2022北京首师附苹中分校初三（上）期中英语

2022北京首师附苹中分校初三（上）期中

英    语

一、单项选择（每小题0.5分）

1． Miss Lin is very kind. ________ always helps people in need.

A．He  B．She  C．They D．It

2． Let’s meet ____ the bus stop after school and then go home together.

A．at  B．to  C．of  D．with

3． Grandpa is over 70 years old, ________ he still looks young.

A．but  B．because  C．so  D．or

4. Unluckily, Mr Brown drove so ____that his car crashed into a tree yesterday evening.

A. careless B. careful  C. carefully D. carelessly

5． Look at the sign. You ________ take photos in this museum.

A．wouldn’t B．needn’t C．mustn’t D．couldn’t

6．My father is a tea lover. He often ________ tea after supper.

A．drinks B．was drinking  C．will drink D．is drinking

7．The more you use the new words, the ____ learning English will be.

A. easy  B. easier   C. easiest  D. easily

8. Both Chinese and English ______ by more people in the world than any other language today.

A. use  B. are used  C. was used  D. used

9． Mr. Smith ________ in a panda protection center since 2001.

A．works B．has worked C．worked D．will work

10．I saw Lucy in the school hall.She ___for her speech at that time.

A．prepares  B．will prepare  C．was preparing D．has prepared

11.Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 5 ____into space on November 24th,2020.

A. sends  B. sent  C. is sent D. was sent

12．—Do you remember ________ in her class last week?

—Sure. About Chinese culture.

A．what will Mrs. Li talk about   

B．what Mrs. Li will talk about

C．what did Mrs. Li talk about   

D．what Mrs. Li talked about

二、完形填空（每小题1分）

J.K. Rowling is the writer of the Harry Potter series, one of the most popular books.       

J.K. Rowling was born in Gwent in 1965. She has one sister who is two years younger than her. Both girls loved listening to bedtime   13  They loved stories about the magical world. Rowling   14   her first story called Rabbit at the age of six.

After she graduated from university, Rowling worked in London. During that time, on a long train trip in the summer of 1990, the idea of a boy who has magic but doesn’t know it himself came to her   15  In 1992, Rowling began to teach English. She lived with her daughter, Jessica, and   16  much time finishing the first Harry Potter book for the young. It came out in 1997. To her surprise, the book was very successful. The film came out in 2001. Now the Harry Potter series is   17   with people of all ages.

    Why is the series so successful? Many other magic stories   18  place in faraway lands in the past or future times, but Harry lives in modern England. He’s also a very normal boy. When other children read the story about Harry, they can   19   being like him.

    J.K. Rowling is very   20   with her success. She says she will go on writing children’s books.

13.A. songs   B. stories  C. subjects  D. novels

14. A. told   B. read   C. wrote   D. touched

15. A. mind   B. plot   C. theme  D. mission

16. A. took   B. cost   C. paid   D. spent

17. A. popular  B. helpful    C. usual   D. related

18. A. celebrate    B. raise     C. take     D. rush

19. A. finish   B. consider  C. practise  D. imagine

20. A. bored   B. glad   C. careful  D. disappointed

三、阅读理解（每小题2分）

A

Do you want to know how other people see the world? Listed below are three of the best books for children.

21.The three books are mainly written for ______ .

A. children B. adults C. parents D. teachers

22.Friendship is mentioned in ______ .

A. The Little Prince and The Emperor’s New Clothes

B. Charlotte’s Web and The Emperor’s New Clothes

C. The Little Prince and Charlotte’s Web

D. The Little Prince, Charlotte’s Web and The Emperor’s New Clothes

23.The emperor is such a man who ______ .

A. wants to get silver and gold 

B. is clever enough

C. can see the clothes in fact 

D. is fooled by the two brothers

B

    Once there was a jeweller, who was known as a good man. People always bought jewellery from him.

    One day, a rich man and his wife came to buy some diamonds（钻石） which would be put on a special dress for their mother. She would wear it for her eightieth birthday party.

The couple told the jeweller what they wanted, and offered him an honest price. He replied that he could not let them see the jewels at that moment, and asked them to come back later. However, they wanted the diamonds without delay（耽搁）. They also thought that the jeweller might be trying to get more money for the diamonds. So they offered him double, and then three times what the diamonds were worth. But he still refused to give them the diamonds. They went away, very angry.

Some hours later, the jeweller went to them and gave them the diamonds. They offered him the last price for the diamonds, which was three times what the diamonds were worth. But the jeweller said, “I will only accept the first price that you offered this morning.”

“Why, then, did you not sell us the diamonds right away?” they asked in surprise. He replied, “My father had the key to the box where the diamonds were kept. He was asleep, and I did not want to wake him. He is old and every hour of sleep does him good. For all the gold in the world, I would not disrespect my father or cause him discomfort.”

    The couple were deeply moved by the man’s words, so the husband said to him, “You are so kind! Thanks for the lesson you taught us—honour your father and your mother. One day your own children will give you the same respect and love that you have shown.”

24.The rich couple came to the jeweller to ______ .

A. get a special dress   B. make some jewellery

C. buy some diamonds  D. visit the jeweller’s dad

25.When the jeweller refused to give the diamonds, ______ .

A. the couple agreed with him

B. his father was still sleeping

C. the couple’s mum was angry

D. he wanted to raise the price up

26.The couple were deeply moved because the jeweller ______ .

A. brought them the diamonds at once

B. gave love and care to his father

C. sold the best diamonds to them

D. showed great respect to them

C

    A spacesuit is much more than a set of clothes astronauts wear on spacewalks. A full spacesuit is really a one-person spacecraft. The spacesuit protects the astronaut from the dangers of being outside in space.

Spacesuits help astronauts in several ways. Spacewalking astronauts face different temperatures. Around Earth, conditions in space can be as cold as around -156°C. In the sunlight, they can be as hot as 121°C. A spacesuit protects astronauts from those extreme temperatures.

Spacesuits also provide astronauts with O2 to breathe while they are in space. They contain water to drink during spacewalks. They protect astronauts from being hit by a small object in space. It may not sound very dangerous, but when even a small object is moving many times faster than a bullet, it can cause injury. Spacesuits also protect astronauts from radiation in space. The suits even have parts to protect astronauts’ eyes from the bright sunlight.

The spacesuit includes several pieces. The body equipment covers the astronaut’s body. The arm equipment covers the arms and connects to the gloves. The helmet（头盔） and another equipment are designed to protect the astronaut’s head while still allowing him or her to see as much as possible. The lower equipment covers the astronaut’s legs and feet. These parts have different functions（功能）, from keeping O2 within the spacesuit to protecting from being hit.

Under the spacesuit, astronauts wear a set of cooling equipment. Tubes（管子） are put into this tight-fitting piece of clothing that covers the whole body except for the head, hands and feet. Water moves through these tubes to keep the astronaut cool during the spacewalk.

On the back of the spacesuit is a backpack. This backpack provides O2 that astronauts breathe during a spacewalk. It also takes CO2 away. The backpack also provides electricity for the suit. A fan moves O2 through the spacesuit and life support systems, and a water tank holds the cooling water that moves through the cooling device.

  Another device called the Simplified Aid for Extravehicular Activity Rescue, or SAFER, is necessary. If an astronaut became separated from the space station, he or she could use SAFER to fly back.

27.What does a spacesuit provide according to the passage?

A. CO2. B. Food. C. Radiation. D. Electricity.

28.What can we learn from the passage?

A. A small object hurts astronauts a little in space.

B. SAFER helps astronauts return to the space station.

C. A spacesuit is just a set of clothes to wear in space.

D. An astronaut needs to wear the spacesuit all the time.

29.Which question can be answered in Paragraph 2 & 3?

A. What are the parts of a spacesuit?

B. What do astronauts wear in space?

C. Why do temperatures change a lot?

D. Why do astronauts need spacesuits?

D

    On June 22, 1927, Charles Lindbergh flew into Dayton, Ohio, for dinner at Orville Wright’s house. It had been just a month since the young pilot’s first ever individual nonstop crossing of the Atlantic, and he felt he ought to pay respects to the pioneer of flight.

Forty-two years later, on July 16, 1969, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong was allowed to bring a personal guest to the Kennedy Space Centre to view the launch of NASA’s towering Saturn V rocket. Armstrong invited his hero, Charles Lindbergh. That’s how fast technology advanced in the 20th century.

However, progress isn’t what it used to be now. Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon argues that by 1970, all the key technologies of modern life were in place: electricity, highways, telecommunications, and the like. After that, innovation（创新） and economic growth simply couldn’t keep going as fast as the last 100 years—a period Gordon calls “the special century”. Gordon argues the lives of people in developed nations look and feel the same in 2020 as they did in 1979 or 1989.

Slowing down is good in one small way, though bad in most of the ways that count. Rapid changes can sometimes be disorienting（令人迷惑的）. And when things develop at a lower speed, people and institutions do have more time to breathe and fit in. But slowing down isn’t what it should be. In many areas of technology, the forward movement today feels tragically slow, even nonexistent.

Consider consumer robotics. There’s huge potential for robots to help us. But home robotics companies seem to keep folding. For example, social robot maker Jibo closed in March after raising almost $73 million.

Our century’s one signature technology achievement is smartphones. At this point, we’ve had them in our pockets long enough to begin to appreciate their dangers. Meanwhile the list of possibly world-changing technologies that get people’s attention but still remain in the original stage is very long. Self-driving cars, AR glasses… Need I continue?

Indeed, these are all hard problems. But historically, solving the big problems has required continuous, large-scale investment（投资）, often with private markets and taxpayers sharing the cost. In this century, we need to undo（消除） some bad results of the last great boom（繁荣） by developing affordable zero-and-negative-emission technologies right now. That’s another hard problem—and to solve it, we’ll need to rethink what made the “special century” so special.

30.The writer mentions Charles Lindbergh in Paragraphs 1 and 2 to show that ______ .

A. Charles has contributed greatly to technology

B. Charles paid respects to the pioneer of flight

C. technology developed rapidly in the 20th century

D. technology has advanced to a higher new level

31.The underlined word “folding” in Paragraph 5 probably means “ ______ ”.

A. shutting B. separating C. growing D. operating

32.What can we learn from the passage?

A. Some world-changing technologies are not making progress.

B. Home robotics companies failed because of little investment.

C. It’s time to realise the advantages of fast development now.

D. It doesn’t take us long before we realise the dangers of smartphones.

33.The writer probably agrees ______ .

A. markets and taxpayers have a duty to develop technologies

B. innovation and investment are needed for technology advance

C. what made the last century special will happen in the new century

D. rapid changes in technology are bad in most of the ways that count

四、阅读与表达（每小题2分）

Sylvia Earle is one of the world’s most famous ocean scientists. She loves to go diving（潜水） in the ocean. She has spent a lot of her life both in and under the waves. Earle has led more than a hundred explorations and she set a record for diving in 1,000-metre-deep water on her own. In total, she has spent more than 7,000 hours underwater.

Earle describes the first time she went to the ocean, “I was three years old and I got knocked over by a wave. The ocean certainly got my attention! It was exciting. And since then, I have been attracted by life in the ocean.”

    Now, Earle’s job is to focus on developing a worldwide network of areas on the land and in the ocean. This network will protect and support the living systems that are important to the planet. She explains why this is important， “When I first went to the Gulf of Mexico in the 1950s, the sea looked huge and blue. It seemed to be too large and too wild to be destroyed by the action of people. Then, in only several tens of years, the blue wilderness of my childhood disappeared. By the end of the 20th century, about 90 percent of the sharks, whales, and many other large creatures had disappeared from the Gulf. They had been there for millions of years.”

Some people don’t understand why the ocean is so important to life on Earth. Earle explains， “The ocean is the foundation of our life support system. The ocean is alive. The living things in the ocean produce O2 and take up CO2. If we don’t have the ocean, we don’t have a planet that works.”

    The Gulf of Mexico has had many problems, especially after the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster（灾难） of 2010, but Earle says, “In 2003 I found good signs in clear, deep water far from the mouth of the Mississippi River. It was full of life. Large areas of the Gulf are not destroyed. Protecting the most important places will be good for the future of the Gulf and for all of us.”

34.Who is Sylvia Earle?

____________________________________________________________

35.How long has Earle spent underwater in total?

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36.When did Earle get knocked over by a wave?

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37.What will Earle’s worldwide network do?

____________________________________________________________

38.What do you think of Earle? Why?

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五、书面表达（10分）

39. 请根据中英文提示，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。

某英文学习杂志社正在向同学们征集有关英语学习策略的文章。请你以“How to learn English”为主题写一篇英语短文，把你三年来的英语学习经验介绍给同学们，说说英语学习的重要性并给出你对他们学习英语的建议。

    提示词语： important, as much as possible, write down

    提示问题：Do you think learning English is important? Why?

              ·What is your advice on learning English?

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