2021北京人大附中初三（上）期中英语（教师版）

2021北京人大附中初三（上）期中

英    语

知识运用（共16分）

一、单项选择。（共8分，每小题1分）

从下面各题所给的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 mom’s birthday is coming.  We’ve decided to make a cake for       .

A. him            B. her              C. you             D. them

2. Space Day of China falls       April 24th every year.

A. on              B. by              C. at               D. in

3. ---Sam,        I join in the community service?

---Of course you can.

A. can             B. must            C. should             D. need

4. ---Did you have fun last night?

---Yes and no. The weather was terrible but we        the concert.

A. enjoy            B. enjoyed          C. will enjoy          D. are enjoying

5. ---Peter, What are you doing?

  ---Oh, I      a report about national heroes.

A. will write        B. am writing         C. wrote             D. have written

6. My grandma       watch TV at home after supper. But now she always goes for a walk.

A. used to         B. didn’t used to       C. are used to          D. was used to

7. Today, the Spring Festival      in many Asian countries.

A. celebrated       B. has celebrated       C. is celebrated       D. is celebrating

6. --- Could you please tell me      ?

  ---Next Thursday morning.

A. When we visited the Capital Museum      

B. When did we visit the Capital Museum

C. When we will visit the Capital Museum

D. When will we visit the Capital Museum

二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的ABCD四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

When most of us get a text message(短信) on our cell phone from an unknown person, we usually say “sorry, wrong number.” and move on. But when Dennis Williams received a text that clearly wasn’t intended for him, he did something     9    .

On March 19, Dennis got a group text informing him that a couple he didn’t know were at the hospital, waiting for the      10     of a baby.

“Congratulations! But I think someone was mistaken,” Dennis replied. The baby was born and update texts were coming in quickly from the overjoyed grandmother, Teresa. In her   11    , she didn’t seem to realize that she was sharing the baby’s photos with a complete stranger. “Well, I don’t know you all but I will get there to take pictures with the babay,” replied Dennis before asking which room the new   12   were in.

Dennis stuck to his promise! He   13  up at the hospital bringing gifts for the new mother Lindsey and her baby boy. Lindsey’s husband was totally surprised by the unexpected visit. “I don’t think we would have randomly invited him over but we appreciated it and the gifts.”

Teresa  14   a photo of the chance meeting on a social networking website accompanied by the touching words: “What a blessing this young man was to our family! He was so  15  and kind to do this.” The post has since gained the 16   of social media users all over the world, receiving more that 184,000 shares and 61,500 likes in just three days.

9． A.  strange         B. special          C. necessary          D. harmful

10．A. change           B. recovery        C. growth            D. arrival

11．A. disappointment     B. worry          C. excitement         D. effort

12．A. parents           B. doctors         C. patients            D. visitors

13．A. made             B. showed         C. gave              D. looked

14．A. found             B. chose          C. developed          D. posted

15．A. smart             B. calm           C. sweet              D. fair

16．A. belief             B. attention        C. control             D. trust

阅读理解（共34分）

三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的ABCD四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共24分，每小题2分）

A

Below is a housing guide for students going to London．

17．How many ways of housing offer can you find in the text？  

A．Three．    B．Four．    C．Five．    D．Six．

18．If you want to get the right house quickly, you’d better go for      ．

A．the Loot．

B．the university notice boards．

C．a good accommodation company．

D．the university accommodation office．

19．What is the advantage of using Loot？ 

A．You can save your time．

B．There are some good bargains．

C．There are many online notice boards．

D．You can get support if you have problems．

B

I bought a jasmine plant for my office．When I bought it, I was told it would bloom（开花）and the sweet smell would fill my office. I had the plant for two months，and every day I looked at it, but there weren’t any flowers or pleasant smell．I was not happy, so I gave the plant to my friend Linda．

    One day, another friend Mary called and invited me to her office. When I walked in, her jasmine flowers surprised me．I reached out to touch the flowers．Mary cut some and gave them to me．I couldn't help smelling them．Surrounded by the sweet smell of only a handful of these flowers, I suddenly understood something．

    Mary bought her plant the same time I did. It took a year for her jasmine to bloom. I was so impatient for mine to bloom; regretfully, I gave it away．

    In a way my life is like the jasmine plant. I need to be patient and let things happen．

Last Sunday Linda told me that she was going abroad the next week．Before she left，she returned the plant to me．This time I am going to wait．I have learned that when we want something in our life，we have to be patient．I am slowly learning to have that patience to wait for my jasmine to bloom．

20．Before she gave the jasmine away, the writer had it for          ．  

A．one day         B．one year        C．two weeks       D．two months

21．When the writer saw Mary’s jasmine, she felt        ．

A．unhappy    B．amazed     C．hopeful     D．peaceful

22．What has the writer learned from her experience？  

A．Patience is needed in life．            B．Flowers can make life better．

C．Friendship is necessary for us．         D．Jasmine can be a wonderful plant．

C

When we think of leadership, we often think of strength and power. But what are these really, and how do they operate?

    Leadership today is not about forcing others to do things. If this is even possible, it is short-term, and tends to backfire. If you order someone to do something against their will, they may do it because they feel they must, but the anger they feel will do more harm in the long-term. They will also experience fear.

    Fear causes the thinking brain to shut down, making the person unable to function at his or her best. If they associate you with this emotion of fear, they will become less functional around you, and you will have succeeded in not only shooting yourself in the foot, but possibly making a very good employee or partner unable to perform effectively. Fear has no place in leadership.

    The way we influence people in a lasting way is by our own character, and our understanding and use of emotion. We can order someone to do something, which may be part of the work day, or we can employ them at the emotional level, so they become fully devoted to the projects and provide some of their own motivation. Today’s work place is all about relationships. Anyone works harder in a positive environment in which they’re recognized and valued as a human being as well as worker. Everyone produces just a bit more for someone they like. Leaders understand the way things work. They know the pay check is not the single most motivating factor in the work life of most people.

The true strength of leadership is an inner strength that comes from the confidence of emotional intelligence — knowing your own emotions, and how to handle them, and those of others. Developing your emotional intelligence is the single best thing you can do if you want to develop your relationships with people around you, which is the key to the leadership skills.

23. The underlined phrase shooting yourself in the foot means       in this passage.

1. to walk in a right direction              B. to make progress in work

C. to hurt others by stepping their feet       D. to harm one’s own interests

24. An employee may have a feeling of fear in the work place when      .

A. he cannot work at his best

B. he is forced to do things

C. he is unwilling to do things and criticized

D. he shuts down his brains and his head goes blank

25. To positively influence employees, a leader should first of all _______.

A. develop his own personality so that he can have high emotional level.

B. provide better suggestions to make his employees have the emotional intelligence.

C. give his employees a pay raise in order to please them.

D. hide his own emotion of fear to set a good example for his employees.

D

Suppose we built a robot to explore the planet, Mars. We provide the robot with seeing detectors (探测器) to keep it away from danger. It is powered entirely by the sun. Should we program the robot to be equally active at all times? No, the robot would be using up energy at a time when it was not receiving any. So we would probably program it to stop its activity at night and to wake up at dawn the next morning.

　　According to the evolutionary(进化的) theory of sleep, evolution equipped us with a regular pattern of sleeping and waking for the same reason. The theory does not deny that sleep provides some important restorative（促使恢复的） functions. It merely says that evolution has programmed us to perform those functions at a time when activity would be inefficient and possibly dangerous. However, sleep protects us only from the sort of trouble we might walk into; it does not protect us from trouble that comes looking for us. So we sleep well when we are in a familiar, safe place, but we sleep lightly, if at all, when we fear that bears will nose into the tent.

The evolutionary theory explains the differences in sleep among creatures. Why do cats, for instance, sleep so much, while horses sleep so little? Surely cats do not need five times as much repair and restoration as horse do. But cats can afford no activity for a long period of time, because they spend little time eating and are unlikely to be attacked while they sleep. Horses must spend almost all waking hours eating, because what they eat is very low in energy value. Moreover, they cannot afford to sleep too long or too deeply, because their survival depends on their ability to run away from attackers.

26.The author uses the example of the robot in space exploration to tell us ___________.

A. the differences between robots and humans

B. the reason why men need to sleep

C. about the need for robots to save power

D. about the importance of humans working at night

27. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Sleeping helps us keep up an irregular pattern of life.

B. Sleeping prevents trouble that comes looking for him.

C. We might sleep more sound in our own bedroom than in the tent in the wild.

D. Cats spend more time sleeping because they need more repair and restoration.

28.Whatis the main idea of the passage?

A. Evolution has equipped all creatures with a regular pattern of sleeping against waking.

B. Evolutionary theory of sleep plays the key role in improving the sleeping quality.

C. Sleeping patterns must be taken into consideration in the designing of robots.

D. The sleeping pattern of a living creature is determined by the food it eats.

四、阅读短文，根据短文回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）

Do you like video games when you have free time? Lots of people do. There are many types of video game. Some people like action games. Other people like driving games. But the most popular game of all time is a puzzle game.

Tetris is a puzzle game about making lines. Blocks (立方体)fall from the top of the screen. They fall one at a time. The player moves the blocks. Once the blocks hit the bottom, they are locked in place. Players try to make lines go across the screen with no gaps. Complete lines disappear, which gives players more room. The blocks pile up during the game. The game ends when the blocks get to the top of the screen.

A man named Alexey made Tetris in 1984 while working at a science academy in Moscow, Russia. Alexey named his game after tetra and tennis. The word “tetra” means four. So all the pieces in Tetris have four blocks.

Alexey made his game on a screen that only showed letters. He could not use blocks. The blocks were made out of letters in the first game of Tetris. Still, all Alexey’s friends loved his game. It was easy to learn and fun to play.

Soon the game spread across the world, which was on every computer. It came with every one of Nintendo’s Game Boy. More than 100 million Game Boys were sold. Tetris was all over the place. Even today Tetris comes with many phones.

Dr. Richard Haier has studied Tetris players. He ran many tests. He found that playing Tetris improved mind and thinking activity. Dr. Haier thinks Tetris is good for the brain. I agree with this finding. Now go and play some Tetris. It’s just what the doctor ordered.

29.What is Tetris?

30.Why did all Alexey’s friends love his game?

31.How many Game Boys were sold?

32.According to Dr. Richard, what were the benefits of playing Tetris?

33.What is the second paragraph mainly talking about?

五、文段表达（10分）

34.请从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

题目一：

正是秋高气爽时，也是出游的最佳季节。我们年级计划去郊外旅游，假如你是李华，Peter是来自友好学校的交流生。请给Peter发一封邮件，诚挚邀请他参加我们年级的秋游。请结合以下问题和提示词语展开邮件的内容：

提示词语：weather, scenery, pick, relax, nature

提示问题：1.When and where will you meet?

2.Why is autumn the best season to go outing and what are your plans for it?

3. Why do you have this activity?

Dear Peter,

I feel highly honored to invite you to our autumn outing.                                                    

                                                                                             Yours,

Li Hua

题目二：

进入初三以来，我们的学习更紧张了，但是你依旧从容应对，这和你的自律是分不开的，假如你是李华，请你以“自律”为题，谈谈在过去这两个月，你是如何让自己在学习上自律的，以及这样做给你带来的好处。

提示词语：self-disciplined(自律的), listen carefully, finish homework, habit, make progress

提示问题：

1.What did you do to be self-disciplined in study?

2.What benefits have you got by doing so?

Self-discipline plays an important role in my study.                                                    

2021北京人大附中初三（上）期中英语

参考答案

一、单项选择  （ 每题1 分）

1. B   2. A   3. A  4. B  

5. B   6. A   7. C  8. C  

二、完形填空   （ 每题1分）

9. B   10. D   11. C  12. A  

13. B  14. D   15. C  16. B   

三、阅读短文选择最佳选项  （ 每题2分） 

A: 17. C  18. C   19. B      

B: 20. D  21. B   22. A       

C: 23. D   24. B    25. A    

D: 26. B  27. C  28. A       

四、阅读短文回答问题   （ 每题2分）

29. Tetris is a game about making lines.

30. Because it was easy to learn and fun to play.

31. More than 100 million. （ 不带more than -1）

32. Playing Tetris improved mind and thinking activity.

33. How Tetris is played./ How to play Tetris.

要点1 How          要点2 Tetris is played  / to play Tetris

少一个要点-1   语法错误-1 （不累计）