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2024年太平区初中学业水平检测
英语试卷(二模)
(本试卷共45小题 满分90分 考试时间90分钟)
考生注意:所有试题必须在答题卡指定区域作答,在本试卷上作答无效
第一部分 选择题(共50分)
一、阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分;满分40分)
第一节 阅读下面语言材料,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
Paper Cut Art Competition
To further develop the culture of paper cut art, to offer chances to people to help them become more creative, and to spread local cultures through the art, we invite middle school students aged 13-19 from all cities in Liaoning Province to take part in the competition and excellent works will be shown to the public.
Size: The size of each entry (参赛作品) mustn’t be larger than B2-size (51.5cm x 72.8cm).
Entry fee: ¥30 per person.
Entry period: All entries must arrive between 1st June and 31st June 2024.
Rules: One entry per person;
·Entries must be original (原创的) and unpublished (未出版的).
★All entries must be emailed to lixunpapercutart@163.com. Please write your name, grade, school name, city and email address on a piece of paper and send it with your entry.
PRIZES
·1st Prize / 1 winner/ A trophy (奖杯) and ¥10,000
·2nd Prize/ 1 winner/ A trophy and ¥5,000
·3rd Prize / 1 winner/ A trophy and ¥3,000
·Prizes for Excellence /5 winners/ A trophy and ¥1,000 for each
For more information, please call Mr. Wang at 024 48477XXXX.
1. What is the competition about?
A. Science. B. Art. C. Sports. D. Music.
2. Who can take part in the competition?
A. Wang Xiao, 9, Dalian. B. Li Zimeng, 12, Fuxin.
C. Zhao Tong, 16, Benxi. D. Wang Yinan, 20, Shenyang.
3. There will be ________ prize winners in the competition.
A. three B. four C. six D. eight
4. To join in the competition, students must ________.
A. send two entries by email B. hand in their entry before 1st June 2024
C. make sure the entry is in B2-size or smaller D. publish their entry first before they hand it in
B
How fast can someone climb 15 meters? The answer is: less than 5 seconds.
On May 30, Chinese speed climber (速度攀岩者) Cao Long made history. In Zhejiang, he finished his climbing at 4.98 seconds and people call him “Chinese Spider-Man”.
“The race finishes in seconds. So a climber should be careful and keep calm. Otherwise (否则), he will make mistakes and lose the race,” Cao said.
In fact, that pressure (压力) is part of the reason why Cao loves the sport. “Competing side by side with another climber really excites me,” he said.
Cao took up climbing at the age of 8 and he won the national climbing competition two years later. When he was 14, a terrible accident happened to him. He fell from a 13-meter wall, breaking his lower back. Though it was hard, Cao’s love for the sport made him go back to climbing.
Now, Cao is preparing for the Paris Olympics in 2024. In his eyes, the good race result is a thing of the past. “I’ll keep improving myself and try to do better next time,” Cao said.
5. Cao Long thinks speed climbing is ________.
A. easy B. healthy C. exciting D. relaxing
6. What’s the correct time order of the following events?
① Cao started to take up climbing. ② Cao broke his lower back in an accident.
③ Cao finished his climbing at 4.98 seconds. ④ Cao won a national climbing competition.
A. ①②④③ B. ②③①④ C. ③②④① D. ①④②③
7. What’s the text mainly about?
A. A Chinese Spider-Man. B. The history of speed climbing.
C. Chinese speed climbers. D. The development of speed climbing.
8. What can we infer (推断) from the text?
A. His parents’ love made Cao go back to climbing.
B. Cao is expected to compete in the Paris Olympics in 2024.
C. Cao once played an important role in the movie Spider-Man.
D. Remembering the good race results makes Cao work harder.
C
Look at the picture. Do you know what the girl and the boy are doing? They are throwing two baby puffins (海鹰) off a cliff (悬崖). Every year in late summer, people on Iceland’s Westman Islands throw thousands of baby puffins off cliffs. This yearly tradition is called “puffling season”. In fact, they just want to save these birds’ lives.
Puffins are the most common birds on the Westman Islands in Iceland. Different from most sea birds, they are able to go under water to 60 meters deep to catch fish. Puffins are born on sea cliffs. When baby puffins become large enough, they fly away and spend several years at sea. Then they return to produce their babies. In the past, the birds found the sea by following the light of the moon. But now, city lights make them lose their way.
Kyana Sue Powers is an American photographer. She found out about the puffling season while visiting the Westman Islands last summer. One day when she was leaving a restaurant after dinner she noticed a group of children acting strangely. They were running after puffins. Later, she learned that every year many baby puffins fly into the town after mistaking city lights for the moon. People there spend a few weeks in August and September collecting lost baby puffins, usually four to ten in a night. Then they throw them off cliffs and set them on the right way. That is significant for the puffins.
Powers says she feels excited when seeing people throw young puffins. “When you take a baby puffin to the cliff, it’s the first time in its life that it has seen the sea, and it is going to live there for the next few years,” she says. “I really hope it will have a great life!”
9. According to the text, we know puffins ________.
A. can fly at birth B. produce babies on the sea cliff
C. always get lost when they are at sea D. can quickly find the sea with the help of city lights
10. The underlined word “significant” probably means “________”.
A. natural B. possible C. terrible D. important
11. Paragraph 3 mainly talks about ________.
A. why Powers became interested in puffins
B. how Powers learned about the puffling season
C. how people on the Westman Islands protect puffins
D. why people on the Westman Islands help lost puffins
12. Which of the following can be the best title (题目) for the text?
A. A special way to save puffins B. How to get on well with puffins
C. Something you don’t know about puffins D. The Westman Islands—a place for puffin lovers
D
Trends (潮流) always come and go. Many goods (商品) people buy to keep up with fashion (时尚) often end up in the rubbish bin. Now many young Chinese people are giving these things a second life. They are called “stoopers”, and they pick up idle (闲置的) things and reuse them. They are mainly in big cities such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou.
Chen Jiaorong is one of them. She started stooping in June 2022 when she found many people were throwing away the things that they hardly ever used after they got free from the COVID lockdown in Shanghai. After that, Chen often “found treasures” in her spare time. Now her house is filled with things that have been redesigned (重新设计) from the idle goods she has collected, including tables, chairs and clothes.
“Some people say stooping means collecting rubbish,” Chen said. “But for me, it is about making the best use of things.” That’s why she wants to introduce the trend to others. Sometimes Chen also puts stickers on idle goods that she doesn’t need and posts pictures of them online for others to find.
Huang Xiaohe from Kunming No.1 High School loves stooping too. She’s had a hobby of keeping things since her childhood. Though the 13-year-old girl has few chances to go stooping in her city, Huang often looks for idle goods around her school. She then cleans and redesigns them, turning them into fun things at home.
“I believe that any waste can be turned into treasures,” said Huang. She also added that stooping was an action to fight over-buying.
13. What can we know about stoopers?
A. They are mainly in villages. B. They always keep up with fashion.
C. They can’t afford expensive goods. D. They try to protect environment.
14. Which of the following question isn’t answered in Paragraph 2?
A. What does Chen think of stooping? B. What has Chen collected?
C. Why did Chen start stooping? D. When did Chen start stooping?
15. The writer wrote this text to encourage people to ________.
A. keep up with fashion B. recycle and reuse idle goods
C. buy what they really need D. give useless things to others
16. According to the text, which one of the following is a real stooper?
A. Zhou Liang often collects useless things for sale in his free time.
B. Smith always tells his students to protect our environment.
C. Mina uses old clothes people no longer wear to make bags.
D. Li Jing’s mum often donates money and food to help those in need.
第二节
阅读短文,从下面所给的选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项,其中有一个多余选项。
How to Improve Your Reading
Learning how to read well in English might not be an easy task. ____17____ Reading well in English is useful for many reasons, not only for taking tests. If you want to improve your reading in English, the following are just for you!
Choose right reading materials (材料).
There are so many choices! There are textbooks and graded readers but there are also a lot more books you can read. ____18____ Here is a good rule to follow: choose reading materials where you understand at least 80% of the content (内容).
Be intentional (意图明确的).
Being intentional means doing something on purpose with a reason in mind. With reading, you need to be intentional by setting a reading aim. Decide on a certain number of pages you want to read each day. ____19____ To make sure your daily practice gets done, spare some time and put if in your study plan!
____20____
Reading can both introduce you to new vocabulary (词汇) and teach you how to use them. Many words in English are often used together in a consistent (相互连贯的) way. Reading groups of words, or words that go together, will help you better understand how to use your new vocabulary.
A. Read word groups.
B. Don’t try to understand everything.
C. Don’t choose a book that is too easy or too difficult.
D. You could also be intentional with planning a time to read.
E. But it’s something you’ll have to do on your language learning journey.
二、完形填空(共10小题,每小题1分;满分10分)
阅读短文,理解其大意,从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Henry’s mother often told him, “Haste makes waste (欲速则不达).” Henry thought differently. “Being ____21____ is good,” he replied.
One day, Henry read a storybook as soon as he got it. It was about a man selling coconuts (椰子) for a living. One day, to ____22____ more coconuts for the business, he went to a village far from his home. Soon, his wagon (货车) was ____23____. There was no room for more, so he decided to go home. Unluckily, he got lost.
Just then, a boy passed by. The man asked him for ____24____. The boy told the man the way home. When the man was about to leave, the boy said, “If you want to get home early, remember to go ____25____; if not, you will take a long time.”
Hearing the ____26____ words, the man felt angry because he thought he had been fooled (愚弄).
The man didn’t listen to the boy and drove the wagon quickly. But soon, coconuts began falling from the wagon. The man had to ____27____ to put them back. Then he drove faster to make up for the time he had wasted ____28____ coconuts. But the faster he drove, the more coconuts fell. He didn’t get home until the next morning.
“I may waste more ____29____ if I do things in a hurry,” thought Henry. He ____30____ his mother then.
21. A. quiet B. slow C. quick D. high
22. A. sell B. collect C. grow D. check
23. A. full B. broken C. small D. empty
24. A. reasons B. results C. methods D. directions
25. A. quickly B. happily C. slowly D. quietly
26. A. useful B. strange C. common D. correct
27. A. return B. wait C. agree D. stop
28. A. paying for B. looking for C. picking up D. taking away
29. A. money B. time C. food D. energy
30. A. understood B. doubted C. remembered D. changed
第二部分 非选择题(共40分)
三、语篇填空(共10小题,每小题1分;满分10分)
阅读短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给词的正确形式填空,使短文通顺、连贯。
The Shenzhou-18 manned spaceship was successfully launched at 8:59 pm ____31____ April 25th, 2024 from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in Northwest China. It marks China’s 32nd manned flight into space.
It sent three astronauts as well as nearly a hundred experimental (实验的) ____32____ (project) to the Tiangong space station. ____33____ three astronauts are Ye Guangfu, Li Cong and Li Guangsu. Ye, from the second batch (批) of Chinese astronauts, was a member of the Shenzhou-13 mission from October 2021 to April 2022. This time, he serves as the mission commander (指令长). Li Cong and Li Guangsu, from the ____34____ (three) batch of Chinese astronauts, are both newcomers to space. All three were born in the 1980s. One of the ____35____ (big) highlights of this trip is the adventure of the very first fish, which has been called by Chinese people as “the fourth member of Shenzhou-18”. The fish will be used for aquatic ecological (水生生态的) research project.
The astronauts ____36____ (spend) about six months on the space station. During ____37____ (they) stay, they will manage and care for the space station to make sure it is safe and working ____38____ (good). They will carry out a record numbers: more than 90 experiments, including microgravity (微重力) basic physics, space materials science, space life science, aerospace (航天的) medicine, ____39____ aerospace technology. And, they will conduct science popularization (普及) activities. They will also welcome the Tianzhou-8 cargo ship and the Shenzhou-19 astronauts.
The Shenzhou-18 astronauts are planned ____40____ (return) to the Dongfeng landing site in north China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region in late October this year.
四、阅读与表达(共4小题,41-43小题,每小题2分,44小题4分;满分10分)
阅读短文,然后根据内容回答问题
Nowadays, typing or texting is taking the place of the strokes (笔画) of Chinese characters (汉字). For the reason, people are paying less attention to handwriting. As a result, they can’t even remember exactly how to write a given character sometimes. This is called “character amnesia (提笔忘字)”.
To change the situation, the TV program named Chinese Character Dictation (听写) Competition came out. Meng Man, who teaches at Minzu University of China, took part in the competition as a judge (评委). “I was surprised by some competitors because I couldn’t even remember how to write certain characters. But they could,” she said. “Now many adults have trouble writing Chinese characters. This program is really great, since it draws people’s attention to this problem.”
When typing or texting, most people use a system where they type out the pinyin of a character and then get a list of all possible Chinese characters. They just need to choose the one they want from the list. The bad thing about the system is that it stops people from thinking about how a Chinese character is formed.
“Chinese characters are generally square. They teach people to be upright (正直的). Typing or texting will influence people’s understanding of the traditional culture behind the Chinese characters,” Meng said.
To solve the problem of “character amnesia”, experts suggest that people change their mobile phone texting way from pinyin to handwriting. In this way, they can avoid forgetting how to write characters.
41. Why are people paying less attention to handwriting nowadays?
__________________________________________
42. What does Meng Man do?
__________________________________________
43. What is the disadvantage of the pinyin typing system?
__________________________________________
44. Do you think it’s necessary for us to write Chinese characters every day? Why? Write 30 words or more.
__________________________________________
五、书面表达(满分20分)
45. “坚持不懈,方得始终”。你在初中生活中一直坚持的一项爱好或习惯是什么?请你根据以下提示要点用英语写一篇短文,要点如下:
(1)坚持的事;
(2)如何做的;
(3)你的收获/感想。
注意:
(1)词数80—100,开头已给出,不计入总词数;
(2)可适当增加细节,以使行文连贯;
(3)文中不能出现真实姓名及学校名称。
参考词汇:
坚持…… stick to doing …
A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence (坚持).
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2024年太平区初中学业水平检测
英语试卷(二模)
(本试卷共45小题 满分90分 考试时间90分钟)
考生注意:所有试题必须在答题卡指定区域作答,在本试卷上作答无效
第一部分 选择题(共50分)
一、阅读理解(共20小题,每小题2分;满分40分)
第一节 阅读下面语言材料,从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A
【1~4题答案】
【答案】1. B 2. C 3. D 4. C
B
【5~8题答案】
【答案】5 C 6. D 7. A 8. B
C
【9~12题答案】
【答案】9. B 10. D 11. C 12. A
D
【13~16题答案】
【答案】13. D 14. A 15. B 16. C
第二节
【17~20题答案】
【答案】17. E 18. C 19. D 20. A
二、完形填空(共10小题,每小题1分;满分10分)
【21~30题答案】
【答案】21. C 22. B 23. A 24. D 25. C 26. B 27. D 28. C 29. B 30. A
第二部分 非选择题(共40分)
三、语篇填空(共10小题,每小题1分;满分10分)
【31~40题答案】
【答案】31. on 32. projects
33. The 34. third
35. biggest
36 will spend
37. their 38. well
39. and 40. to return
四、阅读与表达(共4小题,41-43小题,每小题2分,44小题4分;满分10分)
【41~44题答案】
【答案】41. Because typing or texting is taking the place of the strokes of Chinese characters.
42. She teaches at Minzu University of China.
43. It stops people from thinking about how a Chinese character is formed.
44. Yes, I think it’s necessary. Because writing Chinese characters is an important skill for anyone learning the Chinese language. Chinese characters are not only a means of communication, but they also carry a rich cultural and historical significance.
五、书面表达(满分20分)
【45题答案】
【答案】例文
A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but because of its persistence. Good habits are important and valuable. The habit of reading plays an important role in my growth.
When I was a kid, my mother often read some stories to me which made me interested in reading. When I grew older, I began to read books. Different kinds of books help me not only open up my eyes to the outside world but also become rich in knowledge. A good book is like a teacher who guides me the way forward and helps me grow into an excellent person.
Now reading has become a part of my life. It helps me a lot.
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