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北京二中教育集团 2021-2022 学年度第一学期初三英语
期中考试试卷
一、单项选择。（每小题 0.5 分，共 6 分）
从下面各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择可以填入空自处的最佳选项。
1. Peter's sister is a manager and ________works in a big company.
A. he B. she C. his D. her
2. We often have a family meeting ________ Monday evenings.
A. on B. of C. in D. at
3. —________does your mother go to the supermarket?
—Once a week.
A. How often B. How long C. How far D. How soon
4. I called Jim last night, ________ he didn’t answer the phone.
A. for B. and C. but D. or
5. In order to catch up with her classmates, Lily works ________ than before.
A. hard B. harder C. hardest D. the hardest
6. David, you ________ take your umbrella. It is not raining.
A. needn’t B. can’t C. mustn’t D. might not
7. —Tom, hurry up! We ________ for you.
—Just one minute.
A. wait B. waited C. are waiting D. have waited
8. If there ________ anything I can do to help, please let me know.
A. is B. will be C. was D. has been
9. Mr. Johnson met an old friend when he ________ down the street.
A. walks B. is walking C. will walk D. was walking
10. I ________ that movie several times, and I still want to see it again.
A. see B. saw C. am seeing D. have seen
11. Patients ________ good care of when they stay in hospital.
A. take B. took C. are taken D. were taken
12. —Can you tell me ________ last summer vacation?
—Sure, I went to Shanghai.
A. where did you go B. where you went C. where will you go D. where you will go
学科网（北京）股份有限公司二、完形填空。（每小题 1 分，共 8 分）
阅读短文，掌握其大意，然后从A, B, C, D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
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After school on Friday I waited at the school gate to walk home with Jemma as usual. Then I saw her
talking and laughing happily with some other girls, She glanced(瞥了一眼)at me and left me alone there. I knew
right then that I had ___13___ my best friend.
After dinner, Mom asked, “Is Jemma coming by tomorrow?” I shrugged(耸肩)and said nothing. The next
morning, Mom asked, “Today is ___14___. What are you and Jemma going to do?” I shrugged again. “How is
Jemma?” Mom took a look at me. Then she said, “Will you take these magazines to Grandma, please?” As I walked
down the street a new girl in the neighborhood came towards me, smiling. But I just went ___15___ her. Grandma
welcomed me at the door with a warm hug.
Sitting on the sofa, I noticed a(n) ___16___ of kids in old-fashioned clothes on the table. Grandma
___17___ at a girl with short fair hair. “That’s Beth Lambert” she said, “My best friend. Until a week before we
took this photo” I was surprised at that, “Beth and I were best friends on school. We did everything together. Then
one day, she made new friends and she didn’t want to hang out with me any mere. Nothing ___18___ more than
that.” I didn’t say anything. I couldn’t. I knew I’d start crying if I opened my mouth.
Grandma hugged me again. “Simone, sometimes friends grow ___19___. It might happen to anyone,” the
continued. “Then, see him?” Grandma’s finger moved to a boy with glasses in the photo. “He lived near me. When
I was walking home by myself. I said ‘hello’ to him. And we became friends.”
“So if we want to start a new friendship,” she smiled, “One ___20___ is all it took.”
As I was heading home, that new girl appeared again. I went toward her and spoke “Hello”.
13. A. lost B. made C. hurt D. forgotten
14. A. Monday B. Friday C. Saturday D. Sunday
15. A. to B. for C. against D. past
16. A. card B. photo C. poster D. advertisement
17. A. shouted B. smiled C. carried D. pointed
18. A. hurt B. encouraged C. moved D. helped
19. A. old B. separate C. strong D. close
20. A. hug B. smile C. word D. question
三、阅读理解。（每题2 分，共 26 分）
从短文后各题所给的四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Which will you take part in?
Here is a guide to the largest and most popular yearly cultural celebrations in different places.Maybe you
学科网（北京）股份有限公司will be interested in some of them.
Alice’s Day Festival,Oxford,England
Each year on the first Saturday of July, mad batters can join the festivals celebrating Alice’s Adventures in
Wonderland in Oxford. Dress up as favorite characters,take a walk through the story’s history,and feel the city
that inspired Lewis Carroll’s classic children’s tale.
Smithsonian Folk Life Festival,Washington D.C, America
May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month— a celebration of Asians and Pacific Islands in the US. It
shows Asian art and culture with live performances by musicians and artist. Pan—Asian food, kung fu and lion
dance,cultural displays,and interactive activities.
Stockholm Folk Festival,Sweden
It is celebrated in early August for four days.It is celebrated in a very grand and obvious way for music
lovers. The beautiful settings add to the perfect atmosphere to the music festival. Many professional musicians
from every part of the world display their unique talent in folk as well as world music.
International Garden Festival, Chateau Chaumont—sur—Lolre, France
The festival began in 1992 and has become a key part of the gardening calendar.Garden designers from the
world compete to deign gardens in the castle. Each year there is a different theme.During the summer（1 July to
31 August）the gardens can be visited in the evening and you can take a candle tour at night.
21. You can celebrate Alice’s Day Festival in ________.
A. England B. America C. Sweden D. France
22. If you’re interested in Asian culture,you may go to ________.
A. Alice’s Day Festival B. Smithsonian Polk Life Festival
C. Stockholm Polk Festival D. International Garden Festival
23. ________will probably enjoy Stockholm Folk Festival a lot in Sweden.
A. Story lovers B. garden lovers C. Kung fu lovers D. Music lovers
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People can reduce reuse, or recycle waste instead of throwing it away. Matt and Sam decided to do an
experiment. They wanted to see exactly how much waste the three R’s could save.
First, they collected the rubbish from six classrooms at their school. They divided the rubbish into three
groups:
Things that were reusable, such as a pencil or a marker that had been thrown away
学科网（北京）股份有限公司Things that could be recycled, such as cans, glass, or paper
Things that were truly waste
Then, Matt and Sam weighed each of the three groups. They learned that 84%of the total rubbish thrown
away that day could be recycled or reused. They decided to do something about it.
Matt and Sam presented the idea of starting a recycling programme to the school leaders. Then they worked
with the Student Council. They prepared brochures (手册) to send home to tell the students and their families about
recycling. They stated in the brochure that recycling helps to keep our planet healthy. The school bought colored
containers (容器) for each classroom. Each room received a blue container for paper and a green container for glass
and cans. They also received a red container for real rubbish.
Within a short time, each classroom in the school was sorting recyclable materials from rubbish before it was
thrown. Matt and Sam decided to weigh the rubbish one more time. They wanted to check the school’s progress.
They collected the rubbish from the red containers from the same six classrooms as before. They sorted the rubbish
into three groups again and weighed each group. This time, they were pleased to find that the red containers were
filled with 90% waste that should be thrown away. Only 10% of recyclable materials had been thrown into the red
containers. Matt and Sam were pleased with their school’s effort at reducing waste on our planet.
24. By doing an experiment, Mat and Sam wanted to find out ________.
A. what things could be reuse
.
B what recyclable materials could be saved
C. how much waste the three R’s could save
D. how much waste their school produced a day
25. What did Matt and Sam do in the recycling programme? ________
A. They made a speech on recycling.
B. They wrote a report to the school leaders.
C. They bought colored containers for each classroom.
D. They helped students and their families knew about recycling.
26. Which word can best describe Matt and Sam? ________
A. Responsible. B. Friendly. C. Independent. D. Confident.
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When watching sports events we often notice athletes wearing earphones on while preparing in the locker
room or entering the stadium. They keep their eyes shut, and gently nod along the beats. It seems the music is
giving them power and cheering them up for the competition. We sometimes do the same. You might have a list of
favorite songs for your morning exercises. But is there any science behind such practices?
学科网（北京）股份有限公司According to a recent research, it turns out there is. Music actually does make us feel powerful, but not all
songs have the same effect.
The research was led by Dennis Hsu of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwester University in the
US. His team had people listen to 31 songs of different types. The listeners felt powerful after listening to some
songs, such as Queen’s We Will Rock You and 2 Unlimited Get Ready for This.
Researchers also found that high-power music made people want to take control in social events and come
first in competition. That matters a lot in sports. “It’s commonly said that sports are 90 percent mental and only 10
percent physical,” The Huffington Post reported.
Great athletes know this idea well. NBA player Kobe Bryant, for example, often puts on big headphones and
even falls into deep thought to boost his game and reduce his anxiety.
As for the reason for music’s magical power, Hsu’s team came up with one possible explanation: when
people hear music that expresses a sense of power, they mimic（模拟） these feelings in their mind.
When choosing music, we also need to look at the type of music, according to researchers.
In previous research by the Music in Exercise and Sports Group at Brunei University in London, they found
that pop was perfect for slower, more repetitive-type tasks. If you’re warming up or cooling down after exercises,
pop songs are the correct choice.
Dance music was found to be best suitable to strength and weight training because it’s “fast and rhythmical
（有节奏感的）.”
During high-intensity（高强度的）workouts, though, you’d better not listen to rock. Its different changes in
tempo（节拍）can affect your rhythm.
27. What is the main purpose of the first paragraph? ________
A. To introduce favorite songs for morning exercises.
B. To lead in the topic that music matters in sports.
C. To give an example of athletes’daily life.
D. To explain how to choose music.
28. According to the passage, Dennis Hsu probably agrees that ________.
A. listening to music always makes athletes relaxed
B. powerful music can make people produce similar feelings in their mind
C. the result of a game is mainly affected by the physical condition of the players
D. most athletes still don’t know the effects of high-power music on their performance
29. The underlined word “boost” in Paragraph 5 probably means ________.
A. control B. lose C. continue D. improve
学科网（北京）股份有限公司30. What can we learn from the passage? ________
A. Pop music is a reasonable choice for high-intensity workouts.
B. Rock music helps people keep their rhythms when exercising.
C. People are advised to listen to pop music before and after exercise.
D. People should dance to music while doing strength and weight training.
Most of us fear failure. However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success
comes from the Latin succedere, meaning “to come after”. And what does success usually come after? Failure. It
seems that one cannot exist without the other.
Every failure-even the worst ones-helps us learn to do things differently in the future. “Learning from the
past mistakes and making changes helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully,” says mountaineer Pete
Athans, who has now reached the world’s highest peak (山峰) seven times.
Failure also reminds us that things can go wrong-sometimes with terrible results.
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Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman to reach the top of all 14 of the world’s 8 000-meter peaks
without extra oxygen (氧气). In 2007, while climbing in Nepal, she was in an avalanche (雪崩). She survived, but
two nearby Spanish climbers died. The experience taught Kaltenbrunner that no matter how prepared a person is,
bad things can still happen. But Kaltenbrunner decided she had to learn from her experience and move on.
Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are often reluctant to tell people that we are failures
because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. In the past ten years, some
scientific magazines-mostly in medicine-have published reports of failed experiments. The belief is that the science
community can also learn from “negative’ results and that this can finally lead to positive outcomes.
The business world already understands the value of negative results. Eli Lilly and Company has failure
parties to study data about medicine that doesn't work.
In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early
1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple’s biggest failures. However, Apple’s
CEO,
Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential (潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the
creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.
The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can
learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same
coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.
31. The writer writes Paragraph 2 and 3 mainly to ________.
A. show how bad things can become important lessons
学科网（北京）股份有限公司B. tell us that it's possible for anyone to be successful
C. prove how bad things can happen in any situation
D. teach us what not to do when climbing mountains
32. The underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 4 probably means ________.
A. unable B. unsure C. unwilling D. uninterested
33. What is the passage mainly about? ________
A. An attitude towards failure. B. The experience of success.
C. A difficult way to success. D. The rewards of failure.
四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（每小题 2 分，共 10 分）
Chinese Fancy Knot
Chinese fancy knots, also called Chinese knots, refer to the traditional decorative knots in Chinese
culture. They began as a form of traditional art in the Tang and Song Dynasties in China and became popular in
the Ming Dynasty. Long ago, they found their way to Japan and other Southeast Asian countries, and were well
received.
Chinese Fancy Knots there. Now they are taken as one of the most classic symbols of Chinese culture. As
for the name itself, it is surely meaningful. The Chinese word for “knot”, jie, means “connection”. It is related to
lots of cultural ideas—marriage, brotherhood, reunion, etc. Meanwhile, the pronunciation of the Chinese word
jie is very close to that of ji, “good luck”. As a result, Chinese knots perfectly serve as a way to express people’s
strong wishes for good things like joy, love and good luck.
Besides, the knots, widely existing in the everyday life of the Chinese culture, come in different sizes.
Small ones are connected to jewelry (珠宝), clothes, gift—packages and furniture in order to attract people’s
attention, while large ones are used to decorate a living room or study. Whether large or small, there are over a
dozen basic knot patterns (图案) named according to their shapes, usages or origins. For example, Double Coin
Knots are called shuangqian Jie because they are in the shape of two ancient Chinese coins, meaning “good
things come in pairs”. However, almost all the main styles of Chinese fancy knots are made up of two exactly
similar parts, and the patterns on the front and the back sides are also similar in every detail.
In addition, Chinese knots are famous for their bright colours. Each of the Chinese knots is made of a
single string of cotton, silk, gold or silver. But the colours of the strings are rich and have different traditional
学科网（北京）股份有限公司cultural meanings. Among the most commonly used base colours, red means good luck and happiness, green
means health, and yellow, which was once known as a emperor’s colour, may means wealth and honour.
In brief, the famous Chinese fancy knots fully reflect (反映) the depth of Chinese culture. These brightly
coloured knots of different patterns, with their endless chains of knots, mean that life on earth will continue
forever.
34. When did Chinese fancy knots become popular? __________________
35. What does the Chinese character for “knot” mean? __________________
36. Why do people express strong wishes with Chinese knots? __________________
37. What are the main points about Chinese knots in Paragraph 3? __________________
38. What do Chinese fancy knots fully reflect? __________________
五、文段表达。（共 10 分）
请根据英文和中文信息，写一篇意思连贯，符合逻辑的短文，不少于 50 词。所给出的英文
提示词仅供参考。请不要写出你的真实校名和姓名。（请将此题答案作在顺纸上）
39. 请根据英文和中文信息，写一篇意思连贯，符合逻辑的短文，不少于 50 词。所给出的英文提示
词仅供参考。请不要写出你的真实校名和姓名。
（请将此题答案作在顺纸上）
假如你叫李华，是校学生会的成员，你们学校原定于本周五上午进行的郊游活动因天气原因取消，改
为参观首都博物馆。请你以学生会的名义拟一则英文通知，告知全校留学生取消郊游的原因；新的活动安
排；以及参观博物馆时应遵守的规则。文中必须涵盖所有提示问题的内容，提示词语供选用。
提示词语：the Capital Museum，take notes，touch，quiet…
提示问题：
1.Why has the school canceled the trip?
2.What will the foreign students do instead?
3.What rules should they follow in the museum?
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