2021北京顺义仁和中学初三（上）期中英语（教师版）

2021北京顺义仁和中学初三（上）期中

英    语

2021.11

一、单项填空(共6分，每小题0.5分)

从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. My sister is leaving for Shanghai, but I can’t go with ________.

A. him B. her C. us D. them

2. The children are very happy because they are singing   the Music Room.

A. in B. on C. of D. to

3. — Mr. Black,   do you spend reading every day?

— For about half an hour.

A. how far B. how much C. how long D. how often

4. —Can you stay here for dinner with us?

—Sorry, I ________. My parents are waiting for me at home.

A. mustn’t B. can’t C. needn’t D. couldn’t

5. — Would you like some cakes?

—No, thanks. They smell delicious ________ I’m not hungry.

A. and B. so C. but D. or

6. Jack likes playing basketball and he is   boy in our class.

A. tall B. taller C. tallest D. the tallest

7. Every morning, my father   a newspaper on his way to work.

A. buys B. bought C. is buying D. will buy

8. — What is your mother doing, Linda?

— She   in the kitchen now.

A. cooks B. is cooking C. cooked D. was cooking

9. I   the Great Wall many times since 2010. It’s really amazing.

A. visit B. visited C. will visit D. have visited

10. —What were you doing at 8 o’clock yesterday evening?

—I ________ my homework.

A. do B. did C. was doing D. am doing

11. —Do you know when the 24th Winter Olympic Games ________? —In 2022.

A. held B. will hold C. is held D. will be held

12. — Could you please tell me    ?

— Last Tuesday.

A. when we visited the art show B. when will we visit the art show

C. when we will visit the art show D. when did we visit the art show

二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class. She could spell difficult words like “encyclopedia” and “amendment” very ___13___. She used to get perfect scores during each weekly spelling test.

Ms. Daisy, her English teacher made a ___14___ for the spelling tests that any child who doesn’t get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for next week’s spelling test. Seema, who sat next to Stuti always struggled (挣扎) in spellings. Last Thursday, she received 56% which meant she had to ___15___ the rest 44% words three times.

Stuti was so ___16___ in her spelling abilities that she decided not to study for her next spelling test. The test began. Ms. Daisy pronounced each word and then repeated it. Everything was OK until she spoke “Handkerchief”. Stuti scribbled (匆匆书写) h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h... now what? Her mind was blank.

Ms. Daisy started to move on to the next word. An idea came into Stuti’s mind that Seema ___17___ how to spell it! Seema had written this word three times.

There was wide open space between Stuti and Seema. Stuti’s eyes rolled (滚动) to the right. There it was, spelled out in Seema’s handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper and ___18___ the word with the letters “i-e-f”.

Stuti remained nervous as Ms. Daisy read the last spelling word. She had ___19___ just for the first time in her life. She thought, “Is this the way I want to keep my perfect record — by being a cheater?”

Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and replaced it with what she knew was the wrong answer. She wrote “e-i-f”. As her hands put down her pencil and passed the test up to the front, she sighed with relief (解脱). She thought, “So, what if my perfect scores are no longer being kept? At least my ___20___ is.”

13. A. happily B. easily C. slowly D. carefully

14. A. plan B. suggestion C. guess D. rule

15. A. check B. copy C. read D. pronounce

16. A. special B. unusual C. confused D. confident

17. A. knew B. proved C. found D. wondered

18. A. changed B. picked C. finished D. replaced

19. A. cheated B. asked C. looked D. remembered

20. A. choice B. courage C. honesty D. pride

三、阅读下列材料，根据其内容，从材料后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 （共26分，每小题2分）

Free Apps(应用软件) for Learning English

21. In Speaking Pal, you can chat with _________.

A. native English speakers B. personal computers C. happy readers D. new smart phones

22. If writing is difficult for you, you’d better use _________.

A. SpeakingPal B. Learn English Video C. Spell Checker D. Kobo Reading

23. Learn English Video can improve your _________.

A. speaking skills B. writing skills C. listening skills D. reading skills

B

A Kid Hero

“If you could have any three things, what would you want?”

Eleven-year-old Ruby Chitsey loves asking that question, but it’s not a game she plays. She asks the seniors (老年人) at nursing homes in Arkansas where she lives. Even more amazing, she then sets out to make their wishes come true.

Ruby has long been close to the elders. Her mother has worked in nursing homes for many years. Ruby often stays with her in summer and asks the seniors if they need anything.

Last May, Ruby noticed an old lady named Pearl staring (凝视) out a window. She seemed sad. “What are you looking at?” Ruby asked. Pearl said she was watching her dog being led away by his new owner. Ruby asked around and discovered that the nursing home didn’t allow the seniors to have dogs and Pearl couldn’t afford to pay anyone to look after her dog. Ruby also heard many stories about Pearl’s friends there and found that they were unable to afford life costs. That was when she decided to do something about it.

She started by asking the seniors what three things they wanted most in the world. Her mother worried that people would ask for cars and other things that an 11-year-old wouldn’t be able to provide. Instead, they asked for chocolate, fries, and even just pants that fit properly.

“I felt really upset,” Ruby says. “We left the nursing home that day and went straight to a store and bought as many things as we could.”

Using their own money, Ruby and her mother helped about 100 people in three months. Then, they started asking for donations (捐款). The good people in Arkansas strongly supported them, so Ruby and her mother set up a GoFundMe page—Three Wishes for Ruby’s Residents. After GoFundMe named Ruby a Kid Hero and spread her story internationally, Three Wishes raised more than $250,000 in five months. One of Ruby’s new goals is to set up a shared computer in one nursing home in each state.

Ruby doesn’t plan to stop there. “I consider kindness to be my hobby,” she says, “and I’m very good at it.”

24. What did Ruby do for the seniors at nursing homes in Arkansas?

A. She offered to look after their dogs.

B. She strongly supported their hobbies.

C. She helped make their wishes come true.

D. She played their favourite games with them.

25. Ruby decided to help the seniors when ________.

A. she started to volunteer at nursing homes

B. her mother asked her for help in summer

C. people named her a Kid Hero on the Internet

D. she learned of the stories of Pearl and her friends

26. According to the passage, which word best describes Ruby?

A. Naughty. B. Humorous. C. Caring. D. Cheerful.

C

A Johns Hopkins University researcher, Melville J. Wohlgemuth, noticed that the hats he worked with turned their heads to the side when hunting. "It's a lovely behavior, and I was curious about the purpose, " he said. "I wanted to know when bats were doing this and why. It seemed to happen as hats were targeting prey（瞄准猎物）, and that turned out to he the case."

Wohigemuth's team found that a bat's head and ear movements went with the animal's sonar vocalizations（声纳发声）to help it hunt. The findings show how movements can strengthen signals used by senses like sight and hearing-not just in bats, but in dogs and cats, and even in humans.

Bats' use of echo-location（回声定位）to find, locate and catch prey is well documented. But the lead author Wohlgemuth and his team are the first to show how the mysterious head and ear movements influence the hunt.

The researchers used a novel method to study the head and ear movements of the big brown bat, a common bat species. First, researchers trained the bat to sit on a platform while tracking moving prey. After that, the researchers fixed markers to the top of the bat's head and both ears. The markers allowed the team to measure the head and ear positions as the bat tracked the prey moving in various directions.

They found the head movements took place when the prey changed direction or moved unpredictably. The ear movements happened as the prey grew closer, which helped the bat hear the echoes it used to track and catch the prey. Most notably, these head and ear movements went with the bat's vocalizations, allowing the animal to locate where the prey exactly was.

Co-author Cynthia F. Moss said other similar studies missed the importance of head and ear movements, because laboratories usually observed the subject with a fixed head position. That's not how animals operate in the real world, when their heads are free to move.

Moss compared the bat's head and ear movements to those of other species that use active sensing to process important information. "By studying these movements, " she said, "we as humans can get insight into how movements help animals sense their environment."

27. The research of Wohlgemuth and his team is the first to prove that ___________ ·

A. head and ear movements help bats locate the prey

B. animals send signals to help them hunt more quickly

C. humans learn to hunt by copying animals' movements

D. sonar vocalizations can work for both animals and humans

28. The fourth paragraph is mainly about ___________ .

A. how the bat uses head and ear movements to track moving prey

B. how the researchers studied the head and ear movements of the bat

C. how the bat is trained to track the prey by moving its head and ears

D. how the researchers measured the moving hat's head and ear positions

29. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Bats: A Master of Night Hunting B. Bats: A Model of Fast Movements

C. Bats: An Expert of Exact Location D. Bats: An Example of Mysterious Animals

D

What Is Success

The Oxford English Dictionary defines（定义） the word success as “the fact that you have achieved something that you want and have been trying to do or get; the fact of becoming rich or famous or of getting a high social position”. Some rankings（排行榜） put Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as among the most successful people in the world. What Michael Jackson did for music is the same as what Albert Einstein did for physics. All of them do have greatly influenced the industries or media to which they belonged. J.K.Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter novels. She created a magical world that sold more than 500 million books and became hit movies. With an estimated（估算的） net worth of  $650 million in 2017, she certainly goes for the dictionary definition of success, but for her it didn’t come easy. Having no job, raising her child alone, she was refused by publishers about a dozen times before one took a chance on her. This is what people love: the rags-to-riches success story.

In comparison with Rowling, the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh practically suffered a lot in life to make ends meet. When he was alive, he only sold one painting even though he created more than 2,000 works of art. Van Gogh died when he was 37 years old and with very little money to his name. However, in 1990, his painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million, which has a value today of around $137 million. So, the question is: Is Van Gogh considered successful even though he died poor?

Besides the dictionary definitions, different people have competing ideas of what success really means. Often times the most agree on the same characteristics that make a person a success. A financial magazine named Inc. points to the following qualities that make a person successful: Drive, Confidence, Patience, Honesty, Passion...

Success isn’t always about getting a lot of money or fans, even though those are the stories we see most often. There are other people who we may not know well, but who have achieved success in their own right. One perfect example is mothers. They spent days, months, and years teaching their children from birth to young adulthood. If a child grows up to be a kind, helpful, thoughtful and considerate adult, can the mother consider herself a success?

Perhaps success really is subjective, and it’s up to people to define it for themselves. However, one thing seems to be in complete agreement when we search for the definition and can be best summed up by Steve Jobs, who said, “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

30. The word “rags-to-riches” in Paragraph 1 probably means “ _________”.

A. winning success from luck B. turning talent into treasure

C. gaining money from honor D. rising from poorness to wealth

31. The writer mentions Vincent van Gogh to show that _________ .

A. success is through loneliness

B. success is beyond time and space

C. success is to take the life-changing opportunity

D. success is to achieve something you want and try

32. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Most successes happen overnight if we look closely.

B. What makes people successful is the strong mind and body.

C. A child growing to be a gentle adult can be the mother’s success.

D. Albert Einstein makes greater achievement than Michael Jackson.

33. The writer probably agrees that people should _________ .

A. reorder the rankings of the world’s most successful people

B. reach an agreement of what makes a person success

C. recognize and appreciate different kinds of success

D. drive themselves to set great goals for success

四、(共 10 分,每小题2分)

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。

Learning with Legos for more than 60 years, Lego bricks（砖块） have developed children’s imaginations. Now, a new form of these toys is called Lego Braille Bricks. It is being tested around the world.

Lego Braille Bricks are designed to help people learn Braille（盲文）. That’s a system of writing in which letters are replaced by raised knobs（凸起）. The small knobs on the bricks are put as Braille letters. Blind children can use their fingertips to read the knobs to learn Braille. According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind. In the United States, only 10% of blind children learn Braille. Lego Braille Bricks can help change that.

Braille Bricks will be launched（上市） by Lego in 2020. For some schools, it will be free. The Danish Association of the Blind was one of the first organizations to come up with the idea of using Lego bricks to teach Braille. Thorkild Olesen, the president of the organization, is blind. He says many teachers don’t have the tools and skills to help kids learn Braille. So they teach with audio tools, such as audio books. “Like any other people, we need to express ourselves in writing,” Olesen told TIME for Kids. “Audio is great. But it can never replace Braille. Braille is the most important tool for us. It is the best way for blind people to learn to spell correctly, write, and read like common people.”

Olesen’s organization shared his idea for Braille Bricks with the Lego Foundation（基金会）. Olesen explained to the toy maker that the knobs on Legos are similar to Braille letters. Stine Storm is a project manager at the Lego Foundation. She liked the idea of turning Lego bricks into a learning tool. “It was a fun and playful way to teach Braille to blind children,” she says, “Lego Braille Bricks will also have printed letters on them that match the Braille letters, so sighted children and blind children can play with the Legos together.”

34. What is the new form of the toy called?

__________________________________________________________________________

35. How can blind children learn Braille with Lego Braille Bricks?

__________________________________________________________________________

36. When will Braille Bricks be launched by Lego?

__________________________________________________________________________

37. Why is Braille the most important tool for blind people?

__________________________________________________________________________

38. Why does Stine Storm like the idea of turning Lego bricks into a learning tool?

__________________________________________________________________________

书面表达(共10分)

五、文段表达(10分)

从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少子50词的文段写作。文中已给出内容不计人总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

39. 莎士比亚曾经说过：“书籍是全人类的营养品，生活里没有书籍，就好像没有阳光；智慧里没有书籍，就好像鸟儿没有翅膀。”

假如你是李华，你校英语社团正在开展线上图书推荐活动，其公众号计划做关于图书文化节的系列推送，现就“Fond of Reading(乐享阅读)”这一话题在校内收集素材，请你用英语给公众号留言，推荐一本你眼中必读的好书(A must-read book)，谈谈你的阅读习惯，并说明你热爱读书的理由。

提示词语： Harry Porter, e-books, every day, benefit, learn knowledge

提示问题：

Which book is a must-read book for you?

What is your reading habit?

Why do you enjoy reading?

I am Li Hua, from Class1, Grade 9. I am__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I hope my ideas can be taken. Thanks!

40. 每个人一生中都会遇到很多的人，他们中肯定有那么一个人，给我们的人生涂上厚重的色彩，对我们有着无比重要的意义。他/她可能是一位伟大的发明家，一名优秀的作家，一个拼搏的奥运冠军，一位严厉的老师，一个亲密的朋友……某英文网站正在开展以“ Matters to me 对我很重要”为主题的征文活动，假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈对你很重要的一个人，他/她做了什么事情对你影响很大，以及你从他/她身上学到了什么。

提示词语：give support, stick to, solve problems, role model, active, creative, modest提示问题：

Who matters to you?

What did he/she do?

What do you learn from him/her?

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参考答案

一、单项填空(共6分，每小题0.5分)

从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. My sister is leaving for Shanghai, but I can’t go with ________.

A. him B. her C. us D. them

【答案】B

【解析】

【详解】句意：我姐姐就要去上海了，但我不能和她一起去。

考查人称代词宾格。him他；her她；us我们；them他们。此处作介词with的宾语，应该用人称代词宾格；此处指代“My sister”，所以应该用her，故选B。

2. The children are very happy because they are singing   the Music Room.

A. in B. on C. of D. to

【答案】A

【解析】

【详解】句意：孩子们很高兴，因为他们正在音乐室唱歌。

考查方位介词。in在……内；on在……上；of：……的；to到、向。根据题干中 “ Music Room” 可知孩子们在音乐教室内唱歌。故选A。

3. — Mr. Black,   do you spend reading every day?

— For about half an hour.

A. how far B. how much C. how long D. how often

【答案】C

【解析】

【详解】句意：——布莱克先生，你每天花多长时间看书？——大约半小时。

本题考查特殊疑问词。how far 多远，询问距离长短；how much多少钱，询问价格；how long多长，询问时间长短，物体长短；how often多久 (一次)，询问频率。根据答中“About half an hour” 可知问句是在问的时间长短（时间段）。故选 C。

4. —Can you stay here for dinner with us?

—Sorry, I ________. My parents are waiting for me at home.

A. mustn’t B. can’t C. needn’t D. couldn’t

【答案】B

【解析】

【详解】句意：——你会留下来和我们一起吃晚饭吗？——对不起，我不能。我父母在家等我。

考查情态动词辨析。mustn’t禁止；can’t不能；needn’t不必；couldn’t不能，过去式。根据后句“My parents are waiting for me at home.”可知，应是不能留下来一起吃晚饭，时态是一般现在时。故选B。

5. — Would you like some cakes?

—No, thanks. They smell delicious ________ I’m not hungry.

A. and B. so C. but D. or

【答案】C

【解析】

【详解】句意：——你要来点蛋糕吗？——不用了，谢谢。它们闻起来很香，但是我不饿。

考查并列连词辨析。and并且；so所以；but但是；or或者。分析两句话之间的逻辑，可知此处表转折，应该用but连接，故选C。

6. Jack likes playing basketball and he is   boy in our class.

A. tall B. taller C. tallest D. the tallest

【答案】D

【解析】

【详解】句意：杰克喜欢打篮球，他是我们班最高的男孩。

考查形容词最高级。根据题干中的比较范围“in our class”，可知本题使用最高级，形容词最高级前要加定冠词the；故选D。

7. Every morning, my father   a newspaper on his way to work.

A. buys B. bought C. is buying D. will buy

【答案】A

【解析】

【详解】句意：每天早上，我父亲在上班的路上买报纸。

本题考查时态。选项 A 是一般现在时；选项 B 是一般过去时；选项 C 是现在进行时；选项 D 是一般将来时。根据句中的标志词“Every morning”可知该题应选择一般现在时态。故选A。

8. — What is your mother doing, Linda?

— She   in the kitchen now.

A. cooks B. is cooking C. cooked D. was cooking

【答案】B

【解析】

【详解】句意：——琳达，你妈妈在干什么？——她现在正在厨房做饭。

本题考查时态。选项A是一般现在时；选项B是现在进行时；选项C是一般过去时；选项 D 是过去进行时。根据问句中的标志词 “now” 可知该题应使用现在进行时态。故选B。

9. I   the Great Wall many times since 2010. It’s really amazing.

A. visit B. visited C. will visit D. have visited

【答案】D

【解析】

【详解】句意：自2010年以来，我去过长城很多次。真是太神奇了。

本题考查时态。根据句中的标志词 “since 2010”可知该题应使用现在完成时态。选项 A 是一般现在时；选项 B 是一般过去时；选项 C 是一般将来时；选项 D 是现在完成时。故选 D。

10. —What were you doing at 8 o’clock yesterday evening?

—I ________ my homework.

A. do B. did C. was doing D. am doing

【答案】C

【解析】

【详解】句意：——昨天晚上8点钟你在干什么？——我正在坐我的家庭作业。

考查时态辨析。根据“What were you doing at 8 o’clock yesterday evening?”可知问过去某一时刻正在做什么，答句用过去进行时，其结构为was/were doing。故选C。

11. —Do you know when the 24th Winter Olympic Games ________? —In 2022.

A. held B. will hold C. is held D. will be held

【答案】D

【解析】

【详解】句意：——你知道第24届冬奥会何时举办吗？——在2022年。

考查被动语态。此处主语“the 24th Winter Olympic Games”和谓语动词hold之间构成被动关系，应该用被动语态。根据下文的时间“In 2022”，可知用一般将来时的被动语态，结构为will be done，故选D。

12. — Could you please tell me    ?

— Last Tuesday.

A. when we visited the art show B. when will we visit the art show

C. when we will visit the art show D. when did we visit the art show

【答案】A

【解析】

【详解】句意：——你能告诉我我们什么时候参观艺术展吗？——上星期二。

本题考查宾语从句。宾语从句的语序是陈述语序， B和D是疑问句语序，所以排除。本句主句Could you please tell me是一般现在时，could是委婉语气，可知从句时态由从句的语境和时间状语决定。根据回答“Last Tuesday”可知从句的时态是一般过去时，选项A 为一般过去时，选项 C为一般将来时。故选A。

二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class. She could spell difficult words like “encyclopedia” and “amendment” very ___13___. She used to get perfect scores during each weekly spelling test.

Ms. Daisy, her English teacher made a ___14___ for the spelling tests that any child who doesn’t get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for next week’s spelling test. Seema, who sat next to Stuti always struggled (挣扎) in spellings. Last Thursday, she received 56% which meant she had to ___15___ the rest 44% words three times.

Stuti was so ___16___ in her spelling abilities that she decided not to study for her next spelling test. The test began. Ms. Daisy pronounced each word and then repeated it. Everything was OK until she spoke “Handkerchief”. Stuti scribbled (匆匆书写) h-a-n-d-k-e-r-c-h... now what? Her mind was blank.

Ms. Daisy started to move on to the next word. An idea came into Stuti’s mind that Seema ___17___ how to spell it! Seema had written this word three times.

There was wide open space between Stuti and Seema. Stuti’s eyes rolled (滚动) to the right. There it was, spelled out in Seema’s handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper and ___18___ the word with the letters “i-e-f”.

Stuti remained nervous as Ms. Daisy read the last spelling word. She had ___19___ just for the first time in her life. She thought, “Is this the way I want to keep my perfect record — by being a cheater?”

Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and replaced it with what she knew was the wrong answer. She wrote “e-i-f”. As her hands put down her pencil and passed the test up to the front, she sighed with relief (解脱). She thought, “So, what if my perfect scores are no longer being kept? At least my ___20___ is.”

13. A. happily B. easily C. slowly D. carefully

14. A. plan B. suggestion C. guess D. rule

15. A. check B. copy C. read D. pronounce

16. A. special B. unusual C. confused D. confident

17 A. knew B. proved C. found D. wondered

18. A. changed B. picked C. finished D. replaced

19. A. cheated B. asked C. looked D. remembered

20 A. choice B. courage C. honesty D. pride

【答案】13. B    14. D    15. B    16. D    17. A    18. C    19. A    20. C

【解析】

【分析】本文是一篇记叙文。主要讲了主人公为了考试进行作弊，后来经过一番思考，决定不作弊，这样至少她是诚实的。

【13题详解】

句意：她能很容易地拼写像“百科全书”和“修正案”这样的难词。

happily高兴地；easily容易地，轻易地；slowly慢慢地；carefully细心地。根据“Everyone knew that Stuti was the best speller in the whole class.”可知，每个人都知道斯图蒂是全班拼写最好的，因此很容易拼写出像“百科全书”和“修正案”这样的难词，easily符合句意。故选B。

【14题详解】

句意：她的英语老师黛西女士为拼写考试制定了一条规则。

plan计划；suggestion建议；guess猜测；rule规定。根据“any child who doesn’t get at least 60% correct spellings would have to correct each wrong word and copy three times for next week’s spelling test”可知，任何拼写错误不超过60%的孩子将必须纠正每个错误的单词，并为下周的拼写测试抄写三遍，可见这是老师制定的规则，因此rule符合句意。故选D。

【15题详解】

句意：上周四，她收到了56%的单词，这意味着她不得不抄写剩下的44%单词三遍。

check检查；copy复制；read阅读；pronounce发音。根据“copy three times for next week’s spelling test”可知，需要抄写单词三遍，因此copy符合句意。故选B。

【16题详解】

句意：斯图蒂对自己的拼写能力如此自信，以至于她决定不再为下一次的拼写考试而学习。

special特殊的；unusual不寻常的；confused糊涂的，迷惑的；confident自信的。根据“she decided not to study for her next spelling test”可知，她对自己的拼写能力很有信心，因此confident符合句意。故选D。

【17题详解】

句意：斯图蒂突然想到西玛知道怎么拼写这个单词！

knew知道；proved证明；found发现；wondered想知道。根据“Seema had written this word three times.”可知，斯图蒂知道西玛怎么拼写这个单词，因此knew符合句意。故选A。

【18题详解】

句意：她的眼睛很快又回到自己的稿子上，用“i-e-f”这几个字母写完了这个词。

changed改变；picked捡；finished完成；replaced代替。根据“Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper”可知，看到了西玛的试卷后，知道了如何拼写单词，因此用“i-e-f”这几个字母写完了这个词，finished符合句意。故选C。

【19题详解】

句意：这是她有生以来第一次作弊。

cheated欺骗；asked问；looked看着；remembered记得。根据“There it was, spelled out in Seema’s handwriting. Her eyes went quickly back to her own paper”可知，斯图蒂考试作弊了，因此cheated符合句意。故选A。

【20题详解】

句意：至少我是诚实的。

choice选择；courage勇气；honesty诚实；pride骄傲。根据“Finally, she erased what she had written earlier and replaced it with what she knew was the wrong answer.”可知，她擦去了作弊的答案，写上了自己错误的答案，这样至少她是诚实的，因此honesty符合句意。故选C。

三、阅读下列材料，根据其内容，从材料后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 （共26分，每小题2分）

Free Apps(应用软件) for Learning English

21. In Speaking Pal, you can chat with _________.

A. native English speakers B. personal computers C. happy readers D. new smart phones

22. If writing is difficult for you, you’d better use _________.

A. SpeakingPal B. Learn English Video C. Spell Checker D. Kobo Reading

23. Learn English Video can improve your _________.

A. speaking skills B. writing skills C. listening skills D. reading skills

【答案】21. A    22. C    23. C

【解析】

【分析】文章主要介绍了四个免费学习英语的软件。

【21题详解】

细节理解题。根据文中“It allows users to chat (聊天)with thousands of native (本国的）English speakers.”可知，本土英国人可以和你在SpeakingPal里说英语，故选A。

【22题详解】

细节理解题。根据“Speaking English is easy, but writing it is often much more difficult…we suggest that you should try it and correct your English spelling easily.”可知，你可以使用Spell Checker来提高书写能力，故选C。

【23题详解】

细节理解题。根据“Learn English Video”下面的“It can improve your English listening skills quickly.”可知，在Learn English Video上可以提高听力技能，故选C。

B

A Kid Hero

“If you could have any three things, what would you want?”

Eleven-year-old Ruby Chitsey loves asking that question, but it’s not a game she plays. She asks the seniors (老年人) at nursing homes in Arkansas where she lives. Even more amazing, she then sets out to make their wishes come true.

Ruby has long been close to the elders. Her mother has worked in nursing homes for many years. Ruby often stays with her in summer and asks the seniors if they need anything.

Last May, Ruby noticed an old lady named Pearl staring (凝视) out a window. She seemed sad. “What are you looking at?” Ruby asked. Pearl said she was watching her dog being led away by his new owner. Ruby asked around and discovered that the nursing home didn’t allow the seniors to have dogs and Pearl couldn’t afford to pay anyone to look after her dog. Ruby also heard many stories about Pearl’s friends there and found that they were unable to afford life costs. That was when she decided to do something about it.

She started by asking the seniors what three things they wanted most in the world. Her mother worried that people would ask for cars and other things that an 11-year-old wouldn’t be able to provide. Instead, they asked for chocolate, fries, and even just pants that fit properly.

“I felt really upset,” Ruby says. “We left the nursing home that day and went straight to a store and bought as many things as we could.”

Using their own money, Ruby and her mother helped about 100 people in three months. Then, they started asking for donations (捐款). The good people in Arkansas strongly supported them, so Ruby and her mother set up a GoFundMe page—Three Wishes for Ruby’s Residents. After GoFundMe named Ruby a Kid Hero and spread her story internationally, Three Wishes raised more than $250,000 in five months. One of Ruby’s new goals is to set up a shared computer in one nursing home in each state.

Ruby doesn’t plan to stop there. “I consider kindness to be my hobby,” she says, “and I’m very good at it.”

24. What did Ruby do for the seniors at nursing homes in Arkansas?

A. She offered to look after their dogs.

B. She strongly supported their hobbies.

C. She helped make their wishes come true.

D. She played their favourite games with them.

25. Ruby decided to help the seniors when ________.

A. she started to volunteer at nursing homes

B. her mother asked her for help in summer

C. people named her a Kid Hero on the Internet

D. she learned of the stories of Pearl and her friends

26. According to the passage, which word best describes Ruby?

A. Naughty. B. Humorous. C. Caring. D. Cheerful.

【答案】24. C    25. D    26. C

【解析】

【分析】Ruby的妈妈在一家养老院工作，所以Ruby经常待在养老院。与老人们聊天的过程中，她发现，养老院的老人没有钱买很多东西，所以她问养老院的老人，他们最想要的三样东西是什么。让人没想到的是，他们想要的都是一些比较常见的东西，比如巧克力、炸鸡或者合适的裤子。因此她和妈妈在三个月之内帮助了100多个人。然后Ruby想帮助更多的人，建立网页，筹集善款，最后她帮助了更多的人。

【24题详解】

细节理解题。根据“Even more amazing, she then sets out to make their wishes come true.”及全文可知，Ruby帮助老人们实现了愿望。故选C。

【25题详解】

细节理解题。根据文章第四段“Ruby also heard many stories about Pearl’s friends there and found that they were unable to afford life costs. That was when she decided to do something about it.”可知当Ruby听到很多关于Pearl和他的朋友们的故事，她决定为他们做一些事，然后开始了帮助老人。故选D。

【26题详解】

推理判断题。本文主要介绍了Ruby帮助养老院老人实现愿望的故事，因此可推测她是一个乐于助人的人。故选C。

C

A Johns Hopkins University researcher, Melville J. Wohlgemuth, noticed that the hats he worked with turned their heads to the side when hunting. "It's a lovely behavior, and I was curious about the purpose, " he said. "I wanted to know when bats were doing this and why. It seemed to happen as hats were targeting prey（瞄准猎物）, and that turned out to he the case."

Wohigemuth's team found that a bat's head and ear movements went with the animal's sonar vocalizations（声纳发声）to help it hunt. The findings show how movements can strengthen signals used by senses like sight and hearing-not just in bats, but in dogs and cats, and even in humans.

Bats' use of echo-location（回声定位）to find, locate and catch prey is well documented. But the lead author Wohlgemuth and his team are the first to show how the mysterious head and ear movements influence the hunt.

The researchers used a novel method to study the head and ear movements of the big brown bat, a common bat species. First, researchers trained the bat to sit on a platform while tracking moving prey. After that, the researchers fixed markers to the top of the bat's head and both ears. The markers allowed the team to measure the head and ear positions as the bat tracked the prey moving in various directions.

They found the head movements took place when the prey changed direction or moved unpredictably. The ear movements happened as the prey grew closer, which helped the bat hear the echoes it used to track and catch the prey. Most notably, these head and ear movements went with the bat's vocalizations, allowing the animal to locate where the prey exactly was.

Co-author Cynthia F. Moss said other similar studies missed the importance of head and ear movements, because laboratories usually observed the subject with a fixed head position. That's not how animals operate in the real world, when their heads are free to move.

Moss compared the bat's head and ear movements to those of other species that use active sensing to process important information. "By studying these movements, " she said, "we as humans can get insight into how movements help animals sense their environment."

27. The research of Wohlgemuth and his team is the first to prove that ___________ ·

A. head and ear movements help bats locate the prey

B. animals send signals to help them hunt more quickly

C. humans learn to hunt by copying animals' movements

D. sonar vocalizations can work for both animals and humans

28. The fourth paragraph is mainly about ___________ .

A. how the bat uses head and ear movements to track moving prey

B. how the researchers studied the head and ear movements of the bat

C. how the bat is trained to track the prey by moving its head and ears

D. how the researchers measured the moving hat's head and ear positions

29. Which is the best title for the passage?

A. Bats: A Master of Night Hunting B. Bats: A Model of Fast Movements

C. Bats: An Expert of Exact Location D. Bats: An Example of Mysterious Animals

【答案】27. A    28. B    29. C

【解析】

【分析】文章主要介绍的是研究人员通过研究蝙蝠捕捉猎物时头部的转动来证实神秘的头部和耳朵运动是如何影响狩猎的。以及这些运动如何帮助动物感知环境。

【27题详解】

细节理解题。根据文中Wohigemuth’s team found that a bat’s head and ear movements went with the animal’s sonar vocalizations（声纳发声）to help it hunt.及Bats’ use of echo-location（回声定位）to find, locate and catch prey is well documented.蝙蝠的头部和耳朵的运动有助于蝙蝠捕猎，蝙蝠利用回声定位来发现和定位猎物，故选A。

【28题详解】

段意概括题。根据文中The researchers used a novel method to study the head and ear movements of the big brown bat, a common bat species.研究人员使用了一种新的方法来研究一种常见的蝙蝠大棕色蝙蝠的头部和耳朵运动。可知答案，故选B。

【29题详解】

最佳标题题。根据整篇文章的理解可知，主要讲述的是研究蝙蝠如何通过头部和耳朵的运动来更好的准确地定位猎物，以便更好的捕捉猎物，所以C选项比较符合，故选C。

D

What Is Success

The Oxford English Dictionary defines（定义） the word success as “the fact that you have achieved something that you want and have been trying to do or get; the fact of becoming rich or famous or of getting a high social position”. Some rankings（排行榜） put Albert Einstein, Michael Jackson, Bill Gates and Steve Jobs as among the most successful people in the world. What Michael Jackson did for music is the same as what Albert Einstein did for physics. All of them do have greatly influenced the industries or media to which they belonged. J.K.Rowling, the author of the famous Harry Potter novels. She created a magical world that sold more than 500 million books and became hit movies. With an estimated（估算的） net worth of  $650 million in 2017, she certainly goes for the dictionary definition of success, but for her it didn’t come easy. Having no job, raising her child alone, she was refused by publishers about a dozen times before one took a chance on her. This is what people love: the rags-to-riches success story.

In comparison with Rowling, the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh practically suffered a lot in life to make ends meet. When he was alive, he only sold one painting even though he created more than 2,000 works of art. Van Gogh died when he was 37 years old and with very little money to his name. However, in 1990, his painting Portrait of Dr. Gachet sold for $82.5 million, which has a value today of around $137 million. So, the question is: Is Van Gogh considered successful even though he died poor?

Besides the dictionary definitions, different people have competing ideas of what success really means. Often times the most agree on the same characteristics that make a person a success. A financial magazine named Inc. points to the following qualities that make a person successful: Drive, Confidence, Patience, Honesty, Passion...

Success isn’t always about getting a lot of money or fans, even though those are the stories we see most often. There are other people who we may not know well, but who have achieved success in their own right. One perfect example is mothers. They spent days, months, and years teaching their children from birth to young adulthood. If a child grows up to be a kind, helpful, thoughtful and considerate adult, can the mother consider herself a success?

Perhaps success really is subjective, and it’s up to people to define it for themselves. However, one thing seems to be in complete agreement when we search for the definition and can be best summed up by Steve Jobs, who said, “If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time.”

30. The word “rags-to-riches” in Paragraph 1 probably means “ _________”.

A. winning success from luck B. turning talent into treasure

C. gaining money from honor D. rising from poorness to wealth

31. The writer mentions Vincent van Gogh to show that _________ .

A. success is through loneliness

B. success is beyond time and space

C. success is to take the life-changing opportunity

D. success is to achieve something you want and try

32. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Most successes happen overnight if we look closely.

B. What makes people successful is the strong mind and body.

C. A child growing to be a gentle adult can be the mother’s success.

D. Albert Einstein makes greater achievement than Michael Jackson.

33. The writer probably agrees that people should _________ .

A. reorder the rankings of the world’s most successful people

B. reach an agreement of what makes a person success

C. recognize and appreciate different kinds of success

D. drive themselves to set great goals for success

【答案】30. D    31. B    32. C    33. C

【解析】

【分析】本文是一篇议论文，主要阐述和论证了“什么是成功”这个话题，通过详细举例作家罗琳和画家梵高等人的事迹，以及母亲这个身份也可以称之为成功的等论点，说明了成功的定义是很主观的。

【30题详解】

词义猜测题。根据前文对作家罗琳变成功的过程的描述“With an estimated（估算的） net worth of $650 million in 2017...she was refused by publishers about a dozen times before one took a chance on her”，可知她是从贫穷变得富有，或者说从不幸变得成功的，可推知该短语指的是“从贫穷到富有”，故选D。

【31题详解】

推理判断题。根据文章对梵高生平的讲述，提及他生前潦倒，但死后画作名声大噪，人们仍然定义他是成功的，可知该案例想阐述成功是超越时间和空间的，故选B。

【32题详解】

细节理解题。根据“One perfect example is mothers. They spent days, months, and years teaching their children from birth to young adulthood...can the mother consider herself a success”，可知把孩子培养成一个正直的人也是母亲的成功，故选C。

【33题详解】

细节理解题。根据“Perhaps success really is subjective, and it’s up to people to define it for themselves”，可知作者认为成功的定义非常主观，我们要认可和赞赏各种不同形式的成功，故选C。

四、(共 10 分,每小题2分)

阅读下面的短文，并根据短文内容回答问题。

Learning with Legos for more than 60 years, Lego bricks（砖块） have developed children’s imaginations. Now, a new form of these toys is called Lego Braille Bricks. It is being tested around the world.

Lego Braille Bricks are designed to help people learn Braille（盲文）. That’s a system of writing in which letters are replaced by raised knobs（凸起）. The small knobs on the bricks are put as Braille letters. Blind children can use their fingertips to read the knobs to learn Braille. According to the World Health Organization, 36 million people worldwide are blind. In the United States, only 10% of blind children learn Braille. Lego Braille Bricks can help change that.

Braille Bricks will be launched（上市） by Lego in 2020. For some schools, it will be free. The Danish Association of the Blind was one of the first organizations to come up with the idea of using Lego bricks to teach Braille. Thorkild Olesen, the president of the organization, is blind. He says many teachers don’t have the tools and skills to help kids learn Braille. So they teach with audio tools, such as audio books. “Like any other people, we need to express ourselves in writing,” Olesen told TIME for Kids. “Audio is great. But it can never replace Braille. Braille is the most important tool for us. It is the best way for blind people to learn to spell correctly, write, and read like common people.”

Olesen’s organization shared his idea for Braille Bricks with the Lego Foundation（基金会）. Olesen explained to the toy maker that the knobs on Legos are similar to Braille letters. Stine Storm is a project manager at the Lego Foundation. She liked the idea of turning Lego bricks into a learning tool. “It was a fun and playful way to teach Braille to blind children,” she says, “Lego Braille Bricks will also have printed letters on them that match the Braille letters, so sighted children and blind children can play with the Legos together.”

34. What is the new form of the toy called?

__________________________________________________________________________

35. How can blind children learn Braille with Lego Braille Bricks?

__________________________________________________________________________

36. When will Braille Bricks be launched by Lego?

__________________________________________________________________________

37. Why is Braille the most important tool for blind people?

__________________________________________________________________________

38. Why does Stine Storm like the idea of turning Lego bricks into a learning tool?

__________________________________________________________________________

【答案】34. Lego Braille Bricks.   

35. By using their fingertips to read the knobs to learn Braille.   

36. In 2020.   

37. Because it is the best way for blind people to learn to spell correctly, write, and read like common people.   

38. Because it was a fun and playful way to teach Braille to blind children.

【解析】

【分析】这篇文章主要介绍了乐高盲文积木这款新产品。

【34题详解】

根据“a new form of these toys is called Lego Braille Bricks”可知，这种新款玩具叫乐高盲文积木。故填Lego Braille Bricks.

35题详解】

根据“Blind children can use their fingertips to read the knobs to learn Braille.”可知盲童可以通过用手指读积木上的凸点来学习盲文。故填By using their fingertips to read the knobs to learn Braille.

【36题详解】

根据“Braille Bricks will be launched by Lego in 2020.”可知，这款产品在2020年上市。故填In 2020.

【37题详解】

根据“It is the best way for blind people to learn to spell correctly, write, and read like common people.”可知，盲文是盲童学习拼，写和读的最好的方式。故填Because it is the best way for blind people to learn to spell correctly, write, and read like common people.

【38题详解】

根据“It was a fun and playful way to teach Braille to blind children”可知，是因为它是一种教盲童的有趣好玩的方式。故填Because it was a fun and playful way to teach Braille to blind children.

书面表达(共10分)

五、文段表达(10分)

从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少子50词的文段写作。文中已给出内容不计人总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

39. 莎士比亚曾经说过：“书籍是全人类的营养品，生活里没有书籍，就好像没有阳光；智慧里没有书籍，就好像鸟儿没有翅膀。”

假如你是李华，你校英语社团正在开展线上图书推荐活动，其公众号计划做关于图书文化节系列推送，现就“Fond of Reading(乐享阅读)”这一话题在校内收集素材，请你用英语给公众号留言，推荐一本你眼中必读的好书(A must-read book)，谈谈你的阅读习惯，并说明你热爱读书的理由。

提示词语： Harry Porter, e-books, every day, benefit, learn knowledge

提示问题：

Which book is a must-read book for you?

What is your reading habit?

Why do you enjoy reading?

I am Li Hua, from Class1, Grade 9. I am__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I hope my ideas can be taken. Thanks!

【答案】例文

I am fond of reading books in my free time. Of all books that I read, I think Harry Porter is a must-read book for me, which is full of excitement. As for my reading habits, I prefer to read  e-books on the screen of my cellphone because of its convenience. I enjoy reading because it has benefited me a lot. It not only helps me learn knowledge, but also broadens my horizon.

I hope my ideas can be taken. Thanks!

【解析】

【详解】1. 题干解读：本文是一篇材料作文，要求你以李华的身份按提示推荐一本必读好书，并阐述你的阅读习惯和喜欢阅读的原因。

2. 写作指导：本文主要以第一人称和第三人称展开描述，时态以一般现在时为主。文章内容注意按照提示问题展开，不要遗漏要点。提示词语也尽量用上。写作时注意语句要通顺，不要有拼写和语法错误。

40. 每个人一生中都会遇到很多的人，他们中肯定有那么一个人，给我们的人生涂上厚重的色彩，对我们有着无比重要的意义。他/她可能是一位伟大的发明家，一名优秀的作家，一个拼搏的奥运冠军，一位严厉的老师，一个亲密的朋友……某英文网站正在开展以“ Matters to me 对我很重要”为主题的征文活动，假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈对你很重要的一个人，他/她做了什么事情对你影响很大，以及你从他/她身上学到了什么。

提示词语：give support, stick to, solve problems, role model, active, creative, modest提示问题：

Who matters to you?

What did he/she do?

What do you learn from him/her?

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【答案】例文

My teacher matters to me

My English teacher is a beautiful woman with straight hair. I respect her very much. She also matters a lot to me.

She is a hard-working teacher with great patience. When we get low scores, she often encourages us to work harder. When we have troubles, she often helps us solve them.

She sets a good example for us. I learn more about how to treat others from her. I’ll try my best to be a person like her.

【解析】

【详解】1.题干解读：本文是一篇材料作文。围绕“……对我很重要”写一篇短文。

2.写作指导：本文采用第三人称，时态采用一般现在时。分为三段式：第一段先介绍谁对自己很重要；第二段描述她做了哪些事情；最后一段描述自己从她身上学到了什么。写作时保持主谓一致性，做到无语法和标点错误。