2017年徐汇区一模英语试卷

2017学年第一学期徐汇区学习能力诊断卷

初三英语试卷

Part 2 Phonetics, Grammar and Vocabulary

(第二部分语音、语法和词汇)

Ⅱ. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案)：（共20分）

26.Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation?

A.rest

B.mention

C.result

D.mess

27.The young engineer solved the problem in ________unusual way.

A.a

B.an

C.the

D./

28.Some young parents are unaware _______the danger of giving their babies smartphones.

A.with

B.for

C.in

D.of

29.There were 22 medical service areas ________the route in 2017 Shanghai Marathon.

A.along

B.with

C.through

D.across

30.In the park, visitors will be able to discover for ________the roots of the city’s culture.

A.them

B.their

C.themselves

D.theirs

31.When the boy lost his balance, the skateboard went one way and he went______.

A.the other

B.others

C.other

D.the others

32.I was late for school because of too much _______on the road this morning.

A.traffic

B.accidents

C.passengers

D.people

33.Thanks to the high technology, computers can be ______than doctors at doing their job.

A.good

B.well

C.better

D.best

34.This is _______robot I have ever seen in the Robert Exhibition.

A.intelligent

B.more intelligent

C.most intelligent

D.the most intelligent

35.The world’s biggest e-business _______making Single’s Day a shopping celebration in 2’009.

A.begins

B.began

C.was beginning

D.has begun

36.According to the sports news, the Rugby World Cup _______in France in 2023.

A.holds

B.is held

C.will hold

D.will be held

37.--________is it from your home to the nearest library?

--About twenty minutes’ ride.

A.How often

B.How long

C.How far

D.How soon

38.You had better________questions in class when there is something you can’t understand.

A.ask

B.asked

C.asking

D.to ask

39.With Internet Plus business, it’s popular for us _______the bill online in China.

A.pay

B.paid

C.paying

D.to pay

40.Tim _______a detective story written by Arthur Conan Doyle this time yesterday.

A.read

B.reads

C.was reading

D.is reading

41.Accordiing to the traffic rules, kids under 12________ride bikes on the road.

A.may not

B.mustn’t

C.couldn’t

D.needn’t

42.My mother has littl e interest in football _______she didn’t watch the live match on TV yesterday evening.

A.so

B.if

C.though

D.when

43.There are quite a few customers doing shopping in the new mall, ________?

A.are there

B.aren’t there

C.don’t they

D.do they

44.—Hello, Jenny, you look busy. Anything I can do for you?

---________I can manage myself.

A.Not at all

B.I’m afraid not

C.Thank you all the same

D.All right

45.--_______.

--I am sorry to hear that.

A.I have been chosen secretary of the Student s’ Union

B.I’ve got a birthday gift from my parents

C.I am planning to spend my holiday in Thailand

D.I can’t attend your party because of my bad cold.

Ⅲ.Complete the following passage with the words or phrasesin the box. Each word or phrase

can only be used once.(将下列单词或短语填入空格，每空格限填一词，每词或词组只能用一次)：（共8分）

Off the coast of Xiamen in Fujian province, Kulangsu is no longer an ordinary Chinese village. On July 8, it was ___46___in the UNESCO’s World Her itage List. It makes China the country with the second most World Heritage Sites in the world with 52.

The island might be small, but it’s ___47___to many big-name musicians; among them are pianist Xu Feiping and violinist Yang Jing. It also has the highest per capita(人均) ownership of pianos in China. Therefore, it is called China’s Piano Island.

“Western classical instruments rarely ____48____in China before the end of the mid-1800s,” explains Robin Goldstein, tourism spokesperson for Kulangsu. “Kulangsu u sed to be a place for westerners to live and work. Thus they brought ____49____from Europe. As a result, Kulangsu became one of the first places in China to play and hear Western classical music.”

The largest in the world---and the only one in China---the Gulangyu Piano Museum is hard to miss, thanks to an eye-catching figure that looks like piano keys. Inside, more than 100 shining pianos, ___50____a precious old-plated piano and an antique hand piano, provide the island’s musical heritage.

The tiny island is ____51____freee of cars and bikes, except the tourist trolleys(电车). Then there are the 19th -century buildings of ____52____style and leafy seaside footpath. The beaches of Kula ngsu might not be the same as the Philippines’, but they’re very clean—with white sand and palm trees.

The highest point on the island offers ___53___of the island’s red rooftops and of downtown Xiamen across the river. Climbing to its top is great in the evening because the crowds are thinner, and you can watch the sunset and skyline of Xiamen begin to twinkle.

Ⅳ.Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms(用括号中所给单词的

适当形式完成下列句子)：（共8分）

54.The after-sales service department is on the _____________floor of the building.(five)

55.It’s dangerous to tell your ____________information on others online.(person)

56.The couple have shot a number of ______________during their honeymoon trip.(photo)

57.Next month Anna will work as a volunteer to offer ____________help to the community.(she)

58.Don’t ____________with Mr.Li when he is in bad temper.(argument)

59.In a ___________survey, 28 percent of consumers were bored with online sales.(recently)

60.The story Beauty and the Beast is ___________known among kids all over the world.(wide)

61.In this task, __________thinking is required as well as team work among the group.(depend) ⅴComplete the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子，每空格限填

一词）：（共14分）

62.Mr. Smith held a magazine in his hand on the way back home.(一般疑问句)

___________Mr.Smith_________a magazine in his hand on the way back home?

63.The pop singing star’s set up his own charity to help those in need.(划线部分提问)

___________ __________the pop singing star set up to help those in need?

64.The policeman took the injured students to the hospital at once.(改为被动)

The injured students ___________ ___________to the hospital at once.

65.I didn’t copy the papers because something was wrong with the printer.(句意不变)

I didn’t copy the papers because the p rinter ___________ __________.

66.Tony asked his mum. “How will we spend the Spring Festival”

Tony asked his mum how ________ ________spend the Spring Festival.

67.Mandarin, the Chinese language, is important to Chinese culture.(感叹句)

__________ _________Mandarin, the Chinese language, is to Chinese culture!

68.without, one, a student card, is not allowed, showing, to enter the hall

________________________________________________________

Part 3 Reading and Writing（第三部分读写）

ⅵ.Reading comprehension（阅读理解）：（共50分）

A.Choose the best answer（根据以下内容，选择最恰当的答案）（12分）

Star cruises offer exciting new choices to escape the winter cold

After its Golden Sea Route journey to Japan this summer, Superstar Virago will start brand new winter routes from November 30, 2017 to February 28, 2018 for customers. This is the time to escape from the cold weather in Shanghai.

The new routes will have seven popular destinations across the East Pacific Ocean. It provides a variety of winter travel choices. Shanghai Wusongkou International Cruise Terminal will continue to be the homeport.

As a leader in the Asia-Pacific cruise market, Star cruises has always been developing great experiences for their guests. The four well-designed winter routes will show landmark scenery from Osaka and Okinawa, Japan to Manila and Laoag in the Philippines.

To cater to customers’ desires for popular destinations, and their different holiday pans, the four

new routes are aimed at helping guests find new and exciting locations and allow them to enjoy an unforgettable holiday.

Scan to explore more service information on https://www.360docs.net/doc/eb3280205.html,

69.From the advertisement, we can see ________is the name of the cruise to Japan.

A. Golden Sea

B. Superstar Virago

C. East Pacific

D. Asia Pacific

70.There are ________popular destination according to the new routes.

A. four

B. six

C. seven

D. eight

71.The homeport of the new winter route is still in _______.

A. Wusongkou, Shanghai

B. Osaka, Japan

C. Okinawa, Japan

D. Manila, the Philippines

72.The customers on the cruise trip can do the following EXCEPT________.

A. enjoy an unforgettable holiday

B. see beautiful scenery along the route

C. escape the cold winter days in Shanghai

D. drive the cruise ship across the East Pacific Ocean

73. The underlined phrase “cater to” means ________.

A. meet

B. explore

C. consider

D. recognize

74. If you want to know more about such kind of service, you can _________.

A. visit the office iDEALShanghai

B. make a phone call to iDEALShanghai

C. write a letter to iDEALShanghai

D. search the website iDEALShanghai

B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文）：（12分）

Around 80 examples of failed products, businesses and ideas are showed in the newly opened museum in Sweden. It is to celebrate modern history’s ____75____designs----from Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-inspired drink, to Bic pens made just for women.

Besides showing long-forgotten failures, founder Dr.Samuel West is on a task to help us learn from our mistakes. Samuel set up the museum after growing ____76____success stories. He said understanding bad design could bemore valuable than ____77____good design.

“Most of all creative projects fail, and learning is the only way to turn failure into success,” according to the museum’s website. “I hope that visitors take home two ____78___: that failure is conne cted with success, and that they should understand the importance of learning from failures,” said Dr.West.

“The purpose of the museum is to show that creativity requires failure,”Dr.West said as he introduced some of the products in a video. “If you are afraid of failure, then you can’t create.” So the organizations will not ignore them and pretend they ____79____happened.

Many of the museum’s items were available online. West believed that ____80____products have little in common with one another. One of the items, for example, is a frozen beef lasagna(意式千层面)made by Colgate(Yes, the company that makes toothpaste). West described this as a classic case of “brand extension failure.”

A collection of nine objects from the museum is on tour. The traveling collection of failures will then visit Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo in 2018 and 2019.

History may be written by the winners, but we should not ignore the losers. At least, that’s what the Museum of Failure wants us to believe.

75.A. best B. cheapest C. worst D. easiest

76.A. satisfied with B. tired of C. keen on D. surprised at

77.A. copying B. printing C. imaging D. making

78.A. stories B. bargains C. tools D. messages

79.A. always B. never C. sometimes D. usually

80.A.poorly-designed B. well-designed

C. carefully-designed

D. newly-designed

C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给）：（14分）

Augie Dobson, a 9-year-old American boy is proud of his ability to speak Chinese. He has been studying the language for three years from Shanghai Community International School.

Augie is one of a group of three and took part in a drama performance competition. It was organized to e____81_____overseas students to understand Chinese culture.

Their play is based on Tang Dynasty(618---907) poet He Zhizhang’s “Hui Xiang Ou Shu.” L___82___, the play got the second prize at yesterday’s ceremony.

“Hui Xiang Ou Shu” means writing something after returning home. It describes an old man who left his hometown at a young age but feels like a s_____83____when he returns a couple of years later.

Mrs Sun, a Chinese teacher in school said she tries to teach her pupils to sing and dance to the poem. “Children are interested in singing poems rather than just reciting t____84____”.

Students at Shanghai Community International School now learn an ancient poem every day. “It’s difficult b____85____I’m trying to remember,” said Augie.

The first prize went to drama “Kong Cheng Ji,” performed by students at Dulwich College Shanghai. KongCheng Ji, tells of Zhuge Liang during the Three Kingdoms period(220--280). He had no army to protect and guard the city but m____86____to make the enemy’s leader Sima Yi believe that the city was full of traps and ambushes(埋伏). As a result, Sima gave up.

Li Zihao, 9, plays Sima in the drama. Li is a fan of chengyu, Chinese four-character idioms(四字成语).

“I’ve download an app about telling stories with Chengyu, and he loves it. I think chengyu is a very s____87___and important parts of Chines culture. Four words alone can mean a lot, and chengyu shows the great wisdom of old Chinese people.” said his mother.

D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）：（12分）

“Mom, I dreamed about you all night. I dreamt that you had come back to me, but I know you are gone…”says a post-80s girl named Lulu in a Sina Weibo post.

Lulu has been “talking” to her deceased(已故的)mother through her microblog for the past four years. Her act has moved millions of Chinese netizens, Xinhua reported last Tuesday.

The girl from Shenyang posted the first message to her mother on June,2012, just over a week after her mother passed away. “I’ll keep talking to you until I leave the world”, Lulu wrote. Since then, she has kept updating her post almost every day, expressing how she misses her mother and also shares exciting or sad moments of her daily life.

Lulu said it’s her way to “keep in touch” with her mother, as she used to talk with her three to four times a day when she was alive.

During the past four years, she has posted over 1,200 messages and got 86,583 followers so far. One internet user said, “Every tweet moves me to tears, and thank you for reminding more people to cherish each day we have with our mother.” Another said this was the most touching microblog

ever.

Lulu said she was pleased that her microblog made more people realize their filial(之女的)duties and she hopes young people could take more time to be with their parents.

88. Where did Lulu write letters to her deceased mother, in Sina Weibo or Xinhua Daily?

89. When did Lulu post the first message to her mother?

90. How often did Lulu use to talk to her mother when she was alive?

91. How many followers has Lulu got in the past four years?

92. After reading the blogs, what did some people think of it?

93. What can people get from Lulu’s blog?

ⅶ. Writing(作文)：（共20分）

Write at least 60 words on the topic “My happy moment with_____________”

请以“___________和我的快乐时光”为题写一篇至少60词的短文，你的家人，朋友，物件或是你的某项爱好与活动曾经给你留下了幸福开心的时刻。请选取一个角度，描写你和他（它）幸福快乐的瞬间。

（注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名，校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分，标点符号不占格）

The following is for reference only (以下表述仅供参考)

communicate with…, share…with, learn… from, enjoy, relax