静安区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12分)

On December 23, 2008, Niu Niu held a piano recital(独奏会) at the national Grand Theater. As an eleven-year-old boy, he became the youngest pianist ever to perform a concert at the theater.

Never too young to learn

Niu Niu was born into a musical family in Xiamen. His father Zhang was a piano teacher. Niu Niu grew up listening to his father's student playing the piano. At just three years old, Niu Niu asked his father to teach him to play, too.

"I gave Niu Niu some sheet music(活动乐谱)and helped him find the eight notes(琴键)when he first played the piano. To my surprise, he played nearly 80 percent correct," said the father. He used to think that 3 years old is too young an age to learn piano, but Niu Niu changed his mind. He continued to allow Niu Niu to watch his teaching of other students and gave him more sheet music to play.

Playing for fun

Zhang started teaching Niu Niu standard piano lessons when he was four. Unlike many other piano teachers, Zhang didn’t insist that Niu Niu play strictly with the correct finger positioning(指法). He said that the strict finger positioning would rob some kids of fun of playing. So Niu Niu could play in his own way. He could play the tone successfully. But Niu Niu was required to play the music without looking at the sheet music. Now he can memorize about 80 pages.

Rising to fame

In 2003, at the age of 6, Niu Niu successfully held a sole concert(独唱音乐会) in his hometown Xiamen. At the age of 8, he gave a performance at the International Piano Festival in France. At the age of 10, Niu Niu played in London and his performance was praised by Prince Charles. Last year, this young pianist published his first album(专辑)“Niu Niu Plays Mozart” and over 10,000 copies have been sold in the world.

We are very glad to see a young Chinese pianist rising in the music world.

93. How old was Niu Niu when he performed a concert at the National Grand Theater?

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94. Niu Niu’s father Zhang wasn’t a piano teacher, was he?

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95. What did Niu Niu’s father feel when Niu Niu played nearly 80 percent of the sheet music correct?

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96. Should Niu Niu play the piano with the correct finger positioning or in his own way?

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97. In which year was Niu Niu’s performance praised by Prince Charles?

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98. What do you think of Zhang’s way of teaching his son Niu Niu? Why?

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卢湾区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12分)

Green is an important color in nature. It is the color of grass and the leaves on trees. It is also the color of most growing plants.

Sometimes, the word green means young, fresh and growing. Sometimes, it describes something that is not yet ripe (成熟) or finished. For example, a greenhorn is someone who has no experience, who is new to a situation. In the fifteenth century, a greenhorn was a young cow or ox whose horns (角) had not yet developed. A century later, a greenhorn was a soldier who had not yet had any experience in battle. By the eighteenth century, a greenhorn had the meaning it has today—a person who is new in a job.

Someone who has the ability to grow plants well is said to have a green thumb. The expression comes from early 1900s. A person with a green thumb seems to have a magic touch that makes plants grow quickly and well. You might say the woman next door has a green thumb if her garden continues growing long after your plants have died.

The Green Revolution is the name given some years ago to the development of new kinds of rice and other grains. The new plants produced much larger crops. The Green Revolution was the result of hard work by agricultural (农业的)    scientists who had green thumbs.

Green is also the color used to describe the powerful feeling, jealousy (嫉妒). The green-eyed monster is not a frightening creature (生物) from outer space. It is an expression firstly used about 400 years ago by British writer William Shakespeare in his play "Othello". It describes the unpleasant feeling a person has when someone has something he wants. A young man may suffer from the green-eyed monster if his girlfriend begins going out with someone else.

93. What does a greenhorn now refer to?

94. Is the person with a green thumb good at growing plants?

95. Who works hard and helps to develop new kinds of rice and other grains?

96. People don't use green to describe people's feeling, do they?

97. When was the expression "the green-eyed monster" probably firstly used?

98. What kind of person with the green-eyed monster do you think he/she is?

闵行区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12分)

Anna lived on the side of a valley in Australia. Although she was poor, she was always helpful. One winter, there was a very big flood, and a lot of houses were washed away. Anna’s house was high enough to escape the flood. So, when the water had disappeared, here house was not damaged.

However, Anna’s house was quite small and there were only two little bedrooms. Her husband died of illness when their four children were very young. But, Anna shared her house with one of the families that had lost everything in the flood until it was possible for them to rebuild their own house.

Anna’s friends were very puzzled when they saw Anna do this. They could not understand why Anna wanted to give herself so much more work and trouble when she had so many children to support. Life would be even harder when another family joined them.

“Well,” Anna explained to her friends, “ 30 years ago, a woman in the town where I then lived in Germany found herself very poor, because her husband had been killed in the war, and she had a lot of children, as I have now.”

The day before Christmas, the woman said to her children, “We won’t have much for Christmas this year, so I am going to get only one gift for all of us and I am sure we will all be glad to have it. Now I’ll go and get it.” She came back with a little girl who was eve poorer than they, and who had no parents. “Here is our gift,” she said to her children.

“The children were very excited and happy to get such a gift. They welcomed the little girl, and she grew up as their sister. I was that Christmas gift.”

93. Was Anna’s house washed away in the big flood?

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94. How many people were there in Anna’s family?

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95. How did Anna’s friends feel when she shared her house with a homeless family?

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96. Where did Anna live 30 years ago?

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97. Who was once given as a Christmas gift to a poor family?

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98. Why did Anna like to help the poor?

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浦东新区初三英语第一学期期末质量抽查试卷

Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题)：(12分)

I lost my childhood to Harry Potter.

---Tom Felton

After nearly ten years, the Harry Potter bandwagon (热潮) is going to end. And for the young

stars who have spent half their lives filming the movie, the pain of saying goodbye could not be

greater. But there are several things Tom Felton---also known as Harry's school nemesis (复仇者)

Draco Malfoy --- is looking forward to. And from the moment you see him, it is clear why.

"For the past ten years we haven't had much free time to do other things. I certainly haven't had much free time to keep my own hair color, or lie in the sun, or do anything with only a little danger like skiing. It was nice to go on holiday and not have to make up on the SPF50 and sit under an umbrella with three caps on," Tom said.

For all the fame and wealth that Harry Potter has brought its young stars, there have been plenty of downsides, too.

Tom is now 23 but talks like he is ten years older, and his co-stars have been working since they were young children. And while he says he has no regrets about being in the movies, he also says that at the same time he had to grow up fast.

"One thing that people keep on saying to me is that the wealth and the fame must have made up fax missing out on my childhood," he says. "But the idea of money ---putting a price on your childhood--- is ridiculous (可笑的). You will never get those years back. Don't you think you can put a price on them?"

"And to me, fame is not a positive thing. The idea of being famous is a lot better than the reality."

The youngest of four brothers brought up in a middle-class home in Epsom, Surrey, he honestly says that no one in the family knew what to do with all the money he was making. His mother invested some of it in property (不动产) but told him the rest was his to do with what he wanted.

93. Who is Tom Felton known as in the film Harry Potter?

94. How long has Tom Felton spent filming Harry Potter?

95. What couldn't Tom do while he was an actor in a film?

96. Why did Tom think putting a price on his childhood was ridiculous?

97. Tom's mother invested all of his money in property, didn't she?

98. What have you learned from Tom's childhood experience?