2016-2017学年江苏苏州吴江区初二上期末考试英语试卷

一Sorry, I can't. I       finish my homework first.

一It was a(n)       one. The weather was terrible and I had a bad cold after the trip.

一If it      rain.

一Sorry! My phone was on silent mode. I      a DIY course.

一         .

一________.

先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

    An old carpenter(工匠)was ready to retire(退休).His boss was 1 to see the good worker leave. He asked the carpenter if he could build just one more 2 . The carpenter said yes, but his mind was not on his work any more. He used poor materials and 3worked on the house. When the carpenter finished his work, the boss  4 the front-door key to him and said, "This is your house. It's a 5 for you."

    What a surprise! If he had known he was 6 his own house, he would have done it differently. Now he had to live in the house he poorly built.

    So it is with us. Sometimes we build our 7 carelessly. At important points we do not try our best. Then with a shame we look at the things we did. We find that we are living in the house we have poorly built 8we don't have a chance(机会)to make it all over again.

    Think of  9as the carpenter. Think about your life. Build it carefully and wisely. It is the only life you will ever build because life is a do-it-yourself project.

    Your life today is the 10 of  your attitudes(态度)and choices(选择)you made in the past. Your life tomorrow will be that of your attitude and choices you make today.

    Soap operas and sitcoms are two kinds of popular TV shows. What are the differences between them?

    A soap opera is usually very long and has many episodes(集).All the episodes of a soap opera are interconnected The first soap opera was on radio in the late 1930s. One of the most famous soap operas is Friends.

    A sitcom, or a situation comedy, is a set of funny stories. These stories all happen in a small place, like a house or a workplace. Sitcoms are different from soap operas. Each story in a sitcom can be a different one and sitcoms make people feel happy. There is a very popular sitcom on TV in China. Everyone likes it. Do you know it? It is Home With Kids.

    My problems started after I went to a boarding(寄宿)school. I was only 14, and at first I missed my family a lot. I often called them and cried on the phone. But after two weeks, I found I enjoyed being with my classmates at school. I had many friends who were boys. I thought of them as my best friends-but only friend. I never guessed my friendship with boys would become a problem.

    Then, two months later, my friends told me that some teachers and girls said I was hanging out with boys all day long to get attention(注意)from them. A few months after that, the class teacher James asked the class to choose some students to join the Student Union. I thought I could win for I was doing well at school. I came first in the English and Math exams. A week later, the list(名单)came out and it didn't include me. James came to me and said, "Don't be sad. I know you're excellent! Maybe you're a little distant(远的)from the girls in our class. They don't know much about you, so some of them didn't choose you. It doesn't matter. Do your best to get on well with everyone and I think you'll make it next time. "

    My family lives very happily on a farm near a small town. My father always learns some information about weather through the TV, the Internet and newspapers.

    One evening, he asked us to meet at the table after dinner. "I have some bad news," he said. "The weather reports on the television warned(警告)that we would face a typhoon tomorrow."

    At 6:30 a.m. the next day, the winds started and the rain was falling heavily. There were new warnings that the sea level could go up as much as 5 meters.

    The winds were terribly strong and tree branches were flying everywhere. Trees were falling down and the rain kept coming down.

    Just after 10:30, the wind stopped suddenly-it was strangely calm and the sun was shining. Then the winds came howling(咆哮)again, but this time more rain fell. There were more flying things and the storm came in. Everything within 1 km of the coast was flooded-there was fish in the streets. Now the winds were dying down, but the rain was still falling.

    After another two hours, the wind came to a stop at last. My home was in a mess and my mum burnt her arm when the hot water from the stove hit her skin. We were all frightened, but we were all safe, including the cat.

将下列单词连接成句，并写在答题纸标有题号的横线上。

将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在答题纸标有题号的横线上。

阅读下面的短文并用英语回答问题，将答案写在答题纸标有题号的横线上。

    Jess really felt very happy. When he got to his seat in the classroom that morning, he found an invitation(邀请书)on his desk. It was from some of his classmates asking him to join them on a camping trip. This was the first time they asked him to join in an out-of-school activity. Why were they asking him now? Nobody seemed to like him. In fact, he was so lonely and unhappy that he drowned(沉溺)his feeling with snacks. So he put on lots of weight, and this gave his classmates something more to make fun of him.

    Cindy. who was standing near Jess when he read the invitation, went out quickly to tell the others that the trick worked. Everyone was happy that Jess believed it. But there was no camping trip. The whole thing was not true.

    At first, Cindy thought it was fun. But later, when Jess told her that he was going to buy a sleeping bag with his savings. Cindy had a second idea. She knew that Jess's family had little money, and she hated to see him spend his savings on something he would never use. Cindy also hated to tell Jess the truth. Her close friends would be angry with her.

2016年政府再次“倡导全民阅读建设书香社会”。各学校也都开展“书香校园”读书系列活动。请拟一份发言稿，分享你的课外阅读体会并给出阅读建议，内容包括以下要点:

1）选:选有用的书，不读太难的书;

  读:随身携带，抽空就读;

  说:读后与同学讨论:不理解的地方，向同学请教;

  写:考生自拟(至少一点);

2）寒假期间多阅读中英文小说;每年读完8本;

3）希望大家都能享受阅读带来的快乐。

注意： 1）词数80字左右。短文的开头己为你写好，不计入总词数;

  2）短文须包括所有要点，不逐词翻译，可适当发挥，使短文连贯、通顺。

  3）短文中不要出现具体的学校、姓名等任何个人信息。

  4）小说-novels

    As we all know, reading makes a full man. I like reading very much.……