初一培优班英语竞赛试题（一）
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VI.阅读理解（40分）
A
Tom Davies is not old, but he does not have much hair（头发）. His wife Grace has thick, beautiful, black hair. Mr and Mrs Davies have one daughter. Her name is Jane, and she is four and a half years old. There is a photo of her father in the living-room, and a few days ago Jane looked at it for a long time and then said to her mother, “Mummy, why has Daddy got very little hair?”
Grace laughed and said, “He’s got very little hair because he thinks a lot, Jane. He’s a clever man.”
Jane looked at her mother’s thick, black hair for a few seconds, and then she asked, “Mummy, why have you got a lot of hair?”
阅读短文，判断正误（正“T”，误“F”）（10分）
（） 1. Tom Davies is young, but he does not have much hair.
（） 2. Mr. and Mrs. Davies have only a daughter.
（） 3. Their daughter Jane is a student.
（） 4. Mr. Davies has got little hair because he works very hard.
（）5. Jane’s mother has thick, black hair.
B
Thousands of people work in San Francisco in the U.S.A .Many of them live on the other side of the bay(海湾) .They travel to the city every morning and go back home every afternoon.
A few years ago, most of the people went to work by boat .After they got off the boat, they took a bus and went to their offices. In the late afternoon, they took a bus to the boats .They spent(花费) a lot of time coming and going.
The people of San Francisco began to complain（报怨） about the boats（船） They are too slow. So they began(开始) to use cars to go to work .Soon more and more cars were used, and the roads were getting more and more crowded. They couldn’t go to work on time by car, either. People began to complain again . “Travel by car was becoming too slow,” they said.
36.Every day a lot of people must go____ to work and come back home.
A.a short way
B.by ship and bus
C.a mile
D.a long way
37.The word“travel”means（意思是）____in the passage,
A.fly
B.walk
C.go
D.swim
38.People complained about the ship（船） because______.
A.they are too slow B they are too small C. they are too early D. they are too big
39The cars and boats made people______coming and going.
A.spend（花费） a little time
B.buy some tickets
C.take the children
D.spend a lot of time
40.We can know from the passage that San Francisco was very _____.
A.big
B.beautiful
C.crowded
D.dirty
C
Big Ben is not the name of a man. It is the name of a big clock in London. London is the capital of England. This clock has four faces. So no matter(无论) where you stand, you can read the time on the face of Big Ben. Each face is the size（尺寸） of a bus. The hands are about four meters long. It is about the size of two people standing on top each other. If you go to London, you may want
to visit the Houses of Parliament. In that place you will find Big Ben sits at the top of the clock tower in the Houses of Parliament. You will hear it and see it. The big clock makes such a loud voice, “Ding dong, ding dong ”. It g oes, every hour.
The name of Big Ben comes from a big builder.
21、Big Ben is____.
A. a bus
B. a clock
C. the name of Ben
D. a house
22、Big Ben is in ____.
A. China
B. the USA
C. Japan
D. the UK
23、The clock strikes(敲打) every ___ of an hour.
A. ten minutes
B. fifteen minutes
C. thirty minutes
D. forty – five minutes
24、You can read the time of Big Ben____.
at the top of the clock tower
in the Houses of Parliament
C. on the hands of the huge clock
D. on the four faces of the clock
25、The underlined(画线部分)word “hands” means__ in Chinese。
A. 手
B. 标志
C. 指针
D. 发条
D
Do you know the tree frog（青蛙）?
Birds live in trees. Squirrels （松鼠）live in trees. But do you know that some frogs live in trees, too?
The tree frog is hard to find. It can change（变换） its colour. On green leaves, it is green. On
a brown branch（树枝）, it is brown. Some tree frogs can change from green to gold or blue.
Tree frogs have legs and wide feet They have sticky pads(黏性的肉趾) at the end of their toes。These sticky toe pads keep the tree frogs from falling. Tree frogs have different colors and markings(斑点) on their skins（皮肤）. Their eyes are different, too. Some have green eyes, and others have bright red ones.
The sounds（声音） they make are different, too. One frog makes a sound like a dog barking （狂吠）. Another frog makes a loud noise like a snore. There is even a frog that whistles!
26、Tree frogs are hard to find because ____.
A. they stay in trees
B. they can change their colors
C. they have sticky pads
D. they make surprising sounds
27、If it is spring, the color of tree frogs is ____.
A. gold
B. brown
C. green
D. blue
28、Tree frog can stay in trees because___.
A. they have sticky pads
B. they can change their colors
C. they make surprising sounds
D. they have green or bright red eyes
29、The word “whistles” means__ in Chinese.
A. 跳高
B. 吹口哨
C. 爬树
D. 千变万化
30、The passage（段落）is about ___ .
A. the colors of a special frog
B. the sounds of a special frog
C. the eyes of a special frog
D. a special frog
VII、写作(10分)
请认My bedroom 为题写一篇作文。
要求：
1、将房间的布局体现在文章中
2、意思连贯，语句通顺，标点正确，书写规范、清晰
3、60--80个词。
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1、飞碟的代称是_____。
A.IOC
B.UFO
C.EMS
D.CPC
2、国际上用____这三个字母表示紧急呼救信号。
A.SUS
B.UFO
C.SOS
D.VOA
3、音节的核心是___，一个单词有几个___，就有几个音节。
A.元音元音字母
B.元音元音
C.元音字母元音
D.元音字母元音字母
4、There are two fathers and two sons. How many people at least are there? __________
5、Which is the medicine(药) for your head in the English letters? It is _____
6、The total(总) ages of two boys is now seventeen, what will it be in six years’ time? ______
7、What will you do first in the morning?______
8、Lucy was hit （撞击）by a car. The car was broken, but she was Ok.
Why?______________________________