circlet2021年1月北京朝阳初二(上)期末英语试卷及答案(纯净版)

2021年1月20日发(作者：hazing)
心有多大，舞台就有多大

2021
北京朝阳初二（上）期末

英

语
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选用
)
2021.1
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考试时间
90
分钟

满分
60
分
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学校：
____________
班级：
_____ _______
姓名：
____________
考号：
_________ ___
考
生
须
知

1.
本试卷共
8
页，在试卷和答题卡上准确填写学校名称、班级、姓名和考号

2
试题答案一律填涂或书写在答题卡上
,
在试卷上作答无效。

3
在答题卡上
,
选择题用
2B
铅笔作答
,
其他试题用黑色字迹签字笔作答。

4
考试结束
,
将本试卷和等题卡一并交回

知识运用
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共
14
分
)
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.
—
Hi, Peter. Is this your bike?
—
Oh, yes. It's ______. It's a birthday gift from my parents
A. yours

B. mine


C. his


D. hers
2. I really want to go back to my hometown, _______I don't have time.
A. but

B. and


C. or


D. as
3. The little children often play games ______the playground after school.
A. with

B. for


C. on


D. from
4. --_____is the population of China? -- About 1.37 billion.
A. Where

B. Who


C. What

D. When
5.
—
Can you stay here for the party?
—
Sorry. I ______ . I have to go to a meeting.
A. can't

B. mustn't

C. needn't

D. shouldn't
6. Travelling by car is______ than by coach, but is faster.
A. expensive
B. more expensive
C. most expensive
D. the most expensive
7. Changjiang River is______ river in China.
A. long

B. longer

C. longest

D. the longest
brother _____ exercise every day and he likes sports very much.

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A. does

B. did


C. will do

D. is doing
9.
—
What did you do yesterday evening?
—
I_____ a kite for my little sister.
A. made

B. make

C. will make

D. is making
10.
—
What are you going to do this winter holiday?
—
I _____ my aunt in Sichuan Province.
A. visit

B. am going to visit
C. visited

D. was visiting
11. My mother _____ when I got home yesterday.
A. cooks

B. will cook

C. cooked

D. was cooking
12. The teacher asks us _____ loudly in class so that everyone can hear.
A. speaking
B. speaks

C. to speak

D. speak
二、完形填空
(
共
8
分
,
每小题
1
分
)
通读下面的短文
,
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。

Facing Challenges (
挑战
)in Life
Once a teacher called Henny asked to two student to have a test at a track (
小道
) near a forest. He said. “You both need
to start here and 13 the end of the track. How you finish this test will probably change the result of your test next week.
Both of them started together. After a while the two students saw that the track went into two paths. The first student
decided 14 the clearer path which was easier to go down. And the second student chose the 15 which was not so easy
because there were fallen trees and other obstales(
障碍
).
The first student finished first. He felt he was smart(
聪明的
) because he came first and finished the test 16 . It took the
second student a while to reach the end because he had to go through all obstacles.
The first student proudly said,
The next week , the two students and Henry met near a ravine(
沟壑
).
Henry said,
was too 18 to jump because he never did that before while the second student remembered how he jumped across wide
gaps(
缺口
)in the last test. He successfully jumped to the other side!
After completing the test. Henry said to the first student.
were cleverer and it was easier for you to complete that test, but you lost the 20 to get prepared for more difficult test.
13. A. check
14. A. tidy
15. A. end
16. A. easily




B. solve
B. build
B. forest
B. carelessly




C. reach
C. climb
C. path
C. sadly

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D. describe
D. follow
D. side
D. anprily
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17. A. put
18. A. brave


B. keep

B. afraid
B. chose
B. problem




C. calm

C. clever
C. showed
C. service




D. slow
D. shy
D. developed
D. mind
19. A. offered

20. A. chance

阅读理解
(
共
36
分
)
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给出的
A,B,C,D
四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共
26
分，每
小题
2
分）

A

New Year Celebrations
People around the world celebrate the New Year at different times of the year and in different ways. Some people
celebrate with parties. Other people might have interesting and sometimes strange traditions.
North America
In the United States, people watch special football games on New Year's Day 10 celebrate the coming of the new
year. ln New York City, a lot of people come together to count down the last seconds of the year. At midnight, the
crowds cheer and they set off fireworks (
烟火
).
South America
Eating twelve grapes(
葡萄
) on New Year's Eve is a tradition in South America. Each grape stands for one month of
the coming year. It's good luck to eat all twelve during the last twelve seconds of the year. In many places. people wear
yellow clothes because yellow is the color of gold.
Europe
In Denmark, people smash (
粉碎
)old and broken dishes. They think this will bring them good luck in the New Year.
In Greece, people make a special cake with a coin (
硬币
) in it. If you get the piece of cake with the coin, you will have
luck in the coming year!
Asia
In parts of Southeast Asia, people celebrate the New Year in late March or mid-April. This is the end of the dry
season. It's a very hot time of year -a time for water festivals! People think water will bring them good luck.
21. In the United States, people ________ to celebrate the New Year.
A. clean the house

C. make a special cake


B watch special football games
D. smash old and broken dishes
22. Eating twelve grapes on New Year's Eve is a tradition in
A. North America

B. Europe

C. South America

D. Asia
23. People in Southeast Asia believe that _________ will bring them good luck.

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A. yellow clothes

B. fireworks

C. water
B



D. coins
Harry and Annie lived far from town, but they went there to school every day. On their way to school, there was a
pond. In winter when the ice was thick and hard, they walked across the pond. But their mother did not like them to do this
because it could be dangerous . “Don't go across the pond today.” She said while she was kissing them goodbye one
morning. “It is beginning to thaw.

“All right, mother,” said Harry, not very happily because he enjoyed running and sliding on the ice. When they came to
the pond, the ice look
ed hard and safe. Harry said to his sister. “I knew it didn't thaw at all. Mother is always afraid we will
drown. Come on, let’s have a good time sliding. The school bell will not ring for an hour.”



only said. ‘ All right, ‘ and it is all right.


So they stepped on the ice and started to go across the pond. They did not go far when the ice broke, and they fell into
the water.
A man who was at work nearby saw them and jumped into the water to save them. Harry got out of the ice water
himself, but poor Annie almost drowned before the man could reach her.
Harry and Annie went home almost, frozen. They told their mother the truth and how much they regretted not listening
to her. They remembered the lesson learned that day as long as they lived.
24. One morning Harry and Annie's mother told them not to _________ .
A. play after school

C. be late for school



B. talk to the others
D. go across the pond
25. When Harry and Annie came to the pond ____________ .
A. the school bell rang

B. the ice began to break
D. the ice looked hard and safe
C. a man jumped into the water
26. Harry and Annie regretted very much because _____________ .
A. they didn't promise the man
C. they didn't listen to their mother
B. they didn't remember the lesson
D. they didn't tell their mother the truth
C

I Will Think of It

ome from thinking? We cannot see
our thoughts, or hear, or taste, or feel them, and yet they have great power.
Sir Isaac Newton was sitting in his garden on a summer evening when he saw an apple fall from a tree. He began to
think. While tying Lo find out why the apple fell, he discovered how the earth, sun, moon, and stars are kept in their places.
When a boy named James Walt watched the lid of the tea kettle moving up and down, he began to think. He wanted to find

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out why the steam in the kettle moved the heavy lid. From that time. he went out thinking and thinking, and when he
became a man, he improved the steam engine so much that it could do the work of many horses easily.
A young man named Galileo was once standing in a big hall when he saw a chandelier moving back and forth. This set
him thinking, and it led to the invention of the pendulum.
James Ferguson was a poor boy. Once, seeing the inside of a watch, he started
to wonder. “I should make a clock,” he thought. But how could he get what he
needed to make the clock? He thought
and thought. Then he found out be could make the mainspring out of a piece of whalebone. Soon he made a wooden clock.
When he became a man, he went to London to live and made a lot of speeches there. Some of the smarted men in England
listened to his speeches, his motto was, “I will think of it,” and he made his thoughts useful to himself and the world.

When you have a difficult lesson to learn, don't feel discouraged. Think; and by thinking you will learn how to think to
some purpose.
27. Sir Isaac Newton discovered how the earth, sun, mon, and star are kept in their places when _________ .
A. he tried to find out why the apple fell
B. he saw a chandelier moving back and forth
C. he found out he could make a wooden clock
D. be watched the lid of the tea kettle moving up and down х

28. What do you know about James Ferguson from the passage?
A. He invented the pendulum and tea kettle.
B. He liked listening to the famous men's speeches.
C. He was from a rich family and grew up in London.
D. He used a piece of whalebone to make the mainspring of a clock.
29. What is the writer's main purpose in writing the passage?
A. To encourage people to think more.
B. To offer some advice on how to think.
C. To show how great the four people are.
D. To introduce the four peoples experiences.
D

Now few businesses can run without computers. School even offer lessons for their students to learn to write on
computers. But what are we giving up am handwriting loses in importance in society?
Researchers from Princeton University studied two group of students. One group wrote out their notes in class while
the other typed them with a computer. In order to show the differences between the two groups, researchers tested both
groups of students 30 minutes after a lesson, and again a week later.
The results showed that both group did well in the first lest. But students with the handwritten notes were able to better
remember and understand the lesson a week later, and were more open to new ideas

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