[中考英语]初三英语阅读竞赛试卷

[中考英语]初三英语阅读竞赛试卷 初三英语阅读竞赛试卷 说明:1.本试卷满分100分。考试时间为90分钟。 2.文中出现的生词已罗列在后面的小词典中。 (A) 下列方框中的图 表 关于同志近三年现实表现材料材料类招标技术评分表图表与交易pdf视力表打印pdf用图表说话 pdf 是一本书的目录，请根据其内容选出各题的最佳答案。 Basketball Basketball quiz 211-223 College Teams 172-182 Equipment 98-112 Famous Players ln the NBA 309-345 History 1-26 Rules of the Game 27-39 Teams in Europe 114-171 Teams in the US 184-208 Women Players 224-266 1. what is the writer`s idea of this writing? A.Tell somebody something. B.Wait for somebody C.Receive somebody as a guest. D.None of these.. 2. what information can you find on pages27-39? A. Teams in Europe. B.Teams in the US. C.Rules of the Game. D.Equipment. 3. The History of Basketball can be found on pages________________. A.224-226 B.98-112 C.172-182. D.1-26 4. what pages will give you information about basketball teams in Europes? A.211-223 B.114-171 C.184-208. D.None of these 5. What informationcan be found on pages184-208? A.Teams in Europe. B.Rules of the Game. C.Teams in the US. D.None of these. (B) Visit Swansea Zoo Come and see the Indian elephants and the new tiger from America.The bears are waiting to meet you,and the monkeys fromChina are waiting to throw things at you.. The lovely dogs from Australia are waiting to laugh at you,and the giraffes from Zambia are waiting to look down on you.. Tickets Grown-up:$2.00 Children:Orever 12 $1.00, Under 12:Free Opening Time: 9:00a.m.-4:00pm. Except Friday 10:00a.m.—3:00pm. Keep the zoo clean! Don’t touch,give food or go near the animals. . 6. How many kinds of animals are talked about in the passage? A.Four B. Five C.Six D.Seven 7. Now Mrs Smith is in the zoo with her two sons,one is 14 and the other is 10,how much are the tickets? A.$4.00 B.$3.00 C.$2.00 D.$1.00 8. Which of the following is the visiting time? A.8:30a.m.Monday B.9:30a.m.Friday C.3:00pm.Sunday D.5:00pm.Tuesday 9. From the passage we can guess the animal“giraffe”must be very______. A.tall B.long C.strong D.fat 10. Which of the following we can do in the zoo? A.To give some food to the fish. B.To touch the monkeys on the heads. C.To throw things to the bears. D.To take nice photos. ( C ) Please answer the questions about the prices of the two hotels .(注:&=英镑) GATEWAY SHERATON Prices Dates 14nights 14nights 1 Oct –31 Dec &495 &546 1 Jan – 21 Mar &464 &515 1 Apr – 30 Apr(closed) ---- ---- 1 May-- 31 May &518 &573 1 Jun – 30 Sep &609 &695 11. The Sheraton Hotel is ____________than the Gateway Hotel A.cheaper B.dearer C. bigger D.cleaner 12. I want to stay in the Sheraton for two weeks in August. I need about___________. A. &750 B.&515 C.&690 D.&573 13. The two hotels are open for _________months of the year. A.nine B.ten C.eleven D.twelve 14. It is cheaper to stay in the Gateway in May than it is in __________. A.November B.March C.October D.July 15. From October to December it is dearer to stay in the Sheraton than from_____to_____. A.June; August B. January;March C. May; July D.July; September ( D ) Families in Canada have changed in the last 40 years.In the 1950s,most families had two parents.The father went to work and the mother stayed at home with two or more children.How are the families different in the 1990s? Families are smaller The average family has 3.1 people. Single-parent families One out of five children lives in a single-parent family. Most single parents are women. Common-law families One out of ten children is raised by parents who are not legally married to each other. Working mothers More mothers work outside the home. Sixty-four percent of married women with children under16 work outside the home. Divorce and marriage Forty-one percent of all marriages end in divorce. Thirty percent of all marriages are remarriages. 16. Less than _______of all marriages are remarriages. A. one-fourth B. one-third C. one-fifth D. one-sixth 17. The title of this passage should be _________. A. Divorce and marriage B. Canadian Families are Changing C. Families are smaller D. Canadian Families 18. From this passage we can infer that_____________. A. the families in the 1990s have fewer people than those in the 1950s B. 59%of all marriages end in divorce C. 64%of women are married when they are under 16 D. one-fifth of the children are raised by their fathers when their parents get divorced 19. Compared with 1950s ,more mothers in the 1990s_________. A. go out to work in order to make a living B. raise their children when they get divorced C. stay at home to look after their children and do housework D. A and B 20. The capital of Canada is ______. A. Vancouver B. Toronto C. Montreal D. Ottawa ( E ) The computer is fast, and never makes a mistake while people were too slow and full of mistakes sometimes. That’s what people often say when they talk about computers. For over a quarterof a century,engineers have been making better computers. Now a computer can do a lot of everyday jobs wonderfully. It is widely used in factories, hospitals and banks. A computer can report,decide and control in almost every field. Many computer scientists are now thinking of making the computer“think”like a man. With the help of a person,a computercan draw pictures,write music,talk with people,play chess,recognize voices,translate languages and so on . Perhaps computers will one day really think and feel. Do you think that people will be afraid when they find that the computer is too clever to listen to and serve the people? 21. Engineers have worked on computerfor _______ A. about a hundred years B. more than twenty -five years C. over three months C. about ten years 22. Some people think that a computer is _________people. A. cleverer than B. ad clever as C. not cleverer than D. slower than 23. Computers are _______the people A. doing more and more jobs for B. going to laugh at C.going to listen to D. taking the place of 24. With the help of a person, a computer can________. A. draw pictures B. write music C. talk with people or play chess D. do all above 25. People will______the computers in the future. A. really be afraid B. make better use of C. no longer use D. help ( F ) Men sometimes say,“We are better and cleverer than women. Women never invent things. We do.” It is true that men have invented a lot of useful things: machines,radios and guns,too. But scientists now agree that women invented one very important thing. It has changed history. They invented agriculture. Before invention of agriculture, men were hunters. They went out every day. Sometimes they killed animals, sometimes animals killed them. Life was difficult and dangerous. Women had to go out every day,too. They collected corn, fruit and grasses. Then,one day more than 10,000 years ago, a woman dropped some grass seeds near her home in the Middle East. They grew –and the first wheat was born. The idea grew,too. Women planted corn and fruit trees. Then they could stay at home and look after the children and the animals. Women like baby animals. Scientists think that women kept the first domestic animals: digs, cows and sheep. The idea grew,too. Then their husbands did not have to go hunting for meat. They stayed at home. They built villages and cities. Civilization began. Min began civilization after women invented agriculture. 26(Before the invention of agriculture life was difficult because____________. A. hunters sometimes killed other hunters B. hunters did not always get meat C. women went out to hunt every day D. animals sometimes killed the women and children 27.From the passage we know that domestic animals are________ A. animals that feed on grass B. animals that live in natural conditions C. animals whose meat can be used as food D. animals that are kept at home 28.After the first wheat was born, women soon saw that they could _________. A. go out and look for food B. go hunting for meat C. plant corn,and fruit trees at home D. go out to collect corn and fruit 29. Men were able to develop civilization after agriculture because they did not have to________. A. make villages and build cities B. keep animals and kill them for food C.look after the crops at home D.spend all their time looking for food. 30. Which of the following is the best title for this passage? A. Rising and Falling of Civilization B. How Men Invented Agriculture C. How Women Changed History D. The Cleverest Women in History ( G ) Jack worked in an office in a big city and often went to a small but comfortable restaurant to have his lunch. One Monday, when he went to the table at which he usually sat, he saw that there was a new waitress in the restaurant. She was very young and looked rather hot and worried. Jack sat down, and when the waitress came to him, he asked for some vegetable soup. The new waitress wrote this down in a little notebook and went to order it in the kitchen. There were a lot of people in the restaurant, and the new girl was very busy, but at last she came to Jack with a plate on a large dish. She put the plate down in front of him, and he saw that it was not the vegetable soup which he had asked for , but some fish and potatoes. The waitress was getting ready to turn away again, but Jacl stopped her,“ Miss,”he said,“ Idid not order fish and potatoes, Iordered vegetable soup.” “Oh,”she answered, “I thought that you asked for fish.” “No,”said Jack,“Look at the notebook which you wrote my order in and you will see that I ordered vegetable soup.” The new waitress looked everywhere in her little notebook, and at last she found Jack’order.“ ‘Table No.24’,”she read out ,“One vegetable soup.Yes,I am sorry,Igot confused. I shall change it.” She put the notebook down on Jack’s table, took out her pencil, crossed out the words“ vegetable soup” and wrote“ fish and potatoes” instead. Then she closed the notebook and quickly walked away to take some orders from other tables, while Jack sat with his mouth open,too surprised to say another word. 31. What was different when Jack went to the restaurant on Monday? A. He had to sit in a different seat. B. He saw a new young waitress. C. He ordered something he never ordered. D. He found that the restaurant became bigger. 32. Why was it quite a long time before the waitress brought Jack his food? A. There were many people in the restaurant. B. The waitress forgot what he had ordered. C. The waitress forgot to bring his food to him. D. It was difficult to cook the food he ordered. 33. What mistake did the waitress make? A. She wrote down a wrong order. B. She brought the wrong food. C. She was not polite. D. She did nothing wrong. 34. How did the waitress correct her mistake? A. She wrote down what Jack ordered on another page. B. She crossed out what was written and wrote down “fish and potatoes”. C. She took the fish away and brought the soup back. D. She threw away her notebook. 35. What do you think of the waitress? A. Careful B. Careless. C. Quick. D. Kind. ( H ) Open your dictionary at any page. At the top of the page you will see two words printed in heavy type. These are known as guide words. The one on the left-hand side of the page tells you what the first word on the page is. The one on the right-hand side of the page tells you what the last word in the page is. So if you are looking for a word in the dictionary, you first look at the guide words at the head of the pages. Then you will be able to tell whether or not the word you want is on the page you are looking at. You will notice that a dictionary very often gives several meanings for one word. How could you decide which of these meanings is the one you need? First, you must know what part of speech the word is in the sentence. Is it a noun or a verb? Is it an adjective or an adverb? A word can be used in a different way in a sentence, and so may have a different sense. Next, you must see which of the meaning will fit into the sentence. It is important to study the rest of the sentence carefully in order to find out the meaning of the word 36. The two words at the top of any page of a dictionary________. A. are known as those printed in heavy types B. are called those on the left-hand side of the page C. are known as those on the right-hand side of the page D. are called guide words 37. If you want to know what the last word on the page is , you may_________. A. look at the word in the right-hand side of the page B. look up it in the last part of the dictionary C. look up it in the first part of the dictionary D. look at the word on the left-hand side of the page 38. A dictionary often _______. A. tells whether or not the word you want is on any page you are looking at B. gives several meanings for one word C. prints word in heavy type D. gives two words in every page of it 39. We would decide which of the meanings of a word in a dictionary is the one we need in the following order:______________. A. 1)find out what part of speech the word is in the sentence; 2)learn which of the meanings of the word in the dictionary will fit into the sentence by studying the rest of the sentence carefully B. 1)know which of the meanings of the word in the dictionary will fit into the sentence; 2)see what part of speech the word is in the sentence; 3)study the rest of the sentence carefully C. 1)looking for a word in a dictionary; 2)look at the guide words at the head of the pages; 3)tell whether or not the word we want is on the page we are looking at D. 1)look at the guide words at the head of the pages; 2)know what part of speech the word is in the dictionary; 3)find out which of the meanings of the guide words will fit into the sentence 40. If in the dictionary you look up “load” in the sentence “We use an inclined plane to load or unload a truck” and the dictionary says:1. n. a burden; 2. n. amount of work….; 3. vt. put a burden on or into; 4. vt. add extra weight to ….. Which meaning of the word makes the right sense in the sentence? A. The first. B. The second. C. The third. D. The fourth ( I ) Tom was a shopkeeper. He had a small corner shop. It was open from seven in the morning until eleven at night and sold many different things. Tom worked hard in his shop but he had a good business and he was happy. Then a supermarket opened across the street. The supermarket was ten times the size of Tom’s shop. The manager of the supermarket wanted to take people away from Tom. He found out what Tom’s prices were and then made his lower than Tom’s. People quickly stopped buying things from Tom’s shop. They bought everything from the supermarket instead. Soon Tom’s business was very bad and he was angry. “It’s not fair,”Tom thought,“I must do something to teach that supermarket manager a lesson.” The price of steak in the supermarket was $5.00 a pound. Tom put a sign in his window, ―Steak--$4.50 a pound.‖ The next day the price of steak in the supermarket was $4.25 a pound, Tom changed the sign in his window. ―Steak--$4.00a pound.‖ An hour later,the sign in the supermarket said, ―Steak--$3.75 a pound.‖ Ten minutes later the sign in Tom’s window said,―Steak--$3.50 a pound.‖ Five minutes later the sign in the supermarket said, “Steak--$2.50 a pound.‖ Twenty seconds later the sign in Tom’s window said,“Stead--$1.00 a pound.‖ The manager of the supermarket ran cross the road into Tom’s shop.“This price cutting must stop,‖he said,“Steak is costing me $4.00 a pound. I’m selling it at $2.50 a pound. I’m losing money every minute!‖ “I’ll stop cutting all my prices,‖Tom said,“if you will stop cutting all yours.‖ The supermarket manager agreed, and the two men shook hands. Tom smiled.He had not lost any money on the steak .He didn’t sell steak at all.‖ 41. Tom worked hard but he was happy because____________. A. he liked hard work B. he wanted to make a lot of money C. he had a good business D. his prices were high 42. How did the owner of the supermarket take people away from Tom? A. He told them bad things about Tom. B. His prices were lower than Tom’s C. His shop was bigger than Tom’s. D. His shop sold more things than Tom’s 43. What does ―price cutting‖mean? A. Making your prices the same as others’. B. Making your prices lower than others’. C. Making your prices higher than others’. D. Losing money every minute. 44. According to this passage,if the supermarket manager sold out 100 pounds steak at $2.75 a pound, he would at least lose_______dollars. A. 125 B. 150 C. 100 D. 175 45. If you are Tom, how do you solve the problem between the supermarket manager and you? Please give us at least two ways. 1._____________________________________________________________________________________ 2._____________________________________________________________________________________ ( J ) It was December 25,Marie Orr, a 13-year Australian girl, was happy. It was Christmas, and Marie’s mother was making a special cake for dessert. Her mother put four small coins into the cake: then she baked it. The four coins were for good luck. After dinner Marie and her family ate the cake. They found three coins in the cake and put them on the table, Where was the fourth cion? It was missing, but Marie’s mother didn’t notice. After Christmas Marie got sick. She coughed, and she could’t speak. After six weeks she felt better,but she still could’t speak. Marie’s parents took her to the hospital. Doctors at the hospital looked at Marie. They took an X-ray of her throat. Marie’s parents asked the doctors, “Why can’t Marie speak?‖The doctors said,“We don’t know. Maybe she will speak again. Maybe she won’t. We’re sorry, but we can’t help her.‖ For 12 years Marie didn’t speak, She grew up, she got a job, and she got married. But she never spoke. One day, when Marie was 25 years old, she got a painful throat at work. She began to cough. She coughed up something small and black, What was it? Marie didn’t know. She took it to the hospital. A doctor at the hospital said,“This is a coin !‖ The doctor told Marie,“I think you can speak again.‖Marie went to a special doctor, and soon she was talking. What a story Marie can tell ! 46. Marie liked Christmas very much. It was her favourite holiday. What is your favourite holiday? ____________________________________. 47. Marie’smother put coins in the cake. That was special: She did that only at Christmas. What special things do you do on your favourite holiday?__________________________________. 48. In Australia many people put cions in their Christmas cakes: it is a good luck custom. (1) What are some good luck customs in your family or from your own country? (2) Do you have a story about a good luck custom? Please tell us. 生词表 according to 根据 add v. 增加 agriculture n. 农业 amount n. 总数 average adj. 平均的 burden n. 担子、负担 bake v. 烘干 common-law n. 未办手续而同居 civilization n. 文明 condition n. 条件 confuse v. 弄错 compare v. 比较 custom n. 风俗 divorce n. 离婚 control v. 控制 fair adj. 公平的 hunt v. 打猎 dessert n. 甜点 incline v. 倾斜 infer v. 断定 extra adj. 额外的 marriage n. 结婚 passage n. 段落 gun n. 枪 percent n. 百分之… recognize v. 辨认 in order to 为了 sentence n. 句子 sense n. 意义 leagally adj. 合法地 speech n. 词性 steak n. 牛排 notebook n. 笔记本 throat n. 咽喉 title n. 标题 raise 培养 translate v. 翻译 weight n. 重量 seed n. 种子 waitress n. 女服务员 shook(shake过去式) v.握 答案 1—10 ACDBC CBCAD 11—20 BCCDB BBADD 21—30 BAADB BDCDC 31—44 BABBB DABAC CBBA 45—48 略