2014英语初三期中试卷下学期 

一、单项选择填空(30分)

1.        I walked into the classroom, the teacher had started teaching already.

A. By the time    B. While    C. After

2. The water is not     enough. Add some more sugar, please.

A. crispy      B. sweet    C. salty

3. The dish doesn’t        nice. I don’t think it has a good       .

A. taste; taste    B. look;look  C. look; taste

4. —What’s the news about?

—It is reported that some fans were injured in the crowd before the famous

singer       .

A. looked up    B. thought up  C. showed up

5. —I often notice Wang Fang       to the old people’s home.

— I hear she often helps the old people there.

A. come      B. came   C. to come

6. —Have all the students known that we will have an English exam this Saturday?

—Yes. Every student         about it.

A. tells     B. told    C. was told

7. I met a friend of mine        in the street yesterday.

A. by accident    B. by the way  C. by mistake

8. This is        a thrilling story        hardly any people believe it.

A. such; that    B. so; that   C. such; so

9. —Why don’t you have a notebook with you?

—I’ve        it at home.

A. lost      B. forgotten  C. left

10. —When       you        your homework?

—I had finished it before he       back.

A. have; finished; came

B. have; finished; was coming

C. did; finish; came

11. All the adults were killed in the accident, but the two-year-old boy       alive.

A. ordered     B. expected  C. remained

12. Luo Juan will get        if we ask her to sing.

A. embarrassing    B. exhausted  C. embarrassed

13. —Do you know       ?

—In the 6th century.

A. when the abacus is invented

B. when was the abacus invented

C. when the abacus was invented

14. The idea of “sunshine sports” makes it possible for kids to choose and do _______ about sports as long as one hour every day.

A. pleasant something                B. anything pleasant

C. something pleased

15. It’s raining heavily ________ the farmers keep on working in the field.

A. but     B. though   C. because

二、完形填空(10分)

The 50-year-old farmer, Wu Yulu is quite different from the others in his village. He is the   1  of 38 handmade robots. He has been   2  to show his robots at the opening ceremony of the Shanghai World Expo.

Born in a  3   family, he did not have the opportunity to go to school. But even as a child, he knew he wanted to make machines. “I think   4   machines is a talent I was born with, ” he said.

In 1987, he finally finished his  5   robot that could walk like a man. He named it “Wu No. 1”.

6   , his experiments  have not been away from danger. One of his fingers was injured in 1989. And in 1999, his house was   7   by fire.

In 2003, Wu and his robots were invited to perform in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, and in 2009, his robots were on   8   along with the Chinese Shenzhou spaceships.

Wu’s latest dream is to invent robots  9   can help people in daily life. He will invent robots to help the disabled or look   10   children.

1. A. farmer   B. inventor   C. discoverer

2. A. refused    B. invited   C. collected

3. A. poor    B. rich    C. small

4. A. selling    B. repairing  C. making

5. A. first     B. second    C. best

6. A. However   B. Until   C. Instead

7. A. cut     B. built    C. destroyed

8. A. sale     B. display   C. time

9. A. what    B. when   C. that

10. A. up    B. for    C. after