the famous Julliard School of Music to study. He also got jobs in New York. He sang in small eating and drinking places. He sang the songs he had learned. In 1938, he began performing in theaters. He also sang on the radio. He began recording the folk songs he had learned. His songs like Big Rock Candy Mountain could be heard on the Burly Ives program each week. The radio program was first broadcast in 1940. His song It’s just Funny Way of Laughing earned him a Grammy Award. He also did lots of movie work. Burly Ives won an Oscar in 1958 for the movie The Big Country.
Burly Ives also recorded many songs for children. His most famous songs are two Christmas songs, Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer and Frosty the Snowman. These songs were used in cartoon movies first shown on American television in the nineteen-fifties and sixties. Burly Ives provided the voice of some of the animals and people. He also sang most of the songs.
Burly Ives was a large, friendly man who loved to make people happy with his acting and especially with his music. Burly died of cancer (癌) on April 14, 1995.
69．Burly Ives wanted to be a(n) ________ when he was young.
A) artist B) movie star C) history teacher D) famous singer
70．Burly Ives traveled around America with his guitar after he was told ________.
A) he was a good student B) he would never be a good teacher
C) he would be a famous singer D) he was a top traveler 71．In the early nineteen-thirties, Burly ________ in New York City.
A) taught history B) went to school of music and got jobs
C) attended a teacher’s college D) recorded songs for children
72．In 1958 Burly Ives won an Oscar for the movie________.
A) It’s Just My Funny Way of Laughing B) Big Rock Candy Mountain
C) The Big Country D) Frosty the Snowman 73．From the passage we learn that ________.
A) Burly only wrote songs for children B) Burly once provided the voice for cartoon movies
C) Burly was the director of many cartoon movies D) Burly seldom did movie work
74．The passage is mainly about ________.
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A) the American actor and singer Burly Ives B) how to be a history teacher
C) Burly Ives’ hard life in 1938 D) a successful young man
B. Choose the best words and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词完
成短文) (12分)
Often in your reading you will come across (遇见) a difficult new word. You may be able to read the word, but, you still do not know what it 75 . One way of finding out a word’s meaning is by looking it up in a 76 . Another way is to use context (上下文). You can think of the context as the “ neighborhood ”in which a
word “ lives. ” A word is never 77 . It appears in a sentence with other words, and that sentence has other sentences that come before and after it. These words and sentences are the context of the unknown word.
A word’s context often contains clues (包含提示) to its meaning. To find clues, think about the meanings of the other words in the sentence. Look at the sentences that come before and after the sentence that contains the word. Do they give you any clues? Sometimes a writer gives 78 that can help you understand the word’s meaning. Sometimes you may find a word that has almost the same meaning, or a word that means the 79 , or even a definition (释义) of the unfamiliar word, in the same sentence or a nearby one. These are all context clues.
Read the following sentence. Can you guess from the context what word might fit in the blank?
We had our picnic in the shade (阴凉处) of a huge 80 .
Did you guess the missing word from the context? If you did, you were able to tell from the other words in the sentence that the missing word must be a noun. You could also tell that the word means something that can give shade outdoors. It is something that people might have a picnic under. All these context clues helped you know the word.
75．A) predicts B) means C) debates D) wants
76．A) book B) dictionary C) newspaper D) magazine
77．A) alone B) sad C) united D) quiet
78．A) a letter B) an answer C) an example D)
徐汇区初三英语 本卷共 18 页 第 10 页
an action
79．A) opposite B) difficult C) serious necessary
80．A) river B) ground C) street tree
D)
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C. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空
格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺。每空格限填一词，首字母已给) (14分) Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school? If you do, you need to take control of your feelings. Getting angry with others can cause you to l 81 friends. Gray Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written a book named My Feelings Are Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. The book tells how to stay cool when b 82 things happen. The book says that getting angry only makes problems w 83 . It can never make them better. “ Getting angry is not a natural way to act, ” the book says. “ It’s just a habit, like smoking. ” The book says you can control your feelings e 84 ... all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry. The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry frequently. Here are the top three. ● Keep a r 85 . Every time you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry so often. ● Ask your friends to s 86 talking to you when you get angry. Leave you alone. This will teach you not to be angry. ● Do something d 87 . When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh.
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D. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题) (12分) I recently went to a charity party. At the end of the visit our host told us that the following Monday was his birthday. He asked if, as a gift to him, we would do something kind for someone else on that day. I thought that was a terrible birthday idea!
The following Monday, I saw my neighbor, a new mother, in the garden with her baby. I went outside to say “ hello ” to her. During the talk, she told me, not in a complaining way but just as a matter of fact, about the sleeplessness and the challenges to get anything done with a baby followed by. I remembered the charity party host’s request and said, “Hey! Why don’t I watch your baby for an hour! I will just hang out with him here in the back garden and you go in and take an hour to yourself. ”
She was so surprised that she almost cried. “ Are you serious? Would you be able to do that? ” “ Of course! ” I said. “ I’d be happy to! ” An hour later she came outside with a smile on her face. “ I have got so much done! ” she told me, and I told her that I had sung every kid’s song I knew and had a good time hanging out with the baby, too. And I was so happy to see her smiling like that.
It was one of the best presents I’ve ever given, and it has given me the desire to ask the same from all my friends this year. I know it will make me feel great to know my friends are out there sharing their wisdom and time with people who can really use it.
88．The following Monday was the host’s birthday, wasn’t it? 89．What did he ask his friends to do as a gift to him?
90．What did the writer decide to do on the following Monday? 91．How did the writer look after his neighbor’s baby?
92．Why was the writer so happy when his neighbor came outside?
93．What’s your opinion on the birthday present in the story? （answer the
question in no more than 20 words）
VII. Writing (作文): (共20分)
94．Write at least 60 words with the topic “A heavy smog day ”. （以“大
雾霾天”为题，写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。)
提示：去年12月上旬，申城笼罩在茫茫的雾霾（was shrouded in heavy smog）徐汇区初三英语 本卷共 18 页 第 12 页
