江苏省苏州高新区中考二模英语试卷

Last month I travelled across the Sahara Desert by          camel with some locals. What      amazing experience!

—Who taught ________ to write the computer programs?
—Nobody. She learned it by __________.

—I saw you come to school by bus this morning.
—Oh, I _______ come to school by bus, but it is raining today.

It is bad ________ for a man to smoke in public places where smoking is not allowed.

How nervous we are ________ the coming high school entrance exams _______ June 15th！

About          of the workers in the factory were born in the         .

Now, young people          chat online          talk with each other face to face.

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

—How would you like your coffee, sir?
—________. It’s my favourite.

— What do you think of the play?
— Oh, It’s the __________ one I have ever seen. I nearly fell asleep!

— Could we practice playing the guitar in the hall, Sir ?                  
—No , ___________ you have the principal’s (校长) note.        

It’s nice ___________him to treat _________ many children kindly.

—Which of these two sports sweaters will you take?
—I’ll take            . I will choose another one.

In the UK, a woman usually doesn’t like to be asked ___________.

—Sir, would you mind my sitting next to you?
—__________. My father will sit here in a minute.

Once I spoke at a high school. After the speech, the principal asked me to see a special student. An           had kept the boy home, but he had expressed an interest in meeting me, and it would mean a great deal to him. I agreed.
He was Matthew.           he was born, the doctor told his parents that he would not live to see five, then they were told             would not make it to ten. Now he was thirteen. He wanted to meet me because I was a gold-medal weight lifter.
I spent over an hour talking to Matthew. He spoke about             and succeeding and seeking（追寻）his dreams.
When we finished talking, I went to my          and pulled out the first gold medal I won and put it around his neck. I told him he was more of a winner and knew more about                      and overcoming obstacles（克服障碍）than I ever would. He looked at it for a while, then took it off and handed it           to me. He said, “You are a champion. You earned that medal. Someday when I get to the Olympics and win my own medal, I will show it to you.”
Last summer I got the news that Matthew had          and a letter Matthew had written to me a few days before:
Dear Rick,
My mom said I should send you a thank-you letter. The doctors are          to tell me that I don't have long to live any more. But I still smile as much as I can.
I told you that in the future I was going to the Olympics and win a gold medal. But I know now I'll          . I know I'm a champion, and God knows that too. When I get to Heaven, God will give me my medal and when you get there, I will show it to you.
Thank you for loving me.
Your friend
Matthew

A．excuse B．effect C．operation D．illness

A．While B．When C．Although D．Because

A．they B．he C．she D．him

A．winning B．teaching C．playing D．working

A．home B．desk C．classroom D．bag

A．failure B．success C．luck D．smile

A．around B．in C．back D．down

A．went away B．passed away C．stayed away D．moved away

A．surprised B．brave C．sorry D．happy

A．never B．ever C．often D．seldom

Flat A：Lovely double bedroom with own store space in the house, garden, garage(车库)and parking space. 5 minutes to the library,18 minutes to the bank. TV broadband available.
115 pounds per week including all the bills. Four weeks rent(租金)，four weeks deposit(押金)required．
Tel：07912100237
Flat B：A double room available to rent at￡420 per month in a 2-bedroom new apartment located in London. It’s ideal for students (5 minutes to University of Greenwich, Avery Hill campus) and professional people for short term. 2 minutes walk to the train station and local town centre. There are fast trains to London Bridge(15 minutes)and Cambridge Cross Station(20 minutes)in London.
There are public buses to Cambridge, Greenwich etc.
Features: entrance hall, modem kitchen and bathroom, living room and parking space.
Tel: 17912100273
Flat C：Shared flats available for rent, weekly￡80 including breakfast and dinner；daily￡20 including breakfast. Wireless(无线) Internet is provided for free. Central location in London, ideal for holiday makers and students．
Tel: 0791 2305237
If you are a student of University of Greenwich, which flat would you better rent?

Which flat is best suitable for web addicts(网虫)?

If you want to rent flat A, which number can you dial to see the house?

On March 31, 2013, the Centre for Health Protection (CHP) of the Department of Health of Hong Kong and the Chinese National Health and Family Planning Commission notified(通知) the World Health Organization of three confirmed human cases of influenza A (H7N9) in Shanghai and Anhui. On April 2, the CHP confirmed four more cases in Jiangsu province.

The first reported death associated(与……有联系) with H7N9 was an 87-year-old man who died on March 4. A second man, Wu Liangliang, aged 27, died on March 10. On April 3, Chinese government reported another death, bringing the number to three. On April 4, the number of reported cases was 14, with 5 deaths. On April 6, 2013, the Chinese Ministry of Health reported 18 positive cases, death toll still at 6. Two days later, positive cases rose to 24 and one death case from Shanghai brought the death toll to 7.
The World Health Organization reiterated(重申) there was still no evidence of human-to-human transmission(传播) of the new strain of H7N9 bird flu.
The first person died of H7N9 on ______________.

On April 26, the number of reported cases was _________.

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao promised that the country would take actions to improve school bus safety on Sunday, a day after China saw its second terrible school bus accident in November, 2011.
“School buses should be safe mobile campuses(校园) for students,” the premier said at a national meeting on women and children, “Society(社会) should remember in mind that children should be the first to enjoy all kinds of social caring and the last ones to suffer from any disaster.”
School buses have become a hot topic in China since the deaths of 21 people, including 19 pre-school students, in a traffic accident between a truck and a school-owned minibus in Gansu province on Nov. 16, 2011. The nine-seat minibus was carrying 64 people at the time of the accident, according to the reports.
The second accident, in which a school bus in the northern province of Liaoning rolled over on Friday, left 35 people injured, according to China Daily.
“In recent days, a series of big accidents involving school buses has led to great anger among the people. These accidents have also made me uncomfortable,” said Mr Wang, an old teacher from Jiangsu. And he also thought that school bus safety must become a serious problem for schools and the government.
Premier Wen has already asked the government to develop new safety standard (标准) for school buses and made sure to help local government with safe buses for school-age children.
How many seats did the minibus in Gansu province have before it was turned into a school bus?

What does “roll over” mean in Paragraph 4?

How did Mr Wang feel when such accidents happened?

Which of the following sentences is Not True?

Without proper planning, tourism can cause problems. For example, too many tourists can crowd public places that are also enjoyed by the local people of a country. If tourists create too much traffic, the local people become unhappy. They begin to dislike tourists and to treat them impolitely. They forget how much tourism can help the country’s economy(经济). It is important to think about the people of a destination country and how tourism affects them. Tourism should help a country keep the customs and beauty that attract tourists. Tourism should also advance(推进) the well-being (health and happiness) of local people.
Too much tourism can be a problem. If tourism grows too quickly, people must leave other jobs to work in the tourism industry. This means that other parts of the country’s economy can suffer.
On the other hand, if there is not enough tourism, people can lose jobs. Businesses can also lose money. It costs a lot of money to build large hotels, airports, air terminals, first-class roads and other support facilities needed by tourist attractions. For example, a major international-class tourism hotel can cost as much as 50 thousand dollars per room to build. If this room is not used most of the time, the owners of the hotel will lose money.
Building a hotel is just a beginning. There must be many support facilities as well, including roads to get to the hotel, electricity, sewers to handle waste, and water. All of these support facilities cost money. If they are not used because there are not enough tourists, jobs and money are lost.
What is probably the reason if local people dislike tourists?

What can we do to solve the problems caused by tourism?

If tourism grows too quickly, ___________.

Support facilities needed by tourist attractions includes ___________.
①public places ②hotels ③airports ④roads ⑤electricity  ⑥sewers  

If the writer wants to add Paragraph 5 to the passage, he may tell us ________.

单词拼写，写出该单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。
Ice turns into water when the temperature is           0℃. (超过)
Nothing  __________（担忧）me because I can relax myself.
The suspect is much __________(粗鲁) than we thought.
Lots of people in the city live in ____________.(套房)
I live on the           (第二十一) floor of a tall building in the centre of the city.
They kept working in the field though it rained ___________ (猛烈地).
I'll never _________(忘记) seeing my daughter dance in public for the first time.
—— I’m going to buy some new dresses, because these old ones are out of __________.
—— Oh, dear. I will go with you this afternoon.
——The Dragon Boat __________ is very important is China.
—— That’s right. And we will eat rice dumplings.
——My ideal school should begin at 9 a.m and _________ at 3p.m.

句子翻译 (共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分) 
我们都知道2月是一年中最短的月份。
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当我们到的时候，医生正在给他的腿动手术。
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下了如此大的雪以至于地面被雪覆盖了。
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她已经厌倦了什么？
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把孩子独自留在家里是很危险的。
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下面的柱状图 (bar chart) 显示了不同年龄段孩子与父母谈心的情况。

Time spent in talking with parents
(平均每周花费的时间)
（年龄组）
根据上图信息，请以“Heart-to-Heart Talks with Parents”为题，用英语写一篇90词左右的短文。要求如下：
1．简要描述图中信息；
2．说明原因，如：忙于学习或工作、由于代沟 (generation gap) 而缺少共同话题……；
3．谈谈你的看法。
注意：文章的标题和开头已给出 (不计入总词数)。
Heart-to-Heart Talks with Parents
As is shown in the bar chart,