期中考试英语试题
一. 单项选择.(每小题1分,共20分)
( )1. I was thinking ____ going out for a picnic. Suddenly it began to rain.
A. out B. of C. into D. on
( )2. Linda ___her homework when her mother came back home last night.
A. is doing B. has done C. was doing D. will do
( )3. Mike never has lunch at home on school days, _________?
A. has he B. hasn’t he C. does he D. doesn’t he
( )4 The sandwiches are delicious. Can I have _____ one?
A. other B. another C. the other D. others
( )5. The lively music makes me _____
A. sad B. mad C. happy D. sadly
( )6. –-What's wrong with my son, doctor?
---______ serious. Just a slight cold.
Something B. Anything C. Nothing D. Everything
( )7.---How do you like your English teacher?
---He is great. We all love him. We _____ friends since three years ago.
A. have become B. have been C. have made D. were
( )8. ---_____weather! It’s raining.
---Bad luck. We have to stay at home all day.
A. What fine B. How fine C. How bad D. What bad
( )9. ---What do you think of the book –Harry Potter?
---I like it very much. It’s ___interesting ___exciting.
A. neither; nor B. either; or C. not only; but also D. not; but
( )10. Carl ___his bike and hurt his legs yesterday.
A. set off B. took off C. fell off D. turned off
( )11. I saw her ____a story book in the room at 7:00 last night.
A. read B. reads C. to read D. reading
( )12. The pizza _______ too strong.
A. feel B. sound C. tastes D. looks
( )13. It ____them half an hour _____ the difficult problem yesterday.
A. takes; to work out B. spent; working
C. took; to work out D. spent; on working at
( )14.--- What is she like? --- She is very _____.
A. beautiful B. tall C. short D. careful
( )15. Thanks for ______me such a great photo. You look pretty good.
A. send B. sent C. to send D. sending
( )16. It’s ______ to say hello to your teacher when you meet him.
A. polite B. impolite C. rude D. terrible
( )17. We Chinese like to _______when we first meet.
A. touch hands B. shake hands C. wave hands D. kiss hands
( )18. “You must keep _____in the library”, the librarian said to me in a low voice.
A. quite quiet B. quite quietly C. quiet quite D. quietly quite
( )19. -----_______is it from here to the Golden Street?
-----About half an hour’s walk.
A. How far B. How long C. How often D. How much
( )20. The school is opposite _____ the hospital.
A. with B. to C. onto D. into
二.完形填空(本大题有10小题。每小题2分,共10分)
Lily lives in the Zhongshan Road. She 21 in No.6 Middle School. Every day she 22 early and goes to school early. Her home is not far 23 her school, so she often walks instead of 24 a bus. 25 the bus stop there is a fruit shop. It sells different 26 . Lily often buys them in it and she is good at buying fruit. From the bus stop she walks 27 the Nanjing Street. Then she 28 the third turning on the right. Her school is about 50 metres 29 on the right. 30 it there is a park.
( )21. A. studies B. leaves C. likes D. plays
( )22. A. gets on B. gets off C. gets to D. gets up
( )23. A. to B. at C. from D. away
( )24. A. having B. taking C. going D. riding
( )25. A. In B. From C. Next to D. Of
( )26. A. kind of fruits B. kinds of fruits C. much fruit D. many fruits
( )27. A. along B. across C. through D. on
( )28. A. comes B. stops C. through D. takes
( )29. A. long B. out C. along D. away
( )30. A. A lot of B. Most of C. A kind of D. In front of
三、阅读理解。(本大题共15小题,每小题2分,共30分)
A
An old lady in a plane had a blanket(毯子) over her head and she did not want to take it off. The air hostess(空姐) spoke to her, but the old lady said,“I have never been in a plane before, and I am frightened(害怕的). I am going to keep this blanket over my head until we are back on the ground again!”
Then the captain came. He said, “Madam, I am the captain of this plane. The weather is fine, there are no clouds in the sky, and everything is going very well.” But she continued to hide.
So the captain turned and started to go back. Then the old lady looked out from under the blanket with one eye and said, “I am sorry, young man, but I don’t like planes and I am never going to fly again. But I’ll say one thing,” She continued kindly, “You and your wife keep your plane very clean!”
( )31. An old lady had ________________.
A. glasses B. a blanket over her head C. a coat D. a basket
( )32. She didn’t want to_______________________ .
A. take it off B. turn it off C. get on D. talk about it
( )33.______________________ spoke to her first.
A. The air hostess B. The man next to her
C. Her husband D. One of her friends
( )34. The old lady had never been ______________ before.
A. about B. home C. in a plane D. in hospital
( )35. The old lady didn’t like planes and she was never going_______.
A. to fly again B. shopping C. to go abroad D. to go home
B
Computers are useful machines.They can help people a 1ot in their everyday life.For example,they can help people save much time,and they can help people work out many problems they can't do easily.Our country asks everyone to learn to use computers except the old people.
Today more and more families own computers.Parents buy computers for their children.
They hope computers can help them improve(提高)their studies in schoo1.But many of the children use computers to play games,to watch video or to sing Karaoke.instead of studying.So many teachers and parents complain(抱怨) that computers can not help children to study but make them fall behind.So computers are locked by parents in the boxes.
In some other countries,even some scientists hate computers.Thy say computers let millions of people lost their jobs or bring them a lot of trouble.
Will computers really bring trouble to people or can they bring people happiness ?It will be decided by people themselves.
( )36. Why do we say the computer is a useful machine? Because .
A.our country asks us to learn it B.it can help us a lot
C.we can use it to play games D.it can help us to find jobs
( )37.What do many teachers and parents complain about?
A.Their students and children use computers to play games.
B.Computers let them lost their jobs. C.Computers make the students and children fall behind.
D.Computers bring people a lot of trouble.
( )38. In this passage we know computers ___________ .
A.also bring us trouble B.bring us happiness only
C.are hated by people D.are bad for people’s health
( )39. ---Can computers really help children to study? ---________
A.Yes,they can. B.It’s easy to say.
C.No,they can’t. D.Of course not.
( )40. How do you understand the last sentence of this passage? I think it means_________.
A.computers are used by people
B.people can live well without computers
C.one must decide how to use computers
D. computers are strange machine
C
( )41. Li Lei likes doing sports. He likes playing almost all the ball games. He wants to join a club to enjoy his hobby.
( )42. David likes collecting stamps, and he likes Chinese stamps best.
( )43. Liu Mei is good at writing. She enjoys writing and writes a lot during her spare time. She likes many kinds of writing styles especially poems.
( )44. Tina is a kind girl. She loves animals very much.
( )45. Fiona is very shy. She wants to make more friends, but doesn’t know how.
Friend Club
Are you too shy to others? Come here. We will offer you a good stage to show yourself and make friends.
Pet Club
Are you kind and careful? Do you love little animals? Come and share with us how you take care of your pets.
Writing Club
Do you like writing? Or do you have problems in writing? Come to our club and enjoy writing.
Stamp-collecting Club
Are you a stamp collector? We have many stamps, we like to share them with you.
Poem Club
Are you a poem lover enjoy writing? Come to join us. Let’s enjoy the wonderful poems together.
Swimming Club
Do you want to lose weight? Do you want to keep fit? Come to swim with us.
Ball-game Club
You can play any ball games you like in our club. We are all ball-game fans. Come to play ball games with us.
四、看图填空。(每空1分,共15分)
看图填空:根据下图提示在短文的横线上填入适当的词,使短文意思完整。每空一词。
One day a ??1? ?arrived at a woman's house. He borrowed a pan ??2? ?__her. Very soon he returned ??3? ?to her. He also gave her a ??4? ?one and said it was a baby. The woman ??5? ?very pleased and took it.
A ??6? ?days later the farmer had some visitors. He asked the woman to lend him the ??7? ?again. He ??8? ?not return it unitl the woman came to get it back. He told her that the pan was ??9? . But of course, it was only a joke. He gave it back ??10? ?her at last.
五、读写综合(本题分为A.B两部分,共20分)
A.信息归纳(共5小题,每小题1分)
Spring Bud Project(春蕾计划)is built to help poor young girls return to school. In the past ten years, more than 10 million children haven’t been able to finish school and 70 % of them are girls. In fact, girls’ education has become the most difficult problem in China.
By the end of the 2005 school year, Spring Bud Project had helped 300,000 girls return to school and set up more than 1,000 girls’ classes in 27 provinces. Your donations(捐款)can also help the girls.
a) A donation of $ 400 can help one girl study in a school for a whole school year.
b) A donation of $20,000 can support 50 girls above 4th grade for a year. $5000 of the $20,000 will be used for technical training(技术训练).
c) Any donation more than $500,000 at a time can set up a special fund under the project with the donor’s(捐赠者的)name.
The address is: Spring Bud Project, No. 15 Jianguomennei Street, Beijing, China (100730).
Who does Spring Bud Project help?
46____________
About 47__girls have left schools without finishing their study in the past 10 years.
A donation of $1,200 to the project will help __48_____ girl(s) study in a school for a whole school year.
If you donate $20,000 to the project, the money can be used __49_____.
How much should Mr Brown donate at a time if he wants to set up a special fund under Spring Bud Project with his name?
50.__________________
B.书面表达(15分)
86. 要求:根据提示以第一人称,写一篇不少于80词的故事。短文必须符合内容,故事完整,情节合理。表达准确,文字简练,文章开头已经给出。
今天我们的老师告诉我们关于希望工程的事。我们知道在农村还有许多孩子没有机会上学。
下课后,我回家看了放零花钱的盒子。我本想为自己买一个新书包。但现在我想,农村的孩子渴望上学,于是我决定把我的钱寄给他们。
我立刻给他们写信,写完后,我去邮局,把信连同我所有的零花钱寄了出去。我希望这能对他们有帮助。
参考词汇:
have no chance to do (没有机会做…) , buy oneself sth. (买…给自己),be eager to do (渴望做…), the box with my pocket money(放零花钱的盒子)
Today our teacher told us something about Project Hope.
We heard that…