二中七年级下学期期中考试试卷.doc

广州市第二中学2013 学年第二学期期中考试

初一年级英语

三、语音辨音（共10 小题，每小题0.5 分，满分 5 分）

A）请找出选项中划线部分的字母组合与所给音标发音相同的单词

11. /gl/ A. grade B. great C. glad D. Grow

12. /? ?/ A. tour B. four C. our D. your

13. / t/ A. closed B. cooked C. stayed D. acted

14. /?/ A. French B. change C. Chinese D. machine

15. /sm/ A. slide B. snow C. smoke D. step

B）请找出重音位置与其它单词不同的选项

16. A. useful B. harmful C. produce D. person

17. A. encourage B. department C. oxygen D. example

18. A. lead B. bark C. wake D. forget

19. A. convenient B. furniture C. imagine D. container

20. A. appear B. airport C. engine D. bottom

四、单项选择（每小题 1 分，共 10 题，满分10 分）

21.----John! Do you know ________ girl in a blue skirt over there?

----Yes, she is Tom’s sister. She loves playing _______violin.

22.----Nancy, do you have Jack ’s new address now? I want to send him a card.

----Well, let me see. He lives ___________.

A. in 46 Dongfeng Road

B. in 22 Xiaobei road

C. at 27 Yingyuan Road

D. on Panyu Road 48

23. ----Kids, the cake is for _________. Please help __________ to it.

----Great! Thank you so much. Mr. Wang.

A. yourself; yourself

B. you, yourself

C. yourselves, yourselves

D. you, yourselves

24.----I think you can look up this word in a dictionary.

----Good idea! I ________ its meaning now. Thank you!

A. know

B. am knowing

C. knew

D. am know

25. ----Do you know that? People cut down _________trees every year.

----Oh, no. Trees are our friends.

A. million of

B. ten millions

C. millions of

D. ten millions of

26. There is an office building __________ our classroom. All the teachers work there.

A. at the beginning of

B. in the front of

C. in front of

D. between

27.----Which _________ you prefer, swimming or running?

----Well, I ________ in the park near my house.

A. do, prefer run

B. do, prefer to run

C. are, prefer to run

D. are, prefer running

28. After working for a long time, the farmer stopped ________ a rest.

A. to have

B. having

C. to having

D. have

29.Lucy usually drinks a cup of milk _______ the morning. But ________ the morning of

last Friday, she drank nothing.

A. in, in

B. on, in

C. in, on

D. on, on

30. ----Can you wait for __________ minutes?

----No, we must hurry up. We have little time left.

A. little

B. few

C. a few

D. a little

五、语法选择（每小题1分，共10题，满分10分）

Once there was a boy. He____31____sweets very much. He always asked his father for sweets.

The boy's father thought____32_____about how to stop the child from ____33____ for so many sweets. A great man livednearby. The boy's father decided to take the boy to him. He might

be able to make the child_____34____up sweets.

So they went to the great man. The father asked the great man to help him. But the great man liked sweets himself. ____35____ told the father to ___36____ his son back after a month.

During the month, the great man tried ____37____ up eating sweets. At last he did it. When

the boy and his father returned after a month, the great man had a talk with the boy. From then on, the boy did not ask for sweets any more.

The boy's father felt ____38____, "Why didn't you ask my son to give up sweets when we

came to you a month ago?"The man answered, "How could I ask a boy to give up sweets when

I loved sweets ___39____? In the last month I gave up eating sweets."

A person's example is always ____40____ than words. We should not ask others to do what we can't do ourselves.

31. A. love B. loves C. loved D. was loving

32. A. hard B. hardly C. harder D. hardest

33. A. ask B. asks C. asked D. asking

34. A. give B. gives C. giving D. gave

35. A. So B. But C. And D. Because

36. A. take B. took C. bring D. brought

37. A. to give B. giving C. gave D. gives

38. A. surprise B. surprises C. surprising D. surprised

39. A. himself B. myself C. ourselves D. themselves

40. A. strong B. strongly C. stronger D. strongest

六、完形填空（每小题1分，共10 题，满分 10 分）

There was once a flight from London to New York. After taking off for a short time, the captain of

the plane_____41____said to the newspaper, “This is Captain Jean-Pierre Lalonde speaking. I have a piece of ____42____ news for you. We have lost our ____43____ engine, but it doesn’t matter. We can still fly to New York, using only three engines. However, we will be two hours____44____.”

Time went on, and the captain’s ____45____ was heard again,“This is again your ____46___. We have lost another engine. But our plane can fly with only two engines. And now we will be

____47___hours later.”

The flight went on when the passengers heard the same voice again, ”Guess what! We lost another engine, but ____48____ to worry about. We can still make it, using only ____49____ engine. But

now we will be six hours later. ”

On hearing this, an old lady turned to the person sitting next to her and said, “I hope ___49___ won’tlose the last engine. If so, we ’ll be eight hours later and I ’ll miss my important meeting in New York! ”

41. A. happily B. surprisingly C. suddenly D. excitedly

42. A. good B. bad C. interesting D. boring

43. A. first B. second C. third D. fourth

44. A. earlier B. faster C. shorter D. later

45. A. voice B. body C. hands D. head

46. A. passenger B. captain C. flight D. engine

47. A. one B. two C. four D. six

48. A. nothing B. something C. everything D. /

49. A. four B. three C. two D. one

50. A. you B. we C. they D. I

七、阅读理解（每小题 1.5 分，共20题，满分30分）

（A ）

A rich man was once riding along the road and saw an old man digging in his garden. Beside the old man, on the ground, lay a young tree, ready to be planted. The rich man called out to the old man, "What kind of tree are you planting there, my good man?"

"This is a fig ( 无花果 ) tree, sir." he said.

"A fig tree?" the rich man was very surprised. "Why, how old are you, may I ask?"

"I am ninety years old."

"What!" cried the rich man. "You're ninety years old. You are planting a very young tree now and it'll take years to give fruit. You certainly don't hope to live long enough to get any benefit from this tree."

The old man looked around the garden. Then he said with a smile, "Tell me, sir. Did you

eat figs when you were a boy?"

"Sure." the rich man did not know why he asked this question. The old man smiled again. "Then tell me this," he said, "Who planted those fig trees then?" "Why? I don't know."

"You see, sir," went on the old man, "Our ancestors planted trees for us to enjoy and I am doing

the same for the people after me."

The rich man was quiet and said, "You are right, my good man. We should do some good things for the people after us. Thank you very much." Then he rode away.

51.The old man in the story was ___________.

A.riding along the road

B.eating figs in the garden

C.feeding a horse in the garden

D.planting a tree in the garden

52.The rich man was surprised because the old man _________.

A. was ninety years old

B. was planting a tree

C. could live too long

D. was not able to get fruit from the fig tree

53. The underline word “benefit ”in paragraph 5 most probably refers to_______.

A. money

B. health

C. the fruit of the big tree

D. the tree planted by the old man

54. _________planted those fig trees so that the rich man could pick figs from them.

A. The forefathers

B. The rich man himself

C. the children

D. the old man

55. The old man planted a fig tree, because he wanted_________.

A. to eat the fruit

B. his friends to eat the fruit

C. the people after him to eat the fruit

D. to make money by selling fruit to the rich man

（ B）

William Shakespeare was a writer of plays and poems. Some of his most famous plays are Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth. He wrote thirty-seven plays in all. They are still popular today.He was born in 1564 in England.

At school he liked watching plays. He decided to be an actor(演员)when he finished school at the

age of fourteen. In 1582, he married a farmer's daughter. She was eight years older than he was. Their first child was a daughter. Later they had twins. In 1585, Shakespeare left his hometown, Stratford-upon-Avon. His wife and children stayed behind. No one knows why he left or what he

did between 1585 and 1592.

At twenty-eight he moved to London and joined a theatre company which opened the Globe Theatre in 1599. He became an actor, and he also wrote plays. He usually acted in his own plays. He earned almost no money from his writing. But he made a lot of money from acting. With the money he bought a large house in his hometown.

At the age of forty-nine, Shakespeare retired(退休)and went to live in Stratford-upon-Avon. He

died at the age of fifty-two. He left his money to his family. He left his genius to the world. You still see his plays in English and in many other languages. He is one of the most famous writers in the world.

八、单词拼写（每小题 1 分，共 10 题，满分10 分）

71.The fire fighters tried to s________ all the people from that burning building.

72.Gases from cars are h________to our health.

73.Jack didn’ta_________ in the party last night. He went to the library.

74.His dirty socks have a terrible s_________ like dead fish.

75.I need your s_________ to complete this difficult task. Please help me.

76.All the major parks in Guangzhou don ’ta________ pets. Don’ttake your pets there.

77.We should fight a_________ pollution in our daily life.

78.She is a c_________ girl. She always keeps smiling.

79.I lost my textbook. I can ’tfind it a_________.

80.We will have a meeting to d_______ what to do next.

九、完成句子（每横线 1 分，共 15 分）

81.昨晚我很累，所以我很快就入睡了。

I was tired last night so I __________________ quickly.

82.我父母对我对学习要求非常严格。

My parents ________ very ___________________ my studies.

83.他环顾了一下四周但什么都没看到。

He __________________ but could see nothing.

84.他既能说英语，也能说法语。

He speaks English and French _____________________.

85.有些运动，例如跑步和有用对老人不好。

Some sports, ________ _________ running and cycling are bad for old people.

86.她每天上班要花多长时间？

How ________ does it _______ her ________ ________ to work every day.

十、课文填空。（每横线 1 分，共 5 分）

You’re right, Rebecca. In _________, we get a lot more from trees. We get fruit and ________ from them. Tea also comes from the _______ of trees. A lot of the ____90____ is made of wood. Trees are really _________ in our daily lives.