豐臺區(qū)2019-2020學年度第一學期期末練習初三英語

1、豐臺區(qū)2019-2020學年度第一學期期末練習初三英語知識運用（共14分）2020. 01、單項填空（共6分，每小題0.5分）A. plantB. plantedC. have plantedD. are planting10. We happily when we heard a loud noise outside the door last night.A. chatB. chattedC. are chattingD. were chatting11. Lord of the FliesA. publishin 1954 although it was not a great succ

2、ess at first.B. publishedC. is publishedD. was published初三英語第1頁（共10頁）初三英語第4頁（共10頁）B. how often you exerciseD. how often you exercised12. Lily, can you tell me? I always exercise twice a week.A. how often do you exerciseC. how often did you exercise二、完形填空（共8分，每小題1分）閱讀下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后從短文后各題所給的A、B、C、D四個選

3、項中，選擇最佳選項。Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class. She could spell difficult words like “encyclopediaand " amendmentvery 13 . She used to get perfect scores during each weekly spelling test.Ms. Daisy, her English teacher made a 14 for the spelling tests that any child w

4、ho doesn' get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for nextweek' spelling test. Seema, who sat next to Stuti always struggled（爭扎）in spellings. Last Thursday, she received 56% which meant she had to 15the rest 44% words three times.Stuti wa

5、s so 16 in her spelling abilities that she decided not to study for her next spelling test. The test began.Ms. Daisy pronounced each word and then repeated it. Everything was OK until she spoke Handkerchief "Stuti scribbled（匆 匆書寫）h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h. nowwhat? Her mind was blank.Ms. Daisy started

6、to move on to the next word. An idea came into Stuti' sthat Seema_17 how to spell it! Seema had written this word three times.There was wide open space between Stuti and SeemaStuti eyes rolled（滾動） to the right. There it was, spelled out in Seema handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own

7、 paper and_18 the word with the letters-e-f ” .Stuti remained nervous as Ms. Daisy read the last spelling word. She had _19 just for the first time in her life. She thought, “Isthis the way I want to keep my perfect record- by being acheater? ”Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and rep

8、laced it with what she從下面各題所給的 A、B、C、D四個選項中，選擇可以填入空白處的最 佳選項。1. My little brother ate too much cake, so felt sick.A. heB. sheC. itD. we2. China ' s womevdlleyball team won theWorld Cup Japan in 2019.A. onB. atC. inD. for3. Many people like paper books more,they are comfortable to read.A. becauseB

9、. andC. orD. so4. The Amazon rainforest is rainforest inthe world.A. largeB. largerC. largestD. the largest5. do you usually have dinner?At about 6 p.m.A. WhenB. WhereC. WhyD. How6. Wang Xuan is a famous computer scientistHehis research of lasertypesetting in1975.A. startB. startedC. is starting D.

10、will start7. James enjoys reading, and he_ novels on his way to work on the subwayevery day.A. readB. readsC. is readingD. will read8. Ifwe learn more about DNA, we more diseases.A. treatB. treatsC. will treatD. were treating9. There are many tree heroes in ChinThey millions of trees for almost 20ye

11、ars.13. A. happily14. A. planB. easilyB. suggestionC. slowlyC. guessD. carefullyD. rule15. A. checkB. copyC. readD. pronounce16. A. specialB. unusualC. confusedD. confident17. A. knewB. provedC. foundD. wondered18. A. changedB. pickedC. finishedD. replaced19. A. cheatedB. askedC. lookedD. remembered

12、20. A. choiceB. courageC. honestyD. pride閱讀理解（共36分）三、閱讀下列短文,Emma ChenGianni CataniEugene Moynlymslotabout Chinese culture.knew was the wrong answer. She wrote e-i-f ” As her hands put down her pencil and passed the test up to the front, she sighed with relief（解 月兌）.She thought So, what if my perfect

13、 scores are no longer being kept? At least my 2（is. ”根據(jù)短文內容，從短文后各題所給的 A、B、C、D四個選項中，選擇最佳選項。（共26分，每小題2分）AChinese Cuisine（烹飪）in the WorldShe is a restaurant owner in Cape Town, South Africa. She has two restaurants-Red Chamber and Pron. Both of them are very popular with customers. She believes that fo

14、od is not o a business, but also means passing down of culture and custo Her cuisine comes from Shandong Province in Northernhina.As an Italian, he has become an expert in Chinese Hunan cuisine. It is very hard for a foreigner to enter the Chinese world at first. Luckily, he was finally accepted and

15、 welcomed by a Chinese master cook. So he spent eight years with him in learning the secrets of Hunan cuisine. Now his restaurant is one of the best places to eat Chinese food in Rome, Italy.He owns a restaurantin San Gabriel Valley in America, which has become a foodie Mecca供食圣地）for the world '

16、 top Chinese food. He believes Chinese food is the power to teach people Chineseculture. Who knew where Chengdu or Chongqing was before? Going and checking out food is a of fun. It is also an activity of telling ourselves and thepublic21. Who has twcrestaurants?A. Emma Chen.B.Gianni Catani.C. Eugene

17、 Moy.D.Red Chamber.22. Gianni Catani has become an expert in .A. ShandongcuisineB.Hunan cuisineC. Sichuan cuisineD.Guangdong cuisine23. Eugene Moy believes Chinesfood is.A. passing down of customsB. very popular with customersC. very hard for foreigners to cookD. the power to teach people Chinescult

18、ureBGrowing a Family BusinessEvery Saturday and Sunday this fall, while other kids are sleeping in or preparing for a soccer game, Phillip Gargiulo, age 11, will be up at 5 a.m. sweeping floors. It 'hard work, butPhillip jobsat Masker Orchards（果 園）isn ' t just a job it 'asfor his family.

19、Masker is one of the largest pick-it-yourself apple orchards in the New York area, with 200 acres（英 畝）of land and 16,000 trees. The orchard was founded in 1913 by the Masker family. In 1969, Phillip grandfather bought the land. His three kids and six grandkids have been running the family business e

20、ver since.On a good weekend,there will be more than 800 customers.One of Phillip ' s jobs is to count the items they bought, give customers a total, and take their money. That' aslot of apples and a lot of math! And more than 100 teens work there, too. For their hard work, the Gargiulo kids

21、are paid $15 per hour. After working there for seven years, Phillip has saved $3,000. e' planning to use it to buy a car one day, and to help pay focollege.Having a family business means much more than making money. It also means making sacrifices.“Growingip, it was good and bad, says Phillip &#

22、39; s mom. Sheeen working at the orchard since she was 4 years old. “ FronAugust to Halloween, I would be初三英語第5頁（共10頁）初三英語第4頁（共10頁）busy. In high school, you want to be with your friends, out doing other things. That wasn' t always possible when I had to be at the orchard.”Phillip, too, sees both

23、 sides. “I 'learning how to run a business, and I ' m learning what hard work is really all about, he says. He admits, though, that some mornings, when his alarm clock goes off in the early morning, he' （rather be sleeping in or playing baseball with friends. " But I ' m learnin

24、gdoothings that I will need for the rest of my life, he says. “And I spending time with my family. I love it. ”24. Phillip gets up early every weekend to.A. finish his homeworkB. do the work for his familyC. prepare for a soccer gameD. go for a run in themorning25. What does Phillip do on a good wee

25、kend in Masker?A. To plant some apple trees.B. To work on mathproblems.C. To play baseball with friends.D. To count apples and take the money.26. What can we learn from this passage?A. Getting something probably means giving up something.B. It 'necessary to make money as early possible.C. Growin

26、g up means doing what you want do.D. There is nothing more important than parents.CAs the world ' population continues to increase, so doesthe amount of global waste people produce. According to data collected by the World Bank Group, nations are on paceto produce 4 billion tons of waste every y

27、ear by 2100. Many experts are calling the problem of global waste a worldwide health crisis（危機） because it is ruining the world ' oceans, air and soil and endangering the health of all living things.For years, governmentsiave been telling people that living a zero-waste lifestyle is the way to g

28、o. One example of this is what' osten called the threeR' sreduce, reuse, recycle. 舅 3H'In that case, less money is spent on waste management. Such positive effects on an economyC濟）一as a result of applying the basic rules of reduce, reuse and recycles known as a circular economy.Now some

29、stores are helping people dothat. Sometimes, grocery stores produce waste when they throw away food including fruit and vegetablesthat don t look good any more. In other cases, it ' packaged food that is nearing the “seby” date printed on the package which is not considered safe to eat. To solve

30、 this problem, businesspeople are opening smaller zero-waste stores. Instead of selling food in packages, these stores offer it in open containers. Customers bring their own bags or clean containers to the store. There, they fill their bags or containers with everything from nuts and rice to oil and

31、 sauce.They pay for only the amount of each product that they need. Zero-waste stores often sell fruit and vegetables as well. When these goods start to look oldthey ' sold at a discount or donated to a charity. Inspired by these smaller zero-waste stores, some large supermarketsare taking simil

32、ar steps to reduce the amount of waste that theyoduce.By following a circular system, more products than ever are being produced using recycled materials. For example, used tires（輪 胎）can be recovered to pave roads, while plastic is reused to make new plastic products. Environmentally- friendly decis

33、ions like these help to protect and save natural resources, reduce pollution, save landfill space and even create new job opportunities. Recycling can truly turn garbage into gold.27. What is the main purpose of the firsp aragraph?A. Toexplain the experts opinibn.B. To discuss the reason of thproble

34、m.C. To drawpeople 'attention on the problem.D. To introduce a research of the World Bank Group.28. We can infer from the passage that .A. grocery stores sell bad-looking food cheaperB. some supermarkets will sell food without packagesC. governments decided to spend less money on recyclingD. cus

35、tomers will pay for the containers in zero-waste stores29. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?A. Zero Waste, Full Recycle.B. Less Garbage, More Gold.C. Global Waste, a WorldwideCrisis.D. Zero-waste Stores, Garbageiller.DWhat Is SuccessThe Oxford English Dictionary defines

36、（定義）the word success as“the fact that初三英語第5頁（共10頁）初三英語第6頁（共10頁）ell,A. winning succesfrom luckC. gaining monefrom honoryou have achieved something that you want and have been trying to do or get; the fact of becoming rich or famous or of getting a high social position 'Some rankings腓行榜）put Albert

37、 Einstein, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as among the most successful people in the world. What Michael Jackson did for music is the same as what Albert Einstein did for physics. All of them do have greatly influenced the industries or media to which they belonged.J.K. Rowling, the auth

38、or ofthe famousHarry Potter novels. She created a magical world that sold more than 500 million books and became hit movies. With an estimated佰算的）net worth of $650 million in 2017, she certainly goes for the dictionary definition of success,but for her it didn 'co me easy. Having no job, raising

39、 her child alone, she was refused by publishers about a dozen times before or took a chance on her. This is what people love: thags-to-riches success story.In comparison with Rowling, the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh practically suffered a lot in life to make ends meet. When he was alive, he only s

40、old one painting even though he created more than 2,000 works of art. Van Gogh died when he was 37 years old and with very little money to his name. However, in 1990, his painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million, which has a value today of around $137 million. So, the question is: Is V

41、an Gogh considered successful even though he died poor?Besides the dictionary definitions, different people have competing ideas of what success really means. Often times the most agree on the same characteristics that make a person a success. A financial magazine named Inc. points to the following

42、qualities that make a person successful: Drive, Confidence, Patience, Honesty,Passion Successisn ' t alwaybout getting a lot of money or fans, even though those are the stories we see most often. There are other people who we may not know w but who have achieved success in their own right. One p

43、erfect example is mothers. They spent days, months, and years teaching their children from birth to young adulthood. If a child grows up to be a kind, helpful, thoughtful and considerate adult, can the mother consider herself a success?Perhaps success really is subjective, and it 'up to people t

44、o define it for themselves. However, one thing seems to be in complete agreement when we search for the definition and can be best summed up by Steve Jobs, who said, “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a 10nm e. ” 30. The word rags-to-riches “ irParagraph 2 probably mean6'

45、B. turning talent into treasure初三英語第7頁（共10頁）D. rising from poorness to wealth31. The writer mentions Vincent van Gogh to show thatA. success is throughonelinessB. success is beyondime and spaceC. success is to take the life-changing opportunityD. success is to achieve something you want and try32. W

46、hat can we learn from theDassage?A. Most successes happen overnight if we lookosely.B. What makes people successful is the strong miiand body.C. A child growing to be a gentle adult can behe mother success.D. Albert Einstein makes greater achievement than Michael Jackson.33. The writer probably agre

47、es that people should .A. reorder the rankings of the world 'most successfupeopleB. reach an agreement of what makes a person successC. recognize and appreciate different kinds csjccessD. drive themselves to set great goals for success四、閱讀短文，根據(jù)短文內容回答問題。（共10分，每小題2分）Learning with LegosFor more tha

48、n 60 years, Lego bricks（磚 塊）have developed children Imaginations. Now, a new form of these toys is called Lego Braille Bricks. It is being tested around the world.Lego Braille Bricks are designed to help people learn Braille（盲 文）.That ' s a systewrotfng in which letters are replaced by raised kn

49、obs（起）.The small knobs on the bricks are put as Braille letters. Blind children can use their fingertips to read the knobs to learn Braille. According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind. In the United States, only 10% of blind children learn Braille. Lego Braille

50、 Bricks can help change that.Braille Bricks will be launched（上市）by Lego in 2020. For some schools, it will be free. The Danish Association of the Blind was one of the first organizations to come up with the idea of using Lego bricks to teach Braille. Thorkild Olesen, the president of the organizatio

51、n, is blind. He says many teacheon' h ave thetools初三英語第8頁（共10頁）“Man Who Travels Far Knowsand skills to help kids learn Braille. So they teach with audio tools, such as audio books. “Likeany other people, we need to express ourselves in writing, Olesen told TIME for Kids . "Audios great. But

52、 it can never replace Braille. Braille is the most important tool for us. It is the best way for blind people to learn to spell correctly, write, and read like commopeople. ”O(jiān)lesen ' organization shared his idea for Braille Bricks with the Lego Foundation 壁金會）.Olesen explained to the toy maker t

53、hat the knobs on Legos are similar to Braille letters. Stine Storm is a project manager at theLego Foundation. She liked the idea of turning Lego bricks into a learning tool. ft was a fun and playful way to teach Braille to bl ind children, “ she saLego Braille Bricks will also have printed letters

54、on them that match the Braille letters, so sighted children and blind children can play with the Legostogether. ”34. What is the new form of the toy called?35. How can blind children learn Braille with Lego Braille Bricks?36. When will Braille Bricks be launched by Lego?37. Why is Braille the most i

55、mportant tool for blind people?38. Why does Stine Storm like the idea of turning Lego bricks into a learning tool?書面表達（共10分）Yours, Li Hua旅行讓人開闊眼界，增長知識。假如你是李華，你們學校的英語報刊以More”為題進行征稿。請用英語寫一份稿件投稿，介紹一次令你印象深刻的 旅行經歷以及這次旅行帶給你的收獲或感悟。提示詞語：visit, take photos, culture, memory提示問題：SWhen and where did you travel?

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