2014上海闸北初三上期末英语（含解析）

2013学年度闸北第一学期九年级英语学科期末练习卷（2014.1）

(满分150分，考试时间100分钟)

Part 1 Listening (第一部分 听力)

I. Listening comprehension (听力理解) (共30分)

A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) (6分)

A

B

C

D

E F G H

1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.

B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案) (8分) 7. A. Windy. B. Rainy. C. Cloudy. D. Snowy. 8. A. Victor. 9. A. Basketball. 10. A. At 11:15. 11. A. For a week.

12. A. At the Pizza Hut.

B. Eddie. B. Volleyball. B. At 11:25.

C. Jimmy. C. Skating. C. At 11:50. D. For a month. B. At the restaurant. D. At the lady?s home.

B. Because his father?s car broke down. D. Because he got up late.

B. She has no time to wait for the lift. D. She prefers to walk upstairs.

D. Frank. D. Swimming. D. At 12:00.

B. For about two weeks.

C. For about three weeks. C. At the man?s home.

C. Because the weather was terrible. C. She is afraid to take the lift.

13. A. Because he started earlier. 14. A. She doesn?t know where the lift is.

C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的内容, 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示) (6分) 15. Dr. Richard Wiseman asked people to rate(划分等级) the jokes from 1 to 5.

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16. He got two million ratings and 14,000 jokes from around the world. 17. He studies jokes because he thinks humour can tell us a lot about people. 18. Both Europeans and Americans laughed most at jokes about topics like death. 19. The funniest joke in the world is about men and animals. 20. In the joke, a man saves the life of his friend.

D. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences (听短文，完成下列内容，每空格限填一词) (10分)

21. The Amazon is about 2 million square miles in area and it

reaches ________ ________.

22. The Amazon has ________ ________ temperature of about

80℉.

23. Rain forests don?t take up much space ________ ________. 24. The Amazon contains around 2.5 million ________ ________ insects. 25. All of the wildlife in the Amazon is ________ ________. Part 2 Phonetics, Vocabulary and Grammar （第二部分 语音、词汇和语法）

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) (共20分)

26. You can never get a straight answer out of him. Which of the following is correct for the

underlined word in the sentence?

A) /s??????? B) /s??????? C) /s??????

D) /s???????

27. Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?

A) My father asked me to drive slowly. C) Study as if you were to live forever. B) I walked for miles without seeing a house. D) I used to hide myself when I was young. 28. Suddenly the little boy got away from his mother?s hand and walked by ______.

A) he

B) his

C) him

D) himself

29. We enjoyed the wonderful firework display ______ the night of National Day.

A) in

B) on

C) for

D) at

30. The girl was quite angry ______ his boy friend for his being late.

A) for B) on C) with

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D) at

31. My parents told me not to worry too much. We still have ______ time.

A) few

B) a few

C) little

D) a little

32. When you?ve learnt English, you?ll find it a bridge to so much ______.

A) knowledge

B) tradition

C) idea

D) method

33. The cable Internet seems ______ than I expected.

A) quick

B) quicker

C) quickly

D) more quickly

34. As a father, Einstein was just as ______ as any other father in the world.

A) kind

B) kinder

C) kindest

D) the kindest

35. I ______ my mind to study harder since I visited the Shanghai Supercomputer Centre.

A) am making up

B) have made up

C) made up

D) had made up

36. When the teacher ______ how to do the experiment, the bell rang.

A) explains

B) will explain

C) was explaining D) is explaining

37. The Trojan War ______ by Helen and her beauty.

A) causes

B) is caused

C) caused

D) was caused

38. My mother didn?t expect ______ such a lovely present from me!

A) receive

B) received

C) to receive

D) receiving

39. The little boy denied ______ the window with a stone.

A) break

B) broke

C) to break

D) breaking

40. She won?t lose weight ______ she keeps a diet and takes exercise every day.

A) unless

B) if

C) because

D) since

41. Actions ______ be taken to stop H7N9 from spreading again.

A) must

B) may

C) can?t

D) needn?t

42. – ______ do I have to take the medicine?

– Three times a day, after meals. A) How long

B) How far

C) How often

D) How soon

43. We students ______ our parents for food and clothes.

A) depend on

B) live on

C) deal with

D) communicate with

44. – Excuse me. I have a complaint about the coffee bought on tmall.com.

– ______

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A) I don?t think so.

B) That?s all right.

C) Really?

D) What?s the trouble?

45. – ______

– The same to you. A) Happy birthday! C) Congratulations!

B) Have a nice weekend! D) See you!

Ⅲ. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次) (共8分)

A. strange B. tradition C. allowed D. turned over E. turned out

A good trick doesn?t leave lasting damage and always makes people laugh. It can even amaze them with its creativity. Some schools and universities have a long 46 of students playing good tricks. These tricks sometimes include school buildings and cars.

The California Institute of Technology, a university in the US, has a special day on which students are 47 to play big tricks. One time, a group of students took apart a car, moved the parts into a student?s room and then put the car back together next to the bed.

It was a quiet evening at an American high school. Going home, the headmaster got into his car and started the engine. It?s quite 48 that the wheels turned, but the car didn?t move! It 49 that some students had found a way to lift the car up so that its tires were just above the ground.

A. responsible B. later C. actually D. shocked E. amazing

One morning in 2006, the staff at another American high school were 50 to find a pink car on the roof. The car even had question marks painted all over it! The staff believed that many students must have worked together to complete this.

The American trick in 2006 was 51 a copy of British trick in 1958. That year, at the University of Cambridge, a car appeared on the roof of a building that was five storeys high. It caused a lot of trouble for police and firefighters as they had to cut the car into pieces to get it down. They couldn?t find out who was 52 , and the trick made headlines around the world. It was only fifty years 53 that the students in the case proved who they were and how they played the excellent trick.

Ⅳ. 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，每空格限填一词) (共8分)

54. Three ___________ shared 2013 Nobel Medicine Prize. (winner)

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