2024年3月5日发(作者：)

清华附中初一第二学期期末试卷

英语

（清华附中初 19 级） 2020.07

一、单项填空（共 18 分，每小题 1 分）

从下面各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1. Mr. Brown is our music teacher. We like

A.

her

very much.

B. she

D. he

C. him

2. — is it from your home to school?

B. How much

D. How often

the third Sunday of June.

B. on

D. at

be on time for class.

— It is about 15 minutes’ walk.

A.

How far

C. How soon

3. Father’s Day is

A.

in

C. by

4. One of the school rules is that students

A.

might B. will

D. must

C. could

— She

A.

talks

5. — Excuse me, where is Miss Smith?

on the phone outside the office now.

B. talked

D. was talking

piano but her friend Jane likes playing

B. /; /

D. the; /

. But it is closed today.

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soccer.

C. is talking

6. Lisa likes playing

A.

the; the

C. /; the

—

7. — Is there a restaurant near here?

A.

Yes, there is B. No, there isn’t

C. Yes, there are D. No, there aren’t

8. — Lily, could you help me the dishes?

— Sure, mom. I’m coming.

A.

do

B.

C. did

B. doing

D. does

9. — Your brother Jim really your mother.

— Yeah. Many people say that he has her eyes.

A.

like B. look like

D. looks like

C. likes

10. — Did Helen have long hair or short hair?

— Long hair. She has hair and wears glasses.

A.

curly long blonde B. long blonde curly

C. blonde curly long D. long curly blonde

11. — What about going to the park with me tomorrow?

— I’d love to,

A.

and

I’m afraid I have no time.

B. so

D. or

C. but

12. There

A.

is

a lot of meat in the fridge. You don’t need to buy any.

B. are

D. am

C. be

13. On Saturdays, I usually a whole day playing on my grandparents’ farm.

A.

take B. spend

D. use

C. pay

14. Tina saw her brother soccer with his friends when she met him.

A.

played B. to play

D. plays

C. playing

15. — Tommy, you are late again.

— I’m sorry, Mrs. Green. I to set my alarm clock last night.

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A.

forget B. forgot

D. will forget

you yesterday?

B. do; do

D. did; do

C. forgets

16. — What

A.

are; doing

— I visited my grandparents in the countryside.

C. will; do

17. — How’s it going, Eric?

— .

B. Not bad, thanks

D. Not at all

A.

It is going to rain

C. I am going to the farm

18. — Can you tell me ?

— I like it because it is quiet and I enjoy reading there.

A.

why do you like the library B. why you like the library

D. how you like the library C. how do you like the library

二、完形填空（共 12 分，每小题 1.5 分） 阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择最 佳选项。

There once was a little girl named Cindy. Both of her parents worked in a

factory. They worked hard, did the chores and many other tasks needed to

______ (19) a family. Though they were busy all day long, they lived a peaceful

family life.

One night, Cindy slept in her friend Debbie’s house. Before bedtime,

Debbie’s mother ______ (20)

them both good night.

“Love you,” said Debbie’s

mother. “Love you, too,”

said Debbie.

Seeing this, Cindy was so amazed. Her parents had never kissed her good

night and told her that they loved her. All night long, she lay there, thinking over

and over. “This is the way it should be,” she thought to herself.

The next day she went back home. Before bedtime, she went to her

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parents. “Well, good night then,” she said. Her parents replied, “Good night,

Cindy.” No one made a move. Cindy couldn’t ______ (21) it any longer. She ran

up to her room crying sadly. “Why had they never kissed me good night?” she

thought. After a while, she stopped crying. She decided to do something to

change the situation. “I’ll do something to make a ______ (22),” she talked to

herself.

The next day before bedtime, Cindy went to her mother, kissed her, and said,

“I love you, Mom.” Her mother was so surprised that she couldn’t speak. Then

she gave her father a hug. “Good night, Dad, I love you,” she said. And then she

went to bed, ______ (23) her speechless parents in the kitchen.

Cindy continued to do this for months. Sometimes her parents drew back

from her, a little shy and awkward. Other times, they just smiled. But they never

______ (24) the kiss. Yet Cindy didn’t stop. Then, one night before bedtime, her

mother came into her room.

“I love you, sweetheart, good night,” her mother said and bent down to

kiss her, right on the cheek. Cindy looked at her, surprised and moved. Mother

smiled and said, “Thank you for letting me know the ______ (25) of expressing

love to the one we truly love. I used to think taking good care of you would be

enough, but now I think I was ______ (26) before. Love needs to be spoken out,

right?” Cindy nodded happily.

19. A. run

20. A. helped

21. A. like

22. A. visit

23. A. hearing

24. A. returned

25. A. secret

26. A. sad

三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择最佳选 项。（共 26 分，每小题 2 分）

(A)

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B. start

B. showed

B. make

B. face

B. leaving

B. wanted

B. importance

B. excited

C. live

C. told

C. stand

C. list

C. finding

C. stopped

C. difficulty

C. wrong

D. see

D. kissed

D. feel

D.

D.

D.

D. fun

D.

All around the world, people celebrate birthdays. No matter how different the

cultures are, people believe it is necessary and meaningful to celebrate birthdays

and give their best wishes to the birthday persons. However, people may have

quite different birthday traditions and foods in different countries.

America—At the children’s birthday parties in America, there are balloons in

the party, and lots of friends are invited there. There are always presents, cakes

and ice cream. The birthday person has a cake topped with candles; one for

each year and they must try to blow them out in one go. If they make it, their

secret wishes will come true.

England—In England there are Fortune (运气) Telling Cakes on birthdays.

When people make

the birthday cake, they may put a coin into it. It is believed that if a person gets a

piece of cake with a coin inside, he will be rich in the future. When people enjoy

the birthday cake, it is natural for them to wish for a piece of cake with a coin.

Germany—For German kids, the birthday candles are not on their cakes.

Usually, each child has a beautiful wooden wreath (花环) holding a candle for

each year up to age 12. This wreath sits on the family’s dining room table on the

child’s birthday.

Russia—Traditional Russian birthday meals involve fish, potatoes, beef,

and fried dumplings.

Some Russians enjoy cakes on birthdays, but special pies are even more

popular. These pies are generally sweet and filled with fruit. The crusts (外皮)

usually have the name of the birthday person on them.

, people may put a coin into the birthday cake.

B. England C. Germany D. Russia A. America

America?

A. Because there are only a few candles.

B. Because they want their wishes to come true.

C. Because they want to have special pies very much.

D. Because they want to find the coin inside the cake.

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28. Why do the birthday persons want to blow out all candles in one go in

29. Where do Germans put the wooden wreath on their birthdays?

A. On the table.

C. Beside the cake.

(B)

The Stick of

Truth

In a city, there stood the statue (雕塑) of a famous

man, who was on a horse with two silver stirrups ( 银马镫 ). Early one morning, someone climbed up and

stole (偷) one stirrup. And before long four boys were

brought before the police. One of them was the criminal.

However, the policemen had no way to find out who

the real criminal was, and the criminal wouldn’t own up.

So they had to send for a well-known judge (法官) to

help them. The judge thought for a

while and took out a red bag. From the bag, he drew out four sticks (棍), each

the same length as the others. The judge gave one stick to each boy, telling him

to bring it back the next morning, “Now, you have the stick of truth. And it will tell

us who the real criminal is. When you bring back the sticks in the morning, the

criminal’s stick will be just a little longer than the others—about a thumbnail longer.

That’s how we’ll know the criminal,” he explained.

When the morning came, the boys went to the judge once more. And in a

great silence, the boys presented their sticks to the judge. Holding up the sticks,

he measured them against one another and found that one was shorter than its

fellows by about a thumbnail.

“This boy here, who presented the shorter stick, is the criminal,”

said the judge. “Why me? I don’t understand!” the boy said.

“You were afraid and decided to cut away a bit of your stick, just in case. I

believe you can take us to the missing stirrup.”

Later, the stirrup was found. And the boy had to keep the statue clean of dust

and pigeon droppings for the rest of that year.

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B. On the bed.

D. Beside the pies.

30. What does the underlined phrase “own up” probably mean in Paragraph 2?

A. say that he himself had done something wrong

B. help the police look for the criminal

C. know where the stirrup was

D. steal the stirrup

31. How did the boy feel when he decided to cut away a bit of the stick?

A. Bored. B. Angry. C. Sad. D. Afraid.

32. What can you learn from the story?

A. The criminal took all the valuable things from the statue.

B. The criminal had to clean the statue for what he had done.

C. The four sticks were of different length in the beginning.

D. The stick of truth could become longer or shorter when needed.

(C)

The discussion about whether students can drink

chocolate milk in schools has been a hot topic. One cup

of low-fat milk has around 100 calories and 13 grams of

sugar. The same size cup of low-fat chocolate milk has

about 160 calories and 25 grams of sugar.

It may not seem like a huge difference, but over time

added sugar and calories will become part of an already

too-sugary diet, explained Joy Bauer, nutrition and health

expert for Everyday Health. “I don’t advise students to

drink chocolate milk in schools,” says Bauer, because the

added

sugar provides unnecessary extra calories when so many students have problems

with their weight and unhealthy eating.

Bauer says it’s best for students to drink fat-free milk with their lunch at school.

If a student only

drinks chocolate milk, Bauer says it’s better to drink it at home. At home parents

can control the amount of chocolate syrup (糖浆). A recent Emory University study

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found that added sugar may lead to a higher risk of some serious diseases (疾病)

later in life.

For the health of students, some schools made rules against chocolate milk.

However, on September 6, 2019, six members of Congress sent letters to

show their worries about the ban on chocolate milk in New York City Schools.

They believe chocolate milk helps students receive nutrients

(营养). Some students simply refuse to drink pure milk. Additionally, they argued

that the move to ban

(禁止) so many milk products would affect thousands of dairy farmers.

Therefore, chocolate milk has come back to some schools. New Haven

School in Connecticut changed the 2011 ban. Chocolate milk is allowed twice a

week. At the beginning of this school year, the Mount Vernon schools also put

chocolate milk back on the menu five days a week after 12 years of only offering

it on Fridays.

According to a latest survey, nearly 80 percent of school districts (地区)

offered chocolate milk.

Maybe school officials, experts, parents and students need to have a deeper

discussion about it later on.

33. What can we learn from the passage?

A. Joy Bauer believes that students shouldn’t drink chocolate milk.

B. One cup of low-fat milk has around 160 calories and 25 grams of sugar.

C. Students can drink chocolate milk twice a week in New Haven School.

D. The Mount Vernon schools offered chocolate milk five days a week for 12

years.

writer talks about the Emory University study in Paragraph 3 to

E. add more information about some serious diseases

F. let readers know why people have some serious diseases

G. tell readers that chocolate milk in schools has no nutrients at all

.

H. help explain why students shouldn’t drink chocolate milk in schools

35. What does the writer want to tell us?

I. Schools should offer chocolate milk to students.

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J. Different opinions about offering chocolate milk in schools.

K. Students can get enough nutrients by drinking chocolate milk.

L. Students shouldn’t drink chocolate milk in schools or at home.

(D)

Artificial intelligence (AI, 人工智能) still has a lot to learn from animal brains,

says neuroscientist (神经科学家) Anthony Zador. Now, he’s hoping that studying

biological neural networks (神经网络) in animal brains can help AI experts solve

the problem—how to make robots do some daily and easy things.

Anthony Zador started his career studying artificial neural networks (ANNs--the computing systems behind the AI development). Now, he is working on the

study of the biological neural networks in animal brains.

Zador describes that AI experts have tried hard to improve algorithms (算法)

to help AI systems

achieve superhuman performance, such as playing chess and playing poker. Yet,

until now, it’s still too difficult for robots to solve the problems that we think to be

the easiest, such as hunting animals or building a nest, or even something as

normal as doing the dishes. Google CEO Eric Schmidt once even said, “Doing

the dishes is the number but a very difficult problem for a robot.”

“The things that we find hard, like thinking abstractly (抽象地) or chess playing,

are actually not

the hard thing for robots. The things that we find easy, like understanding people’s

feelings, are hard for robots,” Zador explains. “The reason why we think it’s easy

is that we’ve had half a billion years of evolution (进化) so we can do the things

easily.”

That’s why Zador writes that only improving algorithms may not help robots

learn the easy things quickly. Instead, he suggests that biological neural networks

shaped by evolution provide support and help to facilitate the learning for the

easy tasks, such as doing the dishes, which are usually very important for

living.

Zador points to the backyard and takes squirrels as an example. “Squirrels

can jump from tree to tree within a few weeks after birth, but we don’t have mice

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learning the same thing. Why not?” Zador says. Then he explains, “It’s because

squirrels are born to live in the tree, which is the result of the evolution. So it is

the biological system that helps guide an animal’s early learning.”

Now most AI experts just focus on improving algorithms, in order to find a

solution to the problems they’ve met. Maybe the researchers can find

something helpful by studying the biological neural networks in animal brains.

If ANNs can know and use similar systems, Zador argues, the household robots

might just one day surprise us with clean dishes.

34. According to Zador, which of the following things is difficult for robots?

A. Thinking abstractly.

C. Playing chess and playing poker.

B. Learning algorithms.

D. Understanding people’s feelings.

35. Which of the following is True according to the passage?

A. Zador started his career studying human and animal brains.

B. Learning algorithms helps robots to play chess, do the dishes and build a

nest.

C. AI experts may help mice learn to jump from tree to tree one day by

studying ANNs.

example of squirrels shows the biological system helps guide an

animal’s early learning.

36. The word “facilitate” in Paragraph 5 probably means “ ”.

C. put off

C. make it easier to happen

B. put up

D. make full use of

37. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

D. The History and Great Changes of Robots

E. The Study of Artificial Intelligence and Neuroscience

F. Studying Animal Brains May Help Robots Do the Dishes

G. Studying ANNs Can Help Improve the Development of Animals

四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。（共 10 分，每小题 2 分）

The Chinese sturgeon (中华鲟) is called “panda in the

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water”. It is also one of the animals in danger. The

Chinese sturgeon lives in the sea and in fresh water. It’s

born in fresh water and grows up in the sea.

The Chinese sturgeon is very big. More than 16 feet

long and weighing up to 1,100 pounds, it is among the

world’s largest freshwater fish. The Chinese sturgeon

also has a long history. It began to live on the

earth 140 million years ago, so it is known as a living fossil (化石).

However, the number of the Chinese sturgeon is really small. People fish

more Chinese sturgeon than they are allowed to, which greatly affects its

population. Protecting the Chinese sturgeon is not only important but also

difficult. Very few farmed Chinese sturgeon can stay alive in the wild.

With the number of the Chinese sturgeon in a sharp drop, China has used

different ways to save them. In 2002, Shanghai set up a natural reserve (保护区)

in the mouth of the Changjiang River. It has

greatly improved the living conditions of the Chinese sturgeon. Besides,

Shanghai government passed a law protecting the Chinese sturgeon on May 14,

2020, and it is the first local law in the country to protect endangered fish.

With better living conditions and strict laws to protect the Chinese sturgeon, it

is hopeful to see a better future for the living fossil.

36. Where does the Chinese sturgeon live?

37. How long is the Chinese sturgeon?

38. Why is the Chinese sturgeon known as a living fossil?

39. Is the number of the Chinese sturgeon big or small?

40. When did Shanghai government pass a law protecting the Chinese sturgeon?

五、根据中文提示完成句子，每空一词。（共 24 分，每空 2 分）

45. 看！那些男孩正在操场上打篮球。

Look! Those boys are

46. 超市对面有一个大公园。

There is a big park

on the playground.

the supermarket.

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47. 我的爸爸中等身高，留着短发。

My father is of

I

please.

I

She is

六、文段表达（10 分）

51. 根据中英文提示，完成一篇不少于 50 词的文段写作，所给提示词语仅供选用，请不要写出 你真实的校名和姓名。

某英文网站正在开展以“难忘的旅行”为主题的征文活动。请你用英文写一篇短文投稿，谈 谈你的一次旅行经历。主要内容包括：你去了哪儿? 做了什么以及你的感受。

提示词语： Shanghai, visit the museum, take photos, climb the mountain,

great, relaxing

提示问题：



Where did you go?



What did you do there?



How was the trip?

and has short hair.

48. 我想要一碗牛肉面和一杯橙汁。

a bowl of beef noodles and a cup of orange juice,

49. 上周末，我和爷爷一起去钓鱼。

with my grandpa last weekend.

friendly everyone likes her.

50. 她是如此友好，以至于人人都喜欢她。

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