邢台2025学年度第二学期期末教学质量检测初二英语

1、我昨天在城市南端的咖啡店对面采访了吴先生。

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【1】Amy wants to keep her old things because they bring back ________ memories.

【2】The young mother told the story in a ________ voice and the baby fell asleep soon.

【3】The big old tree ________ the school in my hometown has left many sweet memories.

【4】You can see objects and paintings from different ________ in the Louvre Museum.

【5】Sally is an honest girl. She always tells the ________.

【6】Russia is ________ the twenty-first FIFA WORLD CUP now.

【7】People planted ________ trees in the suburb of the city, Urumqi.

3、Helping people choose clothes is important.（改为同义句）

________ important ________ people choose clothes.

4、Our earth will be in great danger if we go on cutting down ______ trees every year.

A．millions

B．millions of

C．million

D．million of

5、The apple tastes delicious.Could I have another _________?

A. it   B. that   C. this   D. one

6、Mona doesn’t like making speeches. She feels　　　　talking in front of the class.

A.angry B.excited C.nervous D.surprised

7、My parents don’t allow me________close to the animals when visiting the zoo．

A. to get

B. get

C. to getting

D. getting

8、The sea covers ________ three-fourths of the earth’s surface.

A．near

B．next to

C．nearby

D．nearly

9、The bird’s song led them to a wonderful house ________ bread.

A．make of

B．make up

C．made of

D．made up

10、She would like ________longer,but she has to catch her plane back to work.

A.stayed B.to stay C.staying D.stays

11、This bus doesn’t go to the train station. I’m afraid you’ll have to ________ at Hongshan Stop and take BRT Line 1.

A．take off

B．put off

C．get off

D．go off

12、How old ________ you when you ________ learning English?

A．were; started

B．was; started

C．were; start

D．was; start

13、The window ________ open ________ wind.

A．was blown; by

B．is blown; with

C．was blow; by

D．was blowing; by

14、I _______ a picnic with my brother last Sunday. It was great.

A．have

B．had

C．will have

D．am having

15、Did she use________the hill near her house？

A．to climb

B．climbing

C．to climbing

D．climb

16、The environment here becomes better and better. _________ birds are coming back.

A．Hundred

B．Hundreds

C．Thousand

D．Thousands of

17、The boy doesn’t need any help. He is old enough to look after________.

A.his B.him C.himself

18、What were you doing all the afternoon? I couldn’t find you________.

A．somewhere

B．anywhere

C．nowhere

D．everywhere

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20、根据对话内容，从A到F选项中，选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，每个选项只使用一次。选项中有一项为多余项。

A: Could I invite my friends to my birthday party on Saturday, Mom?

B: Of course! 【1】

A: Yeah, um.... 【2】

B: What for?

A: 【3】

B: Well, I will go shopping tomorrow. And I can buy some drinks and snacks for you.

A: Oh, good. Thank you, Mom.

B: You’re welcome. Oh, could you clean your room?

A: 【4】

B: You need to clean it again for your party.

A: OK. 【5】

B: That’s right. After you finish your homework, let’s clean the room. I can sweep the floor and do the dishes.

A: Great!

A．I cleaned it last week.

B．Could you give me some money?

C．That sounds like fun.

D．I need to buy some drinks and snacks.

E．Could you take out the rubbish?

F．But I need to do my homework first.

21、   Harry wanted to find a job after finishing school. One day he came to a big company for it. There were six young people with Harry that day but the company only wanted one. The interview was very easy. It was only a few minutes' short talk. Then all of them were asked to go back home and wait. On the morning of the third day, Harry got a text message. It said, " We're sorry to tell you someone did better than you in the interview. So you can't work in our company."

Harry felt very disappointed. However, he answered "thank you all the same" in the text message. Later in that afternoon, Harry got another message. It said, "We are glad to tell you that you can be one of us."

Harry couldn't believe his eyes. It was a big surprise to him. He didn't know why, so he called the company and asked about it. The interviewer told him, "That's because of the same message in the morning. Only you said ' thank you'. That was the real test, so only you gave the right answer."

When you feel disappointed, do not forget to say "thank you" to the one who disappoints you.

【1】How many people went to the interview?

A.One. B.Five. C.Six. D.Seven.

【2】What do we know about the interview?

A.It was difficult. B.It was easy. C.It was a long talk. D.It was a boring talk.

【3】Why did the company send the first message? Because they wanted to ________.

A.do a test B.play a joke C.tell them the truth D.tell them the result

【4】Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?

A.Only one man could get the job. B.Harry felt surprised after he read the second message.

C.To know the reason, Harry sent a second message D.Only Harry gave the right answer.

【5】What's the best title of the passage?

A.Learn to Wait B.Work Hard Forever

C.Never Lose Your Hope D.Never Forget to Say "Thank You"

22、   Linda Evans was my best friend. We did everything together, piano lessons, movies, swimming, and horseback riding.

When I was 13, my family moved away. Linda and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on special time—like my wedding and Linda’s. Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we wrote less often. One day a card that I sent came back, stamped “Address Unknown”. I had no idea how to find Linda.

Over the years, I missed Linda very much, I wanted to share stories of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my sadness when my brother and then mother died. There was an empty place in my heart that only a friend like Linda could fill.

One day I was reading a newspaper when I noticed a photo of a young woman who looked a lot like Linda and whose last name was Wagman—Linda’s married name. “There must be thousands of Wagmans,” I thought, but I still wrote to her.

She called as soon as she got my letter. “Mrs. Tobin!” she said excitedly, “Linda Evans Wagman is my mother.”

Minutes later I heard a voice that I knew very much, even after 40 years, laughed and cried and caught up on each other’s lives. Now the empty place in my heart is filled，and there’s one thing that Linda and I know for sure: we won’t lose each other again!

【1】The writer went to piano lessons with Linda Evans _________.

A.at the age of 13 B.before she got married

C.after they moved to new homes D.before the writer’s family moved away

【2】They didn’t often write to each other because they _________.

A.got married B.didn’t like writing letters

C.had little time to do so D.could see each other on special time

【3】There was an empty place in the writer’s heart because she _________.

A.didn’t have a friend like Linda to share her happiness or sadness

B.received the card that she sent

C.didn’t know Linda’s address

D.was in trouble

【4】The writer was happy when she _________.

A.read the newspaper

B.heard Linda’s voice on the phone

C.met a young woman who looked a lot like Linda

D.wrote to the woman whose last name was Wagman

【5】They hadn’t kept in touch _________.

A.for about 27 years B.for about 40 years

C.since they got married D.Since the writer’s family moved away

23、   Indonesia is my mother’s homeland (家乡). Since I was young, I had learned a lot about the country. For a long time I had wanted to do something for the country and people there, and I thought volunteering would be a good and fun way to do so.

Teaching my first English class in Aceh was exciting but I was rather nervous. As time went by I learned how to be a better teacher. Teaching was really the most enjoyable of my many responsibilities (责任).

Many children were shy at first. But when they relaxed, they would start talking and telling you a lot of funny things. For the children who are more in need, the Education Program (TEP) will collect donations (收集捐赠) to help them.

As a volunteer. I had to visit the TEP children at home once a month and help them write a thank-you letter to their sponsors. This was a way for the children to communicate with their sponsors. Sometimes the sponsors would write back to the children.

【1】The writer thought volunteering would be a good way to ________.

A.play outdoors B.do something for Indonesia C.learn more about Indonesia   D.get the greatest pleasure

【2】The underlined word "sponsors" means “________”.

A.领导 B.发起者 C.资助者 D.亲戚

【3】According to the passage, which of the following is TRUE?

A.When the writer was young, he wanted to be a teacher.

B.The writer learned how to be a good teacher at first.

C.The writer learned a lot from his experience as a volunteer.

D.The children in Indonesia were brave (勇敢) and easy to talk to.

24、   It may be hard to believe, but the American Revolution—the war that freed the American states from British control—began over a cup of tea. Tea was not the only thing that caused the war, of course, but it played a very big part.

The British people’s love of tea is well-known. When the British won control over much of North America in the early 1700s, they brought their tea-drinking habits with them. Tea quickly became the continent’s most popular drink. As tea could not be grown locally, just as in Britain, it was shipped into the country—mostly from India.

In the early 1700s, the Britain government made a special deal with the East India Company, as an English trading company. They agreed that no other company was allowed to bring tea to Britain or any country controlled by Britain, including America. It was a great deal for the East India Company, since it meant that the company could decide whatever price it wanted for its products. And it always decided on a high price!

In North America, the local people did not like having to pay such high prices. Instead of overpaying for tea from the British, they turned to Dutch traders, who secretly brought tea to the country that was just as good and much less expensive. Although this broke the law, the American people didn’t care. They got the same cup of tea at a much lower price.

The East India Company, however, didn’t like this at all. By the 1760s, they were losing millions of pounds each year to Dutch traders—a huge amount of money in a time when $60 a year was considered a good income. Instead of reducing their prices to compete with the Dutch, the company asked the British government for help and the government agreed.

In 1767, the British introduced new law that increased the prices of all goods which were brought into America. These laws helped make the East India Company even richer and forced local people to pay much more for everything. The American leaders asked the British government not to do so, but the British refused to listen. These unfair laws increased Americans’ anger about British rule and the rest, as they say, is history.

【1】In the early 1700s where did most tea drunk in America come from?

A．China.

B．India.

C．America.

D．Britain.

【2】The underlined word “it” in Paragraph 3 refers to ________.

A．the tea maker

B．the American government

C．the British government

D．the East India Company

【3】Why did many Americans begin to buy tea from the Dutch traders?

A．The tea was much cheaper.

B．The tea was a lot healthier.

C．They could buy it more easily.

D．They didn’t want to support the British.

【4】What did the East India Company do to stop losing money?

A．It reduced the price of its tea.

B．It improved the taste of its tea.

C．It introduced a new kind of tea.

D．It asked the British government for help.

【5】What is the passage mainly about?

A．Tea trade in eighteenth-century America.

B．The relationship between America and Britain.

C．A reason for the start of the American Revolutionary War.

D．The introduction of British tea-drinking habits into America.

25、Nook’s arrival, Good or Bad?

Booklovers, most of them, will tell you what a pleasure it is to lend a favorite read to a friend—the novel you stayed up all night to get to the end of; the travel book that made you feel as if you yourself were on a train ride through India. For a while it seemed that e-book users were to be denied this pleasure of lending to friends. You could b【1】 a book or magazine for your reading device, but you couldn’t lend it out.

But now, with the Nook, the US book chain Barnes and Noble’s response to Amazon’s Kindle, electronic readers will be able to have their l【2】 literary enthusiasm pressed on their friends, just like readers of physical books can. You simply email the book from your Nook and your friend can read it for two weeks, using any device with the Barnes and Noble e-book reader software. It’s a big i【3】 from previous e-book readers.

The Nook offers other features too. You read in black and white on the main screen, just like with Kindle. The difference is that on the lower part of the device there’s a c【4】   touch screen, which allows you to browse through a book or magazine, but goes black when you’re not using it so that you s【5】 power.

Another exciting thing about the Nook is that it offers Wi-Fi, arguably a big advance on previous e-book readers. Customers in the United States can use the Internet connection to read whole e-books at Barnes and Noble’s hundreds of bookstores for free. None of Barnes and Noble’s c【6】 can come close to this.

But the Nook, ironically, has t【7】 out to be a money-loser for Barnes and Noble, or at least a job-loser for Barnes and Noble’s employees. According to Marian Maneker at The Big Money Website, if the Nook is successful it might take sales from the company’s bookstores, eventually forcing their closure and the loss of thousands of jobs.

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  当前不少文学作品被改编成电影、有人选择看电影，有人则喜欢读原著。请你以“Film or book, which do you like best?”为题，按照下列提示写一篇英语短文。

提示：1. 看电影：省时、有趣、易懂

  2. 读原著：细节更多、语言优美

  3. 我的看法及理由

注意：1. 根据提示可适当增加细节，以使行文流畅；

  2. 词数100左右，文章题目和开头已给出（不计入总词数）；

  3. 参考词汇：original work 或book in the original (原著)。

Film or book, which do you like best?

How to read the book in the original? Different people have different opinions. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________