中考英语模拟试卷2
( ) 21. There is _____ “U” and ______”M” in the word “umbrella”.
A. an; an
B. a; an
C. a; a
D. a ; the
( ) 22. ----I heard that your mum was ill. How is she now?
---Thank you! She is much ______today.
A. bad
B. well
C. better
D. luckier
( ) 23.----Help ______ to some fish and make ________ at home, Tim and Jessie? ----Thanks very much.
A. yourself, yourself
B. herself; himself
C. himself; yourselves
D. yourselves; yourselves
( )24. –Which book do you like better?
---- I prefer this one_____ that one.
A. to
B. than
C. at
D. on
( ) 25. ___ fast food is unhealthy, ___ many people like it very much.
A. Because; so
B. Though; /
C. When; and
D. Though; but ( ) 26---Why do your family feel so happy today?
---- Because today is my grandma’s ________ birthday.
A. eighty
B. eightieth
C. eightyth
D. the eightieth
( ) 27. ---- The beautiful girl has _____ a bunch of beautiful roses and an invitation this morning.
----- Really? So did she ______ the invitation to the party?
A. received, received B .received, accepted C. accepted, received
D. accepted, accepted
( ) 28 .—Do you know_____the Shanghai EXPO this year will last?
—184 days, from May 1st to October the 31st.
A. how often
B. how about
C. how long
D. how soon
( ) 29. If you have any problems, you can ask your parents to give you ______.
A. a advice
B. an advice
C. some advice
D. some advices ( ) 30. When I’m in blue, I will look for ______ to do.
A. something exciting
B. anything exciting
C. exciting something
D. exciting anything
( ) 31. When I got home yesterday, my mother ______ in the kitchen.
A. cooked
B. was cooking
C. would cook
D. is cooking
( ) 32. --- Mum, Must I finish my homework now?
--- No, you _____. You may have a rest first and finish it later.
A. mustn’t
B. can’t
C. may not
D. nee dn’t
( ) 33. Don’t forget to ______ the lights and the TV when you leave the room.
A. turn down
B. turn on
C. turn off
D. turn up
( )34. --- Do you mind my smoking here?
---______. Look at the sign. It says, “No smoking.”
A. Of course not
B. You’d better not
C. No, I don’t
D. Never mind
( )35. ---I don’t know _______
----Don’t mention it. He is too excited.
A. what the matter with him
B. what is the matter with him
C. what matter with him
D. what the matter is with him
三．完形填空
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的A、B、C、 D四个选项中选出最佳选项，把答案涂在答题卡上。（共10小题，每小题1分）
The best way of learning a language is always using it. The best way of learning spoken English is ___36___ in English as much as possible. Sometimes you‘ll get your words ___37___ up and people will not ___38___ you. Sometimes people will ___39___ things too quickly and you can’t understand them. But ___40___ you keep your sense of humor， you can always have a good laugh at the mistakes you
___41__. Don‘t be unhappy if people seem to be laughing __42__ your mistakes. It’s ___43__ for people to laugh at your mistakes than to be angry with you， __44___ they don‘t understand what you are saying. The most important thing for learning English is：“Don’t be ___45___ of making mistakes because everyone makes mistakes.”
36. A. listening B. talking C. reading D. writing
37. A. mix B. mixing C. to mix D. mixed
38. A. like B. know C. help D. understand
39. A. say B. talk C. tell D. speak
40. A. if B. when C. since D. although
41. A. have B. make C. take D. product
42. A. at B. on C. in D. for
43. A. good B. better C. best D. well
44. A. unless B. because C. as soon as D. as long as
45. A. sad B. worry C. afraid D. unhappy
四阅读理解（每小题1分，共35分）
A.阅读下面短文，从下面每小题的 A,B,C,D四个选项中选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并将答题卡上相应的字母编号涂黑。（共20小题，每小题1分）
A
News 1:
TWO conjoined twin sisters were separated at a hospital in Hebei Saturday. The two 40-day-old Chinese girls had been joined at the chest and abdomen . Doctors still worry about the younger one, who also has heart disease. They say she will have another operation after she fully gets well.
News 2:
FIRE broke out on the second floor of the busy four-story Zhongbai Shopping Centre in Jilin city, Jilin, Sunday. As of Wednesday, more than 50 people were killed and over 70 injured. Officials said the fire started in one of the shopping centre's storehouses.
News 3:
THE Chinese Embassy in Iraq’s capital Baghdad reopened Monday. The embassy had been closed since the US-Iraq war began in March 2003. The last Chinese officer left Baghdad just three days before the war broke out.
News 4:
HOW old can an insect be? 400 million years! Last Wednesday, scientists found the world’s oldest insect fossil in Britain. The fossil shows that the body of the insect was as big as a grain of rice and had wings. In the past, people thought the earliest insect was 380 million years old.
根据内容选择最佳答案。
( ) 46.What does News 3 talk about?
A. China’s back in Iraq
B. Shopping center fire
C. That’s an old bug
D. It was a success
( ) 47. The operation done on the two Chinese girls was _______.
A. unsuccessful
B. cruel
C. successful
D. strange
( ) 48. The fire in the shopping center started __________.
A. on the fourth floor
B. in a storehouse
C. on the third floor
D. outside the centre
( ) 49. The Chinese Embassy in Baghdad reopened _________.
A. when the US-Iraq war began
B. before the US-Iraq war ended
C. three days before the war broke out
D. on a Monday
( ) 50. The new find of the insect fossil showed that the earliest insect was _______ years older than believed.
A. 10 million
B. 20 million
C. 400 million
D. 380 million
B
When Ben Franklin was child , he always wanted to know about things . He was always asking his father and brothers , “What ?” , “How ?” and “Why”?
They couldn’t always tell him what he wanted to know . When they couldn’t tell him why , Ben tried to find out for himself .
Ben lived close to the water . He liked to go there to see the boats . He saw how the winds blew them across the water .
One day Ben said to himself , “Why can’t the wind help me float across the water ? I’m going to cry .”
Ben got his big kite . He took hold of the kite string and ran with it . The wind took the kite up into the air . Then Ben jumped into the water .
The wind blew the kite high up into the air . Ben began to float across the water . Soon he was on the other side and he had not worked at all . The wind and the kite did the work .
Someone shouted , “Look at Ben floating across the water ! His kite is taking him to the other side !”
“Yes ,” said another . “He is always finding new ways to do things .”
根据内容选择最佳答案。
( ) 51.Ben Franklin was always asking his father and brothers because he _______ .
A was too foolish to know anything
B couldn’t answer his teachers’
questions
C wanted to know all about the things that he was interested in
D wanted to
examine them
( ) 52．He liked to go to the water and see how the _______ .
A boats crossed the water against the wind
B boats crossed the water with the help of the wind
C wind broke the boats into little pieces
D people were happy on the boats
( ) 53.______ , so he jumped into the water .
A It was too warm
B He wanted to have much
C He liked swimming very much
D He wanted to know if the wind and the kite could help him cross the water ( ) 54、Ben Franklin was glad to ___________ .
A fly his big kite on a beautiful spring day
B have a swim in the water on a hot summer day
C find a new way to cross the water
D swim that day
( ) 55、He always wanted to know about something and ask his families because the was ________ .
A foolish
B lazy
C lazy and clever
D clever and hard-working
C
Once there was a baby eagle living in a nest(巢)on a cliff（山崖）.The baby eagle loved his nest. I t was warm, soft and comfortable. And even better, he had all the food and love that his mother could give. Whenever the baby eagle was hungry, his mother would always come just in time with the delicious food he liked.
He was growing happily day after day. But suddenly his world changed. His mother stopped coming to his nest. He was full of sadness and fear. He thought he would die soon. He cried, but nobody heard him.
Two days later his mother appeared with some nice food. The baby eagle was wild with joy, but his mother put the food at the top of the mountain and then looked down at her baby. The baby eagle cried out,” Mum, why did you do this to me? I am hungry. Don’t you know I will die if I have nothing to eat?”
“Hear is the last meal I give you. Come and get it by yourself,” his mother said. Then she flew down and pushed the baby eagle out of the nest.
The baby eagle fell down ,faster and faster. He lo oked up at his mum,” Why don’t you abandon me?” He looked down at the earth,. The ground was much closer. Then something strange happened. The air caught behind his arms and he began to fly! He was not moving to the ground any more. Instead , his eyes were pointed up at the sun.“You are flying! You can make it!” His mother smiled.
根据内容选择最佳答案。
( ) 56.Which of the following is TRUE about the baby eagle’s life before his mother stopped coming to the nest?
A. He lives in a nest in the tree.
B. His mother offered him nice food.
C. He was always cold and hungry.
D. He lived very happily with friends.
( ) 57.How did the baby eagle fell as soon as he saw his mother coming again?
A. Sad
B. Happy
C. Afraid
D. Angry
( ) 58. What did th e baby eagle’s mother do when she came the last time?
A. She put some food in the nest.
B. She just came to see him again.
C. She shouted at her baby eagle and flew away.
D. She pushed her baby eagle out of the nest.
( ) 59.What does the word “abandon” mean?
A. 抛弃
B. 保护
C. 歧视
D. 拯救
( ) 60．We can infer(推断) from the story that _________.
A. The baby eagle lost his mother. B The baby eagle fell down and died.
C. The baby eagle could get food himself.
D. The baby eagle was still angry with his mother.
D
Five years ago, Rachel Lopez graduated from college with a degree（学位）in history.
Today, She works for a large software company. Now twenty-seven, Rachel takes classes twice a week after work. She is learning to use the computer program PowerPoint. "I enjoyed college, but my job doesn’t use information 1 learned when 1 was doing my degree." Rachel says. "This course is helping me to do my job better. In the future, 1 might go back to school and get an MBA. "
In the past, when students graduated from college and got a job, they usually stopped
studying. Today, lifelong learning is becoming more common. In the United States, people can return to school in their late twenties, thirties, or older to get a higher degree, such as a mast er ' s or Ph . D′s. Like Rachel, many more are taking training courses to improve their workplace Skills. With many classes now available（可用的）through the Internet, it is easier for people to get degrees or training by distance （远距离）learning
Mayumi Hosoya, who is forty, teaches Japanese at a community college in New York. " Next term, I 'll be teaching some of my classes using the Internet. This is new for me, " says Mayumi. " At the moment, I am taking a course to learn how to teach this way. " At the same time, Mayumi ' s seventy -year-old mother and father are taking a distance learning course in Art History. "We love the subject, " says Manyumi’s father, " And now we can study with people from all over the world. 1 never thought learning could be this much fun! "
根据短文内容选择最佳答案。
( ) 61. How old was Rachel Lopez when he left college?
A. 18
B. 20
C. 22
D. 24
( ) 62. Why does, Rachel Lopez go to a school twice a week after work?
A. To find a better job
B. To do his Job better
C. He enjoys computer courses
D. To get a new degree
( ) 63. which of the following is closer in meaning to the words " lifelong learning〞?
A. Stop studying and then start studying again.
B. Begin to study from one ' s twenties till one ' s fifties.
C. Go on to study after graduating from school.
D. Keep on studying until getting some degrees
( ) 64. From the last paragraph we know _____________ .
A. The internet helps a lot in the Iife long learning
B. Mayumi Hosoya can teach the Japanese students in New York
C. Mayumi ' s old parents are learning their favorite subject in a history museum
D. Many old people like Mayumi 's old parents are interested in Art History
( ) 65. Which of the following is true?
A. Rachel Lopez is now taking courses for an MBA.
B. In the United States people can return to school at any age.
C. Many young people like Rachel are now bettering their skills at colleges.
D. A good teacher has to know how to teach a subject through the internet.
B短文填空：选择恰当的单词填空，每词限用一次。（有两个多余的选项.每小题1.5分，共15分）
when, their, so, even, feel, behave, or, modern, hours,eat, sound,classical