上海名校英语--2017年第二学期初二年级英语期中考试试卷(位育初二).pdfVIP

2017 年第二学期初二年级英语期中考试试卷 III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each one can only be used once.(将 下列单词或词组填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词或词组只能填一次）（共8 分） A. came back to life B. missing C. high D. top E. following Easter （复活节） is one of the oldest and most important Christian (基督教的) holidays. Christians celebrate Easter on the Sunday____46____the first full moon after March21.They think of Easter Sunday as the day that Jesus _____47____ . Easter Sunday is always betweenMarc h 22 and April 25. Before Easter,Christian families decorate eggs with different colors and patterns. On Easter Sunday children wake up to find those egg _____48____ , and they will look for the eggs all around the house. Some organizations also h old Easter-egg hunts , and the child who finds the most eggs wins a prize. In England, Germany and some other cou ntries, children roll eggs down hills on Easter morning. They go to the ___49____of a large hill with a decorated eg g, roll the eggs down the hill, and the last egg to break is the winner. A. condition B. created C. after D. second E. twice In every little girl’s toy box ， there might be a Barbie Doll （ 芭 比 娃 娃）. Barbie is 57 years old this year. It was designed in 1959 by an American business woman named Ruth Handl er. She and her husband Elliott started the toy company Mattel. She named the new doll ____50____ their daughter Barbara. The first Barbie Doll appeared at the toy fair in New York on March 9th，1959. This date is used asBarbie’s birthday. Mattel sold three hundred thousand Barbie Dolls in the first year at a price of three dollars.Today, a 57-year-old Barbie in good ___51___ might cost more than twenty-seven thousand dollars. Mattel says 90% of the girls in the United States aged from three to ten own at least one Barbie Doll.When Mattel ____52____