2017~2018学年广东广州海珠区初三上学期期末英语试卷

A long time ago, some farmers lived in a small village. And there was a farmer 1 had

four sons.

The farmer raised the four boys on his own. He hoped that his sons could learn

not 2 opinions about things too quickly. So he gave his four sons 3 question in turn

asking them to go to see a pear tree at a distance in different seasons. The sons promised they

would not let their father 4 .

The first son 5 out in the winter, the second

in the spring, the third in the summer, and the

youngest in the autumn.

One year passed. When all of them returned

home, the farmer called them together to

describe 6 they had seen.

The first son said the tree was 7 , bent and

distorted. It wasn't worth seeing at all. And it seemed

that it wouldn't bear any fruit, 8 .

The second son said it was not like that, but the tree was covered 9 green buds and

made people feel full of hope.

The third son disagreed, saying that it was full of flowers which smelled so sweet

and 10 so beautiful. And he had never seen such beautiful scene that everyone would

love it.

The last son disagreed with all of them, saying that it 11 with fruit, full of life and

content. People would be satisfied with it.

At last, the four sons' eyes were fixed 12 their father. The father smiled. Then he told

his four sons that 13 they were all correct, they only saw the tree in one season. He told

his sons that 14 could not judge a tree or a person only by one season, and that the

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一、语法选择

1. A. who B. what C. which D. /

2. A. give B. gave C. giving D. to give

3. A. a B. an C. the D. /

4. A. up B. on C. off D. down

5. A. set B. sets C. has set D. have set

6. A. how B. what C. that D. why

7. A. awful B. more awful C. awfully D. more awfully

8. A. also B. too C. either D. neither

9. A. in B. on C. of D. with

10. A. look B. looks C. looked D. was looking

11. A. fills B. filled C. is filled D. was filled

12. A. to B. up C. on D. with

13. A. if B. so C. but D. although

14. A.he B. him C. they D. them

15. A. is B. are C. was D. were

essence of a person could only be measured when all the seasons 15 over.

If you just give up in winter, you will miss the hope of spring, the beauty of summer and the

harvest of autumn in your life.

Elephants are big, but Teensy was the

smallest of them. Teensy tried everything she

could think of to help herself grow. She put her

legs out straight. She ate a lot. However,

nothing seemed to 1 .

One day Teensy went with the elephants

to have lunch. They stopped in front of some

trees and found their favourite green leaves.

Teensy raised her nose and tried again and again, but she couldn't 2 the branches. Not

even the low ones!

At the end of the day, Teensy was with the rest of the elephants watching the 3 . But

Teensy couldn't see very much. "Excuse me," said Teensy politely, "I'd like to see more than

your knees, if you please," But the elephants didn't hear little Teensy. They were

too 4 enjoying the sunset. Teensy sat down and waited 5 for them to finish admiring

the sunset. She knew she was too little to walk away by herself, so she sat and 6 what

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二、完形填空

1. A. do B. get C. work D. answer

2. A. cut B. see C. hear D. reach

3. A. trees B. sunset C. colors D. branches

4. A. busy B. tired C. hungry D. difficult

5. A. happily B. patiently C. excitedly D. friendly

6. A. enjoyed B. watched C. imagined D. explained

7. A. sad B. slow C. pretty D. polite

8. A. ears B. backs C. noses D. knees

9. A. big B. tall C. heavy D. little

10. A.afraid B. proud C. careful D. ashamed

the sunset must look like. "Oh, I guess it is too pretty for words!" she sighed.

Teensy was very sad. "Oh, woe is me," she said. Suddenly, Teensy heard a tiny voice.

"What is woe?" the voice said. Teensy looked down and saw a mouse. "Woe means 7 ,"

said Teensy. She told the mouse about seeing only elephant 8 instead of the sunset.

"I'm too little," she said.

"Why, you're not little at all," said the mouse.

"Do you think so?" replied Teensy, "I'm sorry you're so small. I know how it feels."

"Don't be sorry," said the mouse, "I like being small! I can always fit into corners."

"Wow," said Teensy, "so being 9 CAN be good"

"You're right. Little or big, you should always be 10 of who you are," said the mouse.

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Manu, an eight-year-old boy, was sleeping comfortably in his bedroom. After a weekend

break from his school, Manu failed to get up on time on Monday morning again.

"Manu, wake up. It's time for you to go to school," shouted

out Manu's mother, Akhila, from the kitchen. Manu pulled the

blanket over him and pretended he didn't hear his mother's

repeated shouting. "Manu! Please wake up! It's already 6:30 and

your school bus will be here in ten minutes. Wake up and get

ready."

After much yelling, Manu finally got up lazily when the school bus stopped in front of the

house. Akhila had to ask the driver to wait for a few minutes. She quickly helped Manu get

ready and helped him get on his school bus.

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三、阅读理解

"Phew! Manu didn't miss his bus today." Akhila sighed and thought to herself. "What should

I do with this boy? Manu neither wakes up on time nor completes any of his daily tasks at the

right time. It's time to teach him a lesson."

The next morning, Akhila was in the kitchen as usual. Everything seemed normal in the

house except for the unexpected silence.

Manu finally woke up at around 9' o clock. He looked at the clock and ran to the kitchen,

crying out, "Mamma! Why didn't you wake me up? I am really late for school." He couldn't stop

crying. "I have a maths test today and Madam Mangat will punish me if I miss her class and the

test!" Madam Mangat was the strictest teacher in Manu's school. The fear of missing her class

made Manu cry even louder. "Mamma, what should I do now? Please help. I promise I will wake

up every day on time."

Akhila could no longer see her son crying and said, "Just promise me one more thing that

you will do your daily task on time without pestering you to do it."

"Sure Mamma! I promise!"

Akhila said in a loving voice, "I have already got permission from your math teacher and

she has allowed you to take up the test today."

Manu hugged his mother. "Mamma! Thank you." He quickly got himself ready for school

without any help from Akhila.

On the way to the school, there was silence in the car but a smile on Akhila's face.

A.

B.

C.

D.

When did Manu get up on the Monday morning?

After 6:30.

After the school bus left.

Before 6:30.

Before the school bus arrived.

（1）

A.

B.

C.

D.

What does the underline word "pestering" mean in paragraph 7?

Inviting politely

Asking many times,

Allowing many times.

Encouraging patiently.

（2）

A.

B.

In what order did the following events happen?

a. Manu cried for help.

b. Akhila drove Manu to school.

c. Akhila asked Manu for one more promise.

d. Akhila got special permission from the teacher.

e. Manu got himself ready for school without help.

a, d, c, e, b.

d, a, c, e, b.

（3）

C.

D.

a, d, e, b, c.

d, a, e, c, b.

A.

B.

C.

D.

Why was there a smile on Akhila's face at last?

She didn't wake up Manu.

Manu did well in the maths test.

She taught Manu a lesson successfully.

Manu got up by himself that morning.

（4）

A.

B.

C.

D.

What is the best title for the passage?

A lazy son.

A strict mother

A quiet lesson

A happy family

（5）

B

We choose food to eat every day. We might know some of the reasons for the choice, but

food scientist Dr. Brian Wansink has found that we are unaware of 90% of our food decisions.

Here are some "big ideas" in his research on the hidden power that drives our eating.

Food for thought

In one of the studies, Dr. Wansink made volunteers eat chocolate yogurt in a dark room. He

told them the yogurt was with a taste strawberry even though they were all eating chocolate.

Finally, 65% of volunteers described the yogurt as having a "nice strawberry flavor!"

The research shows that our imagination has an effect on our taste. If you expect a food to

taste good, it will. So take a moment before you eat your unpleasant healthy food remind

yourself that you are eating delicious fish and chips.

Our eyes eat first

How your food looks is just as important as how it tastes. Dr. Wansink gave cakes to three

groups of people. The cakes were exactly the same but served in different ways.

1 Group one got the cake on a nice plate.

2 Group two got the cake on a paper plate.

3 Group three got the cake on a piece of paper.

Dr. Wansink then asked the people how much they would pay for each cake.

1 Group one who got the cake on a nice plate would pay $1.27.

2 Group two who got the cake on a paper plate would pay 76 cents.

3 Group three who got the cake on a piece of paper would pay 53 cents.

Take some time to make your healthy food look amazing. Cut your fruit into a flower shape

and put your colorful vegetables on nice plates. This works really well for your appetite （ 胃

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口）.

Out of sight, out of stomach

Dr. Wansink also found that when people sat at the desk full of snacks, they ate 71% more

of snacks a day than those sitting near a clear table. We eat what we see. As a result, put all

the unhealthy food in your fridge. Hide it and make it really hard to get to. The closer bad food

is, the more you eat it.

A.

B.

C.

D.

How many ideas are mentioned in the passage?

3.

4.

5.

6.

（1）

A.

B.

C.

D.

Why did the volunteers say the yogurt had a strawberry flavor?

They didn’t like chocolate yogurt.

The yogurt had a taste of strawberry.

The yogurt was made from strawberry.

They thought they had eaten strawberry yogurt.

（2）

A.

B.

C.

D.

How can we make ourselves eat more vegetables we don't like?

Have the same vegetable every day.

Serve vegetables on lovely plates.

Put vegetables on a piece of paper.

Eat vegetables as soon as they are cooked.

（3）

A.

B.

C.

D.

To avoid eating too many snacks, we should NOT .

hide them.

put them on the desk.

leave them in the fridge.

make them really hard to get to.

（4）

A.

B.

C.

D.

What is the passage mainly about?

Useful skills on selling food

Ways to make healthy eating easier.

Ideas about how to avoid too many snacks.

Experiments to find out people’s favourite food.

（5）

C

A robot is taking part in a popular TV show in China which tests people's brainpower. The

smart AI （人工智能） robot, Xiaodu, will challenge humans to recognize faces and voices.

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The TV show Super Brain will spend the whole

Season Four on the topic of supercomputers vs. human

brains. The AI robot Xiaodu built by search engine giant

Baidu becomes one of the contestants. Baidu Company

first showed off a small version of Xiaodu in 2015. In

Super Brain IV, he will compete against four people and

other clever computer programs.

Besides Xiaodu, Sun Yiting, an eight-year-old boy

with amazing hearing ability also stands on the stage of the show. He says he can correctly tell

the height from which a balloon was dropped by listening to the sound of the balloon landing.

Another contestant, Wang Feng, is a memory master who broke the world record for speed

memorization of cards in a poker game.

In the first competition of Super Brain IV, both the humans and Xiaodu will be shown

photos of two women when they were four-year-old babies. They must then pick out the right

two adults from a lineup of 20 women who are dressed similarly and have similar haircuts.

The listening competition is even more difficult. The contestants need to choose the right

person from 21 singers as they are all singing together, just according to a three-second mp3.

Baidu is confident that Xiaodu has the ability to do well in this difficult TV test, because the

company has paid a huge amount of money for the study of AI robot and supercomputers, as

well as speech, image, and facial recognition. In addition, it is not the first time that Chinese AI

robot has become a contestant and final winner of a quiz show. Months ago, Wangzai, Sogo's

AI robot, beat a Harvard graduate in a Chinese quiz show Yi Zhan Dao Di. All of these make it

possible that AI vs. AI will be shown on TV in the future.

A.

B.

C.

D.

What will Xiaodu do in Super Brain IV?

Take part in competitions.

Be the host of the TV show.

Help people search for information.

Introduce AI robot to people for the first time.

（1）

A.

B.

C.

D.

Which of the following is true According to the passage?

Sun Yiting is an adult contestant.

Wang Feng has broken a world record before.

Xiaodu used to be the winner of a quiz show on

Pictures of babies will be shown in the listening competition.

（2）

A.

B.

C.

The underlined word "They" in paragraph 4 refers to .

The AI robots.

The two women.

The four-year-old babies..

（3）

D. The human contestants and Xiaodu.

A.

B.

C.

D.

What makes Xiaodu have the ability to do well in the TV test?

Another AI robot Wangzai.

The help from Sogo Company.

Baidu's efforts on developing

The Chinese quiz show Yi Zhan Dao Di.

（4）

A.

B.

C.

D.

The passage can best be described as a/an .

story.

news report.

letter.

advertisement.

（5）

D

Welcome to Readers' Home. The topic of our monthly big sale is "Literatures for Young

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Name: Schooled

Author: Gordon Korman

Recommended for: Aged 9-14

Story：Schooled an interesting novel written by the popular middle

grade author Gordon Korman, provides both humuor and some

important messages about teenage problems and being true to

oneself. Find out how one peace-loving boy, attending school for the

first time, changes the whole culture of his middle school.

First Publication Date: 2007

Price: $5.52

Name：The Lion and the Mouse

Author: Jerry Pinkney

Recommended for: Preschool children

Story：This story is told completely with artwork and pictures. It

tells how both animals, the lion and the mouse, are large at

heart. The author of the book is chosen to be one of people's

favorite children's story tellers on the internet.

First Publication Date: 2009

Price: $8.45

Name: When You Were Here

Author: Daisy Whitney

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Recommended for: Young adult

Story: Danny's mother died of cancer. Danny was left alone. One

day he got a letter from the hospital which showed a side of his

mother he never knew. So Danny travelled lo Tokyo to connect with

his mother's memory. Full of humour, the story is about death and

love. Daisy Whitney brings her characters to life with a touch of

heart.

First Publication Date: 2013

Price: $3.99

Name： The Great Gatsby

Author: F. Scott Fitzgerald

Recommended for: High school students

Story: F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the greatest

achievement of his career. This story of the Jazz Age has been

popular among the readers. The story of the rich Jay Gatsby and

his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan is a remarkable tale of

America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the greatest

classics of twentieth-century literature.

First Publication Date: 1925

Price: $5-9

A.

B.

C.

D.

Who is one of people's favorite children's story tellers?

Gordon Korman

Daisy Whitney

Jerry Pinkney

F. Scott Fitzgerald

（1）

A.

B.

C.

D.

Which books would you like to read if you enjoy humour?

Schooled and When You Were Here.

Schooled and The Lion and the Mouse.

The Great Gatsby and When You Were Here.

The Great Gatsby and The Lion and the Mouse.

（2）

A.

B.

C.

D.

What can we learn from the passages?

Schooled talks about teenage problems.

The Lion and the Mouse is full of amazing words.

The Great Gatsby is a story happened in the 19th century

In When You Were Here, Danny got the letter before his mother died.

（3）

If you have only 10 dollars for two books, which of the following can you buy?（4）

A.

B.

C.

D.

Schooled and The Great Gatsby.

Schooled and The Lion and the Mouse.

The Great Gatsby and When You Were Here.

The Great Gatsby and The Lion and the Mouse.

A.

B.

C.

D.

What is the purpose of the passage?

To teach students what to read.

To intruduce different writers.

To sell boooks in Readers' Home.

To encourage people to read in the library.

（5）

A.

B.

C.

D.

阅读短文及文后选项，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

An adventure of a mouse

It was time to leave the cave. I'd been with my mum and brothers and sisters for the first

five weeks of my life. 1 So I parked up a bag. Inside were things that I thought I'd need to

have along the way. This included a toothbrush, a change of clothes, and, of course, my lucky

bottle cap.

My Uncle Louie had found the bottle cap on his travels long ago. He was running from a

fierce cat. That's when Uncle Louie discovered it was "lucky," He used it to slide down a hill. At

the bottom of the hill, rushing water began to carry him away. 2 Luckily, he was able to

guide the boat through the waters. I listened to Uncle Louie tell the story many, many times.

One day, to my surprise, he gave me the lucky charm （幸运符）. 3

With that, I said my good-byes. Then I left the cave that I had

known for so long. Outside the sun was shining. Birds were

singing high in the trees. 4 All of a sudden my ears caught

the sound of something unusual. The sky darkened like night. The

wind blew strongly. I quickly searched for cover. There was none.

The next thing I knew, white stones began hitting the ground.

Then it hit me. My bottle cap! 5 I placed it over my head just

as one of the ice balls crashed onto the cap. Stunned, but not hurt, I sat still for some time.

Then I smiled. Then I smiled. The lucky charm had saved the day and my life!

I have carried it with me ever since.

I wanted to explore the outside world.

Thinking quickly, he used the bottle cap as a boat.

I reached into my pack and pulled out my lucky charm.

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四、阅读填空

E. With each step I took, the excitement of being on my own grew bigger and bigger.

根据下列句子及所给单词的首字母写出所缺单词。（每空限填一词）8

After a good r , we went on climbing the mountain again.（1）

Tim and Mike often work together to s maths problems.（2）

It was c of me to make the same mistakes in the exam again.（3）

I often s my secrets with my parents because I'm close to them.（4）

She spoke in a strange language, so I couldn't understand a s word she said.（5）

Each day we should have p of fruit, vegetables and grain products to keep

healthy.

（6）

根据所给的汉语内容，用英语完成下列句子。9

杰瑞到处找他的钥匙，但没找到。

Jerry his key everywhere but he couldn't find it.

（1）

我已决定要远离不健康的食物。

I've decided unhealthy food.

（2）

我妹妹把我的房间搞得一塌糊涂，她真让我受不了。

My little sister made a mess in my bedroom, and she was mad!

（3）

那个年轻人因为诱骗人们买他的货品而进了监狱。

The young man to prison because he tricked people into buying his

goods.

（4）

比赛过后，迈克觉得真放松啊！

Mike felt after the competition!

（5）

你记得你上一次是什么时候帮忙做了家务吗？

Do you remember the housework last time?

（6）

我们已经听过他的演讲那么多次了，以致于我们都已经能背诵下来了。

We've listened to his lecture many times we've learnt it by heart.

（7）

五、单词拼写

六、完成句子

七、书面表达

你班来了一位叫Lily的新间学。假如你是班长，请你根据表格内容，向她介绍班级情况，并提出

一些建议，帮助她尽快融入新集体。

班级情况1. 班级人数

2. 班级活动多 （自由发挥一点）

建议

1. 多和同学们聊天

2. 遇到困难，向老师和同学求助 （自

由发挥一到两点）

注意：

1. 词数：80个左右(开头已经给出，不计入词数)；

2. 不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息，否则不予评分。

Hello, Lily. I'm the monitor. Welcome to our class.

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