上海民办新竹园2014年第一学期预备年级期中考试卷.doc

上海民办新竹园2014年第一学期预备年级期中考试卷Part 2 Vocabulary and grammarI.Choice(选择题）10%1. Find which one of the underlined parts pronounces differently. A. honey B.dishonesty C. who D. home2. The underlined part of the word “soup” is pronounced the same as that of the word ? A. could B. sound C. group D. although3. It is reported that people in the world are suffering from the H1N1 flu. A. hundreds B. hundreds of C. ten hundreds D. ten hundreds of 4. -Will you us about your trip to Tokyo? -Ok, Shall i it in English or Japanese? A.talk, say B. tell, say C. talk, speak D. tell, speak5. There an exciting football matches on TV next week. A. will have B. are going to have C. are going to be D. is going to be6. They never have lessons at school at weekends, ? A. have they B. dont they C. do they D. havent they7. How long has your brother London? A. left for B. been to C. gone to D. been in 8. Tom is taller than girl in his class. A. any B. any of the other C. other D. any other9. The computer was very dear. It me 5,000 yuan. A. pay B. took C. spent D. cost10. Alice and Jane are sisters, but Alice is than Jane. A. a lot healthy B. more healthier C. much more healthier D. much healthierII. Fill in the blank with a proper word (用所给词的正确形式填空）1、 The time for the next flight is 1:10 p.m. (arrive)2、 Because of her ，she lost the chance to enter Miss Hong Kong contest. (care)3、 Good can cover distances of over a hundred miles a day. (cycle)4、 Help to some fruit, everyone. (you)5、 The robber is lying in wait for rich (travel)6、 After the rest, the boys played football in the playground.(excite)7、 I think Mickey Mouse looks far than Donald Duck.(fun)8、 Have you tried that new shampoo theyve been on TV? (advertisement)9、 Listening to the choir is one of the most wonderful on our school open day. ( act)III. Fill in the blank with the proper form of the verb. (用所给动词的正确形式填空）1. The boy is happy because he out all the newspapers.(sell)2. Please tell Mary to send an e-mail to me when she Beijing. (reach)3. He (fly) to Beijing three days ago and he (write) an e-mail to me yet.4. If you go to bed too late, you tired in the morning.(feel)5. Mr. Green them English since two years ago. (teach)6. Last summer my family in the U. S.A. for a month.（stay）7. Great changes place in Shanghai in the past few years. (take)8. Bill, together with his parents, an dinner when we saw them at a restaurant.IV. Rewrite the sentence as required. (改写句子）1. There is only one bottle of juice in the fridge. （对划线部分提问）2. Going skating in winter is great fun.(改为感叹句）3. They will finish building the house in two weeks. (对划线部分提问）4. Eric spent 40 yuan on the film ticket. (用pay改为同义句）5. Wuxi is about two hours train ride from Shanghai.（对划线部分提问）6. Dont, to, close, windows , forget, you ,when, the , leave(连词成句）V.Complete the following passage with the words or phrase in the box, Each word or phrase can only be used once.(将下列单词或词组的代码填入空格，每个单词或词组只能填一次）A.change B.happen C. jobs D.lives E.question F. understandIs a computer cleverer than I am? The answer to the is “No”. Your brain can the meaning of things better and create new ideas. However, one day computers may be able to do most thing that a human brain can do and do them better. They may be better than doctors, judges and teachers at their . If it is true, it raises interesting questions. What will to us if computers can do our jobs? How will we spend our ? Will we have nothing to do? Computers may change our lives. But will they make them better?Part 3 Reading and writing(36%)I. Read the passage and choose the best answer. (读短文并进行选择）6% Cars are an important part of life in the United States. Most people feel that they are poor without cars. Though he is poor, he doesnt feel really poor when he has a car. Henry Ford was the man who first started making cars. Maybe, he didnt know how much the car was going to affect (影响） the United States. The cars made the United States a country on wheels. And they have helped to make the United States a rich and modern country. The car has become popular in the United States today. The country is a very large one. The Americans like to move around in it. It is the easiest and cheapest to travel in cars. With a car people can go to any place without spending a lot of money.1. In the United States A. most people are too poor to buy cars B. poor people wouldnt like to buy cars C. all the poor people have cars D. people think they are not rich if they dont have cars2. What was Henry Ford? A. He was a car maker B. He was a car driver C. He was a car seller D. He was a traveler in a car3. According to the writer, cars in the United States A. are the nicest B. run fastest C. make the country richer D. make the country beautiful4. The Americans like to move in cars because A. there are no trains in the United States B. cars can take them to any place they want to go C. it doesnt take them much money to travel in car D.both B and C5. Which is true? A. Cars have become popular in the world. B. Cars is very expensive. C.There are many cars in the United States D. Americans dont like traveling by plane6. Which is the best title? A. A country on wheels B. A Rich and Modern Country C. Making Cars D. Travelling in carsII. Read the passage and answer the question. (读短文并回答问题）6% Wesley Chen is a Chinese American boy. The famous newspaper, The New York Times, once called him “ the fastest boy in the world.” Wesley was born in 1969. When he was three, he started running with his father. At the age of seven, Wesley could run a mile in six minutes and four seconds and a marathon in four hours and four minutes. A year later he reduced this time by more than an hour. By the time he was nine, Wesley had taken part in six marathons and held thirty world records. Do you know how big he was then? He weighed only 32 kilograms. Wesley was born with th body of a runner, but this alone would not make him a great runner. Very hard training is also necessary. Wesley begins training every morning at eight and runs for many miles. People hope that Wesley will one day be the first person to run a marathon in less than two hours.1. What did the New York Times call Wesley ?2. How fast could he run when he was seven?3. How old was Wesley when he could run a marathon in less than four hours?4. What has made Wesley a great runner?5. What can you learn from Wesley Chen?III.Cloze test.(完形填空）7% There was once a great artist in Belgium. He said that his daughter should never marry anyone but an artist. But she loved a blacksmith and the blacksmith fell in love with her too. When she told him that her father did not her to marry anyone but an artist, he left his trade(行当）and studied hard in order to become a good painter. He was certainly a man of great talent, and in a 2 time he became a good painter. One day the young painter went to the artists home and finding that the artist was not at home, so he decided to wait for him. Nobody had seen him come into the studio. He looked round at the pictures. At last he took a 3 and painted a bee on the leg of one of the figures and then brush down and turned to the back of the door. The artist was not yet in the room and did not see his 4 put the brush in its place. When he came in, he saw the bee at once. He thought that it was a real bee and tried to brush it off. When the young painter saw this, he could not help 5 . The artist smiled, too. When he saw his mistake and said that it was really a wonderful little painting. The young man told him the 6 story and soon after that the young painter and the artists daughter got 7 1. A. allow B. annoy C. argue D. agree2. A. quick B. slow C. short D. long3. A. brush B. book C. picture D.pan4. A. waiter B. visitor C. work D. headmaster5. A. smile B. smiling C. smiled D. smiles6. A.working B. free C. own D. whole7. A.marry B. married C.