牛津版（深圳·广州）初中英语七年级上册期末模拟复习卷一

—Of course.

—OK. Let's go.

—It started at 7:30 p. m. and ended at 11: 00 p. m.

—About three quarters of them.

—Well, it provides me with a house.

—It was built in the centre of the campus.

—Well, more than 50. I only slept for three hours.

—Thanks for your advice.

—Yes. We say it to each other every night.

—My ________ is to be an engineer and I'll work hard to make it come true.

    Hello! 1 name is Li Ying. I'm twelve. I'm from Kunming. Now I'm in Beijing No.14 High School. I'm 2 Class Five, Grade Seven. Miss Gao 3 my English teacher. She is 4 old teacher. I have a pen, a ruler and two 5 in my pencil-box(文具盒). Liu Ping is in Grade Seven, too. 6 is from Guangzhou. She is my good 7. We are in 8 same class. Now she can 9 English well(好). I think(认为) she is a good girl. Look！10is that? Oh, She is Liu Ping.

    Laozi or Lao Tzu, who lived in the 6th century BC, was a well-known philosopher in ancient China. He was the founder of Taoism. His teachings have been passed down through centuries and today there are still many followers of Taoism.

    Famous and respected as he is. Laozi's personal life is still a mystery and there are many stories about his birth and life. The only reliable biography of him is Shiji written by historian Sima Qian of 145 BC. According to Shiji, Laozi was born in Ku County of the state of Chu, the present day Luyi County of Henan Province. His family name was "Li", and "Dan" was his designation (字).

    At first, Laozi worked as a historian at the royal court (王朝) of the Zhou Dynasty. Later, he went on a trip to the west and met the guardian of the Hangu Pass (函谷关) who asked Laozi to write a book to record his wisdom for the good of the country.

    Upon his request, Laozi began writing his famous book—Daodejing. Daode means "virtue". So the title can be translated as "Classic of the Virtue". After finishing writing the book, the wise old man left Hangu Pass. No one had seen him or known where he was ever since.

    However, because of the fact that none of the original texts about Taoism have any reference about the life and death of Laozi, today many researchers have the opinion that Daodejing was in fact not written by Laozi alone. Some even say that Laozi was never a real person but can be referred to any old wise man in ancient China who taught philosophy.

    Many people may sometimes wish it could be summer all year round. However, as nice as summer is, we really need the other seasons as well.

    Then why do we have different seasons? We know that the Earth spins on its own axis (轴线). This makes day and night. In 24 hours the Earth turns round once. When we are facing the sun, it is day. When we face away, it is night. Simple!

    We travel around the sun in a circle. So why does it get colder in winter and hotter in summer? It's because the axis of the Earth is tilted (倾斜的). It means that in summer some places, such as the UK, are leaning towards the ssun. The temperature rises. As the Earth travels around the sun, these places begin to tilt away and the temperature drops. It becomes winter.

    This is why when the UK has winter, Australia has summer. Imagine having Christmas dinner on the beach! But not all countries have seasons. Countries near the equator (赤道), the line which goes round the middle of the Earth, don't have different seasons. The weather stays almost the same temperature all the year round. Can you think why this is? The middle doesn't tilt very much, does it? This means the seasons don't change much.

    Then what about the North and South Pole? What are the seasons like there? Because they get very far away from the Sun, their seasons are very extreme. There are only two seasons near the North and South Pole: winter and summer. What's more, they only have one sunrise and one sunset a year. It is dark for six months of the year and light for six months of the year. What problems would there be if you had to live somewhere that was dark for six months of the year and light for six months of the year?

    About five hundred years ago, an earthquake happened in a small village. Luckily for them, nothing was destroyed and no one was hurt. But a huge stone fell from a nearby mountain and stopped in the middle of the road.

    When the earthquake stopped, many people came to the road and saw the stone. Some of the strongest men tried to lift the stone out of the road. But they couldn't move it. They tried to push it but failed. They tried to pull it with ropes but nothing worked.

    "Well," they said sadly, "there's nothing we can do about it. We'll have to change the way."

    At this time a boy about 12 years old said, "I think I can help you to move the stone away."

    "You?" they shouted. "What are you talking about?" The men all laughed at the boy.

    The next morning, some people came into the road. One of them shouted, "The stone is gone." More people ran out to see what had happened. It was true. The stone wasn't on the road any longer. It wasn't even near the road.

    The boy walked over to where the stone had been and said, "I buried it."

    The people looked rather surprised. "You see," he said, "I dug a deep hole next to the stone and I dug a small incline (斜坡) up to the stone and the stone rolled (滚) down into the hole itself. Then I covered it with earth."

    The villagers shouted, "Clever boy! Clever boy!" And some of them said, "Why didn't we think out this good idea?"

    Mr. Smith is an Englishman. He teaches English well. His English classes are very interesting. He likes us and we like him, too. Mr. Smith has two children - Tom and Lucy. Tom is seven and his sister Lucy is four. Tom goes to school but Lucy doesn't.

    Mr. Smith likes to wear a T-shirt and jeans. Football is his favourite sport. After school we often have a basketball match. Sometimes Mr. Smith watches and join us. He plays basketball just (仅仅) for fun.

    A man was sitting in the doctor's office. He was telling the doctor about (he) problem.

“I like football, doctor,” he said. “Please help me. My (live) has never been good since(自从) I became interested football and it is getting worse and worse. I can't even sleep (good) at night. When I close my (eye), I'm out there in the football field running after flying ball. When I wake up, I'm more tired than I was when I went to bed. am I going to do?”

    The doctor sat back and said, “First of all, you have to do your best not (dream) about football. Before you are falling (sleep), try to think about something else. Try to think that you are at a party and someone is (go) to give you several million dollars.”

    “Are you crazy?" the man shouted, “I'll miss the ball! I don't want to miss the ball”

假如你是李华，就个人爱好带来的困惑给英国朋友Stephen发电子邮件，与他进行交流并请求帮助。    

要点：

李华: 爱好  对太空旅行感兴趣；经常到图书馆阅读资料

困惑  得不到老师的理解

观点  1个人爱好有助于学习； 2……

老师: 观点 时间应花在功课上；成绩就是一切注意： 1词数：80左右（开头和结尾已给出的内容不计入总词数）；

2内容必须包括上表中的要点，可适当发挥，但不要逐字翻译；

3条理清楚、语句连贯；

4文中不得出现真实的地名、校名和人名。

Dear Stephen,

I am writing to tell you about my problem with my teacher. I don't know how to deal with it and I need your help.