通州区2018- 2019学年第二学期初三年级第三次模拟练习
英语试卷笔试部分
2019．6
考生须知 1.本抽测满分60分，共8页，五道大题，39个小题。考试时间90分钟。 2. 请在试卷上准确填写学校名称、姓名和考试编号。 3. 试题答案一律填涂或书写在答题卡上，在试卷上作答无效。 4.考试结束后，请交回答题卡和试卷。 知识运用（共14分）
一、单项填空（共6分，每小题0.5分）
从下面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. We all like ______ English teacher because she is very kind and hard-working. A. we
A. at
B. our
C. us
D. ours
D. in
2. My parents and I will celebrate our birthdays together ______ October.
B. on C. of
3. —______ is your home from the subway station? — Quite near. It’s about 5 minutes’ walk. A. How far
B. How often
C. How much
D. How many
4. — Wow! What a big house!
— Yes. It’s twice ______ than the old one. A. big
B. bigger
C. biggest
D. the biggest D. has walked
5. My brother ______ his lovely dog after supper every day. A. walks B. walked C. will walk A. didn’t sleep B. don’t sleep A. is
B. was
6. I ______ well last night because I had a bad headache.
C. haven’t slept D. won’t sleep C. will be
D. has been
7. Our school trip ______ over tomorrow morning, but I’ll remember it forever. 8. — Where is Miss Li?
— She ______ a report at the meeting room now. A. gave
B. gives C. is giving B. made B. and
D. will give
9. The girl ______ five houses for her dolls since last month.
A. makes A. but
C. will make D. has made C. or
D. so
10. I think the countryside in New Zealand is beautiful ______ peaceful.
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11. No hurry! You ______ plenty of time to decide.
A. gave
B. will give
C. are given
D. will be given
12. — Tom, could you tell me ______?
— On 30th of June, 2014.
A. when will your pet cat be born C. when your pet cat was born
二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
The Museum of Failure
Around 80 examples of failed products, businesses and ideas are showed in the newly opened museum in Sweden. It is to celebrate modern history’s worst 13 — from Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-inspired drink, to Bic pens made just for women.
Besides showing long-forgotten failures, founder Dr. Samuel West is on a task to help us learn from our 14 . Samuel set up the museum after growing tired of success stories. He said understanding bad design could be more 15 than copying good design.
“Most of all creative projects fail, and learning is the only way to turn failure into success,” says the museum’s website. “I hope that visitors 16 home two messages: that failure is connected with success, and that they should understand the 17 of learning from failure,” said Dr. West.
“The purpose of the museum is to show that creativity requires failure,” Dr. West said as he introduced some of the products in a video. “If you are 18 of failure, then you can’t create.” So the world will not ignore (忽视) them and pretend they never happened.
Many of the museum’s items can be seen online. West believed that poorly-designed products have little in common with one another. One of the items, for example, is a frozen beef lasagna (意式千层面) made by Colgate (Yes, the company that makes toothpaste). West 19 this as a classic case of “failure in producing an improper new product by a well-known company”.
A collection of nine objects from the museum is on tour. The traveling collection of failures will then visit Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo in 2019.
History may be written by the winners, but we should not ignore the losers. At least, that’s what the Museum of Failure wants us to 20 . 13. A. plan
B. when was your pet cat born D. when your pet cat will be born
B. design C. problem D. message
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14. A. technology
15. A. difficult
16. A. take
B. dryness B. serious B. find
C. mistakes C. valuable C. leave
D. success D. popular D. send
17. A. possibility
18. A. proud
19. A. forgot
20. A. believe
B. importance B. tired
C. difference C. short
D. difficulty D. afraid D. described D. introduce
B. mistook B. promise
C. imagined
C. compare
阅读理解（共36分）
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共26分，每小题2分）
A
There are many English idioms (习语). Here are some interesting ones and their origins (起源).
Meaning: Pull someone’s leg Joke or fool with someone. Origin: To pull someone’s leg had much more unpleasant meaning when it first came in use. It was a method used by thieves to cheat other people and then force them to give their money or valuable things to them. Luckily, these days the saying is much friendlier, though being on the end of a joke might not always be fun. Meaning: Meet a deadline To finish something by a preset time. Origin: This saying comes from the prison camps during the Civil War. In the camps a line was drawn to mark the areas for the prisoners.
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Meaning: The achievement of three successes or wins. Hat trick Origin: It came from the English game of cricket (曲棍球) . It refers to three wickets taken by a bowler in three continuous balls. This was considered quite an achievement and was traditionally given a hat. The term is now used for other sports, too. A popular use today is three goals by a single player in one game of hockey or soccer. Meaning: Rule of thumb A basic rule that is usually but not always correct. Origin: It is based on the use of one’s thumb as a tool to show the length. Most old English measures (测量) of distance were based on the body measurements of the king—the length of the foot, inch (thumb tip to first knuckle指节), cubit (elbow肘-to-fingertip), and yard (nose-to-fingertip). 21. Which of the following means joking with someone? A. Pulling someone’s leg. C. Hat trick.
B. Meeting a deadline. D. Rule of thumb.
22. The origin of “Hat trick” has something to do with ________. A. methods used by thieves C. lines drawn for prisoners
B. achievement in sports D. body measurements of the king
23. A cubit means the distance ________. A. of the length of the foot C. from nose to fingertip
B
The 23 April is World Book Day, but do you know that it is also Shakespeare Day?
rd
B. from thumb tip to first knuckle D. from elbow to fingertip
Everybody has heard of Shakespeare, but do you know how many plays he wrote? Have you heard of any of his poems?
Shakespeare’s plays fit into three kinds: tragedies (悲剧), comedies (喜剧) and histories. Perhaps his most famous play is the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet. It is about two young lovers
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who couldn’t get married because of their parents. Other tragedies include Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth. If you’ve seen Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, you’ll recognize “hubble bubble boil and trouble, fire burn and cauldron bubble” which is sung in the Great Hall. These words just come from Macbeth!
Shakespeare’s comedies include Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Twelfth Night. In Twelfth Night, everybody falls in love with the wrong person, but it is all made right in the end.
The history plays, such as Antony and Cleopatra, Richard III and Henry V are based on the lives of real historical people. Antony and Cleopatra is a story that happened in ancient Egypt. Anthony loved Cleopatra so much. Both of them died after the Egypt army was beaten in the war.
Shakespeare’s plays can be very heavy going sometimes. Some of the topics they deal with are heavy and complex, so they almost always have a lighter subplot (次要情节) with characters who don’t have close relationships with the characters in the main plot. They are often used in tragedies to lighten the mood (气氛) of the play and to keep the readers interested in the main plot. 24. Which play is one of Shakespeare’s comedies?
A. Macbeth.
B. Henry V.
C. Twelfth Night. D. Hamlet.
25. Shakespeare often used ______ to make his tragedies feel not so heavy.
A. love stories C. strange words
B. real historical people D. characters in a light subplot
26. What’s the passage mainly about?
A. History of Shakespeare Day.
C Bilingualism
Being the mother of two bilingual children and the teacher of French and English bilingual children, the subject of bilingualism is very important to me.
What is a bilingual child? Let me take the example of my daughter. At two and a half she has already had the concept of “Daddy speaks French and Mummy speaks English.” This is what makes it possible for her to communicate with the people around her no matter whether they are French or English.
In our case it is reasonable that with an English mother and French father our children should
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B. Information about Shakespeare. D. Introduction to Shakespeare’s plays.
C. Topics of Shakespeare’s poems.