2024—2025学年度初三年级第二学期期中测试
英语试卷
试卷满分：100分 考试时间：120分钟
卷一选择题 共60分
一、单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
1. Online short video apps like Douyin make ________ more convenient to learn about the world at home.
A. one B. this C. it D. that
2. If you have to lend your camera to anyone, tell them to use it ________.
A. properly B. heavily C. directly D. hardly
3. Zhang Jinyuan, at the age of 94, received this year’s International Achievement Award because of her great ________ to nursing work.
A. nominations B. contributions C. introductions D. instructions
4. —Jim, we ________ buy Mom presents. We can clean the house from top to bottom.
—Good idea! It’s a special present for Mother’s Day.
A. can’t B. mustn’t C. shouldn’t D. needn’t
5. —Excuse me, Sir. Please don’t smoke here. This is a non-smoking area.
—I’m really sorry. I ________ it.
A. haven’t known B. don’t know C. didn’t know D. won’t know
6. Neither Jim nor Tom ________ France before, but they know the country very well.
A. has gone to B. has been to C. have gone to D. have been to
7. If you want to keep healthy, going to bed early and getting up early is highly ________.
A. recommended B. challenged C. translated D. influenced
8. — Your stamps are so fantastic. Could you please tell me ________?
— Oh, I bought them in the post office next to the bank.
A. why did you buy them B. where did you buy them
C. why you bought them D. where you bought them
9. Life is a journey with difficulties, but with care and wisdom you can ________ any problem you face.
A. put out B. hand out C. work out D. break out
10. —Food safety rules are really worth learning.
—________! It’s important for us to follow them.
A. No doubt about it B. None of your business
C. You’re welcome D. What a pity
二、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
Dogs are very smart animals. They can ____11____ many things easily, including words! A new study found that dogs can learn words as ____12____ as a one-year-old baby. This is really ____13____!
Most dogs already know some basic words like “sit” and “walk”. These are words that they often ____14____ from their owners. But this new study found that some dogs can also learn and remember the names of their ____15____!
To find out more about this, researchers looked all over the world for ____16____ dogs. They found six dogs that could ____17____ the names of more than 28 toys. Some of these dogs ____18____ knew the names of more than 100 toys!
These dogs then took part in a special challenge called the “Genius Dog Challenge”. In this challenge, the dogs’ owners taught ____19____ the names of new toys. The dogs had to learn six new toy names in one week, and then another 12 new toy names in the next week.
Surprisingly, these dogs found this task quite ____20____! They easily learned between 11 and 12 new toy names in each ____21____. This is similar to how quickly human babies learn new words when their vocabulary starts to explode at around 18 months old.
Even more amazingly, the dogs were still able to remember the names of the toys when they were ____22____ one and two months later. This shows that dogs have a great ____23____ for words, too!
So, if you have a dog, why not try teaching it some new words? Your dog might be just as ____24____ as these special dogs in the study! Remember, it’s important to give your dog plenty of praise and treats ____25____ it learns new things. This will encourage it to keep learning and having fun!
11. A. make B. see C. learn D. find
12. A. carefully B. quickly C. differently D. kindly
13. A. believable B. boring C. possible D. amazing
14. A. hear B. come C. keep D. protect
15. A. babies B. owners C. toys D. partners
