初二英語(yǔ)讀寫(xiě)能力競(jìng)賽試卷

1、初二英語(yǔ)讀寫(xiě)能力競(jìng)賽試卷一、從各小題所給的A、B、C、D四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中選出可以填入相應(yīng)空白處的最佳答案。（每小題1分，共15分）I stood in the doorway, watching my older brother carefully putting clothes into his bag .I coughed uneasily. Finally 1 that I was there, Rocky turned toward me with a sad smile."I ' m 2 tomorrow, " he said.“I know. " M

2、y 3 was almost a whisper （低聲）.I was 4 at myself for being so weak ,but I wasn ' t about to cry .“My 5 is early ,so there is still 6 time to come to the airport,“ he said .Seeingthe 7 look on my face ,he quickly added,“I promise won' t leave without sayinggoodbye.”I tried to say 8 ,but didn &

3、#39; t . It ' s a9waysto keep quiet if you ' re about to cry .“You promised you wouldn ' t cry, " he said to me, thinking that I was close to.I remember the day he taught me how to ride a bike. 11 I thought he was always right behind me ,holding the seat to keep me from 12 .I was ha

4、ppy with this ,but he knew he couldn ' t hold me up all my life .He told me that one day he would have o let go.His coughing stopped my thinking .What was left to say? How could I say13 to theperson who taught me everything?The next morning I 14, looked at my alarm clock ,and realized he had lef

5、t 15ago .We never even said goodbye.Goodbye, Rocky! Although he may have been many miles away, I knew he heard me, even if it was only an answer in his heart.1. A .forgettingB.realizingC. watchingD. learning2. A .arrivingB.livingC. comingD. leaving3. A .voiceB.soundC. noiseD. word4. A .gladB.movedC.

6、 angryD. pleased5. A .shipB.flightC. trainD. bus6. A .enoughB.littleC. noD. busy7. A .surprisedB.excitedC. sadD. happy8. A .anythingB.everythingC. somethingD. nothing9 A strangerBbetterC worseDeasier10 AtearsBsmilesC wordsDsadness11 AAt lastBFrom now onC At firstDSo far12 AridingBrunningC walkingDfa

7、lling13 AgoodbyeBhelloC yesDsorry14 Agave upBstood upC looked upDwoke up15 AminutesBhoursC daysDweeks二、在短文的空格內(nèi)填入適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，使其內(nèi)容通順，每空格限填一詞，首字母已給。（每小題 1 分，共 7 分 )Reading books is a good hobby for all kinds of reasons.First, reading books is f_16_. You can always keep yourself amused if you like reading. Thi

8、s is especially useful when the weather is bad. It is a relaxing hobby too. You can really become lost in a book.Next, you can read a book a_17_: in a car, in a waiting-room, on a plane, in bed even in the bath. All you need is a book! Reading is a convenient hobby as it is easy to stop and then sta

9、rt again.A_18_ good reason for reading books is that it is useful. If you read as a hobby you will get better and better at it. This m_19_ that you will read faster and will become better at understanding what you read. As your reading improves, you will probably find your schoolwork becomes much e_

10、20_. Many school subjects depend on good reading and, as you read, you learn more and more.Some people say that reading is out of date. This is not true. You have to be able to read to use a computer and, the better you read, the better your computer skills will be. Reading is n_21_ out of date!Good

11、 readers are most likely to be good writers, too. They are usually good at spelling as well, and have more things to write about. Reading books is a wonderful hobby, one of the best.W_22_ other hobby could be more useful, or more enjoyable ？三、閱讀理解(本題有29小題，每小題2分，共58分)(A)Parents are the closest people

12、 to you in the world. They love you just because you are you. Andthey would do anything for you.Like a lot of middle school students, Zhuang Shuxia has a problem. She and her parents don t ' t geon well. "I really want to be my Daddy' s little girl. But it feels like he just doesn'

13、t unctalks at me and doesn ' t listen. " said Zhuang, a Grade 9 student in HangzhouoDo you and yparents also have problems?Well, why don ' t you all take a walk and have a talk on Monday? It'the International Day of Families. On May 15, people around the world give thanks for goodth

14、ings about their families and work on family problems.A study last year showed that 1,500 Beijing families had the same problem as Zhuang' s family:The children, 12 to 15 years old, didn' t like talking with their parents much. They werenat home. Of course, lots of kids feel that way. But yo

15、u and your parents will be much happier ifyou can be friends. Here are some ways to have a good talk with them:1 .Find a good time to talk, like when you' re eating dinner, going out for a walk or watching TV.2 .Tell them something you ' re interested in, or ask themtheoutves when they were

16、young.They love to talk about it.3 .Listen to them carefully, and look them in the eye.4 .Be honest. Your parents will trust you more. And a trusting family is a happy family.23. What is Zhuang Shuxia ' s problem?A. Her father thinks she is old enough.B. Her father doesn ' t like to talk wit

17、h her.C. She really wants to be a little girl again.D. She and her father don ' t understand each other well.24. What does the writer suggest the students do on the International Day of Families?A. They should remember the special day for the families in the world.B. They should take a walk and

18、have a talk with their parents.C. They should do something to celebrate the International Day of Families.D. They should help others to solve their family problems.25. In this passage the writer tells the children, 12 to 15 years old, .A. how to show their thanks to their parentsB. how to make frien

19、ds with their parentsC. how to feel happier at home in different waysD. how to win their parents trusintgbytolitshtenir parents(B)Paragraph 1Scientists have learned a lot about kinds of food people need. They say that there are several kindsof food that people should eat every day. They are: (1) gre

20、en and yellow vegetables of all kinds; (2)citrus ( 柑橘 ) fruits and tomatoes; (3) potatoes and other fruits and vegetables; (4) meat of allkinds, fish and eggs; (5) milk and foods made from milk; (6) bread or cereal ( 谷類(lèi) ), rice is also inthis kind of food ; (7) butter, or something like butter.Parag

21、raph 2People in different countries and different places of the world eat different kinds of things. Foodsare cooked and eaten in many different kinds of ways. People in different countries eat at differenttimes of the day. In some places people eat once or twice a day; in other countries people eat

22、 threeor four times a day. Scientists say that none of the differences is really important. It doesnwhether foods are eaten raw or cooked, canned or frozen. It doesn t matter if a person eats dinnerat 4 o clock in the afternoon or at eleven o clock at night. The important thing is what you eatevery

23、day.Paragraph 3There are two problems, then , in feeding the large number of people on earth. The first is to findsome way to feed the world s populationosoontheaits hungry. The second is to make sure thatpeople everywhere have the right kinds of food to make them grow to be strong and healthy.26. A

24、ccording to the scientists, which of the following group of food is the healthiest for your lunch?A. chicken, apples, cereal, cabbages B. potatoes, carrots, rice ,breadC. oranges, bananas, fish, tomatoes D. beef, pork, fish, milk27. If there is Paragraph 4, what do you think is going to be talked ab

25、out?A. When people eat their lunchB. What to do with the two problemsC. How to cook food in different waysD. Why people eat different kind of food(C)One of this summer s hottest books is“ That Guy Was Cool. ” Sounds like a great book forkids, doesn t it? But parents and teachers wanrtetaod this one,

26、 too. It can teach them something about the language of today s kids.So lots of people, young and old, went to see the book asuthor, 19-year-old Korean girl Guiyeoni, on Saturday. She was in Beijing to sign books for her fans.“ Guiyeoni wrote a story that is near to us and goes to our hearts,” said

27、a Junior 2 studenBeijing. “ When I read it, I laughed and I cried.”Like the " Meteor Garden " TV("That Guy Was Cool " tells an unusual story of love between two students. The girl is sweet, but she' just average (般的).The boy is good-looking and has everything, but he is often

28、 unhappy because his father died when he was very young. They become close and help each other to be happy. In the end, they fall in love.“ The girl in the book is like me. She s simple and moody, ” said Guiyeoni.Guiyeoni s book doesn t only use words. It also uses things like emoticons. Emoticons a

29、re small icons, like smiling faces, and they are used to show emotions. Kids know what these things mean, because they often use them when they talk on the Internet or send messages with mobile phones.Guiyeoni said she wrote this way because of her young readers. “ Writingwith pictures is vivid and

30、can say a lot of things,” she said.Guiyeoni began writing the bookstory osn the Web in 2001 when she was a Senior 2 student.Last year, she put that online story together to make this book.“ That Guy Was Cool ” hasmade into a film, and it will come out in Korea next month.This is Guiyeoni firsst of f

31、our books, and she hopes to keep writing as she goes through college.She also has a message for young writers.“ I think that if they try hard, lots of young people can do this.28. Guiyeoni is.A. a girl who falls in love with her classmate.B. the wr iter of “ Meteor Garden. ”C. a young writerD. one o

32、f the emotions.29. which of the following may Not be an emotion?A. 8-) B. See you. C. D.30. The author used emoticons to write the book because .A. she really likes themB. she wants her young readers to be interestedC. pictures can say lots of thingsD. she was only a Senior student when she was writ

33、ing the story31. Parents like to read this book because.A. it ' s interesting and vividB. of the way the author wrote the storyC. the story goes to their heart.D. it ，s helpful for them to know about their children better.32. Which of the following sayings has the closest meaning to“I think that

34、 if they try hard, lots ofyoung people can do this ” ?A. Seeing is believing.B. Time flies.C. No news is good news.D. Where there is a will, there is a way.(D)It seems to be strange to you there is a blind spot on the eye. Here is an interestingexperiment that can make something disappear, When one

35、eye is open?Make a card about the size of a postcard and write two English letters L and R on it. L on theleft and R on the right. first, hold the card about 80 cm away and you see both the letters. Therclose your right eye and look at the letter R only with your left eye. And now, as you move theca

36、rd slowly towards you, youll see the letter L disappearing. But if you move the card nearer to your lace, the letter will be seen again. Now do the same experiment with your left eye closed,you ll see the letter R disappeing.Why did the letter disappear? It is because there is a blind spot on the ey

37、e. When the image ofthe letter falls on the blind spot, it won' t be seen. That is why either of the letters disappear.33. The word dis appear" in the first paragraph means.A.消散 B.丟失 C.消失 D.遺失34. You fail to see the letter" L" in the experiment becauseA. your eyes are poorB. you m

38、ove it close to your eyeC. its image falls on the blind spot D. your left eye is not open35. In which order（順序）should you do the experiment?a. hold the cardb. move the card nearerc. close your right eyed. write two English letterse. look at the letter Rf. make a cardA. f-d-a-b-c-eB. a-c-f-d-e-bC. f-

39、a-d-c-b-eD. f-d-a-c-e-b36. This passage mainly （主要）tells us.A. there is a blind spot on the eyeB. an interesting experimentC. where the blind spot isD. how to find the blind spot（E）Ron is ten years old. He loves to watch TV. But for one full year he did not watch TV at all.What w as the reason? Ron

40、' s parents said they would give him $ 600 if he didn' t watch TV for year.Ron' s parents thought he watched too much TV. One day his mother saw a news paper story about a boy who didn ' t watch TV for a year. She showed the story toHRonliked the idea. He turned off the TV right away

41、, and said,“It doesn ' t bother me not to watch TV. I just want the _ ” money.At first, Ron ' s parents were very happy. Ron read books and newspapers, played outside, played computer games, and played cards with his mother. But after some time, he got bored.Every morning, he asked his paren

42、ts,“ What are we doing tonight? ” Sometimes his mother andfather wished he would watch TV just for one evening. Ron always said,“ No, it would cost memoney!”Finally the year was over. Then Ron started watching his favourite TV shows all day long again.Ron got the money from his parents. What does he

43、 plan to do with the $ 600?"I want to buymyself a TV set! ” he said.37. Ron didn ' t watch TV for one year because.A. he wanted themoneyB. watching TV too muchisbadC. he wanted to study harder D. he wanted to learn from theboy38. “It doesn ' t bother me not to watch TV " means &quo

44、t; It ' s to watch TV ".A. waste timeB. important for meC. not useD. not important for me39. The best title for the story is.A. A Funny StoryB. A Year without TVC. A Good BoyD. Buying a TV Set（F）London has a new magazine .But it is not printed on paper .Everyone who has a television can rec

45、eive it because it in on TV.If you want to read the magazine, you have to have a decoder（ 解碼器）.Each page of it_is numbered,so you only have to dial the number to choose which subject you want to read about .There is a wide choice everything is included from cooking to the latest sports news .If you

46、want to read the news ,the first thing you have to do is to turn to the index （索弓I） pagewhich has an easy-to demember page number ,100 for example .The news is on pages 101 to 109 so you push out the numbers and the news appears written across your screen .Perhaps you wantto go out in the afternoon

47、,so you press 181 ,and a brightly colored weather map appears on the screen .But the weather is terrible so you decide to go shopping and dial 162 for a list of the week' s best bargains .But should you drive or take the train? To answer that question you only have to press 189 for the traffic r

48、eport .It is very simple to use .But probably the best thing about the service is that it is being updated all the time .Journalists type new material directly onto the screen and whole pages of the magazine can be replaced in minutes .40. Where can you see this new magazine?A. In a bookshop. B. In

49、a library. C. On television. D. In a reading room.41. If you want some information about weather, you should press.A. 162 B. 189 C. 109 D. 18142. We can know from the passage that .A. the magazine can be bought at any shopB. most of the postmen in London will lose their jobs some dayC. everyone can

50、read this magazine if they have a televisionD. the readers can get all kinds of information staying at home43.1 n the sentence “Each ptaisenoimbered ” ,here means the .A. decoder B. magazine C. subjectD. program 44.The passage is mainly about .A. a new magazine that is printed in LondonB. a new way

51、of getting newsC. a popular TV program about magazinesD. a new idea of reading quickly(G)Tom owned a small shop. He worked hard. It was open from seven in the morning until eleven at night and sold many different things. Tom worked hard in his shop but he had a good business and he was happy.Then a

52、supermarket opened across the street. The supermarket was ten times the size of Tom ' shop.s.The manager of the supermarket wanted to take people away from Tom. He found out what Tom prices were and then made his lower than TomPeople quickly stopped buying things from Tom sshop. They bought ever

53、ything from thesupermarket instead. Soon Tomess wbuasinvery bad and he was angry.“ It s not fair,” Tom thought, “ I must do something to teach that supermarket manager a lesson.The price of steak in the supermarket was $ 5.00 a pound. Tom put a sign in his window,-$4.50 a pound. ”The next day the pr

54、ice of steak in the supermarket was $4.25 a pound, Tom changed the sign in hiswindow.“ Ste-a-k$4.00 a pound. ”An hour later, the sign in the supermarket said, -$3.75 a po“unSdte. ak Ten minutes later the signin Tom s window said, -“-S$t3e.a5k0 a pound.” Five minutes later the sign in the supermarket

55、said, “ Stea-k- $ 2.50 a pound. ” Twenty seconds later the sign in Tom s window said,“ Stea-k- $ 1.00 a pound.”The manager of the supermarket ran cross the street into Tom sshop. “ Thisprice cutting muststop, ” he said, “ Steak is costing me $ 4.00 a pound. I m selling it at $ 2.50 a pound. Imoney e

56、very minute! ”“ I ll stop cutting all my prices,” Tom said, “ if you will stop cutting all yours.The supermarket manager agreed, and the two men shook () hands.Tom smiled. He had not lost any money on the steak. He didn t sell steak at all.45. Tom worked hard but he was happy because .A. he liked ha

57、rd workB. he wanted to make a lot of moneyC. he had a good business.D. his prices were high46. What does “ price cutting ” mean?A. Making your prices the same as others .B. Making your prices lower than others .C. Making your prices higher than others .D. Losing money every minute.47. according to t

58、his passage, if the supermarket manager sold out 100 pounds steak at $ 2.75 a pound, he would at least lose dollars.A. 125 B. 150 C. 100 D.17548. If you reTom, how do you solve the problem between the supermarket manager and you?Please give us at least two ways.A. B. (H)Jess really felt very happy. When he arrived at his