江苏省南京市高淳区中考一模英语试卷

________ TV drama You Who Came From the Stars tells a love story between a 400-year-old alien and ________ attractive human girl.

— Can I use your notebook computer this afternoon? ________ is under repair.
— No problem.

It is better to travel 10,000 miles than to read 10,000 books, so it’s important to have real ________ with languages, cultures and societies.
A. communication    B. experience           C, knowledge            D. influence

— Would you like to order the two robots?
— Yes, one is to help me with my homework, and ______ is for my mother to do housework.

Just like weather, life _________ be beautiful all the time.

— Sorry, I’m late. Has the film begun?
— It doesn’t matter. The film _________ for several minutes.

— Excuse me, will the plane for Beijing _________within an hour?
— I’m not sure. You can go to the Information Desk for help.

Most Brazilians get along well with each other, _________ they are from different races(种族), including Americans, European settlers, and Africans,.

— Could I have an interview with Mr Green now, please?
— Sorry, he _________ a meeting. You’d better wait a minute.

The football match was really fantastic, _________ when Smith scored in the last minute.

— It’s raining heavily outside.
— Indeed. I prefer ________ at home ________ on such a day.

— Is there a library in Gaochun?
— Yes, a new library _______ and is now open to the public.

— Can’t you act like a gentleman?
— ________. A gentleman can’t buy the nice and cheap things among such a group of crazy women.

— The light in his room is still on. Do you know _________?
— To prepare for the coming exam, I think.

— Excuse me, but can I sit here?
— _________. The man who sat here will be back soon.

A few years ago, I worked a 12-hour night shift(夜班) and got home from work.
I was on my way back home and was very tired. I       at a restaurant to have breakfast. Right after I placed my order, I saw a man come in. He was carrying a small backpack and looked like he had seen better times. He reached in his pocket and pulled out some     . He asked the waitress if 38 cents was        to buy a cup of coffee. She looked at his backpack and said, “    . Have a seat.” (Coffee was 50 cents a cup at the time.) It really touched me how she had tried to protect his pride and how he hadn’t asked for any charity.
Shortly before my       came, I asked the waitress to come over. I said, “You know, I am not feeling well. I don’t think I am going to be able to eat my breakfast. Do you think there is         here who might eat it?” She first asked if I was OK and then she      . She said, “I think so. Are you sure?” I told her that I was sure.
She then walked over to the gentleman and told him that I had ordered food and it was too      to stop the order but I didn’t feel like eating. Would he be so kind as to take it        they wouldn’t have to throw it away? I had walked to the cash register(收银台) and was paying for the meal. At the cash register, I asked if they had gift cards. They did. I bought one       $25.00 and asked them to give it to the gentleman after I left.

A．looked B．stood C．waited D．stopped

A．notes B．tickets C．change D．paper

A．enough B．short C．good D．able

A．Not really B．Never mind C．With pleasure D．Of course

A．menu B．food C．coffee D．bill

A．anyone B．everyone C．someone D．no one

A．accepted B．refused C．understood D．left

A．early B．late C．slow D．quick

A．because B．if C．so that D．unless

A．at B．for C．with D．by

Kitesurfing as a water sport began in the 1980s, but didn’t get popular until the end of lastcentury. It is also known as kiteboarding, and in some European countries as flysurfing. Kitesurfing works through wind power by using a large kite to pull a rider on the water at high speed.

At first, kitesurfing was a difficult and dangerous sport. Now it is becoming easier and safer because of the safer kite design. For an able and strong person, kitesurfing can be very fun, extremely exciting sport, just like skating on the water with a feeling of flying. It has become more and more popular.
Compared with other water sports, kitesurfing is easier to learn. A beginner can understand how to operate (操控) the kite with 5---10 hours of training. And anybody aged from 13 to 65 can learn. It’s not expensive to get the equipment (设备) for kitesurfing, which costs $2,500. The price of the training lessons is from $200 to $500 for two or three hours. With the development of its equipment progress, kitesurfing is becoming even safer. After some training, you can enjoy its excitement and challenging (挑战) feeling.
With the rising popularity of kitesurfing, most major seaside cities have kitesurfing clubs. In China, Xiamen is the only place that has the kitesurfing club.
Kitesurfing has a history of about _______ years.

_______ is mentioned in the passage as the power of kitesurfing.

Which of the following is TRUE?

The most important reason for the popularity of kitesurfing is that _________.

The main idea of this passage is about _________.

Life’s a long, long journey(旅程)” so we are told, and most of us would not set off on a journey, even a short one, without some idea of where we wanted to go. Yet many people travel on life’s journey with no sense of direction at all.
Setting personal goals can give your life a sense of direction. Goal setting is used by top sports players, successful business people and achievers in all fields. Before you set personal goals, think about what you want to achieve with your life.
Try to set goals in some of the following categories (类别).

To help make the process (过程) more manageable, divide your goals into smaller tasks. For example, if you want to reach a main goal in five years, set a three-year goal, a one-year goal, a three-month goal and a one-month goal. Then create a daily To-Do List of things that you should do today. When a goal is achieved, take the time to enjoy your success. This helps you build the self-confidence.
Remember, your goals can change as time goes on. But be sure your goals are things you hope to achieve, not what your parents, family or teachers want.
According to the passage, we set goals to ________.

What should you consider when you set a family goal?
A. The education you want to get           
B. The job to support your family.
C. The relationship with family members.   
D The time you’ll spend reaching your goal
What’s the best advice to achieve the main goal?

From the passage, we can learn that ________.

The best title for the passage is _________.

When US student Olivia Priedeman, 17, woke up one morning, she thought she had had a dream about making plans with a friend.
But it wasn’t a dream. Her phone showed that during the night, Priedeman had read a text message from her friend. She did it while she was fast asleep.
Reading and sending text messages while asleep—called “sleep texting”—is an unusual sleep behaviour, similar to sleepwalking. It’s also a growing concern(关心的事) among doctors: young people can’t live without their cell phones.
One in three teenagers sends more than 100 text messages a day, according to the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And at least four out of five teenagers said they sleep with their phone on or near their bed.
Elizabeth Dowdell, a professor at Villanova University in Pennsylvania, has studied sleeping texting. She said that having a phone nearby all night is a big part of the problem.
Andrew Stiehm, a sleep medicine expert with Allina Health in Minnesota, agrees. It’s possible for the part of the brain that controls motor skills (动作技能) to wake up, while the part of the brain that controls memory and judgment(判断) may be still asleep. That’s why some people can perform basic movements ---such as walking, talking, texting or even driving—while they’re sleeping. Some of Dowdell’s students said that they’re disturbed by their nighttime texting behavior. But because sleep texting is unconscious, it’s a difficult habit to break. Dowdell said she knows of some students who wear socks on their hands to keep themselves from texting.
Marjorie Hogan, a doctor at Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, suggests keeping all electronic devices(电子设备) outside the bedroom at certain times.  
What happened to Olivia Priedeman?

Which part the brain controls keeps awake while asleep?

What does the underlined word “unconscious” mean?

What does doctor Hogan suggest people who sleep text do?

We can learn from the passage that ________.

根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确。
The       (架子) in the library are full of different kinds of books.
The train was very        (拥挤的), and I had to stand all the way.
This morning a bus hit a car near our school.        (幸运地), no one was hurt in the accident.
Tomorrow is my father’s        (第四十) birthday and I will buy a gift for him.
The radio says some wild wolves have to        (袭击) villagers because of the loss of living areas.

根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。
The time is too short. It’s        (possible) for Daniel to finish this work.
Mother’s Day is coming. He’ll use what he has        (buy ) his mother a new dress.
Take care, children. Don’t hurt        (you) when you play football.
I’m surprised that Gavin is 50. I thought he was        (young), for he seems to be in his thirties.
Are you satisfied with these        (sing) performances in the opera?

根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的词或词组填空。

Every summer Carol travels a lot by herself and visits new places. Last August she had a       vacation, so she was on a tour of four countries in Europe. Europe was beautiful but her vacation wasn’t very nice. She was in each country only for three days. She visited too many museums and was always      . After her vacation she was tired and bored. This summer she is going to spend her vacation in a      way. She is going to travel to one country in Asia with friends and visit only one city. They will stay there for seven days and they are going to choose a city near the sea       they can go swimming and have picnics on the beach.     a happy journey it must be!

根据短文内容，完成表格。每空一词。
People have reported seeing a wild man-like creature in the Himalayas. They call it a Yeti. Each report produces similar descriptions of the creature. Yetis are said to be heavily built and hairy. People believe that it sometimes comes down from the mountains to attack villagers.
In 1998, an American mountain climber said that he saw a Yeti on the Chinese side of the Himalayas. ‘It walked like a human but it had thick black fur and was about six feet tall with huge shoulders, very long arms and large hands,’ he said.
Ten Chinese engineers also reported that they saw a Yeti in the Shennongjia National Forest Park in western Hubei Province. The engineers ran after the creature, which ran with amazing speed and strength.
In 1970, 1,089 footprints were discovered in the snow near Bossburg, Washington in the United States. Footprints are one of the few pieces of hard evidence supporting the existence (存在)of Yetis. These footprints are about 14 to 18 inches long, 5 to 9 inches wide and much larger than those of a human. Also, they are always deeper than footprints made right next to them by men.
Some scientists think that these footprints are not left by Yetis. They say that the footprints could have been made by bears or other animals. They have found that the sun often causes footprints in the snow to become larger. Some scientists even think that these footprints could have been made by people playing a joke.
Dr Krantz, a scientist from Washington State University, has studied reports of Yetis for many years. He believes that there are Yetis while studying the footprints. He says that this creature possibly lived in Asia some 3,000,000 years ago. It could have made its way to other parts of the world and lived on until today.

General descriptions  of Yetis	Heavily built with much      Coming down from the mountain to     villagers
Places where Yetis were seen	Himalayas ● They walked like a      ● They have thick black fur, huge shoulders, long arms and large hands
Shennongjia National Forest Park ● The Yeti was so      and fast that the engineers couldn’t catch up with it.
Bossburg, Washington in the USA ●     footprints were discovered: 14 or 18 inches long, 5 to 9 inches wide. ● They are   than those men made right next to them.
Scientists’   about whether there are Yetis	Yes ● Bears and other animals could have made them. ● The fingerprints became larger     of the sun. ● People could have made them for       a joke.
No ● It’s      that Yetis lived in Asia some 3,000,000 years ago. ● They could have traveled to other parts of the world and lived on until now.

根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词。
Many Chinese leaders are fond of ancient Chinese literature. Xi Jinping, who was b    in June 1953 in Beijing, was a graduate of Tsinghua University and j   the CPC in January 1974. When Xi Jinping was elected (选举) China’s president at the National People’s Congress in March last year, he talked about some of his ideas on h   to run a government. When he spoke, many Chinese people were pleasantly s     to find that Xi Jinping has good knowledge of Laozi and Daois. “Running a large country is like frying a small fish(治大国如烹小鲜),” he said at the meeting. It’s a quote from Tao Te Ching(《道德经》)，a book w    by Laozi over 1,200 years ago.
In fact, it was not the f    time Xi had quoted Laozi. Xi often referred to (参照) the beliefs of this great thinker when he worked a  a provincial governor(省长). 
Xi Jinping is not the o  leader who is interested in Laozi. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said in an i  with XinHua News Agency in October 2013, “He who conquers others is strong; he who conquers himself is might(胜人者有力，自胜者强). It was true 2,000 years ago, and it is s  true in the 21^st century.”

《中国汉字听写大会》的热播引起了人们对汉字书写的关注。假如你校将举办一次演讲比赛，请你以“传递书写文明，领略汉字之美”为主题写一篇演讲稿。内容必须包括：
1、分析汉字书写存在的问题和原因：书写能力下降；键盘的使用； 
2、表达汉字书写的重要性：提高书写意识；感受汉字之美；传承中华文化； 
3、提出提高汉字书写能力的方法：端正书写态度；开展书写竞赛。
参考词汇：中国汉字 Chinese characters 传递pass on 书写竞赛：writing competition
注意： 1．词数80左右，开头和结尾已为你写好（不计入总词数）；
2．语言通顺，意思连续，条理清楚，书写规范，可适当发挥；
3．词数80左右，开头和结尾已经给出，不计入总词数。
Boys and girls, have you ever experienced this moment? You pick up a pen and start to write something down, but you can’t remember what the characters (汉字) look like. 
                                                                           
                                                                           
                                                                           
By studying Chinese characters, a window to Chinese culture and history is open to you.