知识运用（共33分）
一、单项填空。（共15分，每小题1分）
从下面各题所给的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 mother was very busy during the Spring Festival, so I helped ________ with a lot of housework.
A. her B. him C. me D. you
2. My brother loves music very much and he often goes to the concert ________ Saturday evening.
A. on B. by C. to D. in
3. Follow the teachers’ instructions, ________you may get hurt when exercising.
A. so B. or C. but D. and
4. —________ was your trip to China, Peter?
—It was exciting.
A. What B. Why C. When D. How
5. —Mr. Wang, must I hand in my writing this afternoon?
—No, you ________. You can hand it in tomorrow morning.
A. shouldn’ t B. can’ t C. wouldn’ t D. needn’ t
6. —________ is it from your home to our school?
—About 10 km.
A. How much B. How soon. C. How far D. How long
7. Kobe Bryant was one of ________ basketball players in the world.
A. good B. better C. well D. the best
8. We ________ the book sale in the school gym if it rains tomorrow.
A. were having B. had C. will have D. have had
9. Mike was watching TV while his mother ________ in the kitchen.
A. was cooking B. is cooking C. had cooked D. cooks
10. I ________ to ride a bike when I was six years old.
A. learn B. learned C. will learn D. have learned
11. John ________ as an English teacher in our school since 5 years ago.
A. has worked B. is working C. works D. worked
12. Tom ________ basketball with his friends every weekend.
A. play B. played C. plays D. has played
13. It is really a great movie. I ________ it several times.
A. see B. saw C. will see D. have seen
14. Now, the Spring Festival ________ by more people in many countries.
A. celebrates B. celebrated C. is celebrated D. was celebrated
15. —Your new dress looks so cool! Can you tell me________?
—Oh, yes. I bought it at Hualian Shopping Mall.
A. where will you buy it B. where you will buy it
C. where did you buy it D. where you bought it
二、完形填空。（共18分，每小题1.5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。
While I was waiting to enter university, I was looking for a part-time job. One day I saw in a newspaper a __16__ wanted at school ten miles from where I lived. Being very short of __17__ and wanting to do something useful, I applied. Fearing that I had no degree and no __18__ of teaching, I thought my chances of getting the job were slight.
However, three days later, a letter __19__, calling me to Croydon for a（an）__20__ with the headmaster. It proved to be a __21__ journey: a train to Croydon station, a ten-minute bus ride and then a walk of at __22__ a quarter of a mile. As a result, I arrived there, feeling too hot to be nervous. It was clearly the headmaster himself that opened the door. He was short and round, looking like a potato.
“The school,” he said, “is made up of one class of twenty-four boys between seven and thirteen.” I should have to teach all the subjects __23__ art, which he taught himself. I should have to divide the class into three groups and teach them at three different levels, and I was __24__ at the thought of teaching math-a subject at which I wasn’t good at school. __25__ perhaps was the idea of having to teach them on Saturday afternoon because most of my friends would be __26__ themselves at that leisure time.
__27__ I had time to ask about my salary, he got up to his feet. “Now,” he said, “you’d better meet my wife. She is the one who really runs this school.”
16. A. teacher B. student C. librarian D. headmaster
17. A. time B. money C. ability D. energy
18. A. interest B. material C. experience D. method
19. A. arrived B. finished C. returned D. wrote
20. A. survey B. interview C. report D. tour
21. A. comfortable B. difficult C. pleasant D. short
22. A. first B. last C. least D. most
23. A. from B. without C. besides D. except
24. A. excited B. disappointed C. surprised D. delighted
25. A. Curious B. Anxious C. Further D. Worse
26. A. enjoying B. helping C. expressing D. devoting
27. A. Before B. Until C. After D. When
阅读理解（共34分）
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共24分，每小题2分）
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The Weekend By Rosie | June 6, 2016 Hi! I’m on vacation here in London. . . and it’s fantastic! On Saturday I was in the British Museum for three hours. On Sunday I visited Tower Bridge. Where were you over the weekend? Tell me your news! | ||
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| Sophia · 9:30 Glad you’re having a great vacation. I was in the Summer Palace in Beijing on Saturday. I was there for a flower show. It was amazing! And there were lots of people. But on Sunday it was rainy and I wasn’t very well. I stayed in bed for a whole day ● Replay ●Share | |
| Steve · 10:10 It was cloudy the whole weekend in Paris. On Saturday I was at a football game with my classmates. It was exciting! On Sunday I was at the shops with Ann for four hours. ● Replay ● Share | |
| Jack · 11:00 I wasn’t at home over the weekend. On Saturday I was in Scotland for a trip. It was a lovely, warm day and I had a picnic with friends. It was great! Sunday was boring. It took me five hours to get back home. It was a long journey. ● Replay ● Share | |
| Kate · 11:20 On Saturday I was at Heathrow Airport. I met a friend there and we talked together for two hours. I was very happy. On Saturday I was in Sydney for a concert. By the way, the season here is different from yours. It’s winter now, and it is really windy and cold! ● Replay ●Share | |
28. On Saturday Sophia was _______.
A. in the Summer Palace B. in the British Museum
C. at Tower Bridge D. at Heathrow Airport
29. How long did it take Jack to get back home?
A. Three hours. B. Four hours. C. Five hours. D. Six hours.
30. Who lives in the country where the season is different from the others’?
A. Sophia. B. Steve. C. Jack. D. Kate.
B
For Sparky, school was all but impossible. He failed every subject in the eighth grade. He didn’t do much better in sports. Although he played for the school’s golf team, he lost the only important match of the season.
Sparky was a loser. He, his classmates… everyone knew it. Sparky never asked a classmate to go out in high school. He was too afraid of being refused.
However, one thing was important to Sparky- drawing. He was proud of his artwork. Of course, no one else appreciated it. In his senior year of high school, he sent some cartoons to the editors of the Yearbook. Although the cartoons were turned down, Sparky was so confident about his ability that he decided to become an artist.
After completing high school, he wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios. He was told to send some samples of his artwork, and the subject for a cartoon was suggested. Sparky spent a great deal of time on it. Finally, the reply came from Disney Studios. He had been rejected（拒绝）once again. Another loss for the loser.
So Sparky decided to write his own autobiography（自传）in cartoons. He described his childhood- a little boy loser and underachiever. The cartoon character would soon become famous worldwide. For Sparky, the boy who had little success in school and whose work was rejected again and again was Charles Schulz. He created the Peanuts comic strip（连环漫画）and little cartoon character-Charlie Brown.
31. We can know that Sparky was _______ from the first paragraph.
A. a top student B. an artist C. a good player D. a failure
32. Sparky never asked a classmate to go out because he ______.
A. had never been invited B. didn’t like making friends
C. didn’t want to be refused D. was afraid of making mistakes
33. What’s Sparky’s success according to the passage?
A. He was good at golf playing.
B. He wrote a letter to Walt Disney Studios.
C. He drew some cartoons for the Yearbook.
D. His Peanuts comic strip became world famous.
C
“Sleep-disordered breathing（SDB）” is a term for a group of conditions that can influence normal breathing while people sleep These include snoring（打鼾）, mouth-breathing and sleep apnea（呼吸暂停）. Sleep-disordered breathing can do more than just leave people feeling tired the next day. It can also have an effect on people’s health. In children the effects can include behavioral and emotional problems.
In a new study, researchers asked parents about their children’s breathing from when they were babies up to about age six. The study involved about eleven thousand children.
Karen Bonuck at the Einstein College of Medicine in New York led the study. She says, “The central finding overall is that sleep-disordered breathing is connected with a fifty percent increase in adverse neurobehavioral（不利的神经行为）outcomes.” She adds that the more serious the breathing problems, the more serious the behavioral issues were likely to be. Other studies have linked sleep with children’s behavior, but this study could be able to reject（排除）other possible causes.
The study appears in the journal Pediatrics. It’s estimated one child in ten snores regularly. A smaller number suffer（遭受）from other sleep-disordered breathing.
How well do you sleep? A popular belief is that sleep gets worse with age. But, in another new study, those who reported the fewest problems with the quality of their sleep were people in their eighties.
Researchers did a telephone survey of more than one hundred fifty thousand American adults. Michael Grandner at the University of Pennsylvania medical school says the starting goal was to prove that aging is connected with increased sleep problems.
The survey did find an increase during middle age, worse in women than men. But except for that, people reported that their sleep quality improved as they got older. At least they felt it did.
Mr. Grandner says, “Even if sleep among older Americans is actually worse than in younger adults, feelings about it still improve with age.”
The findings appear in the journal Sleep. In the study, health problems and sadness were linked with poor sleep. Also, women reported more sleep disturbances and tiredness than men.
But, based on the study, Mr. Grandner says older people who are not sick or depressed should be reporting better sleep. “If they’re not, they need to talk to their doctor. They shouldn’t just take no notice of it,” he says. Nor should their doctor turn a blind eye to it. He says doctors generally dismiss sleep complaints from older adults as a normal part of aging.
34. From the passage we can learn that ________.
A. middle-aged men have more sleep problems than women
B. the older people get, the better the quality of sleep will be
C. doctors don’t take sleep complaints from older adults seriously
D. children suffer more mouth-breathing than other SDB conditions
35. The telephone survey showed that ________.
A. Older Americans’ sleep quality improved with age
B. older Americans had better sleep than younger adults
C. people in their eighties had the most sleep problems
D. men had more sleep problems than women
36. What’ s the best title for the passage?
A. Who sleeps Well, who lives Well
B. Who Sleeps Better, the Young or the Old?
C. New Findings on Sleep in Children, Older Adults
D. New Findings on Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Health
D
If you could be anybody in the world, who would it be? Your neighbour or a super star? A few people have experienced what it might be like to step into the skin of another person, thanks to an unusual virtual reality（虚拟现实）device. Rikke Wahl, an actress, model and artist, was one of the participants in a body swapping experiment at the Be Another lab, a project developed by a group of artists based in Barcelona. She swapped with her partner, an actor, using a machine called The Machine to Be Another and temporarily became a man. “As I looked down, I saw my whole body as a man, dressed in my partner’s pants,” she said. “That’s the picture I remember best.”
The set-up is relatively simple. Both users wear a virtual reality headset with a camera on the top. The video from each camera is sent to the other person, so what you see is the exact view of your partner. If she moves her arm, you see it. If you move your arm, she sees it.
To get used to seeing another person’s body without actually having control of it, participants start by raising their arms and legs very slowly, so that the other can follow along. Eventually, this kind of slow synchronized（同步的）movement becomes comfortable, and participants really start to feel as though they are living in another person’s body.
Using such technology promises to alter people’s behaviour afterwards- potentially for the better. Studies have shown that virtual reality can be effective in fighting racism- the bias（偏见）that humans have against those who don’t look or sound like them. Researchers at the University of Barcelona gave people a questionnaire called the Implicit Association Test, which measures the strength of people’s associations between, for instance, black people and adjectives such as good, bad, athletic or awkward. Then they asked them to control the body of a dark-skinned digital character using virtual reality glasses, before taking the test again. This time, the participants’ bias scores were lower. The idea is that once you’ve “put yourself in another’s shoes” you’re less likely to think ill of them, because your brain has internalized the feeling of being that person.
The creators of The Machine to Be Another hope to achieve a similar result. “At the end of body swapping, people feel like holding each other in their arms,” says Arthur Pointeau, a programmer with the project. “It’ s a really nice way to have this kind of experience. I would really, really recommend it to everyone.”
37. The word “swapping”（Paragraph 1）is closest in meaning to _______.
A. building B. exchanging C. controlling D. transplanting
38. We can infer from the experiment at the Be Another lab that _______.
A. our feelings are related to our bodily experience
B. we can learn to take control of other people’s bodies
C. participants will live more passionately after the experiment
D. The Machine to Be Another can help people change their sexes
39. It can be concluded from the passage that _______.
A. technology helps people realize their dreams
B. our biases could be eliminated through experiments
C. virtual reality helps promote understanding among people
D. our points of view about others need changing constantly
四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共10分，每小题2分）
In November of 1995, Leslie was working for the Department of Social Services in North Carolina. Her job is to take children out of dangerous home situations and place them in foster homes（寄养家庭）. During her first such task, Leslie saw that the children she had come to pick up were carrying all of their things in plastic bags They didn’t have suitcases（手提箱）for their clothes. Wanting to help these children, Leslie asked her mother if she could have the family’s old suitcases to give to them.
Leslie’s 10-year-old sister Abby asked how many foster children there were in the area and found out that there were 300. Most of those children had to carry their things from place to place in plastic bags. Leslie’s care and the thought of those 300 children made young Abby take action. Abby decided to ask people to give away their old suitcases to these foster children. She began making and hanging posters, speaking at churches, and asking other children for help. But after a few weeks, she had not received any ones. Abby decided to buy some suitcases with her mother’s help. That’s how Abby Burnside set up her program, Suitcases for Kids. By March of 1996, Suitcases for Kids had collected and sent 175 suitcases to the foster children.
Finally, Abby’s efforts were noticed by the media. Her story was in newspapers and magazines and Abby appeared on popular television shows. As the story became known, Abby’s local chapter（分支机构）received more and more suitcases, until it collected 4,000 suitcases in 1996. Soon, Abby was traveling to different states to help set up new Suitcases for Kids chapters. By the end of 1996, there were Suitcases for Kids chapters in 19 different states. After two full years, Suitcases for Kids had set up chapters in all 50 states. By its sixth year, the little organization reached international attention, having chapters in more than ten countries. Now thousands of children around the world can carry their things in suitcases instead of plastic bags just because a 10-year-old girl decided one day that she just wanted to help.
40. Was Leslie’s work to help the foster children?
41. What did the children use to carry their things at first?
42. Why did Abby decide to take action?
43. In which year did each state have Abby’s chapters?
44. What made Abby help the children successfully?
五、语法填空。（共18分，每小题1.5分）
阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容填空。在未给提示词的空白处仅填写一个适当的单词，在给出提示词的空白处用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。
A
Today almost everyone knows computers and the Internet. __45__ I ask you “What is the most important in your life?”, maybe you will say “Computers and the Internet”.
The first computer was made in 1946. It was very big but it worked slowly. Today computers are getting smaller and smaller. But __46__ work faster and faster. What can computers do? A writer has said, “People can’t live __47__ computers today.”
The Internet came a little later than computers. It is about twenty-three years later than computers. But now it can be __48__（find）almost everywhere. We can use it to read books, write letters, do shopping, play games or make friends.
Many students like the Internet very much. They often surf the Internet as soon as they are free. They make friends on the Internet and maybe they have never seen these friends. They don’t know their real names, ages, and even sex. They are so __49__（interest）in making the “unreal friends” that they can’t put their hearts into study. Many of them can’t catch up with others on many subjects __50__ of that.
We can use computers and the Internet to learn more about the world. But at the same time, we should remember that not all the things can be done by computers and the Internet.
B
About ten years __51__ when I was at university, I worked at my university’s museum. One day when I was working in the gift shop, I saw two old people come in with a little girl in a wheelchair（轮椅）.
As I looked closer at this girl, I realized she had no arms __52__ legs, just a head, neck and body. She was wearing a little white dress. When the old people pushed her up to me, I was looking down at the desk. I turned my head and gave her a smile. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, the __53__（happy）smile I had ever seen.
Just at that __54__, her physical handicap（生理缺陷）was gone. All I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just impressed me and almost gave me a completely new idea of __55__ life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy university student and brought me into her world, a world of smiles and love.
I’m a successful business person now and whenever I feel frustrated and think about the trouble of the world, I will think of that little girl and the unusual lesson about life that she __56__（teach）me.
六、文段表达。（15分）
57. 从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的文段写作。
文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
题目①
假如你是李华，你的澳大利亚朋友Peter对中医很感兴趣。请你用英语写一封电子邮件，邀请他参加即将在你校举办的“传统中医进校园“宣传日活动。告知他活动举办的具体时间和地点，以及活动的主要内容：中医知识讲座，传统中医发展展览，电影《孙思邈》。
提示词语：Traditional Chinese Medicine Day, lecture, exhibition, have a better understanding of
提示问题：When and where will the activity be held?
What are the main parts of the activity?
Dear Peter,
I’m very glad to know that you’re interested in Chinese medicine. _______________
____________________________________________________________________
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题目②
俗话说：“人无完人。“但每个人都有自己的独特之处，人生就是一次自我完善、自我超越的旅程。正如法国作家雨果所说：“进步，才是人应该有的现象。”
回首三年的初中时光，你在学习和生活中一定取得了不少的进步，比如知识累积、生活技能、人际交往、体育锻炼、良好习惯等方面。请你以自己的经历为例，讲讲自己取得进步的故事和感想。
提示词语：used to do/be, try one’s best to, make progress in, be proud of
提示问题：What did you do to improve yourself?
How did you feel about your improvement?
No one is perfect, but everyone can be special. ______________________________________
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参考答案
一、1. A 2. A 3. B 4. D 5. D 6. C 7. D 8. C 9. A 10. B
11. A 2. C 3. D 14. C 15. D
二、16. A 17. B 18. C 19. A 20. B 21. B 22. C 23. D 24. B
25. D 26. A 27. A
三、28. A 29. C 30. D 31. D 32. C 33. D 34. C 35. A 36. C 37. B 38. A 39. C
四、40. Yes.
41. Plastic bags.
42. Because of Leslie’s care and the thought of those 300 children.
43. In1998.
44. Her efforts, determination and the help of the media and other people.
五、45. If/When 46. they 47. without 48. found 49. interested 50. because
51. ago 52. or 53. happiest 54. moment/time/point 55. what 56. Taught
六、略