苏州市高新区2013-2014学年第一学期期末调研测试试卷 初一英语

children quite a long time every day. So home schooling is good for such families.

Every parent dreams to send their children to top schools. But it usually costs too much, and most families don't have enough money to pay for it. There are \parents don't think they are good enough for their children.

When a child takes home schooling, the teaching parent can't go out to work. If one of the parents has enough free time, home schooling is a good choice（选择）． If the parents need to go to work every day, they have to try some other ways. 41. How many reasons does the reading give for \ A. One. B. Two. C. Three. D. Four. 42. Which of the following families can take \

A. Jerry's parents have lots of money. They are always busy with their work. B. Mary's mother is a doctor and her father is a policeman. C. John's mother is a writer. She writes stories at home.

D. Tom's family is poor. His parents work in the fields all day.

43. The underlined part \they have to try some other ways\in the last paragraph means_______.

A. they must change their way of life B. they have to build a new road nearby C. home schooling is good for them D. they cannot take home schooling

B

Around the world, people have different traditional (传统的) foods to celebrate different festivals. Traditional foods for the new year show good luck and good health.

An English Christmas dinner has a meal of turkey, and it also includes pies and plum puddings (李子布丁). In Germany, Christmas is celebrated with bread, cookies and cakes. They are made like Christmas trees. In France, Christmas dessert（甜点） is a cake with cream on it. In the south of India（印度）, there is a three-day festival in mid-January called Pongal. It includes rice and a dish of rice cooked with sugar.

Japan celebrates the New Year with a seven-day festival. It begins from January 1st. Food is cooked before the festival so people don't need to cook during the festival, On New Year's Day, people can have different dishes called Osechi ryori（御节料理） - each dish is a wish for the New Year.

In most Asian (亚洲) countries, the New Year begins with the first full moon of the first Chinese Lunar(阴历的) month. Each place has its special food to welcome the coming year. People in China get their food ready ahead of time. They don't want to use a knife during New Year's time because they think it might \fish. It sounds like \（剩余）\． 44. Which of the following is true?

A. People from different places have turkey to celebrate Christmas.

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B. French people like all kinds of cakes as their Christmas food. C. Christmas food is made like a Christmas tree in Germany. D. Traditional foods have different meanings for the new year. 45. How many Asian countries are talked about in the reading? A. Three. B. Four. C. Five D. Six. 46. What is the reading talking about? A. Food in different countries. B. Food for festivals. C. Festivals in different countries. D. Traditional food.

C

Once a group of 17-year-old schoolboys decided（决定）to break the world basketball marathon record（马拉松记录）．They wanted to play for ninety hours and that is to play six hours more for the record. Each group had nine players, with five at a time. The boys decided each person would play 21.5 hours and then rest for 2 hours. Then they started at 6 o'clock in the evening,

The first night was very hard（艰难的）for the players. When it was their turn to rest, they were too excited to go to sleep at once.

After sleeping for a short time, they had to play again. On the second night, they could go to sleep quickly. Some of them had something wrong with their feet and hands, but the only big problem （问题）was a psychological（心理上的）one. Each boy was thinking: \this? How can I play any longer?\ninety hours. The basketball on the fourth night was very slow. But in the last few hours, the players got better. For the last few minutes, the players looked as fresh as when they started. How happy everyone was!

47. In the story, there were_______ schoolboys playing the basketball marathon. A. 9 B．14 C．17 D．18

48. Before this basketball marathon, the world record was hours. A．84 B．86 C．90 D．96

49. It was very hard for the players to go to sleep on the first night because_______. A. they only slept for a short time B. they were too excited C. no one watched them play D. the first night was very long 50. The underlined word \

A．新鲜的 B．兴奋不已的 C．精神饱满的 D．伤痕累累的 四、词汇（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

A)根据首字母或汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。 每空只写一词。

51.There are p ▲ of books in our school library. 52. They had great f ▲ flying kites on the playground. 53. The boys often do ▲ （活动）in the club. 57. What ▲ （餐馆）do you often go to?

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55. The mother always ▲ （穿衣）her baby in the morning.

B)选用方框内的单词，并在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。

56. The scarf is ▲ of silk.

57. There are kites ▲ in the sky. 58. The brown jacket fits me ▲ . 59. The poor children need school things ▲ of all. 60. Amy likes many sports, ▲ baseball, basketball and so on. C)根据情景，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出一个语法上和语义上都正确的单词。每空只写一词。

61. - ▲ you a Happy New Year! - Thank you. The same to you,

62. - Do you know the ▲ cost of the tip? - Yes, about l,200 dollars. 63. - What's that over there?

- Oh, a cat. It's ▲ on the sofa and sleeping. 64. - What do you think of Jacky Chen and Jay Chou? - Oh, they are my ▲ and I like them very much. 65. - Can I take your order now, sir? - I'd like to look at the ▲ first,

五、完成句子（共5小题；每空0.5分，70小题1分，满分5分） 根据要求完成句子，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。 66. He walks to school every day.（改为同义句） He goes to school ▲ ▲ every day. 67. We don't often play computer games.（用now改写句子） We ▲ ▲ computer games now. 68. Kitty watches thirty minutes of TV every day.（对划线部分提问） ▲ ▲ TV does Kitty watch every day? 69. Peter usually makes some cakes at home.（改为否定句） Peter ▲ makes ▲ cakes at home. 70. our, is，on, Beijing, teacher, holiday, in, English(．)（连词成句）

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六、句子翻译（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。

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71.你能递些盐给我吗？

_________________________ _____▲_______________________________________ 72.我认为白色跟其他颜色都搭配。

_________________________ _____▲_______________________________________ 73.我在考虑早餐吃什么。

_________________________ _____▲_______________________________________ 74.我在周三下午训练踢足球。

_________________________ _____▲_______________________________________ 75.你在两餐之间不应该吃太多的甜食。

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七、书面表达（共l题；满分10分）

根据下表提示，以My friend为题写一篇短文。

注意：1．词数60左右。短文的开头已为你写好，不计入总词数； 2．短文须包括所有要点，不要逐词翻译，可适当发挥，使短文连贯、通顺。

My friend

I have a good friend from England. Her name is Millie. She is 12. She is a student at Sunshine Middle school. She is in Class 1, Grade7.

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