初三英语综合测试4

一、单项选择

1. –Knowledge is money. –But I think it is ____ money.

A. as important as B. so important as C. more important than D. the same as

2. It’s ____ to teach a man to fish than to give him fish.

A. more B. better C. good D. best

3. Remember not to speak ____ when we are in the reading room.

A. fast B. slowly C. politely D. loudly

4. Now more and more Chinese people are ____ enough to buy cars.

A. rich B. weak C. poor D. strong

5. Although I failed four times, my father encouraged me to have a ____ try.

A. second B. third C. fourth D. fifth

6. –What’s one plus two? –It’s ____ .

A. one B. two C. four D. three

7. Hangzhou is famous ____ producing silk in China.

A. from B. at C. in D. for

8. Don’t worry. I’ll tell Mr. Green ____ he comes back.

A. when B. how C. why D. where

9. When you can’t hear someone clearly you should say: ____ .

A. Excuse B. Sorry C. Repeat D. Pardon

10. My hair is too long, I must have it ____ .

A. cut B. cutting C. cuts D. to cut

11. 10,000 years ago, the world’s population was very ____ .

A. small B. few C. little D. bit

12. That house was ____ 300,000 yuan.

A. cost B. paid C. worth D. spent

二、完型填空

It is true that paper can not last long. But is there any __1__ that would last as long as __2__ as and as easy to write __3__ as paper? The Babylonians discovered just such a material. Recently an Englishman unearthed(出土) a large library of a king of Babylonia, whose __4__ were made of clay(泥土) .

This is the __5__ in which these books were made. They first made a sheet of clay of the proper size and thickness, and __6__ on it with a sharp stick. These books of clay, after they had been dried and __7__ in an oven (炉灶) , could last almost as long as stones. Such books will not burn up in a fire _8__ be spoiled by wetness; pieces can be gathered （搜集）up and __9__ together properly. The English __10__ to work a long time with broken sheets discovered there before he __11__ them all put together properly.

There were 30,000 sheets in the library. Every book was made __12__ many sheets, as our books have many __13__. It was, of course, impossible to stick them together as we __14__ now with our books. So all the clay sheets had to be __15__ and the name of the book placed on every one.

1. A. paper B. material（材料） C. book D. cloth

2. A. bamboo B. wood C. plastics D. stone

3. A. on B. for C. with D. in

4. A. covers B. houses C. walls D. books

5. A. skill B. way C. story D. means

6. A. painted B. cut C. pointed D. wrote

7. A. fired B. wrapped（裹着） C. cleaned D. smoked

8. A. so B. also C. nor D. not

9. A. sewn B. thrown C. put D. kept

10. A. wanted B. had C. stopped D. remembered

11. A. did B. got C. turned D. started

12. A. from B. by C. of D. up of

13. A. pages B. words C. sentences D. leaf

14. A. made B. tie C. hold D. do

15. A. counted B. copied C. numbered D. painted

三、阅读理解

No Place Like Home

Birds do not always make their nets in trees or bushes. They don’t always use birdhouses. Some birds build their homes in strange places.

One bird used a mailbox to make its home. The letter carrier first found the nest when putting a letter into the box.

Children sometimes help birds find homes One bird was living in a baseball glove. The child had left the glove hanging in a nearby barn. Another bird was making its home in a pocketbook. The pocketbook had been left open on the ground.

A nest was once found in the pocket of a suit. The suit had been left on the washing line. Another bird made its nest an old tin can. The home for one bird was the top of a train. Each time the train moved, the bird got a free ride.

Nests are sometimes made of more than just sticks and mud. One nest was found with a bubble-gum wrapper inside. Another bird used tinsel(金属片)from Christmas tree. One bird even used money to make its home. A dollar bill was used to line its nest. It doesn’t matter where it is or what it’s made of. “There’s no place like home,” say the birds.

1. One bird made its nest in a ____ .

A. bag B. mailbox C. letter

2. The baseball glove was hanging on the ____ .

A. barn B. store C. house

3. A bird made a home in a ____ .

A. hat B. pocketbook C. doll house

4. A nest was made on top of ____

A. an airplane B. a train C. a boat

5. One nest was made out of ____ .

A. tape B. rope C. tinsel

Mr Smith(John’s English teacher): John Brown? Yes, I remember John. I knew he was an unusually bright boy from the moment the entered the school. Writing came as naturally to him as walking. He enjoyed playing with words, in the same way that other boys played with a football. He wrote whenever he had the chance: stories that most of us couldn’t hope to write, with the experience of a person two or three times his age.

Mrs Jane Brown( John’s mother): When he was young, John was always writing. He wrote in bed; he wrote while rest of us were watching television in the half darkness; he would even write at the breakfast table if I let him. He was a very quiet boy. Even now, I’m not sure that I’d like my son very well, if I didn’t read these stories!

1. Mr Smith ____ .

A. recognized(认出) John Brown as soon as he entered the school

B. knew that John was a clever boy as soon as he met him

C. remembered John as a boy to whom walking came naturally

D. remembered writing to John when he entered the school

2. To John, words ____ .

A. were what a football was to other boys

B. were like a game, not to be taken seriously

C. came more naturally than walking

D. came almost as naturally as playing football

3. The stories that John wrote were ____ .

A. about the experience of someone two or three times his age

B. two or three times better than the stories that most people write

C. of the kind that most people older than John hopes to write

D. of a kind that few can write, even after years of experience of life

4. Mrs Brown knows John wrote ____ .

A. instead of going to bed or eating breakfast

B. to her instead of talking to her

C. except when he was watching television

D. whenever he had the chance

5. Mrs Brown knows John ____ .

A. better as a writer than a talker

B. well only because she has read his stories

C. only through what Mr Smith said about him

D. is a writer, but this is almost all she knows about him

Trudy’s class has a newspaper. The students write stories, articles and poems for it. Then one of them types their work into a computer and prints it out. The teacher puts up everything on the wall so that it looks like a large, open newspaper.

One day Trudy said to the teacher, “Most newspaper have advertisements Can we have advertisements in ours?”

The teacher thought this was a very good idea. She made Trudy the advertising manager and Trudy asked the other students to advertise in the newspaper. Here are some of the advertisements she received.

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