广东省深圳市宝安中学2021-2022学年度第一学期初三年级英语阶期中试卷

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2021-2022学年度第一学期初三年级期中考试英语试卷

命题人：王彬力 刘婷婷 审题人：黄丽芳

考试时间：70分钟

2021.11

一、完型填空（共10 小题，每小题1 分，小计10 分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出能填入相应空

白处的最佳选项。

Number sense is not the ability to count. It is the ability to recognize a change in

number. Human beings are born with this ability. ______1______, experiments show

that many animals are, too. For example, many birds have good number sense. If

______2______ nest has four eggs and you remove one, the bird will notice. However,

if you remove two, the bird generally leaves. This means that the bird

______3______the difference between two and three.

Another interesting experiment showed a bird’s ______4______number sense. A

man was trying to take a photo of a crow (

乌鸦

) that had a nest in a tower, but the

crow always left when she saw him coming. The bird did not ______5______ until

the man left the tower. The man had an idea. He took another man with him to the

tower. One man left and the other stayed, but they weren't successful in fooling the

bird. The crow stayed away ______6______ the second man left, too. The experiment

was ______7______with three men and then with four men. It was not until five men

went into the tower and only four left that they finally managed to take a photo.

How good is a human’s number sense? It’s not very good. For example, babies

about fourteen months old ______8______ notice if something is taken away from a

small group. But when the number ______9______ three or four, the children are

often very confused.

It seems that number sense is something we have in common with many animals

in this world, and that our human ability is not much ______10______ than a crow’s.

( ) 1. A. Surprisingly B. Importantly C. Disappointedly D. Fortunately

( ) 2. A. the B. a C. this D. that

( ) 3. A. went out B. turned out C. looked out D. found out

( ) 4. A. forgetful B. friendly C. amazing D. silly

( ) 5. A. escape B. return C. fly D. sing

( ) 6. A. until B. after C. when D. while

( ) 7. A. noticed B. mentioned C. repeated D. produced

( ) 8. A. never B. rarely C. properly D. usually

( ) 9. A. runs up to B. is smaller than C. goes over D. is around

( ) 10. A. better B. worse C. more D. less

二、阅读理解 （40分）

第一节 阅读理解。阅读下列短文,从下面每题的A、B、C、D四个选项中

选出最佳选项。（共15小题，每小题2分）

A

Issac Newton was a quiet boy. Having lost his father before he was born, he grew

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up with his grandparents. At 17, soon after he finished schooling, his mother decided

that he would be trained to take care of their family farm. But instead of watching

sheep, young Newton would spend his time making small tools. His head teacher saw

the genius in him and asked his mother to send him to the university. Newton set out

for Cambridge in June, 1661, and began his career in scientific research.

Newton was always trying to understand and explain a lot of things in nature. To

test a question about colors, he would stare at (

凝视

) the sun with one eye until all the

colors changed. As a result, he had to stay in the dark for several days before his eye

returned to normal. Newton was the first to show us that white light is made up of

colors mixed together. He was also the first person to understand the rainbow and

explain how it forms.

A story goes like this: One day, an apple fell on Newton’s head, and it was then

that Newton realized that the apple fell towards the Earth and didn’t go anywhere else.

He thought to himself, “How did this happen?” After doing some experiments, he

later knew all objects (

物体

) always fall towards the Earth’s center because the Earth

attracts them. He realized that every object in the universe attracts every other object

towards it. Then Newton discovered the law of universal gravitation.

Newton was an English physicist, mathematician and astronomer. Because of the

significant work Newton has done, he is widely considered as one of the greatest

scientists of all time.

( ) 11. What can we learn about Newton from Paragraph 1?

A. He invented many useful tools.

B. He never studied in a university.

C. He didn’t like doing farm work.

D. He lost his mother at a young age.

( ) 12. Which words can best describe Newton when he was testing a question

about colors?

A. Careful and lucky. B. Skillful and smart.

C. Relaxed and excited. D. Hardworking and patient.

( ) 13. What does Paragraph 3 mainly tell us?

A. When an apple fell on Newton’s head.

B. How one object attracts another object.

C. Why Newton was famous among people.

D. How Newton made the important discovery.

( ) 14. Which of the following is

NOT

mentioned in this passage?

A. What Newton was.

B. When Newton was born.

C. When Newton set out for Cambridge.

D. With whom Newton spent his childhood.

( ) 15. What can you learn from Newton’s experiences?

A. Time waits for no man.

B. Practice makes perfect.

C. Roses given, fragrance in hand.

D. Where there’s a will, there’s a way.

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B

All of us may have experienced embarrassing moments. It could have been the

time when you pronounced a simple word wrong in class, wore your T-shirt

backwards, talked about someone else without realizing that they were right behind

you, or secretly tried to take a picture of someone while the flash was on.

Though these embarrassing moments don’t harm us a lot, they come back from

time to time and make us feel upset. Even if these moments may have

faded

after

some time, we would always remember the feeling of strong embarrassment. In fact,

these feelings may last for years. When these kinds of feelings return, they are known

as a “cringe attack (

羞愧综合症

)”.

I personally get a quite uncomfortable feeling when I think back on a party my

parents took me to when I was younger. I ate a bowl of strawberries by myself. My

parents shouted at me – in front of everyone — for being so selfish. From then on,

every time I put a strawberry into my mouth, my brain just throws that embarrassing

scene back.

Why do these “cringe attacks” still pop up in our daily lives even though the

actual events happened weeks, months, or even years ago? According to researchers,

our brains give special attention to feelings that can be easily noticed. The stronger

the feeling is, the stronger the memory will be. If you have a highly embarrassing or

highly emotional (

情绪激动的

) moment, no matter what it is, your brain will try to

catch it.

So how can we deal with this? Well, we can start by trying to be more objective

(

客观的

) about our past selves. Consider that you are not alone in your

embarrassment

—

everyone fails or makes silly, embarrassing mistakes. Instead of just

trying to forget what we did, we should try to accept who we were at that moment and

think about how we can change for the better.

( ) 16. What does Paragraph 1 mainly tell us?

A. It’s common to wear T-shirt backwards.

B. It’s easy to get into embarrassing situations.

C. It’s a shame to pronounce a simple word wrong.

D. It’s impolite to take a picture of someone secretly.

( ) 17. The underlined word “

faded

” has the same meaning as “__________”.

A. disappeared B. continued C. returned D. increased

( ) 18. Why does the writer talk about his own experience in Paragraph 3?

A. To show his love for strawberries.

B. To give an example of cringe attacks.

C. To explain that he was not really selfish.

D. To show everyone has embarrassing moments.

( ) 19. According to Paragraph 4, the more emotional we are, _________.

A. the more exciting life we will live

B. the shorter the event will stay in our memory

C. the better we will remember about the event

D. the more embarrassed we will feel about the event

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( ) 20. What’s writer’s suggestion about dealing with embarrassing moments?

A. Taking them seriously. B. Just forgetting about them.

C. Trying to improve ourselves. D. Comparing them with others’.

C

To many people, art is a human expression of creativity. But in recent years, you

may have read news about AI creating its own art. Some people worry that AI might

replace artists someday.

However, this worry seems to be unnecessary, at least for now. Many artists

today are turning AI into a useful tool. Instead of replacing artists, AI is bringing

artists more possibilities.

A piece of music created by AI attracted people's attention. AI was used to turn

the novel corona virus into a piece of music based on its protein structure (

蛋白质结

构

): The project was led by Markus Buehler, an American musician.

Except for creating imaginative works, AI can also do some easy work for artists

again and again. For example, in the comic and animation industries, there are now AI

tools that can automatically (

自动地

) color in black-and-white line drawings.

“Although the results require a little clean-up, it could give artists time to

experiment, by cutting down the time it takes to color each drawing.” said a famous

animator.

As Peter Ward wrote for The Culture Trip, art of every kind has always been

influenced by technological (

技术的

) can become a useful tool to

bring change to the art world if people don't fear it and try to welcome it.

What else can AI do?

AI can learn different music styles by analyzing (

分析

) audio data. It uses this

data to create music ranging from pop to jazz and more.

AI can learn different styles of paintings. For example, it can learn paintings of

impressionism, and then-recreate paintings in the same style.

AI can be trained with past text to find trends and write or translate articles and

poems. It also can help collect data and facts for news writing.

( ) 21. What’s the writer’s opinion about AI?

A. It is just useful for artists.

B. People needn’t be afraid of it.

C. People can’t depend on it too much.

D. It can be harmful to people in some way.

( ) 22. What’s the main idea of the fourth paragraph?

A. AI can make everything possible.

B. AI can do everything better than humans.

C. AI can save time for artists to experiment.

D. AI can only do the difficult work for artists.

( ) 23. Which of the following is

NOT

mentioned in the passage?

A. AI can help people make music.

B. AI can learn and recreate paintings.

C. AI can colour everything better than the real painters.

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