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2014高考英语阅读理解基础练习精品题（30）及答案阅读理解Dear Sir，I recently found your website of Chinese Culture a very good source。

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八年级下学期英语配套练习册书面表达答案Unit 1 (P6)Alice and Alan, Gina, Tony, and Julie are friends. But they have different problems. Alice is tired. She should go to bad early, and she shouldn't go to the party tonight. And Alan may cut his knee, so he should put a bandage on it, and he shouldn't play soccer. Gina has a nosebleed, she should put her head back, and she shouldn't jump up and down. Tony hurt his leg playing basketball so he should go to the hospital and get an X-ray, but he shouldn't walk to the hospital. Julie has a toothache so that she should brush her teeth every day ,and she shouldn't eat candy before sleep. Unit 2 (P13)你们学校将要与一所贫困地区的学校（a school in the poor area）开展手拉手活动，学校团委提出了以下几种活动方案：1捐款学习用品2假期去做志愿者3邀请他们来学校参观并到家里做客4通过书信的方式交朋友请从中选择你最喜欢的一种活动方式，并说明你将怎么去做？Helping others is greatRecently, our school has carried out(提出)activities hand in hand with a school in the poor area. Our headmaster called on each of us to give the poor a hand, all the teachers and students take part in the big activity, everyone did their best to offer their help to the poor.Differ ent people use different ways. Some of them gave away their school things, but most of them joined the school volunteer project to help the students in the poor school. What's more, some students even invited the poor students to their home and showed them around their school, the rest students make friends with the poor by writing letters.Generally speaking, each of us has given help in our own way. We all hope that we can make the poor's lives better, we are happy because we helped them, And at the same time we also got great happiness.Unit 3 (P19)We did a survey about doing chores in our class. Here are results.Frank and Lucy like doing chores. Frank often sweeps the floor and take the dog for a walk at home. And he thinks doing chores can develop children’s independence. It can also helps us to understand the idea of fairness. Lucy usually folds the clothes for herself and make the bed. She thinks we can learn to look after ourselves by doing chores.But Bob doesn’t like doing chores. Sometimes he helps her mother takeout rubbish. So he thinks there is no need for us to do chores and we should spend time on our study.I agree with Frank and Lucy. And at home I often do the dishes after meals and clean the living room. I think we should do more chores t our spare time. It can help us to understand our parents and it also give us a good chance for proper communication with our parents.Unit 4 (P26)Eve的Alice和她的好朋友吵架了。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语（暑假）基础训练（8）附答案This is a true story from Guyana. One day, a boy took a piece o f paper from a box. He made a paper ball and pushed it into his nose. He couldn’t get it out. He ran crying to his mother. His mo ther couldn’t get the paper out, either. A week later, the paper w as still in the boy’s nose. His nose began to have a bad smell. So his mother took the boy to a hospital. The doctor looked up at the child’s nose, but she couldn’t get the paper out. She said she had to cut the b oy’s nose to get the paper out.The boy’s mother came home looking sad. She didn’t want her child to have his nose cut. The next day she took the boy to her friend Sidney who lived in a house with an old lady called May. May wanted to see the child, so the child let her look up his nos e.“Yes, I can see it,” May said. “It will be out soon.”As she spoke, she shook some black pepper （胡椒粉）on the child’s nose. The child gave a mighty sneeze and the pa per flew out. His mother was surprised. May told his mother to take the boy to the seaside for a swim, for the salt water would g o up his nose and stop the bad smell.So the lucky boy didn’t have to go to the hospital to have his no se cut.36. After the boy pushed a paper ball into his nose, ____.A. he took it outB. his mother took it outC. he did nothing but cryD. he tried to take it out but fail ed37. Which of the following is TRUE?A. The doctor helped to take the paper ball out of the boy’s no se.B. May succeeded in taking the paper out.C. The boy’s mother found some black pepper to solve the pr oblem.D. The boy had to have his nose cut at last.38. The boy should be taken to the seaside for a swim because ____.A. he needed to learn to swimB. the sea water would stop the bad smell of his nose.C. the sea water would wash out the paper ball.D. he needed a restIn the United States, when one becomes rich, he wants peop le to know it. And even if he does not become very rich, he wan ts people to think that he is. That is what “keeping up with the J oneses” is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look as rich as his neighbours.The expression was first used in 1913 by a young American called Arthur Momand. He toldthis story about himself. He began earning $ 125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got marrie d and moved with his wife to a very wealthy neighbourhood out side New York City. When he saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day. When he saw that ri ch people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a serv ant and gave big parties for their new neighbours.It was like a race, but one could never finish his race becaus e one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Moman d and his wife when they could no longer pay for their new way of life. They moved back to an apartment in New York City.Momand looked around him and noticed that many people do things just to keep up with rich lifestyle of their neighbours. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short sto ries. He called it “Keeping up with the Joneses” because “Jones ” is a very common name in the United States. “Keeping up with the Joneses” came to mean keeping up with rich lifestyle of the people around you. Mom and’s series appeared in different new spapers across the country for over 28 years.People never seem to get tired of keeping up with the Jones es. And there are “Jonses” in every city of the world. But one m ust get tired of trying to keep up with the Joneses because no matter what one does, Mr. Jones always seems to be ahead. 39. Some people want to keep up with the Joneses because th ey ____________.A. want to be as rich as their neighboursB. want others to know or to think that they are richC. don’t want others to know they are richD. want to be ha ppy40. It can be inferred from the story that rich people like to ____ ________.A. live outside New York CityB. live in New York cit yC. live in apartmentsD. have many neighbours41. Arthur Momand used the name “Jones” in his series of short stories because “Jones” is ____________.A. an important nameB. a popular name in the United StatesC. his neighbour’s nameD. not a good name42. According to the writer, it is ____________ to keep up with the Joneses.A. correctB. interestingC. impossibleD. goodThe word “death” is a word many Chinese friends tell me I shou ld not say aloud. They advise me to avoid the word because onl y speaking of it may bring ill fortune. I deeply believe, however, that to know how to live, we must also know how to die. The pro blem is how do we talk about death?Like everyone in Taiwan this week, I have had “Tomb Sweep ing Day”. I am proud to be part of a people whose culture sends millions of families to cemeteries on this special day to share m emories and endless love.Today, eight days after the death of Pope John Paul II, millions of people of all backgrounds still grieve(悲痛) his passing away. He was a deeply human person who kne w how to laugh and show emotions, a writer with a gift for word s ，a leader who appealed to us by the sheer light of his love for life .On the same day and only hours before the Holy Father left u s, a friend of mine named Veronica McBride died of cancer in a small Wisconsin city. My friend Veronica was 52 years old. She was an attractive, humorous young woman who, as the saying goes, “never married”. She published several humor books with her mother, Mary McBride. She enjoyed traveling, and for year s sent Christmas card photos of herself standing beside monum ents or odd animals. She fought cancer for five years. She joke d about her treatment keeping her pretty because it kept her thi n, and told me she didn’t mind losing her hair because of chem o therapy. “I get to wear nice wigs!（假发）”The last time I saw Veronica was when I visited her family on a sunny day in August in 2003. When she burst into the front d oor later and saw me in the living room, she ignored me comple tely in her hurry to hug her newest baby nephew, leaving me sh aking my head in laughter at her.As we look to the significance of the Holy Father and his life,surely we must also keep our eyes open to see the wonder and goodness in ordinary people who show us how to live and how to die.64. The purpose of the article is ___________.A. to memorize his friend VeronicaB. to talk about the significance of life and deathC. to teach us how to face life and deathD. to compare his friend and the Holy Father Pope John Paul II65. The underlined phrase “chemo therapy” in Paragraph 4 pro bably means __________.A. a medical treatmentB. a kind of cancerC. a kind of medicineD. the newest machine66. Why does the writer compare the Holly Father with his frien d?。

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2014年春中考模拟考试英语参考答案Ⅰ. 听力（共三节，计20分）1—5 DEABC 6—10 BBACA 11—15 AABAC16. much 17. get up 18. games 19. watched 20. studyⅡ. 知识运用（共两节，计25分）第一节选择题（共15小题，计15分）21—25 BABBB 26—30 ABBBB 31—35 CBBBA第二节完形填空。

（共10小题，计10分）36—40 ABACB 41—45 BACBAⅢ.阅读技能（共四节，计40分）第一节阅读判断（共5小题，计10分）46—50 FFFFT第二节阅读选择（共5小题，计10分）51—55 CBBBA第三节阅读选择（共5小题，计10分）56—60 BBBAC第四节阅读摘录（共5小题，计10分）61. The price 62. warm 63. Harbin 64. 230 65. rain or snowⅣ写作技能。

（共三节，计35分）第一节阅读简答根据短文内容，回答下列问题。

（10分）66. How important is keeping healthy to you? 67. Yes, he does. 68. No, she doesn’t.69. Tony 70.Fruit and vegetables.第二节双向翻译阅读下面的短文，请根据上下文内容，将文中划线部分译成汉语或者英语。

（共5小题，计10分）71. 我认为中国是一个非常有趣的国家。

72. My birthday is in November.73.I can speak English and a little French.74. 我喜欢跟朋友一起去看电影。

75. 我在学校最喜欢的科目是体育。

第三节书面表达（15分）略九年级英语试题卷第1页共1页。

Unit 2English around the worldⅠ.单项填空1．I haven't seen Sara since she was a little girl，and she has changed beyond______. A．hearing B．strengthD．measureC．recognition解析句意：自从Sara还是孩子的时候，我就一直没见过她。

她现在已经变得(让人)认不出来了。

beyond recognition—impossible to recognize无法辨认。

答案C2．Drunk driving，which was once a________occurrence，is now under control. A．general B．frequentD ．C．normal particular解析句意：酒后驾车，在过去曾是经常发生的事，现在已得到了控制。

本题考查形容词辨析。

general一般的，普通的；frequent时常发生的；normal正常的，标准的；particular特别的，独有的。

答案B3．You've failed to do what you________to and I'm afraid the teacher will blame you. A．will expect B．will be expectedD expected ．were e xpectedC．解析句意：你没有按照预期的要求去做，恐怕老师会责怪你。

本题考查动词的时态和语态。

由句意可知you和expect之间是被动关系，故A、C两项被排除；结合句子前后的两个时态可知设空处使用将来时不合适，B也被排除。

答案D4．The old man asked Lucy to move to another chair________he wanted to sit next to his wife.A．although B．unless C．because D．if解析句意：那位老人请Lucy换坐另一把椅子，因为他想挨着他妻子坐。

课时作业(五)　[模块2　Unit 2 Wish you were here](限时：30分钟)Ⅰ.单项填空1．On walking out of the airport, she soon found herself ________ by hundreds of her fans.A．surrounding B．surroundC．surrounded D．to be surrounding2．All the viewers were deeply touched by Jay Chou's performance ________ they attended his concert.A．the first time B．for the first timeC．at the first time D．at first3．It is generally believed that there is ________ good supply of fresh water. But to our disappointment, the fact is just ________ opposite.A．a; the B．/; theC．/; / D．a; /4．He was about to tell me the secret ________ someone patted him on the shoulder.A．as B．until C．while D．when5．Just in front of the temple ________with a history of 1，000 years.A．a tall tree stands B．a tall tree is standingC．does a tall tree stand D．stands a tall tree6．As a young man，he didn't know that he ________ famous later on.A．was to become B．will becomeC．had become D．became7．________is mentioned above，the number of the students in senior high schools is increasing.A．Which B．As C．That D．It8．—Do you think we should accept that offer?—Yes，we should，for we ________such bad luck up till now，and time ________out.A．have had; is running B．had; is runningC．have; has been run D．have had; has been run9．—It was really very kind of you to give me a lift home.—Oh，don't mention it.I ________past your house anyway.A．was coming B．will comeC．had come D．have come10．Isn't it lovely to think that I ________myself on the sunny beach at this time tomorrow?A．will enjoy B．am enjoyingC．will be enjoying D．shall enjoy11．I really admire how ________ she is to ________ the rights and dignity(尊严) of women.A. devoted; defending B．devoting; defendC．devoted; defend D．devoting; defending12．With so many people ________ in the mine，none of the rescue workers would stop to have a rest.A．being buried B．to buryC．buried D．to be buried13．________ tomorrow，our ship will set sail for Macao.A．However the weather is likeB．However is the weather likeC．Whatever is the weather likeD．Whatever the weather is like14．We are all fond of ________，and the trip to Tibet is really ________．A．adventures; an adventureB．adventure; adventureC．an adventure; adventureD．adventure; an adventure15．You'd better take something to read when you go to see the doctor ________ you have to wait.A．even if B．in caseC．as if D．in order thatⅡ.阅读理解A class with hundreds of thousands of students might sound like a teacher's bad dream. But aA．is mainly for students from American universitiesB．is offered by two scientists from the same universityC．can be taken only by those excellent college studentsD．is a free course that is provided on the Internet18．According to the passage, the students who attend the course “Building a Computer Search Engine” ________．A．will have got to take an informal quiz every dayB．learn mainly by watching short videos on the InternetC．can ask the teachers any question about the course any time on the InternetD．will get a grade and proof of completion if they do well in the final examination19．The underlined word “democratize”in the last paragraph probably means ________．A．improve B．increaseC．popularize D．change20．What is the best title for the passage?A．Getting a free education, in huge online classesB．Joining Udacity, which supports free online coursesC．Attending an online course to study computerD．Enjoying online education, which is more popularⅢ.任务型阅读请认真阅读下列短文，并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。

高中英语真题:2014高考英语课外训练（11）及答案【重庆市外国语学校】第一节：短文改错（共10小题；每小题1分，共10分）以下标有题号的每一行均有一个错误，请找出，并按下列情况改正：此行多一词：把多余的词用斜线（＼）划掉，在该行右边横线上写出该词，并也用斜线划掉。

此行缺一词：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（︿），在该行右边横线上写出该加的词。

此行错一词：在错词的下面划一横线，在该行右边横线上写出改正后的词。

At a Friday night, a poor young artist stood at the gate of the 76._____subway station and played his violin with large piece of paper o n 77._____the ground．Before long , he was surrounding with people, who78._____were all attracted by the word on that paper. It said,“ last night, 79______a gentleman put an important thing into my hat by mistaken. Ple ase 80._____come to claim it soon.” Seeing this , people wondered why it co uld 81.____be. After about half an hour, a man came and brought 82______back his lottery(彩票)which won a reward of ＄500,000. Later someone asked the vio linist: 83._____“ Why don’t you take the lottery ticket for yourself? ”He said, 84._____“While I don’t have much money, I live happily. However , I lose85._____honesty, I won’t be happy forever.”短文改错：76.第一个at改为on 77.with后加a 78.surrouning改为surrounded79.word改为words80.mistaken改为mistake 81.why改为what 82.brought改为took83.reward改为prize 84.don’t改为didn’t 85.if后加I短文改错Once upon a time there was a farmer worked hard in the fields 1.every day. One day, while he was ploughing the fields, he hear d a 2.bumping sound. He saw a rabbit lie by the trump. He picked it 3.up and found that it was a fat rabbit. He thought to him,“Since it 4.is so easy get a rabbit like that, why should I work so hard all da y 5.long?” He threw his hoe away and lay by the tree every day, dr eamed for 6.more rabbits to come. When he finally realized his foolish and r eturned 7.to his fields, he found that all his crops are dead. This story tells that 8.we should wait for unexpected gains by trusting to chance and l uck. 9.Or, we should not hope to get reward without hard work.10.答案及解析1. worked 前面加who，这里因该是who引导的定语从句修饰前面的farmer2. 正确3. lie 改为lying4. him 改为 himself5. get前面加to ，这里用不定式做真正的主语6. dreamed 改为dreaming ，用动名词做伴随状语7. foolish 改为foolishness8. are 改为were ，时态要前后一致9. should 后面加not10. reward 改为rewards短文改错----1My cousin Xiao Hong and I went on trip to my uncle’s 76. _ ____________last Sunday. We were riding along a hillside then suddenly 7 7. _____________some big stones were rolled down and knocked us off our bikes . 78. _________Xiao Hong’s legs got serious hurt and so did mine. We 79. ___ __________couldn’t move a bit. Fortunately, I saw some farmers ahead.80. ____________Waving our hand, we cried for help like crazy. On hearing 8 1. ____________us, they run to the spot as fast as they could. Thanks to 82_ __________their help, we were all sent to a nearby hospital and received 83. ____________medical treatment in time. Although we do not know about their 84. ________names, we fell they like our dear big brothers and sisters. 8 5. _______【参考答案】76.on︿ a 77. then →when 78 were去掉79 serious → seriously 80.正确 81. hand→hands82.run→ran83.all→both 84.about 去掉 85.they︿are(郑州质检)We all know that healthy is very important to us. Both1.________study and work depend by strong bodies. Doing sports2.______ __and games helps us keep strong and healthy. If we do not3.___ _____take any exercise, we may feel tired but get sick easily.4.________There's many different kinds of sports we can do them，5.________such as playing ball games, running, walking and swim.6.________However, now we have too much homework to do in7.________ every day. We hope that we'll be giving less homework8.______ __and have more time take part in sports. We also hope9._______ _that our schoolcan hold a sports meeting every term. 10.________答案与解析：1．healthy→health这里是句子的主语，因此用名词形式。

2014年中考英语试题⼆及答案（含答题卡）2014年中考英语模拟试题（⼆）第⼀部分听⼒（20分）Part OneChoose the right picture according to the sentences you hear..1._______2.________3.________4.________5.__________Part TwoChoose the best response according to the sentence you hear.( )6 . A. Not bad. B You’re welcome. C. Not at all.( )7 .A. Yes, there are. B. It is fine..C. Because of the beautiful scene.( )8. A. On Monday. B. Disneyland. C .Rainy.( )9. A. Terrible B. OK. C. It doesn’t matter.( )10. I’m not. B. I will. C. I don’t.Part ThreeChoose the right answer according to the dialogue you hear.( )11.A. Five o’clock. B. Eight o’clockC .About seven o’clock.( )12 .A . Lily B. Ann C .Lucy( )13. A. Her mother is ill. B. His mother is ill.C. Lucy is ill.( )14 A . A week B. Once a week. C. Over a week.( )15 A. Black B. Blue C. BrownPart FourWrite “T” for true and “F” for false according to the passage you hear. ( )16 I went surfing last summer. ( )17 One of my family members was ill. ( )18 A boy called her mum for help.( )19 They brought a tent with them.( )20.The boy drank some water.第⼆部分笔试（100分）第⼀节选择题I---IV（50分）I单项选择（20分）( )21 Each of them ____ a pair of sports shoes.A was givingB has givenC will giveD was given( )22 Where’s your mother?She __________ Shanghai.A has gone toB has been toC goes toD is going to( )23 I want to tell you _______.A. something interesting B interesting somethingC anything interestingD interesting anything( )24 The teacher said that light _______ faster than sound.A .travelledB . travellingC .travells D. travels( )25.Beijing has got _____ population of more than /doc/e1f2ec2c5f0e7cd18525361b.html lion.A theB aC .an D./( )26.I don’t like those big cities which have got _____ people and _____ traffic.A too much; too manyB . many too; too muchC too many; too much D. too many; much too( )27.There’s a boy in our class _____ parents are both teachers.A .whoB .whoseC .he D. his( )28 He is ______ to carry the heavy box.A strongB enough strongC stronglyD strong enough( )29 Doing exercise is the best way _____ keep healthy.A ofB onC forD to( )30---Could you tell me ________?---Glad to help.A if I have been to the Great Wall B. where did he studyC. how I can get to the station D what’s your name.( )31.I heard ______ interesting news yesterday.A such aB a such C. such D such an( )32 About 200 _______ have been sold.A million copyB million copiesC millions copyD millions copies ( )33 ______ you read, ______ you’ll feel in J.K Rowling’s books.A More; more interesting B. The more; the more interestingC. More; the more interestedD. The more; the more interested ( )34 The number of the visitors _______ growing ______ .A .are ; more and more B. is ;larger and largerC. are; larger and largerD. is ;;more and more( )35.---I usually have milk and bread for breakfast.---__________.A. So have IB. So do IC. So I haveD. So I do( )36.The cake looks good, but when I eat it ,it _____terrible.A .smells B. sounds C. looks D. tastes( )37. Thousands of trees over the mountains ______ by the farmers last year.A. planted B was planted C. were planted D will plant( )38.The boys are playing basketball instead of _____ volleyball.A .playing B. play C. playing the D. to play( )39.I prefer to stay at home ______ out in winter.A rather than to goB rather than goC than goD rather go ( )40.We won’t have our sports meeting if it _______tomorrow.A .rainsB .will rain C. rain D. has rainedII补全对话（5分）B: Thank you. You watched the match , didn’t you?A: Of course.B: It wasn’t easy to win the match.41______ .A: But your team is even stronger.B: We must thank our PE teacher. He kept telling us to remember teamwork. 42________ A: Yes, I agree. Teamwork is very important in playing football. 43_______. B: Tha t’s true.A: I hear the No,.2 Middle School team is playing against the No. 3 Middle School team. Let’s go and watch it.B: 44____________A: 45_____________III.完形填空（10分）请先阅读下⾯短⽂，掌握其⼤意，然后从各⼩题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出可以填⼊相应空⽩处的最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂⿊。

2014高考英语阅读理解抓分训练精品（30）及答案阅读理解-———EI promised Michael I wouldn’t mention this until the season was over．Now l think it's time．Early last season, I wrote a column about an art of kindness I had seen Jordan do to a disabled child outside the stadium．After it ran,I got a call from a marl in the western suburbs．He said,“I read what you wrote about Jordan．but I thought I should tell you another thing I saw．”Here it comes，I thought。

It always does. Write something nice about a person，and people call you up to say that the person is not so nice。

A few weeks later Jordan and I were talking about something else before a game，and I brought up what the man had said。

Was the man right？Had Jordan really been talking to those two boys in that poor and dirty .neighborhood?”Not two boys,” Jordan said。

”But four。

"And he named them. He said four names. And what did they talk about？"Everything，" Jordan said。