2015年 初三第一学期昌平区英语考试试卷(2)

44. Where’s ―The Old Man of the Mountain‖?

A．In the northeast of the US. B．In the northwest of the US.

C．In the southeast of the US. D．In the southwest of the US.

45. What’s ―The Old Man of the Mountain‖ also known as?

A．The Great Stone． B．The Profile．

C．The Stone Face． D．The Rock．

46. How long had the stone face been there?

A．About 12,000 years. B．About 370 years.

C．About 17,000 years. D．About 25 years.

47. What’s the reason for the loss of the stone face?

A．Low winds. B．Hot temperature.

C．Heavy rain. D．Bad storm.

C

What might the future be like? Here are some predictions: things to come, things to go. The last few days of every year in big cities in China, when everyone returns home, have

been the worst headaches for millions of Chinese. More than 2 billion people travel at the same

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time, making getting travel tickets and the journey difficult. But in 28 years, Spring Festival travel may not be a problem at all. China plans to build more than 120,000 kilometers of railway and a fast transportation network that will serve 90% of the population by 2020. And because most of China will be cities, people will not have to go to other places to find a job, so it will no longer be a problem.

Newspaper will come to an end in 2043. There will be less and less people reading news on paper and the cost of making and buying newspaper will be reduced. In the future, digital (数字的) newspapers will be sent to personal web tools through Internet. Readers can discuss topics with journalists and editors. Information will move faster.

Oil is running out faster than expected. But scientists have found something else for oil as fuel (燃料). Coal, natural gas, solar power, nuclear power and even water can take the place of oil as sources of energy (能源). And and pollution, too.

Schools will go electronic (电子化). Computers will be important and popular among the students. Everything will be in the computer and students will not need to bring books to school. They will find information on the Internet. A computer will be the students’ library, schoolbag and connection to the outside world. There will be robot teachers, they will check homework on computers and communicate with the students’ parents through e-mail. Students will find their personal teachers to ask for special help for those the robot teachers cannot do. And school buses will be like spaceships, comfortable and safe.

48. The newspapers will disappear __________.

A. in 28 years

A. modern ideas B. by 2020 C. by 2053 D. in 38 years 49. The underlined in the 4th paragraph means _________. B. other choices C. wise methods D. natural means

50. From the passage we can know _______ in the future.

A. the Spring Festival travel may still be a problem

B. 90 percent of the population will live in the city

C. robot teachers will check homework on computers

D. readers can discuss with each other through Internet

51. The passage mainly tells us ______________.

A. future changes in many ways

C. new things will be coming

B. computers will be important D. old things will be gone

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D

Almost all cultures celebrate the end of one year and the beginning of another in some way. Different cultures celebrate the beginning of a new year in different ways, and at different times on the calendar.

Chinese New Year is an important traditional Chinese holiday celebrated at the turn of the Chinese calendar. It is also traditional for every family to thoroughly clean the house, in order to sweep away any ill-fortune and to make way for good incoming luck. Windows and doors will be decorated with red color paper-cuts and couplets with popular themes of ―good fortune‖ or ―happiness‖, ―wealth‖, and ―longevity‖. Other activities include lighting firecrackers and giving money in red paper envelopes.

In Western countries, people usually celebrate New Year at midnight on December 31st or January 1st. People may go to parties, sometimes dressed in formal clothes like tuxedos and evening gowns, and they may drink champagne（香槟）at midnight. During the first minutes of the New Year, people cheer and wish each other happiness for the year ahead. But some cultures prefer to celebrate the New Year by waking up early to watch the sun rise.

It is also a common Western custom to make a New Year’s promise, called a resolution. New Year’s resolutions usually include promises to try something new or change a bad habit in the New Year.

Many cultures also do special things to get rid of bad luck at the beginning of a new year. For example, in Ecuador, families make a big doll from old clothes. The doll is filled with old newspapers and firecrackers. At midnight, these dolls are burned to show the bad things from the past year are gone and the New Year can start afresh. Other common traditions to keep

away bad luck in a New Year include throwing things into rivers or the ocean, or saying special things on the first day of the New Year.

Other New Year traditions are followed to bring good luck in the New Year. One

widespread Spanish tradition for good luck is to eat grapes on New Year’s Day. The more grapes a person eats, the more good luck the person will have in the new coming year. In France, people eat pancakes for good luck at New Year. In the United States, some people eat black-eyed peas for good luck — but to get good luck for a whole year you have to eat 365 of them!

52. The passage is mainly about_____.

A．the meaning of “Happy New Year!”

B．several different New Year traditions

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