2024-2025年安徽蚌埠初一下册期末英语试卷

1、He was about to leave ______ the telephone rang.

A.while B.as C.whether D.when

2、Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, one of the great American novels, ________ first published in the United States in 1885.

A.was B.were C.has been D.had been

3、The company always ________ great importance to the quality of their products. That’s why there is always a steady increase in sales year by year.

A．attaches

B．puts

C．makes

D．plays

4、Since the outbreak of the disease, 90 patients have been to have the illness and other suspected patients are still under examination.

A.confirmed B.convinced C.confused D.consulted

5、Just have a little patience. He’ll surely become ______ as anybody else’s.

A. a husband as kind B. as a husband kind

C. kind as a husband D. as kind a husband

6、________ the star leave the court, the girl quickly picked up her camera and ran over to him.

A．To see

B．Seeing

C．Seen

D．Being seen

7、— Shall we go out for dinner tonight, Bob?

— ________.

A．You are right

B．That sounds great

C．Have a nice time

D．Good night

8、—How’s Jack doing in Britain?

—I wrote an email to him last week, but _____ I have had no reply from him.

A.from now on B.so far C.just now D.later on

9、Our school makes _______ a rule that students______ bring their mobile phones to campus.

A.it; needn’t B.it; mustn’t

C.that; mustn’t D.that; needn’t

10、Helen had to shout ______ above the sound of the music.

A.making her heard B.to make her hear

C.making herself heard D.to make herself heard

11、Luckily, some children were playing basketball when the powerful earthquake ________ yesterday afternoon.

A．gave out

B．watched out

C．broke out

D．turned out

12、After the clock _____ twelve, the students walked out of the lecture room.

A.beat B.hit C.struck D.rang

13、He is always dreaming ______ in space.

A.living B.to live C.of living D.to living

14、— What are you doing this Saturday?

— I’m not sure, but I   go to the Rolling Stones concert

A.must B.would

C.should D.might

15、The reason why I declined your invitation to the picnic was ______ a job interview that day.

A.because I had B.because of having C.due to D.that I had

16、I was still sleeping when the fire _____, and then it spread quickly.

A. broke out B. put out

C. came out D. got out

17、_________, which is ideal for people who suffer from frequent headaches, memory failures, anxiety, backache, and loss of concentration, is a practice to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm state.

A. Meditation B. Coasteering C. Street dance D. Chinese martial arts

18、—I couldn’t tell Jack from his twin brother.

—Me too, and there is no obvious________between them.

A.contribution B.distinction C.promotion D.expression

19、Generally speaking , almost all the kids are ______about how everything around them works.

A. curious   B. careful

C. anxious    D. excited

20、With all the money __________, the man had to make a living by begging.

A.using up B.used up C.using up of D.given out

21、________in a story book, the girl didn’t notice the stranger.

A.Burying B.Buried C.To bury D.Having buried

22、Having enough fat and salt in your meals will _____ the urge to snack between meals and help you lose weight.

A. extend B. rid C. reduce D. focus

23、I think the Brazilian team is the strongest team and there is ______ that it will win the 2010 World Cup.

A.no way B.no problem

C.no doubt D.no wonder

24、With a lot of questions _________, the official is having a hard time.

A.answered B.to answer C.answering D.being answered

25、You may depend on ______ that Tom will help you with your English.

A.one B.what C.which D.it

26、   General Motors (GM) shared the first details of its third-generation electric vehicle (EV) and Ultium battery system just about a month ago, but it won’t be the only automaker using this new EV hardware. Honda(本田) is now planning to build two new electric models based on the GM tech.

Sharing of EV technology across automakers is becoming an increasingly common practice. Last summer, Ford reached an agreement to build at least one European battery electric vehicle (BEV) based on Volkswagen’s platform and more recently, Hyundai(现代) announced plans to use the electric platform from California-based startup Canoo.

This hardware sharing makes sense for automakers since the technology is expensive to develop but once it’s built into a vehicle, there won’t be much to distinguish(区分) one from another. Sharing allows the development cost to be spread over more vehicles, which is crucially important for a company to seize market share in the fierce competition.

While Honda has an excellent reputation for designing traditional engines, having even supplied some to GM in the past, it has struggled with BEVs. The Japanese automaker has focused more on fuel cell(电池) technology whose adoption is very limited at present. The only BEV that Honda currently offers in the U.S. market is the Clarity EV which offers just 89 miles of range on a charge. While Honda’s own BEV efforts don’t seem to have gained any progress, they have been working with GM on battery module design since 2018 and likely had a hand in the development of Ultium battery system.

The so-called “top-hats” which make up the body and inside of the vehicle will be designed and developed by Honda, however, the propulsion system and battery will come from GM. The first of the new Honda BEVs are scheduled to go on sale in 2024 and be produced at GM factories.

【1】Which automaker will probably use the new EV hardware besides GM?

A.Ford. B.Honda. C.Volkswagen. D.Hyundai.

【2】What is becoming more and more common among automakers?

A.Using electric platform. B.Building electric models.

C.Sharing EV technology. D.Seizing car market share.

【3】Why is hardware sharing necessary to automakers?

A.Because making vehicles is difficult.

B.Because designing engines is important.

C.Because distinguishing vehicles is necessary.

D.Because developing technology is very expensive.

【4】What can we infer from the passage?

A.Honda has defeated GM in developing BEVs.

B.Honda will be better than GM in developing BEVs.

C.Honda and GM will be partners in developing BEVs.

D.Honda will purchase GM factories to produce BEVs.

27、When we’ve got children, it’s typical of us to give careful thought to how much TV the children are watching and exposed to. Are we being overprotective about the effect reality TV is having on our child? The answer is “No”. Or rather, there’s increasing evidence that these programs can have a profound influence on young people.

A recent research indicates that some reality TV shows can be as damaging for teenage girls as too many cartoons are for kids. The truth is that reality TV is anything but reality—but that’s not necessarily what our children believe. A study for the Girl Scout Research Institute in the US found that eight out of ten girls aged between 11 and 17 who regularly watch reality shows believe these programs describe real life. In fact, much of reality TV is a heavily manipulated (操纵) view of what’s really happening, and the worst of it strengthens the sort of female stereotypes women have spent decades trying to remove.

Many of the women on reality TV shows are acting out lives as teenage mothers or drama queens. Strong, hard-working, purposeful young women with ambitions beyond their looks are rare in these programs. There’s a widespread emphasis on the value of women concerning how they look and dress, which gives young viewers the message that being a woman is all about style and appearance, not what you do or stand for. Imran Siddiquee, Director of Social Media and Outreach, is concerned that these programs show the worst stereotypes of womanhood and “normalize” them in what appear to be everyday settings. “They offer such a limited view of what it is to be a woman, and all over the world young girls are addicted to it,” he says.

We should encourage our children to be critical thinkers. Whether reality TV is changing our children’s views, or whether they are attracted to programs that agree with their beliefs, it’s vital we that their viewing habits could strengthen these unbalanced ideas.

【1】Who is this passage most probably intended for?

A．General public.

B．Teenage girls.

C．TV producers.

D．Parents.

【2】What is the problem with a reality TV show?

A．Its contents and views are rather unreal.

B．It has removed the usual female stereotypes.

C．Its contents and views are rather artificial.

D．It overemphasizes young women’s ambitions

【3】According to Imran Siddquee, what should reality TV shows present?

A．Tips on how to become fashionable young girls.

B．Genuine reflections of females and their work.

C．Distinction between true life and TV dramas

D．Ways to gain more popularity among peers.

【4】what is the text mainly about?

A．Reality TV shows’ impact on young girls and parent’s guidance.

B．Situations where teenagers are attracted to certain TV programs.

C．The way to help children to have the habit of critical thinking.

D．The stereotypes of women on TV and audience’s reactions.

28、   An allowance (零用钱）is an important tool for teaching kids how to budget, save and make their own decisions.Children remember and leam from mistakes when their own dollars are lost or spent foolishly.

How large an allowance is proper? Experts say there is not right amount.Actual amounts differ from area to area, and from family to family.To set a right amount of allowance for your child, work up a weekly budget- Allow for entertainment expenditure such as movies and snacks.' Next, include everyday expenses such as lunch money, bus fare, and school supplies.“If you make the child responsible for these 4 bills'，” says Josephine Swanson, a consumer (消费者）specialist，“he or she will learn to budget for necessary expenditure.”

Finally, add some extra money to make saving possible.If you can, keep your child's allowance in line with that of his or her friends.A child whose purchasing (购买)power falls away below his or her friends' can feel left out.

It can be hard, but avoid excusing your children when they make a mistake with their allowance.When Brooke Stephens was ten and growing up in Jacksonville, her mother gave her $5 a week, 1 - 75 of which was for bus fare and lunch.“If you lose your money，”Brooke's mother told her，“you walk home.”One week the girl spent all her allowance in a candy store； then she called home for a ride.“ Mom made me walk home， ” recalled Stephens，now a financial (财务）planner in Brooklyn.“At first I was angry.But I finally realized that she was trying to teach me an important lesson.”

Experts advise that an allowance should not be tied directly to a child's daily chores.Kids should help around the house not because they get paid for it but because they share responsibilities as members of a family.You might, however, pay a child for doing extra jobs at home.That can develop his or her initiative (主动性).

【1】What is the passage mainly about?

A.How to work up a budget.

B.How to teach children to save money.

C.How to teach children to manage money matters.

D.How Lo develop the initiative of teenage children.

【2】What does the underlined word “expenditure” mean in Paragraph 2?

A.The act of spending money.

B.An organized journey.

C.Belief about the future.

D.Something extremely expensive.

【3】What's the right amount of allowance according to the author?

A.More than the amount of the kid's fellows.

B.Not less than the amount of the kid's fellows.

C.Almost equal amount with kids in other areas.

D.Almost equal amount with kids in other schools.

【4】What's the main purpose of the author by giving the example of Brooke Stephens?

A.To show Brooke's parents are both too mean.

B.To suggest parents be strict on kids' allowance.

C.To question the opinions of the experts.

D.To explain why allowance is necessary for kids.

29、“Long time no see” is a very interesting sentence. When I first read this sentence from an American friend’s email, I laughed. I thought it was a perfect example of Chinglish.

Obviously, it is a word-by-word literal translation of the Chinese greetings with a ruled English grammar and structure! Later on, my friend told me that it is a standard American greeting. I was too thrilled to believe her. Her words could not convince me at all. So I did a research on google.com. To my surprise, there are over 60 thousand web pages containing “Long time no see.” This sentence has been widely used in emails, letters, newspapers, movies, books, or any other possible places. Though it is sort of informal, it is part of the language that Americans use daily. Ironically, if you type this phrase in Microsoft Word, the software will tell you that the grammar needs to be corrected.

Nobody knows the origin of this Chinglish sentence. Some people believe that it came from Charlie Chan’s movies. In the 1930s, Hollywood moviemakers successfully created a world wide famous Chinese detective named “Charlie Chan” on wide screens. Detective Chan likes to teach Americans some Chinese wisdom by quoting Confucius. “Long time no see” was his trademark. Soon after Charlie Chan, “Long time no see” became a popular phrase in the real world with thanks to the popularity of these movies.

Some scholars refer to America as a huge pot of stew. All kinds of culture are mixed in the stew together, and they change the color and taste of each other. American Chinese, though a minority ethnic(少数民族的成员) group in the United States, is also contributing some changes to the stew! Language is usually the first thing to be influenced in the mixed stew.

You can have some other examples besides adoptions from Chinese, such as pizza from Italian, sushi from Japanese, and déjà vu from French etc. There is a long list! Americans do not just simply borrow something from others. They will modify it and make it their own, so you would not be surprised to find a tofu and peanut butter hamburger in a restaurant, or to buy a bottle of iced Chinese green tea with honey in a grocery store. Since Americans appreciate Chinese culture more and more nowadays, I believe more Chinese words will become American English in the future. In this way the American stew keeps adding richness and flavor.

【1】The writer himself felt surprised at ______.

A．the Chinglish expression “Long time no see”

B．“Long time no see” used as standard American English

C．so many literal translation of the expressions used in America

D．finding out Americans use the expression every day

【2】The word “stew” in the 4th paragraph probably means ______.

A．mixture literature

B．Confucius’ words

C．a kind of cooked dish

D．American changing cultures

【3】According to the passage, it can be inferred that ______.

A．detectives translate the phrase “Long time no see”

B．Hollywood made “Long time no see” popular

C．the huge pot of stew greatly affects all kinds of languages

D．cultures can be changed in the huge pot of stew

【4】The main idea of the passage is that ______.

A．some Chinese expressions are introduced into English

B．you’ll not be surprised at a tofu in a restaurant in America

C．some American expressions can be used in China

D．American English keep being enriched from different cultures

【5】According to the passage, which of the following statements is not true?

A．Informal language sometimes doesn’t go with grammar and structure.

B．Languages are always ruled by grammar and structure.

C．Long time no see” has been used in at least four media mentioned in the passage.

D．There are four languages mentioned to be adopted in the American stew.

30、My father, a soldier, was ordered to move again. It came as a _____________ because we had just moved into the present duty station a few weeks before.

It was the fourth time we’d got to move to a ___________ place in just two years, which was truly our “home” in Hawaii that we’d only _________________ through my father’s music with ukulele (尤克里里)._________ was the thing that connected my father with Hawaii, a reminder of his home and_______.

Everything was _________________ this time. We were just arriving, but he was already ___________ to leave again without us. Our father, the person who could make us _________ the “new” family, was gone. Suddenly, we were surrounded by cousins who ___________ knowing each other, joining in a cultural __________________ of which we only knew the surface. We were __________ in the family.

One day, I ________________ my father’s ukulele that I had watched him play was ________________ in the corner. When I tried to play it, though unskillfully, I felt closer to him and our Hawaiian roots. Then I picked up an old song book, and ____________ myself to play. I would play and sing, __________ my father had been here. Finally my father______________with a newly-bought ukulele, and we had a mini concert. He was________ that I had learned so much.

What I really ______________ was that music has the ________________ to do truly extraordinary things________ us with our culture and each other, our past and our present.

【1】

A．surprise

B．test

C．lesson

D．story

【2】

A．dangerous

B．cold

C．dark

D．new

【3】

A．suffered from

B．heard about

C．heard from

D．looked after

【4】

A．Music

B．Food

C．Money

D．Nature

【5】

A．language

B．culture

C．economy

D．school

【6】

A．good

B．wrong

C．different

D．sad

【7】

A．excited

B．prepared

C．eager

D．pleased

【8】

A．put in

B．break in

C．take in

D．fit in

【9】

A．grew up

B．got up

C．set up

D．looked up

【10】

A．relic

B．exchange

C．competition

D．tradition

【11】

A．customers

B．teachers

C．strangers

D．doctors

【12】

A．found

B．bought

C．shared

D．broke

【13】

A．picked

B．served

C．left

D．limited

【14】

A．allowed

B．advised

C．taught

D．told

【15】

A．even if

B．as if

C．so that

D．now that

【16】

A．responded

B．succeeded

C．returned

D．recovered

【17】

A．moved

B．confident

C．tired

D．angry

【18】

A．missed

B．showed

C．hated

D．learned

【19】

A．duty

B．space

C．honor

D．power

【20】

A．showing

B．connecting

C．punishing

D．praising

31、课文内容填空

Middle English is the name 【1】(give) to the English used from around the 12th to the 15th centuries. Many things played a part in the 【2】(develop) of this new type of English. The most important 【3】(贡献) was from the Normans, a 【4】 (French speak) people who【5】 (打败) England and took control of the country in 1066. 【6】, the Norman Conquest did not affect English as much as the Angles and the Saxons’ victory about 600 years earlier, which led to Old English 【7】 (replace) Celtic. Even though the Normans spoke French for the e【8】 250 years they ruled England, French did not replace English 【9】 the first language. On the other hand, the English language did borrow many words from French. This resulted in even more words with similar meanings, such as answer (from Old English) and reply (from Old French). It is interesting to learn 【10】 the words for animals and meat developed.

32、请结合材料，按要求用英文写作。

When a mother is asked what shortcomings her son has, she says many without stop. But when asked about his strengths, she thinks of none.

要求：1. 根据上述内容谈谈你的感想；

2. 应紧扣材料，有明确的观点；

3. 词数不少于60；

4. 在答题卡上作答。

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