2014届闸北区初三英语一模试卷及答案
2013学年度第一学期九年级英语学科期末练习卷（2014.1）
(满分150分，考试时间100分钟)
考生注意：本卷有7大题，共94小题。试题均采用连续编号，所有答案务必按照规定在答题纸上完成，做在试卷上不给分。
Part 1 Listening (第一部分听力)
I. Listening comprehension (听力理解) (共30分)
A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) (6分)
A B C D
E F G H
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的
对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案) (8分)
7. A) Windy. B) Rainy. C) Cloudy. D) Snowy.
8. A) Victor. B) Eddie. C) Jimmy. D) Frank.
9. A) Basketball. B) V olleyball. C) Skating. D) Swimming.
10. A) At 11:15. B) At 11:25. C) At 11:50. D) At 12:00.
11. A) For a week. B) For about two weeks.
C) For about three weeks. D) For a month.
12. A) At the Pizza Hut. B) At the restaurant.
C) At the man’s home. D) At the lady’s home.
13. A) Because he started earlier. B) Because his father’s car broke down.
C) Because the weather was terrible. D) Because he got up late.
14. A) She doesn’t know where the lift is. B) She has no time to wait for the lift.
C) She is afraid to take the lift. D) She prefers to walk upstairs.
C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列
句子是否符合你听到的内容, 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示) (6分)
15. Dr. Richard Wiseman asked people to rate(划分等级) the jokes from 1 to 5.
16. He got two million ratings and 14,000 jokes from around the world.
17. He studies jokes because he thinks humour can tell us a lot about people.
18. Both Europeans and Americans laughed most at jokes about topics like death.
19. The funniest joke in the world is about men and animals.
20. In the joke, a man saves the life of his friend.
D. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences (听短文，完成下列内容，每空
格限填一词) (10分)
21. The Amazon is about 2 million square miles in area and it reaches ________ ________.
22. The Amazon has ________ ________ temperature of about
80℉.
23. Rain forests don’t take up much space ________ ________.
24. The Amazon contains around 2.5 million ________ ________
insects.
25. All of the wildlife in the Amazon is ________ ________.
Part 2 Phonetics, Vocabulary and Grammar
（第二部分语音、词汇和语法）
Ⅱ. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) (共20分)
26. You can never get a straight answer out of him. Which of the following is correct for the
underlined word in the sentence?
A) /s?????? B) /s?????? C) /s????? D) /s??????
27. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?
A) My father asked me to drive slowly. B) I walked for miles without seeing a house.
C) Study as if you were to live forever. D) I used to hide myself when I was young.
28. Suddenly the little boy got away from his mother’s hand and walked by ______.
A) he B) his C) him D) himself
29. We enjoyed the wonderful firework display ______ the night of National Day.
A) in B) on C) for D) at
30. The girl was quite angry ______ his boy friend for his being late.
A) for B) on C) with D) at
31. My parents told me not to worry too much. We still have ______ time.
A ) few B) a few C) little D) a little
32. When you ’ve learnt English, you ’ll find it a bridge to so much ______. A) knowledge B) tradition C) idea
D) method
33. The cable Internet seems ______ than I expected.
A ) quick B) quicker C) quickly D) more quickly
34. As a father, Einstein was just as ______ as any other father in the world.
A ) kind B) kinder C) kindest D) the kindest
35. I ______ my mind to study harder since I visited the Shanghai Supercomputer Centre.
A) am making up B) have made up C) made up D) had made up
36. When the teacher ______ how to do the experiment, the bell rang.
A) explains B) will explain C) was explaining D) is explaining
37. The Trojan War ______ by Helen and her beauty.
A ) causes B) is caused C) caused D) was caused
38. My mother didn ’t expect ______ such a lovely present from me!
A ) receive B) received C) to receive D) receiving
39. The little boy denied ______ the window with a stone.
A ) break B) broke C) to break D) breaking
40. She won ’t lose weight ______ she keeps a diet and takes exercise every day.
A ) unless B) if C) because D) since
41. A ctions ______ be taken to stop H7N9 from spreading again.
A ) must B) may C) can ’t D) needn ’t
42. – ______ do I have to take the medicine?
– Three times a day, after meals.
A) How long B) How far C) How often D) How soon
43. We students ______ our parents for food and clothes.
A ) depend on B) live on C) deal with D) communicate with
44. – Excuse me. I have a complaint about the coffee bought on https://www.wendangku.net/doc/cd8133752.html,.
– ______
A ) I don ’t think so. B) That ’s all right. C) Really? D) What ’s the trouble?
45. – ______
– The same to you.
A ) Happy birthday! B) Have a nice weekend!
C ) Congratulations! D) See you!
Ⅲ. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be
used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) (共8分)
A good trick doesn ’t leave lasting damage and always makes people laugh. It can even amaze them with its creativity. Some schools and universities have a long 46 of students playing good tricks. These tricks sometimes include school buildings and cars.
The California Institute of Technology, a university in the US, has a special day on which （反面还有试题）
students are 47 to play big tricks. One time, a group of students took apart a car, moved the parts into a student’s room and then put the car back together next to the bed.
It was a quiet evening at an American high school. Going home, the headmaster got into his car and started the engine. It’s quite 48 that the wheels turned, but the car didn’t move! It __49 that some students had found a way to lift the car up so that its tires were just above the ground.
One morning in 2006, the staff at another American high school were 50 to find a pink car on the roof. The car even had question marks painted all over it! The staff believed that many students must have worked together to complete this.
The American trick in 2006 was 51 a copy of British trick in 1958. That year, at the University of Cambridge, a car appeared on the roof of a building that was five storeys high. It caused a lot of trouble for police and firefighters as they had to cut the car into pieces to get it down. They couldn’t find out who was 52 , and the trick made headlines around the world. It was only fifty years 53 that the students in the case proved who they were and how they played the excellent trick.
Ⅳ. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子，每空格限填一词) (共8分)
54. Three ___________ shared 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize. (winner)
55 Wellington, New Zealand is the ___________ capital city to greet the beginning of a new day.
(one)
56. We live in a world where a lot of things happen around ___________. (we)
57. How I wish the heavy haze(霾) could ___________ in our city! (appear)
58. On your computer at home or work, make a note to “call friends” ___________. (regular)
59. How far does your ___________ go back? (memorize)
60. Thank you so much for coming. Have a ___________ drive home. (safely)
61. Only by working hard can we ___________ in doing everything. (success)
V. Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子。62-67题,每空格限填一词。68题注意句首大写) (共14分)
62. Steve Jobs has changed the way people live. (改为反意疑问句)
Steve Jobs has changed the way people live, _________ _________?
63. The model on the stage had a very excellent figure. (改为感叹问)
_________ _________ excellent figure the model on the stage had!
64. Black tea was invented in China during the Ming Dynasty. (对划线部分提问)
_________ _________ black tea invented in China?
65. The policeman came up and asked the lady, “What’s wrong with you?” (改为宾语从句)
The policeman came up and asked the lady _________ _________ wrong with her.
66. Can’t you feel how much your parents love you? (保持句意基本不变)
Can’t you feel how much your parents _________ _________ you?
67. The choir of deaf people can also enjoy music. (改为被动语态)
Music can also _________ _________ by the choir of deaf people.
68. terrible, me , something, to, that day, happened (连词成句)
___________________________________________________.
Part 3 Reading and Writing (第三部分读写)
Ⅵ. Reading comprehension (阅读理解) (共50分)
A. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案) (12分)
Did you know that a new weblog is being created each second? Many of these bloggers are teenagers. While their parents wrote in a diary to express their emotions, or shared their interests by spending time with friends, teens are now using blogs instead. In fact, in the US, one in every five school-aged teens has a blog. Most of these are just chatter, some are funny or clever, but a few have become Internet success.
For example, Chloe Spencer’s blog ‘Neopets Fanatic’gets around 300,000 hits per month. When Chloe was 15, she started the blog out of her strong liking for Neopets, a kind of pet website. One reason her blog has so many visitors is because she gives instructions and tips for the popular pet site.
Then there is Tavi Gevinson’s blog ‘Style Rookie’. It is
said to get 1.5 million hits per month. Tavi, who started her
blog when she was just 12, puts up her photos of her own
clothes online as well as designers’collections. Tavi’s blog
has caught on because she knows a lot about style for
someone so young, and she is not afraid to try out unusual
clothes or see things in a different way.
Blogs like these are interesting, but they only become
really popular after better-known websites link to them or
they get noticed by the media(传媒). For example, Tavi’s
blog became an overnight(一夜之间) success after being
written about in The New York Times. Popular blogs can even earn money, usually from advertisements that companies pay to put up on the bloggers’ sites.
So for some, blogging is just a recreation(消遣), but for others, it can become a source of income and even a full-time job!
69. Teens nowadays ________ than their parents did.
A) have more ways of communication B) share their feelings more
C) write in diaries more often D) make more friends
70. In line 4, the underlined word ‘chatter’ means talk about ________ topics.
A) funny B) clever C) serious D) unimportant
71. Chloe Spencer and Tavi Gevinson are both ________.
A) pet lovers B) teenage bloggers
C) interested in fashion D) keen on taking photos
72. From the passage we know that Chloe Spencer is a person who ________.
A) visits many websites B) loves pets
C) is easy to get angry D) rarely gives opinions
73. According to paragraph 4, Tavi Gevinson’s blog ________.
A) is not well-known yet B) is written every night
C) became popular very quickly D) got a lot of money from advertising
74. The best title for the passage might be ________.
A) How to be good teen bloggers B) How teen bloggers attract the media
C) Keeping diaries or writing blogs D) Teen bloggers mean business
B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完
成短文)（12分）
Last year, over 11,000 abandoned dogs were put down by government dogcatchers. Why? Because there was too little kennel space
to keep them. Hong Kong Dog Rescue (HKDR) is a charity that rescues and finds homes for unwanted dogs. It’s a huge task and if this 75 had received more support last year, fewer dogs would have been put down.
To support the efforts of HKDR, the Social Service Club held a fun festival last weekend. ‘We hoped the festival would raise money and also raise people’s awareness of the point of abandoned pets,’ said Louise Wong, the club president.
The club organized stalls 76 second-hand clothes, delicious homemade cupcakes and even the fashions to keep pet dogs warm in the winter. Although there were fewer stalls than last year, 77 items were sold. Louise explained that this was because prices were not set too high this year.
The festival also 78 performances by the school choir and the hip hop group HK Boys. The crowd was extremely excited, and some members of the 79 said there was too much noise to hear the performers. Louise admitted that everyone would have been able to hear if there had been better sound equipment.
The most interesting part of the day was the dance challenge, with contestants(选手) showing off some amazing moves. This year there were more contestants than last year. According to Louise, that was because the prizes, including G. E.M. concert tickets, were better.
80 , this year’s fun festival was a big success. It raised far more money than last year: a record HK$12,000. And the festival also raised joy among the special guests – some of our four legged friends from HKDR!
75. A) team B) group C) club D) organization
76. A) selling B) buying C) offering D) delivering
77. A) few B) fewer C) many D) many more
78. A) put off B) put on C) put out D) put up
79. A) family B) band C) audience D) community
80. A) Faithfully B) Generally C) Importantly D) Recently
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的
词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给)（14分）
The story behind the shopping cart
Characters
Sylvan Goldman – owner of a grocery shop
（反面还有试题）Fred Young – Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic(机械师)
One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop, Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments(调试) to their new i 81 – a shopping cart.
Sylvan: My customers don’t like our shopping cart.
Fred: Really? So they p 82 shopping with those heavy baskets?
Sylvan: (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b 83 none of them wants to use the cart.
Fred: I don’t understand. We invented the cart so that people don’t need to carry a basket around the shop.
Sylvan: (laughs) And so that they will buy more groceries!
Fred: So why don’t they like the shopping cart?
Sylvan: Young men think that pushing a cart around makes them look w 84 and slow, and young women think it’s unfashionable.
Fred: Of course it isn’t fashionable right now. It’s only just been invented! But I’m sure older people will appreciate it.
Sylvan: Um…
Fred: What? They don’t like the cart e 85 ?
Sylvan: Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!
Fred: Oh no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g 86 up on this invention! Sylvan: We won’t. (He gets up and walks around the room. Suddenly, he stops.) Aha! I’ve got an idea.
Fred: What is it?
Sylvan: I’ll hire(雇佣) some good-looking guys and girls to push
the carts around and pretend they’re shopping.
Fred: Oh! So the real shoppers will see these attractive people
using the carts and think, “Hey, if it’s good enough for
them, it’s good enough for me!”
Sylvan: E 87 .
Fred: Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your
customers and encourage them to use the cart.
Sylvan: Great idea!
D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题) (12分)
Hanging Gardens of Babylon(巴比伦空中花园)
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon were built in the 7th century BC and are considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The Hanging Gardens
of Babylon were amazing not only because of their beauty, but
also because of their location.
In the 7th century BC a king named Nebudchadnezzar II
created the gardens as a sign of love for his wife, Amyitis.
According to legend, Amyitis, the daughter of the king of the Medes, was homesick. She missed the green hills and valleys of her homeland.
Upon marrying Nebudchadnezzar II, Amyitis moved to the ancient chief city of Babylon. The area was in the Mesopotamian desert, and the climate there was totally different from where she had left. So the new queen was very sad about the flat and the sun-baked desert. To make Amyitis happier and more comfortable the king decided to build her a series of magnificent gardens.
Many think of the gardens as an otherworldly creation that hung in the air somehow. But experts agree that the gardens were actually built on a mountainside, rather than actually “hanging”.
The hanging Gardens of Babylon are famous. Stories of them spread throughout the ancient world, and ancient writers recorded a large number of descriptions of the gardens, but some wonder whether this paradise of the past ever existed. There are no historical records of it except stories. Whatever may happen, even the idea of the Hanging Gardens of Babylon is amazing. They were essentially impossible to create because of the climate, but they were kept in the minds of many as a botanical beauty created in the middle of unattractive desert scenery.
88. Hanging Gardens of Babylon are considered one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World,
aren’t they?
89. What makes the Hanging Gardens of Babylon so amazing and famous?
90. Why did the king Nebudchadnezzar II create Hanging Gardens of Babylon?
91. What made the Hanging Gardens of Babylon essentially impossible to create?
92. According to the experts, were the Hanging Gardens of Babylon really hanging or built on a
mountainside?
93. Did Hanging Gardens of Babylon really exist? What makes you think so? (In no more than
THREE sentences)
Ⅶ. Writing (作文) (共20分)
94. Suppose you are a fan of “Where are we going, Dad”. Please write a letter to the
programme and recommend a place for them to spend a 3-day trip.
提示：近来“爸爸去哪儿”节目轰动了全国。如果你是这个节目的忠实粉丝，请给栏目组写一封推荐信，推荐一个地方适合父亲与孩子一起共同度过一个三天两夜的旅行，并请至少给出两个理由。
Phrases for reference（以下短语仅供参考）
be located in/on/at famous for
share…with have interest in
（注意：文中不得出现具体人名、校名等个人信息，否则不予评分。）
Dear Editor,
_______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________________________________________
Yours
xxx
听力文字和参考答案
Part 1 Listening
Ⅰ. Listening comprehension（听力理解）
A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片)
1. Nancy decided to keep a pet and bought a puppy from a pet centre yesterday. (C）
2. It’s exciting to watch two spaceships chasing each other in the movie. (B)
3. Although Cindy was ill, she didn’t give up her dream to be a painter. (F)
4. Cathy was surprised to find that the water was coming through the window. (A)
5. Kent was so brave that he tried hard to climb to the top of the mountain. (H)
6. The students never forget to take care of the old lady to make her happy. (D)
B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案)
7. W: Bill, did you have a good time on Binjiang Avenue last Saturday?
M: Sorry. I didn’t go out because of the strong wind.
Q: What was the weather like last Saturday? (A)
8. W: Frank is really a good runner.
M: But Eddie runs faster than he. Jimmy runs as fast as Eddie.
W: That’s true. Do you know that Victor can run even faster than Jimmy?
Q: Who runs fastest of the four? (A)
9. W: Which sport are you keen on learning?
M: Last term I played basketball at school. And this term I have learnt volleyball. So now I’d like to learn something different, such as swimming, I think.
Q: What sport is the man probably going to learn? (D)
10. M: Oh, I feel a bit hungry, Mum. What time is it now?
W: It’s eleven fifteen. We’ll have lunch in ten minutes.
Q: What time will they have lunch? (B)
11. M: Where have you been, Judy?
W: I have just come back from my study trip to America.
M: When did you go there?
W: half a month ago.
Q: How long did Judy stay in America? (B)
12. W: The pizza your wife made is much nicer than the one we ate at the Pizza Hut.
M: Thank you, Claire. I’m glad you like it. Just make yourself at home.
Q: Where does the dialogue probably take place? (C)
13. M: I’m sorry. I’m late again because the terrible weather made it difficult for my father to
drive.
W: It doesn’t matter, Mike. Go back to your seat and hand in your homework in time.
M: Thank you. I’ll start a bit earlier next time.
Q: Why is Mike late for class? (C)
14. M: The lift is over there, Granny.
W: I know, but I like to walk up.
Q: What does the woman mean? (D)
C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列
句子是否符合你听到的内容, 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示)
The funniest joke in the world
Scientists have discovered the world’s funniest joke! Dr. Richard Wiseman, from Britain, created a website with jokes on it. He then asked people to rate the jokes from 1 (“not very funny”) to 5 (“very funny”). People could tell their own jokes. At the end of one year, Wiseman had two million ratings and 40,000 jokes from around the world.
Why study jokes? Dr. Wiseman thinks humor can tell us a lot about people. In Wiseman’s experiment, people from different countries did think jokes were funny. For example, Europeans rated jokes about serious topics like death “very funny”. North Americans laughed most at jokes that made fun of people. So, what was the world’s funniest joke?
Two men are hunting. Suddenly, one man falls down and isn’t moving. The other man calls for help on his cell phone. “Help!” the man says, “I think my friend is dead!”“I can help you,”says the woman on the phone. “First, are you certain your friend is dead?” It’s quiet for a minute. Then the woman hears a gunshot. After that the man returns to the phone. “Yes, he’s dead. What shall I do then?”
In Dr. Wiseman’s experiment, people from a number of countries, old and young, men and women, all thought this joke was the funniest. What about you?
(15.T 16.F 17.T 18.F 19.F 20.F)
D. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences (听短文，完成下列内容，每空格限填一词)
Rain forests are the Earth’s oldest living ecosystems. They are so amazing and beautiful. The reason they are called “rain” forests is because of the high amount of rainfall they get per year. The Amazon is the world’s largest tropical rain forest. It is located in South America. The Amazon is about 2 million square miles in area and it reaches nine countries. The majority of the forest is contained within Brazil, with 60% of the forest. The Amazon has an average temperature of about 80℉. Its average rainfall is around 50-175 inches per year.
Rain forests don’t take up much space on earth. All these places cover only 6% of the Earth’s surface, yet they contain between 50 and 90 percent of the planet’s plant and animal species! So does the Amazon. It contains around 2.5 million varieties of insects, 3,000 kinds of fish, and 400 mammal species. It also contains thousands of different plants! However, all of the wildlife is in danger. The rain forests are under attack by human beings.
(21. nine countries 22. an average 23. on earth 24. varieties of 25. in danger)
Part 2
Ⅱ. 26. B 27. C 28. D 29. B 30. C 31. D 32. A 33. B 34. A 35. B 36. C 37. D
38. C 39. D 40. A 41. A 42. C 43. A 44. D 45. B
Ⅲ. 46. B 47. C 48. A 49. E 50. D 51. C 52. A 53. B
Ⅳ. 54. winners 55. first 56. us 57. disappear 58. regularly 59. memory 60. safe
61. succeed
Ⅴ. 62. hasn’t he 63. What an 64. When was 65. what was 66. care for 67. be enjoyed
68. Something terrible happened to me that day.
Part 3
Ⅵ. A) 69. A 70. D 71. B 72. B 73. C 74. D
B) 75. D 76. A 77. D 78. B 79. C 80. B
C) 81. invention 82. prefer 83. but 84. weak 85. either 86. give 87. Exactly
D) 88. Yes, they are.
89. Their beauty and location.
90. To make his wife, Amyitis, happier and more comfortable.
91. The desert climate.
92. They were built on a mountainside.
93. Any reasonable answer is acceptable.
Ⅶ.略