[浙江]2012届浙江省泰顺县五校初三下学期第二次“千分考”英语试卷

—What can I do for you ?
—I want ________MP4 player for my daughter. She needs  ________.

—Who helped you repair your bike?
—________ ! I repaired it all by myself.

— ________ bad weather !
—Yes. The radio says it will be even ________later on.

—Who called just now, Sam?
—It’s Mona. She asked _____.

—Jim, please don’t make so much noise.
—Pardon?
—I _____ make so much noise.

We will do all we can ______ English well this term.

—Hi, I have passed_____ exams!
—Oh, congratulations! I hope my sister has also passed______.
A. mine, her      B. mine, hers      C. my, her    D my, hers

—Didn’t you enjoy the performance last night?
—_________.  It was wonderful.

—Do you know the teacher ____ classes are interesting and exciting?
— Yes, she is Mrs. Zhang.

—Can you come and give us a talk on Thursday or Friday?
—I am afraid ______ day is possible. I am very busy these days.

—I am sorry I _________ my homework at home.
—That’s all right. Don’t forget _______ it to school this afternoon.

In this world there is no shortcut to take. So people, no matter how clever they are, can’t succeed_______ they work hard.

— Ann has made great progress recently.
— ______ and  _______.

— Have all the students know that our class will visit the factory this afternoon.
— Yes , Every student ________ about it.

—Would you mind me________ the door ?
—______________. Please do it now.

Adults usually do not remember most of the things that are taught by their teachers at school. But this story is one such    16     that I will never forget. Every time I drift off course, I think of this story.
It was a normal Monday morning, and my teacher was teaching us on  17   things in life and about devoting ourselves to 18   is important to us. This is how the story went:
An old man lived in a certain part of London, and he would wake up every morning and go to the sub-way. He would    19    the train right to Central London, and then sit at the street corner and   20  . He would do this every single day of his life. He sat at 21   street corner and begged for almost 20 years.
His  22     was dirty, and a stench came out and it smelled terrible. The neighbors could not stand the smell any more, so they called for the police officers to clear the place. The officers knocked down the door and cleaned the house. There were small bags of 23    all over the house  24    he had collected over the years.
The police counted the money, and they soon   25 that the old man was a millionaire. They waited outside his house expecting to ___26__ the good news with him. When the old man arrived home that evening, one of the officers told him that there was no need for him to beg any more as he was a   27    man now, a millionaire.
But the old man said  28   ; he went into his house and locked the door. The next morning he woke up  29, went to the subway, sat at the street corner and continued to beg.
Clearly, this old man had no great plans, 30   or anything significant for his life. We learn nothing from this story other than staying focused on the things we enjoy doing.

A．class B．teacher C．lesson D．study

A．interesting B．special C．important D．necessary

A．what B．that C．how D．where

A．get up B．get onto C．get from D．get to

A．sing B．sleep C．think D．beg

A．a different B．another C．the same D．a strange

A．house B．coat C．cap D．bag

A．food B．money C．books D．clothes

A．that B．where C．whose D．who

A．recognized B．said C．realized D．thought

A．tell B．share C．cover D．discuss

A．thanks B．something C．nothing D．much

A．much later B．much earlier C．so quickly D．as usual

A．friends B．jobs C．chances D．dreams

Andy was still traveling in Spain when he realized he had to confirm his flight home with the airline company. He was visiting Spain in order to improve his Spanish. When he was speaking to people face to face, he had no difficulty understanding what they said. However, when he was speaking on the phone, he still had a problem. Andy called the airline. And the clerk confirmed that his plane was leaving at nine o'clock three days from that day. She also told Andy to be at the airport two hours earlier in order to check in his luggage and get a seat.
Since he was leaving in three days, Andy didn't lose any time. He visited as many places as he could. He thought that it would probably be a while before he had enough money again. He wished he could come back and spend a year in Spain.
Too quickly, the final day arrived. Andy left early for the airport to arrive two hours before take-off. He hated to rush. He went to the clerk to show his ticket. The clerk looked at the ticket in surprise. "Why, sir, but your flight was at nine o'clock in the morning, and now it is eight in the evening." "But I confirmed my flight," insisted Andy. "Will I have to pay for another ticket?"
"No, Sir. However, the next flight out will be three days from now."
Andy's look of shock turned to pleasure as he realized that now he could continue his vacation.
Why was Andy in Spain?

Andy missed his flight because________

Which word can best describe the feeling of Andy when he came to know that his stay in Spain would be longer?

What would Andy do next?

What can we know from the passage?

Every year landslides cause 25 to 50 deaths and $2 billion in damage in the United States. And in December, a single event killed more than 2000 people in the Philippines. Sending workers to stabilize mountainsides using steel bars can help a lot, but it introduces new difficulties because of dust and loosen heavy, dangerous debris from the work. “It’s a quite dangerous job,” says Giorgio Pezzuto of D’ Appolonia, working with eight other companies. Now there may be an answer: a three-ton robot called Roboclimber.
“The idea is to operate a machine far away that can do the stabilizing job without a human being near,”says Pezzuto, manager for the project, which is supported by a European organization. Engineers say that the machine will be faster and cheaper than manual labor. The robot, a large radio-controlled four-legged spider, has cost at least $2 million so far. It should be able to climb mountainsides, drill holes and insert steel bars there. Testing should begin in May.
The underlined word “event” refers to_____

The purpose in writing this text is _____

What does the robot look like?

A landslides cause _____________in damage in the United States Every year .

The biggest advantage of this product is that____

When I was growing up in America, I was ashamed of my mother’s Chinese English. Because of her English, she was often treated unfairly. People in department stores, at banks, and at restaurants did not take her seriously, pretended not to understand her, or even acted as if they did not hear her.
My mother has realized the disadvantages of her English as well. When I was fifteen, she used to have me call people on phone to pretend I was she. I was forced to ask for information or even to yell at people who had been rude to her. One time I had to call her stockbroker. I said in a voice that was not very convincing, “This is Mrs. Tan.” And my mother was standing beside me, whispering loudly, “Why he doesn’t send me the cheek. It’s already two weeks late.”
And then, in perfect English I said: “I’m getting rather anxious .You agreed to send the check two weeks ago, but it hasn’t arrived.” Then she talked more loudly. “What does he want? I’ll come to New York and say it in front of his boss.” And so I turned to the stockbroker again, “I can’t accept any more excuses. If I don’t receive the check immediately, I have to speak to your manager when I am in New York next week.”
The next week we ended up in New York. While I was sitting there red-faced, my mother, the real Mrs. Tan, was shouting to his boss in her broken English. When I was a teenager, my mother’s broken English embarrassed me. But now, I see it differently. To me, my mother’s English is perfectly clear, perfectly natural. It is my mother tongue. Her language, as I hear it, is clear and direct. It was the language that helped me form the way I saw things, expressed ideas, and made sense of the world.
Why was the author’s mother poorly treated?

From Paragraph 2, what can we know about the author?

What does the author think of her mother’s English now?

What can we infer from the passage?

What is the best title of the passage?

Soon computers and other machines will be able to remember you by looking at your eyes! The programme works because everyone’s eyes are different. So in the future you won’t have to remember a number when you want to use a machine or take money out of a bank. You’ll just have to look at the machine and it will be able to tell who you are.
The eye-recognition programme is already being tested in shops and banks in the USA, Britain, Spain, Italy and Turkey. Soon, this technology will take the place of all other ways of finding out who people are.
However, scientists are working on other systems. Machines will soon be able to know you from the shape of your face or hand or even your smell! We already have machines that can tell who you are from your voice or the mark made by your finger.
Eye-recognition is better than other kinds because your eyes don’t change as you get older, or get dirty like hands or fingers. And even twins have different eyes, so the programme can be up to 94％ correct, depending on how good the technology is. Some programmes may only be right  51％ of the time. In Britain, it was found that 91％ of people who had tried it said that they liked the idea of eye-recognition. In the future your computer will be looking you in the eye. So smile!
How does the eye-recognition programme work?

Why can the programme be up to 94％ correct?

The eye-recognition programme can know you from ___________.

Which of the following is true?

What does Paragraph 4 talk about?

根据句意及首字母提示完成句子。
There are many people at the meeting, i________ me.
We must pay more attention to the s_________ of the players.
Don’t put off m_______ a travel plan before traveling.
During the past the three days, Jerry has visited many p________ of interest around Sydney.
Jack p_________ swimming to dancing and he is good at swimming.

根据短文内容，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

I have tried many ways to be ill. I don’t wear a sweater when I should, and two days ago I walked in the rain     56    my shoes. But so far     57    has happened, Debbie once told me about a boy in her class, he would rub end of the thermometer till it went up to 39℃. Then he’d put it in his mouth and his mother would think he was     58    ill.
This morning I was     59    doing that but it never went above 35℃ and I rubbed it for ten minutes. So I     60    the thermometer next to the light on my desk and it went up to 40℃. I thought I’d put it in my mouth and walked     61    like that. Then my mother would     62    it out and she would be     63    when she saw that I was rather ill.
The only trouble was I didn’t know the thermometer would be so hot. As soon as I put it into my mouth I burnt my tongue, I spat the thermometer out. It fell on the floor but it didn’t       64   .
I will have to think up a     65    way to get my mother and father back together.

学校将举办 “做一名文明礼貌的中学生”的主题演讲活动。请以“Behaving well is the secret of being a polite student.”为题，根据要点提示，写一篇100词左右的短文。
要点如下：
1.学生应该守时，守信，不撒谎，不说脏话；
2.礼貌待人，热心助人；
3.遵守交通规则；不在公共场所喧哗，不乱扔垃圾；
4.请你就此话题再补充一至两点个人看法。
参考词汇：tell lies, honest,  be kind to,  polite,  noise,  rubbish , in public
Behaving well is the secret of being a polite student
As a student,