苏州市景范中学2013年初三英语二模试卷(含答案).doc

苏州市景范中学2013年初三二模试卷
英 语
注意事项：
1.本试卷共六大题，满分100分（不含听力口语30分），考试用时100分钟；
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一、单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. What about taking short break? I want to make call.
A. the; a B. a; the C. the; the D. a; a
2. The girl’s parents gave Tom 1,000 dollars as a(n) for saving their daughter from the fire. However, he didn’t accept it.
A. award B. reward C. gift D. prize
3. ---There’s reason for your fears.
--- at all, since you always support me.
A. no; None B. not; None C. no; Nothing D. not; Nothing
4. After finishing the work, he looked up and answered me in a voice.
A. tiring; tiring B. tired; tired C. tiring; tired D. tired; tiring
5. A cough is usually nothing to worry about if it doesn’t last for seven days .
A. or more B. instead C. at most D. only
6. ---Have you some new ideas?
---Yup. I’ll tell you later.
A. come into B. come up with C. come out with D. come from
7. I know a little bit about Italy because my classmates and I there as exchange students several years ago.
A. are going B. had been C. went D. have been
8. With the help of high technology, more and more new materials in the past years.
A. discovered B. have discovered C. had been discovered D. have been discovered
9. ---What’s the name?
---Shostakovich. I spell that for you?
A. Shall B. Would C. Can D. Might
10. The doctor warned Bill that he might be overweight he got enough exercise.
A. because B. if C. unless D. until
11. , and you’ll work out the problem.
A. If you make a bit more effort B. Making a bit more effort
C. Make a bit more effort C. To make a bit more effort
12. By improving reading skills, you can read faster and know more of you read.
A. that B. what C. which D. whether
13. A lot should be done to stop pollution this planet a better one to live on.
A. making B. make C. made D. to make
14. ---Good evening. Sheraton Hotel.
---Good evening. ?
A. What would you like, please B. Who’s that speaking, please
C. Do you still have a room for tonight D. Is there anything I can do for you
15. ---What a mess! The visitors will be here soon.
--- . I promise your rooms will be perfect in a minute!
A. Take your time B. Take it easy C. Never mind D. Not at all
二、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，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
There was a story many years ago of a school teacher---Mrs. Thompson. She told the children on the first day that she loved them all 16 . But that was a lie. There in the front row was a little boy named Teddy Stoddard. He didn’t play 17 with the other children and he always needed a bath. She did not like him．
18 Mrs. Thompson got to know that Teddy was actually a very good boy before the death of his mother. Mrs. Thompson was ashamed(感到羞耻) of 19 . She felt even worse when, like all her other students, Teddy brought her a Christmas present, too. It was his mother’s perfume(香水). Teddy said, “Mrs. Thompson, today you smell just like my Mom 20 .” After the children left, she cried for at least an hour. On that very day, she 21 teaching reading, writing and math. Instead, she began to teach children.
Mrs. Thompson paid 22 attention to Teddy. The boy’s mind seemed to come alive. The more she encouraged him, the faster he 23 . By the end of the sixth grade, Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class.
Six years went 24 before she got a note from Teddy. He wrote that he had finished high school and she was still the best teacher he ever had in his whole life. He went to college. Mrs. Thompson got two more letters from him with the last one 25 : Theodore Stoddard M. D.(医学博士).
16. A. the time B. the same C. the way D. the side
17. A. badly B. worse C. well D. better
18. A. But B. And C. Then D. So
19. A. herself B. Teddy C. his mother D. her children
20. A. ought to B. had to C. said to D. used to
21. A. continued B. stopped C. hated D. started
22. A. perfect B. practical C. particular D. primary
23. A. improved B. raised C. grew D. informed
24. A. over B. up C. forward D. by
25. A. solved B. signed C. said D. suggested
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列文章，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D)中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
This is the song of the bee.
His legs are of yellow
A happy, good fellow,
And yet a great worker is he.

In days that are sunny
He’s getting his honey;
In days that are cloudy
He’s making his wax;
On pinks and on lilies(百合花),

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!
From morning’s first light
Till the coming of night,
He’s singing and working
The summer day through.
26. What are bees busy with on cloudy days?
A. Making honey. B. Singing songs.
C. Making wax. D. Doing great work.
27. What does “Buzz” mean in the first sentence?
A. The sound made by bees. B. The smell of flowers.
C. The color of bees’ legs. D. The task bees work on.
28. This poem wants to show us that .
A. bees like singing songs very much
B. bees are hard-working but happy animals
C. bees like making honey on different flowers
D. bees are a group of animals with yellow legs
B
Birthdays are celebrated all over the world. Some ways to celebrate birthdays are rather similar from county to country---candles, cakes and birthday wishes. But there are also different ways to celebrate birthdays. Here are a few:
Denmark
A flag is flown outside a window to show that someone who lives in the house is having a birthday. Presents are placed around the child’s bed while he is sleeping so he will see them at once when he wakes up.
India
Usually Indian children wear white to school. However, on their birthdays, children wear colored clothes to school and give out chocolate to everyone in the class. Their best friends help them to do this.
Japan
The birthday child wears new clothes to mark the special time. Certain birthdays are more important than others. These are the third and seventh for girls and fifth for boys.
Holland
The birthday child receives an especially large present. The family also puts flowers on the birthday child’s chair to make it beautiful.
29. When someone is having a birthday in Denmark, what can you see outside the window?　 A. flowers B. presents C. a flag D. a chair
30. Flowers are put on the chair of the birthday child in .
A. Japan B. Denmark C. India D. Holland
31. In India, birthday children .
A. give out chocolate to their classmates B. share chocolate with their best friends
C. go to school in white clothes D. wear new clothes to mark the special time
C
“O Miss Roberts! What coarse-looking hands Mary Jessup has!” said Daisy Marvin, as she walked home from school with her teacher.
“In my opinion, Daisy, Mary’s hands are the prettiest in the class.”
 “Why, Miss Roberts, they are as red and hard as they can be. How they would look if she were to try to play on a piano!” exclaimed Daisy.
Miss Roberts took Daisy’s hands in hers, and said, “Your hands are very soft and white, Daisy—just the hands to look beautiful on a piano, yet they lack(缺少) one beauty that Mary’s hands have. Shall I tell you what the difference is?”
“Yes, please, Miss Roberts.”
“Well, Daisy, Mary’s hands are always busy. They wash dishes, they make fires, they hang out clothes and help to wash them, too, they sweep, and dust, and sew, they are always trying to help her poor, hard-working mother. Besides, they wash and dress the children, they mend their toys and dress their dolls, yet, they find time to bathe the head of the little girl who is so sick in the next house to theirs. They are full of good deeds(行为) to every living thing. I have seen them patting(轻拍) the tired horse and the disabled dog in the street. They are always ready to help those who need help.”
“I shall never think Mary’s hands are ugly any more, Miss Roberts.”
“I am glad to hear you say that, Daisy, and I must tell you that they are beautiful because they do their work gladly and cheerfully.”
“O Miss Roberts! I feel so sorry,” said Daisy, looking into her teacher’s face with tearful eyes.
“Then, my dear, show your feeling of sadness by deeds of kindness. The good alone are really beautiful.”
32. What does the underlined word “coarse-looking” probably mean?
A. 看上去漂亮的 B. 看上去粗糙的
C. 看上去厚实的 D. 看上去柔软的
33. What is the beauty that Daisy’s hands don’t have?
A. The white color which looks beautiful on a piano.
B. The work finished gladly and cheerfully by Mary at school
C. Lots of good things which have been done by the ugly hands.
D. Mary’s willingness to do house work for her mother.
34. Mary does plenty of work with kindness for others except .
A. helping her mother with housework B. taking care of her neighbor
C. showing love to animals D. doing cleaning for neighborhood
35. Why did Mss Roberts say “The good alone are really beautiful.”?
A. Because kindness to people and animals is the real beauty.
B. Because doing beautiful things can show one’s sadness.
C. Because good deeds can be acted by a person alone.
D. Because showing the feeling of sadness is a good thing
36. The best title of the passage is .
A. Beautiful Look B. Beautiful Hands
B. Beautiful Life C. Beautiful Girl
D
When you read an article you will understand and remember it better if you can work out how the writer has put the ideas together. Sometimes a writer puts ideas together by asking questions and then answering them. For example, if the article is about groundhogs(土拨鼠), the set of questions in the writer’s head might be:
What does a groundhog look like?
Where do groundhogs live?
What do they eat? …
In the article, the writer might answer those questions.
Sometimes a writer writes out his questions in the article. These questions give you signals. They tell you what the writer is going to write next. Often a writer has a question in his head but he doesn’t write it out for you. You have to work out his question for yourself. Here’s a sample reading for you to practice this method:
Earthworms
Do you know how many kinds of earthworms there are？There are about 1800 kinds in the world! They can be brown, purple, green. They can be as small as 3 cm long and as large as 3 m long.
The best time to see earthworms is at night, especially a cool, wet night. That’s when they come up from their burrows(地洞) to hunt for food. Earthworms don’t like to be in the sun. That’s because they breathe through their skin, and they can’t breathe if their skin gets too dry. Earthworms must come out of the earth if it rains a lot, because they can't breathe in their flooded burrows. What a dangerous life!
Earthworms don't have eyes, so how can they tell when it's dark? They have special places on their skin that senses light. These spots tell whether it’s light or dark. If you shine a flashlight on an earthworm at night, it will quickly disappear into the ground.
Earthworms don't have ears either, but they can hear by feeling movements in the earth. If you want to hear like an earthworm, lie on the ground with your fingers in your ears. Then have a friend stamp his or her feet near you. This is how earthworms feel birds and people walking near them.
Earthworms are useful. Farmers and gardeners like having lots of earthworms in their land because the worms help to make better soil when they dig. That digging keeps the soil loose and airy(通风的). In one year earthworms can dig up as much as 23,000 kg of soil in an area about the size of a football field．
37. What’s the purpose of reading Earthworms?
A. To show the special life facts of earthworms.
B. To explain the differences from the groundhogs.
C. To put the writer’s idea into real use.
D. To make the readers think more clearly.
38. Which question CANNOT be answered in the passage?
A. How do earthworms help with gardeners?
B. What life are earthworms living with?
C. When may people observe earthworms?
D. Why can human listen like earthworms?
39. How can you understand Earthworms better according to this passage?
A. Read, ask and answer questions in your own head while reading.
B. Read to work out all the questions in the writer’s head while reading.
C. Read and check all the things that are not clear to you again and again.
D. Read for general ideas and discuss or compare with other similar topics.
40. What’s the best title for the passage?
A. One way to help with understanding B. One way to practice with a new idea
C. One way to learn to be a wise writer D. One way to be clearer about worms
四、词汇检测（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列句子及所给汉语注释或通过上下文，在答题卡上标有题号的横线上，写出空 缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。
41. When my father looked at me, his expression was soft and his eyes were full of ▲ (理解).
42. I walked away from my friends, ▲ (意识到）of my boss’s arrival.
43. It may require courage to speak ▲ (自如地）in front of a large group of people.
44. Can you remember the heavy rain in which I was ▲ (赶上）the other day?
45. Many things in daily use are made out of ▲ (金属).
46. Don’t always ▲ (期盼）children to be successful. Sometimes failure teaches them more.
47. Why not get inside? Don’t let your blood be ▲ (蚊子）food.
48. ---Do you know when Christmas Day is?
---Yes, it’s on the ▲ of December.
49. ---What’s the ▲ today?
---It’s nearly 90° Fahrenheit.
50. ---He will, ▲ or later, involve himself in serious trouble.
---Right! He is really a trouble maker.
五、句子翻译（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在答题卡上标有题号的横线上。
51．我希望将来我的学校以我为荣。

52. 母亲们是多么地爱我们啊！

53. 当地震发生的时候，志愿者正在教当地人怎样用急救箱。

54. 这片广阔的沙漠能横穿吗？

55. 你认为一天中什么时候适合于体育运动？

六、书面表达（共1题；满分20分）
请从下列人物中选择你喜欢的一位，用英语写一篇90个词左右的短文。要求根据所给信息作适当发挥，且需要包括以下三个部分内容：
1. 对该人物的简单介绍；
2. 喜欢该人物的理由；
3. 从该人物身上得到的启示。

Thomas Edison
Helen Keller
Mother Teresa
inventor; creative; hard-working; full of wisdom
a great woman; disabled; never give up learning; optimistic(乐观的)
helpful; give up everything to others; a Nobel Peace Prize winner
“Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.”
“…if I had the power of sight for three days.”
“Not all of us can do great things. But we can do small things with great love.”
英语试题参考答案
一、单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
1.D 　2. B 　3. A 　4.C 　5. A 6. B 　7. C 　 8.D 　 9.A 　 10. C
11. C 12.B 13．D 14.C 15. B
二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
16. B 17. C 18. C 19. A 20. D
21. B 22. C 23. A 24. D 25. B
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
26. C 27.