2016学年初三（九年级）英语第一学期期中试题
听力部分略
Part 2 Vocabulary and Grammar （第二部分词汇和语法）
V. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案，用A、B、C或D表示): (共24分)
31.Shenzou VII was sent into space successfully _______ Sept. 25, 2008.
A) on B) at C) in D) of
32.John has worked ________ a professor in this university for more than ten years.
A) of B) as C) for D) with
33.Mrs. Li has a shopping bag in one hand. What’s in _________ hand?
A) other B) her other C) others D) her the other
34.________ of the two teachers show great interest in talking about net-games.
A) All B) Neither C) Both D) None
35.Her dream is ________ an actress when she grows up.
A) to become B) become C) became D) becomes
36.You ________ make a quick decision right now. You can think of it for a couple of days.
A) can’t B) mustn’t C) needn’t D) don’t need
37.Of all the earrings in this shop, this one looks ________.
A) good B) well C) better D) the best
38.Seeing two policemen coming up, the thief ran away as ________ as he could.
A) quick B) quicker C) quickly D) more quickly
39.Human brains can hardly calculate faster than a computer, ________?
A) are they B) aren’t they C) can’t they D) can they
40.Tony’s parents are satisfied with his wonderful school work, ________ they?
A) don’t B) aren’t C) didn’t D) haven’t
41.Sue ________ in a pet shop for two months already. She loves her job very much.
A) works B) has worked C) will work D) worked
42.Ben, smoking is harmful. You’d better ________ smoke any longer.
A) not B) not to C) don’t D) won’t
43.If it ________ tomorrow, we will have a picnic in the countryside.
A) hasn’t rained B) didn’t rain C) won’t rain D) doesn’t rain
44.The more you practice ________ English, the more fluently you can talk to foreigners.
A) speak B) to speak C) speaking D) spoke
45.Could you tell us ________ will come to the meeting to discuss it with us?
A) who B) what C) where D) when
46.A: ________ will this new computer work out the difficult problem? B: In about twenty seconds.
A) How long B) How far C) How much D) How soon
47.Now every one of us has passed the oral test ________ Jill. He must try another time.
A) besides B) except C) including D) with
48.John, please ________ . It’s time to have the lesson.
A) stop to talk B) to stop to talk C) stop talking D) to stop talking
49.________ great year 2010 will be! The Expo will be held in Shanghai.
A) How B) What C) What a D) How a
50.Grandma often goes to the second-hand shop to ________ something cheap.
A) look for B) look at C) look out D) look after
51.The old man’s black hen ________ a big egg two days ago.
A) rose B) lay C) laid D) raised
52.Eric wanted to know ________ get an air-ticket for her.
A) if I could B) if could I C) how I can D) how could I
53.The customers really don’t know ________ at that time.
A) how to tell B) how to say C) what to speak D) what to say
54.A: Let’s go and enjoy the basketball match together, shall we? B: ________.
A) OK. I’ll take your advice. B) Good idea. Let’s go.
C) Yes. It’s a pleasure. D) That’s all right.
VI. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms( 用括号中所给单词的适当形式完成下列句子)：(共10分)
55.This film on detectives is so interesting that Dad has already seen it ________. (two)
56.She says it isn’t Mike’s vase. It’s _______. (she)
57.Could you tell us what this passage is ________ about? (main)
58.Peter’s parents bought a wonderful _________ toy car as his 4thbirthday present. (wood)
59.How _________ I was when I knew that I got an “A”in the English test! (exciting)
60.Among all these things, __________ is the most important. (safe)
61.Phelps, an American swimmer, is _________ known in the world this summer. (wide)
62.As a student, I should learn as much __________ as I can at school. (know)
63.Yao Ming and his team-mates are sure that they’ll __________ in the next game. (success)
64.We all promise to be lovely__________ of Shanghai. (city)
VII. Rewrite the sentences as required（按要求改写句子，每空格限填一词）（共12分）
65.Detective Ken will deal with a new case in the following months. (改为否定句)
Detective Ken ________ ________ with a new case in the following months.
66.The soldiers put the big horse outside the main gate of the city that night. (对划线部分提问)
________ ________ the soldiers put the big horse that night?
67.Henry was happy to tell his customers that story. (改为感叹句)
_________ _________ Henry was to tell his customers that story!
68.This little white dog cost my parents 500 yuan. (保持原句意思)
My parents ________ 500 yuan________ this little white dog.
69.Doris usually has lunch at school. And we have lunch at school too. (保持原句意思)
Doris usually has lunch at school. _________ _________ we.
70.They watched the fish too closely to notice my coming in. (保持原句意思)
They watched the fish _________ closely that they _________ notice my coming in.
Part 3 Reading and Writing(第三部分读写)
XIII. Reading comprehension（阅读理解）：（共56分）
A. True or false (判断下列句子是否符合短文，符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示): （7分）
Everyone worries. But how do you deal with your worries? Whether your worries are big or small, you can take these three steps to deal with your worries:
1.Try to find out what you’re worried about
Sometimes, you will know what you’re worried about. Other times, you might not. Try to find it out first; if you can’t, you can ask for help.
2. Think of ways to make it better
There is always something you can do to help you feel less worried.
Sitting there worrying is no fun and it won’t solve your problem.
Grades at school are often a top worry for kids. If you’re worried about grades, ask yourself these questions:
Why are grades important? What do grades mean to me?
How do I get ready for class? Do I go over my notes even when there isn’t a test?
Do I have a good place to do my homework?
Have I tried different ways of studying?
If your worry is about a fight you had with a friend, you might write down all the things you could do –write a note to him or her, invite him or her to a basketball game, say sorry to him or her etc. Once you have a list of things you could do, you can choose the one that gets your friend back.
3. Ask for help
When you’re worried, it can help to find someone to talk to. You can ask your parents, friends, or teachers for help.
71.This passage tells us three steps to deal with our worries in life.
72.It’s clear that sometimes we don’t know what we are worried about.
73.The best way to solve our problems is to sit there, thinking about our worries.
74.Children at school worry about their notes and homework most.
75.To have a good place to do our homework is one of the good ways for us to get good grades.
76.To do one of the things you list for your friend can help you get him/her back.
77.You will surely get a lot of worries if you find someone to talk to.
B. Choose the best answer（根据短文，选择最恰当的答案）：（7分）
The word “computer”used to mean a person, not a machine. In the nineteenth century, builders and technicians(技术人员) needed to know the answers to very difficult calculations in order to do their work. They did not have time to do these calculations themselves, so they bought books of answers. The people who did the calculations and wrote the books were called computers.
In the 1820s, a British mathematician（数学家）called Charles Babbage invented a machine that did very difficult calculations automatically. He called his machine a Difference Engine. He began to build his machine, but he did not finish it because he had a better idea. (Babbage never finished anything –he always had a better idea and started working on something new.) In fact, more than 150 years later, some technicians from the Science Museum in London built Babbage’s Difference Engine. It is still in the museum today. The machine weighs about three tons, and it is nearly two metres tall and three metres wide. And it works: in the early 1990s, it did a calculation and gave the right answer –31 digits（数字）long！
Babbage did not finish making the Difference Engine because he started to work on a machine called an Analytical Engine which was lighter and smaller. The Analytical Engine could do more: for example, it had a kind of memory. This meant that it was possible to write programmes for it, building on each answer and doing more and more difficult calculations. For this reason, the Analytical Engine is often seen as the first real computer. However, Babbage never finished building this machine either!
A woman called Ada Lovelace worked with Babbage. Ada was an excellent mathematician and understood Babbage’s ideas (most people did not). She knew that she could do amazing calculations with the Analytical Machine, and she wrote a programme for it. Although the machine was never built, Ada Lovelace was still the first computer programmer(程序设计员) in the world. In 1979, a modern computer programming language was named ADA.
78.In the past, the word “computer”meant ________.
A) a machine B) a person C) an answer D) a book
79.People who did the calculations and wrote the books were called ________.
A) builders B) technicians C) computers D) writers
80.The Difference Engine that Babbage invented could ________.
A) invent a machine B) write books
C) do difficult calculations D) build more machines
81.Babbage’s Difference Engine was made by some technicians ________.
A) in 1820s B) in 1970s C) in 1990s D) in 2000s
82.Babbage’s Difference Engine is ___________.
A) heavy but not big B) big but not heavy
C) neither big nor heavy D) both big and heavy
83.From the passage we know an Analytical Engine is _______ a Difference Engine.
A) as powerful as B) the most powerful in
C) less powerful than D) more powerful than
84.The first computer programmer in the world was ________.
A) Ada B) Babbage C) a technician D) a builder
C. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语，完成短文）：（14分）
When I asked my daughter which one she would keep: the phone, the car, the cooker, the computer, the TV, or her boyfriend, she said “the phone”. As for me, I could do without the phone entirely(完全地), which makes me unusual. But in fact, telephone is 85 our lives more than any other piece of technology.
Point 1 The telephone gives the need to communicate. In the same way, more roads have traffic 86 . My daughter comes home from school at 4:00 p.m. and then spends an hour on the phone talking to the people she has been at school with all day. If the phone did not exist(存在), would she have anything to talk about?
Point 2 The mobile phone means that we are 87 alone. “The mobile saved my life,”says Crystal Johnstone. She had an accident in her Volvo on the road between suburbs and city centers. Trapped（被困) inside, she tried to make the call that 88 the ambulance(救护车) to her .
Point 3 The mobile has our secret usages. It allows marketing manager of Haba Deutsch, Carl Nicolaisen, to ring his sales staff all round the world at any 89 of day to ask where they are, where they are going, and 90 their last meeting went.
Point 4 The telephone allows us to reach out beyond our own lives. Today we can talk to several people (though they are 91 to you at the beginning) on chat(聊天) lines. My daughter enjoys talking while I don’t know what to talk aboutbefore we get to know each other. We can talk across the world. We can even talk to astronauts (if you know any) while they’re space-walking.
85.A) making B) changing C) spending D) using
86.A) names B) lights C) signs D) accidents
87.A) never B) always C) often D) usually
88.A) fetched B) bought C) gave D) brought
89.A) place B) one C) time D) space
90.A) which B) how C) what D) who
91.A) angry B) foolish C) strange D) satisfied
D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：（14分）
You may think a beauty pageant(选美比赛) is just about pretty faces. But ask Anna Cui, a 14-year-old US-Chinese girl and she’ll tellyou much more.
Anna won the American Preteen (青春期以前的) Cover Girl 2006and Miss Southern California American Preteen Queen 2006. She was the first US-Chinese to win in the 23-year h 92 of the beauty pageant.
Anna and her mother have written a book called Anna Cui, Memories of a Young Queen. On January 1st, 2008, Anna met with r 93 in Beijing. She was greatly welcomed by her fans.
Anna was born in the US and her parents are both Chinese. The book, written in Chinese, has Anna’s growing-up stories and tells how h 94 she has had to work to win her pageant titles. For example, Anna has been studying piano and ballet(芭蕾舞) for about 10 years.
For Miss American Preteen,girls k 95 that they have to do many things. They have to give speeches, model clothes, act and cheerlead(啦啦队). They also have to tell people they are good at writing, can write a thank-you letter and do voluntary work. And p 96 they will also show they have a good personality(品格). Each year over 15, 000 girls take part in the c 97 .
Anna got $1,500 for her prize. What did she do w 98 the money? She gave some to her school and some to UNICEF (联合国儿童基金会). As a UNICEF volunteer, Anna wants to help poor kids.
F. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）：（14分）
The market for cars around the world is changing in ways that are more complex（复杂的）than simply the size or style of cars. One of the most interesting new developments comes from India’s biggest company, the Tata Group, which owns Tata Motors. Tata Motors recently bought the high-cost car models Jaguar and Land Rover from American car-maker Fordfor 2.3 billion dollars.
But in January, Tata Motors made big news by saying that it would start selling a very small car that costs only 2,500 dollars.
The car, called the Nano, is designed for India’s home market, but its price has caught the attention（注意力）of the world. The Nano is the result of a different kind of engineering. Instead of designing things to add to the vehicle（交通工具）, engineers thought of ways to remove things. For example, the car has very little storage space. Parts like the steering column, which helps the car to turn, are made of less expensive, lighter materials. As with any lightweight car, the most important thing is to be safe. The car could be very dangerous if it is in an accident. But the Nano does have four doors and five seats. And its price puts it within the reach of millions of people in India.
Smaller cars are just one direction (方向) that the car factory is taking. The factory is also producing cars that bring less pollution and a less harmful effect on the environment. Many new kinds of cars are being made using new technologies（技术）. These include cars that run on fuels like cars that use both fuel and electric power and cars that use fully electric power.
In Japan, new car sales fell to a thirty-five year low in 2007. Sales for new cars, trucks and buses fell over seven percent. High fuel costs and good public transportation(交通) were two reasons. Driving has become less popular in Japan now.
99.Which country is the car-makerFordin?
_______________________________________________.
100.How much is the car that Tata Motors said it would start selling?
_______________________________________________.
101.Are people in the world interested in the price of the new car, the Nano?
_______________________________________________.
102.How could the engineers make the Nano small and lightweight?
They ____________________ and used ______________________.
103.Many people in India can’t pay for the Nano, can they?
______________________________________________.
104.What kind of cars the factory is trying to produce?
They are trying to make cars with ______________________________ on the environment.
105.Why did the new car sales in Japan in 2007 fall to a thirty-five year low?
Because of ___________________________________________.
IX. Writing (写话): （共18分）
106.Write at least 60 words according to the given topic “Better City, Better Life”(以“城市，让生活更美好”为题写话，词数不少于60个，标点符号不占格。)
（注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。
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How do you understand this topic “Better City, Better Life”
? (Give at least two reasons)
What can you do in order to welcome the 2010 World Expo?
(Give at least two examples)