大连枫叶国际学校入学测试.docx

1、大连枫叶国际学校入学测试大连枫叶国际学校-高一入学测试模拟题（英语）Name _ Score_/40Part one:Passage one: Words: 201 Readability: 4.0Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.This is an old English saying. It means that we must go to bed early in the evening and get up early in the morning.Is this true? Perh

2、aps it is. The body must have enough sleep. For example, children need ten hours sleep every night. If we do not go to bed early, we cannot have enough sleep. Then we cannot think or do our work well. We will not be wise or live a comfortable life.Some people go to bed late at night and get up late

3、in the morning. This is not good for them. We must sleep at night when itis dark. When daylight comes, we must get up. This is the time for exercise. Walking, running, jumping, swimming, playing games are all good forms of exercise. Exercise keeps the body strong.Exercise helps blood to move around

4、inside the body. This is very important. Blood takes food to all parts of our bodies. The brains in our heads also need blood. We think with our brains. If we keep our bodies healthy, and do exercises, we can think better!A. Write T for true F for false beside the following statements. (2.5)_ 1.The

5、passage tells the readers why it is important to be healthy._ 2.Early to bed and early to rise helps us think and work well._ 3.To keep healthy, everybody must sleep ten hours a day._ 4.Daylight is the time for exercise._ 5.Blood moves to all parts of our bodies.B. Answer the following questions inc

6、omplete sentences and in your own words. (2)1. Give some forms of exercise from the passage._2. You must have some habits which are good for your health. What are they?_3. Give a proper title to the passage. (0.5)_Passage Two:Words: 231 Readability: 3.8Seal A man moved his boat across the lake. Over

7、 his head, a bird flew in the wind and the other rested in a tree. Both watched the man.They knew the man was afraid of the sea. He wanted to swim but he was afraid of drowning. The two birds watched the man return to his home. They saw he didnt have any confidence in himself. His house was small be

8、cause he was not sure he could build a larger one. He didnt cook his food because he was afraid he would burn it. The man did not run fast because he was afraid of falling. One bird said, “How will he succeed?” “He needs to find the talents that he had inside himself,” the other answered. “We must c

9、hoose the correct time and chance carefully,” said the first one. One day, his daughter fell into the water. The man jumped into the sea without thinking. At that time, the two birds changed him into a seal. He saved his daughter. From that day on, the man could change himself into a seal whenever h

10、e wanted. He could swim and do things that no other person could do.The two birds were happy. Just like the man, all of us have special ability. Its just waiting to be changed from dreams into reality, if only we have the courage to try.Answer the following questions in complete sentences. (5)1. Wha

11、t was the man afraid of when he wanted to swim? (1)_2. Give 2 examples to show the man has no confidence in himself. (1)_3. Why did the man jump into the sea one day? (1)_4. How did the two birds help him? Which kind of animal is a seal? (1)_5. What does the story want to tell us? (1)_%Correct _=Mas

12、tery of Level_(Yes/No)Part two: Passage one: Words: 242 Readability: 4.9 Fiery Visitors from Outer Space 1. On the next clear summer night, look up into the sky. If you are lucky, you may see a “shooting star”. They look just like stars falling down from the sky. 2. But shooting stars are not stars

13、at all. The real name for a shooting star is “meteor”. There are millions of meteors out in space. They are pieces of rock and metal. When they are in space, meteors do not glow. In fact, we cant see them at all. But when a meteor comes close to the earth, it starts to fall toward the earth. As it p

14、asses through the air, it gets very hot. It starts to glow, and finally it begins to burn. We see the burning meteor as a shooting star.3. Sometimes meteors travel by themselves in space. But many meteors travel in groups called swarms. The swarms have orbits like planets have. They pass close to th

15、e earth every year. A famous swarm is the Perseid swarm. It passes close to the earth in summer, usually in August. Each year a few meteors from the Perseid swarm fall to the earth, so August is a good month to watch for shooting stars. 4. Most meteors are small, so they burn up before they crash in

16、to the earth and are buried in the ground. Once a meteor reaches the earth, we call it a meteorite. The biggest meteorite, which weighs seventy tons, landed in Africa.A.Circle the main idea of paragraph 3. (0.5)1. Sometimes meteors travel by themselves in space.2. Sometimes meteors travel in swarms.

17、3. A famous swarm is the Perseid swarm.4. August is a good month to watch for shooting stars.B. Match the word on the left with the phrase on the right that fits best by writing letters. (1)1. _meteor a. a famous swarm of meteors2. _swarm b. a meteor that has reached the earth3. _Perseid c. The real

18、 name for a shooting star4. _Meteorite d. a group of meteorsC. Answer questions in complete sentences and in your own words.1. Why is Augusta good month to watch shooting stars?1_2. Where is the biggest meteorite? 0.5_3. There is an old saying that if you make a wish when you see a shooting star, yo

19、ur wish will come true. So when you see a shooting star, what wish will you make? Why?2_Passage Two: Words: 270 Readability: 4.2Zan On the island of Crete, the Great Earth Mother had a child called Zan. The bees of the forest brought honey for little Zan, and the wild goats gave him milk. But childr

20、en must have toys. So the five servants of the Great Earth Mother made toys for him. Zan played happily on the mountains with his toys and with the animals in the forest.When he grew up into a strong, kind man, Zan wanted to reward his animal friends. So he made a law that the goats could go whereve

21、r they wished. He made hives for the bees to protect them from the cold winds and snow. Then, Zan put the toys he had saved in a secret cave where they would be safe. He asked the bees to guard the cave.One day three bad men climbed up the mountain to find treasure. They put on armor to protect them

22、selves from the bees, and they crept through the bushes until they reached the mouth of the cave. The bees buzzed around to attack the men, but their armor protected them and they went inside. Suddenly Zan appeared in the cave. “Stop!”He shouted. “You have come here to rob and kill. I must let you l

23、ive, for this is the cave of life. But from now on, you will never be able to tell other people where my wonderful cave is.”As Zan finished speaking, the men turned into birds. One turned into a woodpecker, one became a thrush, and one became an owl. Thats why even today, when the birds speak, no on

24、e can understand them. A. Number the events below in the order that they happened. (0.5*4)_ Three bad men tried to steal Zans toys._ The Earth Mother had a child named Zan._ Zan turned the men into birds._ Zan rewarded his animal friends.B. Answer the following questions in complete sentences. (1*3)

25、1. Why did the three men come to the mountain? _2. What happened to the three men at last?_3. What kind of person do you think Zen is? ( At least 3 adjectives )_%Correct _=Mastery ofLevel_(Yes/No)Part three: Passage One: Words 312 Readability 6.8Marie CurieMarie Curie was a great scientist. She was

26、born in Warsaw, Poland in 1867. Both of her parents were teachers. When Marie was only 10 years old, her mother died.Marie was a very good student. She loved science, math, and languages. She and her sister Bronya wanted to go to college, but in those days, only men could go to college in Poland. Th

27、e girls had to go to France to study. There was not enough money for both sisters to go, so Marie worked as a teacher in Poland. She sent money to Bronya to pay for medical school in Paris. After Bronya became a doctor, she helped Marie.When she was 24, Marie became a science student at the Sorbonne, a university in Paris. Even with her sisters help, she did not have much money. She lived in a small room ne