[浙江]2013-2014学年浙江杭州市萧山区靖江初中初三下学期开学检测英语卷

The underlined part in the word “sweater” is pronounced as the underlined part in the word ____.

--- I would like some pants.   ---OK, look at the blue _______.

---Look! That’s Amy.  
---It _______ be her. She’s gone to Xi’an.

---Can I borrow your dictionary? I _______ mine at home. 
--- OK. Here you are.

---Happy New Year, Jimmy!   ---____________.

--- ___________     --- Drop in if you have time.

--- Can you wait for me for another two hours?
--- Sorry. Two hours _____ too long, I will go without you.

--- How many students in your school have lunch at home?
--- Only ________ of us have lunch at home.

--- I get on well with my parents now. Better than I _________.
--- Really? I’m glad to hear that.

Last Sunday, we visited the factory _____ my father ever worked for four years.

—I’m so sorry.  —________here on time next time, or you'll be punished.

Now people would like to use _______ plastic bags to help protect the environment.

Mr. Black’s car is broken. So he has to go ____ his bike to school.

—________ all the things, Tim! I hate them here and there. 
–OK, Mum.

Don’t ______ the ball on the ground. It’s made of glass.  

Although I love my life, it hasn’t been a lot of fun as I’ve been ill for 28 years.
Music has always been a great love of mine and, in my 20s, when my        was more manageable , I         ten years as a professional singer in restaurants, playing and singing folk songs.          it was years ago and times have changed.        I live with mother on a country farm.
Two years ago, I decided that I would need to have some kind of extra work to make up for my disability pension (残疾抚恤金).        I needed to sleep in the afternoons, I was limited(限制) in my choices. I decided that I would consider       to singing in restaurants.
My family are all musicians, so I was        when I went into our local music store. I explained that I wanted to sing again but using recorded karaoke music. I knew that discs were very expensive and I really didn’t have a lot of        to get started. And often you find only three to four songs out of ten on a disc that you can       use.
When I told the owner of the shop about my       , he gave me a long thoughtful       . “This means a lot to you, doesn’t it?” he said. “Come with me.”
He led me        the crowded shop and to a bench with a large professional karaoke box on it. He placed his large hand        on his treasure(财宝) and said, “I have 800 karaoke songs in here. You can take your pick and I’ll record them for you. That should get you started.”
I could have cried. Thanking him, I made a time with him to listen to all the songs and choose       that I could sing. I have come full circle with his help.
His      still warms my heart and makes me do just that bit extra, when I have the chance.

A．loneliness B．sadness C．tiredness D．sickness

A．set B．enjoyed C．kept D．shared

A．Gladly B．Finally C．Unfortunately D．Surprisingly

A．Now B．Then C．Sometime D．Meanwhile

A．If B．As C．Though D．Before

A．reaching out B．living up C．getting on D．going back

A．recognized B．interviewed C．found D．invited

A．money B．time C．energy D．knowledge

A．actually B．hardly C．nearly D．mainly

A．job B．family C．idea D．offer

A．face B．view C．look D．sight

A．over B．along C．towards D．through

A．unhappily B．lovingly C．pitifully D．gratefully

A．more B．the ones C．few D．the rest

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 (股票经纪人).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 check. 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 served?

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

What happened after the author made the phone call?

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

What can we infer from the passage?

Traveling by train is usually not easy in China. It can be hard to get a ticket. When you’re traveling to the railway station, you look at your watch, for you are afraid you will miss your train.
But there is good news for people traveling between Beijing and Shanghai. Construction (建设) on the express railway (高速铁路) between the two cities started just before the Spring Festival of 2008. When it is finished by 2013, taking a train will be as easy as taking a bus.
“There will be trains every several minutes. Buying a ticket, getting through the checkpoint (检查站) and taking your seat, will take just 10 minutes,” said an engineer.
There may be high-speed trains running at 350 kilometers an hour. The travel time between the two cities will decrease from 10 to about 5 hours. The trains will carry twice the present number of passengers.
The new line will be 1,318 kilometers long and go across specially built bridges. It will run along side the present line. There will be 21 stations in Hebei, Tianjin, Shandong, Anhui and Jiangsu.
“The cost of traveling by the express railway may be around 800 yuan. That will be more expensive than an ordinary train, but cheaper than by air.” Said Zhang Xiaoling, a Jiangsu government official.
According to Zhang, the higher price is caused by the large cost of the railway project. At about 200 billion yuan, the project may be even more expensive than the Three Gorges Project (三峡工程).
The express railway between Beijing and Shanghai will be finished _______.

Before taking your seat, you should _____ with your ticket.

The word “decrease” in the passage possibly means ______ in Chinese.

Which of the following statements is TRUE according to the passage?

What can be the best title of the passage?

阅读匹配 阅读材料，根据每段内容从A 至F中选出恰当的匹配内容。(共5小题，计10分)
No Bollywood movie is thought complete without a few songs and dances. In fact, music is an important part of Bollywood movies. Even a bad movie can still do well if the music is good.
Several Asian hospitals are doing experiments with tele-medicine. Tele-medicine is a technology that allows doctors to "see" patients without them being in the same place.
Failure is what often happens. It is everywhere in our life. Students may fail in exams, scientists may fail in their research work, and players may fail in competitions. 
The summer holiday is coming, which can be a relaxing time for sleeping, eating good meals and seeing old friends. Try to take some time off from school and spend a few weeks of fun.
I played a country girl in my last movie. I had to live in a small village with the other actors for part of the winter. To help me play a country girl better, I even walked a few miles sometimes to get water, as there was none in the houses. 

E. Sophia failed in the last exam. What will she do ?
F. Jefferson is a super tour guide. He can help people know where to visit.

用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，使短文通顺、正确、连贯（每个单词限用一次）

Hangzhouhua (杭州话)：use it or lose it
There are about 6.000 languages in the world and some experts say that as many as half of these languages will disappear(消失) in the next one hundred years. Will Hangzhouhua be one of ________? It’s a ________ that more people are asking.
In China, Putonghua is the official language. That________ it’s the language of government, business and the media (媒体). And it’s also the language that is ________ in schools.
Hangzhou is a special city. It used to be the capital of Wu and Yue States in the 10th century during the Five Dynasties period. Now it is modern, fashionable and also beautiful. And Hangzhouhua shows that ________ being modern, fashionable and beautiful.
Young people still speak Hangzhouhua but not as ________ as their parents and grandparents. They are under more and more pressure to speak Putonghua. So the language is being used ________ often in everyday life. Some people want to keep the language from disappearing completely by building museums and having cultural festivals to save it. But a language isn’t a painting ________ a book. It’s a living thing and you ________ use it or lose it.
If people ________ using it in their daily lives, a museum or a festival will not help. It will be lost forever, like the Yangtze River dolphin.

单词拼写
Do you enjoy l      to music ?   --No !
More and more people in Hangzhou are wealthy enough to a     a car.
Quite a few people are looking t      the books in that new bookstore.
Tom will write to you as soon as he a     in Beijing.
He couldn’t help c ________ when he heard that piece of sad news.
After ten m      rest, they went on working in the fields.
If you are more careful when you are taking an exam, you will make f     mistakes.
Never read your son’s p     letter. He will get mad at you.
I don’t want to make a wrong d     and regret it later.
December is the t ________ month of a year.

九年级学生面临着升学的压力，他们每天有做不完的作业，学校领导为了采取一些有效的措施提高学生的学习效率，让你们调查了解九年级学生的学习状况，你通过调查发现有以下问题：

 请你用英语写一篇发言稿，在班会课上分析这些问题和产生的原因，并提出相应提高学生学习的学习实效，和同学共同探讨。
注意：1.发言稿的开头已经为你写好，你只需接着写；
2.所写内容必须包括所给问题和你自己的分析；
3.词数：70个左右。
Hello, boys and girls,
I made a survey about what problems we students of Grade Nine have now.
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