[福建]2012届福建省厦门市翔安区初三质量检测考试英语试卷

Mr. Li is healthy because he always eats lots of ______, such as onions and tomatoes.
A. vegetables                       B. fruit                        C. meat

______ boy in white shirt is my classmate.
A. A                                B. The                      C. /

Tom is _____ than his brother Jim. He always gets better grades than Jim.
A. higher                           B. smarter                  C. faster

– Do you have any plans for this Sunday?
– Yes, I _______ my grandparents.
A. am visiting                      B. visited                      C. have visited

The girl _______ lives next door is Lynn’s cousin.
A. who                          B. what                     C. which

– Can I watch TV now, Mum?
– No, you can’t watch ______ you finish your homework.
A. as                           B. after                        C. until

–Whose notebook is this? Is it Julie’s?
–It _________be hers, she has gone to Beijing.
A. must                 B. mustn’t                 C. can’t

– Could you please _____ the trash?
– OK, I’ll do that.
A. take on                       B. take out                 C. take off

– ______ is it from your home to school?
– About ten minute’s walk.
A. How far                      B. How long                 C. How soon

Shenzhou VIII spaceship and Tiangong-1 space lab____ into the space in 2011.
A. sent                         B. were sending             C. were sent

My brother is very lazy, he _______ gets up before 7 o’clock in the morning.
A. hardly ever          B. always                       C. sometimes

– Do you know ______?
– He is tall and thin.
A. how he looks like
B. what he looks like
C. what he likes

– Did you _______ the football match?
– No. They beat us, 2-1.
A. play                         B. lose                     C. win

– I will go to Canada with my parents this summer vacation.
– ________.
A. No problem           B. Have fun             C. It’s a pleasure

– I think it’s comfortable for birds to live in cages.
– _______. They should be flying freely in nature.
A. I agree with you
B. I’m afraid so
C. I don’t think so

A long time ago, there was a big apple tree. A little boy loved to come and play with it every day. But time went by, the little boy had    32   and he no longer played around the tree.
　　 One day, the boy came back to the tree. “Come and play with me,” the tree asked the boy. “I am no longer a    33   I can’t play with you now.” The boy replied, “I need    34   .” “Sorry, I don’t have any. But you can pick all my apples and    35   them.” The boy picked all the apples on the tree and left happily. He didn’t come back. The tree was sad.
　　 The other day, the boy returned and the tree was so    36   . “Come and play with me.” The tree said. “I need a house for my family. Can you help me?” “You can cut off my branches（枝干）to build your house.”   37   the boy cut all the branches of the tree and left happily.
The tree was glad to see him happy, but the boy didn’t come since then. The tree was lonely again. One hot summer day, the boy came back again after he left for so many years. “Sorry, my boy. But I don’t have    38   for you anymore.
“I don’t need much now, just a place to rest. I am    39   after all these years.” The boy replied. “Good! Please sit down with me and have a rest.” The boy sat down and the tree was glad and smiled with tears…
This is a story of everyone. The tree is like our parents. When we were young, we loved to play with them. But when we grow up, we    40   them, and only come to them when we are41    trouble. You may think that the boy is cruel（残忍）to the tree, but that’s how many of us are treating to our parents.
A. grown up                B. dressed up               C. got up
A. tree                    B. child                  C. toy
A. money                   B. time                    C. help
A. eat                    B. sell                   C. buy
A. sad                     B. calm                     C. happy
A. So                     B. But                     C. Because
A. anything                B. something                C. nothing
A. angry                   B. tired                   C. shy
A. hate                   B. love                    C. leave
A. at                     B. for                      C. in

Mr. Jones works in a factory far away from his home. One day he wanted to send a letter to his wife, but he could neither read nor write, and he had to work all day, so he could only look for somebody to write his letter late at night. At last he found the house of a letter-writer whose name was Nasreddin. 
Nasreddin was already in bed. “It is late,” he said. “What do you want?” “I want you to write a letter to my wife,” said Mr. Jones. Nasreddin was not pleased. He thought for a few seconds and then asked, “Has the letter got to go far?”
“What does that matter?” answered Mr. Jones. 
“Well, my writing is so strange that only I can read it, and if I have to travel a long way to read your letter to your wife, it will cost you a lot of money. ”Mr. Jones went away with no words.
Mr. Jones is a ________.
A. letter-writer                    B. postman                  C. worker
Mr. Jones looked for somebody to write a letter for him ______.
A. late at night
B. in the morning
C. in the afternoon
Nasreddin was not pleased because he wanted to ______.
A. write the letter             B. make money               C. remain in bed
We know from the story that Nasreddin is a _______ man.
A. kind                     B. funny                        C. strict
Which of the following statements is TRUE?
A. Mr. Jones paid no money to Nasreddin.
B. Mr. Jones was happy when he heard the words.
C. Nasreddin wrote the letter for Mr. Jones.

An armless pianist who plays with his toes has won the first series of China’s version of the internationally popular TV talent show, “China’s Got Talent.”
Liu Wei, a 23-year-old Beijing-born pianist, who lost both his arms at the aged of 10 when he was electrocuted（触电）during a game of hide-and-seek. Liu Wei stayed in rehabilitation（康复）centre for 2 years. When he got out, he was introduced to Beijing’s disabled swimming team, and he managed to take 2 gold medals in the National Disabled Swimming Championship at the aged of 14. But soon he was told not to do too much sport by the doctor.
Liu Wei was very sad. Luckily, the door was shut on sports, but it opened in music. At the age of 18, he started to learn the piano. He could not find a teacher to lead him to play with his toes, so he began teaching himself. Liu said, “I knew if I tried, I might get a chance at success. If I didn’t try, I would lose my future.”
He carried on a daily 7-hour practice, his improvement gave him hope. He kept practicing and made progress gradually. In early 2011, he gave a memorable performance in Vienna’s Golden Concert Hall. In 2012, he received the award “Top Ten People Who Moved China”.
Liu Wei lost both his arms when he was______ years old.
A. 10                       B. 14                       C. 23
Besides playing the piano, Liu Wei is also good at _______.
A. playing games
B. learning from others
C. armless swimming
Liu Wei was taught by ________ to play the piano with toes.
A. his teacher                 B. his mother                   C. himself
The sentence “The door was shut on sports, but it opened in music” means that Liu Wei ______.
A. lost the future of music
B. got other chances at success
C. couldn’t do sports
The best title of this passage is “_________”
A. One is never too old to learn
B. Time and tide wait for no man
C. Where there’s a will, there’s a way

The world’s population has reached 7 billion（十亿）according to the United Nations（联合国）by 2011. It comes just 12 years since the total reached 6 billion - with official estimates saying the population will top 8 billion in 2025 and 10 billion before the end of the century.
And it is most likely that the 10-billionth baby will be born in the Asia-Pacific region - where the population growth rate is higher than anywhere else in the world.
Of the 2.3 billion people, the United Nations believes will be added by 2050, more than 1 billion will live in sub-Saharan Africa. The Indian subcontinent（次大陆）will add some 630 million people.

With more people to feed, more houses & medical care to provide, experts say the world’s resources（资源）will face more strain than before.
According to the picture, the population of the world reached 6 billion in ________.
A. 1987                     B. 1999                     C. 2011
We know that more than 1 billion will live in  _______ by 2050.
A. sub-Saharan Africa
B. Indian subcontinent
C. the United States
According to the picture, _______ will have the largest population in 2050.
A. China                        B. India                        C. Nigeria
The underlined word “strain” in the last paragraph（段落）means “_________”.
A. 破坏                     B. 关闭                     C. 压力
The population of the world grows ________ according to the picture.
A. slower and slower
B. faster and faster
C. smaller and smaller

On a recent day, “Linsanity” is popular all over the world. It’s the combination of “Lin” & “insanity”, referring to the person who made surprising success.
“Lin” refers to Jeremy Lin, an American professional basketball player, with the Chinese name Shu How Lin. He is the first American player with Chinese descent（血统）.
Jeremy Lin was born on August 23, 1988. At the age of 5, He started playing basketball at the kindergarten. He went to Harvard University after playing at Palo Alto High School in California. He graduated in 2010 and joined the Golden State Warriors, an NBA team in California. In late 2011, Lin moved to another team - the New York Knicks at the very end of the year. The Knicks added him to their starting lineup（阵容）that month. He began averaging more than 20 points a game and leading the team to a series of wins.
Here is his career statistics（统计表）.
NBA Regular Season Accurate as of February 20, 2012

GP: Games played        GS: Games started               MPG: Minutes per game
FG%: Field-goal         3P%: 3-point field-goal         FT%: Free-throw
RPG: Rebounds per game  APG: Assists per game           SPG: Steals per game
BPG: Blocks per game    PPG: Points per game
“Linsanity” is an expression referring to the person who ______.
A. made surprising success
B. played basketball young
C. was very popular
Jeremy Lin is the first American player with _______ descent.
A. French                       B. Chinese                  C. English
According to the passage, Jeremy Lin started playing basketball at ________.
A. kindergarten             B. high school                  C. university
Jeremy Lin is playing for ________ team in NBA now.
A. the Golden State Warriors
B. the Los Angeles Lakers
C. the New York Knicks
Jeremy Lin got 14.6 _________ in Regular Season 2011-2012.
A. PPG                      B. SPG                     C. MPG

Scientists believe in the near future a new kind of car that can not only drive on the road, but also fly in the sky will serve the people, it is called “flying-driving vehicle”.
Since the turn of the 20th century, there have been many hundreds of designs for flying-driving vehicles. And some of them have actually been built and flown. But “Transition” is the closest to people.
Transition was designed in 2006, and the first road and flight tests took place in 2009. Transition is designed to really be a general airplane, which can fold up（折叠）fully its wings, drive down the road and park in a single-car garage（车库）.
Transition can climb to more than 3000 meters high. It can carry two people at speeds over 160 kilometers an hour in the air. And on the ground it can drive at highway speeds, about 113 kilometers an hour.
Scientists expect Transition to reach market at the end of 2012, at a price of around 25, 0000 dollars. Mr. Carl Dietrich says nearly 100 people have already signed up as buyers. He hopes to sell as many as 1000 a year in the near future.
We learn from the passage that Transition is ________.
A. a flying car         B. a helicopter        C. a high-speed plane
________ shows us the way of Transition driving down the road.
A.                         B.                         C.

According to the passage, Transition ________.
A. takes up small room
B. can park over the water
C. flies in the sky only
Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?
A. Transition can carry 2 people at speeds over 113 km/h in the air.
B. Mr. Carl Dietrich has sold as many as 1000 Transition so far.
C. Scientists expect Transition to serve the people at the end of 2012
The fourth paragraph(段落) mainly tells us about the __________ of Transition.
A. price                        B. speed                    C. Design

根据对话情景，填入恰当的单词。

A: How was your weekend, Jack?
B: Pretty good. I went to watch 2012 Xiamen International
Marathon.
A: Really? What was the result?
B: A runner from Kenya named Peter Kamais 1.________
the first prize of men’s race in 2:07:37, he also broke the
record. The women’s title was claimed by Ethiopian
（埃塞俄比亚）, Ashu Kasim, who finished in 2:23:09.
A: He was great. How was the 2. ___________?
B: It was rainy and cold, the temperature was only 11-16 C. But over 70, 000 marathon runners took part in it.
A: Did you 3. __________ any foreigners? What do they think of Xiamen?
B: They said Xiamen is clean and 4 ___________. And people are really friendly, they get much5 ___________ when they meet trouble.
A: I am so proud on hearing this. I should 6. ____________ every day and make myself stronger.
B: A good idea. Then you can be a Marathon runner next year.

根据情景提示，用恰当的短语或句子填空。
你想知道Tina通常几点去上学，你可以这样问她：
_____________________________________________________________________, Tina?
你的好朋友说和父母吵架了，你可以这样劝他：
__________________________________________________________________________.
你想表达自己比妹妹更外向，你可以这样说：
__________________________________________________________________________.
老师想知道你是怎样学习英语的，你可以这样说：
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根据语篇情景，用恰当的短语或句子填空，使之意思完整。
Class Nine 1.________________________ on the school trip. They went to Blue Water Aquarium for the day. First they visited the Visitors’ Center and watched a movie about sharks. Then they watched a dolphin show. After that, they went to the Outdoor Pool and saw a big octopus. After lunch, they went to the Gift Shop and 2.____________________________. Finally, tired but happy, they took the bus back to school. At the end of the day, the science teacher 3. __________________ because the class monitor cleaned the bus after the trip.

使用所给的词语，编写一个意义相对完整的语段。
提示词：rules, uniform, design, because, beautiful
要求：1. 使用全部提示词，并在语段中用下划波浪线“﹏﹏﹏”标出提示词；
2. 语段具有一个相对合理的主题意义；
3. 词数为50词左右，最多不超过80词。
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在我们身边，总有很多需要帮助的人。创建文明城市，也需要每个人都积极担任志愿者工作。请你以“Volunteer Day”为题，用英语写一篇不少于80词的短文。
内容要求：1. 你喜欢从事什么样的志愿者工作，为什么？
2. 描述一件你或他人在“志愿者日”的感人经历；
3. 这件经历对你的教育或未来的积极影响。
注   意：短文中不允许出现与考生本人相关的真实姓名和校名等信息。
Volunteer Day
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