外研社英语初二上课文完型

外研社英语初二上课文完型

初二年级英语单词测试 (复赛)‎ 班级_________ 姓名_________ 学号_________ 成绩_________‎ 一、完型（共60分）‎ M10 The weather The USA is a very big country to visit, so ___1___ the places to see and the time to go. Bring a good ___2___ because you may want to travel around.‎ ‎ New York and Washington D.C. are good places to visit in May or October. It’s not too ___3___ then. In winter there’s a lot of snow.‎ ‎ The best plan is to ___4___ in New England in September. The weather starts to get cooler and the green leaves start to ___5___. It’s a good idea to bring your camera because you may want to take photos ___6___ the autumn leaves.‎ ‎ 4,000 kilometres away in Los Angeles, California, the weather is fine all year. It’s nice to see ___7___ in December! Bring your swimsuit because you might want to swim in the sea.‎ ‎ In the northwest, it isn’t very cold, but there’s a lot of rain, ___8___ bring an umbrella. It’s pleasant to visit Alaska in July and August but it might be cool in the evening. So remember to wear some warm clothes. ___9___ in winter. It’ll be dark all day and freezing cold.‎ ‎ In Texas and the southeast, there are storms from time to time in summer and fall. It’s usually very hot and sunny ___10___ to many other places.‎ 1. A. chosen carefully B. choose carefully ‎ ‎ C. choosing careful D. choose careful ‎2. A. guide B. car C. compass D. map ‎3. A. cold B. cool C. hot D. warm ‎4. A. to reach B. to arrive C. arrive D. reach ‎5. A. turn green B. turn gold C. change green D. change gold ‎6. A. of B. for C. at D. on ‎7. A. the movie stars B. Mickey Mouse C. the beaches D. the Sun ‎8. A. so B. so as C. so that D. because ‎9. A. And come B. But come C. And don’t coming D. But don’t come ‎10. A. compare B. comparing C. compared D. to compare M7 A famous story Alice was getting very ___11____. She was sitting with her sister beside the river and her sister was reading a book. Alice had ____12___ to do. Once or twice she ____13___ into her sister’s book, but it had no pictures ____14___ conversations in it. “And what is a book for,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?”‎ So she was ____15___ making a daisy chain when suddenly a white rabbit with pink eyes ran by her. ‎ There was nothing strange about that. And she didn’t think it was strange when she heard the 5‎ ‎ rabbit ____16___, “Oh dear! Oh dear! I’ll be late!” But when the rabbit took a watch out of its pocket and ____17___ at it, Alice got up. A rabbit with a pocket and a watch? She ran across the field after it. She saw it go down a large rabbit hole ___18____ the ground. ____19___ Alice went down after it and never thought about ___20____ she was going to get out again.‎ ‎11. A. tire B. tired C. tiring D. tires ‎12. A. something B. anything C. nothing D. everything ‎13. A. read B. looked C. saw D. watched ‎14. A. and B. but C. nor D. or ‎15. A. thinking B. thinking of C. thinking out D. thinking over ‎16. A. speak B. tell C. say D. talk ‎17. A. look B. looked C. looking D. looks ‎18. A. in B. on C. over D. above ‎19. A. When B. Because C. Then D. As ‎20. A. why B. where C. what D. how M5 Laoshe Teahouse Lao She wrote Teahouse in 1957. The play shows the audience life in China ___21___ 1898 and 1945. It ___22___in a teahouse in old Beijing and it tells us the story of Wang Lifa and his ___23___. It asks us to see the teahouse as the centre of the neighborhood. Finally, it says goodbye to old Beijing and its people.‎ The story starts in 1898 during the Qing Dynasty It ___24___ in 1916, and finally, it brings the audience to the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945. After the war, Wang ___25___ the teahouse and he dies Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. His parents ___26___ him to the Teacher's School in Beijing and he learned to teach. From 1924 to 1929 he taught Chinese to the English in London. He wrote many plays, novels and short stories. He was ___27___ a " People's Artist " and a "Great Master of Language ". He was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century.‎ In Lao She's Teahouse today, customers ___28___ tea and eat delicious Beijing food. If you like Beijing Opera, folk music, acrobatics or magic shows, you can ___29___ them in the teahouse. Lao She's Teahouse gives a warm ___30___ to everyone.‎ ‎21. A.from B. during C. both D. between ‎ ‎22. A. happen B. happened C. takes place D. took place ‎23. A. guests B. friends C.workers D. customers ‎24. A. ends B. continues C. happens D. gets ‎25. A. sells B. gives C. loses D. gets ‎26. A. let B. asked C. allowed D. sent ‎27. A. taught B. provided C. sent D. named ‎28. A. take B.drink C. bring D. carry ‎29. A. listen to B. see C. enjoy D. watch 5‎ ‎30. A. view B. place C. play D. Welcome 二、阅读（共20分）‎ A ‎31. How long was the drive going to take according to their plan?‎ ‎ A. One day B. Four days C. Half a month D. Two months ‎32. Which would be the best title for this passage?‎ A. An unusual experience B. My Australian meeting C. On the way to Australia D. A clever kangaroo B Today’s Women ‎ People like to say: “The hand that rocks the cradle (摇篮) rules the world.” Or they say: “Behind every successful man, there is a woman.”‎ Now some women still like making their husbands and sons successful. But some women want more for themselves. They want to be successful as men.‎ Today the best jobs are still given to men. Even when women do the same work, they are often paid less than men. Some women want these things changed. They want to stand beside the men, with the same chances for success.‎ Now many American women are earning money outside their homes. More than half of the women at the age of eighteen to sixty-five have good jobs. In general, working women have more education than those who stay at home.‎ Among women with jobs, eight out of ten drive a car to work, and most of them often spend their holidays away from home. They like traveling by air. Women’s work had made several changes 5‎ ‎ in women’s lives and in men’s lives, too.‎ But things are quite different from those in the Middle East countries.‎ In the Middle East countries, women have to stay at home. Their duty is to look after their families and do all the housework. They can’t find work outside. When they go out in public, they cover their faces with something and walk behind their husbands.‎ For the past few years the women’s life has been changing in those countries. Many women want to play an active role in the society. Though working gives them few chances of getting married, many men still want to marry them in the old ways.‎ ‎33. More and more women want to get jobs because______________.‎ ‎ A. they don’t want to stand behind their husbands in the street ‎ B. they think they are more important than men ‎ C. they think they are as important as men D. housework troubles them too much ‎34. Some women are still badly paid___________.‎ ‎ A. because women want more money B.  because of the old ways of thinking ‎ C. because women can’t do as well as men do D. but we don’t know why ‎35. From this passage we know ___________.‎ ‎ A. women have the same rights as men today B. women don’t want to work outside their homes ‎ C. more and more women want to play an active role in their countries ‎ D. in the Middle East countries all the women stay at home C ‎36. The passage is written mainly about _______.‎ A. the importance of the test B. the rules of the test C. the functions of the test D. the results of the test 5‎ ‎37. If a student uses his mobile phone during the break, he will ______.‎ ‎ A. be dismissed and get no score at all. B. be asked to turn it off and continue testing ‎ C. be asked to stay in the test room for a long time ‎ D. be ordered to remove the test materials from the test room ‎38. When a student finishes testing before time is called, the right order of what to do is _____.‎ ‎ ① close the cover ② review the work on the test ‎ ③ place the answer document inside the test booklet ‎ ④ sit quietly until the teacher tells you what to do next ‎ A. ②①③④ B. ④②①③ C. ②③①④ D. ③②④①‎ ‎39. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?‎ ‎ A. Clocks can sound to tell students time during testing ‎ B. Students can walk out of the building during the break ‎ C. It’s possible for students to make up the time they miss ‎ D. Students can’t go to the restroom during testing without permission ‎40. What do we know from the passage?‎ ‎ A. No rules are listed for the break ‎ ‎ B. A student can raise his hand to ask questions during testing ‎ C. Only the answer document needs to be handed in before leaving ‎ D. It’s useless for a student to understand prohibited behaviors before testing 三、常识题（共20分）‎ ‎41. The River Thames is in __________‎ A. the US B. the UK C. Australia D. Canada ‎42. The most popular sport in America is _______‎ A. Football B. Basketball C. Baseball ‎43. What the Englishmen usually talk about in their daily life is _____.‎ A. price B. tax C. weather D. Sports ‎44. The popular foods in America include the following except ____.‎ A. hamburgers B. hot dogs C. bread D. Rice ‎45. The British people usually have a small quantity of _____ as a first course.‎ A. soup B. sweet C. Vegetable ‎46. What’s the Chinese for “six of one and half a dozen of the other?”‎ ‎ A. 六分之一 B. 人云亦云 C.半斤八两 D.见一面分一半 ‎47. What three letters turn a girl into a woman?‎ A.SUN B. DAB C. EYE D.AGE ‎49. We don’t want it. It’s “a white elephant.” What is it?‎ ‎ A. 一件无用而累的东西 B.一头白象 C. 白给的东西 D. 白色陷阱 ‎50. What’s too much for two and just right for one?‎ ‎ A. Time B. A secret C. friend D. A room ‎ 　　‎ 5‎