浙江省宁波市兴宁中学兴宁中学2022-2023学年七年级下学期期中测试英语试题

兴宁中学2022-2023学年第二学期期中测试初一英语试题

卷一听力部分（共15分）

第一节：听短对话，回答问题（共5小题：每小题1分，计5分）

1. What is Nick doing?

A. Reading a book.

B. Writing a story.

C. Doing his homework.

2. Why doesn't Mark go to see a movie?

A. Because he doesn't like movies.

B. Because he has to do his homework first.

C. Because he can't go out in the evening.

3. How many students are there in the room?

A.Two.       B.Three.      C.Five

4. Where is Tony now?

A. In China.

B. In America.

C. In Japan.

5. Why does Leo like tigers?

A. Because he thinks they are smart.

B. Because he thinks they are cool.

C. Because he thinks they are cute.

第二节：听长对话，回答问题（共5小题：每小题1分，计5分）

听下面一段较长对话，回答第6-7两小题。

6. What will Jim's mother do?

A. Go to work.

B. Buy some food.

C. Eat breakfast.

7. What is Jim's favorite food?

A.Milk.

B. Dumplings.

C.Cakes.

听下面一段较长的对话，回答第8-10三小题。

8. When will Andy go to sleep?

A. A1 9:50 p.m.

B. At 10:00 p.m.

C. At 10:10 p.m.

A9. What is the movie about?

1. Food.

B. Sleeping.

C. Computers.

10. What will Andy do tomorrow?

A. Watch a movie.

B. Do his homework.

C. Cook dinner.

第三节：听独白，回答问题（共5小题：每小题1分，计5分）

11. Where is Sophia from?

A. Australia.

B. The United States.

C. Thailand.

12. What does Sophia think of her school day?

A. It's long.

B.It's interesting.

C. It's boring.

13. How long does each lesson take in Sophia's school?

A. Forty minutes.

B. Forty-five minutes.

C. Sixty minutes.

14. How many lessons does Sophia have every day?

A.3.        B.5.        C.7.

15. When does Sophia go home?

A. At 3:30 p.m.

B.At 4:00 p.m.

C. At 4:40 p.m.

卷二笔试部分（共85分）

一、完形填空（本题有15小题：每小题1分，共计15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

Susan was a lovely and beautiful girl. She worked as a __16__. She was once the most beautiful girl in her hospital. Many young men liked her and wanted to marry her. People could __17__ see her sweet smiles. Her parents were proud of her. She was very happy with her appearance (容貌).

But one day everything changed. She __18__ a car accident and her face was disfigured (毁容). After that she felt quite __19__ and stayed at home all day. She didn't want to __20__ anyone. She didn't talk to others. She felt lonely.

Her parents were afraid she would go mad. So one day they took her to "Blind Children's Home". She __21__ with the blind children that afternoon and for the __22__ time after the accident her parent __23__ her happy look. Just as they were __24__, a blind girl put her __25__ round Susan's neck and said, "Your voice __26__ sweet and I know you must have a beautiful face."

Susan cried all the way home in the car, but it was with __27__. Susan changed in the end. __28__ came back to her face again.

Life is not always __29__. So we should learn to change our mind. Try to stay hopeful. It __30__ us live a healthy life. If we follow the idea, we will have a happy life.

二、阅读理解（本题有15小题；每小题2分，共计30分）

阅读下面材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

A

Welcome to Wonderland Sydney

WONDERLAND

Opening hours

Wonderland Sydney is open every day from 10: 00 a. m. to 5:00 p. m. Please note that Goldrush opens at 11:00 a. m. and the Beach is only open between October and April at11:00 a.m. The Australian Wildlife Park is open from 9: 00 a m. to 5:00 p. m. every day.

How to get there

Wonderland Sydney is located at 100 Wallgrove Road, Eastern Creek.

Car: Take the Wallgrove Road exit (出口)，only 40 minutes from the heart of Sydney and 15 minutes from the Olympic site.

Train: Wonderlink is the convenient all-in-one rail, bus and ticket. For more information, call CityRail at 131500.

Bus: A regular bus service departs (开出) from Rooty Hill station. For departure times, call Busways at (02)96258900 between 7: 00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m.

31. When can you visit the Australian Wildlife Park?

A. At 6:00 p.m.        B. At 7: 00 p.m.

C. At 8:00 a.m.        D. At 10:00 a.m.

32. How many ways are there to go to Wonderland Sydney?

A. Two.     B. Three.      C.Four.      D.Five

33. How long does it take you to drive to Wonderland Sydney from the Olympic site?

A. 15 minutes.      B. 20 minutes.     C. 35 minutes.     D. 40 minutes.

B

Sun Jinrong is a pet detective (侦探) from Shanghai. He does the job because of his loved dog. He lost it many years ago and he still remembers it even today. Sun knows the pet can be a friend and even one of the family to many people. He would like to help them find their lost pets.

Every day, people from all over the country go to ask Sun to help look for their lost pets. Most of the lost pets are cats and dogs. There are also many other animals like birds and pigs. After knowing the information of the pet from the owner, _______▲________. "Time comes first." Sun always says. "I can never sit and wait." Looking for the lost pet is not an effortless job and it needs lots of time and hard work. Sometimes it can even be very dangerous. But Sun always does a good job and he has helped thousands of pets go home. He also keeps many homeless pets at home and he loves them very much.

Sun lives by helping look for lost pets, but he hopes that nobody will need him one day. "There aren't lost pets any more. All the pets live in a warm home and are under the eyes of their owners," Sun says. "That's what I would like to see."

34. Paragraph 1 is mainly about _______________.

A. what Sun is like

B. where Sun works

C. how Sun does his job

D. why Sun chooses to do his job

35. What can we put in the _______▲________?

A. Sun starts his work at once

B. Sun tells him not to worry

C. Sun usually thinks about it first

D. Sun asks him to go home and wait

36. The underlined word "effortless" means _______________ in Chinese.

A.枯燥的       B.辛苦的       C容易的       D.精细的

37. Sun hopes that _______________.

A. he doesn't lose his loved pets

B. he doesn't need to do his job

C. he can help find every lost pet

D. he can give every pet a warm home

C

The Tiger Head Hat is a warm story about a boy called Huang Xiaohu. People around him like to call him Little Tiger. Just like his name, he is strong and healthy. In the story, Little Tiger wears a tiger-head hat. And the hat is like a bridge connecting hearts of the family closely.

Little Tiger looks very funny-a round face, small eyes and a big mouth. He lives in America with his parents.

One day, Little Tiger loses a baseball game. When he goes home, he sees an old tiger-head hat on the table. And it is his father Big Tiger's hat. Little Tiger thinks that he can wear it for "good luck". When he wears the hat, his father thinks of his good times as a child. Then his father sends a picture of Little Tiger in the hat to his parents in Fujian China. Little Tiger's grandparents learn that Little Tiger's team wins a baseball game when he wears the hat, and that his friends in the team think the hat is very cool. So Little Tiger's grandparents decide to make tiger-head hats for all the children in the team. The children get the hats and win every game they play.

It's true that tiger-head hats are very special for Chinese people. They like the hats very much. On important days, the old often give tiger-head hats as gifts to children to send their best wishes.

38. What can we know about the tiger-head hat in the story?

A. It looks funny.           B. It's a little small.

C. It works as a bridge.      D. It's from America.

39. Why does Little Tiger want to wear the tiger-head hat?

A. Because he thinks it's cool.

B. Because he thinks it can bring good luck to him.

C. Because he wants to make his grandparents happy.

D. Because it can make his father think of the past happy times

40. From the last paragraph (段落)，we can learn _______________.

A. what Chinese people think of hats

B. why tiger-head hats look like tigers' heads

C. how Chinese people make tiger-head hats

D. that the tiger-head hats are very popular in China

41. What's the best title for the passage?

A. The Year of the Tiger in China

B. An interesting baseball game

C. A story about a boy in a tiger-head hat

D. A very happy life in China

D

I don't remember when it first started annoying me - my mom's hands pushing my hair that way. But it did annoy me, for they felt rough (粗糙的) against my young skin. Finally, one night, l shouted out at her "Don't do that anymore - your hands are too rough!" She didn't say anything, but she never did it again.

Years later, I missed my mother's hands and her good-night kiss on my face. I'm not a little girl anymore. My mom is in her mid-70s, and her rough hands are still doing things for my family and me.

Now my own children are grown up. It was late on Thanksgiving Eve. As I slept in my bedroom, a familiar hand ran across my face to push the hair from my head. Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my brow (眉毛).

Taking my mom's hand, I told her how sorry I was for that night I shouted at her. But my mom didn't know what I was talking about. She had forgotten it long ago.

That night, I fell asleep with a new appreciation(感激) for my gentle mother and her caring hands. And the guilt (内疚) that I had carried around for so long was nowhere to be found.

42. The writer once got angry with her mother when _______________.

A. her mother touched her face to say good night

B. her mother said she didn't love her anymore

C. she found out her mother was in poor health

D. her mother worried about her too much

43. The writer missed her mother's hands years later because _______________.

A. she knew her mother was too old to support herself

B. she couldn't cook food as well as her mother

C. her mother didn't get angry at her impolite words

D. she was thankful for her mom's love and hard work

44. The sentence, "Then a kiss, ever so gently, touched my brow," shows us that the writer's mother _______________.

A. had never touched her brow before

B. still loved her, even after many years

C. didn't love her as much as before

D. had very rough lips

45. We can infer from the story that _______________.

A. the writer's mother felt sorry for her behavior

B. the writer liked staying with her mother at night

C. the writer felt sorry for her attitude (态度) toward her mother

D. the writer was single and lived with her mother

三、任务型阅读（本题有5小题：每小题1分，共5分）

阅读以下五则广告，以下五个人会对哪则广告！请在A、B、C、D、E五个选项中选出代表他们名字的选项。

A. Michael wants a bike to ride to school.

B. Andy has some nice old photos of some famous movie stars.

C. Maria is looking for a job. She has worked for 5 years in an office in New York.

D. Jenny needs some money to buy herself some nice clothes.

E. Martin is going to university in another city, so he needs a car to drive.

46. Help wanted: Baby-sitter for a 5-year-old boy. 3-5 p.m. from Monday to Friday. Call Mrs Adams, 979-0765.

47. Wanted to buy: Photos of Audry Hepbum. Will pay $100-$200. Cal Alice, 834-1245.

48. Help wanted: Secretary with good computer skills in a company. Call Ted, 667-1234.

49. For sale: Red mountain bike, almost new, $80. Call Mary, 898-0765.

50. For sale: Benz, black, two-door, radio, CD player. Call Terry, 886-6219.

四、词汇运用（本题有15小题；每小题1分，共计15分）

A.根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。

51. Some foreigners will visit our school this Tuesday and there are three _______________(美国人).

52. A car hit the tree and the people in the car were in great _______________(危险).

53. Nowadays, lots of parents can't fully understand their _______________(孩子) ideas.

54. Jimmy often _______________(放松) himself by listening to music at home.

55. One of my sister's _______________(牙齿) has a hole, so she has to go to a dentist this weekend.

56. When we are in the library, we should keep _______________(安静).

57. Every day, _______________(百) of tourists go to the famous doctor to ask him for help.

58. Look! My grandparents are _______________(锻炼) in the park.

59. Tonight, we can see lots of great _______________(音乐家) from different countries in the concert.

60. As a fire fighter, Mr. White has saved many _______________(生命).

B.根据短文内容，用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。

People in China like to call Qian Hongyan "the basketball girl"or "flying fish". The 26-year-old girl doesn't have legs. She lost __61__ the age of four. In the first few years after that, she could only "walk" __62__ the help of a basketball, But she never gave up.

Qian loves swimming and she __63__ swimming very hard every day. Every year, she goes to different __64__ for swimming competitions(比赛). She is a great swimmer now.

Qian's story shows that if we work hard, we can do anything __65__.

五、语法填空（本题有10小题；每小题1分，共计10分）

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

In Hong Kong, there is a clothes shop called Green Ladies. What makes it special is that there __66__ (be) only second-hand clothes in it.

Wendy is the manager of Green Ladies. "Hong Kong is __67__ great place for shopping and the new clothes are not very expensive. Many __68__ (woman) like buying clothes and they wear different clothes every day of a week. Some of them often throw away some clothes __69__ they don't like them anymore. Some of the clothes are even new. I think it's a waste to do that," she says. "How about __70__ (send) these clothes to Green Ladies? Others can buy __71__ (this) second-hand clothes and you can get some money.”

When people take their clothes to Green Ladies, the shop workers will check the clothes __72__ (make) sure they're right for sale first. After someone __73__ (buy) the clothes, the shop will give the owner (主人) 30% of the money.

People can see reminders (提示) like "Try before you buy" and "Do you have the same clothes at home?" in Green Ladies. When the customers see them, they will think __74__ (careful) before they buy the clothes. By doing so, Green Ladies hopes to change __75__ (people) habits of shopping too much.

六、书面表达（本题有1小题；共计10分）

最近你刚结识了一位新朋友，请根据表格内容，介绍一下你的这位朋友。

要求：1.包含表格中的所有要点，可适当发挥：2.词数80词左右，文中不能出现真实的姓名和校名：3.文章的开头已给出，不计入总词数。

I have a new friend.

兴宁中学2022-2023学年第二学期期中测试初一英语试题

参考答案

一．听力

略

二．完形填空

16-30CCABD ABABD BACDD

三．阅读理解

16-18DBA 19-22DACB 23-26CBAC 27-30ADBC

四．任务型阅读

46-50DBCAE

五．词汇运用

51-60Americans/danger/children’s/relaxes/teeth

quiet/hundreds/exercising/musicians/lives

61-65them/with/practices/places/well

六．语法填空

66-75are/a/women/because/sending/these/to make/buys/carefully/people’s

七．书面表达

略