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2023-2024 学年度第二学期期中考试
初三英语(笔试)试题
说明:
1. 本试卷共8页,共90分;考试时间100分钟。
2. 答题前,务必用0.5毫米黑色签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号、座位号填写在试卷和答题纸规定的位置上。
3. 选择题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题纸上对应题目的答案标号涂黑;如需改动,用橡皮擦干净后,再选涂其它答案标号。
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5. 在试卷上和答题纸指定区域外的答案无效。
第一部分 阅读理解(共两节, 满分35分)
第一节 (共15小题; 每小题2分, 满分30分)
阅读下列短文, 根据短文内容从每题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项。
( A )
The latest smart phone
The latest smart phone from Huawei, the Mate 60 Pro, does not have 5G written on it. However, some people bought the phone after it came out on Wednesday, and they found its download speed (下载速度) is 500MB a second. It is really 5G speed.
A bad drought (旱灾) report
A report showed that 43,000 people lost their lives because of Somalia’s longest dry and hot weather. After three very dry years, many people had to leave their homes and millions of farm animals also lost their lives. This means that people couldn’t get enough food.
Fight against letting nuclear-contaminated
water (核污水) run into the sea
Japan planned to let nuclear-contaminated water run into the sea. On Tuesday, many Japanese people went to a meeting. They thought the plan was bad for the environment. “The mountains and rivers will never return to the past, and the radiation (辐射) will not go away easily,” they shouted.
The first snowfall in Johannesburg in 11 years
Children make snowmen and enjoy snowball fights as it snows in the country’s biggest city for the first time since 2012. South Africa is in the southern hemisphere (半球). It is winter there at the moment. Parts of the country do get snow sometimes but it rarely falls in Johannesburg.
1. Which is TRUE about the Mate 60 Pro?
① It is too expensive.
② It works at 5G speed.
③ It sells well in the world.
④ Huawei makes the Mate 60 Pro.
A ①② B. ③④ C. ①③ D. ②④
2. Where did people spend three dry years?
A. In China. B. In Somalia. C. In Japan. D. In South Africa.
3. What does the underlined part imply (暗示)?
A. There won’t be fish in the sea.
B. There wo