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2015-2016 学年第一学期海珠区期末初二统考试卷和答案（英语科）
一、语法选择（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面两篇短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从 1-15 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项。
（A）
More and more people in the USA are taking an interest in Chinese culture. Many students are challenging themselves 1 learning Chinese. The U.S. government is trying 2 more public schools to teach Chinese.
China has 3 population in the world. More people speak Chinese __4 any other language in the world, yet the language is one of the most difficult to learn. It doesn’t look or sound anything like English.
However, all the hard work 5 young learners. Today, about 50,000 U.S. students are
studying Chinese, and they are doing hen hao (“very well”)!
1. A. with
B. to B. encourage B. a large B. and
C. in
C. encouraging C. the largest C. than
D. at
D. to encourage D. largest D. or D. won’t stop
2. A. encouraged
3. A. a larger
4. A. if
5. A. hasn’t stopped
B. haven’t stopped C. didn’t stop
（B）
Dear Mom, Dad and Violet,
Well, I’m here at the camp. I have been here 6__ 3 days ago. I have four roommates. They
are all very cool. One boy is named Pepe. He said he caught a snake with 7
hands, but I don’t
believe him. One kid is named Lincoln. One of his eyes is blue and 8 is brown. __9 strange the eyes are! Another kid is named Mike. He seems normal 10 for one thing. He 1__ through the whole first nigh here. The rest of us stayed up and told jokes. The last one is named Justin. He likes to say things like “We get lost…” or “We get hungry…”
We stay on a hill. It’s not too far from the “bathroom.” There’s no bath. We have outdoor
showers. I don’t think you can really keep your feet 12 on a mud floor. Mom, I miss your
cooking. Dad, I 13__ miss your cooking. Last night, we only had some vegetables. I told
14 that I had a sister named Violet. They thought it was terrible 15 a flower name.
Actually Justin was the one who made jokes about it. But he has no right to talk about any names.
Well, I’m going to sign off. Please write.
From, Alex
6. A. on
B. for B. he B. others B. How B. as B. slept B. cleaning B. either B. anybody B. to have
C. since C. him C. the other C. What a C. besides C. is sleeping C. cleaned C. also C. somebody C. having
D. in D. himself D. another D. How a D. nothing D. would sleep D. clean D. too D. nobody D. had
7. A. his
8. A. other
9. A. What
10. A. except
11. A. sleeps
12. A. cleanly
13. A. as well
14. A. everybody
15. A. have
二、完形填空（共 10 小题；每小题 1.5 分，满分 15 分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从 16~25 各题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出 最佳选项。
Once there was a little girl named Sarah, and she did not like her name. She 16 be Judy or Ann or Jill --- anything except Sarah.
it could “Why is my name Sarah?” she 17 her mother one day. And her mother said, “Because we named you after your Aunt Sarah, who has never had a little girl of her own. Wasn’t that a good __18__?”
“Yes,” said Sarah thoughtfully. “Yes, it was.”
But even with that good reason, Sarah didn’t think Sarah was a good 19 another day, she asked her __20 , “Why were you named Sarah, Aunt Sarah?”
That made Aunt Sarah __21 .
to have. So
“Oh,” she said. “When I was just about your age, I wished I could have another name. I thought Sarah was the 22__ name!”
“Did you 23
think so?” asked Sarah. “And do you still?”
“Oh no,” smiled Aunt Sarah. “Because one day I asked my father why he gave me such a name. And he told me what the name Sarah __24__”
“What does it mean?” asked the little girl named Sarah.
“It means Princess,” her aunt said, sitting up even straighter and more proudly than usual. “And once I knew that, I was 25 every time I heard my name. What do you think of that, young Sarah?”
“Why,” said the little girl, suddenly standing up very straight and proud and tall. “Why, Aunt Sarah, I seem to feel exactly the very same way!”
16. A. called
B. decided B. asked B. story B. note B. mother B. leave B. worst B. finally B. tells B. poor
C. made C. spoke to C. view C. name C. father C. respect
D. wished D. talked to D. point D. girl D. aunt D. smile
17. A. told
18. A. reason
19. A. opinion
20. A. grandmother
21. A. cry
22. A. biggest
C. most beautiful D. best C. correctly C. has C. glad
D. happily D. means D. shy
23. A. really
24. A. says
25. A. sad
三、阅读（共两节，满分 35 分）
第一节 阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 2 分，满分 30 分） 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的 A、B、C 和 D 项中，选出最佳选项。
（A）
Once upon a time, there was a farmer. He went to the town to sell his farm product every day. One day, he left home with a basket of product very early. When he arrived, the town gate was still closed. So he lay down to take a rest. When he woke up, he saw nothing but a gold coin in the
basket. Gold was valuable. So he went home happily with the coin.
The next day, the same thing happened. When he went home, the farmer told his father what had happened. His father decided to follow his son to see who had left the coin.
One day, the father quietly followed his son to the town. There he saw a snake eat the product, and then a gold coin came out of the snake’s mouth as payment. The farmer’s father quickly picked up a stone and cut the tail off its body.
The snake quickly ran into a hole with only its head and body. The father thought the snake had died and told his son to reach inside to get more coins. But when the farmer reached his hand into the hole, the snake bit and killed him. 26. Where did the farmer take a rest?
A. At home. town gate.
B. In his field C. On his own farm. D. Outside the
27. What happened when the farmer was taking a rest?
A. A snake bit him.
B. Someone stole his gold coin.
C. A snake ate his farm product.
D. A thief stole his farm product.
28. Which is the correct order of the story?
a. The snake bit the farmer and killed him.
b. The farmer’s father followed his son.
c. The father cut the tail off the snake with a stone.
d. The farmer took a rest outside the town gate.
e. The snake ate the product and left a gold coin.
A. d, e, c, a, b
B. d, e, b, c, a C. e, b, d, c, a D. e, d, c, a, b
29. What can we learn from the passage? A. We should not ask for too much.
B. We should make sure the snake is dead.
C. We shouldn’t kill a snake by cutting its tail.
D. We should protect animals instead of killing them.