上海上国外国语大学附属中学初三（上）第2周周测卷
II. Multiple choice
A. Grammar
11. Traveling during ______________________________National Day is not a wise choice as all the places are crowded, while dining out in restaurants during ______________________________Spring Festival can save a lot of trouble in preparing dinner.
A. the, the B. the, / C. /, the D. /, /
12. I’d like to buy ______________________________these pencils.
A. three dozen B. dozen of C. three dozens of D. a dozen
13. The new area of the city is about ______________________________the old one.
A. three times the size as B. three times the size of
C. three times that is D. three times what is
14. With so much work to do, you ______________________________to the concert last night.
A. mustn’t go B. shouldn’t go C. mustn’t have gone D. shouldn’t have gone
15. Starting around 7000 B.C., and for the next four thousand years, much of the Northern Hemisphere
____________________temperature warmer than at present.
A. experiences B. will experience C. experienced D. had experienced
16. ______________________________, but he still couldn’t understand the logical connection of the two subjects.
A. Having told many times B. Having been told many times
C. He was told many times D. Many times as he was told
17. The conference currently ______________________________in Geneva has caught the attention of the mass media.
A. held B. to be held C. being held D. having held
18. --Well, where did you spend your night that day?
--At ______________________________.
A. where it is called Hilton Hotel B. what is called Hilton Hotel
C. which is called Hilton Hotel D. that is called Hilton Hotel
19. The newly built café, ______________________________are painted light green, is really a peaceful place for us, specially after hard work.
A. the walls of which B. the walls of it C. its walls D. of which walls
20. Because of the financial crisis, days are gone ______________________________local 5-star hotels charged 6,000 yuan for one night.
A. if B. when C. which D. since
21. ______________________________that witnessed the emergence of and the ongoing debate over genetically modified food.
A. During the first 10 years in the 21st century
B. That it was in the first 10 years of the 21st century
C. It was in the first 10 years of the 21st century
D. It was the first 10 years of the 21st century
22. ______________________________different life today is from ______________________________it was fifty years ago!
A. What a, what B. What a, how C. How, what D. What, what
23. ______________________________your free time to create and grow, and you will find yourself living a more meaningful life.
A. Using B. Use C. To use D. If use
24. --You said she wouldn’t come, ______________________________?
--Yes, but she changed her mind.
A. didn’t you B. did you C. would she D. wouldn’t she
25. Not only ______________________________shade and beauty, but ______________________________carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
A. do threes provides, they also absorb B. tree provide, they also absorb
C. provide trees, also absorb they D. do trees provide, also do they absorb
26. ______________________________, it was regarded as a matter of no account in his time.
A. important although his discovery is B. important as his discovery is
C. As his discovery is important B. No matter important his discovery is
27. ______________________________for the economic downturn, the unemployment wouldn’t be shrinking so rapidly.
A. Had it not been B. Were it not C. Hadn’t it been D. Were not it
28. His pale face suggested that he ______________________________able to continue with the test, so we all suggested that he
____________________a rest to recover his strength.
A. was not, has B. shouldn’t not be, have
C. was not, have D. should not be, has
29. --You couldn’t have chosen any gift better for me.
--______________________________.
A. Oh, I’d choose a better one for you next time. B. You’ve had a gift for music, haven’t you?
C. I’m glad that you like it so much. D. Sorry but don’t blame me, dear.
30. Believe it or not, ______________________________can you all expect to be admitted to some famous universities.
A. with high marks B. whatever high marks
C. by working hard D. only with high marks
B. Vocabulary
31. He ______________________________from his family and settled down in America.
A. broke away B. broke out C. broke up D. broke in
32. He had to ______________________________his father’s business after his death, though he didn’t really want to continue it.
A. carry out B. pick up C. set up D. carry on
33. Fortunately, with the help of some local villagers, rescuers were able to gain ____________________
disaster-hit area soon enough.
A. track B. access C. means D. passage
to the
34. The municipal government has launched a ____________________
restaurants and theatres.
against smoking in public places such as
A. war B. battle C. fight D. campaign
35. My children are not ______________________________about the food—they eat whatever I cook.
A. particular B. special C. especial D. peculiar
36. Watch out! Don’t step on the ice or it’s easy to ______________________________.
A. crash B. crack C. crush D. smash
37. When I took his temperature, it was two degrees above ______________________________.
A. average B. ordinary C. regular D. normal
38. These plastic flowers look so ______________________________that many people think they are real.
A. beautiful B. natural C. artificial D. similar
39. The open university was started in order to help those who ______________________________having a university education when they were young.
A. sTOPped B. failed C. missed D. ceased
40. It’s bad ______________________________for a man to smoke in the public places where smoking is not allowed.
A. behavior B. action C. manner D. movement
III. Cloze
The requirements for high school graduation have just changed in my community. As a result, all students must ____________________ 41____________________ sixty hours of service learning or they will not receive a diploma. Service learning is academic learning that also helps the community. ____________________42____________________ of service learning include cleaning up a polluted river, working in a soup kitchen, or tutoring a student. ____________________43____________________ a service experience, students must
keep a journal and then write a report about what they have learned.
Supporters claim that there are many benefits of service learning. Perhaps most importantly, students are forced to think ____________________44____________________ their own interests and become aware of the needs of others. Students are also able to learn real life skills that ____________________45____________________ responsibility, problem-solving, and working as part of a team. Finally, students can explore possible careers through service learning.
For example, if a student wonders what teaching is like, he or she can choose to work in an elementary school classroom a few afternoons each month. ____________________46____________________ there are many benefits, opponents point out problems with the new requirement. First, they ____________________47____________________ that the main reason students go to school is to learn core subjects and skills. Because service learning is time consuming, students spend
______________________________48____________________ time studying the core subjects. Second, they believe that forcing students to work without pay goes against the law. By requiring service, the school takes away an individual’s freedom to choose.
In my view, service learning is a great way to contribute to the community, learn new skills, and explore different careers. ____________________49____________________, I don’t believe you should force people to help others--the desire to help must come from the heart. I think the best ____________________50____________________ is one that gives students choices: a student should be able to choose sixty hours of independent study or sixty hours of service. Choice encourages both freedom
and responsibility, and as young adults, we must learn to handle both wisely.
41. A. spend B. gain C. complete D. save
42. A. Subjects B. Ideas C. Procedures D. Examples
43. A. With B. Before C. During D. After
44. A. beyond B. about C. over D. in
45. A. possess B. apply C. include D. develop
46. A. So B. Thus C. Since D. While
47. A. argue B. doubt C. overlook D. admit
48. A. much B. full C. less D. more
49. A. Therefore B. Otherwise C. Besides D. However
50. A. decision B. purpose C. solution D. result
IV. Reading comprehension
Generations of children grew up reading comic books secretly, hiding out from parents and teachers who saw them as a waste of time and a risk to young minds. Comics are now gaining a new respectability at school. That is thanks to an increasingly popular and creative program, often aimed at struggling readers, that encourages children to plot, write and draw comic books, in many cases using themes from their own lives.
The Comic Book Project was started in 2001 by Michael Bitz at an elementary school in Queens. Since __________ creation, the program, which is mainly conducted after school, has spread to more than 850 schools across the country. It has gotten a big push from the Canent craze among adolescents for comic book clubs and for Manga, a wildly popular variety of comic originating in Japan.
The point is not to drop a comic book on a child’s desk and say: “read this”. Rather, the workshops give groups of students the opportunity to collaborate on often complex stories and characters that they then revise, publish and share with others in their communities.
Teachers are finding it easier to teach writing, grammar and punctuation with material that students are fully invested in. And it turns out that comic books have other built-in advantages. The pairing of visual and written plotlines that they rely on appear to be especially helpful to struggling readers. No one is suggesting that comic books should substitute for traditional books or for standard reading and composition lessons. Teachers who would once have dismissed comics out of hand are learning to exploit
a style that clearly has a powerful hold on young minds. They are using what works.
51. Which of the following is probably the best title of the passage?
A. Japanese Comic Books. B. Comic Books in the Classroom. C. Reading Efficiently. D. A Current Craze.
52. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Students’ reading materials are often involved with their daily life. B. Comic books can now take the place of textbooks at school.
C. Teachers now give away comic books for children to read. D. Children’s imagination plays a key role in comic books.
53. The underlined phrase “its” in Paragraph 2 probably refers to ______________________________.
A. the Comic Book Project’s B. an elementary school’s
C. Queens’ D. the country’s
54. The main purpose of the Comic Book Project is to ______________________________.
A. develop the cooperation among adolescents
B. make sure that students live a rich and colorful life after school
C. help students who have some difficulty in reading
D. popularize a new method of teaching
55. It can be inferred that ______________________________.
A. comic books were first used in Japanese schools
B. parents have different opinions about their children reading comic books
C. more and more teachers will realize the advantages of comic books
D. comic books will be allowed to enter all the schools in the country
On her first morning in America last summer, my daughter went out to explore her new neighborhood alone, without even telling my wife or me.
Of course we were worried; we had just moved from Berlin, and she was just 8. But when she came home, we realized we had no reason to panic. Beaming with pride, she told us how she had discovered the little park around the corner, and had made friends with a few local dog owners. She had taken possession of her new environment, and was keen to teach us things we didn’t know.
When this story comes up in conversations with American friends, we are usually met with polite disbelief. Most are horrified by the idea that their children might roam around without adult supervision. In Berlin, where we lived in the center of town, our girls would ride the Metro on their own – a no-no in Washington. Or they’d go alone to the playground or walk a mile to a piano lesson. Here in quiet and traffic-safe suburban Washington, they don’t even find other kids on the street to play with. On Halloween, when everybody was out to trick or treat, we were surprised by how many children actually lived here whom we had never seen.
A study by the University of California has found that American kids spend 90 per cent of their leisure time at home, often in front of the TV or playing video games. Even when kids are physically active, they are watched closely by adults, either in school, at home, at afternoon activities or in the car, shuttling them from place to place.
Such narrowing of children’s world has happened across the developed world. But German parents are generally much more accepting of letting children take some risks. To them, it seems that American’s middle class has taken overprotective parenting to a new level, with the government acting as a super nanny.
But when it comes to their own children, the same respondents were terrified by the idea of giving
them only a little of the freedom they once enjoyed. Many cited fear of abduction, even though crime rates have declined significantly. The most recent in-depth study found that, in 1999, only 115 children nationwide were victims of a “stereotypical kidnapping” by a stranger; the majority was abducted by a family member. The same year, 2931 children under 15 died as passengers in car accidents. Driving children around is statistically more dangerous than letting them roam freely.
“We are depriving them of opportunities to learn how to take control of their own lives,” writes Peter Gray, a research professor at Boston College. He argues that this increases the chance that they will suffer from anxiety, depression, and various other mental disorders, which have gone up dramatically in recent decades.
I am no psychologist like Professor Gray, but I know I won’t be around forever to protect my girls from the challenges life holds in store for them. And by giving kids more control over their lives, they learn to have more confidence in their own capabilities.
56. Hearing the author’s daughter exploring the new neighborhood alone, his American friends feel
______________________________.
A. worried B. proud C. doubtful D. terrified
57. We can conclude from Paragraph 3 that ____________________.
A. American kids enjoy playing at home
B. German parents are less protective than American parents
C. German kids like taking risks more than American kids
D. American parents don’t limit their children’s activities in their leisure time
58. In which of the following countries isn’t narrowing of the child’s world likely to happen?
A. America B. India C. Japan D. England
59. It’s implied from Professor Gray’s words that ____________________.
A. parents should always be around their children to protect them from risks
B. more and more parents suffer from mental problems
C. children are having more opportunities to take control of their lives
D. giving children more freedom is beneficial to their mental development
60. Which of the following words can best describe the author’s parenting?
A. Open-mined. B. Irresponsible. C. Careless. D. Protective.
Glaciers are large masses of ice on land that show evidence of past or present movement. They grow by the gradual transformation of snow into glacier ice.
A fresh snowfall is a fluffy mass of loosely packed snowflakes, small delicate ice crystals grown in the atmosphere. As the snow ages on the ground for weeks or months, the crystals shrink and become more compact, and the whole mass becomes squeezed together into a more dense form, granular snow. As new snow falls and buries the older snow, the layers of granular snow further compact to form firm, a much denser kind of snow, usually a year or more old, which has little pore space. Further burial and slow cementation – a process by which crystals become held together in a mosaic of intergrown ice crystals – finally produce solid glacial ice. In this process of recrystallization, the growth of new crystals at the expense of old ones, the percentage of air is reduced from about 90 percent for snowflakes to less than 20 percent for glacier ice. The whole process may take as little as a few years, but more likely ten or twenty years or longer. The snow is usually many meters deep by the time the lower layers are converted into ice.
In cold glaciers those formed in the coldest regions of the Earth, the entire mass of ice is at temperatures below the melting point and no free water exists. In temperate glaciers, the ice is at the melting point at every pressure level within the glacier, and free water is present as small drops or as
larger accumulations in tunnels within or beneath the ice.
Formation of a glacier is complete when ice has accumulated to a thickness sufficient to make it move slowly under pressure, in much the same way that solid rock deep within the Earth can change shape without breaking. Once that point is reached, the ice flows downhill, either as a tongue of ice filling a valley or as thick ice cap that flows out in directions from the highest central area where the most snow accumulates. The trip down leads to the eventual melting of ice.
61. Which of the following does the passage mainly discuss?
A. The effect of glaciers on climate. B. Damage from glaciers. C. Glacier formation. D. The location of glaciers.
62. Which of the following will cause density within the glacier to increase?
A. Increased water and air content.
B. Pressure from the weight of new snow.
C. Long periods of darkness and temperature variations. D. Movement of the glacier.
63. Which of the following will be lost if a glacier forms?
A. Air B. Pressure C. Weight D. Rocks
64. What is the purpose of the material in paragraph 3?
A. To define two types of glaciers.
B. To contrast glacier ice with non-glacier ice. C. To present theories of glacier formation.
D. To discuss the similarities between glacial types.
65. It can be inferred from the last paragraph that a glacier ______________________________.
A. can revert to a fluffy mass
B. maintains the same shape throughout the glacial process
C. is too cold to be thoroughly studied
D. can contribute water to lakes, rivers, or oceans
Part Two
I. Fill in the blanks with proper words. The first letter is given.
As more and more people speak the global languages of English, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly d____________________1____________________. In fact, half of the 6,000-7,000 languages spoken around the world today will likely die out by the next century, according to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization .
In an e____________________2____________________ to prevent language loss, scholars from a number of organizations- UNESCO and National Geographic among them –have for many years been documenting dying languages and the c____________________3____________________ they reflect.
Mark Turin, a scientist at the Macmillan Center, Yale University, who specializes in the languages and oral traditions of the Himalayas, is following in that tradition. His recently published book, A Grammar of Thangmi with an Ethnolinguistic Introduction to the Speakers and Their Culture, grows out of his e____________________4____________________ living, looking and raising a family in a village in Nepal.
documenting the Tangmi language and culture is just a starting p____________________5____________________ for Turin, who seeks to i______________________________6____________________ other languages and oral traditions across the Himalayans reaches of India, Nepal, Bhutan, and
China. But he is not content to simply record these v____________________7____________________ before they disappear without record.
At the University of Cambridge Turin discovered a wealth of important m______________________________8____________________
- including
photographs, films, tape recordings, and field notes- which had remained unstudied and were badly in need of care and p____________________9____________________.
Now, through the two organizations that he has founded-the Digital Himalaya Project and the World Oral Literature Project- Turin has started a campaign to make such documents, found in libraries and stores around the world, a____________________10____________________ not just to scholars but to the youngers.
II. Word transformation. Each word can be used only once.
Every day we experience one of the wonders of the world around us without even realizing it. It is not the amazing complexity of television, nor the ____________________ 1____________________ technology of transport. The ____________________ 2____________________ wonder we share and experience is our ability to make noise without mouths, and so transmit ideas and thoughts to each other’s minds. This ability comes so ____________________3____________________ that we tend to forget what a miracle it is.
Obviously, the ability to talk is something that marks humans off from animal. Of course, some animals have powers just as amazing. Birds can fly thousands miles by ____________________4____________________ positions of the stars in the sky in ____________________5____________________ to the time of day and year. In Nature’s talent show, humans are a species of animal that have developed their own special act. If we reduce it to basic terms, it’s an ability for communicating information to others, by varying sounds we make as we breathe out.
Not that we don’t have other powers of communication. Our facial ____________________6____________________ convey our emotions, such as anger, or joy, or ____________________7____________________. The way we hold our heads can indicate to others whether we are happy or sad.
This is so-called “body language”. Bristling fur is an unmistakable warning of attack among
many animals. ____________________8____________________, the bowed head or drooping tail shows a readiness to take second place in any animal gathering.
Such a means of communication is a basic mechanism that animals, including human beings, instinctively acquire and display. Is the ability to speak just another sort of instinct? If so, how
did human beings acquire this amazing skills? ____________________9____________________ can readily indicate that particular area of our brain where speech mechanisms function, but this doesn’t tell us how that part of our bodies ____________________10____________________ in our biological history.
III. Fill in the blanks with the proper form of each verb given.
Four people in England back in 1953, stared at Photo 51. It wasn’t much—a picture ____________________1____________________ a black X. But three of these people won the Nobel Prize for figuring out what the photo really showed—the shape of DNA. The discovery brought fame and fortune to scientists James Watson, Francis Crick, and Maurice Wilkins. The fourth, the one who actually made the picture, ____________________2____________________ .
Her name was Rosalind Franklin. “She should have been up there,” says historian Mary Bowden. “If her photo ____________________3____________________ there, the others ____________________4____________________ with the structure.” One reason Franklin was missing was that she ____________________ 5____________________ of cancer four years before the Nobel decision. But now scholar doubt that Franklin was not only robbed of her life by disease but robbed of credit by her competitions.
At Cambridge University in the 1950s, Watson and Crick tried to make models by cutting up shapes of DNA’s parts and then putting them together. In the meantime, at King’s College in London, Franklin and
Wilkins shone X-rays at the molecule . The rays produced patterns reflecting the shape.
But Wilkins and Franklin’s relationship was a lot rockier than the celebrated teamwork of Watson and Crick. Wilkins thought Franklin was hired to be his assistant. But the college actually employed her ____________________6______________________________ the DNA project.
What she did was produce X-ray pictures that told Watson and Crick that one of their early models was inside out. And she was not shy about saying so. That angered Watson, who attacked her in return,
“Mere inspection suggested that she ____________________7____________________ easily. Clearly she had to go or be put in her place.” As Franklin’s competitors, Wilkins, Watson and Crick had much to gain by cutting her out of the
little group of researchers, says historian Pnina Abir-Am. In 1962 at the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony, Wilkins thanked 13 colleagues by name before he mentioned Franklin. Watson wrote his book laughing at her. Crick wrote in 1974 that “Franklins was only two steps away from the solution.”
No, Franklin was the solution. “She contributed more than any other player to ____________________8____________________ the structure of DNA. She must ____________________9____________________ a co-discoverer,” Abir-Am says. This was backed up by Aaron Klug, who worked with Franklin and later won a Nobel Prize himself. Once ____________________ 10____________________ as the “Dark Lady of DNA”, Franklin is finally coming into the light.
IV. Sentence transformation.
1. My grandpa had an operation two years ago, so he is able to live in good health now.
2. The little girl didn’t fall asleep________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
3. As soon as Bruce shook hands with us, the phone rang.
Scarcely ______________________________.
4. As the bus driver had braked in time, he avoided bumping into the boy who was running.
5. The chemical plant near our home discharges lots of toxic materials into the river. We worry about it.
V. Read the following passage and answer the questions.
As researchers learn more about how children’s intelligence develops, they are increasingly surprised by the power of parents. The power of the school has been replaced by the home. To begin with, all the factors which are part of intelligence —the child’s understanding of language, learning patterns, curiosity
—are established well before the child enters school at the age of six. Study after study has shown that even after school begins, children’s achievements have been far more influenced by parents than by teachers. This is particularly true about learning that is language-related. The school rather than the home is given credit for variations in achievement in subjects such as science.
In view of their power, it’s sad to see so many parents not making the most of their child’s intelligence. Until recently parents had been warned by educators who asked them not to educate their children. Many teachers now realize that children cannot be educated only at school and parents are being asked to contribute both before and after the child enters school.
Parents have been particularly afraid to teach reading at home. Of course, children shouldn’t be pushed to read by their parents, but educators have discovered that reading is best taught individually —
and the easiest place to do this is at home. Many four- and five-year-olds who have been shown a few letters and taught their sounds will compose single words of their own with them even before they have been taught to read.
1. What have researchers found out about the influence of parents and the school on children’s intelligence?
2. What do researchers conclude about children’s learning patterns?
3. In which area may school play a more important role?
4. Why did many parents fail to make the most of their children’s intelligence?
5. The author suggests in the last paragraph that parents should be encouraged ____________________.
VI. Translation.
1. Jack 是一个这样健谈的人以至于我得提醒他别扯太远了。
2. 大家只有不断地努力才能梦想成真。正如古语所云：“一分耕耘，一分收成”。
3. 你们要做好充分的筹备，在旅游中非常难防止遇见为数不多的思想狭隘的当地人。
VII. Writing
Suppose our school is going to hold “SFLS’s got talent”. You are interested in it and want to participate in this competition. Please write a passage on the TOPic “I Have Got Talent” in about 100-120 words. Please include the following questions:
1. What kind of talent/skill do you have?
2. How did you discover your talent/skill?
3. How do you develop this talent?
4. How will this talent benefit you in the future?
