached out and took the chalk out of my sister’s hand, with my left foot. It was a puzzle (迷惑 )to many people as well as to me. I held the 15 tightly between my toes and made a wild scribble(乱涂)with it on the board. Next moment I stopped not knowing what to do with the chalk next, hardly knowing how it got there. Then I looked up and realized that everyone was looking at me 16 . My mother came in Her eyes looked from my face down to my 17 , then she took another piece of chalk from Mona and drew the single letter"A "on the floor in front of me. "Copy that, Christy. " She said. I tried to do the same action, but I 18 ."Try again, Christy. " she whispered in my ear. I tried another two more times. I drew one side of the letter, then the other. It looked ugly, but I 19 to make it finally. I had done it! True! I couldn’t speak with my mouth, but now I would speak through something more lasting than spoken words. That one letter was my 20 to a new world, my key to mental(精神的) freedom.

13. A. lonely B. tired C. happy D. relaxed
14. A. troubled B. worried C. helped D. interested
15. A. pencil B.chalk C. brush D. stick
16. A. angrily B. sadly C. silently D. carefully
17. A. hand B. foot C. neck D. leg
18. A. succeeded B. forgot C. fell D. failed
19. A. tried B. managed C. offered D. decided
20. A. road B. dream C. gift D. tool

阅读理解（共36分）
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选
项中，选择最佳选项。（共26分，每小题2分）
A
Help Needed
Are you good with children?
We need two people to volunteer your time at Sunnyview Children’s Hospital. You need to be friendly and cheerful – the children are sick and you need to cheer them up. Your job is to set up a play group with fun games for the children.
If you can spare an hour three times a week, come and join us!
Please call Mrs. Chan at 555-9879. Thanks!
Are you interested in repairing things?
We have set up a group, Home Love, to help older people who need to fix up their homes. If you have repair skills, join us for eight hours a month.
Call Home Love at 555- 4663.
Do you love clean beaches?
We need people who are strong and can help clean up Blue Water Beach. We don’t want to put off this job until summer. We need your help to collect and carry garbage.
If you are available for six hours this Saturday, call Al at 555-6668 or 555-6669.

21. If you’re good with children, you can go to _____.
A. Sunny view Children’s Hospital B. Home Love
C. Blue Water Beach D. Volunteer Help
22. You like repairing things, so you could call at _____.
A. 555-9879 B. 555-6669
C. 555-6668 D. 555-4663
23. On Blue Water Beach you can _____.
A. cheer up sick children B. clean up the beach
C. play games with others D. fix up old buildings
B
It was often the most exciting for the children when the teacher gave every child a job in the class . The children would be responsible for the rest of that school year. Rita was a kind and quiet girl. Last year she did the best. She was the favorite to be given the best job---to look after the class dog.
But this year there was a big surprise. Each child received one of the normal jobs, like preparing the books for the lessons, cleaning the blackboard or looking after one of the pets. But Rita's job was very different. She was given a little box with some sand and one ant. Although the teacher said that this ant was very special Rita still felt disappointed.
"I will turn this little task into something great," Rita said to herself. She started to study everything about the little ant, gave it the best food and made the box perfect. The ant ended up growing quite a little bigger.
One day, the teacher announced(宣布）that Rita’s class was chosen to the tropical rainforest to study all kinds of insects in summer, because the class looked after the little ant well.
The class was filled with joy. Everyone thanked Rita for having been so patient and responsible. And children learned that you have to know how to be responsible for the given tasks even the smallest ones.
24. How did Rita feel when the teacher gave her the job this year?
A. Disappointed. B. Interested. C. Worried. D. Sad.
25. The class was chosen to go to the tropical rainforest because______.
A. everyone did a good job B. Rita looked after the ant well
C. Rita was given the best job D. the children studied the ant
26. What did the children learn from the tasks ?
A. Being a good student will get praise and prizes.
B. Every teacher thanked Rita for being kind and quiet.
C. Studying insects can help people become more successful.
D. We should be responsible for the task even if it seems small.

C
Chinese are very generous(慷慨的，大方的） when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States or Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course ( 额外的课程 ) activities where they will either learn music or dance, or other classes that will give them a head start in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter.
However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children’s skills are different, maybe good in some areas ,but poor in others. Most parents fail to realize that today’s children are in need of self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework.
Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking requires patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and gradually finish his job successfully. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and a lot of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious (好奇的) and have interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
27. What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A. Parents care about their money.when educating their children.
B. Parents don’t often send their children to the best schools.
C. Parents seldom want their children to take extra-course activities.
D. Parents spend much money on the education without thinking.
28. Most Chinese parents don’t realize __________.
A. how much the best education is worth
B. when children should be educated
C. what children really need in later life
D. why school tests don’t satisfy children
29. The writer’s attitude(态度) to children’s education is that __________.
A. the cheaper an education is, the better it is
B. children today should learn different skills
C. practical skills are helpful to children’s growth
D. school education can’t meet parents’ expectations
D

Do you want to become better at making small talk with new people? Do you want to become better at networking with others?
Nothing will improve your networking ability and your ability to make a successful conversation with other people rather than your curiosity(好奇心) about them.

When you are curious about other people, you will want to discover some of the interesting ways that they are similar to you. When you are curious about them, you’ll also be interested to discover the ways in which they think differently and live differently from you.
When you have curiosity about others, you will be much less self-conscious and your conversations will work a lot better. Instead of worrying yourself, “What can I say next that won’t sound stupid?”, you will be focused on learning more about the other person.
Making small talk with strangers can be tricky. We’ve all heard the advice that we should pick something out of our immediate environment and use that as a main point to start our small talk with the other person.
It’s true that this can be a great starting point for a conversation. However, when you focus too much on discussing things like the weather in your city, you can bring the conversation to a painful end very quickly. The other person will sense that you are trying to make a conversation, but that you have no interest in really getting to know him or her.
How can you keep small talk from becoming boring?
One way is to watch the other person for clues.(线索）.The clues they will give you about what is really interesting to them. When you get these clues, use them to start making the conversation a bit more about their life, their opinions, and their experiences.
After you have had a couple of minutes to break the ice, try looking for ways to make the conversation a little bit more personal. Ask the other person for his or her opinion about something that is a bit more personal but not extremely so. The first few minutes of talking to someone new will not be the best time to ask the other person his or her opinion on religious（宗教的） or political（政治的） matters. However, he or she might be happy to discuss his or her favorite team or musical band.
30. In Paragraph 1, the writer mainly wants to tell us that___________.
A. curiosity can help us make a good talk 
B. it’s hard to make a talk with new people
C. curiosity helps us know new people quickly
D. it’s hard to make a successful talk with others
31. The underlined word “self-conscious” in Paragraph 3 probably means_____. 
A. self-centered B. self-controlled C. serious D. nervous
32. While carrying on a conversation, we should_____.
A. think about what won’t sound stupid
B. show our interests to the other person
C. try to learn more about the other person
D. discuss things like the weather in the city
33. What is the best title for the passage? 
A. The way of starting small talk.
B. Improving our small talk with curiosity.
C. The importance of small talk in our life.
D. Improving our relationship through small talk.

四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）
About 800 years ago, a Chinese man named Wang Hu made the world's first rocket, but unluckily he lost his life with it. It was not until April 24, 1970 that China sent its first satellite Dongfanghong-1to space successfully.
To celebrate the first big success for the country's space development, April 24 is now China's Space Day, which started this year. While celebrating, China also announced(宣布）new plans to make a space station and go to Mars and further space.
A space station is like a home for astronauts in space.Astronauts live and work on a space station and spaceships can even park there. China plans to finish building its space station in 2022.
According to China s top space scientist Zhou Jianping, by that time, becoming an astronaut will be a normal job. Astronauts are needed more than ever before. They need to be able to finish more tasks. So far, China has been choosing astronauts mainly from pilots.In the future astronauts will also be picked from engineers, doctors
and space technology experts.
Another plan is about Mars.In order to search Mars, China will send a probe（探测器）first to Mars around 2020. It will land there and even bring back things from the Mars.
It's such a big plan! Only by doing this can China say it has truly started the exploration of deep space. And the