2025-2026学年江苏常州初二(下)期末试卷英语

1、   There is a Chinese saying “千里送鹅毛，礼轻情意重”. The saying comes from a historic book called Lu Shi (《路史》). According to the story, a Tang Dynasty official in Yunnan wanted to show his respect (尊敬) to the emperor (皇帝). He sent a man named Mian Bogao to bring some gifts to the emperor. 1. One of the gifts was a beautiful swan, which was a very valuable gift at the time.

Mian took good care of the swan on his way to the emperor. One day, he passed by a lake and wanted to let the swan drink some water. 2. But as soon as he set the swan free, the swan flew away, leaving only some feathers on the ground. Mian was very worried, but he didn’t try to run away. 3. 他决定告诉皇帝发生了什么。He picked up a feather and kept going on his trip.

When Mian met the emperor, he told him what happened and said, 4. “This swan feather is light, but it carries my deep respect for you.” The emperor was happy with Mian’s honesty and sincerity (真诚). He forgave (原谅) Mian. 5. 人们现在用这个说法来表明好的礼物不一定要很贵。What matters is the sincerity it carries.

【1】________________________

【2】________________________

【3】________________________

【4】________________________

【5】________________________

2、In the West, people like to finish a meal with _____.

A.sweet something B.something sweet

C.some sweet D.anything sweet

3、Our teacher often tells us _____ time.

A.not waste B.don’t waste C.not to waste

4、—We will make a trip to Hainan Island next weekend. Will you go with us?

—No, I can’t _______ it at present.

A. save   B. offer   C. afford   D. accept

5、—The villagers near the lake are very pleased to see all kinds of birds again.

一It’s true that ________ water quality sees wildlife returning to the lake.

A.less B.better C.lower

6、Look at _________ calendar. It's June 22.

A. a B. an C. the   D. /

7、—When do you think ________?

—I have no idea. Maybe last night.

A．the computer has gone wrong

B．has the computer gone wrong

C．did the computer go wrong

D．the computer went wrong

8、Lucy had a traffic accident on her way home. Luckily, she ___________, just got scared.

A. didn’t hurt   B. wasn’t hurt

C. was hurt   D. Hurt

9、---What are you going to do this weekend, Shirley?

---I'm not sure. I __________ visit my grandparents in the country with my parents.

A．should

B．can

C．may

D．shall

10、—Have you ever ________ Kanas Lake in Xinjiang?

—Yes. It’s a wonderful place and I hope to go there again.

A．been to

B．gone to

C．been in

D．gone in

11、The students love the teachers ________ can make their lessons fun.

A.whom B.who C.whose

12、—The population of the poor is getting smaller and smaller in China.

—___________ the government, our living conditions have improved a lot.

A.As for B.Thanks to C.Instead of

13、I lost my wallet. ____________unlucky day!

A. What B. What an C. How D. How an

14、A:I am afraid Tim is not going to join you this time.

B:____________

A. What a pity!     B. It’s very kind of you!

C. That’s right! D. That sounds great!

15、The room _______ flowers.

A. fill with   B. full of   C. is filled with   D. is filled of

16、 -Your pencil case looks really beautiful.

-   . But in fact, Gina’s looks better than mine.

A. Of course B. Not at all

C. My pleasure D. Thank you

17、---Does your father go to work by _______ car every day?

---No, he sometimes takes _______ bus.

A. a; the   B. the, a   C. /; a   D. a; /

18、Don’t make any noise. We _____ to a piece of wonderful music at the moment.

A.will listen B.are listening C.listen D.listened

19、The Fourth Digital Summit (峰会) ________ from April 25 to 26 in Fuzhou.

A．held

B．was held

C．was holding

20、The roof of the house needs repairing. It’s raining now, you’d better get something to ______rain drops.

A. control   B. cover

C. carry   D. catch

21、________you do，I won’t be angry with you because I love you so much．

A．Wherever

B．Whenever

C．Whoever

D．Whatever

22、补全对话

（A reporter is interviewing a foreign visitor on the Great Wall ）

A: Excuse me . I`m a reporter from a student magazine.

【1】 ?  

B: Sure ,please .

A: 【2】 ?

B: I`m from Australia .

A: 【3】   ?

B: I came to Beijing three days ago .  

A: 【4】   ?

B: Yes, just a little.  I began studying Chinese  four months ago.  

A: How do you like the Great Wall ?

B: It`s great . I like it very much. 

A: Thank you for answering my question. 【5】   ?

B: Thank you .

23、结合本题所设置的情境，在每个空白处填入适当的内容完成下列对话。

A: Jeff, let’s take a walk around the lake tomorrow, OK?

B: Sounds like fun. 【1】?

A: It’ll be sunny. Jeff, 【2】?

B: Yes, Dad. I finished my homework a few minutes ago.

A: But what are you doing now?

B: 【3】. I just want to relax myself.

A: Is that also your homework?

B: Not really. But the video is well worth watching. It's about the Novel Coronavirus. 【4】?

A: Yes, I've just heard something about it. Anyway, it may be a 1ittle bit hard for you to understand.

B: A little bit hard? You must be joking. In the video, the conversation between the host and the expert makes the topic clear.

A: It does? Can I watch it with you?

B:【5】. Let’s learn more about the 2019-nCoV pneumonia and follow their safety suggestions.

24、A boy called Mario had many friends, and he was proud of it. Whoever he met, he would like to show off how popular he was at school.

One day, his grandpa said to him, “Mario, I know that you don’t have as many friends as you think. Many of them are not true to you.”

Mario thought maybe his grandpa was right. However, he wasn’t sure how he could test whether his schoolmates were real friends or not, so he asked his grandpa. The old man answered, “I have just exactly what you need. It’s in my room. Wait a minute.” The old man left, soon returning as if carrying something in his hand, but Mario could see nothing there.

“Take it. It’s a very special chair. Because it’s invisible, it will be hard for you to sit on it. However, if you manage to sit on it, you can use the chair’s magic power to tell who your real friends are.”

Mario took the strange invisible chair to school. At break time he asked everyone to form a circle, and he put himself in the middle, with his chair.

“Nobody move. You’re about to see something amazing,” said Mario. Then he tried sitting on the chair. Unable to see it, he missed and fell to the ground. Everyone had a pretty good laugh. “Wait, wait,” said Mario, making another try. But again he missed the seat.

Mario didn’t give up. He kept trying to sit on the magic chair. Finally, he did it. This time he felt himself in mid-air.

Then he experienced the magic that his grandpa had been talking about. Looking around, Mario saw George, Lucas and Diana holding him up, so he wouldn’t fall. But some schoolmates whom he had considered as friends had done nothing but made fun of him. Mario was quite thankful to his grandpa, who helped him test who his true friends were.

【1】What did Mario think of himself from the passage?

A．Magic.

B．Popular.

C．Powerful.

D．Exciting.

【2】What did Mario’s grandfather think of Mario according to the passage?

A．He was hard-working.

B．He was always in trouble.

C．He was naughty and crazy.

D．He didn’t have many friends as he thought.

【3】What did Mario’s grandfather give him to help him tell his real friends?

A．A circle.

B．Nothing.

C．An invisible chair.

D．Something normal.

【4】How did Mario succeed to sit on the “chair”?

A．He kept trying.

B．He lost at last.

C．By using magic power.

D．With his friends’ help.

【5】In the writer’s opinion, who is a real friend?

A．A friend who laughs at you.

B．A friend who makes fun of you.

C．A friend who helps you in need.

D．A friend who likes to play with you.

25、My dad was a plumber(水管工) for the public works department in our town， so from time to time he came into my school. Can you imagine sitting in class and seeing your dad walk past the door of your classroom and wave his hand at you? In junior high?

One girl in our class always made fun of me because my dad was a plumber and hers was a lawyer(律师)， and she would say things like， “Ew， that’s gross(粗俗的)!” I must admit I was sometimes embarrassed by what my dad did， especially in my early teens， when the only thing I really cared about was what the other girls thought.

The girl lived a few streets away from us， and one winter day---the day her elder sister was getting married---the toilet in their main upstairs bathroom broke and there was water everywhere. Her father， the lawyer called every plumber in the Yellow Page， but nobody would come and because we were having a major snowstorm. Her daughter told him that my father was a plumber， and he called， and my dad went right over---and took me with him.(Maybe he was hoping that the lawyer’s daughter would be nicer to me.) My father fixed the toilet， help them clean up everything， and didn’t take much time for his trouble. But as we were leaving， he told the girl， “If I ever need a lawyer， I’ll be happy to call your dad.”

As we walked to our car， he said to me， “Do you believe he didn’t know where the main shut-off valve(阀) was? What a dumb ass!”

From that point on， her dad was known in school as Lawyer Dumb Ass.

When my husband and I bought our house， the first thing my dad showed him was the main shut-off valve.

I have always been proud to say that I’m a plumber’s daughter.

【1】When her father came to her school and walked past the classroom door， the writer might feel ________.

A. pleased   B. embarrassed   C. disappointed   D. proud

【2】The girl’s attitude towards the writer can be best described as ________.

A. unfriendly   B. doubtful   C. kind   D. gross

【3】Why couldn’t the lawyer find anybody to fix the toilet on that winter day?

A. He had little money

B. All the plumbers were too busy to come

C. There was a major snowstorm and nobody would come out

D. One of his daughters was getting married and the house was in a mess

【4】From the passage， we know the followings are right EXCEPT _______?

A. The writer’s father thought the girl’s father was stupid.

B. In the writer’s early teens， the only thing she cared about was what her dad did.

C. The writer’s father spent only a little time fixing the toilet.

D. What the other girls thought troubled the writer when she was in junior high.

26、James Cleveland Owens was the son of a farmer and the grandson of black slaves. His family moved to Cleveland when he was 9. There, a school teacher asked the youth his name.

“J.C.”, he replied.

She thought he had said “Jesse”, and he had a new name.

Owens ran his first race at age 13. After high school, he went to Ohio State University. He had to work part time so as to pay for his education. As a second-year student, in the Big Ten games in 1935, he set even more records than he would in the Olympic Games a year later.

A week before the Big Ten meet, Owens accidentally fell down a flight of stairs. His back hurt so much that he could not exercise all week, and he had to be helped in and out of the car that drove him to the meet. He refused to listen to the suggestions that he give up and said he would try, event by event. He did try, and the results are in the record book.

The stage was set for Owens’ victory at the Olympic Games in Berlin the next year, and his success would come to be regarded as not only athletic but also political. Hitler did not congratulate any of the African-American winners.

“It was all right with me,” he said years later. “I didn’t go to Berlin to shake hands with him, anyway.”

Having returned from Berlin, he received no telephone call from the president of his own country, either. In fact, he was not honored by the United States until 1976, four years before his death.

Owens’ Olympic victories made little difference to him. He earned his living by looking after a school playground, and accepted money to race against cars, trucks, motorcycles, and dogs.

“Sure, it bothered me,” he said later. “But at least it was an honest living. I had to eat.”

In time, however, his gold medals changed his life. “They have kept me alive over the years,” he once said. “Time has stood still for me. That golden moment dies hard.”

【1】Owens got his other name “Jesse” when _________.

A．he went to Ohio State University

B．his teacher made fun of him

C．his teacher took “J.C.” for “Jesse”

D．he won gold medals in the Games

【2】Owens received no telephone calls from the president because ________.

A．he was not of the right race

B．he was the son of a poor farmer

C．he didn’t shake hands with Hitler

D．he refused to listen to the suggestion that he give up

【3】Which of the following shows the correct order of James’ life?

a. James worked part time to get the fee for school.

b. He was honored by the US.

c. He got success at the Olympic Games.

d. James set many records in Big Ten Games.

e. He went to Cleveland with his family.

f. Owens fell down and hurt his back.

A．a-e-f-d-b-c

B．e-a-d-f-b-c

C．a-e-d-f-c-b

D．e-a-f-d-c-b

【4】What does the underlined sentence in the last paragraph probably mean?

A．They have him famous in the US.

B．They have been changed for money to help him live on.

C．They have encouraged him to overcome difficulties in life.

D．They have kept him busy with all kinds of jobs.

27、But ugly fruits should be loved, too. In recent years, a new crop of “ugly produce” companies have been around the U.S. These start-ups sell those ugly fruits that supermarkets refuse. And they send them right to your door.

The companies say they’re on a mission（使命）. They want to stop billions of pounds of imperfect produce（农产品）from going to waste. Think of it this way: Is a banged-up (be knocked and some places broken) banana any less tasty in a peanut butter sandwich? Why should it be thrown away?

Sounds like these companies have the right idea. They even offer deep low prices. That’s great news for customers. But not everyone is happy. Some people say these companies may be thinking only about themselves.

△

Imperfect produce isn’t always wasted.

Many small farmers had already been selling imperfect produce to customers and farmers markets. Then the ugly produce companies started growing up. These companies, such as Imperfect Produce, can offer more fruits and veggies from large farms around the country. They make it harder for smaller farms to compete. So the farmers are losing money.

Also, ugly fruits and veggies already have uses. Take the food service industry for example. There, produce is sliced, diced, blended, and more. No one cares if the fruit is pretty or ugly. On farms, fruits can be fed to animals. Rotted（腐烂的）fruit is added back into soil for nutrients. And, what’s more, ugly produce companies have been charged with taking food away from the needy.

Are these start-ups causing more bad than good?

Not So Bad, After All?

What do ugly produce companies say? They are guarding themselves.

In March 2019, Imperfect Produce told people that the company doesn’t take away from the needy. It gets resources from farms only after food banks take what they want, it said. Also, the company often gives food to food banks. Put that in your food basket!

It is true that produce goes to waste in America. The Department of Agriculture has said that food waste is a big problem. In fact, about 30 to 40 percent of the country’s food is wasted.

But Imperfect Produce says both farmers and ugly produce companies can help reduce food waste. It doesn’t have to be either-or.

No matter whose side you’re on, remember this: It’s what’s on the inside that counts.

【1】What does Paragraph 3 mainly talk about?

A．Ugly produce companies are doing more good than bad.

B．Not everyone supports ugly produce companies’ missions.

C．Ugly produce companies are loved because of lower prices.

D．Ugly produce companies make the most use of imperfect produce.

【2】What is the most suitable for the △ ?

A．The Ugly Truth?

B．Not So Good, Above All.

C．But So Bad, Really?

D．The Ugly Wasted.

【3】What fact does the passage provide?

A．It’s important for smaller farms to get more customers to make money.

B．Food waste is caused because supermarkets refuse ugly produce.

C．Ugly produce companies sell imperfect produce to prevent waste.

D．Customers are interested in stopping food waste and saving money.

【4】The writer probably wrote the article in order to ______.

A．tell ugly produce companies to give unwanted fruits and vegetables to the needy

B．show the reasons why there are more and more ugly produce companies

C．offer readers an introduction to ugly produce companies and their missions

D．make readers only buy food from companies that work with smaller farms

28、   Have you tried a public bicycle? Recently, public bicycles have become popular in big 【1】（city). People can rent a bicycle【2】 (simple) by swiping transportation card. But some people still question 【3】it really is easy to use the public bicycles. People also wanted to know what other problems there are.

【4】group of students at Shenzhen high school did a survey in August【5】（find )out the answers. Through interviews and an online questionnaire, they found 【6】（big )problem of all was that many bicycles were broken by the rain and the sun. So these students designed a smart storeroom【7】could store and protect bicycles. Limingcong, 12,The main designer ,said he got the idea from his own life. "I find that our public library has a smart machine that 【8】（help )readers return books easily."

So how does the storeroom work? There is a smart device at the center of it. The device catches the bicycles and then hangs 【9】 (it) up. It is all controlled by computer programs.

So far, they have printed a 3-D model of the storeroom. Their goal is to give the design to local government【10】the end of this year.

29、   If you open your fridge, you may see some leftovers (剩菜剩饭), and it’s very likely you will throw them away in the end. If the _________ in a supermarket is not fresh anymore or is near the “sell-by” date (保质期), it goes into trash bins, too. Every day, a large amount of food is wasted.

To cut down on food waste, France_______ a new law. It forbids supermarkets to throw away or destroy unsold food. _________, they must donate it to charities. Food that isn’t safe for humans to eat can be used as animal food. If not, the supermarkets will _________ fines of up to 75,000 euros (around 542,200 yuan) or two years in prison (监狱). The law also encourages _________ programs for schools and businesses about food waste.

France is the first country to make a law that forbids wasting food, but it is _________ a worldwide problem. The good thing is that people around the world are trying different things to deal with the food waste problem. Galdakao, Spain, put a public fridge in the center town. Anyone can drop off food or leftovers and anyone can come and take them. A supermarket in Canada, Loblaws, encourages people to buy “ugly food” by selling it at lower _________ so it won’t end up being wasted.

In China, we have the “clear your plate” campaign (光盘行动). This means you should eat everything on your _________ or take away the leftovers.

“_________ much more than what people can eat in restaurants has been a way of maintaining (维护) face in China for a long time,” said Liu Qinglong, a professor at Tsinghua University. “But I’m happy to see that our __________ towards wasting food is changing.”

【1】A.paint B.food C.cloth

【2】A.decided B.invented C.passed

【3】A.Otherwise B.But C.Instead

【4】A.face B.accept C.prefer

【5】A.medical B.educational C.psychological

【6】A.possibly B.actually C.luckily

【7】A.prices B.qualities C.interests

【8】A.desk B.plate C.fork

【9】A.Ordering B.Asking C.Cooking

【10】A.decision B.discussion C.attitude