盐城市康居路初中教育集团2024-2025学年度第二学期期中考试
初三年级 英语试卷
（卷面总分：120分 考试时间：100分钟）
命题人：金永佳 审核人：杨津秀
（友情提醒：请各位同学将答案写到答题卡上）
Nothing is impossible for a willing heart! Go for it!
第Ⅰ卷（选择题 共65分）
一、补全对话（共5小题，每小题2分，共计10分）
根据对话内容，从所给的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，每个选项限用一次。
A: Do you often help others in your daily life, Ada?
B: Yes. ____1____ One of them is Granny Liu. She is 90 years old. I go to clean her house every weekend.
A: ____2____ I have heard of Granny Liu. Is she disabled?
B: Yes. ____3____ She used to help look after me when I was little.
A: Then you think it is your turn to repay her kindness?
B: Exactly. I just follow in her footstep. You know, Granny Liu never stops helping others. ____4____
A: I see. Kindness makes the world a better place. Helping others is the way we help ourselves. ____5____
A. All of us should do something for people in need.
B. She even provides food for homeless dogs and cats in the streets.
C. I often help the elderly in my neighbourhood.
D. It is so kind of you to do that.
E. She has to move around in a wheelchair.
二、完型填空（共15小题，每小题1分，共计15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
I used to watch her from my kitchen window. She seemed so ___6___ among the tall kids in the playground. The school was ___7___ the street from my home and I would often watch the kids as they played during a break. I noticed that she would ___8___ dribbling (控球) and shooting over and over again after school, sometimes until dark.
One afternoon I asked her ___9___ she always kept playing. She said, “I want to go to University of California and the only way for me is to get a scholarship (奖学金). I like basketball a lot. I believed that if I were ___10___ enough to play college basketball, I would get a scholarship. My dad told me if the dream is big enough, the ___11___ don’t count.”
Well, she appeared to be very confident. I ___12___ her through those junior high years and into high school. Every week she led her team to victory (胜利).
One day in her senior year, I saw her sitting quietly in the grass with her head in her hands. I walked across the ___13___ and sat down beside her. I asked her what was the matter. “Nothing,” replied the girl in a ___14___ voice, “I’m just too short.” The coach told her that she would probably never go to play for a top team because of her ___15___ , so she should stop dreaming about university.
I asked if she had told her father about it. She ___16___ her head from her hands and told me that her father thought those coaches were ___17___ and they just didn’t understand the power (力量) of a dream. He told her that if she really wanted to play for a good college, if she truly wanted a scholarship, then nothing could ___18___ her except one thing—her own attitude (态度). He told her again, “If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.”
The next year, as she and her ___19___ went to the Northern California Championship game, she was seen by a college recruiter (招生人员). She was going to get the college education. That was what she ___20___ and worked toward for all those years.
It’s true: If the dream is big enough, the facts don’t count.
6. A. rude B. ugly C. lazy D. small
7. A. along B. across C. above D. down
8. A. bring B. enjoy C. practise D. change
9. A. why B. how C. when D. where
10. A. clever B. gentle C. confident D. excellent
