2025-2026学年安徽宣城初三(下)期末试卷英语

1、他刚要锁门，这时电话响了。

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2、 Linda always goes to see her grandpa _____ Wednesday afternoon.

A. in B. at C. on D. of

3、The governor made an announcement all the tasks_______ in two days.

A. must finish B. would finish C. are finished D. must be finished

4、 I don’t like ____________ of the dresses. Could you please show me a third one?

A. both B. all C. either D. Neither

5、-The radio in your grandfather's house is out of date, right?

-Well, it has been used for many years since it was bought in 1970.

A.not expensive B.not fashionable C.not beautiful

6、— Allen, your spoken English has improved a lot.

— Thanks. _________ I’ll work harder to catch up with those who are good at it.

A. There is still a long way to go. B. But I don’t think you are telling the truth.

C. Please don’t make fun of me. D. Really? Are you serious?

7、My friends are not interested in politics . Which of the following is correct for the underlined letter in the word ?

A. /ʌ/   B. /ɔ/   C. /u/   D. /ə/

8、There's an important football match today. I _________ miss it.

A. may   B. can't C. must   D. needn't

9、I’m really busy now because a lot of work __________ today.

A. needs to finish   B. need finishing   C. needs to be finished   D. need to finish

10、(2011山东青岛)My ear alarm is always________whenever my neighbor’s cat goes under my car．

A．going off

B．going out

C．breaking down

D．setting off

11、—Excuse me. Would you please _____ the total cost of the trip?

—All right. I will make it at once.

A. give out   B. look out

C. take out  D. work out

12、---Look! Who's ______ boy talking with Jack over there?

---Oh, he is my cousin, Bob. He is _____ honest boy.

A. a; the   B. the; an   C. the; a   D. a; an

13、Which of the following sentences is different from the others in the sentence structure?

A．Tommy often tells us funny stories after class.

B．Mr. Wang taught himself Japanese at university.

C．My mother always makes me stay at home at weekends.

D．The meeting gives everyone a chance to express their ideas.

14、—Who taught _______ English?

—Nobody. I learned all by _________.

A.you; my B.your; myself C.you; myself D.your; my

15、—What’s the matter?

--I can’t stand the loud music here. It’s nearly ________ me mad.

A. keeping   B. driving   C. turning   D. giving

16、Sam told us that his new flat was   than the first one had been.

A.comfortable B.more comfortable C.most comfortable D.the most comfortable

17、-How can I speak English _____ you?

—You’d better speak more, I think.

A. as good as   B. as well as   C. as much as

18、For all these years I have been working for others. I’m hoping I’ ll ________ my own business someday.

A. turn up   B. fix up   C. set up   D. make up

19、He studied ______ hard ______ he made great progress.

A．such…that…  B．so that，/ C．too…to     D．so…that…

20、The ______instructions on medicine are necessary for the sick. They explain_____whether the medicine is out of date.

 A.clear; clear B.clearly; clear

C.clearly; clearly   D.clear; clearly

21、—As the story________, the truth about the real killer is slowly discovered.

A.begins B.develops C.ends D.happens

22、情景交际通读下面的对话，根据上下文补全对话内容。

A: Good afternoon. 【1】 ?

B: I’d like to buy a washing machine.

A: Well, there are many washing machines here. Some are made in China, and some are made inother countries.

B: This one looks nice. 【2】 ?

A: In Germany. It’s the newest one.

B: 【3】 ?

A: Sure. Put the clothes in, and then do it like this.

B: Mmm, not bad. 【4】 ?

A: 3,200 yuan.

B: Well, even though it is a bit expensive, 【5】 .

23、A: Hello, Susan! What do you plan to do after supper?

B: I want to watch TV after finishing my homework. Work must come first.

A: OK. You can do it. 【1】?

B: My favorite show is talk show.

A: 【2】?

B: Because I can learn more about someone who I love.

A: 【3】?

B: At least three times a week. Sometimes, only once a week. What about you?

A: 【4】. You know, I do sports every day and I play football twice a week.

B: Who is your favorite football player?

A: Of course Ronaldo is. He is the best player in the world. He won many football games.

B: I see. Let’s discuss it at the class meeting.

A: 【5】.

24、Spring Festival, Chun Jie is the first day of the Chinese lunar calendar. When Chun Jie is coming, people are busy buying good, cleaning the house, cooking traditional food, making Spring Festival couplets, and hanging spring festival pictures. Dumplings are essential to the dinner. Dumplings means reunion and goodwill. The whole family gather to enjoy quality family time. On Chun Jie, Lunar New Year’s Day, people in new clothes visit each other, and give money to kids to send good wishes. During Chun Jie holidays all kinds of celebrations are held, including temple fairs, performances, a Lantern show which lasts nearly half a month.

The Qing Ming Festival is a day of reverence for Chinese. People hold ceremonies (仪式) for ancestors (祖先), and sweep their tombs (墓) on April 5th every year. According to tradition, during the Tomb Sweeping, people put food in front of the tombs, add new soil on the tomb. Decorate the tombs with some fresh branches and knock head. Now it is a public holiday in China. Although ceremonies have changed a little with time. Chinese still express their sadness for the dead.

In ancient times, there was a great poet called Qu Yuan. He couldn’t bear the pain when his motherland was invaded, so he drowned himself in the river. Local people drop the rice balls into the river to take away fishes’ attention from Qu’s body. Later people memorialized Qu’s patriotism by rowing and making Zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, Duanwujie. That’s how the tradition of dragon boat racing and eating Zongzi were started.

The Qixi Festival, also known as the Chinese Valentine’s Day, falls on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month on the Chinese calendar. It says that a fairy named Zhi Nv, who lived in heaven, fell in love with a cow herder named Niu Lang during her trip to earth. Zhi Nv decided to settle down on earth and lead an ordinary life with Niu Lang.

Just like an ancient Chinese poem says, the moon was rising from the sea and all the people were sharing this moment …

【1】What does the underlined word essential mean in paragraph 1?

A．delicious

B．meaningful

C．important

D．necessary

【2】What can you learn from the passage?

A．Dumplings are the most important for people to celebrate the Spring Festival.

B．People have to sweep the tomb at the Qing Ming Festival.

C．Qu Yuan is the main story behind the festival of Duanwujie.

D．The Qixi Festival, is known as the Valentine’s Day, telling a love story.

【3】What may be talked about in the last paragraph?

A．The Mid-Autumn Festival

B．The National Day

C．The May Holiday

D．The Double Ninth Day

25、Mrs. Thompson came to the 5th grade class and noticed that Teddy was always alone. Also, he did badly in his studies. When she reviewed Teddy’s past records，she found he was a good child at first，but he began to change when his mother got ill. Finally he lost interest in school after his mother’s death.

Mrs. Thompson realized the problem and felt sorry for him. She felt even worse when her students brought her beautifully-covered Christmas presents. His presents were covered with some old paper. Some children laughed when she found a bracelet(手镯)with some of the stones missing, and a bottle with a little perfume(香水).But she said how pretty the bracelet was, putting it on, and dabbing some perfume on her hand. Teddy stayed after school for a long time just to say，“Mrs. Thompson，today you smelled just like my mom used to.” After the child left，she cried for quite a long time.

On that very day, she taught not only knowledge but also children. As she worked with Teddy，his mind seemed to come alive. By the end of the year，Teddy had become one of the smartest children in the class.

A year later，Teddy left school. She found a note under her door，from Teddy，saying that she was the best teacher he ever had in his life. After that, these words were repeated in each of his letters to her.

Then after he finished college, Teddy wrote telling her that he had met a pretty girl and was going to get married. He explained that his father was dead，and that he wondered if Mrs. Thompson might sit at the wedding in the place for the mother of the groom(新郎).

Of course，Mrs. Thompson did. She wore the bracelet and the perfume that Teddy remembered his mother wearing on their last Christmas together.

They hugged(拥抱)each other，and Teddy whispered in Mrs. Thompson’s ear，“Thank you，Mrs. Thompson，for making me feel important，and showing me that I could make a difference.”

Mrs. Thompson，with tears in her eyes，whispered back，“Teddy，it’s not like that. You were the one who taught me that I could make a difference. I didn’t know how to teach until I met you.”

【1】What made Teddy change before Mrs. Thompson came?

A. His mother’s illness and death.

B. His classmates’ laughing at him.

C. His past records by his teachers.

D. His interest in some other things.

【2】 What did Teddy give Mrs. Thompson for Christmas?

A. old paper    B. stones

C. a bracelet and a little perfume   D. a bottle

【3】Teddy left a note for Mrs. Thompson when he left school mainly to say _______.

A. sorry B. hello C. thanks    D. goodbye

【4】What kind of person was Mrs. Thompson?

A. Wise and humorous B. Kind and helpful.

C. Selfish and impatient  D. Strict and stubborn.

【5】We can learn from the passage that _______.

A. Mrs. Thompson became Teddy’s mother at last.

B. Mrs. Thompson didn’t know how to teach all her life.

C. Teddy didn’t finish college before he got married

D. Mrs. Thompson and Teddy each made a difference.

26、The Silk Road is a historically important international trade route between China and the Mediterranean(地中海).  It began during the Western Han Dynasty and has been a bridge between East and West for over 2 000 years.

The ancient road started from Chang'an (now Xi'an) and ended in Eastern Europe, near today's Turkey and the Mediterranean Sea. It was about 6 500 kilometers long and went across one-fourth of the planet.

The Silk Road got its name in the 19th century because Chinese silk used to be carried along this road. Silk, jade(玉石), ceramics(陶器) and iron went west to Rome. And from the west came glass, gems(宝石) and food like carrots.

The Silk Road was very important to both China and the rest of the world. It was more than an ancient international trade route.  Besides trade, knowledge about arts, science and literature, as well crafts and technologies was shared across the Silk Road.  In this way, languages and cultures developed and influenced each other.

Today, China is trying to build the "21st Century Marine(海洋的) Silk Road". With the help of APEC held in Beijing in November 2014, the dream of One Belt One Road (the "Silk Road Economic(经济的) Belt" and "gist Century Marine Silk Road")("一带一路") is coming true.

【1】The underlined word "route" in Paragraph 1 probably means ________.

A. 方式   B. 路线   C. 成就   D. 关系

【2】When did the Silk Road begin?

A. In the 19th century.   B. In the 18th century.

C. During the Western Han Dynasty.   D. During the Eastern Han Dynasty.

【3】How long was the ancient Silk Road?

A. It was about 6 500 meters long.

B. It was about 5 000 kilometers long.

C. It went across one-third of the planet.

D. It went across one fourth of the earth.

【4】Why was it named the Silk Road?

A. Because Chinese silk was carried along this road.

B. Because Chinese silk was produced along this road.

C. Because things were traded from market to market along this road.

D. Because the ancient traders bought and sold things along this road.

【5】It can be inferred(推断) from this passage that

A. the Silk Road was only an ancient international trade route

B. many new silk roads have been built by the Chinese government so far

C. the Silk Road was a very important line of communication connecting East and-West

D. the Silk Road prevented the development of languages and cultures between East and West

27、Cyleball

This sport is like football on bikes. There are two teams. Each team has usually got two players. Players in each team try to hit the ball into the goal. They can use their bikes or their heads to do this. The winning team is the team with the most goals at the end of the game.

Gilli-danda

This is an ancient sport from India. The players use two things: one long stick, called a danda and a short egg-shaped bat, called a gilli. There are two teams. One player puts the gilli on the ground inside a small circle and hits it into the air with the danda. Then the player hits the gilli gain and runs to touch a spot outside the circle to get a point.

Octopush

The sport is also called underwater hockey(曲棍球). There are two teams. Each team has got six players. Players swim underwater to play this game. They use small sticks and a puck. The puck is a little like a ball. Players try to push the puck along the bottom of a swimming pool into the other team’s goal. The winning team is the one with the most goals at the end of the match.

【1】Which is the correct order of the pictures according to the passage?

A．a→b→c

B．c→b→a

C．a→c→b

D．c→a→b

【2】Which part of a magazine may this passage be taken from?

A．Animal World.

B．Teenage Problems.

C．Science and Technology.

D．Sports and Games.

【3】What do these sports have in common?

A．They all have a short history.

B．A long stick is needed for each sport.

C．Every sport team has six players.

D．There’re two teams in every sport game.

【4】What’s the purpose of this passage?

A．To tell people sports are very important.

B．To tell us to do more sports after school.

C．To introduce three kinds of different sports.

D．To choose one of the three sports to exercise.

28、When you’re very, very afraid of something, that fear can affect（影响）you and how you live your life. When I was younger, I saw my cousin f【1】 onto an ants’ nest. The ants attacked（攻击）him, and he was c【2】 in terrible bites（咬）. After that I became very scared of ants. I wouldn’t eat outside, and I didn’t even like to play outside. I c【3】 my bed for ants every night. But when I t【4】 thirteen, I decided I couldn’t let my fear get to me. I had to learn to control my fear of ants.

First I read a lot about different ants. I didn’t focus on bites, but instead I read about how helpful ants are to the e【5】. Ants are really cool! They’re hard—working, social, and organized. They help bring a【6】 and nutrients（营养物）to the earth. They help p【7】 grow, clean up decaying（腐烂的）matter（物质）, and help control other insects.

Next I began to w【8】 ants from a safe distance. I started to look at a family of ants in real time on the Internet in order to learn how they live. Little by little, I felt more c【9】 about ants. Finally I went outside one day and let an ant move onto my hand and t【10】 it gently. It was okay! Now that I know about all the good things ants do, I’m not so afraid of them anymore.

29、An old man walked slowly into a restaurant with his cane (拐杖). His old jacket and worn-out shoes made him very different from others. _______ talked to him except a young waitress. Mary watched him move towards a seat by the window. She ran over to him and helped him _______. Then she put his cane against the table _______ he could reach it. Without saying a word, he smiled and nodded a thank-you.

After the old man finished a good meal, Mary brought him the _______. After he put the money in his pocket, she handed him his cane and the old man walked to the front door_______ with the help of the girl. Holding the door open for him, Mary said, “Come back and see us, sir!” The old man _________her with a smile and agreed.

When Mary went to clean his table, she was_______ . Under the plate, she found a business card, a 100—dollar bill and a _______which read, “Dear Mary, I respect you very much, and you respect yourself, too. It is shown by the way you treat others. You have _______the secret of happiness.”

In fact, the old man was the owner of the restaurant. That was the ________time that Mary or any of his workers had seen him.

【1】A. Everybody   B. Nobody   C. Anybody   D. Somebody

【2】A. sit down   B. stand up   C. walk around   D. order the food

【3】A. as if   B. so that   C. even though   D. since then

【4】A. food   B. bill   C. change   D. chance

【5】A. quickly   B. sadly   C. luckily   D. slowly

【6】A. looked at   B. get away from   C. run after   D. wait for

【7】A. excited   B. worried   C. bored   D. surprised

【8】A. notice   B. note   C. book   D. mail

【9】A. developed   B. lost   C. found   D. forgotten

【10】A. first   B. second   C. third   D. last