2018-2019学年湖南省长沙市南雅中学初三第七次月考英语试卷

一、单选题

1.  In my heart, of all the parents in the world, ______ are the best. 

A.mine B.me C.my

2.  —My dear students, ______ great progress you have made! I’m so proud of you!

—Thanks, Mr. Green! It’s all because of your help.

A.what a B.how C.what

3.  — ______ hard, and you will achieve your dream!

— Thanks dad, I will try my best.

A.Working B.Work C.To work 

4.  — Excuse me, Sir. Could you tell me ______?

— Oh, you need to hurry because you only have 10 minutes left.

A.when the last bus has left

B.when will the bus leave

C.when the last bus is leaving

5.  — Excuse me. When will the movie Black Panther begin?

— It ______ for ten minutes.

A.has been on B.has began

C.will begin 

 6.  My hometown is in a small village by the Yellow River, the second ______ river in China.

A.longest B.long C.longer

7.  — ______ can you finish this work, Ella?

— I’m not sure, maybe in about half an hour.

A.How soon B.How long

C.How often  

8.  — When and where shall we meet for next week’s volunteer activity?

— Let’s meet ______ 8:30 ______ Sunday morning at our school gate.

A.in; in B.at; on C.at; in 

9.  — You ______ buy eggs because Mom has bought some.

— Great! I’m busy preparing for a speech.

A.needn’t B.needn’t to

C.don’t need 

10.  The small town ______ he used to live in now has grown into a new city.

A.what B.which C.where

二、完形填空

1. Millions of Chinese have been playing a mobile game called Travel Frog recently. You play（1）______ the “mother” of a frog who lives alone and enjoys traveling. You need to prepare food and tools for his trips. The frog will send you postcards while he is（2）______.

The game’s popularity may have（3）______ to do with how lonely people are these days, according to the Xinhua News Agency. Many players have said that the（4）______ frog is just like them. But playing with the frog helps them（5）______ their loneliness for a short time.

Loneliness seems to be a（6）______ problem today. According to The Guardian, about 40 percent of American adults say they’re lonely. And in the UK, about one in five people in the country are “always or often lonely”, The Telegraph reported.

This might be why the UK government declared (宣布) the country’s very first "Minister of Loneliness (孤独大臣)"  in January. The minister’s job is to find ways to help UK citizens feel（7）______ lonely. The minister’s office will provide more money for activities that connect people together.

This loneliness problem may be partly due to social media. In public places, we would rather look at our smartphones than（8）______ with people in front of us. And when we see pictures of friends having fun or posting selfies (自拍) without us, we may compare their “perfect” lives with our own and feel（9）______ and lonely.

（10）______ we should remember that no one is destined (注定) to be lonely. As UK poet John Donne once wrote, "No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent (陆地), a part of the main."

（1）A.as B.with C.off

（2）A.back B.home C.away

（3）A.anything B.nothing   C.something 

（4）A.lonely B.happy C.angry

（5）A.strengthen B.forget           C.remember 

（6）A.unusual B.common C.strange

（7）A.even B.more C.less

（8）A.communicate B.compete               C.connect 

（9）A.sad B.excited C.strange

（10）A.So B.But C.And

三、阅读理解

1.

（1）How much will you pay if you book the cruise special today?

A.$ 89.9. B.$ 899. C.$ 809.

（2）From the poster, we can know that ______.

A.there are only two ways for us to get more information about the trip

B.people can visit three countries on the cruise trip

C.the cruise trip lasts for over 2 weeks

2.

Ceilidh Dance

Welcome to Edinburgh Ceilidh Club! The Ceilidh Dance is held every Tuesday at Summerhall, Newington, Edinburgh. We have the best of Scottish ceilidh bands each week. The bands have a lead dancer who will teach the dances, so the event is great for everyone, from complete beginners to experienced ceilidh dancers. Come and experience Scottish dance the way it’s meant to be!

Tickets: ￡6 (online); ￡7 (at the door if there are any left)

Time: 8 pm-11 pm

Free Wi-Fi and snacks are provided. No drinks are included in the tickets.

（1）When is the Ceilidh Dance?

A.From 8 pm to 11 pm on Thursday.

B.From 8 am to 11 pm on Tuesday.

C.From 8 pm to 11 pm on Tuesday.

（2）What is free in the club?

A.Wi-Fi.

B.Tickets.

C.Snacks and drinks.

（3）Which of the following about the Ceilidh Dance is Not true?

A.It’s better to buy the ticket online than at the door.

B.You can learn Scottish Ceilidh Dance with the help of a lead dancer.

C.The event is only for complete beginners.

3. Gary Oldman is like the English version of Leonardo DiCaprio. They are both actors who are "underappreciated（未受到充分赏识的）". DiCaprio didn’t win his first Oscar until 2016 at the age of 42. Oldman finally got his first Oscar at the age of 59 on March 5.

He took home the Best Actor award at the 90th Academy Awards. He won the award for his performance as former British prime minister Winston Churchill（温斯顿·丘吉尔）in the movie Darkest Hour. Many believe that Oldman personality reproduced Churchills appearance and personality, such as his round body, large jowls（双下巴）and cigars（雪茄）. Reporter Brian Truitt wrote in USA Today that after watching the movie for just 10 minutes, you forget that you’re seeing Gary Oldman—there is just Winston Churchill.

Oldman was already seen as an excellent actor even before winning his Oscar. In a 2015 survey, he was voted Greatest Actor to Never Win an Oscar, according to Ranker.com. He is known for his versatility（可塑性）. His acting style is expressive due to his theater training. He has played many classic roles: the vampire（吸血鬼）Count Dracula in Dracula, the policeman Norman Stansfield in Leon, and Harry Potter’s noble godfather（教父）Sirius Black.

Oldman said he acts not in order to win awards, but simply for the pleasure of acting. “Acting was my way out,” Oldman told Interview magazine. “The fun of it was getting away from myself and stepping into the characteristics and the behavior of someone else.”

（1）Gary Oldman and Leonardo DiCaprio are alike because ______. 

A.they were voted Greatest Actors to Never Win an Oscar

B.they didn’t work hard when they were young

C.they waited for a long time before they got their first Oscar

（2）When did Oldman win his first Oscar?

A.At the 90th Academy Awards.

B.At the age of 42.

C.On March 5, 2015.

（3）Which of the following statements about Oldman is Not true?

A.His theater training helped him form his expressive acting style.

B.Before winning the Oscar, he was already considered to be a great actor.

C.He once played the role of the vampire in Leon.

（4）From the passage, we can infer that ______.

A.Oldman acted in the movie Darkest Hour in order to win his first Oscar

B.Oldman thought the fun of acting was getting away from himself and someone else

C.according to Brian Truitt, Oldman succeeded in acting the role of Churchill

（5）What’s the best title of the passage?

A.Better Late Than Never for Oscar

B.Work Hard for Oscar

C.Try to Succeed in Your Younger Days

4. Being happy is an ability, which means we need to learn how to do it. This, perhaps, explains why around one in four undergraduate students at Yale University in the US have signed up (报名) for its Psychology and the Good Life course this semester. The course actually set a record of being the most popular in Yale’s 316-year history.

Laurie Santos, the psychology professor who will be running the course, believes that the high school lives which her students must have had are the reason that the course is so popular. It’s likely that students who get into top universities like Yale had a difficult time in high school. In order to stand out, they had to surround themselves with endless tests, competitions, and so-called “hobbies”, which made them very unhappy. "A lot of us are anxious (焦虑的), stressed, numb (麻木的)," Alannah Maynez, a 19-year-old undergraduate student at Yale, told The New York Times,  “and I won’t miss such a chance.”

Yale isn’t the first university to offer such courses. Back in 2006, Harvard introduced its Positive Psychology class, and about 900 students signed up for it. There are now many universities in the US that have started courses on positive psychology, including the University of Pennsylvania and Claremont Graduate University.

It may sound sad when Harvard student Nancy Cheng called Positive Psychology a “self-help class”. But it’s a good thing that students accept that they have a problem, instead of having to pretend that everything is fine in front of everyone.

It’s true that being happy is an ability, and it’s OK that you may not have it yet. However, it’s never too early—or too late—to start learning.

（1）Many students at Yale University have signed for the Psychology and the Good Life course because ______.

A.students who get into top universities had a difficult time in high school

B.it is the most popular course in Yale’s 316-year history

C.Laurie Santos, the psychology professor will be running the course

（2）What does Alannah Maynez think of the psychology course?

A.Popular. B.Meaningless.            C.Useful. 

（3）How many universities that have positive psychology courses are mentioned in the passage?

A.Four B.One. C.Two.

（4）What does the underlined word “pretend” mean?

A.掩盖 B.假装 C.承认

（5）From the passage, we can know that ______.

A.it’s never too early or too late to start learning how to be happy

B.Yale is the first university to offer psychology courses

C.Nancy Cheng thought the course helped her a lot to be happy

四、五选四阅读

1. 

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。

Hans was the manager of a food company in the United States. In the beginning, Hans’ products weren’t very well-known, so he tried his best to make them famous.

Because most of the goods shown in the exhibition were already well-known, the director of the exhibition always chose to put Hans’ products in a very small attic (阁楼).（1）______ In order to make his products known to people, Hans asked for a stall (展位) at the attic and the director agreed.

（2）______ However, few people visited Hans’ stall. Hans was very worried about this. The first two days did not go well, but at the end of the second day, Hans got an idea. He spent the night Preparing.

On the third day, many small bronze (青铜色的) plates started appearing around the exhibition hall, with the phrase, "Whoever picks up this plate can go to the Hans Food Company stall in the exhibition hall’s attic for a souvenir" on them.（3）______

Hans’ products soon got lots of attention. His idea was praised and many reporters wrote about it.（4）______

 

A. The exhibition was a great success.

B. Just as Hans expected, the attic was soon crowded.

C. In 1957, a national exhibition was held in Chicago.

D. Therefore, Hans’ products quickly became famous.

E. Many visitors came to the exhibition.

五、阅读表达

1. 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。

Britons are well known for the amount of tea that they drink. The average (平均) person in the UK consumes (消费) around 1.9 kg of tea every year. That’s around 876 cups of tea. Tea is drunk by all sections of society. But tea is not native to Britain. Most tea is grown in India and China. So, how did it become an important part of British culture?

Tea arrived in London in the 1600s. At this time, British ships were exploring the world and came across the drink in China. It was not long before green tea was available to buy. However, this was only available to the richer sections of society.

At the beginning of the 1700s, the amount of tea arriving in Britain increased gradually. Black tea arrived at this time. At first, people drank this tea exactly as it was in China. They soon discovered that it mixed really well with a little milk and sugar, giving the drink a special British characteristic (特色).

In the 1800s tea was still a product enjoyed only by people with money. At this time, they began to have “afternoon tea”. This involves (包含) drinking tea with a snack around 4 pm to avoid feeling hungry between lunch and dinner. It is a tradition that is still going today.

In the late 1800s, the price of tea decreased sharply as more tea began to arrive on ships from India and China. It was no longer a drink just for rich people. Tearooms started to appear across the country. People enjoyed drinking tea and socializing in these places. At the start of the 20th century, Britons began to make tea in their homes whenever they felt like it.

（1）How many cups of tea does average person drink each year in the UK?

（2）What should be mixed with tea to make it a special British characteristic?

（3）Why do British people have afternoon tea?

（4）Could most people in Britain afford tea in the late 1800s?

（5）Where did Britons enjoy drinking tea and socializing?

六、语篇翻译

1. 

阅读下面的短文，将画线部分译成英文或中文。 

You are in your last year of junior high school.（1）Have you thought about what it will be like in high school? Are you ready for a fresh start in a new environment? Some high school graduates from the United States share their tips:

Organize and plan your studies

“The biggest thing is to stay organized,” says Philip Tubiolo, a graduate from Bayport High School.（2）He says you can use either paper or online tools to help with your studies. "I would transfer (转换) paper notes online and make study guides. Everything was in one spot (场所) for finals and midterms."

Find your interests

“I knew I was more of a science kid,” says Bayport’s Tubiolo. “I took AP Biology in 10th grade and loved it.”（3）AP classes are college-level classes that high school students can take. He also joined his school’s Science Olympiad team.（4）在一次国际数学比赛中，他赢得了一等奖。 He even decided on a college major, although most students don’t need to make this choice so early.

Find healthy ways to relieve stress and have fun

“It’s not just study, study, study,” says Roslyn High School student Todd Warshawsky. "I was a track (田径) runner. That was a stress reliever from study." Sachem North High School graduate Erin Maryzek agrees. “（5）我们都应该学会在学校生活中找到一些有趣的事情,” says the Northeastern University freshman.

七、补全对话

1.  通读下面的对话，根据上下文补全对话内容。

A: Hello,（1）______.

B: Hi, Jenny. This is Mary. I’m calling to ask if you have decided what club to join.

A: Oh, yes. I want to join the Chinese culture club.

B: Really?（2）______?

A: Because I’m interested in Chinese culture, especially after watching a TV program called Everlasting Classics.

B: I haven’t heard of it.（3）______?

A: It’s about Chinese ancient poems sung with pop music.

B: That’s cool!（4）______?

A: It starts at 8 every Saturday night. What about joining me to watch it this Saturday?

B:（5）______. See you then.

八、书面表达

1.  走在长沙的大街小巷，我们可以看到“打赢蓝天保卫战”的口号标志，越来越多的市民已经认识到环境保护的重要性，还天空以蓝色需要我们共同的努力。请你写一篇英语短文给某英文网站投稿，谈谈目前的环境污染问题以及你对环境保护的建议。

要求：1.包含以上要点，行文连贯；

          2.80词左右；

          3.文中不得出现真实的人名和校名。