2018-2019学年上海长宁区娄山中学初三上学期
英语月考试题
Part2 Vocabulary and Grammar
I. Choose the best answer
26.Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation with others'?
A. Dad bought a new b__________ke for me.
B. Nice day! Let's fly a k__________te in the park.
C. It’s only fifteen minutes’ r__________de to the school.
D. I’d like to __________nvite you to my birthday party
27. He lost a lot of __________in the accident. Which of the following is correct for the
underlined word in the sentence?
A./blu: d/ B. /blʌd/ C./bla: d/ D. /blʊd/
28. I think English is______useful language, and it's also__________important language.
A. an, a B. a, an C. an, the D a, the
29. By he end of last year, w__________ more than 3000 different kinds of stamps.
A. collected B. have collected C.would collect D. had collected
30. You’d better not talk to him,__________he opens his mouth, he never sTOPs.
A. once B unless C. although D. while
31.__________people lost their houses after the flood. We should do something to help them.
A. Thousand B. Thousands C. Thousand of D. Thousands of
32. In my opinion, it is our __________not to pollute our environment.
A. duty B. plan C. right D. earth
33. The safety of food has become one of the__________problems in our daily life.
A. more expensive B. more important
C. most expensive D. most important
34. The only thing that interests my sister is__________. She can practice dancing for a whole day.
A. dances B. dancing C. danced D. dances
35.-Is the man with a pair of glasses Tom?
-NO, It__________be him. He’s in England now.
A. needn’t B.mustn’t C. can’t D. may not
36. Mary likes reading best and she never gets tired of__________books.
A. read B. to read C. reading D. reads
37. He had to__________his trip to Japan for two weeks because of the illness.
A. put on B. turn off C. turn on D. put off
38.__________ nervous the boy was! He could not fall asleep all night.
A. What B. What a C. How D. How a
39.-Where is Mr Zhang?
-He__________to Beijing on business. He' ll come back in a week.
A. has gone B. has been C. went D. goes
40. I really like the photo of mine__________my mother took in the city park last week.
A. who B. which C. what D. whom
41.We__________making paper from wood, however, wood__________make many other different things.
A. used to; are used to B.are used to; used to
C. used to; used to D are used to; is used to
42. The 42nd International Emmy Awards__________in New York in November, 2014.
A. held B. is hold C. holds D.was held
43. I don't understand__________such a silly question in class yesterday.
A. why did John ask B. why John asked
C. why is John asking D. why John asks
44.-Shall we go boating this Sunday morning?
____________________I have to visit my aunt.
A. I agree B. I think so. C. You are right. D. I'm afraid I can’t.
45.-I can't find my English book.__________! I have to do the homework.
-Don' t worry. You can use mine.
A. I’m sorry to hear that. B. I don't like English.
C. What a pain. D. What a pity.
Keys: 26-30 DBBDA 31-35 DADBC 36-40 CDCAB 41-45 BDBDC
lll.compleTethefollowingpassageswiththewordsorphrasesintheboxEachcanonlybe
used once
Terribly tired and hungry, a team of Swedish men sat down for a meal. They were taking on 20-mile hiking race ______the Ecuadorian rainforest. As they were eating some meat, Michael Lindord noticed a thin and hungry dog______ him.Feeling sorry for him, he gave the dog a meatball and thought nothing of it. But as the team stood up to______their walk, the animal started to follow them, and he didn't sTOP. The team was made up of four men, and this time, they had one more the dog. They______the dog Arthur.
Whatever difficulty they encountered in the tiring hiking, the dog was just on their team. They once were worried whether the dog would have a bad ______on their race. But later they came to know that the dog didn't pull them back, but brought them great______ and fun in the difficult work. Sometimes the dog and the men helped each other. When the dog was tired, they sTOPped for a______. And when they got across the rivers, the dog helped them pull their things.
After six days, the team______ race. Lindord decided to take Arthur back to Sweden.
Keys: 46-49 EBCD 50-53 BDAC
IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms
54. Many foreigners will became__________of Shanghai in the future.
55. Make sure your seat belt is__________fastened.
56. My grandfather began to learn English in his__________
57. The man was__________ when the police stood in front of him.
58. Parents should help the children learn how to be__________.
59. Try to make the ball travel in a__________ line.
60. The light went out, and the room was plunged into__________
61. He__________for the inconvenience of leaving all the wedding cancellations to me.
Keys: citizens/ securely/ sixties/ frightened/ darkness/ apologized
V. Rewrite the following sentences as required
62. She often does shopping in Hymall.
________she often________ shopping in Hymall?
63. You you Tu was highly praised __________.（对划线部分问)
________ ________You you Tu highly praised？
64.The news that they failed their driving test discouraged him.
The news that they failed their driving test discouraged him,________ ________？
65.The fisherman often ties a piece of grass around the neck of each bird.
A piece of grass __________often__________around the neck of each bird.
66.Betty speaks French best in our school.
____________________lse speaks French as__________as Betty in our school.
67.The math problem is so difficult that no one in our group can solve it.
VI. Reading comprehension.
A. Choose the best answer。
Jennifer Lawrence, 25, is one of the highest paid female actresses in the world. But recently she voiced online that female actresses make much less money than males do in Hollywood. Lawrence's opinion is powerful, according to CNN, because “women still experience pay
inequality everywhere，whether you’re Hollywood's TOP talent or you work in a retail store.” In fact, women today only make about as much money as men ten years ago, said the Wold Economic Forum’s. for their potential,” The Washington Post wrote.
Old thinking about men and women is still influencing woman's careers, according to Saadia Zahidi, an official of WEF. For example, many people believed boys know more about science, technology, engineering and math , and even today, women make up only a third of the students in these subjects globally. Girls and women need to prepare for the skills and training that
are relevant to the jobs of tomorrow, especially in the STEM fields, said Zahidi.
As Lawrence points out the gender gap. in the workplace is not just about less pay for women. It's also about women making sure their pay shows their value. Another American actress Sandra Bullock agrees:"once we start changing how we think about women, the pay gap will take care of itself.”
Jennifer Lawrence is____________________
A. an actress B. famous C. highly paid D. all the above
70. According to Jennifer Lawrence,____________________
A. female actresses make as much money as male actors in Hollywood
B. female actresses make more money than male actors in Hollywood
C. female actresses make less money than male actors in Hollywood
D. female actresses are no worse than male actors in Hollywood
71.Which of the following is the correct example of the underlined sentence __________________________________________________
A. Jane earned $20,000 in 2015, while Tom could earn that amount of money in 2005.
B. Jane earned $20,000 in 2015, while Tom earned 10 times that amount in 2015.
C.Jane earned $2, 000 in 2005, while Tom could earn 10 times that amount in 2015.
D. Jane earned $20,000 in 2015, and Tom could earn almost the same amount in 2015.
72. Gender equality has improved in____________________
A. promotion B. education C. workplaces D. STEM fields
73. Which of the following is Not True?
A.Jennifer Lawrence and Sandra Bullock are both Hollywood actresses.
B. Women are still being paid unequally everywhere
C. Many people believe boys know more about STEM
D. Gender equality has never been improved in the last few decades.
74.Which might be the best title for the passage?
A. Getting paid equally B. Gender differences
C. Men and Women D. Fighting for Gender Equality
Keys: 65-74 DCABDD
B.Choose the best words and complete the passage
What do you dream of doing when you are 16 teenager. For Hannah Petosa, her dream is to
become Florida’s______teenager.
Petosa is a girl from in Boca Raton US. She has been taking improvisation classes ______ her humor to a bigger group during “Florida’s funniest Comedian competition in Fort Lauderdale.
“I usually make fun of teachers and a lot of things about school,” said Petosa, a junior at Spanish River High in Boca Raton. “But people who will watch are mostly adults, so I do a lot of jokes about how adults and teenagers relate to each other. That ______better.”
The competition will take place in 11 Florida cities, including Miami Tampa and Orlando. In Fort Lauderdale, more than 50 comedians are competing in three nights. Petosa is the only comedian younger than 18.
Petosa's journey to become a comedian was______. After an injury, she had to get surgery. Petosa got______after her surgery because she had to be in a wheelchair for two weeks and do six months of physical therapy .
The teenager decided to start taking improvisation classes with Sick puppies Comedy. The classes lifted her spirits. To improve her skills, her parents also asked for help from Sick Puppies’ founder Casey Casperson. They have becn working together for the past seven months on______ to write jokes, stand behind the microphone, explain stories and make punch lines.
“She’s smart,"Casperson said, “You don't see many teens wanting to do this. She doesn't have any fear.”
75. A. coolest B. funniest C. smartest D. best
76. A. give off B. turn off C. put off D. show off
77. A. sounds B. seems C. works D. laughs
78.A. an accident B. a dream C. a promise D. a must
79.A. surprised B.excited C. angry D. upset
80. A. who B. how C. when D. what
Keys: 75-80 BDBADB
C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words
A Chinese __________cough syrup called Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa，becoming even more popular among New Yorkers in this flu season, following a US news report. According to an article published by the Wall Street Journal last week, afters__________cough about ten days, Alex Schweder, an architect and professor of design at Pratt Institute fell better only in 15 minutes after he drank a bottle of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa, which was recommended by his girlfriend who first learned about the herbal suppled nearly 30 yeas ago when she was living in Hong Kong.
Alex Schweder was greatly surprised by the magical e____________________f the herbal supplement and recommended it to many people, which made the Chinese medicine p__________York City.
The medicine in the form of 300-milliliter bottle now is sold at 13. 29 dollars a piece on Walmart's online platform, which is more thand__________of its price in some pharmacieslocated in Manhattan’s Chinatown, selling at about 6 dollars per bottle.
“The amounts of Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa we sell over the past few days are much more than usual,” Winnie, a sales staff at Buy-rite pharmacy located in Chinatown, told Xinhua on Monday.
More and more Westerners area________this way not only because it is truly effective, but also because its convenient packaging.
“Much more people, i________many foreigners, have come to our store buying Pei Pa Koa recently,” a sales staff at another Chinatown drugstore said.
Keys: suffering/ effect/ popular/ attracted/ including
D. Answer the questions.
Each year, the famous Oxford Dictionaries selects its Word of the Year. The word is carefully chosen based on how popular it is and how well it explains the year. However, this year they didn't actually choose a word at all. Instead，they chose a" face with tears of joy"emoji.
This was the world's most used emoji in 2015, according to research done by the Oxford University Press. It made up 20 percent of all emojis used in the UK and 17 percent of those used in the US.
Emojis started from Japan in the 1990s. Through the years, the simple, small pictures have changed the way people communicate online. According to New Yorker magazine, a survey in 2013 showed that 94 percent of people in the US and 82 percent China had used emojis. about 6 billion emoji pictures are flying around the world every day through mobile messaging apps. Although some worry that emojis will weaken people's language skills, fans say they are fun and help them express their feelings more easily.
“Emojis are no longer just for texting teenagers. Instead, they have been made into a complex form of expression， which can cross language barriers，” Oxford Dictionaries said in a statement, explaining their uncommon choice. "Emoji culture has become so popular that emojis have their own trends and stories.”
Some even think emojis can replace words. Fred Benenson, an American data
engineer，translated American novelist Herman Melville’ s classic Moby Dickinto Emoji Dick. The book has even been archived by the US Library of Congress.
More information about emojis:
The word emoji is the Japanese word meaning"picture character". The word emoji just made it into Oxford Dictionaries in 2013.
To show up on your phone，emojis have to be reviewed by the Unicode Consortiun It is a nonprofit group whose job is to standardize basic symbols，so they can be used on computers, phones and tablets all over the world. They agree on a new set of emojis every year.
Which word became the Word of the Year in 2015?
How does the Oxford Dictionaries select its Word of the Year?
The word"emoji" comes from the UK, doesn,t it?
How many emoji pictures have been used all over the world through mobile messaging apps every day?
What did Fred Benenson do with emojis?
When do you use emojis in your daisy life? What do you think of it ?
Keys: 88. It isn’t a word, it’s a" face with tears of joy"emoji.
The word is carefully chosen based on how popular it is and how well it explains the year.
No, it doesn’t.
about 6 billion emoji pictures.
He translated American novelist Herman Melville’ s classic Moby Dick into Emoji Dick.
I use them when it is difficult to express my feelings by words. I think they are useful and express our feelings easily, it has become a important part in our communication.
94.VII. Writing
Write at least 60 words on the TOPic "How to become an inventor”
创造创造改变了世界，长大后你想当一名创造家吗?作为一名初中生你应该如何做?
提示:1好好学习是基础；2.兴趣是最好的老师；3.需要革新精神；
4.持之以恒、永不舍弃
