[江苏]2013年初中毕业升学考试（江苏盐城卷）英语

The house is very nice. Has it got ________ garden?

—Do you have any _______ ?
—Yes, I like chess and drama best.

It is reported that a lot of adults take lessons online _______　further education.

—Are you in a hurry?
—No, I’ve got plenty of time. I _______ wait.

Now the number of Chinese people working in Africa _________ more than one million.

—Does your English teacher chat with you on QQ?
—Yes, sometimes. It’s _______ we enjoy doing at weekends.

There isn’t an airport near where I live. The _______ one is about 90 miles away.

—Was Kate at the party last night?
—Yes, she ________ a really nice dress.

People in Yancheng are proud of ________ they have achieved in the past thirty years.

David Burt’s dream in China is to go into the west and ______ an early childhood school there.

Last winter it was very cold and ________ was a lot of snow in the north.

Many children in Britain _______ to have their own bank cards these days.

I thought the actor was famous, _________ none of my friends has ever heard of him.

Learning to write is learning to think. You don’t know things clearly _______ you can write them down.

—Thanks for taking my friends and me out tonight.
—_________.

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
When I was nine years old, I used to go to the post office with my mother, sending greeting cards to my aunt in Singapore. To me, these trips were really   16   memories. And receiving mail through a mailbox outside our gate was just as exciting. My small hands could   17   get the mail without using a key! I always couldn’t wait to see how much I was   18   . Oh, a letter! From Singapore! I would run back home and show it to my   19   . When there was a letter for me, I wouldn’t run—I would open it right there.
After my family moved back to Singapore, I    20   going to the post office. Years later, my company sent me to Shanghai, and the post office found me again. Two years ago I celebrated my 21   with five friends on top of the mountain in Longsheng, China. At sunrise we   22   up to a beautiful view from the mountain top. Later in the afternoon, as we were going   23   the mountain and returning from the sunrise viewing place, a    24    shop caught our attention. It only sold noodles, coffee and had a China    25   sign.
We asked the owner if she could really send mail. She happily said yes. It seemed hard to believe,   26   we were at the highest top of the mountain. I picked one postcard out and asked my friends to write   27    a birthday note. We bought a stamp, wrote some notes and gave the shop owner the postcard.
Three weeks later, I arrived home and   28   my mailbox: Hello, postcard! I broke into a big smile.
That birthday postcard attracted me again to the post office and all its delights. I had   29  the post office all these years. Today I   30   send postcards to friends. And every time I am at the post office buying stamps, I cannot help but smile—how one postcard will make its way across the world and brighten up someone’s day.

A．bad B．poor C．good D．short

A．easily B．simply C．hardly D．specially

A．weighing B．getting C．selecting D．accepting

A．friend B．aunt C．mother D．owner

A．enjoyed B．stopped C．hated D．considered

A．wedding B．return C．success D．birthday

A．broke B．woke C．grew D．stood

A．around B．over C．up D．down

A．cold B．dirty C．small D．modern

A．Traffic B．Life C．Police D．Post

A．because B．though C．while D．when

A．him B．me C．her D．them

A．bought B．repaired C．painted D．opened

A．missed B．influenced C．studied D．visited

A．just B．seldom C．still D．never

Where can you probably find the passage？

The underlined word “prediction” probably means ____________.

In the Review Units you can _________.

Every year many young people leave school for a few weeks or months and enjoy an unusual type of educational program. They learn new skills by living in a different country and doing unusual jobs. There are several organizations. They help students to find the experience they are looking for. The table below shows a few possibilities for students.

One interesting possibility is helping elephants in Thailand. Most people think o elephants as animals in zoos. In fact, many elephants in Thailand are no longer kept in cages. Now, hundreds of them are homeless. They don’t have owners to care for them. Although they may look well, they are often in poor health and don’t have enough to eat.
One centre in Thailand cares for these elephants. It gives them a safe and natural living space. When they  are at the centre, they stay in a building but are free to walk around. Students come from all over the world to help here. The student helpers work with the elephant keepers. These keepers train the students in caring for the elephants. In the morning, they go to the forest together and lead the elephants to the centre. They clean them and give them food. In the afternoon, they take the animals back into the forest for the night. Helping at the center is interesting and the young people learn a lot.
Which country can you choose if you want to prepare yourself for a medical career?

Which job might be suitable for the students who love children and arts?

What does the underlined word “they” in the last paragraph probably refer to?

What does the writer think of the unusual educational program?

The Beijing Underground’s Line Ten will soon have 40 “reverse vending machines（有偿自动回收机）”,which will pay people for their empty plastic bottles.
“We have placed two such machines at Beijing Capital International Airport and four at the city’s underground stations. They have been well received so far,” said Feng Juan, an engineer from the company which makes the machines. “People are encouraged and paid for turning waste into treasure. More than 30,000 empty bottles have been collected since December,” she said.
If something else, such as waste paper, is thrown into the machine, the machine will spit(吐) it out.
“Supported by the government, the reverse vending machines will be introduced to colleges and universities soon,” Feng said.
The company is also considering covering more recycling materials, including used books and teaching materials.
“Long-term plans call for about 2,000 reverse vending machines to be place throughout the city in the next few years, including 80 at colleges and universities, shopping malls, communities and office buildings,” Feng said.
Chang Tao, director of the company, said that if the new project works well in the city, the company will consider offering the waste-to-treasure service to other developed cities in the eastern part of China.
At present reverse vending machines are used at __________.

Which sign probably represents the meaning of the underlined word “recycling”?

Which of the following is an opinion rather than a fact?

Which of the following might be the best title for the passage?

Arthur sat at the desk in his room, pencil in hand. He had to write a story for his English class by Friday. “I don’t know what to write about,” he complained to his dog Toby, who was asleep at his feet. Arthur was talkative when speaking to his friends, yet he had trouble finding words when he had to write.
By bedtime Arthur had drawn a picture of Toby smiling. He had drawn a tree with its branches blowing in the strong wind. He had also written a note asking his friend Lee to go to the movies on Saturday. But he had not written a single word of his story.
On Wednesday, Mrs. Solomon, Arthur’s English teacher, asked the class to turn in the first draft of their stories. His heart sinking, Arthur turned in the only work he had—the page with his name, the drawings and the note.
Arthur wasn’t surprised when Mrs. Solomon asked him to stay after class the next day. But he was surprised by what she said to him. “This is an attractive story, Arthur. The dog, the movie, the tree in the wind—I can’t wait to find out how they all fit together.”
“That isn’t my story, Mrs. Solomon,” Arthur admitted. “I haven’t been able to think of one yet.”
“Oh, I think you have the seed(种子of a story there,” Mrs. Solomon replied, “Look at your note and the pictures and see if a story comes to you.”
That night Arthur sat at his desk, and this is what he wrote: “One Saturday Mike went downstairs to meet his friend Julio at the cinema. It looked as if it might rain, so Mike carried his umbrella. Suddenly a big storm blew in, bending the trees. The noise of the wind sounded like the barking of Mike’s dog Toby. Toby really hated storms and barked whenever he wanted to be let inside. Then Mike realized that it wasn’t the sound of the wind. It was Toby. The dog was running after him down the busy street, barking. The sound was filled with blame. Mike felt guilty because he had left Toby outside. He turned and headed home with Toby running beside him. Mike let Toby in the door just as the rain started to pour down.”
Arthur had a story in the end. The last thing he did was to write his name proudly at the top of the page.
Why did Arthur turn in the page with only his name, the drawings and the note at first?

What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 6 probably mean?

What kind of teacher do you think Mrs. Solomon is ?

What can we infer(推断from the story?

任务型阅读（共10小题，每小题1分，计10分）
Have you ever wondered what an American high school is really like? This article will describe a typical (典型的) high school and its students.
A typical American high school has several large buildings and enough space for about 1,500 students. Every student is given a locker. When students first arrive at school, they go straight to their lockers to put away or get their textbooks and to hang up their outdoor clothes. As American textbooks are expensive, students would rather loan(租借) than buy them. Students must pay back if they lost any of them.
American students have different types of school transport. They usually take a yellow school bus or walk to school if they live close enough. Sometimes their parents drive them to school. When they turn 16 years of age, most take a free driving class at school for one term. If students earn passing grades in the class and also pass their state driver’s exam, they can begin driving themselves to school.
Each day, students take six or seven classes. They must take science, math, English and social studies. They can choose art, homemaking, fashion design and other classes. In some schools students are required to take one or more of the following special classes: health education, physical education or foreign language studies. Students move to different classrooms for each subject. This is because each teacher has their own classroom. There is a five-minute break between classes, to give the students the time to hurry to their next class.
The regular school day usually ends early in the afternoon. After school more than half of the students are involved in after-school activities. These activities include sports-especially football, basketball, baseball and soccer or clubs, such as yearbook, speech, school newspaper, photograph or student government.
Title:          in an American High School

Outline	Details
Introduction	◇It gives an overview of a typical American high school and its     .
Lockers and textbooks	◇Every student has a locker for textbooks and     clothes. ◇They prefer loaning textbooks to      them.
transport	◇Students usually go to school by bus or on foot. Sometimes their     send them to school by car. ◇They can      themselves to school when they are over 16 and have passed the required tests.
Classes and classrooms	◇Students have to take main classes, elective classes and sometimes one or more        classes. ◇They go to      classrooms for each subject.
After-school activities	◇After school most of the students take     in their faviourite activities, including sports and clubs.

根据句意和汉语提示写出单词，完成句子。每空一词。
I plan to go on a trip in _______________ (七月).
After the whole day’s voluntary work, I felt fine ____________(除之外) for being a little tired.
The show I’m a singer helps audience rediscover many good _____________(嗓音).
To keep fit, we should have more vegetables and fruit _____________(代替) of too much meat.
The world is _______(充满) of chances, and we must make a quick decision when we meet one.

根据句意用所给单词的适当形式填空。每空一词。
World Environment Day is on the _________________(five) of June.
What a ____________(sun) day! Let’s go hiking.
China became the second _____________(large) movie market in the world, behind the US.
We often ask _____________(us) how we can do more for our country.
What do you think is the greatest ______________(invent) of the twentieth century?

根据句意，用所给动词的适当形式填空。
Lost in Thailand is a Chinese comedy______________(direct) by Xu Zheng.
—Is your father at home?
—No, I’m afraid he ____________(go) out.
Have you heard that some people ______________(send) to Mars in a few years?
This story tells us a lesson—the early bird _____________(catch) the worm.
Guo Chuan is the first Chinese ______________(realize) the dream of sailing around the world.

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。
My family went to a restaurant for dinner one night. When we were walking to the restaurant from our car, a girl about my age and her mother c        towards us. They asked if we had any m         .My mom asked where they were l       . The girl said there were six of them staying in an o       black car. My mom gave them a few dollars. Then she sent me inside the restaurant w       my dad and my three sisters. H      ,my mom didn’t come. Later, I found out that she had gone h       and put all the food in our cupboard into a few bags. Then she brought that food over to the car and gave the bags to the poor f     . I wasn’t there when that part happened, yet I can i       the joy on their faces. After painting this picture in my mind, I understood w      my mom had done what she did that night. I will never forget this lesson in kindness from my mom.

根据所给提示完成下列句子。
让我们尽最大的努力来帮助贫困地区的孩子们。
Let’s __________________________________________ the children in poor areas.
你去过盐城科技博物馆多少次了？
_________________________________ Yancheng Science and Technology Museum?
要想更好地了解世界，我们有必要学好英语。
It is necessary______________________________ to know more about the world.
钟晶医生做着如此重要的工作，村民很感激她。
Doctor Zhong Jing is doing ____________________________ the villagers are grateful to her.
这部纪录片帮助人们近距离观察野生动物的生活。
This documentary helps people__________________________________.

假设你是江华，下周一你所在班级将举行英语课外阅读交流会。请根据以下提示，用英语写一篇短文，向同学们介绍The Famous Rabbit-Tortoise Race 这一故事。

Rabbit	win the second race be good at running
Tortoise	win the third race swim across the river
	take turns to put …on the back reach… together
What I have learned:…

 
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We all know that the rabbit lost the first race against the tortoise.