初四英语第二次月考试题

九年级英语测试题

班级:___________姓名:_____________

第一部分听力部分

一.Listening(20’)

Part One Choose the right picture according to

the dialogue you hear.

1. ( )

2. ( )

3. ( )

4. ( )

5. ( ) Part Two Match the best choice from A to G according to the dialogue you hear

( )6. Many people A. likes listening to music and

doing some reading.

( )7. Helen B. loves looking at the rain and

thinking about something

interesting.

( )8. Alice C. feels excited.

( )9.David D. enjoy sunshine very much. ( )10.Tony E. enjoys rainy days.

F.enjoys playing outside on

rainy days.

G. like sunshine a little.

Part Three Choose the right answer according to the passage you hear

( ) 11.It takes Tom _____ time to watch matches.

A. little

B. much

C. a little ( ) 12. One evening there was a big ______ match.

A, football B. basketball C. table tennis ( )13. –Did Tom get a ticket for the match?

-____________.

A. Yes, he did.

B. No, he didn’t

C. I’m not sure. ( ) 14. Tom climbed up a _____ outside the playground.

A. house

B. wall

C. tree

( ) 15. The policeman _____ watching matches.

A. would like

B. doesn’t like

C. likes Part Four Complete the note according to the passage you hear.

Time:__________________________

Person:_________________________________ Place:__________________________

What happened:__________________________ Result:___________________________

第二部分语言知识运用一．Multiple choice(15’)

( ) 1. It’s ___ honor to meet you.

A. a

B. an

C. the

( ) 2. The film____ by ____people from all over the world.

A. enjoy ; million of

B. is enjoying ; 2 millions

C. is enjoyed ; millions of

( ) 3. Please ____ the light when you leave the room.

A. turn on

B. turn down

C. turn off ( ) 4. Tom’s English is very poor. He must practice ____ English every day.

A. speak

B. speaking

C. to speak ( ) 5. –Where is your father?

-He ____ Amarica ____ business.

A. has been to ; in

B. has gone to ; on

C. has been in ; for

( ) 6. –What a nice classroom! – It ____ every day.

A. is cleaning

B. is cleaned

C. must clean ( ) 7. –I’m weak ___ English. I always have trouble ____ with foreigners.

A. at ; to communicate

B. in ; in communicate

C. in ; communicating

( ) 8. – What did you do on the weekend? – We all went to the science museum ___ Tom. He was ill in bed.

A. besides

B. beside

C. except

( ) 9. I don’t know if it ____ tomorrow. If it ____, I’ll go on a trip.

A. rains ; won’t rain

B. will rain ; doesn’t rain

C. will rain ; won’t rain

( ) 10. I’m so ____ about the ____ news.

A. exciting ; exciting

B. exciting ; excited

C. excited ; exciting

( ) 11.-Could you ___ me your book? ___ is at home.

– Sure , here you are.

A. borrow ; Mine

B. lend ; Mine

C. lend ; Me ( )12. He didn’t know _____.

A. how can he get to the airport

B. how he can get to the airport

C. how to get to the airport

( ) 13.Not only his parents but also he ___ interested in cartoon.

A. are

B. is

C. feel

( ) 14.Can you tell me ____ about spaceship?

A. anything

B. everything

C. something

( ) 15. He is made____the room every day.

A. to clean

B. clean

C. cleaning

二. Cloze test(15’)

Today we can see that many people are cutting down the trees in the forests. A lot of _1_ land has become deserts. It’s quite terrible. If we _2_ newspapers, we’ll learn that the forests on the earth are getting smaller_3_ . We are cutting down large numbers of trees _4_ we need wood and farmland. Some _5_ say if is goes on , there will not be any great forests_6_20 or 30 years.

What will happen _7_ the forests disappear? A lot of plants will die. What’s more, the animals will not have places_8_. In many places the new farmland will soon look _9_the old deserts. Crops will not grow there. There won’t be enough _10_, and the weather will get hot and dry. If the climate of the earth changes, life will be _11_ for everyone. Our living environment will become_12_. More and more rich farmland will disappear. We will suffer(遭受) a lot from _13_ droughts and floods.

I t’s our duty_14_ the forests well. It is easy to do that.._15_ should try his best to make a contribution(为……作贡献) to taking care of the forests. Stop cutting down the trees and make the world greener!

( )1. A. low B. rich C. high

( )2. A. look B. see C. read

( )3. A. on time B. all the time C. in time ( )4. A. or B. so C. because

( )5. A. children B. students C. scientists ( )6. A. in B. at C. on

( )7. A. that B. but C. if

( )8. A. lives B. to live C. living

( )9. A. like B. up C. at

( )10.A. snow B. sunshine C. rain

( )11.A. easy B. hard C. interesting ( )12.A. worse and worse B. better and better

C. bigger and bigger

( )13.A. all B. either C. both

( )14.A. do B. to protect C. protect ( )15.A. Everyone B. Someone C. Every one 三．Communication (10’)

Complete the dialogue with proper words

or sentences.

(Li Lei and Zhang Hai are talking on the phone．)

L—Li Lei．Z—Zhang Hai

L：Hello，Zhang Hai！I haven’t heard from you

for a long time．______________?

Z：I’m preparing(准备)for the final exams．

L:Good luck to you!Summer holiday is

coming．?

Z：First，I’ll have a good rest，and then I will

go to Beijing to watch the Olympic Games．

L：______________．

Z：Wonderful！Our plans are almost the same．L：Are you going to visit some places of

interest?

Z：______________．I want to visit the Great

Wall．

L：Let’s meet in Beijing．We may do something

useful to support the Olympics together．

Z：Sounds great．

L：See you then．

Z：______________．

第三部分阅读理解(30’)

四.Reading comprehension

(A)

Choose the best topic from A to F according to the meaning of the passage.

( ) 1. Last Saturday, the American X-43 A airplane made its first flight. It reached a speed of 8,000 kilometers anhour. It flies faster than any other plane in the world. The X-43 A is only three to four meters long, but it’s very heavy. Its weight is 1270 kilograms.

( ) 2. Have you ever got angry at books that are full of mistakes? But now things will get better soon. Last week, China started checking textbooks, dictionaries and children’s books all over the country.

( ) 3. There will be a new “star” in the sky soon. China plans to send a satellite into space by December 2008. It will stay in space for one year. It will go around the moon and take pictures, It must be very expensive, right? That’s for sure-1.4 billon yuan.

( ) 4. Floods across the northern Mexican state of Coabuila killed at least 32 people and left 100 more missing. It was reported on Monday . The heavy rain hit the state all night last Friday, so some banks of the river were broken.

( ) 5. China will be the host for the 2008 Olympics, so many Chinese people want to improve their English in different ways. For example, many young singers from all lover China took part in a

(B)

Morison and Philip were classmates. They lived in the same town. After they left school, Morison became the manager（经理）of a flower shop and Philip became a doctor in a hospital.

Philip made a girlfriend. He bought a red rose for her each day to show his love, The flowers made her very happy. Sometimes he took the rose to her himself. But when he was busy in the hospital, he asked Morison to give the rose to her instead of him.

One afternoon, Philip came into the flower shop and said to Morison. “I’ll go to another town to work today. I have no time to give the letter and the flowers to my gilfriend. Please glve her the letter and twenty-four roses.”

In the evening, when Morison was closing the dorr of the shop, Philip came.“Morison, how many roses did you give my girlfriend this morning?”asked Philip angrily.

“I gave her thirty,”answered Mori son.

“Why did you do that?”asked Philip.

“I thought you often bought roses for her in my shop. I want to give her six roses as the gifts （赠品）.Six is a good number,you know,”said Morison.

“How foolish you are!”He threw his letter on the table.“Read it!”

Morison picked it up and began to read:

Dear Mimi,

I love you very much. Today is your birthday. Please accept my present-some roses, One rose is a year. And the roses are your age.

Yours,

Philip

“She returned them to me,”eried Philip,“you must go and explain it to her.”

Judge the following sentences true (T) false ( F)

（）1..Philip and Morison had different jobs after school.

（）2.Mimi never accepted Philip’s flowers.

（）3..Philip couldn’t send flowers to Mimi

himself on her birthday because he was ill.

（）4.Mimi was happy to get six more roses from Philip. （）5.From the passage we know that Mimi was

24 then .

(C)

Come and see the Indian elephants and the new tigers from America. The bears are waiting to meet you, and the monkeys from China are waiting to throw things at you. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you, and the giraffes from Zambia are waiting to look down on you.

according to what you read.

( )1.How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage？

A. Five

B. Six

C. Seven

( )2.Now Mr. Smith is in the zoo with his two sons, one aged 14 and the other 10, how much are

the tickets together？

A. $4.00

B. $2.00

C. $3.00

( )3.Which of the following is the visiting time？

A. 8:30 a.m. Monday

B. 9:30 a.m. Friday

C. 3:00 p.m. Sunday

( )4.From the passage we can guess the animal “giraffe” must be very _______.

A. fat

B. strong

C. tall

( )5.Which of the following can we do in the zoo？

A. To give some food to the dogs.

B. To touch the monkey on the head.

C. To take a few nice photos.

(D)

Do you often feel a little sleepy after lunch? Well，that’s normal.Your body naturally lays down．What should you do about it?Don’t drink coffee，take a nap(打盹),instead．There are many advantages of a daily nap．First of all，you can remember things better and make fewer mistakes．Also，you can leam things more easily after taking a nap. A 20-minute nap can reduce(减少)your pressure(压力)．Finally，a nap can make you cheerful.

But there are some simple rules that you should

follow about taking a nap.You should take up at noon，about eight hours after you wake up．In general，a 20-minute nap is the best. If you sleep longer，you may fall into a deep sleep．After waking up，you’ll feel worse．Also,you should set an alarm clock．That way，you can feel fully relaxed during the nap.You don’t have to go looking at the clock so that you don’t oversleep(睡过头).

Now，the next time you feel sleepy after lunch，don’t get stressed.Put your head down，close your eyes and have a short sleep during the daytime．

Fill in the blanks according to the passage．Only one word for each blank.

When you feel a little sleepy after lunch，you should take a nap(1) of drinking coffee．After twenty(2) _nap，you can remember things better,make fewer mistakes，learn things more easily．It can reduce your pressure and cheer you up.But you don’t(3) the simple rules,you won’t feel(4) .In order to(5)_____yourself during the nap，you should set an alam clock to wake you up on time．

(E)

Each year，many Chinese people go abroad because of all kinds of reasons.They are becoming younger and younger year by year.Even some Chinese parents send their children to foreign countries when they are only in a middle school.They think their children can get a wider view,less academic(学业)competition or family honor.But life can be bad for young people there.At first,they have to face the culture differences and language problems.However,these are not always the most difficult things to overcome(克服).To best children,controlling(管理)themselves well is a big challenge when studying alone in strange country．Yu Yang，a 15-year-old student from Guangdong Province studies in a high school in Toronto,Canada．To his surprise，his teachers there seldom push students to study abroad．And usually there isn’t too much homework．Students have lots of free time to do the activities．Some of his friends spend their whole year’s money in the first two months of the new term.So they have to ask their parents for some more money.

On the one hand,studying abroad can help students learn foreign languages quickly and en up their eyes,but on the other hand,some children may feel lonely,become bad，lose themselves，etc. Many problems may happen to them．These are different from their original thoughts．So parents should think them over before their children go abroad.

Answer the questoins according to the passage．1．Why do Chinese parents send their children abroad?

2．What do the students have to face in foreign countries at first?

3．Controlling themselves well is a big challenge，isn’t it?

4．Do students in Canada have more free time than those in China?

5．What’s the article mainly about?

第四部分书面表达（10’）五．Writing

为了保护环境，节约能源，中国政府出台了一条禁令：从2008年6月1日起，禁止在超市和商店中使用超薄兼塑料袋。针对这条禁令，请谈一下你的看法。

要求：语句通顺，内容合理，词数80左右。开始语已给出，不计入词数。

提示词汇：ban（禁令）, provide, free（免费）, protect, cause , pollute, soil（土壤）energy, carryout , improve, recycle, soft drink can（易拉罐）

China has put a ban on the use of much thinner plastic bags starting on June, 2008 ______________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________ __________________________________________

出题人:兴凯湖乡中学

卢明星

附:答案

听力部分:答案(略)

笔试部分:

一.1.B 2.C 3.C 4.B 5.B 6.B 7.C 8.C. 9.B 10.C

11.B 12.C 13.B 14.C 15.A

二. 1.B 2.C 3.B 4.C 5.C 6.A 7. C 8.B 9.A 10.C

11.B 12. A 13.C 14.B 15.A

三. 1.What are you doing (these days)?

2.What do you want to do ?

3. So will I

4. Sure.

5. See you.

四．（A）D C B A E

（B）T F F F T

（C）B B C C C

（D）instead minutes’follow better relax （E）略

五．写作：（略）