上海市徐汇中学2011学年度第二学期初三英语摸底试卷.doc

1 / 8 上海市徐汇中学2011学年度第二学期初三英语摸底试卷Part2 Grammar and Vocabulary （第二部分 词汇和语法）（）31Joe made such great progress that he could speak Chinese fluentlyAa Ban Cthe D/（）32Children of his age get familiar cartoon series Afor Bto Cat Dwith（）33Im sure he has got the new book，because he often spends quite money on booksAlittle Bfew Ca little Da few（）34My little brother can ski as well as a bicycleAride Briding Crode Dridden（）35There are three cars hereOne is made in Germany，and two are made in China Aothers Bthe other Cother Dthe others（）36MrWhite has a beautiful garden with many in itAflowers Bgrass Cvillages Dcotton（）37 you are busy now，go next time，OK?ABecause BSince CFor DWhen（）38I dont think Chemistry is difficultYou be afraid of itAmustnt Bneednt Ccant Ddont（）39Just as she the house，the phone Awas leavingwas ringing Bleftwas ringing Chad leftrang Dwas leavingrang（）40Please on the bed so that the doctor can check your stomach Alie Blay Claid Dlain（）41Russia will sink the ISS into the ocean at the end of its life circle after 2020 leave space junkAin order to not Bin order that notCso that not Dso as not to（）42Of course，Jack denied with me in classAtalk Btalking Cbeing talked Dto talk（）43My little sister always wonders .Awhere does rain come from Bwhy does rain come from the sky Cwhere rain comes from Dthat rain comes from the sky（）44Reading some books good for all of us，isnt it?Aare Bhave Cis Dhas（）45Now more and more people are the dangers of drunk drivingAfond of Btired ofCaware of Dproud of（）46When visitors arrived at the theatre，there werent any seats .Aavailable Bconfident Ceffective Dattractive（）47We need fifteen more people our team to do the jobAbesides Bexcept Cas well Din addition（）48MrChen hasnt decided .AWhere he would go on the business trip Bwhen he would go on the business trip Cwhy he goes on a business trip Dwhether hell go on a business trip（）49A： ! Dont touch those wires! You might get a shock AExcuse me BIm afraid that it isnt very interesting CLaugh out DWatch out（）50A：Im sorry that I cant join in you in the discussion B： .AMy pleasureBThats all rightCThats right DDo you think so选择合适的单词或词组填空完成下列语段，并用对应字母A、B、C表示（共8分）Aout Bunderstand Cbetter DReasons EIn other wordsFafter all Gimply Hover Iat all In every class there are some students who do very well and some who do notThat doesnt mean that the students who do not well are stupidThere can be many 51 why a student does not do wellPerhaps the lesson is very smart but doesnt write exams very wellPerhaps they are smart 52 lazy and do not know how to study and dont study hardPerhaps，in fact，they are not smart % 53 The exam results dont really tell you that; they 54 tell you how well you have done compared with other students at the same grade level as you are 55 ，exams do not measure （衡量）accurately how smart you are because they cant measure that However，this is the way the system works and there isnt much you can do with itIf you 56 that getting good marks on an exam is about how to prepare for and to write exams/and not just about what facts you know，it can help you to do 57 The good news is that it will be 58 soonYou are very young and，for you, a year seems like a long time，but compared with the rest of your life，you will finish school and go into the working world soon enoughGetting a good job，of course, depends on having done well in school，so you need to decide that you are going to do well，no matter how hard it isVIIComplete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms （用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子）（共8分）59The series is about a group of students at a college in the fictional locale of Greendale（communication）60From the ，we have existed for one reason：the free and open sharing ofknowledge（begin） 61The little boy is afraid of at home alone at night（be）62The sick man is getting than yesterday（ill）63A coin worth five times as much as one penny is worth five ，but five pennies means five coins，each of which is a penny（penny）64Different materials are used to make enjoyable and cuddly（可爱的）to both young and old（toy）?65The farmers used a lot of ，! to kill the insects in the fields（chemistry）66There are three main areas of work related to a job（library）Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填一词）（共14分）67All of the teachers are in good health（改为否定句） the teachers are in good health68The manager had a talk with and pointed out your shortcomings（反意疑问句） The manager had a talk with and pointed out your shortcomings， 69People in Aftca still depend a lot on weather for food（改为感叹句） they still depend on weather for food!70They watched TV so attentively that they didnt notice may coming in（保持原句意思） They watched TV attentively notice my coming in71News quickly spread false reports of the football coachs personal affairs（改为被动语态） False reports of the football coachspersonal affairs quickly72We must have clean air to keep healthy（对划线句提问） we have clean air?73Visitors love this city because it has historical sights and delicious food（改为简单句）Visitors love this city its historical sights and delicious food Part 3 Reading and Writing （第三部分 读写）IVReading comprehension （阅读理解）：（12分）AChoose the best answer （根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案）：（12分） The Han Dynasty in China ruled from 206 B. C. to A.D.220A dynasty is a line of rulers from the same family that holds power for a long timeLiu Bang was the first ruler of the Hah DynastyHe called himself King of Han，which was one of the states he ruledLiu followed the teaching of the Chinese thinker Confucius（孔子）These teachings stressed love，goodness，and learningLiu set up a school for children to learn Confucianism（儒教）They also learned writing，poetry，and artA later Han ruler，Wudi，created a civil service examinationPeople could go to school to study for this testThose who passed became government officialsWudi opened the Silk RoadThis trade route linked China with other countries To the Han people，family included all of the living generationsIt also included ancestors（祖先）who had died and people who had not been born yetThe Han people believed that it was a good luck to have five generations living togetherThe father was the head of the familyHe decided what his children would do and whom they marriedA woman could be the family head if her husband diedBoys were educated at school，but girls received their education at homeMost of the people were fannersThey lived in mud housesMore than one family might live together and work the landThey worked from sunup until sundown About 10 percent of the people lived in the citiesCities were laid out ill a squareA wall surrounded each cityOne entered or left through a gate，watched by guardsPeople shopped in the marketplaceAt that time people lived peacefully and happily（）74A dynasty is a line of rulers from the same family that Aholds power for a long time Blives togetherCcreates a service exams Dsets up a school foe children（）75The Silk Road is Athe road leading to the rulers palace Ba trade route that linked China with other countries Cthe longest river in China Da marketplace in the west（）76It was a good luck for the Han people to have living together Apeople of five Bfive generationsCthree generations Da husband，a wife，and children（）77From the passage，one can infer（推断）that Liu Bang Awanted only to be rich Bliked war very muchCvalued education Dvalued trade（）78Hah cities were laid out in a squareThe underlined phrase were laid out means Awere located Bwere arranged Cmade of Dmade up（）79The best title for this passage is ALearning and Trade BHan PeopleCLife of People during the Han Dynasty DSilk Road in ChinaBChoose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：（12分） A ball is really simple，isnt it? Its round，and it rolls on the groundYou can throw it，kick it and hit it with somethingBalls come in all 80 ，from a small ping-pong ball to a large beach ballBalls can be hard or soft 81 and balls can be solid like a baseball or hollow like a basketballHave you ever thought about how many kinds of balls and ball games there are?People have played ball games for centuriesAncient people devised（发明）ball games，but without 82 language we dont know how those games were played，who was able to play them or what the 83 wereWe know that Mayan people of Central America 84 a ball game 3,000 years ago because archaeologists（考古学家）have found statues of ball playersExcavations（挖掘）of Mayan ruins have unearthed the remains of stadium seatingFrom the layout of the stadium we know that two teams played and fans for each team sat together on one sideFrom other statues we know that the players wore helmets（头盔）Think about the different kinds of ball games and how they are similar and differentHitting games include，for example，tennis and baseballGames with goals include basketball, soccer and polo（马球）Are you aware that there is lots of 85 in ball games? For example, when you kick a soccer ball harder，it travels furtherThis is one of the laws of the science of physicsIf you learn more about physics you could become a better ball player!（）80Aweights Bsizes Cforms Dlengths（）81Aitems Bjobs Cobjects Devents（）82Amodem Bforeign Cwritten Dspoken（）83Arules Bprojects Creasons Drecords（）84ADiscoveredBinvented Cprovided Dfound（）85Ascience Bprocess Cservice DinterestCRead the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给出）：（14分）You may have seen this happening in schools：some students might be studying almost all the time but they just scrape through（勉强通过）their exams，while some others may spend much l 86 time on their books but do much better in examsHow could this happen? Some people may blame the education system，but this just shows the d 87 between hard work and smart workPeople used to think that hard work is the o 88 way to successBut now they have understood that it is smart work that does the trick（成功） Hard workers dont mind working for long hours，while smart workers always think of various answers to these questions，Why should I suffer this? Isnt there a better way to do this? But for these people，we would still be using the abacus; computers wouldnt have been i 89 Progress in every field is the direct result of the Search for a better way by smart workersThere was a large soap factory in JapanOnce it received an unusual customer complaint-there was no soap in the soapbox he boughtHow could e 90 soapboxes go out of the factory? The manufacturing was fine，but in about one in ten thousand cases the packing machine let go an empty soapboxThere was no need to spend a lot of money r 91 the machine for such a minor defect（小缺点）The chief engineer soon worked out a solution：he used a huge X-ray machine which was connected to two large computers to find out the empty soapboxesAfter teaching the workers how to use it，he sat down in his seat，tiredSir，we could have solved the problem in a much simpler and cheaper way, a worked saidReally? How? We can put a huge fan near the packing machineThe air coming form the fan will b 92 away the empty boxes，leaving the other boxes undisturbed（不惊动）There would be no need for an X-ray machine，two computers，and operating by workers See，this is smart workWe should work hard like the engineers; but also think smart like this workerDAnswer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）：（12分）Anna really wanted to do something helpful for her school before she went to collegeBut she couldnt think of anything meaningful that would influence the lives of her schoolmatesOne day，Anna saw a girl sitting near the school library cryingAnna went up to her and said, Why are you so sad? Is there anything I can do to help you? Through their talking，Anna learned that the girl was in her first year and was having trouble finishing her schoolworkShe also learned that the girls parents were busy working to support their family and had no time to care about her studyAnna then decided to help the girl with her subjects after schoolSeveral days later，however，two other girls asked Anna hopefully