静安区2016-2017第二学期初三英语期中调研卷

B. Choose the words of expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：（12分）

why do leaves(树叶) change colour?

One of nature?s most beautiful ______75____is a forest full of bright autumn colors . Imagine making art with all those colours of paint!

Leaves in their autumn colours are beautiful . Did you ever wonder why a tree?s leaves change colour? To answer this question , you need to ____76_____the important job that leaves do .

Leaves make food so the tree can grow and have energy . This process is called photosynthesis (光合作用). Leaves need three things to do their job.

1) Leaves need water , which they get from the tree ___77_____their stem (茎)。 2) Leaves need a gas called carbon dioxide . They take it in from the air around them . 3) All plants ___78_____a chemical called chlorophyll（叶绿素），which gives leaves their green colour. Leaves need sunlight ,too . Sunlight and chlorophyll work together to turn water and carbon dioxide into a kind of sugar . This sugar is the food that provides plants ____79_____energy. When they make food , trees give off a gas called oxygen . Animals need oxygen to live .

Photosynthesis doesn?t just help plants stay alive . Photosynthesis ____80_____makes food for all living things . Some animals , such as mice , eat plants . Other animals ,such as hawks , eat the plant eaters . Without plants , what would hawks do for food ?

75. A. records B. animals C. sights D. manners 76.A. prevent B. include C. control D. understand 77.A. through B. with C. above D. beside 78.A. keep off B. rely on C. turn into D. give up 79. A. impossible B. useless C. convenient D. necessary 80. A. almost B. also C. hardly D. seldom

C. 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）

Attending a university is an important part of a person?s life. Today , many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law , medicine , or education . But , the university isn?t a modern invention . An important o___81_____started in Egypt a thousand years ago .

The world?s oldest surviving university , Al-Azhar , is in Cario , Egypt . It was first built as a mosque (清真寺) in A. D.972 to ____82_____the daughter of the king Muhammad . A few years later learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque . They read and talked about the subjects of religion(宗教) and law . Around the year 988 , leaders in the city of Cario decided to create a school for learning and soon a_____83_____that , Al-Azhar University was started.

Because a university was a new idea , the teachers at Al-Azhar needed to think about what courses to teach and ___84______to teach them . The earliest courses were in law and religions . In a course , students read and studied with the teacher , but there were hot and free d_______85____among them , too . Often , there was no” correct” answer to a question . In the years that followed , the new university attracted scholars from around the world who came to teach and do research . At Al-Azhar , people not only studied the past , but it was a place for s____86_____new ideas with each others as well

Over a thousand years later, Al-Azhar is still an important university in the world．Its library contains more than 250,000 of the world?s oldest and most valuable books．Today, many of the world?s most i_____87___universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the traditions started at Al-Azhar．

D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）（共12分）

More than one million international students are studying in the United States . Many of them find it helpful to have a smartphone and an American credit (信用卡)，

These things make it easy to pay for many kinds of goods and services. But getting a credit card as an international student is not a simple process. Normal U.S. lenders ask for a social security number(社会保障号码). In addition, They ask to see a person?s credit history. This helps the lenders trust that someone is responsible and will make timely payments. These are the things most international students do not have.

But one company is trying to make the process easier and fairer for them.

Jack Guo is from China. He now studies at a university in California. He says having an American credit card makes it easier for students to get around town. And, he says, credit cards are important for international students who hope to live in the country in the future.

Kalpesh Kapadia came from India to study at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He faced the same difficulties that many international students face when trying to get an American credit card. He decided to open SelfScore(万事达信用卡).

Without asking for crediting history and a social number , SelfScore looks at materials such as passports , visas ,and acceptance letters to American school . The company also consider a student?s ability to pay. About 10,000 international students from more than 66 countries now have credit cards through SelfScore. Kapadia says less than one percent of Self Score?s credit card holders are late for their payments because of different kinds of reasons.

88. Is it easy for an international student to get a credit card in the U.S. A? 89. What do “ the things ”in the second paragraph refer to ? 90. What can Jack Guo do in America if he has a credit card?

91. How did Kapadia get rid of his difficulties in getting an American credit card ? 92. How many SelfScore?s credit card holders pay on time according to Kapadia? 93. SelfScore considers a student?s ability to pay when he/she wants to get a credit card . Do you think it is important ? Why or why not ?

Ⅶ. Writing（作文）（20分）

94. Write at least 60 words about the topic “_______, a new way of life !”(请以“_______,一种崭新的生活方式”为题， 从以下图片中选取其中一张图片，举例表述你的思考和理由， 写一篇不少于60 个词的短文，标点符号不占格。

（注意：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）

Points for reference :

Which way do you choose to write about ? Why do you think it a new way of life ?

Could you give some suggestions in order to make better use of it ?

参考答案：

1-6 FADCBH 7-14 DBCACDAB 15-20 TTFFTF

21. from England 22. lovely bird 23. changed school 24. every Wednesday 25. much smaller

26-30 BCADC 31-35 CBABD 36-40 ACABD 41-45 BCDAD 46-49 DBAE 50-53 ECDB

54. children 55. fifth 56. herself 57.weight 58. interested 59. possibly 60. various 61.examine

62. Does , have 63. said / expressed sorry 64. instead of 65. Which girl 66. if/ whether , would 67. are planted

68. We can depend on ourselves to work out the problem within two days. 69-74 BCADCB 75-80 CDABDB

81. one 82. remember/recall 83. after 84. how 85. discussions 86. sharing 87. precious /popular 88. No, it isn?t / No

89. A social security number and a person?s credit history

90. He can get around the town easily . He can live in the country in the future /(Do shopping ; have meals ; See a film ; Pay for goods ; Do exercises;

91. By opening SelfScore / He opened SelfScore / He got / applied for a SelfScore credit card.

92. More than / Over 99 percent (of the credit card holders ). More than / over 9,900 international students /

93. I think it very important . If the students isn?t able to pay , the bank will lose its money ./ Because the SelfScore also wants to get its money back .

I don?t think it very important . Because the student may haven?t got a job , how can he have the money to pay back soon? Because it should believe everybody is responsible for it ./----------