初中英语习题(自编).docx

1.1.Helen Monson has always been interested in helping her community. Her first volunteer experience was for the American Red Cross when she was in high school. When she was a school teacher, she also found time to volunteer. One year, she o a Super Saturday fun day for kids in the community. She also used to volunteer at the mint festival every year, One summer she served food, another year she hosted an art programme.After she retired, she started volunteering to help the old. When her father was older, he was not able to see as well as he used to, which made her sad because he had always enjoyed reading.She decided it would be fun to read to e people in her community. She also helped one woman write her stories. Ann was almost 100 years old, and Helen wrote down information about her life when she visited her. She put the information in a book and got it published. Ann was very t to share her life story with her children and grandchildren.After a hurricane(飓风) destroyed some southern cities, Helen volunteered again for the American Red Cross. She p food and answered phones in a care centre. She says,” I have always liked the Red Cross because the organization helps people in need no matter what.”One day Helen read an a in the newspaper about refugees(难民) who needed to learn English. Now, she meets once a week with Sahra, a 38-year-old woman from Somalia. Sahra is reading and writing skills. Helen gave Sahra a camera and asked her to take pictures of her daily life. She developed the pictures, and then asked Sahra questions about them. In the end, they wrote a book together and used the photos in the book. This helped Sahra learn many new words about her everyday life.Helen says, “The most r part of volunteer work is becoming friends with the people I help, They e my life as well as I do that for theirs.”2.“I sometimes get up at three or four in the morning and I surf the net.”“I often check my e-mail forty times a day just because I cannot b myself.”“I often spend more than three hours during one time on the net.”“I spend more time in chat rooms than with my real-1ife friends.”Do you know any people like these? They are part of a new addiction(瘾) called Internet addiction. Internet addicts spend at least thirty to forty hours online every week. The use of the Internet can be an addiction like d use. People lose c of the time they spend on the InternetFor example, one college student was missing for several days. His friends were worried, and they called the police. The police found the student in the computer lab: he was surfing the net for several days straight, and didnt c what school classes were going on. Studies show that about 6 to 10% of Internet users become addicted. And people worry about the teens because the Internet is changing the playing field for some of them. They spend more time in cyberspace than in the r with friends and family. Is “surfing the net” a hobby or an addiction for you? You may have a problem if you have these symptoms(症状):You do not go to i family activities or you do not do school work because you like to spend hours on the Internet.You cant wait for your next online time. You s you would spend a short time online, but then you spend several hours. You go out with your friends less and less.3.I worked for a short time as a cashier(出纳员) at a restaurant a few months ago. I also helped to clean up the tables when it was very busy. One night, just before Christmas, I found a large black w on the floor near one of the tables. I guessed I should check it to find out who was the owner, but I was very busy at the time. And I imagined that if there was something v in it, the owner would be back. Sure enough, an hour later a man came up to the counter and asked if anyone had found his left thing. I asked him to d it, and after he did it exactly, I gave him back. He e his thanks when I handed it to him. He asked me if I had opened it, and when I told him “no”. At once he opened it and showed that it had nearly $800 in cash. He took out a twenty-dollar bill and handed it to me and I was amazed at this. “A reward for your honesty,” he said and then turned and walked away. Thinking about it later, I began wondering whether I would have been honest if I had known what was in it! I thought that if I had no way to find the owner and no one r to get it, I might keep it. But it also came into my mind that I actually saved someones Christmas plans by finding the important thing. The good f it gave me was w more than anything could buy. 2.1.make delicious chosen decide lay We know the mosquito very well. Mosquitoes fly everywhere. They can be found almost all over the world, and there are more than 2,500 kinds of them. No one likes the mosquito. But the mosquito may that she loves you. She? Yes, she. Its true that male mosquito doesnt bite(咬) and only the female mosquito bites because she needs blood to eggs. She is always looking for things or people she wants to bite. If she likes what she finds, she bites. But if she doesnt like your blood, she will turn to someone else for more blood. Next time a mosquito bites you, just remember you are . Youre different from the others!2.speaking mainly appeared celebration partly This is a song millions of Americans will hear this New Years Eve. It is called Auld Lang Syne (友谊地久天长). It is the traditional music played during the New Years . Auld Lang Syne is an old Scottish poem. It tells about the need to remember old friends.The words “auld lang syne” mean “old long since”. No one knows who wrote the poem first. However, a version by Scottish poet Robert Bums was published in 1796. The words and music we know today first in a songbook three years later.The song is played in the United States on New Years Eve. The version (译文) you are hearing today is by the Washington Saxophone Quartet. As we end our program with Auld Lang Syne. I would like to wish all of our radio friends a very Happy New Year! This is Buddy Thomas .3.1.The first zoo we know of was in Egypt around 1500 B. C. It was Queen Hatshepsuts zoo. She wild animals as gifts from the countries that her army had conquered(征服). Before modern zoos, there were small collections of animals called menageries. In most menageries, animals were kept in small dirty cages. However, in modern zoos, animals are kept in habitats(栖息地) that look like areas. This change did not take place all at once. For many years, the largest and most modern zoos kept animals in cages. Some zoos still keep animals caged. Often, newspapers write articles about this. They speak out zoos for the way the animals are treated.Long ago, the purpose of zoos was to let people see rare animals from distant places that most people could never visit. But now there are many other for keeping animals in zoos. For example, many animal species are in danger. Some animals live only in limited places. Zoologists try to breed some of them and return the species to its native habitat.At one time, hunters caught and sold animals to zoos that needed them. This still occurs today. But now, zoos often sell their animals to other zoos. , many countries now have laws that doesnt allow people to catch or kill wild animals. So, the animals you see in the zoo may never have lived in the wild. They probably were born and raised in zoos.People who animal rights dont like the display of animals in zoos. But other people feel that zoos care for and protect the animals. They feel that this is why many exotic species are still alive today.1. A) boughtB) receivedC) sentD) borrowed2. A) nativeB) narrow C) naturalD) national3. A) againstB) insideC) from D) behind 4. A) chancesB) projectsC) debatesD) reasons 5. A) AlsoB) InsteadC) However D) Finally6. A) play a trick onB) get tired ofC) pay attention toD) go on with2.The little village of Milford in Derbyshire is usually quiet and peaceful and there is almost no crime. However, all this changed in the summer of 1995, when the Potter family moved into No. 16 Church Lane. There was Mr and Mrs Potter, their six children, aged between three and twenty-two, three dogs, several cats and two goats. The Potter family were noisy: the children played loud music day and night and the animals were never quiet.Dorothy Price lived next door to the Potters. She was an elderly woman who had lived in Milford all her life. At first, the noise didnt disturb her and she told other neighbours that the Potters seemed to be a pleasant family who were always friendly. But as time went by and the noise got worse, Dorothy started to get very upset. One day, she complained to Mrs Potter that the goats had been making a noise all night and had kept her awake. On another occasion, she told Mr Potter to stop running his car engine on Sunday mornings because she couldnt hear her favourite radio programme. A week later, she asked the Potters to stop their dogs from jumping into her garden and making a mess(乱糟糟) in the flower beds. Nothing changed and things went from bad to worse. Dorothy Price decided it was time for action. One night, she went into the Potters garden and gave sleeping pills(药片) to the dogs and goats. For once, she had a peaceful nights sleep, but the following morning all the animals were still asleep. The Potters called the police. When the police officer arrived, Mr Potter told him that Dorothy Price had tried to poison his animals the night before and that she was always complaining about his family. Just then, Dorothy appeared at her front door. “The Potters have caused nothing but trouble since they moved in,” she said to the police officer. “Im an animal lover myself, but the way the Potters treat their animals is cruel.” She told him that she had given the animals sleeping pills and said that she was sorry, but in the end she had had no choice; it was the only way she could get a good nights sleep. 1. Where did both the Potters and Dorothy Price live?2. How old was Mr and Mrs Potters eldest child?3. What did Dorothy Price like to do on Sunday mornings? 4. Did it have any effect for Dorothy Price to complain to the Potters?5. Why didnt the Potters animals make noise one morning?6. What do you think of the way Dorothy Price dealt with the noisy neighbour? Why? 3.Kristinas family was going to visit her grandparents. Kristina was so excited! It had been months since their last visit. They called a taxi to take them to the airport. “This will save us lots of time,” Dad said. “We wont have to worry about parking.” However, the streets were crowded with cars, and the taxi slowly made its way to the airport through the traffic. They arrived at the airport very late, got stuck at a checkpoint for a while, and had to run all the way to the gate to catch their plane. Out of breath, they finally reached the gate. The clerk saw them dash up and shook her head sadly. “You checked in too late,” the clerk said, “so we had to give your seats to other people. Now the plane is completely full.” The clerk booked them on another flight, which would leave two hours later. The family was upset, but all they could do was to wait. Mum and Dad were worried now because they were going to be late, and Grandma and Grandpa would have to wait too.After two long hours, the family finally got on a plane. When they got off the plane after the quick flight, Grandma and Grandpa greeted them with huge smiles. Mum, Dad and Kristina were very glad to see them at last, and they couldnt wait to get to their house.Grandpa took Kristinas hand, and they happily chatted and laughed as they went together to pick up the luggage. They waited and waited, but their luggage was nowhere to be seen! Dad asked an airport worker for help, and she looked on her computer for a minute or two. “Im sorry, but it seems that your luggage didnt get on your plane,” she said. “It wont be here for another hour.”After another hour, the family picked up their luggage and left the airport. The sun was setting as they pulled into her grandparents driveway. Everyone was hungry and tired. 1. Kristinas family went to the airport by taxi because _. A) they didnt have a car B) there was a lot of traffic C) they had heavy luggage D) they wanted to save time 2. The underlined word “dash” in Paragraph Two probably means “_”. A) pass the entrance safely B) look for something carefully C) call someone loudly D) go to some place quickly3. Kristinas family couldnt get on the first plane b