[浙江]2014届浙江省逍林初中九年级上学期期中测试英语试卷

--- A new baby came to the earth ________ a sunny winter morning.     
--- How nice.

--- ________it was yesterday because of the storm!　
---So it was!

.---Your brother doesn’t get up early, does he?   
--- _______. But he gets up late on weekends.

--- Your grandparents were very great.                               
--- Yes. They supported my father’s schooling _________ they were very poor.

The sign on the right tells us taking photos ________here.

---My house is very near a busy street.  
---It ________ be very quiet.  

---How did the accident happen?
---You know, it ________difficult to see the road clearly because it_________.

---We had a football match with No. 15 Middle School yesterday.  
---________. I missed it.

---Never touch my computer while I’m away．
--- Sorry,  __________.

---How long have you known the doctor ?  
---_________he helped me three years ago.

--- I hear a very big earthquake happened in Japan. Many people were injured or killed.
---___________________________.

---Would you mind moving the desk?　　
--- _________. I will do it right away.

---I want to buy the book Harry Potter. Do you know its _______?
--- Not very well. Maybe fifty yuan.

---How do your parents usually go to work?
---My mother usually goes to work _________  bus while my father ________ a bike to work.

---Could you let me know ________ yesterday ?
---Because the traffic was heavy .

I had said goodbye to my husband, Joe, so often, but this time was ____.
We now had our first child. After nights of talks, we made the difficult ____ that Joe would go by himself to Alabama for the six-month training course, and I would stay behind with our new son. It was important that I ___ my teaching position near our home at Fort Hood. Also we were part of a strong network of friends ____ I could turn to for help.
On Joe's ____ evening at home, I bathed little Joey, got him into his sleeper and was heading to the bedroom when Joe gently touched ___ on the shoulder. Lifting the baby from my arms, he said he wanted to put Joey to bed tonight.
They headed down the hall, and I busied myself with meaningless tasks, ____ Joe to turn up from the bedroom within a few minutes. A half hour went by, and ___ he had not come back. Thinking he was having ____ getting our son to fall asleep, I walked quietly to the baby's room and ___ into the dimly-lit（灯光暗淡的）room.
Sitting in the rocking chair, moving slowly back and forth, was my husband with ____ in his eyes. He was holding our baby in his arms ____ he had fallen asleep long before. When his pained eyes met mine, he said, "I just can't put him down."
That night we stood over Joey's bed, holding each other and saying over and over that we would make it through this leaving and be ____ again soon.
Joey is six now, and he has a four-year-old brother named Jack. There have been many goodbyes ____ that night, yet my soldier still fights back tears when it's time to ____ once again in service to his country and give his boys that last, long hug goodbye.

A．dangerous B．different C．impossible D．terrible

A．promise B．wish C．suggestion D．decision

A．miss B．keep C．get D．accept

A．whom B．whose C．which D．what

A．first B．next C．other D．Last

A．us B．them C．me D．her

A．expecting B．remembering C．agreeing D．allowing

A．again B．still C．then D．ever

A．excuse B．fun C．trouble D．chance

A．moved B．talked C．turned D．looked

A．colors B．tears C．joys D．fears

A．even though B．as if C．so that D．now that

A．sure B．proud C．alone D．together

A．on B．for C．since D．through

A．visit B．sleep C．leave D．play

One Friday Mrs. King asked her class to write a story. “Use your imagination!” she cried, “You can write your story about anything.” Kenny looked worried. “A story?” he thought, “What could I possible have to write about? I don’t know any stories.” The bell rang and all the kids went home.
The next day, Kenny sat at his desk at home, thinking and thinking. The warm sun was shining through the windows, making him drowsy. And soon he fell fast asleep. As he slept, Kenny began to dream about fantastic things.
First he dreamed that he was a world-famous doctor, saving whole cities and curing diseases. Then he dreamed that he was in a UFO. He was talking to strange but friendly space creatures. Then he dreamed that he had become as small as a mouse by a bad scientist. He had to find a way to stop the plot（阴谋）of the mad scientist!
Kenny dreamed wonderful and exciting things until his little brother woke him up. “What were you dreaming about?” he asked. Kenny told his brother the wonderful dreams. His brother enjoyed the stories. Suddenly, Kenny knew that he had his kinds of stories in his imagination.
What did the teacher ask the students to do as homework?

How many dreams did Kenny have?

What was Kenny in his first dream?

The underlined word “drowsy” means_______.

The best title for this passage is _______.

Have you ever complained why life is so tiring? Does the sky sometimes seem dark to you? Are your studies sometimes not successful? Well, friends, cheer up and smile all the time. If you see the world with your warm heart , you’ll find that the whole world smiles to you. While in school, sometimes you are tired of your lessons, but have you ever noticed the happy smile on your teacher’s face when you did a good job?
One day it is fine. Just before you want to go out, it suddenly starts to rain . Maybe you would feel very sad and start complaining about the weather. But dear friends, why don’t you sit down and listen to the free concert that the nature offers you? And with the timely rain , crops in the fields will grow better and better and farmers will have a good harvest.
Although everyone wants to succeed in what he tries to do, sometimes failure can’t be avoided（避免）. I think failure is not terrible, and the terrible thing is that we are afraid of it and give up hope .
When we face failure , we must be confident in ourselves, draw a useful lesson from it and try our best to finish what we have to do. As a popular saying goes , “ Failure is the mother of success .”
Attitude decides everything . With an optimistic(乐观) attitude life is easy and pleasant . Let’s smile to whatever we meet and the whole world will smile to us .
People sometimes complain____________.

According to the passage , in school , ______________ .

If there is a timely rain ,___________.

When we face failure , what should we do ?

The best title of this passage is______________.

You may feel curious (好奇的) about students in other countries: Do they also have so much homework? What do they do in their free time?
On April 8, a report came out on the lives of high school students in China, Japan, South Korea and the US. It surveyed around 6,200 students from the four countries last year. You will find the answers to many of your questions in this report.
Who studies hardest?
Chinese students spend the most time studying. Nearly half of Chinese students spend more than two hours on their homework every day. That’s much more than students of the US (26.4%), Japan (8.2%) and South Korea (5.2%).
Who sleeps most often in class?
Japanese students fall asleep in class most often. About 45% of them said they sometimes doze off in class. In South Korea, it’s 32%; in the US, 21%; and 5% in China.
South Korean students don’t like taking notes. About 70% said they write down what the teacher says in class, much fewer than in Japan (93%), China (90%) and the US (89%).
Who is the most distracted (分心的)?
American students are the most active in class, but also the most distracted: 64.2% said they chat with friends in class; 46.9% said they eat snacks in class; and 38.9% said they send e-mails or read unrelated (无关的) books in class.
What do they do after school?
In their free time, most Chinese students study or surf the Internet. Most American students hang out with their friends. Most Japanese students do physical exercises. Most Korean students watch TV.
The report is about ___________.

What country isn’t mentioned in the report?

______ of the Chinese students spend more than two hours on their homework.   

The phrase doze off means ______.

What of the following sentences is Not true?

请根据下面的实验过程给图排序，将其序号填入第66 ～69空格中，并完成第70小题。Do the experiment as follows ：
（ ）Put a short (0. 5 meter) board on two books. The books should be under the center of the board.
（ ）Ask your partner to stand on one end. With your hands ， push down on the other end. Can you lift your partner?
（ ） Put a longer (1 meter) board on the books. The end should be about 30cm from the books. Have your partner stand on the end that's near the books. Can you lift your partner?
（ ）Now do the same with the longest (2 meters) board. The end should be half a meter from the books. What will happen? Yes ！ You can lift your partner easily ！

What experiment is it?

根据下列句子及所给汉语注释，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式，每空只写一词。
Cindy told me it was her __________ (第二) time to visit China
Thanks to the government, we can spend _________ (少的) money on TVs and things like that.
What about reading aloud to practice   _____________ (发音)?
My parents always tell me the__________(重要性）of working hard.
Although it was expensive, we _____________(决定) to buy it.

在下列各句的空格上填上一个适当的完整的单词，该词的首字母已给出。
I’d like to write him a letter, but I don’t know his a___________.
J___________ the English club at school was the best way to improve her English.
If I had a million dollars, I would give it to medical r_____________.
Lucy was very t_____________, so she drank two glasses of water.
You can have any of these cakes e___________ this one ,it’s for my mom.

根据短文内容, 用方框所给单词的适当形式填空，每词限用一次。
about,  sleep,  quick,  much,  why
"Dreams may be more important than sleep. We all need to dream," some scientists say.
Dreams take up about one quarter of our ._________ time. People have several dreams each night. Dreams are like short films. They are usually in colors. Some dreams are like old films. They come to us over and over again. That may be because the dreamer is worrying about something. Dreaming may be a way of trying to find an answer.
Some people get new ideas ._________ their work from dreams. They may have been thinking about their work all day. These thoughts can carry over into dreams.
Sometimes we wake up with a good feeling from a dream. But often we can't remember the dream. Dreams can disappear (消失) .________ from memory.
Too much dreaming can be harmful. The . _________ we sleep, the longer we dream. The mind is hard at work when we dream. That is . ________ we may have a long sleep and still wake up tired. 

初中毕业在即，相信同学们在英语学习的过程中都会有不同的经历和感受。某英语学习报“特别关注”栏目本期开设的话题是“It is … to learn English”。请你用英语写一篇短文，为该栏目投稿。
要求：
（1）将题目补充完整;             （2）中心突出，语义连贯，层次清晰，书写规范;
（3）文中不得出现真实的姓名、校名;（4）词数80词左右。
It is           to learn English