2011年广西省桂林市中考英语试卷

For years I wanted a flower garden. I’d spend hours   31   different things I could plant. I believe they would look nice together.
But then we had Mattew. And Marvin. And the twins, Alisa and Alan. And then Helen. Five children! I was too   32    raising them的grow a garden.
Money was tight（拮据）,as well as time. Often when my children were little, one of them would want something expensive. And I’d have to say, "Do you see a money tree outside? Money doesn’t    33    on trees, you know."
34   , all five got through high school and college（大学）and were off on their own. I started thinking again about having a garden. Then, one morning on Mother’s Day, I was working in my kitchen. Suddenly, I looked out of the window and there was a   35   tree, planted right in my garden. I thought it   36    be a weeping willow(垂柳),because I saw things    37    around on all its branches（树枝）.Then I put my  38    on and I couldn’t believe what I saw. There was a money tree in my garden!
I went outside to have a look. It was    39    ! There were dollar bills all over that tree. There was also a note in the tree. It    40    ,"We all love you, Mom."
A-talking about    B. thinking of     C. preparing for       D. looking after

A．tired B．careless C．busy D．poor

A．grow B．make C．come D．get

A．Clearly B．Naturally C．Certainly D．Finally

A．money B．new C．young D．tall

A．should B．can C．must D．need

A．blowing B．turning C．producing D．appearing

A．overcoat B．hat C．shoes D．glasses

A．strange B．true C．special D．perfect

A．says B．writes C．shows D．describes

"Spending as little as $5 a day on someone else can make you happier," the researchers from a team at the University（大学）of British Columbia and Harvard Business School reported.
Their experiments on 600 volunteers in the US showed people were feeling happier when they spent money on others.
The team asked their 600 volunteers about their income（收入），their daily costs, gifts for others and donations to charity. "No matter how much money each person made, those who spent money on others could get greater happiness than those who spent money only on themselves," Dunn said.
Dunn’s team also surveyed 16 workers at a company in Boston after they received an award of between $3,000 and $8,000. "Of course they felt happy after receiving the awards," they wrote in their report. "But when they gave the people in need $5, they were happier."
"The findings showed that as little as $5 could be enough to produce happiness on a whole day," Dunn said.
There were ______ people in all who took part in the experiments.

The underlined word "experiments" means ______ in Chinese.

What does the passage mainly tell us?

"Tom? Are you in bed yet?" called Mrs White. There was no answer. Mrs White put down her book and went to her 14-year-old son’s room. Tom was sitting in front of a bright computer screen on which a colourful dragon jumped and shouted.
"Oh, Tom! You’re still playing on that computer. You must stop now. It’s half past eleven. If you don’t go to bed soon, you’ll be very tired tomorrow," said Mrs White.
"But I’ve nearly beaten the dragon," said Tom. Mrs White could see the excitement on her son’s face. She sat down beside him.
"You are always playing on that computer. You spend more time with this machine than with your family," she said with a smile. "What’s special about it? Show me what it can do!"
"I think this is a great computer, Mum!" he said happily. "The hardware (硬件) is good. There’s so much memory and it has some wonderful software programs. This game, ’Dragon Player’, is my favourite, but I sometimes borrow games from Daniel and other friends. I don’t have to worry about any infected（感染） disks because I have a virus（病毒） detector (探测器) which can go over any disk and check it for viruses. Let me show you!" Tom began tapping. The screen changed in answer to his orders.
"Oh, Tom," laughed Mrs White. "I’m sure it’s a wonderful computer, but I’m afraid I don’t know what you’re talking about."
When Mrs White was calling Tom, he was ______.

Tom was excited because ______.

What do we know about Mrs White?

We moved to a new area when our son was in Grade Five. Before we moved, we took him to spend half a day at his new school. There he saw his new classmates and teachers. He enjoyed the visit. During the almost 150-kilometre drive home, he told us that he had told some of the students the dace when we would move there. And he had also invited them to visit us.
The moving day, a Saturday, was a busy day. We arrived at our new house at noon. About an hour later, kids began to come and soon one of them invited our son to his house to play for the afternoon.
By the time he returned, he knew where most of the kids lived and the histories of their families.
On Monday morning, the doorbell rang just before the time he would leave for school. Then it rang again and again.
By the time he was ready, we had eight young boys waiting to walk to school with him on his first day. They all live near us.
I asked them if their parents had sent them. The answers surprised and pleased me, "No, we just came so that he would have someone to walk with." and "It is the right thing to do."
The friendships were formed(形成) from that day. We have lived here for nearly six years and the same group of kids still play together, go to parties on weekends together, and surfing the Internet together.
I am still thinking how welcoming and kind those kids are. And how lucky my son is to have them as friends.
Before the family moved to the new area, the son was taken to his new school to ______.

Why did the doorbell ring again and again on Monday morning?

Which of the following is true?

The passage shows us that ______.

根据首字母或汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。
That house hidden a  ▲  the trees is my grandma’s.
It’s amazing m  ▲  are not afraid of cats now.
Air pollution has    ▲ （影响）a lot of people’s health.
I look much    ▲ （难看的）in the photo.
The policeman is    ▲ （控制）the traffic at the crossing.

选用方框内的单词，并在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。

After three years of    ▲ , she left her husband at last.
Mobile phones are    ▲  used around the world now.
We should try our best to help the    ▲  people.
Computers are really one of the greatest    ▲ .
 ▲  exchange is a way of building a bridge between nations.

根据上句，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出一个语法上及语义上都正确的单词。
My car needs to be repaired.
My car needs    ▲ .
Pets are not easy to keep.
   ▲     ▲  to keep pets.
Do you mind if I sit here?
Do you mind    ▲     ▲  here?
When will the charity show take place?
When will the charity show    ▲     ▲ ？
He’s strong enough to carry the box.
He is    ▲     ▲  that he    ▲  carry the box..

将下列句子译成英语，并将所译句子写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。
请注意你的书写。
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我为有像你这样的儿子而骄傲。
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他的父母负担不起他的教育。
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他不习惯被别人照顾。
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女孩子晚上一个人出去是危险的。
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请根据以下内容，写一篇日记。
昨天你因为父母没有给你买新的耐克(Nike)运动鞋而生他们的气。今天上午，他们带你去当地的一所孤儿院（orphanage）。当你看到那些孩子们玩着旧的玩具，用着旧的学习用品，但他们很快乐，学习也很努力时，你意识到自己错了。于是你对父母说……
注意：1．词数80左右。日记的开头已为你写好，不计入总词数；
2．日记须包括所有要点，不要逐词翻译，可适当发挥，使短文连贯、通顺：
June 19, 2011 Sunday  Fine
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－Do you hear there was _______ fire in the shopping mall last night?
－ Yes. I never thought _______ fire can be so terrible.

－ Take one more pen. If your pen doesn’t work during the exam, you can use the other one.
－ OK, Mum. You are always_______.

The boy learns everything quickly because he has a good _______.

－ Does the MP4 0n the desk belong to_______?
－ No, it is _______.

_______ boys in my class can ski but _______ of them can do as well as Jim does.

－ Look! Mrs Green is wearing a black dress today.
－ I think she _______ wear red. She looks young in red.

The boy _______ that the duck _______ two eggs yesterday.

－ I’ve bought a box of chocolate for our daughter.
－ Oh, how good a dad! But she doesn’t like sweet things. _______ know that?

I’m too busy _______ my homework _______ walk my dog every day.

－ Daniel is ill. I _______ to see him after school.
－ Sorry to hear that. I _______ with you.

This is _______ MP4. Yours is over there.  

Look! The boys _______ football on the playground.  

— Have you ever been to Nanning?   — Yes, _______ .

Li Hua’s shoes are as _______ as Zhang Hui’s.  

_______ smoke here, dad. Smoking has been banned in public places.

Grandma is ill. I have to ________ her at home.  

The basketball ________ I bought yesterday cost me 80 yuan.

Many trees and flowers ________ in our city every year.

I want to know ________ he will be the volunteer in the 2011 Universiade (世界大学生运动会) in Shenzhen.

Mr Wang does what he can ________ us improve our English.

根据对话内容，从下面方框所给的选项中选出合适的句子补全对话，将其标号在答题卡上涂黑。

Alice: Hello?
Susan: Hello.    
Alice: Yes, it is.
Susan:   Would you like to go to the bookstore  
with me tomorrow? I’d like to buy some books.
Alice: Sorry. I don’t need any books.     
I can read books on the Internet.
Susan: Yes, but you can’t always read on the computer.    
Alice: Oh, I see.
Susan: And in the bookstore we can find many wonderful books.
Alice: OK. I’ll go with you.    
Susan: What about three o’clock tomorrow afternoon?  
Alice: Great. See you then.
Susan: See you.

Li Dong is a farmer. He has a very big   46  . On the farm, he grows oranges, grapes and bananas. Many people come to   47   his farm. He is a successful young man and becomes very famous.
In 2003, he went back to his hometown   48   he finished middle school. “What work can I do?” he said to himself. Then he had an idea. “I’m interested   49   farming. I can grow fruit!” He began to watch many   50   on TV about growing fruit. He also read a lot of books about it. Then he went to   51   on Mr Wang’s farm for two years. He learned a lot there.
In 2005, he started his own fruit farm.   52  , Li Dong’s farm was small. But now, his farm is much   53  . His fruits are very good. He sends them to many big   54  in China, such as Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. He also grows vegetables and raises chickens on his farm. His family eats very   55   food. He has a very happy family.

A．farm B．park C．school D．shop

A．look B．take C．visit D．notice

A．since B．after C．though D．so

A．in B．on C．at D．for

A．games B．concerts C．programmes D．plays

A．see B．play C．eat D．work

A．At last B．At that time C．At this moment D．At once

A．big B．bigger C．the biggest D．biggest

A．villages B．schools C．cities D．farms

A．healthy B．bad C．terrible D．unhealthy

Tom was three years old. He liked to watch TV with his parents after supper, but his parents never let him stay long. Mother would say, “It’s eight o’clock now. It’s time for you to go to bed, Tom.”
“But why don’t you go to bed, too?” Tom always asked.
“We are adults (大人),” mother would say, “And adults go to bed late.”
One evening Tom asked his mother for an apple.
“But it’s too late,” his mother didn’t want to give him anything to eat at bedtime. “The apples are already asleep.”
“But not all of them, Mom.” Tom said, “The baby apples are perhaps asleep, but their parents are surely awake.”
Tom liked to watch TV with_________ after supper.  

His parents _______let him stay long.  

One evening Tom asked his mother for_________.

His mother didn’t want to give anything to him to eat________.

From the story we know__________.

	The 16th Asian Games was held from November 12th to 27th in 2010 in Guangzhou, China. There were 41 events in the Games. China got 199 gold medals and reached the total medals of 416. Guangzhou was the second Chinese city to host the Asian Games. In 1990 Beijing held the 11th Asian Games.
	Premier Wen Jiabao went to Shanxi province on April 2nd , 2011. He made a three-day visit to impoverished(穷困的) Luliang. During his visit, he said that farmers’ right（权利）must be protected and he warned(警告) that no land should ever be taken against a farmer’s will(意愿).
	The Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway will be put into operation at the end of June, 2011. The journey takes about five hours. The train can reach speeds of up to 380 kilometers an hour. The passenger volume (容量) is expected to reach 160 million a year, marking(标志) a great step in China’s Railway development.

请根据以上信息，选择正确答案，将其标号在答题卡上涂黑。（每小题2分，共10分）
The 16th Asian Games was held in __________.

How many gold medals did China get in the 16th Asian Games ?  

________ went to Shanxi province on April 2^nd , 2011. 

Premier Wen Jiabao said that_________ right must be protected. 

The Beijing-Shanghai High Speed Railway will be put into operation at the end of _______, 2011.

A hobby can be almost anything that a person likes to do in his spare time. Hobbyists raise pets, watch birds, paint pictures, play the piano and grow flowers.     They collect everything from books to butterflies and from boxes to stamps.
People take up hobbies because these activities offer enjoyment, friendship and relaxation. Hobbies help people relax after a long time of hard work, and provide a balance (平衡) between work and play. Hobbies offer interesting activities for the old. Some hobbies can make a child grow as a person, develop his interest and help him learn new skills.     Doctors have found that hobbies are useful in helping patients (病人) recover (恢复) from illness. Hobbies give patients who can’t move around something to do, and provide interests that keep them from thinking about themselves. Many hospitals treat (治疗) patients by having them take up interesting hobbies.    
In early times, most people were too busy making a living to have many hobbies. But some persons who had spare time did enjoy hobbies.    People today have more time than ever before for hobbies. Machines have now reduced much time that people must spend on their jobs.
    Those who have developed hobbies never need to worry about what to do with their newly-found free time hours.
Sir William Osler, a famous Canadian doctor expressed the value (价值) of hobbies by saying, “No man is really happy or safe without a hobby.”
请根据以上内容，从下列五个选项中选择适当的句子还原到短文中，使短文完整与正确。将其标号在答题卡上涂黑。（每小题2分，共10分）     

Being able to multitask—doing several things at the same time—is considered (考虑，认为) a welcome skill by most people. But if we consider the situation of the young people aged from eight to eighteen, we should think again.
What we often see nowadays is that young people juggle a larger number of electronic devices (电子产品) as they study. While working, they also surf on the Internet, send out emails, answer the telephone and listen to music on their iPods. In a sense, they are spending a large amount of time in fruitless efforts (努力) as they multitask.
Multitasking is even changing the relationship between family members. As young people give so much attention to their own worlds, they seem to have no time to spend with the other people around them. They can no longer greet family members when they enter the house, nor can they eat at the family table.
Multitasking also has an effect (影响) on young people’s performance at university and in the workplace. When asked about their opinions of the effects of modern gadgets (器具) on their performance of tasks, many young people gave a positive (肯定的) response (回应). However, the response from the worlds of education and business was not quite as positive. Educators feel that multitasking by children has a serious effect on later development of study skills. They believe that many college students now need help to improve their study skills. Similarly, employers (雇主) feel that young people entering the job market need to be taught all over again, as modern gadgets have made it unnecessary (没必要) for them to learn special skills to do their work.
What does the underlined word “juggle” most probably mean?

In Paragraph 3, the author points out that__________.

What’s the main idea of the last paragraph?

Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

The author develops (阐述) the passage mainly by__________.

选词填空（每小题1分，共5分）
请根据对话内容选择正确的单词，将其适当形式写在答题卡上。

David: Hi, Tom.
Tom: Hi, David.     were you last night?
David: I went to the cinema.
Tom: Oh, yes? What film    you see?
David: I saw Kong Fu Panda II.
Tom: Really? Is it   ?
David: Sure. It’s about a panda called Po, he saved his     in danger.
Tom: It sounds exciting, too. I will go to see the     this evening.
David: OK. Enjoy yourself.
Tom: Thanks.

请根据所给首字母或中文提示，写出单词在句中的正确形式。每空只能填一词，将单词完整地写在答题卡上。
Hello, my n       is Peter. I’m from England. 
It’s good for our health to g       up early in the morning.
She was b       in a beautiful village near the Lijiang River in 1995.
If you are in danger, remember to dial (拨) the telephone n        110 at once.
— Do you know what the p       of China is now?       
— It’s over 1.3 billion.
— Excuse me. Can you tell me the way to Nanxi Hospital?
— Sure. Just walk about 300 meters a       this street, it’s on your left.
— What’s the weather like today?       
— It’s _________ (热的).
I _________ (热爱) my hometown and the people there.
Sunday is the _________ (第一) day of a week.
Last summer holiday, my teacher _________ (介绍) Joy to me, and now we are close friends.

今年是桂林市创建全国文明城市关键的一年。“桂林是我家，创城靠大家”！作为中学生，我们应积极参与。请根据以下提示，写一篇80词左右的短文(开头已给出,不计字数)。
要点：
(1) 尊敬老师，对人礼貌；
(2) 帮助他人，友善待人；
(3)遵守交规，过马路走斑马线，不闯红灯；
(4) 保护环境，不乱扔垃圾，不踩草地等；
(5) 补充两句个人观点。
参考词汇：respect(尊敬); be polite to; obey(遵守); traffic rules; zebra crossing(斑马线)
要求：
(1)内容包括所提供的信息及要点，可适当发挥，但不要逐条翻译；
(2)不得透露学校、姓名等任何个人信息。