09中考英语模拟练习三

09中考 英语 模拟练习三 第 I 卷 一、 单项选择 （ 共 20 分，每小题 1 分） 从下列各题所给的四个选项中选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 ( ) 1. Joining the English club at school was _ best way to improve English. A. the B. / C. a D. an ( ) 2. Are you afraid of _ at home, Linda? No, Ive grown up. A. alone B. being alone C. lonely D. being lonely ( ) 3. Taking buses in Beijing is much _ than before. A. cheap B. cheaper C. cheapest D. the cheapest ( ) 4. Dont forget to bring me a _. Ill post the letter. A. book B. photo C. stamp D. card ( ) 5. My friend and I want to see the film tonight. Are there any tickets left? Yes, but only two. Do you want _? A. one B. two C. them D. none ( ) 6. Mary, _ you speak Chinese? Yes, only a little. A. must B. need C. may D. can ( ) 7. Mr. Brown arrived at the airport at 5 oclock _ the evening of Saturday. A. on B. of C. in D. at ( ) 8. I failed in the exam, but my teacher said I would have _ chance. A. second B. a second C. two D. the second ( ) 9. Mr Li is a good teacher. He always makes his class _. A. lively and interested B. lively and interesting C. alive and interested D. alive and interesting ( )10. The number of giant panda is because people always hunt them. A. fewer and fewer B. smaller and smaller C. bigger and bigger D. more and more ( )11. Can you write to me if you are free? No problem. But _ is your e-mail address? A. where B. which C. what D. how ( )12. How often do you search the Internet? _. A. Two weeks B. Since two weeks C. For two weeks D. Once two weeks ( )13. I think Tracy needs to find herself a new job. _. This is what weve been talking about. A. Exactly B. Cheer up C. Please do D. Really ( )14. Your Chinese is so good! But your English is better. So we can help each other. _. A. What a pity! B. Good idea! C. The same to you. D. Sorry to hear that. ( )15. Can you see _? No. Lets go and have a look. Maybe we can help them. A. what are they doing there B. what was happening there C. what is happening there D. what are they talking there ( )16. It was difficult to get a word in. Everyone so excitedly about the play. A. would talk B. was talking C. talked D. had talked ( )17. I admired the painting, and Ed said he would like me to have _ as a gift from him. A. one B. it C. this D. some ( )18. I cannot tell whether the book is worth reading, _ I havent read it myself. A. but B. so C. or D. for ( )19. It is generally considered unwise to give a child _ he or she wants. A. whatever B. however C. whichever D. whenever ( )20. I tried phoning Maggies office in the morning, but I couldnt _ A. go over B. join up C. put up D. get through 二、 完型填空 （共 14 分，每小题 1 分） 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳的一项。 Many people use email to communicate with each other. If you can surf the Internet, it is a great 21 to send messages easily, quickly and as often as you like. No 22 is it necessary to find a pen or paper, not to 23 an envelope or stamp. Are we missing anything by not writing paper letters to people? Must you take the 24 of writing them if you want to receive such letters? Most people would probably answer, No, it is a waste of paper 25 , and this is a much better system. It is hard to be against such a viewpoint. However, I would like to try. I believe that the kinds of letters people 26 to write were probably more 27 than billions of emails sent today. Of course, when it 28 to sending quick messages, email is the best. If 29 is important, email is particularly useful. 30 , if you want really to touch someone, a letter is more personal. 31 letters are the most personal. If you can type fast, you can put a lot into a letter, but it lacks(缺少 ) the special sense that comes from seeing the handwriting. As long as it is understandable, it doesnt matter how tidy it is. When someone sits down and just writes to you, you will 32 that when you are reading it. Though Im a teenager, I admit that I too feel 33 to receive a letter in the mail. I love seeing my name written by hand on 34 .You make yourself a cup of coffee, sit down in a comfortable place, open your letter , and enjoy everything that the person puts into those words just for you. What a gift! ( )21. A. chance B. way C. fun D. time ( )22. A. longer B. much C. less D. important ( )23. A. say B. speak C. talk D. mention ( )24. A. question B. trouble C. pleasure D. problem ( )25. A. anyway B. too C. simply D. just ( )26. A. needed B. used C. got D. agreed ( )27. A. important B. useful C. helpful D. meaningful ( )28. A. runs B. leads C. comes D. arrives ( )29. A. money B. meaning C. feeling D. time ( )30. A. However B. So C. Therefore D. But ( )31. A. Long B. Typed C. Handwritten D. Short ( )32. A. feel B. love C. want D. like ( )33. A. excited B. disappointed C. puzzled D. surprised ( )34. A. a letter B. a list C. a paper D. an envelope 三、 阅读理解 （ 共 24 分，每小题 2 分） 阅读下面 A、 B、 C 三篇短文，然后从其后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。 A There are many unusual hotels around the world. In Greenland, there is a hotel made out of ice, open between December and April every year. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and a bathroom in each room. And in Bolivia(玻利维亚 南美洲西部国家 ), there is the Salt Palace Hotel. Thousands of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was a large lake. But over time, all the waiters disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakes and two salt deserts. The larger of the two deserts, the Uyuni, is 12,000 square kilometres. During the day, the desert is bright white because of the salt. There are no roads across the Uyuni desert, so local people must show guests the way to the hotel. In the early 1990s, a man named Juan Quesadabuilt the hotel. He cut big blocks of salt from the desert and used the blocks to build it. Everything in the hotel is made out of salt: the walls, the roof(屋顶 ), the tables, the chairs, the beds, and the hotels bar. The sun heats（使变热） the walls and roof during the day. At night the desert is very cold, but the rooms stay warm. The hotel has twelve rooms. A single room costs $40 a night, and a double room costs $60. A sign on the hotels wall tells guests, Please dont lick（添） the walls. (注 : Uyuni is a town in the south of Bolivia.) ( )35. What is unique about the Salt Palace Hotel? A. its long history. B. the price of the rooms. C. the guests that stay there. D. what it is made of. ( )36. Which sentence about the area around the Salt Palace Hotel is NOT true? A. It was a lake many years ago. B. It is white during the day. C. There are several roads to the hotel. D. It is more than 10,000 square kilometers. ( )37. Where did the salt used for the hotel come from? A. a salt factory B. the ground C. Turkey D. the walls of the hotel ( )38. What keeps the rooms warm at night? A. heat from the walls B. the desert air C. the sun D. the furniture B The History of the English Dictionary In 1746, Samuel Johnson began to work on his most famous book, the Dictionary of the English Language. It took him nine years to complete and in that time, he wrote meanings for more than 40,000 words. It was the first English dictionary to include so many words. Johnson was born in Staffordshire, Britain in 1709. His father was a bookseller and the family was not very rich. Johnson was a bookseller and the family was not very rich. Johnson was a very clever student and he went to Oxford University in 1728. After Oxford, he became a school teacher but he was not happy about his job. In 1735, he married a woman named Elizabeth Porter. He was twenty-five years old and she was forty-six. A few years after that, Johnson got a job to write the English dictionary. He worked in a house in London and he had six men to help him. To write the dictionary, Johnson looked for words used by the important English writers in those days. He underlined the sentences where the words were used and wrote them in his notebooks. Then he gave his notebooks to his workers and they wrote the words and the sentences out neatly. After that, they put the words in order according to the English alphabet. Once that was done, Johnson would write the meanings for the words. When it was completed, the Dictionary of English Language became famous and it was used by many people in that time. Johnson was a happy man because of that but his wife died before the dictionary was completed and she never got to share her husbands happiness. Johnson died in London in 1784. In his lifetime, he not only wrote the Dictionary of the English Language but he also wrote many poems and famous articles. ( )39. When Johnson started to work on the Dictionary of the English Language he was _. A. poor B. thirty-seven years old C. a school teacher D. a clever student ( )40. Elizabeth Porter _. A. was older than Johnson by twenty-one years B. helped Johnson to get the dictionary writing job C. was a sick woman D. died before the dictionary was completed because she was too old. ( )41. The Dictionary of the English Language was the first _. A. dictionary to include so many words B. dictionary in the world C. dictionary that was written in England D. English dictionary to have 40,000 words ( )42. It took _ people _ years to complete the Dictionary of the English Language. A. eight； nine B. six； nine C. six； seven D. seven； nine C I was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It was 1994, but I can remember my mothers words as if it were yesterday. Kerrel, I dont want you to take food from your father, because he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him. AIDS wasnt something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From then on, I knew that this would be a family secret. My parents were not together anymore, and my dad lived alone. For a while, he could take care of himself. But when I was 12, his condition worsened. My fathers other children lived far away, so it fell to me to took after him. We couldnt afford all the necessary mediation for him, and because Dad was unable to work. I had no money for school supplies and often couldnt even buy food for dinner. I would sit in class feeling completely lost, the teachers words muffled as I tried to figure out how I was going to manage. I did not share my burden（负担） with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laughed at classmates who had parents with the disease. And even adults could be cruel. When my father was moved to the hospital, the nurses would leave his food on the bedside even though he was too weak to feed himself. I had known that he was going to die. But after so many years of keeping his condition a secret, I was completely unprepared when he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at the nonprofit(非赢利的 ) National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky to find someone who cared. She saved my life. I was 15 when my father died. He took his secret away with him, having never spoken about AIDS to anyone, even me. He didnt want to call attention to AIDS. I do. ( )43. What does Kerrel tell us about her father? A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill. B. He depended on the nurses in his final days. C. He worked hard to pay for his medication. D. He told no one about his disease. ( )44. What can we learn from the underlined sentence? A. Kerrel couldnt understand her teacher. B. Kerrel had special difficulty in hearing. C. Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the lesson. D. Kerrel was too tired to hear her teachers words. ( )45. Why did Kerrel keep her fathers disease a secret? A. She was afraid of being looked down upon. B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS. C. She found no one willing to listen to her. D. She wanted to obey her mother. ( )46. Why did Kerrel write the passage? A. To tell people about the sufferings of her father. B. To show how little people knew about AIDS. C. To draw peoples attention to AIDS. D. To remember her father. 第 II 卷 一、 选词填空（共 7 分，每空 1 分）（ 8 选 7） 根据短文内容，用 方框中所给词的适当形式填空。 feel give turn work help near he final A woman was eating in a restaurant. She asked the waiter to do many things for her. Now she was 1 the waiter a lot of trouble. First, she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner（空调） because she 2 too hot. Then she asked him 3 it off because she was too cold. This went on and on for 4 half an hour. But the waiter was very kind and 5 . He did everything the woman asked 6 to do without getting angry. 7 , someone else in the restaurant asked why the waiter didnt just throw the woman out. Oh, I dont care. the waiter said, Smiling. We dont even have an air conditioner. 二、 完成句子：（共 10 分，每小题 2 分） 根据中文意思完成句子。 1 这首老歌使我想起了我的奶奶。 This old song _ my grandmother. 2 南希喜欢安静而柔和的音乐。 Nancy likes music _. 3 务必要来参加我们的聚会。 _ come to our party. 4. 无论你在做什么，不要错过这次展览 . _, dont miss this exhibition. 5. 这些衣服正在橱窗里展览。 The clothes _ in the shop window. 三、阅读与表达 （共 10 分，每小题 2 分） 阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。 If I had one million yuan, I would buy you a palace! Do I have one million yuan? No, I dont! So I only can spend ten fen on this short message, sending you my best wishes! Today, SMSShort Message Service is popular, and China Mobile says that every second, there are 410 messages being sent. Look around you! People are watching their mobiles, smiling or laughing. Thumbs are moving quickly on mobiles, bringing happiness to their friends. Through SMS, we know the weather report, share jokes and news, express love and friendship. SMS is becoming more and more popular. It is reported that 67% of young people like to send short messages to greet each other. Internet SMS will be more helpful to people. I am thankful for the progress because SMS saves me much money. Just on the top end of a thumb, so much joy can be found! 1. Is SMSShort Message Service very popular in China? _. 2. How much does one short message cost acc