宁波市 2021年初中学业水平考试
英 语 试 题
考生须知：
1. 全卷分试题卷I、试题卷II和答题卷。试题卷共 8页, 有6个大题, 61 个小题, 满分为 95分。考试时长为90分钟。
2. 请将姓名、准考证号分别填写在试题卷和答题卷的规定位置上。
3. 答题时, 把试题卷I的答案在答题卷I上对应的选项位置用 2B 铅笔涂黑、涂满。将试题卷II答案用黑色字迹钢笔或签字笔书写, 答案必须按照题号顺序在答题卷II各题目规定区域内作答, 做在试题卷上或超出答题区域书写的答案无效。
试 题 卷I
一、完形填空（本题有15 小题, 每小题1分, 共计 15 分）
阅读下面短文, 掌握大意, 然后从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
Larry seemed always silent and didn’t have any friend. His teacher Mr. Brown ___1___ this. One day, he asked Larry to meet him after class. Mr. Brown said, “I see that you don’t talk to anyone or show any ___2___ in anything. What’s wrong?” Larry replied, “Sir, I have a very ___3___ life. I have to face some very sad incidents and I keep ___4___ them. Because of this, I can’t focus my attention on anything and don’t even feel like talking to ___5___.”
Mr. Brown listened carefully, thought for a while and said, “Would you like some lemonade（柠檬汽水）?” Larry felt a little ___6___ and nervously replied, “Yes, thank you!”
While ___7___ lemonade, Mr. Brown added more salt on purpose and kept the quantity of sugar low. Larry made a ___8___ face as soon as he drank a sip of that lemonade. Seeing this, Mr. Brown asked “You don’t like it?”
“Um…it’s just there is a bit too much ___9___ in it,” Larry answered.
Mr. Brown stopped him, “Oh, it doesn’t matter. I will throw it away.” As the teacher was lifting the glass to ___10___, Larry stopped him and said, “Sir, please don’t throw it away. ___11___ we put a little more sugar in the lemonade, it will be fine to drink.”
Hearing this, Mr. Brown said___12___, “This is what I want to hear from you. To improve the ___13___ of lemonade, we don’t need to remove the salt from it, we can just add some sugar to it. Similarly, we cannot remove sad things that have ___14___ happened to us, but we can add sweetness of good experiences in our life. If you keep on crying about your ___15___, neither your present will be right nor the future will be bright.”
Larry realized his problem and promised to live a positive life.
1. A. enjoyed B. noticed C. believed D. forgot
2. A. fear B. anger C. interest D. politeness
3. A. simple B. difficult C. quiet D. common
4. A. looking for B. learning from C. laughing at D. thinking about
5. A. anybody B. somebody C. everybody D. nobody
6. A. surprised B. tired C. bored D. shamed
7. A. buying B. cooking C. preparing D. drinking
8. A. serious B. friendly C. patient D. strange
9. A. sugar B. water C. salt D. lemonade
10. A. keep it away B. take it away C. drink it up D. use it up
11. A. If B. Since C. Although D. Unless
12. A. bravely B. coldly C. happily D. angrily
13. A. taste B. color C. shape D. smell
14. A. never B. already C. nearly D. seldom
15. A. style B. habit C. decision D. past
二、阅读理解（本题有15 小题, 每小题2分, 共计 30 分）
阅读下面材料, 从每题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。
(A)
16. What did Jarrad think of this book?
A. Common. B. Amazing. C. Humorous. D. Scary.
17. Who are the main readers for this book review?
A. The students in Jarrad’s class. B. The teachers in Jarrad’s school.
C. People who have read the book. D. Kids who are interested in adventures.
18. What does the cover of this book tell you?
A. What the writer’s name is B. When the book came out.
C. Who the main characters are. D. In which country the story happened.
(B)
Have you ever entered a tropical rainforest(热带雨林)? Rainforests make up only a small part of the Earth’s surface, about six percent, but there are more kinds of trees than any other area in the whole world.
Tropical rainforests are in Africa Asia, Central and South America, Australia, and on the Pacific islands. The largest tropical rainforest is the Amazon (亚马逊)Rainforest in South America, which covers 1. 2 billion acres, or almost five million square kilometres. The second largest rainforest is in Western Africa.
Rainforests provide us with many things. In fact, the Amazon Rainforest is the “lungs of our planet” because it produces 20%of the world’s oxygen (氧气). One fifth of the world’s fresh water is also found in the Amazon Rainforest. Furthermore, one half of the world’s species of animals, plants and insects live in the Earth’s rainforests. 80% of the food we eat first grew in the rainforest. 25%of the drugs we take when we are sick are made of plants that grow only in rainforests. Some of these drugs are even used to fight and cure cancer.
There are four different levels of trees in a rainforest. The forest floor is the lowest layer full of animal life and receives the least amount of light. The under storey is the dark, cool environment under the leaves but over the ground. The canopy layer is the upper parts of most of the trees. The emergent layer contains a small number of very tall trees.
These different parts of a rainforest exist together to create an ecosystem for many animals, plants and human beings.
19. This passage is mainly about ________.
A. kinds of forest B. where rainforests are
C. facts about rainforests D. how much oxygen rainforests make
20. The Amazon Rainforest provides us with ________ percent of the world’s oxygen.
A. twenty B. twenty-five C. fifty D. eighty
21. Where can we probably find a tropical rainforest according to the passage?
A. In France. B. In China. C. In Canada. D. In Britain.
22. Which is the right picture to show four different levels of trees in a rainforest?
A. B. C. D.
(C)
Jason and his father were going to the grocery store by car to pick up some apples. It had been an unusual day. The sky was dark but there were few clouds. As they drove up the street, there started to be a rumbling （隆隆的） sound heard across the ground.
Jason’s father immediately realized that a tornado （龙卷风） was coming. He stopped the car and told Jason to get out immediately. Jason and his father got out of the car and made their way to the closest building. By this time the wind was blowing harder, and it was hard to see or hear. Debris was falling all over the place. Jason couldn’t see his dad anymore. He also realized that he wasn’t getting to the building fast enough. He was afraid he would be picked up by the wind and thrown into the air.
As he made his way towards the building, he noticed a field to his right. He could see an irrigation ditch（灌溉渠）. In a panic, he scrambled （爬） to the ditch and lay flat on the ground. More debris and objects flew overhead. His heart was beating hard, and he was nervous. He had never been in a tornado before.
After a while, the winds died down and the loud roaring sound was gone. Jason slowly lifted his head and nervously looked around. What he saw was a great mess. Jason could hardly recognize the buildings in front of him because of all the damage.
He stood up and with shaky legs walked to the building. Once there, he pushed the door open and went inside. It was a public building owned by the city. It was empty, but Jason could hear noises further inside. He walked into the large room and saw his dad. He ran across the room and gave him a big hug.
“Jason! How are you? I’ve been worried sick about you!” said his father. “I couldn’t find you anywhere!”
Jason breathed a sigh of a relief（松了一口气）and sat down. He did have a story to tell!
23. From Paragraph 1, we can get the ________ of the story.
A. background B. development C. climax (most exciting part) D. ending
24. Which of the following is the right order according to the passage?
① Jason nervously looked around from the irrigation ditch.
② Jason ran across the room and gave his father a big hug.
③ Jason got out of the car.
④ Jason noticed a field to his right.
A. ②①③④ B. ③④①② C. ④①②③ D. ③①②④
25. The underlined word “Debris” in Paragraph 2 probably means ________.
A. parts of the tornado B. apple pies C. broken pieces D. drop of rain
26. The story tells us that when we are in danger, ________.
A. we should wait patiently until help comes
B. we should work hard to make our dreams come true
C. we should be brave enough to change nature
D. we should be quick-thinking and believe in ourselves
(D)
Have you ever bought something and then changed your mind? For Alison Jenson, 15, this used to happen several times a week. Alison was a shopaholic. She just couldn’t stop shopping and she loved special offers.
Alison’s bedroom is full of stuff. “I’ve been to every shop in Birmingham, I think,” says Alison. She picks up some earrings. The labels are still on them. “These were half price,” she says. “I’ve never won them.” Alison’s problem wasn’t just jewellery. She also bought a lot of clothes, though not many shoes, because they were usually too expensive. She has also bought lots of other small things-like 20 new covers for her phone. She hasn’t used any of them.
According to experts, we all feel excited after we buy something new. For shopaholics, it’s a little different. Soon after they buy something, they think they’ve made a mistake and start to feel unhappy. So they buy themselves something else to feel happier.
Psychologists （心理学家）first described the problems of shopaholics in 1915. However, there was very little research on the subject until recently. Now, doctors think thousands of people suffer from the problem, and the situation is getting worse. There are also more teenage shopaholics now, although most young people don’t have enough money to go shopping very regularly.
Alison knew she had a problem. “I often bought something every day. Usually it was something small, but I just needed to buy it,” she says. “I spent money that I got for my birthday, and when I was short of cash, I borrowed money from friends or my parents. When I couldn’t go shopping, I felt anxious. Then one day, my parents just looked at all the stuff in my room and said, This is crazy!I knew they were right. I needed some big changes in my life.”
Alison now gets help with her problem and feels she has changed. She no longer thinks she’s a shopaholic. “When I want to buy something in a shop, I ask myself two questions,” she says. “Do I need it? Can I afford it? The answer to both questions is usually ‘no’, so I walk away. It’s great!”
27 What do experts say about shopaholics?
A. Shopaholics feel sad when they are shopping.
B. Shopaholics soon feel unhappy after they have bought something.
C. Shopaholics feel more excited than other people when they shop.
D. Shopping is the only way shopaholics can feel happy.
28. The underlined word “they” in Paragraph 5 refers to ________.
A. psychologists B. doctors C. Alison’s parents D. Alison’s friends
29. Which word can best describe Alison’s feeling at the end of the passage?
A. Glad. B. Worried. C. Embarrassed. D. Moved.
30. The best title for the passage above might be ________.
A. Shop Till You Drop! B. Shopping Makes Me Happy!
C. You’d Better Shop Less! D. I Can Stop Shopping Now!
三、任务型阅读（本题有 5 小题, 每小题1分, 共计 5 分）
下面是一幅关于提高说话技巧的结构图。请你根据结构图提供的信息, 将选项中的小标题（A-F）与相应的段落匹配。选项中有一项为多余选项。
A. Don’t try to say too much
B. Don’t speak too fast
C. Make notes and prepare
D. Plan your talk
E. Look up not down
F. Finish on time
试 题 卷 II
四、词汇运用（本题有15 小题, 每小题1分, 共计 15 分）
A. 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（每空一词）。
36. It’s not safe to leave a baby in a car by ________（它自己）.
37. The big tree over there is probably one ________（百）years old.
38. Mike often ________（收集）stamps and plays basketball in his spare time.
39. Traditional Chinese ________（药）has been playing an important role in treating COVID-19.
40. I often se an old man with ________（灰色）hair sweeping the road near my school.
41. People around the world can hardly ________（避免） buying products made in China.
42. To help my parents live a better life is ________（确切地） what I want.
43. If we don’t protect the environment well, we’ll be ________（惩罚）sooner or later.
44. Yuan Longping, the “Father of Hybrid Rice”, won many ________（奖） for his rice research.
45. Of the three cities, Ningbo, our hometown, is the ________（生机勃勃的）.
B. 用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空, 每词仅用一次（每空一词）。
Do you know that we are using up the Earth’s fresh water faster than we can replace it? We need water to stay alive and if we don’t use water ____46____, we will run out!
Water is needed for just about everything we do. We need it to farm, to wash, to provide power, to control fires and-most importantly-to drink. ____47____ water, we would all die.
So we should all save water if we want to have enough to stay alive. Using less water ____48____ saving money and saving energy. Saving water is EASY. Here are some ____49____ tips:
* Have shorter showers and only half fill the bath.
* Turn the tap off while you soap your hands or brush your ____50____.
* Fix any taps or hoses（软管）that drip-every drop counts!
五、语法填空（本题有 10 小题, 每小题1分, 共计10 分）
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入一个适当的词, 或填入括号中所给单词的正确形式。
Susan was tired of having her three children talk back to her. One day, she climbed into her kids’ tree house. It was ____51____ good place, she thought, for a mother to go on strike（罢工）. She was tired of ____52____ (drive) them everywhere without thanks and doing more than her share of the work around the house. Until ____53____ (thing) changed, Susan decided to stay up in the tree.
Susan’s strike got her kids’ attention, ____54____ course. But that was not all that happened. Word of the fed-up mother spread. Before long, a camera crew from television’s Today Show came into their yard. Now people all across America were going to find ____55____who drove the kids’ mother up a tree.
As the cameras worked, the three kids stood with their father near the tree house. Kate, the Today Show host, had a question for ____56____ (they). “What do you think about your mom on strike in that tree house?” she asked.
“I am kind of embarrassed” said Misty.
“I’m really shocked, “said Joseph. “I did not think it would go this far. My mom is much ____57____ (crazy) than we thought.”
Rachel added, “I think mom is so strange ____58____ I can hardly believe it.”
But Susan had made her point. If the kids ____59____ (want) her back, they should know what to do. When the TV crew left, the kids went into their house ____60____ (quick) and got busy. Not long after that Susan climbed down from the tree and went back to being a mom.
六、书面表达（共计 20 分）
61. 假如你是李华, 上个月你校举行了 “祖国在我心中”的主题活动（theme event）, 请你根据以下提供的信息并结合你参加这个主题活动的经历, 写一篇英语短文向你校英语报投稿。
注意：
（1）短文必须包括导图的所有要点, 并适当发挥;
（2）文中不得出现真实人名和校名;
（3）词数 80-100;标题已给出, 不计入总词数。
Motherland in My Heart
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