初中英语试题

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Jun， Korea Posted: 3 days ago	Question: First trip to the USA For my new job, I will travel to the United States next month and meet my American boss. This will be my first trip to the USA. I’m worried about correct business behavior and manners. My boss invited me to his home for dinner. Do you have any advice? Reply
Sue, Miami Posted: 3 days ago	Re: First trip to the USA It’s a good idea to bring a small gift or something from your country. Don’t be surprised if your boss opens the gift right away. In the USA, people often open a gift when they receive it. In Korea, that is not polite, but it’s appropriate in the USA. Reply
Sam, Los Angeles Posted: 2 days ago	Re: First trip to the USA Americans use their hands to eat some kinds of food, such as pizza and fried chicken. Watch your American hosts, and do what they do. Reply
Kathryn, New York Posted: 12 hours ago	Re: First trip to the USA In Korea and Japan, it’s the custom to remove your shoes before entering a house. In the United States, you usually don’t take your shoes off. Once I was travelling in Japan and entered a house with my shoes on by mistake. Oops! Reply
Lee, Korea Posted: 2 hours ago	Re: First trip to the USA Many Americans are very informal at home. One time I went to dinner at the home of an American business partner, I was surprised that everyone stood and talked in the kitchen while the husband and wife cooked dinner. Besides, unlike in Korea, everyone took part in the dinner table conversation, even the man’s wife and children. Reply
Andrew, Washington Posted: 2 hours ago	Re: First trip to the USA I agree with Lee. I was surprised that American men often cook and that both the husband and wife come to dinner table and talk. You probably won’t speak about business during dinner, so my advice is to know some good topics of conversation. For example, you can talk about travel, food, music, or sports. Of course, it’s good to ask about your boss’s family. But it’s not polite to question about age, salary, religion, or politics.

Who will go to the USA?

A．Sue	B．Kathryn
C．Sam	D．Jun

People usually don’t need to remove shoes before entering a house in ________.

A．Korea	B．the USA
C．Japan	D．Not mentioned

The underlined word appropriate in the first reply probably means ________.

A．完整的	B．无礼的
C．合适的	D．愉快的

According to Andrew, it’s polite to talk about some topics during dinner except ________.

A．travel	B．politics
C．sports	D．food

Which of the following statements is True? ________
A.Jun is worried about his English.
B.It’s not polite to bring a small gift when visiting a home in the USA.
C.It’s OK for you to use hands to eat pizza and fried chicken like your American hosts.
D.Lee found the husband talking with the guests while the wife cooked in the kitchen.
What can we infer(推断) from the online discussion? ________
A.Both Japanese and Korean are informal at home.
B.Only wives cook in the kitchen in the USA.
C.American customs are similar to Korean and Japanese customs.
D.Women and children don’t usually take part in the table conversation in Korea.

China has decided to stop the use of free plastic bags. Supermarkets, shops and outlets(经销店) in China can’t offer plastic bags any more.
Every year, people use too many plastic bags. They throw them here and there after they have used them. The government has done its best to deal with them but failed.  While we offer quick serviceto customers, the plastic bags pollute water, earth and air, and they waste the oil. The government asks people to go back to carry cloth bags and use basketswhen they go to buy something. The cloth bags and the baskets can be used again and again.
Many months have passed. The environment has been improved a lot.

Action	Make a decision to stop the use of
	Supermarkets, shops and outlets
Advantage	Offer       service to customers
Disadvantage	Pollute water， earth and air  and waste
What should we do	Go back to carry cloth bags and use

Do you think animals can predict the weather or other natural events? Farmers living in the countryside think so.          They think animals’ behavior can be connected to future weather conditions or events. For example, if swans fly into the wind, a hurricane（飓风） is coming.          There are many traditional stories connecting animals and natural events. Many people think that these stories are just folklore（民间故事）, traditional stories and beliefs without scientific evidence.         Kiyoshi Shimamura is a Japanese earthquake researcher. He noticed an increase in dog bites a short time before earthquakes hit. Then, he did an investigation（调查） of twelve public health centers in Kobe, Japan.        He noticed some interesting information about the moth before the big earthquake. Treatment for animal bites had increased. In fact, aggressive (冒犯的) behavior in dogs, such as biting and barking loudly, jumped by 60 percent! People noticed other changes in animal behavior before the earthquake as well. For example, fish began swimming together in large groups, only in the middle of the water and not near the edges. Also, birds flew away from their nests for many days, leaving their eggs unprotected.     

Elizabeth lived with her six children in a small house. One winter, there was a big flood and quite a f    houses were washed away, but Elizabeth’s house was highe    to escape it. Elizabeth took in one of the families which had lost everything. She shared her home until the family could build a    house. Elizabeth’s friends could not understand why she did so. She already had so manyc    to support, her family wasn’t so rich.
“Well,” Elizabeth e   to her friends, “at the end of World War I, there was a poor woman in a town in Germany. Her husband had been killed in the war and she had a lot of children, just l    me now.”
After a moment of silence, she continued, “The day b   Christmas, this woman said to her children, ‘We won’t be able to have much for Christmas. I’m going to get just one present for us all. Now I’ll go and get it.’ She came back w    a little girl who had no parents. ‘Here’s our p   , ’ she said to her own children.”
“The children were more than excited to get such a present. They welcomed the little girl warmly, and she g    up as their sister. I was that Christmas present.”

Almost all the students go to traditional schools now. But there will probably be a new type of education in the future—open education.
There are some very good things about open education. This way of teaching allows the students to develop their interests in many subjects. Open education asks students to be strict with their own education. The open classroom may help them to enjoy learning. Some students will be happier in an open education school. They will not have to worry about grades or rules.
But many students may not do well in open education. They will not make good use of open education. Because open education is so different from traditional education, these students may have a problem of getting used to making so many choices. The last point about open education is that some teachers do not like it. They do not believe in open education.
I think that open education is only a good idea. It may not work very well in a real class or school. I believe that most students want and need to have some rules. They have to study some subjects. Many students are pleased to find the subjects that they have to study so interesting. They will not study those subjects if they do not have to in an open education school.

Open
Explanation	☆ It is a way of teaching which       the students to learn what they are interested in without many rules.
Advantages	☆ It is good to develop the students’       in many subjects. ☆ In open education, many students don’t need to       about grades or rules. ☆ Some students will be      in an open education school.
	☆ Many students cannot prove themselves as good in open education as in       classrooms. ☆ There are so many      for students to make that they can’t use open education properly.
The writer’s opinion	☆ It is just a good idea, but in a      class or school, it may not work very well. ☆ Some students will not study some subjects       they have to.

Taobao, China’s largest online shopping site, has become an important part of Wang Lin’s life. She spends lots of money on Taobao.
A growing number of Chinese Internet users like Wang have found the joys of online shoppinng. Most online shoppers are students or young workers. More women shop on line than men. Clothing and home-use products are the most popular on line. It was reported that more than 250 billion yuan was spent on online shopping in the year 2012, 80% through Taobao.
Taobao means “looking for treasure” in Chinese . People can find almost everything they need on Taobao, from clothes to books , from candies to DVD players.
You may question the security of online shopping, Wang Lin said, “ It's very safe and convenient. Unless you receive the products from the sellers and are satisfied with them, the shop owner will not get the money. You can also get your money back if you want to return the products.”
What is Taobao?
__________________________________________________________________________________
Who are the most online shoppers?
__________________________________________________________________________________
Do more men shop on line than women?
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What can you do if you want to return the products?
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How much did people spend on online shopping through Taobao in the year 2012?
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When your pen is broken, you think that’s the end of its life. You throw it away. It then joins tons of other garbage that is becoming a big problem in cities.
Each day, about 10,000 tons of waste is produced in Guangzhou, and 17,000 tons of household waste is produced in Beijing.In other countries, the case is similar.“If you’re like most of us, most Americans, you’re making seven pounds (3.17kg) of trash a day,” US writer Edward Humes told CNN. So, an American makes 102 tons of trash in a lifetime.
If you simply throw away that broken pen, it goes to a landfill(垃圾填埋场) and is buried together with many other trash. To prevent polluting the groundwater, workers cover the trash with soil and keep it dry. And your pen will stay there for a long, long time, without having further use.
But it could have a better destination: the recycling bin.Have you ever noticed the different colors of trash bins in the street? Many cities in China have been running a waste-sorting (垃圾分类) campaign. They divide trash into “recyclable waste” and “unrecyclable waste”.
Recycling waste can save energy, reduce greenhouse gas, and keep space free for the unrecyclable trash.Take your pen as an example. At the recycling factory, its metal parts could be taken out and reused to make other things.But recycling is not enough, experts say. Making less waste in the first place is the way forward.
“The best thing to do is just keep using your stuff for as long as you can,” US writer Adam Minter told Time Out magazine.
根据短文内容完成句子填空（每空限填一个单词）。
In second paragraph, we can know China is __________ __________ other countries in producing waste.
根据短文内容完成句子填空（每空限填一个单词）。
Workers cover the trash with soil in order to __________ it __________ polluting the groundwater.
根据短文内容回答问题。
According to the story, what is the best wayto save energy?
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把短文中画线的句子译成汉语。
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根据短文内容用一个完整的英文句子（限10个词以内）回答问题。
What’s the main purpose of the passage?
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If prices rise too high, the government has to do something __________ (stop) it.
Are you frightened to see such a little mouse hide __________ (it) in your room?[来
Daniel is __________ (energy) enough to be the host of the charity show.
It is worth __________ (mention) that Nanjing has entered Top 10 Appealing Chinese Cities.
Miss Li is a kind teacher and she always talks to us __________ (gentle).
Fight to the end _______________(cover) live on JSTV twice a week.
The Eiffel Tower, a cultural Icon of France, was completed at the end of the _________ (nineteen) century.
She likes talking to others while________(wait) for the bus.
Taizhou is developing quickly. A number of ________ (visit) around the world come here every year.
The twins___________(argue) about what TV programmes to watch when I got home.

Yue Lin used to leave the dormitory (宿舍)door wide open, especially as summer was coming. But now he has to keep reminding himself and his roommates to close the door. He has every reason to be. According to a local newspaper, in most school criminal cases, 80 percent are thefts. Dormitory safety becomes even serious on the graduation season. Students had better be careful with dormitory safety.
Room theft
According to the police, room theft has risen in the last two months. In March alone, many computers and cameras were stolen at Hainan University. Many students often leave their laptop(手提) on the desk ,chatting with friends in another room or going outside to buy some snacks. They don’t recognize the risk of living a “careless” life in their dormitory. They live in the dormitory as they live at home. They don’t see any danger. But from now on they should be careful.
Fire
Compared to other danger, a fire which may make students lose their lives are more serious. Recently, Yin Jiachen, 20, a student at the Beijing Institute of Technology, returned to her dormitory to smell burning plastic in the room. Luckily, she quickly found something burning. “If I had come back only a bit later, the room could have been ______ ________.” says Yin. Preventing fires has been the top safety in dormitories for years, but it’s still the biggest problem. Students aren’t allowed to use heaters and similar dangerous things in the dormitory. Besides, many schools start to provide air conditioners and heaters for students so that students don’t need to buy those that raise a safety risk.
在文章空白处填上适当的单词。  ______________    _________________
将划线部分句子翻译成中文。_______________________________________________
根据文章内容回答问题。 Why is a fire more serious than other danger in the dormitory?
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找出与In the dormitory, heaters and similar dangerous things mustn’t be used.意思相近的句子，并将它写在答题卡上。________________________________________________________________
找出文章的中心句，并将它写在答题卡上。____________________________________________________

Sarah ran in, shouting, “Look at what I found!”  Over the top of the paper I was reading came a terrible thing that caused me to jump. It was a snake skin found in our garden.
“Isn’t it beautiful?” said my seven-year-old daughter.
I opened my eyes widely and looked at the snake skin in fear. I didn’t think it was beautiful, but I learned never to appear nonchalant(冷漠的) with children. Everything they see for the first time is important to their sense of beauty; they see only excellence in the world.
“Why does it do this?” Sarah asked.
“Snakes shed(蜕) their skins because they need to renew themselves,” I explained. “Why do they need torenew themselves?” Sarah asked.
“We often need to shed our skins, those coatings that we cover ourselves with,” I said to my daughter. “We leave some things and find other things unwanted or unnecessary. This snake no longer needs this skin. It is probably too little for him, and he probably doesn’t think he looks as smart in it as he once did.”
As we talked, I knew that she began to understand. Although she couldn’t understand clearly, she would know that renewal is kind of progress; that we need to take a good look at ourselves, our rooms, schoolwork and spirit, and see what we need to keep and what we need to leave. I was careful to tell that this is a natural way, not one to be made to do.
“Snakes don’t peel off their skins when they like them.” I explained. “It happens as a natural thing of their growth.”
“I see, Dad,” said Sarah as she held the snake skin, and then ran off.
I hoped she would remember this; we need to throw some away because they are worthless or unnecessary. Then we can store them as memories in our deep hearts.
Father jumped up when her daughter came to him with a snake skin because ＿＿＿＿.

A．he didn’t want to read any more	B．he was very afraid of it
C．he wanted to praised her daughter	D．he hated snakes

Father’s patient explanation shows that ＿＿＿＿.

A．his daughter didn’t want to listen to him at all

B．he knew children saw only excellence in the world

C．his daughter couldn’t follow him at all

D．he wanted to teach everything to her

We learn from the reading that＿＿＿＿.

A．the girl seemed to understand what her father said

B．the girl wasn’t interested in the explanation

C．the father was good at keeping snakes

D．the father liked the snake skin better

书面表达 （共1题，计15分）
今年儿童节，你们全家去公园游玩。请你根据以下要点提示，用英语写一篇短文参加以“How to Behave Politely”为主题的征文比赛，并适当加以评论。要点提示：

亲身经历	1. 我们玩得正开心，不和谐的一幕发生了；一位女士将垃圾扔在地上； 2. 我试图阻止，但她拒绝听我的；相反还嘲笑我； 3. 我将垃圾捡起来并扔进垃圾桶；
我的观点	4. 我们应该关注自己的礼仪(manners)； 5. 当在不同场合时，如：图书馆、过马路、乘车时，应该……

注意：1. 征文须包括所给内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯；
2. 第5点须用2～3句话展开合理想象，做适当发挥；
3. 词数90个左右，短文开头已给出，不计入总词数。
How to Behave Politely
During this Children’s Day holiday, all my family visited the park.

In a famous story, a young boy called Ali Baba says “Open Sesame” and a door to treasures is opened before him. Ma Yun drew inspiration from this and founded Alibaba.com.
Over 14 years, Alibaba.com has become China’s largest e-commerce (电子商务) website. E-commerce is the a    of buying and selling goods and services and doing other business activities using a computer and the Internet. However, the founder c ___ to leave and to discover new areas of business on May 28, 2014, Ma became chairman of Cainiao Network Technology Co., Ltd. The company will set up China Smart Logistics (物流) Network. Its goal is to deliver p ____(运送包裹) to people anywhere in the country  w     24 hours.
The 48-year-old businessman, who is short and thin and often wears oversized suits, always had his c ___to dream big and try new things. Ma got the idea or started a business career in 1995. Ma had an idea: why not build a large Internet market to connect consumers and companies from all over the world and do business o   __ ?
That is how Alibaba began. His company grew quickly. But that doesn't mean e       went well. Alibaba had a difficult time in 2000, when many Internet companies failed. Ma was successful because he m       to attract investment(投资)in his company.
But there is a deeper r      for Ma's success: his attitude. " we never g __up hope."

It is said that all dreams serve a purpose. While there is no agreement among scientists about why we dream, there are many ideas about the different kinds of dreams we have.
One common kind of dream is the repeating dream, in which the same story is repeated again and again, often for many months or even years. Some believe these are a sign people have a problem in their life and once that problem is gone then the dream will stop. Others think they are a way to help people remember something very important.
Another well-known kind of dream is the nightmare. The pictures and stories in such dreams make people very afraid and dreamers usually remember them far more clearly than normal dreams. The cause of such dreams may be seeing something terrifying such as a car accident or some deadly snakes. Others think such dreams may be trying to make a person pay attention to something that is dangerous in their life.
Daydreams happen during wake-time when we forget where we are or what we are doing and find ourselves in a made-up story or unreal world. We often daydream when we are doing something that is not interesting or exciting. They help us think about our future.
Lucid (神志清醒的) dreams are the most fun. These happen when dreamers suddenly understand that they are dreaming. Instead of waking up, they stay in the dream and are able to control what happens in the dream as if they are making a movie.
The underlined word “they” in paragraph 2 refers to “_______”.

A．dreams	B．problems
C．dreamers	D．scientists

The underlined word “terrifying” in paragraph 3 is closest in meaning to “_______”

A．frightening	B．interesting
C．disappointing	D．amazing

When might a person daydream?

A．During a very interesting movie.

B．While playing at a fun park．

C．While listening to an uninteresting talk.

D．When making a movie．

How do we know if we are lucid dreaming?

A．We can remember the dream very clearly.

B．We can control what happens in the dream.

C．We think that the dream is like a movie.

D．We feel very nervous after we wake up.

What is the best title of the passage?

A．Daydreaming of You	B．Enjoy Your Dream
C．What Dreams Mean	D．Where Dreams Go

An eight-year-old child heard her parents talking about her little brother. All she knew was that he was very sick and they had no money for a very expensive operation.
When she heard her daddy say “Only a miracle (奇迹) can save him now,” the little girl went to her bedroom and pulled her money from its hiding place and counted it carefully.
She hurried to a drugstore with the money in her hand.
“What do you want?” asked the salesman. “It’s for my brother, Andrew” the girl answered. “He has something bad growing inside his head and my daddy says only a miracle can save him. So how much does a miracle cost?”
“We don’t sell a miracle here, child. I’m sorry,” the salesman said with a smile.
“Listen, if it isn’t enough, I can try and get some more. Just tell me how much it costs.”
A well-dressed man heard it and asked, “What kind of miracle does your brother need?”
“I don’t know,” she answered with her eyes full of tears. “He’s really sick and mum says he needs an operation. But my daddy can’t pay for it, so I’ve brought all my money.”
“How much do you have?” asked the man.
“$1.11, but I can try and get some more,” she answered.
“Well, what luck,” smiled the man. “$1.11, the price of a miracle for your little brother.”
He took up the girl’s hand and said, “Take me to your house. I want to see your brother. Let’s see if I have the kind of miracle you need.”
That well-dressed man was Dr Carlton Armstrong, a famous doctor. The operation was successful and it wasn’t long before Andrew was home again.
How much did the miracle cost?
What was the trouble in the little girl’s family?
A. Her brother was seriously ill.              B. They had no money.
C. Nothing could save her brother.              D. Both A and B.
In the eye of the little girl, a miracle might be _______.

A．something interesting	B．something beautiful
C．some wonderful medicine	D．some good food

The little girl said again and again “...I can try and get some more.” That shows _______.

A．she had still kept some money

B．she hoped not to be refused

C．There was no need to worry about money

D．she thought money was easy to get

What made the miracle happen?

A．The girl’s love for her brother.	B．The girl’s money.
C．The medicine from the drugstore.	D．Nobody can tell.

From the passage we can infer (推断) that _______.

A．A miracle is sure to happen if you keep on

B．The doctor didn’t ask for any pay

C．The little girl is lovely but not so clever

D．Andrew was in fact not so sick as they had thought

When my son, Mark, was in the third grade, he saved all his pocket money for over three months to buy holiday presents. The third Saturday in December, Mark said he had made his list and had twenty dollars in his pocket.
I drove him to a nearby supermarket. Mark picked up a hand basket and went in while I waited and watched in the car. It took Mark over 45 minutes to choose his presents. Finally he came to the checkout counter and reached into his pocked for his money. It was not there! There was a hole in his pocket, but no money. Mark stood there holding his basket, tears falling down his face.
Then a surprising thing happened. A woman came up to Mark and took him in her arms. “ You would help me a lot if you let me pay for you, ” said the woman. “It would be the most wonderful gift you could give me. I only ask that one day you will pass it on. When you grow up, I would like you to find someone you can help. When you help others, I know you will feel as good about it as I do now.”
Mark took the money, dried his tears and ran back to the checkout counter as fast as he could. That year we all enjoyed our gifts almost as much as Mark enjoyed giving them to us.
I would like to say “ thank you ” to that very kind woman, and tell her that four years later, Mark went house to house collecting blankets and clothes for the homeless people in the fire. And I want to promise her that Mark will never forget to keep passing it on.
When did the story probably happen?

A．On Christmas Day	B．Before Christmas Day
C．On New Year’s Day	D．After New Year’s Day

When they got to the supermarket, Mark went in          .

A．with the writer	B．by himself
C．with the woman	D．with his friends

What happened to Mark in the supermarket ?

A．His gifts were stole.	B．He broke his basket.
C．He lost his money.	D．He lost his way.

Why did the writer want to say “ thank you ” to the woman ?

A．Because she bought Mark a nice present.

B．Because she always paid money for others.

C．Because she collected clothes for the homeless.

D．Because she taught Mark to help people in need.

What’s the best title for this Passage ?

A．A Big Supermarket	B．A Kind Woman
C．A Happy Family	D．A wonderful Gift