1、长郡集团初中课程中心2016-2017 学年度初三第二次限时检测英 语II. 知识运用（两部分，共 20 小题，计 20 分）第 1 节 语法填空 从 A、B、C 三个选项中选择最佳答案。（共 10 小题，计 10 分）( )21. -Where would you like to go for vacation?-Id like to visit European country if possible.A. a B. an C. the( )22. -How the cartoon animals look!-Thank you. This is my art assignment.A.
2、lively B. happily C. nicely( )23. -Hey! Your handbag looks cool! Where did you buy it?-In a store last Saturday.A. open B. is opened C. opened( )24. -What language do you also speak English?-French. But just a little.A. besides B. but C. except( )25. -Would you like to watch Mechanic in the IMAX the
3、ater with me?-Id like to, I have watched it twice, the movie is really a treat to eyes.A. if B. because C. even though( )26. -What a smoggy day! The environment is getting more and more polluted.-Yeah, we know that something to end it.A. must be done B. must do C. must is done( )27. -Baseball is a p
4、opular game among students in Taipei.-Really? But it is unpopular in our country. Students play it.A. often B. seldom C.usually( )28. -I hear that your father has an old teapot in your home.-Yes. It boiling tea and my father boiling tea when he was young.A. was used to; was used toB. used for; used
5、toC. was used for; was used to( )29. -George was heard just now what happened?-Oh, people were telling jokes.A. to cry B. laugh C. to laugh( )30. -Im doing my school project “Science Changes the World”, could you please tell me .-Sorry, Im not sure that it. Lets search it online.A. how many times ha
6、s Jin Haipeng been to the spaceB. how many astronauts have landed on the moonC. Neil Armstrong is the first one to walk on the moon第二节，词语填空，通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的 A、B、C、3 个选项中选出最佳答案。(共 10 小题计 10 分)When I was a little girl, my father loved to play catch with me. I wasnt good at it, but he would 31 me
7、. He was always telling me “keep your eye on the ball” as I would not be able to catch even the 32 of throws.As I got older, we didnt play catch as much. If I had a33 , I would go to my father to ask for his advice. He would try to joke with me and say “keep your eye on the ball“. We would 34 laugh
8、because usually that advice did not apply to(适用于)the problem, but he would try to make me smile.My father became ill in 1995 when I was 23. As he suffered from a stroke(中风),he could not 35 . There werent any more conversations. He could only mouth words, which were sometimes hard to understand. Afte
9、r a while, I seemed to be pretty good at36 his lips(嘴唇),even better than the nurses who were37 him.During our 38 conversation, I was telling him about a problem I was having with my then boyfriend. Once again, I could read his lips: “Keep your eye on the ball.“ We both smiled. That was the last time
10、 I saw my father39 he passed away.Since then, when I get into a stressful situation I tell 40 “keep your eye on the ball“.( )31. A. advise B. encourage C. tell( )32. A. the easiest B.the most difficult C. the highest( )33. A. problem B. trouble C. question( )34. A. neither B. both C. either( )35. A.
11、speak B. hear C. see( )36. A. reading B. Watching C. touching( )37. A. looking for B. caring for C. waiting for( )38. A. first B. next C. last ( )39. A. before B. after C. when( )40. A. myself B. my father C. meIII阅读理解，三部分，（共 25 小题计 50 分）。第一节图表，理解阅读下列图表，从每题所给的 ABC3 个选项中选出最佳选项回答问题或完成句子。(共 5 小题，计 10 分
12、) 。It together in the west? When in Rome, do as the Romans do! Meal Time? Lunch is eaten LATER. (After midday, sometimes at 1 p. m );Dinner is around 7 p. m. or even later.Refusing Food? Given something you dislike? Push it to the plate and leave it there.Offered more food, but cant eat any more? “N
13、o, thanks. Its nice, but Ive had enough.”Tableware? Knives and forks are used for most food. Sometimes, its also ok to use your fingers!At the End of the Meal? Stay and talk around the dinner table long after the last dish has been brought to paper. Leave as soon as you finished eating? No! Its RUDE
14、!( )41. What time may western people have lunch?A. At 11:30 B. At 12:20 C. At 12:40( )42. According to the note, which is proper if youre invited to have dinner with western people?A. Push the food you dont like on the table and keep it there. B. Leave as soon as you finish eating so the host can ti
15、dy the table.C. Not only use knives and forks for food but also fingers if necessary.B( )43. What CANT you do if you take the garden tour.A. Pick fresh fruit. B. Learn to cook. C. Get the recipes.( )44. From the advertisements, we can infer .A. no matter how many children you take to the tour, you d
16、ont have to pay for themB. Suzzane is good at cooking and wrote a book to teach people how to cookC. we can learn how to cook Christmas dishes if we take the tourGarden Tour Cooking Class909 North Cumber Road, Santa Barbara CASaturday, November 26th, 2016 9:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.Cook with SuzzaneTradit
17、ionally, American Indians dishes were made with corn, beans, potatoes and pumpkins. Take a tour around Trinity Garden, pick some of these foods and return to the kitchen. There you can watch Suzzane prepare delicious dishes with them. It is surely a new experience! Suzzane will make an introduction
18、of these traditional foods and tell you what they meantto the American Indians hundreds of years ago. At the same time, you can learn how to cook with these vegetables. The menu includes Hot Potato Pie with Cornbread Topping ,Thanksgiving Soup , Fresh Vegetable Salad and Trinity Fruit Ice-cream $35
19、per person, including printed recipes the four dishes above and a book by Suzzane.Children under 8 can come for free.Booking by email by Nov. 15: .Learn More: Visit www. F.( )45. If Mrs Thomson wants to take the tour, she must book it .A. before Nov. 15th B. after Nov. 25th C. on Nov. 29th第 2 节 ，短文理
20、解,阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 ABC3 个选项中选出最佳选项，回答问题或完成句子，（共 15 小题，记 30 分。）APEKING Opera(京剧) used to sound strange to Dou Yi. The 14-year-old Beijinger said whenever she came across Peking Opera on TV, she changed the channel（频道）. Like most of todays teenagers, Dou loves pop music.But since Dou entered the Xuanwu b
21、ranch school of Beijing No. 15 Middle School, she has been studying Peking Opera in music class every week.Dou and her classmates listen to Peking Opera and learn the basics（基础知识）from professional actors. They also sing along with the operas.“We laugh sometimes because the tunes（曲调）are really hard t
22、o learn,” said Dou. But she said that now she would watch Peking Opera on TV. “After all, I am no longer a layman,” she said.Since 2008, schools around the country have been teaching students Peking Opera. Its part of a plan to introduce young people to the countrys artistic traditions. Clearly, Dou
23、s school has been taking the job seriously.Yang Ning, 14, is Dous classmate. She has been studying Peking Opera since she was 8. She is a member of the schools Peking Opera club.Yang said she had learned a lot from Peking Opera.“I learn a lot of history from the operas,” she said. “Ive also found ou
24、t about many ancient poems, since there are so many of them in the operas.”Yang doesnt think everyone can learn to sing Peking Opera well, but she does say that its helpful for all people to learn about it.“The more you learn about it, the more you understand it. If people do study it, this old art
25、form wont disappear. It would be a great pity if it did!” she said.( )46. According to the passage, Dou Yi .A. is a middle school student from shanghaiB. has learned Peking Opera since she was eightC. thinks the tunes of Peking Opera are not easy( )47. The purpose of teaching students Peking Opera i
26、s .A. to teach every Chinese students to sing Peking Opera wellB. to encourage students to learn traditional culture and artC. to introduce and perform Peking Opera all over the world( )48. The underlined world “layman” in the third paragraph means .A. 专家 B. 外行 C. 演员( )49. We can learn a lot from Pe
27、king Opera EXCEPT .A. social skills B. historical stories C. ancient poems( )50. According to the passage, we can know that .A. All the schools in China take the job seriously to teach students Peking OperaB. traditional art forms will disappear one day if we dont teach them to the youngC. people in
28、 china dont care about the old art forms because theyre out of styleCEvery school has rules for students to follow. But what happens when students break the rules?In the UK, when students dont behave well at school, they will be given a warning. But if they go on behaving badly, like talking over th
29、e teacher, theyll be punished. And there are a lot of ways for students to be punished!Generally speaking, the punishments in UK schools are: detention(课后留校)，isolation（隔离）education unit(IEU), supervision(监管), suspension(停学) and expulsion(开除).If you receive a detention, youll find yourself sitting in
30、 a room with your teacher during break, lunch or even worse, after school. The longest time for a detention is two hours. Depending on how naughty youve been, you can get two detentions in one day!If you get IEU, youre isolated from other students. And you have to stay in room all day to complete yo
31、ur lessons.Supervision means that you cannot take part in P.E. lessons. In other classes, a teacher will always keep an eye on you while you sit at the front of the class. Trust me, you will never like the feeling. Suspension means you cannot go to school for a certain amount of time. The most serio
32、us punishment you can ever receive is expulsion. You cant go to the school any more. Youll have to find another school to go to , and it will be on your school record.Punishments are a good way to discipline students. If you dont want to get punished, behave well!( )51. How many ways are mentioned t
33、o punish students who break the rules?A. Five B. Six C. Seven( )52. If a student is sent to an isolation education unit, he or she will stay .A. at the front of the classB. in a room all day with tasksC.at school after classes are over( )53. What does the underlined word “discipline” in the last par
34、agraph mean?A. Train someone to behave well.B. Make someone work harder.C. Make one learn from another.( )54. What can we learn from the sixth paragraph?A. If a student gets a detention, hell sit in a room with a teacher during break.B. If a student gets a suspension, he is not allowed to take part
35、in the PE classes.C.If a student gets an expulsion, he no longer has the right to study at that school.( )55. What can be the best title of the passage?A. School punishments in the UK.B. Bad students behaviors in the UK.C. Ways to be good students in the UK.CSomebody is calling for help in the water
36、. You want to jump in and save him but that might put you in danger. What will you do?Soon this wont be your problem anymore because a robot swimmer called Swumanoid will be on-hand to help. Scientists from Japan created this robot to swim like an Olympic athlete. They mapped the swimmers body and h
37、ow every part moves, so the robot could swim exactly as human does.Swumanoid can do the backstroke (仰泳) and the crawl (自由泳) at the speed of 0.64 meters a second, which is a third of the human world record, according to the Daily Mail.Motomu Nakashima, the leader of the study, hopes that robots like
38、Swumanoid can act as lifeguards in the future, helping those in trouble. Besides saving lives, Swumanoid can also be used in swimming research. It can test water resistance and work out how people swim. The information collected is expected to help scientists find ways to improve a swimmers skills.U
39、nlike human swimmers, robot dont get tired from doing the same stroke (咏姿) again and again so they do not slow down. Thus, they can collect information more accurately.But robots are not yet ready to take the place of lifeguards by the pool. Scientists say there are still certain things that need to
40、 be improved, such as the motors and waterproof (防水的) design.( )56. Swumanoid can swim exactly as a human does because .A. it was created by an Olympic swimmerB. it can follow the way swimmers moveC. it can act as a lifesaver to help those in trouble( )57. How can Swumanoid help collect information
41、for swimming research?A. It can swim as fast as the world record holder.B. It doesnt feel the water resistance.C. It wont feel tired and never slow down.( )58. How many things can Swumanoid be used to do?A. Two. B. Three. C. Four.( )59. What does the underlined word “resistance” mean in paragraph si
42、x?A. 阻力 B. 体积 C. 重量( )60. The writers papers in writing this passage is to .A. introduce different kinds of swimming robotsB. introduce the robot swimmer SwumanoidC. tell me more about swimming skills第 3 节 阅读表达 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容回答问题。(共 5 小题,计 10 分)October 13th, the Nobel Prize in literature for 2017
43、was awarded to Bob Dylan, American rock and folk artist, which means once again, Haruki Murakami missed it.Haruki Murakami, born on January 12, 1949, is one of the best-known Japanese writers. His books and stories have been bestsellers in Japan as well as internationally, with his works been transl
44、ated into 50 languages and selling millions of copies.Since childhood, has been heavily influenced by western culture. He grew up reading a great number of works by European and American writers, such as Franz Kafka, Charles Dickens, Jack Kerouac and so on. But Haruki Murakami didnt start to write f
45、ictions until he was 29. “Before that” he said, “I didnt write anything, I was just one of those ordinary people, I was running a jazz club and I didnt create anything at all.” He was inspired(激发) to write his first novel, Hear the Wild Sing while watching a baseball game. Since then, he has written
46、 many famous novels including Norwegian Wood and Dance, Dance, Dance, Which are quite popular with Chinese readers.Haruki Murakami has won nearly all the prices in literature except Nobel Prize although he was being nominated eight times in the past five years. All his readers feel so sorry and unfa
47、ir about it, but he just smiles and keeps on his own writing. “Its sometimes hard to avoid losing, nobodys going to win all the time.” He wrote in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, “Ive always done whatever I felt like doing in life. People may try to stop me and convince me Im wrong but I wont to change.”61. Did Haruki Murakami or Bob Dylan win the Nobel Prize in literature this year?62. What did Haruki Murakami used to do before writing novels? 63. In which year did Murakami start to write novels?
