广州市铁一中学2023学年第二学期初三年级英语5月练习卷命题人：越秀、铁英初三备课组 审题人：越秀、铁英初三备课组时间：100分钟 满分90分一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）Paul Barton is now living in Thailand. He is ___1___ British musician who likes shooting videos. In his online videos, he plays the piano for elephants. He ___2___ nearly 700 thousand followers on YouTube so far. In his most watched video, a nearly-blind elephant named Ampan ___3___ listens to him playing classical music.Ampan is 80 years old and lives at Elephants World, which is an organization ___4___ elephants. There live 35 elephants like Ampan. Before they were rescued, they ___5___ to perform for tourists. Now Elephants World provides these beautiful animals ___6___ a comfortable sanctuary (庇护所). So for the rest of their lives, they ___7___ live a happy and peaceful life there.Paul started to play the piano for elephants there from ___8___ fiftieth birthday. He talked with the manager there into allowing him to bring a piano into the sanctuary. However, carrying a heavy piano was ___9___ than he expected. It ___10___ him almost two hours to get the piano deep into the sanctuary in the wild.“These elephants have worked for humans all their life and many are blind or disabled, so I wanted to carry ____11____ heavy for them,” Paul said. “I saw that the elephants were ____12____ hungry that they were eating all the time. ____13____ whenever I started playing, I found a special thing. One blind elephant would always stop to listen while ____14____ in the sanctuary were still eating.We realized ____15____ this elephant, even in a world of darkness, loved music.”1. A. aB. anC. theD. /2. A. ownsB. ownedC. is owningD. has owned3. A. calmB. calmerC. calmnessD. calmly4. A. rescuedB. rescuesC. to rescueD. rescue5. A. forcedB. are forcedC. were forcedD. were forcing6. A. toB. withC. forD. in7. A. shouldB. mustC. canD. need8. A. heB. hisC. himD. himself9. A. hardB. harderC. hardestD. the hardest10. A. takesB. takeC. tookD. will take11. A. somethingB. everythingC. nothingD. anything12 A. veryB. quiteC. soD. such13. A. OrB. ThoughC. BecauseD. But14. A. anotherB. the otherC. othersD. the others15. A. whatB. thatC. howD. where二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）Roy was a rich and clever boy, but nothing could make him happy. One day, his parents bought him a very old mirror from a mysterious old man. Roy looked into the mirror ____16____ and saw a sad reflection (映像). He tried smiling, but his reflection remained sad-looking.Surprised, Roy went off to buy some sweets, toys and a pair of sports shoes. He then came home as ____17____ as he could be, and looked into the mirror again, but he still looked sad in it. Roy got ____18____ and said to himself, “What a terrible mirror! It doesn’t work at all! ” Then, he dropped it in a corner.Later that afternoon, he decided to go to the park. On his way, he saw a little girl ____19____ so hard. Roy went over to see what happened. The little girl told him that she had ____20____ her parents. Roy felt sorry for her and bought her some candies to make her happy. Then, the two children set off to ____21____ the girl’s parents. After much walking, they finally found her parents, who were so grateful to Roy.Roy said goodbye to the little girl and her parents and went towards ____22____. But seeing it was getting dark, he decided to turn around and go home instead. When he got home, he ____23____ a shining light in the corner where he had dropped the mirror. He went over to the mirror and found that the light was coming from his own body, so shiny with happiness. Suddenly, Roy understood the secret of that mirror: it could only reflect the ____24____ feelings of its owner. He also realized that he felt really happy for ____25____others.16. A. curiouslyB. excitedlyC. fearfullyD. confidently17. A. satisfiedB. cheerfulC. braveD. disappointed18. A. nervousB. ashamedC. confusedD. annoyed19. A. cryingB. complainingC. beggingD. shouting20. A. leftB. lostC. hurtD. forgot21. A. look atB. look outC. look afterD. look for22. A. his homeB. her homeC. the parkD. the shop23. A. provedB. noticedC. receivedD. met24. A. generalB. strangeC. trueD. good25. A. savingB. discoveringC. helpingD. finding 三、阅读（共两节，20小题，满分35分）第一节 阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）（A）Juggling (杂耍) has a long history. It has been recorded in many ancient countries, including China, India, and Greece.Balls are probably the most common tool for juggling. Almost every juggler starts with balls. To learn how to juggle, you need three balls that are of the same size and weight.Step 1First, throw one ball from one hand to the other. Next, throw the ball higher. Try to throw it about as high as the top of your head.Tip: Throw the ball up at the same height each time.Step 2Hold a ball in each hand. Throw the ball from one hand. When the ball starts coming down, throw the ball in your other hand. Catch each ball with the opposite hand.Tip: Pause (暂停) between each throw.Step 3Hold two balls in your starting hand and one in the other hand. Throw one of the two balls. Before you catch the ball, throw the ball you are holding in your catching hand to your starting hand. This time, before you catch the ball, throw the remaining ball in your starting hand.Tip: Learning to juggle on a bed will save you a lot of time in picking up the balls you drop!When you are able to control the three balls well, you can take up some further challenges and learn some skills of juggling balls. There are different ball-juggling skills. They are Numbers Juggling, Pattern Juggling, Trick Juggling, Technical Juggling, Bounce Juggling, and so on. It’s amazing to watch juggling. Try to master these juggling skills and they will make you the attention among your friends.26. Who might be most interested in reading this passage?A. Actors who are good at juggling.B. People who want to learn juggling.C. Students who enjoy watching juggling.D. Young people who like to create juggling skills.27. Which shows the correct order of juggling balls mentioned in Step 3? A. a-b-d-cB. a-b-c-dC. b-a-c-dD. b-a-d-c28. In the writer’s opinion, if you are good at juggling, you will make your friends ______.A. frightenedB. amazedC. nervousD. worried(B)Carmen had always dreamed of being on stage. She was excited when she got her first big break with a part in the school play. She would play a part of the doctor. She would wear long, white doctor’s coat and carry a big bag that held a newspaper with blank (空白的) pages and a box of bandages. Carmen would say some lines. She would do some funny acts and try to make her friends laugh. She could hardly wait to act in a real play on stage.As the play came closer, Carmen began to worry about being on stage. She just couldn’t remember her lines. She sat in her bedroom, saying the lines over and over again. They just wouldn’t stick in her head. It would be terrible if she forgot her lines on stage. She thought for a long time and decided to quit the play. She still wanted to be in the play, but she didn’t want to risk making a fool of herself on stage.Carmen walked into the kitchen and said she wouldn’t be in the play. “Don’t worry so much”, Carmen’s father said. “You’re a talented young girl. You are a natural performer.” “Yes,” her mother agreed, “You’ll do better if you relax.”Carmen knew they were right, but she couldn’t stop worrying. Suddenly, she had a great idea. She took out the newspaper and wrote all of her lines on the blank pages. Now she could look at the newspaper and no one would know she was reading her lines. This would help her relax. That day, Carmen went on stage. She said her first line. Then she said her next line. Carmen didn’t look at the newspaper once. Remembering her lines was easy because she was relaxed.As a result, Carmen remembered everything. After the play, Carmen let out a long deep breath and smiled happily. Carmen’s parents went backstage, they rushed over to congratulate her on a job well done.“You are great!” Her mother said as she hugged Carmen.“You are a star!” her father said proudly.29. Why did Carmen begin to worry about being on stage?A. She didn’t like the role of doctor.B. She couldn’t follow other actors.C. She looked like a fool on the stage.D. She couldn’t remember her lines.30. What advice did Carmen’s parents give to Carmen?A. Quit the play.B. Try to relax herself.C Say the lines over and over again.D. Don’t focus on what others’ think.31. Why did Carmen write down the lines on the blank pages of the newspaper?A. To help her relax.B. To follow her parents’ advice.C To help her remember the lines better.D. To read the lines directly while acting.32. How did Carmen’s feeling change according to the passage?A. Excited—Happy—Nervous—Relaxed.B. Excited—Relaxed—Nervous—Happy.C. Excited—Happy—Relaxed—Nervous.D. Excited—Nervous—Relaxed—Happy.(C)Recently, the “city walk” fashion has been popular among people around China. On Xiaohongshu, it shows that the number of city walk posts has increased by 700 per cent over the past three months. A city walk is a form of tourism that first appeared in the UK. At that time, people followed planned route under the guidance, aiming at going deep into the city’s history, culture and natural beauty.Unlike traditional sightseeing, which aims to hit famous attractions and business centers, city walk routes are different. They often bring unexpected joy to tourists with a warm, touching, or shocking cultural experience through plan of less well-known spots. Nowadays, city walkers are likely to choose a route and move on foot without a clear destination (目的地), finding chances to communicate with locals on their way.We never need to worry that city walks will become mainstream (主流). We are thinking however, that the tourist industry will misuse it as a way of making money and decrease its creativity. A route without understanding the local culture and historical background may disinterest and disappoint tourists. Nowadays, it's not difficult to find signposts saying “I’m waiting for you at such and such.” These so-called golden sentences can now be seen so often that visitors cannot be moved or impressed by them anymore. The same challenge is faced by city walks as well. To avoid the same risk, it is necessary to come up with better ideas throughout the route design.City walks are becoming increasingly accepted by more and more people, which also creates chances to improve the tourist industry. Traditional travel agencies (旅行社) are facing challenges. Actually, well-planned city walk routes help visitors to taste the place in a different way, avoiding long queues and traffic jams. To a certain degree, city walks help not only the cultural and tourist industry but also the development of the city.33. What was the purpose of a city walk at the beginning?A. To become a popular fashion in the city.B To help the cultural and tourist industry.C. To introduce an important planned route.D. To understand the local culture and history.34. What makes city walks different from traditional tourism?A. They seldom bring tourists surprises.B. They focus on less famous attractions.C. They organize comfortable bus tour routes.D. They offer tourists chances to live with locals.35. What is the problem that city walks are facing nowadays?A. They fail to make money in a special way.B. There are too many visitors and traffic jams.C. Most routes can’t really touch people’s heart.D. Fewer and fewer people like to take a city walk.36. Which of the following best describes the writer’s opinion?A. City walks are helpful but they should be well-designed.B. Travel agencies will meet fewer challenges in the future.C. Most people are moved and impressed by golden sentences.D. City walks can greatly improve the development of the city.(D)How do plants grow in space? An experiment at the Tiangong space station can provide the answer. Chinese astronauts have successfully grown rice seedlings (幼苗), which may show us how astronauts can cultivate food to support long-term space flights.“The rice seedlings are growing very well.” Zheng Huiqiong, a scientist at the Center for Excellence in Molecular Plant Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, told China Daily. Since the rice experiment began on July 29, 2022, the seedlings of the tall shoot rice variety (高杆水稻品种) have reached a height of about 30 centimeters. Plus, the seedlings of the dwarf rice variety (矮秆水稻品种) have grown to around 5 centimeters.While there have been other rice experiments in space, the one being conducted on Tiangong is the first of its kind. It aims to produce the complete life cycle of the plant, which begins with a seed and ends with a grown plant producing new seeds.The astronauts will keep studying the plants. If the experiment is successful, they will collect the newly produced seeds and bring them back to Earth for further studies, Zheng added.Since the 1980s, China has been taking the seeds of crops to space. But growing rice in orbit is a different challenge due to the hard conditions in space. Micro-gravity, no air and high-energy cosmic rays may make it hard for the plants to grow.Rice has been the most important food for astronauts for a long time. US astronauts on the Apollo 11 mission—the first humans to land on the moon in July 1969—ate freeze-dried chicken and rice during their trip to space.If such an experiment goes well, astronauts will be able to grow their food in orbit, reducing how much food has to be taken on space flights.37. What does “cultivate” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?A. findB. growC. wasteD. cook38. What is the purpose of describing the heights of the rice varieties in Paragraph 2?A. To tell us about the scientists’ work.B. To make us interested in space exploration.C. To show the rice experiment is going well.D. To introduce different types of rice seedlings.39. What is special about the rice experiment being done on Tiangong?A. It’s the first rice experiment in space.B. The gravity on Earth will influence the growing of the rice.C. It’s the first experiment to try to produce rice in a complete life cycle.D. If it works, the newly produced rice plant will be brought back to Earth.40. What are the last two paragraphs mainly about?A. Future space missions.B. The importance of the rice experiment.C. The best food choices for astronauts.D. Changes in astronauts’ food through history.第二节、阅读填空（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）Why can’t you fall asleep in your own bed? ____41____Many people experience anxiety about falling asleep. ____42____ In such cases, getting into bed can be connected with worries and stress, making it harder to sleep. For these people, it might be easier to fall asleep on the sofa with less stress.It might be harder to fall asleep in bed because of poor sleep hygiene (卫生). ____43____ For many people who don’t have good sleep hygiene, their behaviors before bed and their bedroom environment might not be helpful to sleep.So how can we make it easier to fall asleep in bed? ____44____ In summer, an air conditioner or a fan can make your bedroom comfortable for sleeping. In winter, it might mean putting on a heater 20 minutes before going to bed. If you find it easier to fall asleep with the TV on, you can play some “white noise” in your bedroom. “White noise” can be effective in helping you calm down and fall asleep.Your behavior before bed also affect a lot. ____45____ Besides, try not to look at your phone while you are in bed. Scrolling on your phone before bed can make it harder to sleep. Both exposure to blue light and the potentially stressful or alerting effect of the content which you are reading or watching on your phone can make you unable to fall asleep.Therefore, good sleep hygiene, or healthy sleep habits, a dark, quiet room to sleep in, and not using mobile phone in bed will contribute to a better sleep.A. Following the same bedtime routine every night can help.B. First, make sure your bedroom is dark, quiet and comfortable.C. This refers to your presleep behaviors and sleep environment.D. They worry about getting enough sleep or falling asleep fast enough.E. There are some reasons why falling asleep in your bed could be challenging.四、写作(共三节，满分30）第一节 语篇填词 (共5小题，每小题1分，满分5分)Tea originates in China and it has a very long history. Tea culture plays an important role in China. It is a t____46____ Chinese custom that a host has to serve a visiting guest a cup of tea firstly when the guest enters his house. In ancient times, people were used to s____47____ tea to the elderly in a family. During the Han Dynasty, tea was spread w____48____ to further places through the Silk Road. There are various k____49____ of tea in different parts of China and each of them has its own characteristics. Nowadays, a number of young people c____50____ to drink tea because it is helpful to their bodies and soul.In a word, tea reflects Chinese culture. Hope all of you can travel to China and learn more about Chinese culture.第二节 完成句子 (共5小题，每题2分，满分10分)51. 上周李老师给我们开展了一场关于粤剧艺术的讲座。A lecture on Cantonese opera art ________ ________ by Miss Li last week.52. 她的讲座是如此的有趣，以至于同学们都热烈地鼓掌。Her lecture was ________ ________ ________ students made warm applause.53. 讲座结束后，我们还向李老师询问广州哪里可以看粤剧。When the lecture was over, we asked Miss Li ________ ________ ________ ________ the Cantonese opera in Guangzhou.54. 这是多么有教育意义的讲座啊！我们学到了很多。________ ________ the lecture was! We have learned a lot.55. 它让我们意识到保护粤剧文化是很有必要的。It made us realize it was ________ ________ us ________ ________ the Cantonese opera.第三节 书面表达 （共1题，满分15分）56. 21世纪报Teens正在举行以“To be better”为主题的征文活动。请你根据以下征文海报，写一篇英语短文投稿，分享你在提升自我方面的一次经历以及收获，并谈谈你在这方面的计划。注意：(1)文中不得出现真实姓名、学校等信息；(2)词数：80—100词左右；开头已给出，不计入总词数。I did a lot of things to make myself better. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________