初二英语上册 Unit 6 Ancient stories 阶段性检测
初二英语上册 unit 6 ancient stories 阶段性检测一、选择题
1.in the past ten years, great changes place in my hometown.
a.took b.takes c.have taken d.will taken
2.he has been at our school .
a.for two years ago b.for two years
c.since two years d.two years ago
3.--- have you been away from here?
---for about five years.
a.how soon b.how long c.how far d.how often
4.this composition is good a few mistakes.
a.except b.expect for c.besides d.but
5.wang qiang succeeded a job in the famous company.
a.to get b.to getting c.in getting d.get
6.he is a funny boy. he often makes us .
a.laugh b.to laugh c.laughing d.to laughing
7.the teacher asked the students in class.
a.not make noise b.not making noise
c.not to make noise d.don’t make noise
8.---have you packed your beach towel
---yes, i have packed it.
a.already; already b.yet; yet c.already; yet d.yet; already
9.---the paper says iron man 3 is on this evening, let’s go and see it.
---but i it.
a.see b.saw c.have seen d.will see
10.---hello, may i speak to miss wang?
---sorry, she isn’t in. she the office.
a.has been to b.has gone to c.has been away d.has been on
二、阅读理解
do you know roma people? they were called gypsies(吉普赛人) by europeans because they thought they came from egypt(a country in africa). about a thousand years ago, the roma people left their homeland. they are known as nomads because for hundreds of years many of them have lived in large groups that travel from place to place. they have no real homeland.共4页，当前第1页1234
初二英语上册 Unit 6 Ancient stories 阶段性检测
today, the roma are now living all over the world. they have kept their language and many customs. for example, it's important for roma to marry other roma. it's also a custom for parents to choose the person their children will marry. roma people get married when they are young, sometimes even as young as 14.
romany is the language of the roma people , which was written down only recently. because the roma are nomadic and have moved all over the world, their language has developed in many different ways. it is sometimes hard for roma in one part of the world to understand roma from another part.
roma music is famous all over the world, because many roma throughout history have been musicians. their music has influenced many other kinds of music, like classical and jazz.
roma don't usually assimilate(同化) into host countries. over many centuries, governments have forbidden them to marry each other, travel or wear their traditional bright clothes. they have their gold taken away from them — treasures(财富) from their parents and grandparents. they have been taken as slaves(奴隶), and have been forced to change their names.
but today, the roma are finding ways to live in peace with others while keeping the treasures of their culture. " there's a will within us to continue to live as a people," says george kaslov, whose family arrived in new york from russia a hundred years ago. "all the other ethnic(种族) groups who came to america assimilate gradually with time going; they lose their customs and language. but not the roma. we hold out."
1. what does the underlined word "nomads" in the 1st paragraph mean?
a. people who lived centuries ago. b. people who come from roma.
c. people who have their own homeland d. people who move from place to place.
2. what's the main idea of the last paragraph?
a. george kaslov has a strong will to live on.
b. the roma still keep their customs and language.
c. the roma are finding ways to keep the gold of their own.
d. most ethnic groups assimilate into host countries step by step.
3. what can we infer about the roma according to the passage?
a. most of the roma live in very unusual houses.
b. their language is endangered and may soon die out.
c. their culture is very different from other european cultures.
d. most roma get married either when they are very young or very old.
4. what is the main purpose of the passage?共4页，当前第2页1234
初二英语上册 Unit 6 Ancient stories 阶段性检测
a. to tell readers about an interesting culture.
b. to tell us why the roma need our help.
c. to show us how all people are similar.
d. to ask people how to live in peace.
5. what would be the best title for the passage?
a. brave roma travelers b. famous roma music
c. the roma: past and present d. changing countries, changing cultures
b
i loved my mother’s desk since i was just tall enough to see above the top of it when mother sat doing letters.looking at the ink bottle, pens and white paper, i decided that the act of writing must be the most wonderful thing in the world.
years later, during her final illness, mother kept different things for my sister and brother,“but the desk,”she said again,“is for elizabeth.”
i never saw her get angry, and never saw her cry.i knew she loved me, and she showed it in action.but as a young girl, i wanted heart-to-heart talks between mother and daughter.
they never happened and a gulf opened between us.i was “too emotional (易动感情的)”, but she lived “on the surface”.
as years went by and i had my own family.i loved my mother and thanked her for our happy family.i wrote to her in careful words and asked her to let me know in any way that she did forgive (原谅) me.
i posted the letter and waited for her answer.it didn’t come.
it seemed that nothing happened.i couldn’t be sure that the letter had even got to her.
i only knew that i had written it, and i could stop trying to make her into someone she was not.
now the present of her desk told me that she was pleased that writing was my chosen work, though she had never been able to.i cleaned the desk carefully and found some papers inside… a photo of my father and a one-paper letter.folded
(折叠) and refolded many times.
give me an answer, my letter asks, in any way you choose. mother, you always chose the act that speaks louder than words.
1.the writer began to love her mother’s desk ______.
a.after mother died b.when she was a child
c.before she became a writer d.when mother gave it to her
2. the passage shows that mother _______.
a.was too serious about everything her daughter had done
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初二英语上册 Unit 6 Ancient stories 阶段性检测
c.cared much about her daughter in words
d.wrote to her daughter in careful words
3.the word “gulf”in the 4th paragraph means _______.
a.deep understanding between the old and the young
b.part of the sea going far in land
c.free talks between mother and daughter
d.different ideas between mother and daughter
4.what did mother do with her daughter’s letter asking for forgiveness?
a.she read the letter again and again till she died.
b.for years, she often talked about the letter.
c.she didn’t forgive her daughter at all in her life.
d.she had never received the letter.
5.what’s the best title of the passage?
a.my letter to mother b.mother and children
c.my mother’s desk d.talks between mother and me
三、单词拼写
1. he must cross the bridge every day because he lives on the other s of the river.
2. the classroom is e . nobody is in it.
3. there is a d between these two pictures. can you find it？
4.you should not p the door. ; you should push it.
5.it’s s of him to make the same mistake again and again.
四、最后我们班赢得了这场比赛。
1. our class won the macth .
2. 当心!地面上都是水。
be careful! the ground water.
3.我们正在排练这部戏剧。下个星期要表演。
we are practising the play. we’’ll it next week.
4.拿残疾证人玩笑是不礼貌的行为。
it is not polite to the disabled.
5.我们的英语老师在广州已经生活十多年了。
our english teacher in guang zhou more than 10 years.共4页，当前第4页1234