2018 学年第一学期期末水平测试 

初中三年级英语试题 

Part 2 Phonetics, vocabulary and grammar

（第二部分语音、词语和语法）（共 50 分） 

II. Choose the best answer.（共 20 分） 

26. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?

A. corr__________ct B. r__________cognize C. r__________cent D. m__________thod

27. It is not good manners to find____________________excuse when you are late for school.

A. a B. an C. the D. /

28. “The CHE is a real example of the possibilities of fair trade”. one of the officers said ____________________ November 6 last year.

A. on B. for C. in D. of

29. There are more and more shop keepers doing their business in thatnew area,____________________?

A. are there B. aren’t there C. don’t they D. do they

30. When helping others, actually, at the same time, weare helping____________________.

A. we B. our C. us D. ourselves

31. The policeman had tried many times to open the door, but failed. He had to try____________________time.

A. the other B. others C. other D. another

32. You can’t finfish reading the newspaper in a minute because there is too much____________________in it.

A. news B. words C. titles D. pictures

33. Germany is a big country and it is____________________economy in Europe.

A. larger B. the largest C. largest D. large

34. Don’t be angry____________________him. He has already tried his best.

A. with B. for C. of D. in

35. Great economic growth____________________place since our reform and opening up began 40 years ago.

A. will B. took C. was taking D. has taken

36. The 19th Asian Games____________________in Hangzhou, China in 2022.

A. holds B. is held C. will hold D. will be held

37. By the end of last month, we____________________twelve English story books.

A. have read B. had read C. were reading D. are reading

38. You had better the teacher for help when you have questions.

A. asking B. asked C. ask D. to ask

39. Our duty in the school is trying and learn by heart.

A. to keep B. keeping C. kept D. keep

40. The great bridge linking the three cities is____________________the longest sea crossing and the longest fixed link on earth.

A. all B. both C. either D. neither

41. The China Railway Tunnel Group has spent three years____________________that tunnel in Uzbekistan.

A. to build B. built C. building D. build

42. Those who want to lose weight have to exercise every day,____________________they might get fat again.

A. though B. if C. so that D. or

43. On Double 11, many people bought a lot of things they don’t really need. They____________________crazy.

A. can be B. must be C. may be D. can’t be

44. --Would you please open the window a little? It’s hot in here.

--____________________I will do it right away.

A. Not at all. B. I’m afraid not.

C. Thank you all the same. D. All right. 45.   --____________________

--What a pity!

A. I can’t go to your party because of my homework.

B. I will go to buy some gifts for you.

C. I am planning to go to Thailand this winter holiday.

D. My wish is to go to a key senior high school.

III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can be used only once.（共 8 分） 

Part-time jobs are a great thing for young people. They allow teenagers and young adults to gain job experience and make 46 of money, too. In addition to other hobbies and activities, part- time jobs are healthy and prepare young people for__________47 life. Of course, a part-time job  should 48  be more important than studying and getting good grades.

There are so many different part-time jobs for you to choose from. A few of the most common ones are restaurant staff, store staff and amu百度竞价推广ent park  staff.  These are all jobs that only__________49  you to work between ten and twenty hours per week. They all need a minimum amount of work experience.

You can easily learn how to do the job__________50  you are working. Some of these lessons are how  to work with others, how to be on time and how to work hard. These are all__________51__________that you will   use later in life. People who do not have part-time jobs as young adults are sometimes less prepared for life.

It is great to earn money from a part-time job. The money you earn can be used to save for college, to buy a scooter or car or to eat out at restaurants.__________52__________that you earned yourself is good  for teaching you the value of money. It is 53 to spend money that you earned than money your parents gave you.

IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms.（共 8 分） 

54. China held its____________________import expo in Shanghai last year.

55. The Internet____________________people to order their food conveniently at home. 

56. The____________________made by the president last December was so inspiring that a lot of people

listened to it on TV.

57. Rivers in the countryside are becoming cleaner and cleaner____________________.

58. We can see more____________________drivers drive buses on high ways between cities. 

59. To be____________________, this mobile phone company has the opportunity to be one of the best ones in the near future. 

60. Chinese people are trying their best to bring more and more____________________to themselves. 

61. Children and old people may easily fall ill because of the____________________weather in early spring.

V. Rewrite the following sentences as required.（共 14 分） 

62. Chinese scientists are building a low-energy and high-performance computer now.（改为一般疑问句） 

____________________Chinese scientists____________________a low-energy and high-performance computer now?

63. A ride-sharing passenger has to be careful with __________________________________________________.（对划线部分提问） 

____________________a ride-sharing passenger have to be careful with?

64. When visiting a museum, it is important to know what we should not do.（维持句意不变） When visiting a museum, it is important to know what not____________________.

65. It’s a good tradition of people to look after the old well.（维持句意不变） It’s a good tradition of people to____________________the old well.

66. They invited the astronaut and his wife to the party on New Year’s Eve.（改为被动语态） The astronaut and his wife____________________to the party on New Year’s Eve.

67. “Do you prefer coffee?” the waiter asked me.（改为宾语从句） The waiter asked me____________________preferred coffee.

68. to, the little boy, the maths problem, enough, work out, is clever（连词成句）

____________________.

Part 3 Reading and Writing（第三部分 读写） 

VI. Reading comprehension.（共 50 分） 

A. Choose the best answer.（12 分） 

Alexis, 17, sat quietly in the passenger seat of her dad’s car. She looked out of the car window, enjoying the view of wildlife. Then a deer came into sight about 200 yards in front of them. “Dad, there’s a deer there!” Alexis said. As the car moved closer, Alexis realized the deer was attacking a woman. Sue, a 44-year-old mother, had been out for her morning run. The deer had appeared from the tall corn and began following her. Having lived in the countryside for years, Sue knew that most deer got afraid by humans. But this deer moved closer, even when she threw several small stones at it. Sue knew she was in trouble. She went to pick up a stick for self-protection, but the deer __________. It lifted her with its antlers and threw her into the air. Within seconds, the deer had pushed her off the road.

When Alexis and her father pulled up, the deer was throwing Sue like a doll. Alexis looked into the woman’s terrified eyes, and before her father had even sTOPped the car, the teenager jumped quickly out of the car and ran toward the deer. She kicked the deer hard to get its attention so that it would leave the woman. However, the deer was not afraid at all. Then her father pushed the deer

away from the woman.

Alexis helped Sue into the car, and then applied a piece of cloth to Sue’s injured leg. “We’re going to get you to a hospital,” Alexis said. Then she heard her father shout loudly. He had been knocked to the ground, his right leg seriously cut by the deer. Alexis took hold of a hammer from the car and ran to where her father lay on his back. She beat the deer’s head and neck with all her strength. At last, the deer ran away. Alexis got in the driver’s seat and sped toward the nearest hospital. She heard her dad’s breathing grow difficult because a lot of blood flew from his wounded leg.

After Sue was treated, she thanked her rescuers with tears. “You expect a teenage girl to get on the phone and call for help,” she says, “not to beat up a deer.”

Alexis’ father also thanked his daughter although it took many days for him to recover. And he said the same idea as Sue’s.

69. Sue was attacked by a deer when she was____________________.

A. driving home B. running in the morning

C. resting in the car D. feeding wild animals

70. Sue probably felt____________________at first when she saw the deer.

A. nervous B. afraid C. excited D. broke down

71. The underlined word “charged” in paragraph 1 probably means “____________________”.

A. ran forward B. went away C. woke up D. broke down

72. Alexis helped Sue____________________soon after she ran out of the car.

A. by trying to bring the deer’s life to an end

B. by beating the deer with the hammer

C. by trying to draw the deer’s attention away from Sue

D. by pushing the deer away from Sue

73. After Alexis’ father fought with the deer,____________________.

A. he had difficulty in breathing

B. both his legs were badly wounded

C. his neck was seriously cut

D. there were bloody holes in his left leg

74. The best title for the passage is “____________________”.

A. A Woman Was Seriously Injured

B. A Dangerous Deer Attacked a Woman

C. A Girl Rescued Her Father Successfully

D. A Teenager Saved Others from a DeerAttack

B. Choose the best answer and complete the passage.（12 分） 

I became a gardener when I was twelve. My early desire of gardening was not because of my love for nature. It was to make my parents rather angry.

At that time, we had a big yard in which a beautiful maple tree stood. But my mother often looked at this work of natural art__________75__________. Those golden leaves seemed like tons of rubbish to her, “Something else to clean up!” Seeing the neighbors busy with gardening, my father even thought it a waste of time.

At that age, I always did something 76 to whatever my parents did! If gardening was

something they found boring, I would plant a garden!

I planted some lily seeds in the yard. But they 77 to come up.  I  continued  to  plant sunflower seeds and roses. To my joy, I found the first rose bloom. One by one, the flowers bloomed their heads off. Finally, I was touched by this land of wonder.

____________________78__________, my parents showed no interest in my garden. My father even shouted at me because  he found it was troublesome to move around my garden to the driveway. To my mother’s displeasure, I put in her vase my real roses which, in her eyes, were simply weeds rather than flowers.

Although they disliked the garden, I kept on planting my garden and continued to enjoy the pleasure of gardening. Plants make such good__________79__________: they breathe, they bloom, they respond  to  care and love.

It has been many years since I made my garden out of my desire to challenge my parent. Today I become known as Mrs. Green Thumbs, teaching gardening and hosting a gardening show, which makes my parents feel very 80__________. And now I could say it is my love for nature that makes me a   real gardener.

C. Fill in the blanks with proper words.（14 分） 

Sam had always wanted to visit the International Space Station. He was really interested in the experiments that were happening there. He had read about growing food using water only. He thought that this was important as it was a way to provide food w 81 using land. Some of the techniques used in the Space Station had already been included in architectural plans for some super skyscrapers. So when Space Dreams, a space travel company, held a competition, Sam decided to enter. The p 82 was a trip to the Space Station itself!

The competition involved writing a description about how you would feel about traveling into space. Sam sat down and wrote how he thought it would feel. Buzz Aldrin, the astronaut was the judge. There were 1,209,678 entries, so Sam thought that there was n__________83 way he would be a winner. The day when the competition winner was announced, Sam was expecting a phone call. When the phone rang, he answered, “Hi.” A voice replied, “Hello, can I speak to Sam? This is Jack Mellow of Space Dreams.” Jack told Sam he was the winner. Buzz had said that Sam’s writing d 84 exactly how he had felt on his first space trip. Sam could not believe it. Jack had already arranged with Sam’s school for him to take a few days off. He had to go to t__________85__________before   he could fly.

Sam learnt how to put on a space suit. Then he was put onto a machine and turned around. This was to help him get used to travelling at very fast speeds. He also learned how to move without gravity to k__________86 him on the ground. That was fun. He could do summersaults and fly through the air well, walk through the air in  reality.   The day came for take-off. Sam felt  really    f 87 because he knew nothing about what would happen after taking off. He was with two other

people and an instructor. He had to climb into a tiny capsule in the nose of a rocket. Then the rocket went quickly into space. Sam’s dream came true.

D. Answer the questions.（12 分） 

Wassily Kandinsky was a Russian painter. He developed a way of painting called abstract art. This art uses colours, shapes and lines. He had many ideas about colour. He believed that colours communicated certain qualities and that the colours that surround us have a powerful influence on us. Most of us have a favourite colour and this favourite colour makes us feel good, too.

Kandinsky thought that yellow was a warm exciting colour that could make us feel happy. In comparison, blue was a peaceful colour that could make a person feel more relaxed. The colour green brings peace and stillness and makes us feel close to nature. White he thought was a colour associated with harmony, silence and cleanliness, while black was linked to grief darkness and the unknown. Red can boost our energy and is linked to improving confidence. Orange is a healthy colour with a fun side to it. Schools use bright colours to encourage children to take part in activity and learning.

Age influences our choice of favourite colours. Children like the colour yellow. As children become adults, yellow becomes less popular as a favourite colour. Older people seem to like blues and purples more than reds and oranges. This kind of knowledge about colours can be powerful in advertising and website design. It can have an effect on the success of these with their readers. If you are designing a website for children, the colour yellow would probably make it more successful. If you are designing a website for older people, the use of blues and purples would make it more successful than the use of yellow. It would seem that the power of colour is interesting as a subject. Colour seem to influence more than we could imagine in our lives. It is interesting to note that different colours have different meanings in different cultures. Red is often thought of as the colour of danger, love and passion in the West. In China, red represents good luck. South Africa, it is the colour associated with death. In Western cultures, black is the colour associated with death, while in Japan, white is the colour of death. Purple is the colour of death in Thailand, but in the

West, it is the colour of royalty, wealth and luxury.

89. Who developed a way of painting called abstract art?

90. Did Wassily Kandinsky believe the colours that surround us have a powerful influence onus?

91. Why do advertising and website design use different colours for different readers?

92. How can a website attract older people more according to the passage?

93. “Red is often thought of as the colour of danger, love and passion in the West.” Which one of the three ideas do you agree with here in China? Try to give an example.

VI. Writing（共 20 分） 

94. Write at least 60 words on the TOPic “I am no longer a little child”（以“我不再是一个孩子”为题，写一篇不少于 60 个词的短文，标点符号不占格）

背景：现在，大家的爸爸妈妈一方面对大家百般呵护，一方面又时常抱怨大家长不大。请给你的爸爸妈妈写一封信，证明你不再是一个孩子了（开头和结尾已经给出，不计入字数）。

The following is for reference only:

Dear parents

Yours XXX

KEYS

26-30 CBABD 31-35 DABAD 36-40 DBCAB 41-45 CDBDA

46-53 CAEB BDEC

54. first 55. enables 56. speech 57. recently 58. women 59. serious

60. happiness 61. changeable

62. Are building, 63. What, does 64. to do 65. care for 66. were invited

whether/if I

The little boy is clever enough to work out the maths problem. 69-74 CDACAD

75-80 DABCAD

81. without, 82. prize, 83. no , 84. described, 85. training, 86. keep, 87.frightened

Wassiy Kandinsky

Yes, he did.

Blue

Because age influences people’s choice of favourite colours

By using blues and purples.