本溪2024-2025学年第一学期期末教学质量检测试题(卷)初三英语

1、由于这场大雨，运动会将被取消。

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2、—Do you know ____________ at the Olympics?

—Yes. In 1936.

A.when basketball became an event B.when basketball becomes an event

C.when did basketball become an event D.when does basketball become an event

3、His dictionary is ______ in our class．

A. new   B. newer

C. newest   D. the newest

4、Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others!.

A.He picked up rubbish. B.I stopped to have a rest.

C.She listened to music just now. D.He pushed his bicycle slowly.

5、Susan feels unhappy because nobody seems to _________ her progress.

A．notice

B．make

C．keep

D．read

6、Superstars should pay more attention to their actions because they have a great ________ on teenagers.

A．change

B．influence

C．progress

D．energy

7、If we keep all the problems_________, we will feel worse and worse and that will be bad for our health.

A. for us   B. for ourselves   C. to us   D. to ourselves

8、--- Hey! Don’t you remember me?

--- Wow! Paula? You used to ________ curly hair.

A. be   B. are   C. have   D. has

9、He wants to know   you will help not ．

A．if ; or B．if ;and

C．whether ;or D．whether ;and

10、Our country ________ a lot since forty years ago. We are really proud of her.

A．changed

B．will change

C．has changed

D．was changed has

11、From this note, we can know ________.

A．schoolwork is not so important in Mum’s opinion

B．they kept a cat as their pet in their house

C．the kid usually forgets to hang his towel

D．the kid can use the Internet before doing his school

12、 It's impolite ____information directly when asking for help.

A。ask   B．asking   C．to ask

13、–Mrs Black, could you give me some advice on how to write an application letter?

–With pleasure. Remember that the letter should be written in the formal ______.

A．value   B．style

C．effect   D．mood

14、He spent ________ time solving this problem.

A. a number of   B. a great deal of

C. the number of   D. many of

15、（题文）________ I am in trouble, my best friend Li Lei always helps me.

A. Whenever   B. Whatever

C. However   D. Wherever

16、—Have you ever been to Guilin?

—Of course. It’s known ________ its beautiful mountains and rivers.

A．of

B．for

C．in

D．with

17、People in Catalonia want to vote for _____ from Spain.  They have their own language, and they don’t want any Spanish person to rule them.

A. trusting   B. wishing   C. marrying   D. separating

18、—It seems that you don’t know much about this city.

—You’re right. I am a ________ here.

A．patient

B．relative

C．stranger

D．teacher

19、---My aunt goes to climb mountains every Sunday.

---Oh? But she ______hate climbing mountains .

A. used to   B. was used to   C. is used to

20、The  19th  CPC  National  Congress（十九大）_______  in  Beijing  last  month,  with  thousands  of  foreign reporters ___ to report it.

A. held, come   B. was held, come   C. was held, coming   D. held, coming

21、— Can you guess if they ________ to play basketball with us?

— I think they’ll come if they _________.

A．come; invite

B．will come; will be invited

C．will come; will invite

D．will come; are invited

22、观众应该等到演出结束才能离开。

The audience ________ the performance is over.

23、根据对话内容，从方框内所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余项。

A：Hello, Mr. Black.【1】

B：Sure. Go ahead.

A：【2】

B：People in England usually don't say exactly what they are thinking when they want to finish talking.

A：What do you mean? I can't understand well.

B：Often, 【3】 For example, many phone  talks finish when one person says, “I have to go now.”  or  “Someone's at the door.”

A：【4】

B：Yes. The person who wants to finish the phone call simply doesn't want to talk anymore. But it isn't polite to say that.

A：The excuse is more polite, 【5】

B：Yes, you're right.

A．the person who wants to finish the phone call gives an excuse.

B．There is food on the pot.

C．I want to know how to finish talking with other people in England.

D．May I ask you some questions?

E．and it doesn't hurt the other person.

F．so it is right to finish the conversation politely.

G．The excuse might be real, or not?

24、How GPS Weakens Memory — and What We Can Do about It

Using mobile phones to navigate (导航) has become second nature. Whether you’re heading to a new park or meeting friends at a restaurant, you just enter the address on your phone and go. Without GPS, exploring (探索) and wayfinding in new places required preparation. We had to think, check paper maps, and plan and memorize ways there. But today there is no need to think. Simply follow the turn-by-turn directions on your phone, and you’ll end up where you need to be. However, your overall sense of the place suffers. Spatial (空间的) navigation used to be a process performed by the human brain and perceptual system, but now people have surrendered it to technology.

There are areas of the brain that deal with these difficult pathfinding tasks. In particular, the hippocampus is related to spatial memory, spatial navigation and mental (在脑中的) mapping. Studies show that we can exercise the hippocampus memory through exploration and spatial navigation. For example, expert navigators like London taxi drivers have larger hippocampi compared to other people.   

However, when we follow a set of turn-by-turn directions, GPS navigation apps treat us as passive passengers rather than active explorers. In turn, this stops us from being able to create proper mental maps, and has an effect on the hippocampus, which is very important for brain health.

While improvements in technology clearly have many benefits, we must remain mindful that technology can influence the brain. Our question is: Can we find a way to still use GPS but reduce the harmful effects on memory?   

The challenge is to create other forms of GPS navigation that will remain easy enough for the general public, and at the same time, enable people to improve their spatial sense. Our research finds that properly designed audio beacons (音频信标) offer a much more active form of GPS navigation. For example, with an audio beacon at a hospital, when we are two miles away from the hospital, we can hear a sound through our phone. In recent experiments, we discover that this type of sensory navigation through audio beacons does better than turn-by-turn navigation in the creation of mental maps. We believe these results, at least in part, come from people taking a more active role in their navigation.   

GPS navigation using audio beacons offers a good example that helps humans connect more deeply with reality; perhaps instead of turning into mindless robots, we will be able to become more deeply involved with humanity, our local environment, and life itself.

【1】GPS weakens people’s memory because it ______.

A．records the places people have been to

B．offers people more than one way to a place

C．takes the place of thinking process in wayfinding

D．fails to teach people how to prepare for exploring

【2】The words “have surrendered it to” in Paragraph 1 probably means ______.

A．have compared it to

B．have given it up to

C．have learned it from

D．have taken it away from

【3】London taxi drivers are mentioned in Paragraph 2 to show that ______.

A．GPS is not widely used in London

B．the hippocampus memory can be exercised

C．hard-working drivers have larger hippocampi

D．active explorers are better than passive passengers

【4】What can we learn from the passage?

A．Turn-by-turn GPS navigation helps create mental maps.

B．Audio beacons technology will be replaced in the future.

C．Users’ active role should be considered in navigation technology.

D．GPS navigation apps have come a long way in helping with our memory.

25、Do you know World Smile Day? It falls on the first Friday of October every year. It is a day to make others smile, and to make sure you have a smile on your face as well.

It is said that Harvey Ball, an artist from the USA, created it. It began as a bright yellow circle with two dots (圆点) and a curved (弯曲的) black line. The two dots are eyes and the curved black line is a smiling mouth. Later, Harvey came up with the idea of the smiling face for World Smile Day to make people devote (奉献) one day each year to smiles and kind acts.

There are a number of things you can do on that day to make people around you smile. You can do little acts of kindness, like buying a stranger a cup of coffee, offering your seat to people in need on the bus, etc. Or you can surprise someone in your family with a gift, by cooking a meal for them, or doing something special for them.

World Smile Day encourages you to do something to bring smiles into the world. If we do this, we can make the world a better place.

【1】How does the writer introduce the topic at the beginning of the passage?

A．By listing a fact.

B．By giving an example.

C．By asking a question.

D．By explaining a difference.

【2】What does the second paragraph mainly talk about?

A．Where Harvey celebrated World Smile Day.

B．When Harvey created World Smile Day.

C．How Harvey celebrated World Smile Day.

D．How Harvey created World Smile Day.

【3】What do you think of Harvey?

A．Creative.

B．Strange.

C．Brave.

D．Honest.

【4】Which of the following acts is not mentioned according to this passage?

A．Buying a stranger food or drinks.

B．Giving your seat to others on the bus.

C．Cooking food for your family members.

D．Picking up the rubbish on the ground.

【5】What is the best title for this passage?

A．The History of World Smile Day

B．The Influence of World Smile Day

C．The Beginning of World Smile Day

D．The Introduction of World Smile Day

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Our children and grandchildren may not have a chance to visit many of the most famous places around the world. War, weather, age, traffic and pollution damage (破坏) these famous places. If we do nothing, they may even no longer remain. But looking after these places often costs more than one country can afford.

In the early 1970s, world governments decided that if they joined together, they would be able to preserve (保护) our history. If every country paid some money, they said, it would be possible to look after important historic places. For this reason, countries around the world united to form the World Heritage Organization in 1972. Today, the organization helps to protect and rebuild the most important places from our history.

However, one of the biggest problems for historic places is vandalism. That is to say, people sometimes enter these places and damage the buildings. At some places, such as Stonehenge in England, governments have built high fences to protect it from vandals.

There are many different ideas about how to solve the problem of vandalism. Some professors say that if guards keep walking around these places, vandals won’t be able to get in. Some professors say that if they fix more television cameras, they won’t need so many guards. Others say that the best way is education. If people learn to respect history, they won’t damage it. They will also want to spend money looking after old places. For this reason, the World Heritage Organization helps to spread information about the value of historic places.

【1】Our children and grandchildren may not have a chance to visit many of the most famous places around the world, probably because ________.

A．they don’t have enough money to go there

B．these places may disappear in the future

C．governments don’t allow them to enter

D．they are afraid of the guards there

【2】Which of the following shows us the action of vandalism?

A．People enter the places and damage the buildings.

B．Governments build high fences to protect the place from vandals.

C．Guards walk around these places and fix more television cameras.

D．War, weather, age, traffic and pollution damage these famous places.

【3】What’s the best way to solve the biggest problem of vandalism?

A．To spend more money looking after these places.

B．To make guards prevent vandals getting in.

C．To fix more television cameras in these places.

D．To make people know about the value of historic places.

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28、阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

A trader had traded in a far city for months and made a lot of money. He was riding his horse home. He rode on and on. The trader said to【1】(he), "I'11 lock the money in my safe (保险箱),【2】I won't feel easy."

At noon the trader stopped 【3】(give) his horse water. "Sir, a nail (钉子) is loose (未固定牢的)in your horse' s shoe," somebody reminded him.

The trader said, "I am in a hurry. I'll fix it when I get home."

In the afternoon【4】person reminded him to fix it, but he refused and the nail remained loose.

The trader rode 【5】(far). When he went into a forest, the horse fell down all of a sudden, and could not get up again.

The trader could only 【6】 the night in the forest. 【7】(lucky) he discovered a house nearby and the old couple in the house agreed to let him stay.

The trader put his bag of money under his arm and soon fell into a deep sleep.

At midnight, a group of robbers (强盗) came to the house. The old couple and the robbers were【8】(partner). The robbers stole the bag of money.

The next morning, when the trader woke up, he found that his money 【9】. (steal), and there was nobody in the house.

Now the trader 【10】(lose) everything just because he would not stop to fix a small nail in his horse' s shoe.

29、   Last Sunday I went on a school trip with my classmates. We visited the science museum and it was really _______. We got there so fast _______ train. We saw some _______ working on the farms along the way. And the villages were very _______.

At the museum, I _______ robots. I didn’t know _______ could play chess with us. It was so cool! Then the guide _______ us how to make a model robot. I _______ a lot of great photos, too.

After that, I went to the gift shop and bought some lovely _______ for my parents. They weren’t expensive.

All in all, it was ________.

【1】A.interesting B.boring C.terrible

【2】A.on B.in C.by

【3】A.teachers B.students C.farmers

【4】A.tired B.beautiful C.lazy

【5】A.learned a lot about B.shouted at C.was strict with

【6】A.robots B.flowers C.newspapers

【7】A.dressed B.taught C.killed

【8】A.took B.followed C.saved

【9】A.movies B.problems C.gifts

【10】A.a quiet night B.an exciting day C.a bad minute