初三年级第一学期英语期中考试经典试题十一
二、单项选择18
( )1.It’s silly you not to forgive your friend for his faults . It’s unnecessary you to argue ____him.
A.of, of, with
B.for , for, to
C.of, for, about
D. of, for,
with
( )2. All the boys were very tired, but of them would take a rest.
A.all
B.neither
C.any
D.none
( )3. pleasant climate Yancheng has! Many birds come here for winter.
A.What
B.What a
C.How
D. How a
( )4. －Jack hardly has any money to buy a present,___________?
A. hasn't he
B. has he
C. does he
D. does’t he
( )5.Choose the correct structure of the sentence“We should keep the classrom clean .”
A. S + V + O
B. S + V + DO
C. S + V + IO + DO
D. S + V + DO + OC
( )6.—Wo uld you mind my_____the window? It’s too cold. — _________.
A. close; All right
B. opening , Of course not
C.closing, Please do it
D. closing, Of course not
( )7. Take it easy, children. There’s nothing
A. frightened
B. to be frightened
C. afraid
D. to be afraid of
( )8. —You look rather tired, ____stop to have a rest?
—All right. But I'll have to work for_____minutes.
A .Don't you; much more B. Why not; a few more
C. Why not to; a little more
D. What about; a few many
( )9. ---I'm too busy. Could you do __to help me?
—Of course. I can do __for you if you want me to.
A. anything; something
B. something; anything
C.anything; anything
D.something; something
( )10. _______my mother was watching TV, I was listening to music at that time.
A As
B When
C While
D Since
( )11.The boy was____ crazy about the computer games to remember ___ else.
A. so; anything
B. such; everything
C. too; anything
D. too; everything
( )12.Try to spend as much time as you can______problems ___us, please.
A. explain, for
B. to explain, to
C. explaining, for
D. explaining, to ( )13. The rich man gave the beggar ___to eat, the beggar thanked him ____.
A.lots of , a lot
B.a lot, a lot of
C. lots, a lot
D. a lot, lots
( )14.I hope you ______with me.
A.to agree
B. will be agree
C. to be agree
D.will agree
( )15.He____when he heard the _______news.
A. affected, surprised
B. was affected, surprising
C. affected, surprising
D.was affected, surprised
( )16.He had only money with him so he didn’t buy ______expensive watch.
A. little …such
B. a little…such an
C. few …so
D. a few…such an
( )17. I can’t decide . .
A. which to buy sweater
B. to buy which sweater
C. which sweater to
buy
D. which sweater I buy
( )18.The number of speaking Chinese ________ larger than _________ of speaking English in the world .
A are, that B. are, one C. is , that D.
is ,those
三．完形填空10
Go and watch the baby when he is asleep, see _19__his chest rises and falls, then rises and falls again. He does not know what he is doing, __20__he breathes as well as the oldest and cleverest man in the world. He began to breathe when he _21___, and he will not stop until he _22___, still he does it without thinking about it. See 23____you can hold your breath.
In some places men dive in the sea for pearls(珍珠). They pick up shells that
_24___the pearls, and the longer they stay under water, the more pearls they can find. For this reason they hold their breath as long as they_25__can. Yet even these divers can’t _26___without breathing for a long time.Watch to see how many times a man draws his breath every minute. Usually a man breathes about _27___times a minute. An elephant breathes only eight times. It’s said that a mouse breathes a hundred and twenty times each minute. No one needs to tell us _28___we breathe every minute of every day is air. It is around us everywhere.
19. A. when B. where C. how D. what
20. A. but B. and C. because D. since
21. A. was born B. cried C. went to school D. smiled
22.A. lives B. studies C. dies D. grows
23.A. how far B. how long C. how soon D. how often
24.A. grow B. hold C. take D. bring
25.A. strongly B. safely C. impossibly D. possibly
26.A. go B. make C. do D. find
27.A. eight B. twenty C. eighty D. a hundred
28.A. when B. that C. what D. which
四、阅读理解30 A
House Rules
( ) 29 These rules are made for_______
A. salesmen
B. guides
C. people who do the cleaning
D. people who will live with a family ( )30. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the rules?
A. The name of the host.
B. The time to go to bed.
C. Something you can't do.
D. The address you will be staying at.
( ) 31. You can do the following except __
A. taking showers at 9p. m.
B. smoking out of the bedroom
C. telling the host at 7p. m. if you don't have dinner
D. using the host's mobile phone to receive phone calls
B
Reading newspapers has become an important part of everyday life. Some people read newspapers as the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they have free time during the day so that they can learn what is happening in the world.
Sometimes, we do not have enough time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick loot at the front page. At other times, we may be in such a hurry that we only have a few minutes to look at the headlines(标题) of te passage.
Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in big cities, but in some mountain villages we can see few newspapers.
Some newspapers are published (出版) once a week, but most of the papers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! You know different people enjoy reading different newspapers. Some like world news, and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are interested in.
Today newspapers in English have the largest numbers of readers in the world, The English language is so popular that many Chinese students are reading English newspapers such as China Daily or 21st Century. Also they bring us more and more information with internet.
( )32.People read newspapers in order to .
A.learn the latest news
B.meet their own different needs
C.read the short stories
D.find the morning news
( )33.From the passage we can see that when people get newspapers.
A.they read them very carefully
B.they just read the headlines
C.not everyone reads all the pages
D.they have no time to read them ( )34.According to the passage, besides newspapers, people also get information from .
A.magazines
B.advertisements
C.e-mails
D.internet
C
Many American presidents in the 19th century were born in poor families. They spent their childhood in little wooden houses. They got little education. Washington and Lincoln once did jobs of a worker, shopkeeper and post officer in his early years.
A large number of U.S. presidents had experiences in the army. The two best known were Ulysses Grant and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Grant was a general (将军) in the American Civil War and Eisenhower was a hero in the Second World War. It happened that they graduated from the same school — West Point Military Academy (西点军校). One may be surprised to learn that both of them did not do well in the school. Eisenhower, for example, was once fined (罚款) because he broke the rules of the school.
The jobs of U.S. presidents are tiring. He must keep an eye on anything important which happens both at home and abroad. Every day, a lot of work waits for him to do, and he has to make many important decisions. When Frank Roosevelt was a child, he was once brought to visit President Taft. The old president said to him,“When you grow up, you should not be a presiedent. It’s a tiring job.”
( )35. President Eisenhower became well known _____.
A.while studying in West Point Millitary Academy
B.during the America Civil War
C.After he was elected President of the U.S.
D.during World War II
( )36. In this passage, ‘keep an eye on’ means _____.
A. to pay close attention to
B. not to pay attention to
C. to look at something at the eye
D. never to keep in mind ( )37. Which of the following do you think is right according to the last paragraph?
A. In the U.S. no one wanted to be a president because it was tiring.
B. None of the presidents expect Taft could do the tiring job.
C. It is an important and tiring job to be the president in the U.S.
D. President Taft didn’t want Roosevelt to be a president because he was too young.
( )38. Which do you think is the main idea of the second paragraph?