2025-2026学年湖北天门初一(上)期末试卷英语

1、我们的成功取决于每个人是否努力。

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2、─   I know by what time you want the project to be done?

─ By the day after tomorrow.   you finish it on time?

A .  May;Can   B.  Must；Need

C.  Could； Must   D.  Need；Would

3、He is one of ________ students that I have ever met.

A．lively

B．livelier

C．liveliest

D．the liveliest

4、Could you please tell me ________?

A．whom we can ask for help

B．which entrance I should go

C．what was wrong with him

D．how I should call the woman in white

5、They _________ here since two years ago.

A. have lived   B. lived   C. lived in   D. have lived in

6、Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?

A.What have you learned from the story? B.Teaching and research are both important.

C.Early birds catch more worms. D.He bought his son a lovely Teddy Bear.

7、—Wow, a mobile phone, what a big surprise! Thanks, daring!

—It’s your birthday present. But please read the   carefully before you use it.

A.results B.decisions C.passages D.instructions

8、As students, it's not enough to just study hard. We should find some effective ways to learn _____.

A.directly B.simply C.wisely

9、Mary isn't here at the moment. She ______ later.

A．comes B．came

C．has come   D．is coming

10、—Do you know who invented lights?

—Yes, they   by Edison.

A.invented B.are invented C.were invented D.was invented

11、The teacher asked the students _______.

A. when was Albert Einstein born

B. how many trees they had planted.

C. what they will do with the computers

12、—May I speak to your headmaster?   —Please hold and I’ll ____ you_____.

A.get; through B.push; for C.put; up D.put; through

13、We have never seen __  _ film before. It's very interesting.

A. so good   B. such good

C. such a good  D. a so good

14、—Bill, you look tired today. What's wrong with you?

—I was________busy________I didn't go to bed until midnight yesterday.

A.so; that B.too; to C.such; that

15、— Where is your grandpa, Sara?

— Look! He is telling stories ________ a group of children over there.

A．from

B．over

C．between

D．among

16、Tom likes reading the books ________ history.

A．in

B．on

C．at

D．under

17、I find____ hard to make friends with him .

A.this  B. that  C. it  D. them

18、I am going to travel to Germany and it is _________ European country.

A.a B.an C.the D./

19、He was___at the__news.

A. excited, exciting   B. exciting, excited   C. exciting, exciting   D. excited, excited

20、—Tom has made great progress in English recently.

—______, and ______.

A.So he has; so you have

B.So he has; so have you

C.So has he; so have you

D.So has he; so you have

21、These boxes are useful. Don’t ________.

A．throw away them

B．put them away

C．throw them away

22、从所给句子中选择恰当的句子完成下面的对话。

A: 【1】, Susan. Now, Susan you have a few minutes to rest. Can you tell us something about yourself? 【2】

B: I’m twenty-two and I am a bus conductor. Cycling is my hobby.

A: Ah, bus conductor. So you’re used to collecting money. Good! 【3】

B: Nobody. I taught myself.

A: 【4】

B: I’ve been cycling since I was five.

A: Who bought you the racing bike?

B: I bought it myself. I worked overtime.

A: Good for you. 【5】

B: Now? If you mean this minute, I’m going to have a long hot bath.

A: Well, you must need to relax. Again, congratulations! That was Susan James, winner of this year’s London-to-Brighton Cycle Race.

A. Did your parents teach you?

B. In fact, I wanted to be a taxi driver.

C. What’s you age and what’s your job?

D. And what are you going to do now?

E. How long have you been cycling?

F. Who taught you cycling?

G. Congratulations on winning the race

23、A: Hello! Tom, where are you going?

B: 【1】

A: A concert? 【2】

B: The Twins band.

A: Wonderful! It is my favorite band. 【3】

B: In Guangming theatre, at 7P.M. this afternoon.

A: 【4】

B: To raise some money for the students in poor area. Would you like to go with me?

A: I'd love to, but I have no tickets.

B: Don't worry, I can give you one.

A: 【5】 Let's go!

24、Many teenagers like detective stories. They enjoy going behind the scenes with the main character—a detective. Here are three of the most popular detective stories for teens. Which of them do you want to buy?

Nate the Great (Book 1 of 26)

Nate the Great has a new case! His friend Annie has lost an expensive picture. She wants Nate to help her find it. Nate must get all the facts, ask the right questions and find out the list of suspects. Join the great detective as he solves the mystery, will you?

Paperback(平装书)：$5.39               E-book: $4.99

＞Buy it on Amazon

Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective (Book 1 of 28)

Encyclopedia Brown is Idaville neighborhood’s ten-year-old star detective. He solves mysteries for the neighborhood kids. His dad is the chief of the Idaville Police Station. Every night, Encyclopedia helps him solve his most difficult cases. There are ten cases in each book. Not only Encyclopedia but the readers have a chance to solve them.

Paperback: $4.99                                  E-book: $2.80

＞Buy it on Amazon

The 100-Year-Old Secret: The Sherlock Files (Book 1 of 4)

Xena and Xander Holmes have just found, they’re the great-great-grandchildren of Sherlock Holmes. They are given Sherlock’s unsolved casebook. The two start to solve the cases. Can two 21st-century kids succeed where Sherlock could not?

Paperback($7.79)                                  E-book: $5.67

＞Buy it on Amazon

【1】How many books are there in the Encyclopedia Brown. Boy Detective series in all?

A．Four.

B．Twenty-six.

C．Twenty-eight.

D．Ten.

【2】The main character(s) of The 100-Year-Old Secret: The Sherlock Files is/are ___________.

A．two children

B．Sherlock Holmes

C．a young detective

D．a boy and his father

【3】Susan wants to buy Book 1 of Nate the Great and Book 1 of The 100-Year-Old Secret:The Sherlock Files. How much can she save if she buys e-books instead of paperbacks?

A．$2.12.

B．$2.19.

C．$4.31.

D．$2.52.

25、   Most of us fear failure. However, without failure, progress would be impossible. In fact, the word success comes from the Latin succedere, meaning “to come after.” And what does success usually come after? Failure. It seems that one cannot exist without the other.

Every failure – even the worst ones – helps us learn to do things differently in the future. “Learning from the past mistakes and making changes helped me to reach the top of Everest successfully,” says mountaineer Pete  Athans, who  has now reached  the world’s  highest peak (山峰) seven times. Failure also reminds us that things can go wrong – sometimes with terrible results.

Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the first woman to reach the top of all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without extra oxygen (氧气). In 2007, while climbing in Nepal, she was in an avalanche ( 雪 崩 ). She survived, but two nearby Spanish climbers died. The experience taught Kaltenbrunner that no matter how prepared a person is, bad things can still happen. But Kaltenbrunner decided she had to learn from her experience and move on.

Accepting failure is not easy for many, though. We are often reluctant to tell people that we are failures because our good name depends on success. However, things are slowly changing. In the past ten years, some scientific magazines – mostly in medicine – have published reports of failed experiments. The belief is that the science community can also learn from “negative” results and that this can finally lead to positive outcomes.

The business world already understands the value of negative results. Eli Lilly and Company has failure parties to study data about medicine that doesn’t work. In fact, one of the business world’s most famous failures became one of its biggest successes. In the early 1990s, Apple Corporation created the Apple Newton. It was one of Apple’s biggest failures. However, Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs, believed the product had potential (潜力) and he began to improve it. In time, this led to the creation of the iPhone and the iPad, two of the company’s most successful products.

The story of the Apple Newton can teach us another important lesson about failure. There is a lot we can learn by studying mistakes. Perhaps the most important lesson is that failure and success are two sides of the same coin. One truly cannot exist without the other.

【1】The writer writes Paragraph 2 and 3 mainly to   .

A.show how bad things can become important lessons

B.tell us that it’s possible for anyone to be successful

C.prove how bad things can happen in any situation

D.teach us what not to do when climbing mountains

【2】The underlined word “reluctant” in Paragraph 4 probably means “   ”.

A.unable B.unsure C.unwilling D.uninterested

【3】What is the passage mainly about?

A.An attitude towards failure.

B.The experience of success.

C.A difficult way to success.

D.The rewards of failure.

26、阅读理解。

From the time each of my children started school, I packed their lunches. And in each lunch I packed, I left a note. The note might be a thank-you for a special moment, or a few words of encouragement for the coming test or sporting event.

When they were little, they loved their notes. And when I went back to teaching, they even put notes in my lunches. As they grew older, my elder son, Marc, told me that he no longer needed my daily notes. Telling him that he no longer needed to read them but I still needed to write them, I continued the tradition until the day he graduated.

Six years after high school graduation, Marc called and asked if he could stay at home for a couple of months. He had spent those years well, and he was very successful. He lived far away from home. With his younger sister leaving for college, I was especially looking forward to seeing Marc at home.

Since I was still making lunch every day for his younger brother, I packed one for Marc, too. Imagine my surprise when I got a call from my 24-year-old son, complaining (抱怨) about his lunch.

“Did I do something wrong? Aren’t I still your kid? Don’t you love me any more, Mom?” he asked.

I laughingly asked him what was wrong.

“My note, Mom,” he answered. “Where’s my note?”

This year my younger son will be in high school. He, too, has said that he is too old for notes. But like his elder brother and sister, he will receive those notes till the day he graduates.

【1】Every time the writer packed lunches for her children,   .

A. she wrote them a letter

B. she gave them a kiss

C. she gave some flowers to them

D. she wrote them a note

【2】How many children may the writer have according to the passage?

A. Two.   B. Three.

C. Four.   D. Five.

【3】Why did Marc call to complain about his lunch?

A. Because he didn’t like the taste of the lunch.

B. Because the lunch wasn’t enough for him.

C. Because his mother didn’t love him any more.

D. Because he didn’t find the note in the lunch box.

【4】From the last paragraph we know that   .

A. the writer didn’t prepare lunch for her daughter

B. the writer will continue writing notes for her younger son

C. Marc didn’t love the note in the lunch box

D. the writer’s children won’t get money from her any more

【5】What is the BEST title for the passage?

A. Love notes   B. Children’s complaint

C. My children’s story   D. Lunches for children

27、

【1】Where can you probably read the poster?

A．In a science fiction.

B．In a newspaper.

C．In a geography magazine.

D．In a story book.

【2】How much should you pay if you want to rent the apartment for a season?

A．$600

B．$1, 800.

C．$2, 400

D．$7, 200.

【3】Which of the following is true?

A．The apartment is far from the city center.

B．People with pets cannot rent the apartment.

C．Only children and animals can rent the apartment.

D．You can feel the beauty of nature by living in the apartment.

28、   When I was 15, I told my class that I was going to write my own book. Half the students laughed at me, "Don't be s【1】. Only geniuses(天才) can become writers." My English teacher said to me, "It is an impossible dream."

I was very sad. That night I wrote a poem a【2】 broken dreams and sent it to a newspaper. To my surprise, they published it, and sent me two dollars. How excited I was! I s【3】 it to my teacher and friends. "Just luck," they said.

However, I c【4】. I never give up. By the time I f【5】 high school, I had published a number of articles.

Years later I d【6】 to write a book, Crying Wind. It t【7】 nine months. Then I sent it to a publisher. A month later they c【8】 me and said they would publish it.

Crying Wind became a best-seller and it m【9】 me famous. Now I have written several books. Many people asked me what made me a writer. I didn't know h【10】 to answer that. I'm not a genius, but I stick to (坚持) my dreams. Writing is easy and fun and anyone can do it.

29、Three soldiers were on their way home from the war. They arrived at a small village， they were very tired and ____， but they had no food or money. The only thing they did have was a cooking pot(锅).

The soldiers built a small cooking fire， placed their pot on it， and poured in some water. When a few villagers asked what they were doing， one of the soldiers answered that he was making stone soup. A few more villagers walking by stopped to  ____ what was going on when they heard about it.

“Any soup needs salt and pepper，” the first soldier said， so some children ran to fetch salt and pepper. “Stones can be used to prepare good soup， but tomatoes would ____ it so much better，” the second soldier added. One woman said， “Why， I think I have a tomato or two!” She ran to get the tomatoes.

“Some cabbage would be a proper choice for a good stone soup!” said the third soldier. Another woman said， “I think I can probably find some cabbage，” and off she ran.

“If only we had a bit of beef and some potatoes， this soup would be fit for a rich man's ____.” The villagers thought it over， then ran to fetch what they had in their homes. A rich man's soup， and all from a few stones! It seemed like  ____!

The soldiers said， “If only we had a little milk， this soup would be fit for a king!” And so other villagers tried to get some milk.

“The soup is ready，” said the cooks， “and all will ____ it， but first we need to set the tables.” Some of the villagers said， “Such a great soup would be better ____ some bread and cakes，” so they brought the  ____ two things and the meal was  ____ by all. Never had there been such a ____ meal. Never had the villagers had such delicious soup， and all made from stones! They ate and drank and danced well into the night.

In the morning， the villagers gathered to say goodbye. “Many thanks to you，” they said， “for we shall never go hungry now that we have learned how to make soup from stones.”

【1】A. hungry B. bored   C. sleepy

【2】A. see   B. tell     C .imagine

【3】A. cook B. do     C. make

【4】A. health B. money    C. table

【5】A. art   B. magic    C. interest 

【6】A. want   B. buy C. taste

【7】A. over   B. besides C. with 

【8】A. first     B. last   C. other

【9】A. enjoyed     B. given C. needed 

【10】A. cheap B. proper   C. special