威海市城里中学2018-2019学年第二学期期中质量检测初四英语试题(含答案)

城里中学2018-2019学年度第二学期期中质量检测初四英语试题一、阅读理解（共5篇短文，25小题，计30分。

1—20每题1分, 21—25每题2分）AOnce there was an 11-year-old boy who went fishing with his father in the middle of a New Hampshire lake.On the day before bass(巴斯鱼) season opened, they were fishing early in the evening, catching other fish with worms. Then the boy tied a small silver lure(鱼饵) and put it into the lake. Suddenly he felt that something very big pulling on the lure. His father watched with admiration as the boy skillfully brought the fish beside the bank. Finally he lifted the tired fish from the water. It was the largest one he had ever seen, but it was a bass.The boy and his father looked at the big fish. The father lit a match and looked at his watch. It was 10 p.m.—two hours before the season opened. He looked at the fish, then at the boy. “You’ll have to put it back, son,” he said.“Dad!” cried the boy. “There will be other fish,” said his father. “Not as big as this one,” cried the boy. He looked around the lake. No other fishermen or boats were in sight in the moonlight. He looked again at his father.Even though no one had seen them, nor could anyone ever know what time he had caught the fish, the boy cou ld tell from his father’s voice that the decision couldn’t be changed. He threw the huge bass into the black water. The big fish disappeared. The boy thought that he would never again see such a big fish.That was 34 years ago. Today the boy is a successful architect in New York City. He often takes his own son and daughters to fish at the same place. And he was right. He has never again caught such a large fish as the one he got that night long ago. But he does see that same fish ... again and again ... every time he has an ethical (道德的) decision to make. For, as his father had taught him, ethics are simple matters（事情）of right and wrong. It is only the practice of ethics that is difficult.We would if we were taught to put the fish back when we were young. For we would have learned the truth. The decision to do right lives fresh in our memory. It is a story we will proudly tell our friends and grandchildren.( )1. Which of following is NOT true according to the passage?A．The fish was too huge to lift easily from the water.B．The writer and his father usually went fishing together on an island.C．The fish went back to water because of the writer’s carelessness.( ) 2.The third paragraph mainly tells us that_________.A．someone knew when they went fishing.B．it was not a right time to take the bass away.C．the boy has great skill in working the hook out of the fish’s lip.( ) 3.After reading the passage , we can infer_________.A．fishing is a good hobby not only for teens but also adults.B．the boy and his father are examples of the practice of ethics.C．the bass is not permitted to catch in New Hampshire lake.( ) 4.What can we learn from the whole passage_________.A．The practice of ethics is only simple matters of right and wrong.B．Getting a handsome fish is a very brilliant experience.C．We do the right thing when we come up against (碰到）a question of ethics. ( )5. _________ might be the best title of this passage.A．Catch of a life time.B．An unforgettable experience.C．An adventure of a handsome bass .BDo you shop online with websites like Taobao? The money you pay doesn't go directly to the seller. Instead, it goes through Alipay, which keeps your money for a while. After you receive your goods and click the "confirm receipt" button, Alipay then gives the money to the seller.The process is called "third party online payment". There is a transfer station, or a third account, between sellers and buyers to make online shopping safe. Buyers don't need to worry about paying for goods and then receiving nothing. Sellers also get rid of the risk of receiving no money after sending out goods.These transfer stations are usually set up by payment service companies such as Alipay, Tenpay and Yeepay. Among them, Alipay is the biggest in China. It has more than 270 million active users, according to Xinhua.While most online sellers and shoppers like the third party online payment system, banks are not very happy. That is because companies like Alipay are fighting over money with the banks. Users can invest（投资）in financial products through Alipay and make money. Thus lots of people choose to put money in Alipay rather than in banks.But WeChat payment is not the same. WeChat doesn't have its own account. When payingthrough WeChat, the buyers money goes directly to the sellers. That's why so many people are excited about receiving and handing out "red envelopes" or gift money to their friends on WeChat.Whether Alipay or WeChat payment, they are all trying to attract more users and make online shopping easier. These two companies are also promoting payments through fingerprints （指纹）. New payment methods such as quick response codes have become popular too. ( )6. How many ways to pay are mentioned in the passage?A. 5B. 3C. 4( )7. Para l and 2 mainly want to introduce how _________.A.to run a Taobao shopB. to make your money safeC. Alipay works( )8. According to the passage, we can imagine_________ in the future.A.real money will not be usedB.payment through fingerprints will be popularC. third party online payment is sure to avoid all the risks in trade( )9. According to the passage, which of the following is not referred to?A. Quick response codes are more popular than any other methods.B. Putting money in Alipay is a good way to make moneyC. Banks are angry about losing some customers.( )10. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. Using new technologies to do online shoppingB. Some ways to pay in our daily lifeC. The advantage of third party online paymentC根据短文内容，判断正(A)误(B)We see them everywhere – on boxes of food on packages and on CDs. They of course are bar codes. The invention of bar codes has changed the way we shop and how companies learn where their products are.Bar codes are quite a new invention. It was two American university students Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland who first got the idea of bar codes. In 1948 they heard that the president of a food company was looking for a way to easily get information about what was being sold to customers. They tried to help by using a code system. To make their codes theydrew circles on paper. They then invented a large electronic reader to read the codes. However computers then were big and slow so they couldn’t easily record the d ata that was read.Then in the 1960s David Collins made important developments in bar codes. He developed a system for recognizing train carriages. In order to develop this technology for other kinds of businesses Collins started his own company. In 1969 C ollins’s company put a bar code reading system in a car factory showing that bar codes could be useful.Shortly after Collins started his company an American electronic company called RCA also saw the potential of bar codes to help businesses. RCA’s sys tem which recorded how much of a product was sold was not perfect. Since bar codes were not common not all products had them and different companies used different codes. Then Woodland helped develop the Universal Product Code (UPC) which gave every product a code that contained information about the manufacturer and the kind of product being sold. This made bar codes much more practical.In addition to shops hospitals use bar codes to identify patients by giving them cards with bar codes on them. Libraries use bar codes to record which books have been lent and airports use them to determine where bags are going. Bar codes have made life much easier and simpler. ( )11. The invention of bar codes has changed our lifestyle.( )12. Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland first got the idea of bar codes.( )13. To develop the recognition system, Collins started his own company in 1969.( )14. Hospitals use bar codes to collect medical fees.( )15. The passage is mainly about the development of bar codes..D阅读D篇，根据短文内容，将下面方框中的句子还原到文章当中，使短文内容完整。