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2025-2026学年第二学期期中考试 初二英语试卷
一、单项选择
1. My brother got the first prize in a photo competition. I am proud of ________.
A．her B．him C．us D．them
2. Remember to do warm-up exercises before swimming, ________ you may get hurt.
A．so B．and C．but D．or
3. —________ did it take you to make this kite
—About 2 hours.
A．How long B．How often C．How much D．How soon
4. Jack is good at running. He ________ run 100 meters in 11 seconds.
A．can B．must C．should D．need
5. David is ________ boy in his class and he never loses things.
A．careful B．more careful C．the most careful D．most careful
6. Our teachers always expect us ________ independently, instead of depending on AI too much.
A．write B．to write C．wrote D．writing
7. —Jack, Mr. Green called and ________ us to visit the Natural History Museum just now.
—Great! I’d love to.
A．invites B．invited C．will invite D．has invited
8. Betty ________ Chinese chess since she was five years old.
A．learns B．was learning C．has learned D．will learn
9. We ______ dinner at home when someone knocked at the door.
A．had B．have C．are having D．were having
10. More small street gardens ________ all over Beijing in the future.
A．build B．are built C．will be built D．built
二、完形填空
阅读下面短文，根据短文内容从后面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
I never considered I had a talent for art until that rainy autumn afternoon. Mrs. Riley, our art teacher, handed out canvases (画布) with an unusual ____11____. “Paint what you feel others cannot see.” My classmates put their brushes into bright colors right away, while I looked at the ____12____ surface long, no idea in my mind, and lost myself in self-doubt.
For years, I had refused to draw except for stick figures and believed that ____13____ wasn’t my gift. But as raindrops hit the window like a piece of beautiful music, an idea came to me—I mixed greys and blues to show the beat of the storm. To my ____14____, Mrs. Riley stopped and looked at my drawing. “This... has feeling,” she said ____15____, nodding her head a little.
That night, I lay awake, caught between excitement and fear. My sketchbook (写生本), long ____16____ under textbooks, came back like an old friend. I began sketching dark shapes dancing through streetlights, steam (蒸汽) rising from teacups—everyday ____17____ I’d always missed.
Weeks later, the school exhibition arrived. My piece “City of Raindrops” hung beside some eye-catching paintings. Visitors rushed past my work until a little girl pulled her mother’s arm. “Look! It’s like the city is breathing!” Her words were beyond my personal ____18____.
Now, as I prepare for art college, Mrs. Riley’s wisdom is always kept in my mind: “Vision (眼界) grows when we are brave to ____19____ what is hidden.” That empty canvas taught me creativity isn’t about skill, but the ____20____ to share our unique ways of seeing.
11. A．task B．gift C．sign D．game
12. A．messy B．easy C．empty D．risky
13. A．beauty B．creativity C．curiosity D．honesty
14. A．surprise B．knowledge C．regret D．understanding
15. A．angrily B．strictly C．loudly D．softly
16. A．stored B．hidden C．listed D．burnt
17. A．problems B．challenges C．wonders D．plans
18. A．satisfaction B．preparation C．consideration D．expectation
19. A．explore B．question C．break D．protect
20. A．trust B．dream C．courage D．patience
三、阅读理解
A
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21. Jenny enjoys reading and has strong writing skills. She got experience by working on the school newspaper.
22. Andy is good at listening and always patient when communicating. However, he is only free at weekends.
23. Jim loves picking up new skills. He is also responsible and proud of keeping places tidy.
B
It was a week after my mom passed away and I didn’t know how to go on with life. Then, I received an email from a friend. It was about a running race to raise money for cancer research. I took no notice of it. It hurt my feelings, as cancer was the disease that took my mother away from me.
But something about my friend’s words- “I can help organize the whole thing” —stuck with me. I felt I had to agree. In the weeks to come, I tried to return to normal life. I checked our team’s page every day, feeling proud each time we raised more money. I knew my mom would have wanted it that way. She was a person who never gave up. It was this very spirit that helped me get by.
When the race ended, I noticed the runners all had one thing in common: There were big smiles on their faces. They seemed so satisfied. I wanted in.
So, I signed up for another race two months later. It was a big challenge, as I could hardly run a mile. But my friend and I made a training plan so I wouldn’t come in last. I followed it carefully and didn’t let anything get in my way.
Running up and down the city’s hills, I was flooded with memories. I used to live there after university and my mother visited often. I passed the supermarket and was reminded of the time she and I got into a heated argument there.
I was about to beat myself up when I remembered what Mom said after she found out she had cancer. “I don’t want you to feel sorry about anything.” Her paper-thin hands held me. A weight lifted from my shoulders.
When the race day arrived, I gave it my all for my mom and for all she had taught me and continued to teach me. As I ran, whenever I felt like slowing down, I pictured her cheering me on.
Crossing the finish line, I was filled with her love and a sense of peace.
24. How did the writer feel after receiving the email
A．She felt angry at herself. B．She felt hurt by the message.
C．She felt thankful to her friend. D．She felt excited about the race.
25. Why did the writer decide to sign up for the second race
A．Because her friend asked her to do so.
B．Because she was already very good at running.
C．Because she wanted to win a prize for her mother.
D．Because she was moved by the runners’ big smiles.
26. What mainly helped the author get over her pain
A．Her friend’s training plan. B．Her mother’s love and strength.
C．The joy of winning the race. D．The success in organizing an event.
C
Kids go to school to learn plenty of subjects. Finally, education prepares kids to have a meaningful career in a field they enjoy. So, thinking and learning about career choices before high school is always a good idea. But when should kids begin career education
When you were a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up A teacher A doctor Or a baseball player Preschool-aged children naturally think about their future careers. By imagining, exploring and role-playing, kids are likely to choose careers that interest them. Encouraging this career role-playing is healthy and can be quite telling; kids often clearly prefer either left-brained or right-brained roles.
At some point beyond the role-playing stage, students should be shown to a more serious career education curriculum (课程). You may think that career education isn’t all that necessary until kids finish high school, because that’s when they’re usually expected to get a job or choose a course of study in college. Experts (专家) disagree.
“The influence of early taking part can have a hugely good effect on wider academic (学术的) achievements, helping both children and their families to see a future which is achievable.” writes Robert Halfon, chair of the Education Select Committee in the UK.
Many experts accept the idea that career education should begin at a young age. They suggest career education in school should develop as follows:
Kids in primary school should learn about why people work.
Kids in early middle school should learn about the importance of a career in earning money.
Kids in grades seven through ten should begin to discuss and think about different jobs.
Kids in grades ten and beyond should discover their strengths and interests, find out suitable careers, and take an active part in certain activities to help them understand what they need to work on to do their dream career.
Starting career education early prepares students for the real world by making the connection between what they’re learning in school and why they’re learning it. For example, if a child wants to build tall buildings and knows that math skills are necessary in such a career, the child will be more likely to study, rather than hate, math.
Career education opens kids’ minds to all that is possible. And, at the end of the day, isn’t that what parents and teachers want for their kids and students
27. What can we learn from Paragraph 2
A．Kids feel confident about choosing their careers.
B．It’s natural for kids to change their career choices.
C．Kids do career role-playing to develop their interests.
D．It’s common for kids to think about their future careers.
28. Experts suggest that career education in school should ________.
A．develop in different grades B．provide kids with rich job experience
C．help kids learn about their strengths first D．greatly improve students’ marks immediately
29. What does the example of the child who wants to build tall buildings show
A．Building tall buildings mainly depends on math skills.
B．Career education can help children find out what they want to do.
C．Children who want to build tall buildings are usually good at math.
D．Career education makes children more willing to study for their future jobs.
30. The writer probably agrees that________.
A．career education should begin early for kids
B．kids don’t need to worry about their future careers
C．kids are supposed to learn all subjects well for future careers
D．career education is more important than other subjects for kids
D
Awe is not an everyday emotion. You don’t wake up full of surprise or respect. A satisfying lunch doesn’t leave you filled with awe. Even a great day is unlikely to leave you in a state of breathtaking, all-knowing fear and shaking a little.
Then what is awe Psychologists (心理学家) Keltner and Jonathan Haidt suggested that awe usually includes feelings of greatness. That means awe is brought by something larger than a person’s self or experience. And it usually helps widen the person’s understanding of the world. For example, awe might come from seeing a mountain taller than you thought a mountain could be. Or it might come from listening to a symphony (交响乐) that has both shockingly loud and touchingly quiet notes. People can make you filled with awe too: think of meeting a political leader whose power seems limitless.
In order to find out more about the unknown feeling, the psychologists made a research plan. In the years since, they and other researchers have been testing awe. What is it How does it work What seems awesome, and why For the first time, they’re starting to understand both what awe does to us and what it might do for us.
When psychologists first started studying awe, one of the unanswered questions was: What do we look like when we’re feeling it Emotions come with facial expressions.
Keltner and two workmates guessed that an awe-filled person would widen her eyes and raise her head, eyes and eyebrows, just a bit. And they were on track. When they asked people to show awe, they found that people indeed often raised their eyebrows and widened their eyes. They also opened their mouths and dropped their jaws.
Another question was the purpose of the emotion. “We developed emotions to help us deal with and keep safe from certain dangers,” explains Anderson, a student in Keltner’s lab, “When people are scared, they freeze or run away. People who behaved like that are likely to survive long enough.” In the same way, there is a reason for awe to be there.
So far, it seems that the purpose of awe might draw people together. When people are filled with awe, they feel like time has slowed down somehow, and when they feel so, they are more willing to use it to help others. The study also shows that awe encourages kindness. It improves people’s moral (道德的) decision-making. A paper still under review suggests that awe can make people more polite and not overproud, too.
“We actually experience awe a lot more often than we think,” says one of the researchers, “We meet something in the big wide world, our minds open as we look for an explanation, and as a result we open up to connecting to other people. But if you are keeping yourself in your own small world, it’s going to be hard to experience that feeling. Just go out into newness and you’re going to be more likely to run into something that brings awe.”
31. According to Keltner and Haidt, which of the following can most likely bring awe
A．Eating Beijing duck at Quanjude Restaurant.
B．Enjoying an ice-cream on a hot summer day.
C．Seeing a huge elephant up close in its natural setting.
D．Listening to an English song on the sofa.
32. What does the underlined part “they were on track” in Paragraph 5 probably mean
A．They were worried about the result.
B．They came across unexpected information.
C．They changed their ways of doing research.
D．They were right about what they had thought.
33. What can we learn from the passage
A．Awe is good for people and we should be open to it.
B．Awe is a special feeling and no one can understand it.
C．We should try to avoid awe because it can fill people with fear.
D．We should try to feel awe because it keeps us safe from certain dangers.
四、任务型阅读
The day had been good, but school was tiring. I was lying on my sofa, mindlessly looking through social media, obsessed (痴迷) with someone else’s wonderful life. Without even knowing it, I was comparing myself to others.
In fact, I’m not alone! Comparing is something we have trouble with every day. Studies show that anytime a thought comes to our minds, there’s a 1-in-10 chance that we’re comparing ourselves to others. The common study idea says that people can decide their own social and personal value by comparing themselves to others around them.
Comparison had been something that took away my joy for a long time until one day I realised that it is pointless to compare ourselves with others—we are comparing our weaknesses to someone’s strengths. I still remember several moments when I thought the worst of myself because I thought the best of someone else. For example, every time I saw Kayla performing well at her schoolwork, the first thing that came to my mind was a wish that I could be as smart as her. I kept asking myself, “Why couldn’t I just be like her ” I almost praised Kayla while hating myself at the same time.
I decided to change. I started to focus on improving myself instead of comparing with others. I took up reading one book every month. I started new hobbies. This helped me to discover a new self.
I learned to be thankful for what I had. Every day, I wrote down things I was happy about and chose to be around people who made me feel good. This made me value my life and see how special it is.
And I changed how I used social media. Instead of aimlessly looking through it, I changed my social media messages to include more educational and encouraging information. I felt happier and was less likely to compare myself to others.
In our lives, it’s important to ask ourselves a key question: are we looking after our own garden or are we only visitors, enjoying the beautiful gardens of others while failing to care for our own Try not to get lost in comparing yourself to others since everyone is different. Discover your gifts and let them shine!
34. What was the writer obsessed with on social media
________________________________________________________________
35. How do people decide their own social and personal value according to the common study idea
________________________________________________________________
36. Why does the writer think it is pointless to compare ourselves to others
________________________________________________________________
37. What do you think of the ways the writer took to avoid pointless comparison Why (Please give two reasons.)
________________________________________________________________
五、短文填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Last term, we took part in an English speech competition. It was a big challenge for us students. Our teacher ____38____ (tell) us that confidence was necessary. She advised us not to be ____39____ (disappoint) even if we failed. We were ____40____ (remind) to be confident and keep working hard. She also said we should ____41____ (spend) more time speaking English every day. Learning to speak ____42____ (clear) was important. We believed our good communication ____43____ (skill) and efforts would help us succeed at last.
六、汉译英
44. 我们不可以在图书馆大声喧哗。(talk loudly)
____________________________________________
45. 学会如何处理压力是很重要的。(deal with)
____________________________________________
46. 昨晚我太忙了，以至于无法参加聚会。(too…to…)
____________________________________________
47. 这份工作需要积极向上的个性。（be required）
____________________________________________
七、书面表达
48. 假设你是李华，你们学校正在开展研究性学习，你作为小组负责人在全班开展了一项关于“青春的困扰”的调查，请用英语写一篇短文，简要说明图表内容，并选择其中的一个方面，给出解决问题的建议及理由。
提示词语：result, deal with, plan, communicate
内容提示：
1. What can you learn from the result
2. What advice can you give them
Recently, our group did a survey on teens’ problems. From the result, we can see ________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________
参考答案
一、单项选择
1.B 2.D 3.A 4.A 5.C
6.B 7.B 8.C 9.D 10.C
二、完形填空
11.A 12.C 13.B 14.A 15.D
16.B 17.C 18.D 19.A 20.C
三、阅读理解
A匹配：21.B 22.C 23.D
B：24.B 25.D 26.B
C：27.D 28.A 29.D 30.A
D：31.C 32.D 33.A
四、任务型阅读（参考范文）
34. She was obsessed with other people’s wonderful life.
35. By comparing themselves to others around them.
36. Because we are comparing our weaknesses to someone’s strengths.
37. They are great ways. First, focusing on self-improvement helps us grow. Second, being thankful stops us from envying others.
五、短文填空
38.told 39.disappointed 40.reminded 41.spend 42.clearly 43.skills
六、汉译英标准翻译
44. We mustn’t talk loudly in the library.
45. It’s important to learn how to deal with stress.
46. I was too busy to go to the party last night.
47. A positive personality is required for this job.
七、书面表达范文
Recently, our group did a survey on teens’ problems. From the result, we can see most students have trouble with study pressure, relationships with parents and lack of sleep.
Among all the problems, I want to give advice on study pressure. First, make a reasonable daily plan to balance study and rest, so you won’t feel tired all the time. Second, communicate your worries with parents or teachers. They can give you useful advice and comfort you.
If we can deal with pressure properly, we will live a happier teenage life.

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