张江集团学校2017-2018学年初三上学期英语第一次月考(含答案)

张江集团学校2017学年第一学期初三英语阶段评估一

时间：100分钟满分：150分2017.10.09Ⅱ.Choose the best answer（20%）

26.It is impossible for the little boy to tear this piece of paper into pieces.Which of the following

is correct for the underlined word in the sentence?

A./teə/

B./tɪə/

C./tз:/

D./teɪ/

27._____are used____a simple life in the countryside now.

A.The Browns,to living

B.Browns,to live

C.The Brown family,to living

D.The Browns’,to live

28.____of them like travelling around the city by bike.

A.Every

B.Each

C.None

D.Neither

29.The street between our housing estate and the supermarket is______wide.

A.two meters’

B.two meters

C.two meter

D.a two-meter

30._____Thames is the mother river of_____United Kingdom.

A./,the

B.The,/

C./,/

D.The,the

31.Don’t____anyone just because of his humble background.

A.look up

B.look down at

C.look down upon

D.look for

32.I’get off_____Jinxiu Road underground station,for I live____No.56,Jinxiu Road.

A.at,at

B.on,on

C.at,in

D.at,on

33.All of us gave up climbing to the top of the mountain,_____that Jonny,my uncle____do so.

A.besides,could

B.except for,had to

C.besides,might

D.except,was able to

34.By the age of five,he_____more than1000English words.

A.will remember

B.remembers

C.have remembered

D.had remembered

35._____great fun it is to go for a swim in the sea in summer!

A.What

B.What a

C.What an

D.How

36.Could you tell me______?

A.why didn’t you come

B.what have you done

C.where the hospital was

D.how you like the speech

37.The book he_____on the table is still____there.

y,lying

id,laying

C.lied,lying

id,lying

38.--_____can Airbus A380fly?

--About1000km per hour.

A.How fast

B.How much

C.How long

D.How soon

39.The museum_____next month to celebrate the Science and Technology Festival.

A.is decorated

B.will decorate

C.is decorating

D.will be decorated

40.--______I park the car here for a while?

--No,you mustn’t.Do you see the sign‘NO P ARKING’?

A.Would

B.May

C.Must

D.Should

41.I prefer skiing to climbing because I think climbing is not so_____as skiing.

A.exciting

B.more exciting

C.less exciting

D.the most exciting

42._____with the size of the whole earth,the biggest ocean does not seem big at all.

pare

paring

C.To compare

pared

43.He admitted____at his roommate,but he refused____to him.

ughing,apologizing

B.to laugh,to apologize

ughing,to apologize

D.to laugh,apologizing

44.---Would you like me to bring you a cup of coffee?

---________.

A.Y es,please.

B.With pleasure.

C.Y es,I’d love to.

D.It’s very kind of you.

45.---I think we should protect our traditional culture.

---_____.

A.My pleasure.

B.I agree.

C.So am I

D.That’s all right

Ⅲ.Complete the following passage with the words in the box.Each word can only

With the rise of automation and a growing dependence on computer,it sometimes feels as though no industry is truly safe from the all-powerful computer.Not even the most human task of

all---communication.

Tech company Automated Insights has developed a program called WordSmith,which ___46___writing basic news stories at a breakneck speed.National Public Radio（美国国家公共

电台）,the well-established defender of journalism,put this new technology to the___47___. Commissioning one of their fastest and finest,Scott Horsley,to a direct head-to-head___48___ with WordSmith,NPR wanted to see how fast a computer really could be.

The rules for the race were simple:Both contestants waited for Denny’s a dinner chain,to come out with an earnings report（收益报告）.Once that was___49___,the stopwatch started.

Both wrote a short radio story and were graded on speed and style.

Impressive as Horsley’s time of seven minutes was,it was still more than three times ___50___than WordSmith,which finished the report in just two minutes.But the rules of the competition weren’t entirely based on speed.Rather,style and general eloquence（口才）were also---___51___.

The following are excerpts from the two finished products---can you guess which is which?

Story#1:

Denny’s Corporation on Monday reported[a]first-quarter profit of58.5million.The Spartanburg,South Carolina-based company said it had[a]profit of ten cents per share.

Story#2:

Denny’s Corporation notched a grand slam（大满贯）of its own in the first quarter,earning

a better-than-expected ten cents a share,as restaurant sales jumped by more than seven percent.The growth in sales___52___consumers are opening their pocketbooks for pancakes,eggs and hash browns.