2025-2026南京师范大学新城中学初二英语（2025.10）
第 1 卷 （选择题 共 35 分）
一、完形填空（共 15 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
A）请认真阅读下列材料，从材料后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
If you drop an egg from the 4th floor of a building, will the egg break? Most of you may answer “Yes”. ___1___ students in Beijing Fengtai No.12 Middle School wanted to change the answer into “No”!
“Eggs hit the Earth” was a competition (竞赛) in the school’s science festival: With the help of special tools, the students hoped to keep eggs unbroken when ___2___ them from the 4th floor.
Wu Jiawen’s team didn’t win. One of their four eggs broke after they hit the ground. “We’ve done a lot, including making a plastic bag parachute (降落伞) for the eggs and putting the eggs into a small box filled with soft cotton,” said Wu. Although (即使) they missed their goal, Wu said she knew how to put ___3___ she learned in class into practice. “Science changes ‘impossible’ into ‘possible’,” she said.
Wu’s school wasn’t the only one that held a science festival. The Branch School of Beijing No.5 Middle School also held a similar festival. ___4___ all the creative projects, the most interesting one was the “Paper cart (小车) race”. The carts were made out of cardboard (硬纸板) strong enough to hold a person and run as fast as possible.
Wang Jingnan’s team were proud of their cart She said they spent ten days preparing. “We went to supermarkets to collect waste cardboard and paper. We also did tests to decrease friction (减少摩擦力) ___5___ our cart could run faster.”
When the cart of Wang’s team crossed the finishing line, she was very excited. “It was great to see that our creativity turned into reality (现实)”!
1. A. Because B. Still C. But D. So
2. A. throws B. throwing C. to throw D. threw
3. A. how B. what C. where D. when
4. A. Between B. From C. Among D. For
5. A. so that B. in order to C. because D. because of
请认真阅读下列材料，从材料后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
How many times have we said, “Oh, I’ll do that _______6_______.” Sometimes tomorrow never _______7_______ and we find ourselves saying, “Boy, I wish I hadn’t put that off.”
Our family has been friends with Betty for many years. Over the years we shared phone calls and birthday cards. Betty sent our youngest son Brandon a birthday card with $50 in it until he graduated. We _______8_______ each other quite often when we lived not far away. Then we moved to New York. However, the distance did not cut off the touch we kept in with each other.
This past November, I called Betty to see ____9____ she was. I was quite ____10____ when Betty didn’t answer the phone, instead her daughter Carol did. Carol told me that her mum had gone downhill fast and she was now in hospice (临终养老院) care. Carol ____11____ the phone to Betty. I talked briefly to her and let her ____12____ we loved her.
As soon as I got off the phone, I sent a text to Brandon to let him know Betty wasn’t doing ____13____. Little did I know that Brandon stopped what he was doing and immediately sent flowers to Betty.
You can imagine how ____14____ I was of Brandon when Carol called the next day letting me know how much Betty loved the flowers Brandon had sent. A few days later, Betty passed away. So, my friends, ____15____ what Emerson once said, “You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.”
6. A. tomorrow B. yesterday C. today D. now
7. A. ends B. changes C. comes D. runs
8. A. missed B. stayed C. visited D. waited
9. A. what B. how C. where D. when
10. A. surprised B. surprising C. sad D. heartbroken
11. A. cut B. threw C. handed D. played
12 A. care B. know C. see D. mean
13. A. badly B. good C. poor D. well
14. A. thoughtful B. afraid C. proud D. glad
15. A. choose B. agree C. feel D. remember
二、阅读理解（共 15 小题；每小题 1 分，满分 15 分）
请认真阅读下列材料，从材料后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A Dollar’s Lesson
“Give me a dollar and I’ll be your best friend.”
Madeline smiled as she said that to me.
She was so pretty and so popular,
With shiny brown hair and a confident smile.
I thought, “Everyone wants to be Madeline’s friend.”
I was new to the school, and different, and shy.
I needed a friend and she was the best!
My uncle had given me birthday money,
Crisp (洁净的) new bills I was saving
For a playhouse my father would build
With a door and three windows—I could see it already
A place just for me and a friend, if I wanted.
But I needed a friend, and here was my chance.
Next day in the schoolyard I gave her the dollar.
She flashed me that smile—or was it a laugh?
And next thing I knew she had disappeared.
That’s when it hit me, the shame and the tears,
Which I couldn’t cry, or the whole school would know
How low I would go, that I needed a friend.
There she was laughing at me with her buddies.
If only the ground would swallow me up!
Luckily, summer was coming soon.
I wouldn’t see any of them till the fall.
Even the worst times come to an end,
And this year I made a new friend who
Likes me for me: still shy, kind of awkward,
Not good at sports, but sometimes funny.
Her smile is a real one, and of course,
She never asks me for money.
—Joan Kocsis
16. Madeline is best described as ______ in the poem.
A. shy B. funny C. dishonest D. brave
