初三英语竞赛

初三英语竞赛试题Class__________ Number___________ Name____________ （此卷后有10道主观题，考完后试卷连同答题卡一并收回）一、完形填空（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

One day l wandered into a small Indian shop in the mountainous area of the Sierras in Northern California. And soon I began a(n)__ 1 with the Native American woman who was the owner of the shop. My own Modoc Indian heritage(传承)and love of Indian jewelry encouraged me to tell her of the __2 _ I suffered when my mother's silver belt was stolen. My mother had __3 it almost every day of her life. It was 4 to me when she had passed through the arch(拱门)of life to the other __5 .I remember as a 6 girl putting my arms around my mother's___7 and feeling the warmth of her body through the silver belt. Having her belt gave me great _8 after her death．9 I talked with the Indian woman, I could ___10 her sympathy. But when I __11__ expressing my sadness of having lost the belt，her_ 12 was not the one of sympathy I 13 . What she gave me was a new __14 and an insight into my mother.“Remember ,”she said ,“the __15 gift you were given was things of the __16 . Don't ever cry over things that can't cry over you."My mother is not a belt. My mother is __17 in the woman who now stands in her18 －me. My true heritage is the talents and strengths that she left to me. I __19 cry over things that can't cry over me. I cherish(珍爱)the courage and the love a woman __20 to me.1. A. quarrel B. adventure C. conversation D journey2. A. misunderstanding B. pain C. disease D. hunger3. A. worn B. watched C. desired D. cleaned4. A. brought up B. passed on C. turned out D. taken in5. A. city B. shop C. side D. hand6. A. small B. clever C. foreign D. pretty7. A. head B. legs C. waist D. arms8. A. excitement B. comfort C. praise D. favor9. A. Before B. As C. Though D. Because10.A. sense B. express C. accept D. cover11.A. considered B. requested C. regretted D. finished12.A. feeling B. message C. suggestion D. excuse13.A. expected B. wondered C. admitted D. devoted14.A. lesson B. beginning C. present D. signal15.A. true B. same C. simple D. wrong16.A. period B. style C. material D. spirit17.A. honored B. contained C. reminded D. reflected18. A. place B. level C. office D. shadow19. A. once again B. no longer C. long before D. for ever20. A. carried B. left C. referred D. pointed二、阅读理解（共25小题；每小题2分，满分50分）阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并从答题卡上将该选项涂黑。

AIf your children are at school now, you owe it to them to help them learn how to study effectively. A good education is their ticket to success-invest a few dollars now and let them get the rewards for the rest of their lives.Don't let your children get left behind when there are simple steps you can take now to guarantee that they can succeed in everything they choose to do.It doesn't matter how young your children are. They all appreciate the opportunity to share books and games with you.By starting early, you encourage your children to value reading and time spent with others, so that when they start school, they have experience in sharing quiet times.By the time they reach 9-12 years old, your children will be enjoying reading much longer books-this is the age when they often seem to spend all their time with their noses buried in books -but don't discourage it!Early teen years can be difficult for some children-there are so many physical and emotional (情感的) changes happening to them. Sometimes they feel as if they're the only ones who'veever been through it. This is where reading can be so valuable-they can read about other children in other countries and other times who have gone through exactly the same as them- and we all know how much better it is to know that you're not alone in your misery (痛苦) !But before your children can go to college, they must be able to read! Hooked on Phonics for just $59. 95 per month.You'll also find games here that your children can play, and a few tips on how to cope when your grown-up chicks return to the nest!21. The passage is mainly intended for______________.A. researchersB. childrenC. parentsD. teachers22. The author holds the view that___________.A. children like to read together with their parentsB. children between 9-12 years old have no interest in booksC. games play a key role in deciding children's future successD. children in different areas have different emotional problems23. What's Hooked on Phonics probably about?A. Early educationB. Sports.C. Different customs,D. Holidays.24. The passage is designed to serve the purpose of making an .A. agreementB. explanationC. introductionD. advertisement25. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Read Just Now!B. Give Your Children the Best Start!C. Tips on Keeping Your Children HealthyD. Help With Learning a Second LanguageBImagine a water bottle filled a quarter of the way up with oil. That's about how much oil was needed to produce the bottle.So why don't more people drink water straight from the kitchen tap (水龙头)? Some people drink bottled water because they think it is better for them than water out of the tap, but that's not true. In the United States, local governments make sure water from the tap is safe. There is also growing concern that chemicals in the bottles themselves may enter the water.People love the convenience of bottled water. But maybe if they realized the problems it causes, they would try drinking from a glass at home or carrying water in a steel container instead of plastic.Plastic bottle recycling can help -- instead of going out with the trash, plastic bottles can be turned into items like carpeting or cozy clothing. Unfortunately, for every six water bottles we use, only one makes it to the recycling bin. The rest are sent to landfills. Or, even worse, they end up as trash on the land and in rivers, lakes and the ocean. Plastic bottles take many hundreds of years to disintegrate.Water is good for you to keep drinking it. But think about how often you use water bottles, and see if you can make a change.Betty McLaughlin, who runs an organization called the Container Recycling Institute says, …If you take one to school in your lunch, don't throw it away--bring it home and refill it from the t ap for the next day. Keep track of how many times you refill a bottle before you recycle it.‟And yes, you can make a difference. Remember this : Recycling one plastic bottle can save enough energy to power a 60-watt light bulb for six hours.26. The passage is written with the purpose of ____________.A. calling on people to recycle water bottlesB. showing the way bottles are producedC. warning people of the danger of bottled waterD. persuading people to save as much oil as possible27. The underlined word "disintegrate" in Paragraph 4 means_____________.A. break into piecesB. come into beingC. go around the worldD. flow into the ocean28. We can learn from Paragraph 2 that______________.A. water from the tap in America is not safeB. most Americans prefer to drink bottled waterC. some people have wrong ideas about bottled waterD. American government takes control of the drinking water29. Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?A. The recycling of plastic bottles.B. The problems with plastic bottles.C. The advantage of bottled water.D. The production of bottled water.30. With her words in Paragraph 6, Betty McLaughlin tries to_____________.A. encourage people to use fewer bottlesB. stop people from taking lunch to schoolC. ask people to keep schools free from trashD. advise people to form the habit of drinking tap waterCWhen Steve Maxwell graduated from college, he had an engineering degree and a high-tech job —but he couldn‟t balance his checkbook（支票簿）. “I took one finance class in college but dropped it to go on a ski trip,” says the 45-year-old father of three, who lives in Windsor, Colorado. “I actually had to go t o my bank and ask them to teach me how to read my statement.”One of the biggest difficulties in making money is not understanding it: Thousands of us avoid investing because we just don‟t get it.But to make money, you must be financially wis e. “It bothered me that I didn‟t understand this stuff,” says Steve,“so I read books and magazines about money management and investing, and I asked every financial whiz (能手) I knew to explain things to me.”He and his wife started applying the lessons: They made a point to live below their means. They never bought without careful planning, always negotiated better deals (on their cars，cable bills, furniture) and stayed in their home long after they went for an expensive vacation. They also put 20 percent of their annual salary into investments.Within ten years, they were millionaires, and people were coming to Steve for advice. “Someone would say, …I need to borrow money for a house — what should I do?‟ A lot of times, I wouldn‟t know the answer, but I‟d go to fin d it and learn something in the process,” he says.In 2003, Steve quit his job to become part owner of a company that holds personal finance seminars（培训会）for employees . He also started going to inves tment seminars, and it‟s paid off: He now owns $ 30 million worth of investment properties.“I was an engineer who never thought this life was possible, but all it truly takes isa little self-education,” says Steve. “You can do anything once you understan d the basics.”31. What troubled Steve after his graduation from college?A. He had no time to go skiing.B. He couldn‟t find a well-paid job.C. He couldn‟t manage his money well.D. He had to pay off his debt to the bank32. The underlined part “live below their means” (in Paragraph 3) probablymeans “______”.A．take effective measures B．live a miserable lifeC．spend more money than they had D．spend less money than they had 33. Since Steve Maxwell became a millionaire, he ______.A．has been unwilling to help others B．hasn‟t stopped learning from practice C．has been willing to follow others‟advice D．has stopped to invest in houses 34. What would be the best title for the passage?A．A self made engineer B．How to balance your checkbookC．Don‟t avoid investing D．Educate yourself to become a millionaire35. It can be inferred from the passage that ______.A. self--education is very important to one‟s lifeB. everyone should learn how to invest in their lifeC. Steve Maxwell was quite interested in finance classes in collegeD. Steve became rich because he saved every penny he had earnedDThis past fall I experienced a succession of stressful events in my life. First I received a devastating, terminal diagnosis for my beloved dog. Not two weeks later, while still trying to cope with his illness, I fell off a ladder and broke my wrist. Within a spanof two months I was dealing with serious emotional and physical healing (愈合). For the first time that I could remember, I couldn't reconcile ( 调和 ) the events in my life and I was havng a hard time coping. One particularly difficult afternoon I walked into my art studio, took out some watercolors and started to paint. With nothing in particular as the subject matter, Iproduced sheets of abstract images full of bright color and movement.. It felt good to create.For the first time in weeks, I felt good.…Art can express what words can't, especially if there's been trauma (创伤),‟says art therapist Cathy Malchiodi PHD. She says that our brain stores memories as images which is why it is easier to tap into them visually She cites artist Frida Kahlo who was severely injured in a bus accident when she was young. Many of Kahlo's paintings were done while she was lying in bed recovering, and her later works often included imagery that relates back to her accident, pain and recovery periods.In addition to the process of painting and creating art, it has been documented that looking at art is beneficial and therapeutic (治疗的) as well. In the introduction of his book Lust for Life---a novel on the life of Vincent Van Gogh", author Irving Stone cites his experience with fine art. Prior to ever viewing a Van Gogh painting, Stone had lived for a year in Paris and Italy and was unmoved by the paintings he had seen. "Painting may be a very fine medium but it has nothing to say to me, at least nothing I can understand." After having been challenged to visit a Van Gogh exhibit, however, he writes that he was surprised by the paintings, "unable to move or breathe or think". Art is that Powerful.36. The main purpose of the author is to tell us____________.A. his own experience in creating artB. the use of art in hard conditionsC. the healing power of artD. the importance of art37. In the first paragraph the author intends to_____________.A. describe how he overcame stressful eventsB. tell us that art helped him get out of his problemsC. prove that art can bring us many pleasuresD. advise us to try creating art when we meet problems38. What can we learn from Paragraph 2 ?A. Frida Kahlo did her later paintings from her memories.B. Frida Kahlo didn't begin to paint until she had an accident.C. Frida Kahlo recovered soon because she painted in bed.D. Frida Kahlo wanted to express her sadness through painting.39. Irving Stone felt the power of art when he____________.A. first saw fine artB. was in Paris and ItalyC. was writing about the life of Vincent Van GoghD. he saw great works by Vincent Van Gogh40. The example of Irving Stone is given in the last paragraph to show that___________________.A. looking at art is therapeutic, tooB. only works of great artists can move peopleC. art can have more benefits than we expectD. fine art can change a person completelyEAll across the United States, honeybees are flying away from their hives (蜂房) and dying. Empty hives are causing a lot of worry about some important food crops.Bees give us a lot more than delicious honey, and they enable plants to produce the fruits and nuts we enjoy by carrying pollen from one plant or flower to next. The wind pollinates (授粉) oats, corn, and wheat, but many other plants (like apple and cherry trees) depend on insects , bats, and birds.Bees live in groups of about 40, 000 individuals called colonies. "The colony is what we call a super-organism," says Dr Jeff pettis of the Bee Research laboratory at the US Agricultural Research Service. "When a lot of the bees die! the whole colony is at risk "Researchers like him at government and university labs all over the country are trying to figure out why so many bee colonies are dying.However, explains Pettis, bees are hard to study. Most die away from the hive, so researchers don't have dead bodies to examine. And when researchers return to the hive after two weeks,about half the bees they studied on their first visit will be dead, replaced by new ones in the naturallife cycle of bees. Besides, these busy insects fly up to two miles away from their hive in search of pollen and nectar(花蜜) from flowers. So when bees pick up diseases or get exposed to poisons in their environment, it is hard to know exactly where that happened.However, researchers do have some ideas about what could be affecting the health of bees. They could be sick from poisons widely used to kill insects, or they might not be gettingenough good food to stay strong. Also, tiny insects called mites feed on bees. …Any or all of these things could be weakening the honeybees,‟explains Pettis, …and then a virus or bacteria could be doing the killing.‟41. Agriculture experts in America are worried because_____________.A. there won't be enough fruits for all the peopleB. there won't be enough bees to pollinate food cropsC. a lot o£ bees have been poisoned to deathD. a lot of bees are leaving their natural hives42. What Dr Jeff Pettis says in the third paragraph implies_____________.A. bees have the habit of living and traveling aloneB. diseases usually spread quickly in the bee coloniesC. bees living in a large group are unfriendly to each otherD. big colonies should be made smaller to protect the bees43. While studying bees, researchers have the following difficulties EXCEPT that__________.A. most bees die in places far away from their hiveB. bees have a natural life cycle which is too quickC. bees leave their hive too often in search of foodD. bees travel long distances looking for pollen and food44. What can we infer from the last paragraph?A. Bees can easily be harmed and hurt.B. It's not yet certain why the bee colonies are dying.C. Foods enjoyed by bees have been widely poisoned.D. The number of bees' natural enemies is increasing fast.45. What would be the best title for the passage?A. Bee MysteryB. Bee's Natural LifeC. Bees and CropsD. Colony--A Super-Organism三、首字母填空（每小题1分，共10分）L ibraries give kids a quiet and safe place to read and learn. For over 100 years, libraries have played an import ant role in Americans‟ e46 . But how are these book-filled buildings changing with the times? You may be s 47 to find out.Benjamin Franklin famously founded America‟s first lending library in 1731. But the public library system got its biggest d 48 in the American history in the late1800‟s. Businessman Andrew Carnegie donated millions of dollars to help build free public libraries across the country. Between 1886 and 1919, Carnegie‟s d49 helped build 1,679 new libraries.Carnegie believed that libraries could o 50 the chances to Americans, young and old. He knew that the more libraries there were, the more people would have opportunities to read and use books, speeches and news.If you can easily find a public library in your community(社区), you‟ll get morec 51 . After all, the United States has 9,225 public libraries. Today, libraries keepg 52 . Seven tenths of the libraries have free Internet. It provides much more information and opportunities to ask for jobs online.Libraries are also teaching kids about the f 53 of reading. The new programRead! Build! Play! adds reading into playtime. As kids listen to a book that is being read aloud, they use Legos (乐高积木) to build images(图像) from the story h 54 .Today‟s libraries are always looking for creative programs to bring people into the library.Benjamin Franklin once said, “The doors of wisdom(智慧) are never c 55 .”As long as the doors of public libraries are open, what he said is most certainly correct!46____________ 47______________ 48_____________ 49____________ 50__________ 51_____________ 52______________ 53_____________ 54_____________ 55_________。