09中考模拟练习三

1、09 中考模拟练习三（配北京题型）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. theB. /C. aD. an()2. Are you afraid of_ at home, L in da? No, IA. aloneB. being alone C. lo nely()3. Tak ing buses in Beiji ng is much_ tha n before.A.

2、cheapB. cheaperC. cheapest()4. Don forget to bring me a_. Tllpost the letter.A. bookB. photoC. stamp()5. My friend and I want to see the film tonight. Are there anytickets left?Yes, but only two. Do you want_?A. oneB. twoC. themD.none()6. Mary,_ you speak Chin ese?Yes, only a little.A. mustB. n eedC

3、. mayD.can()7. Mr. Brown arrived at the airport at 5 o clock_theevening of Saturday.A. onB. ofC. inD.at()8. I failed in the exam, but my teacher said I would have_cha nee.A. sec ondB. a sec ondC. twoD.the sec ond()9. Mr Li is a good teacher. He always makes his class_ .A. lively and in terestedB. li

4、vely and in terestingC. alive and in terestedD. alive and in teresting()10. The nu mber of gia nt panda is_ because peoplealways hunt them.A. fewer and fewerB. smaller andsmallerC. bigger and biggerD. more and more()11. -Can you write to me if you are free?-No problem. But_is your e-mail address?A.

5、whereB. whichC. whatD.how()12. -How ofte n do you search the Intern et?()13. - thinkTracy n eeds to find herself a new job.A. Two weeksB. Since two weeks C. For two weeksD. Once two weeksve grow n up.D. being IonelyD. the cheapestD. card09 中考模拟练习三（配北京题型）-_. This is what we ve been talking about.A. E

6、xactlyB. Cheer upC. Please doD. Really()14. -Your Chin ese is so good!-But your En glish 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. Let s go and have a look. Maybe we can help them.A. what are they doing there

7、B. what was happe ning thereC. what is happe ning thereD. what are they talki ng there()16. It was difficult to get a word in. Every one_ so excitedly about the play.A. would talkB. was talki ngC. talkedD. had talked()17. I admired the pain ti ng, and Ed said he would like me to have_as a gift from

8、him.A. oneB. itC. thisD. some()18. I cannot tell whether the book is worth reading_ I haven t read it myself.A. butB. soC. orD. for()19. It is gen erally con sidered un wise to give a child_ he or she wan ts.A. whateverB. howeverC. whicheverD. whe never()20.1 tried phoning Maggie s office in the mor

9、ning, but I couldn t_A. go overB. join upC. put upD. get through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 com muni cate with each other. If you can surf the Intern et, it is a great 21 tosend messages easily, quickly and as ofte n as you like. No 22 is it n ecessar

10、y to find a pen or paper, not to 23an envelope or stamp.Are we missing anything by not writing paper letters to people? Must you take the 24_ of writi ng them ifyou want to receive such letters? Most people would probably an swer, waste of paper 25 , and this is a muchbetter system.” It is hard to b

11、e aga inst such a viewpo intHowever, I would like to try.I believe that the kinds of letters people 26 to write were probably more 27 than billi ons of emails senttoday. Of course, whe n it 28 to sending quick messages, email is the best. If 29 is importa nt, email isparticularly useful. 30 , if you

12、 want really to touch some one, a letter is more pers on al.31 letters are the most pers on al. If you can type fast, you can put a lot into a letter, but it lacks(缺少)thespecial sense that comes from seeing the handwriting. As long as it is un dersta ndablejt does n t matter howtidy it is. Whe n som

13、e one sits dow n and just writes to you,you will 32 that whe n you are read ing it.seeing my name written by hand on 34 .You make yourself a cup of coffee, sit down in a comfortable place,ope n your letter , and enjoy everyth ing that the pers on puts into those words just for you. What a gift!()21.

14、 A.chaneeB. wayC. funD. time()22. A. lo ngerB. muchC. lessD. importa nt()23. A.sayB.speakC. talkD. men ti on()24. A.questi onB. troubleC. pleasureD. problem()25. A.any wayB. tooC. simplyD. just()26. A.neededB. usedC. gotD. agreed()27. A.importa ntB. usefulC. helpfulD. meaningful()28. A.runsB. leadsC

15、. comesD. arrives()29. A.moneyB. meaningC. feeli ngD. time()30. A.HoweverB. SoC. ThereforeD. ButThough Im a teenager, I admit thattoo feel 33 to receive a letter in the mail.I loveB. TypedC. Ha ndwrittenB. loveC. wantB. disappo in ted C.puzzledB. a listC. a paper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

16、从其后各题所给的四个选项中选择最佳选项。AThere are many unu sual hotels around the world. In Gree nland, there is a hotel made out of ice, openbetween December and April every year. In Turkey, there is a cave hotel with a television, furniture, and abathroom in each room. And in Bolivia(玻禾 U 维亚一南美洲西部国 家),there is the S

17、alt Palace Hotel.Thousa nds of years ago, the area around the Salt Palace Hotel was alarge lake. But over time, all the waiters disappeared. Today, the area has only two small lakesand two salt deserts.The larger of the two deserts, the Uyuni, is 12,000 square kilometres.During the day, the desert i

18、s bright white because of the salt. There are noUyuni salt desertroads across the Uyuni desert, so local people must show guests the wayto the hotel.In the early 1990s, a man n amed Jua n Quesada built the hotel. He cut big blocks of salt from the desertand used the blocks to build it. Everyth ing i

19、n the hotel is made out of salt: the walls, the roof(屋顶),the tables,the chairs, the beds, and the hotel s bar.The sun heats(使变热)the walls and roof duri ng the day. At ni ght the desert is very cold,but the rooms stay warm. The hotel has twelve rooms. A sin gle room costs $40 a ni ght, and a double r

20、oomcosts $60.A sign on the hotel s wall tells guests,“(添)asthdonalis. t lick(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 sen te nee about the

21、 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 tha n 10,000 square kilometers.()37. Where did the salt used for the hotel come from?A. a salt factoryB. the groundC. TurkeyD. the walls

22、of the hotel()38. What keeps the rooms warm at ni ght?A. heat from the wallsB. the desert airC. the sunD. the furnitureBThe History of the En glish Dictio naryIn 1746, Samuel Johnson began to work on his most famous bookth, e Dictionary of the English()31. A. L ong()32. A. feel()33. A. excited()34.

23、A. a letterD. ShortD. likeD. surprisedD. an env elopeUyuni salt desertLanguage. 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 fathe

24、r was a bookseller and the family was notvery rich. Johnson was a bookseller and the family was not very rich. Johnson was a very clever student andhe went to Oxford University in 1728. After Oxford, he became a school teacher but he was not happy abouthis job. In 1735, he married a woman named Eliz

25、abeth Porter. He was twenty-five years old and she wasforty-six.A few years after that, Johnson got a job to write the English dictionary. He worked in a house in Londonand he had six men to help him. To write the dictionary, Johnson looked for words used by the importantEnglish writers in those day

26、s. He underlined the sentences where the words were used and wrote them in hisnotebooks. 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 wouldwrite t

27、he meanings for the words.When it was completed,the Dictionary of English Language became famous and it was used by manypeople in that time. Johnson was a happy man because of that but his wife died before the dictionary wascompleted and she never got to share her husbansdhappiness.Johnson died in L

28、ondon in 1784. In his lifetime, he not only wrotethe Dictionary of the English Languagebut he also wrote many poems and famous articles.( )39. When Johnson started to work onthe Dictionary of the English Language he wasA. poorB. thirty-seven years oldC. a school teacherD. a clever student( )40. Eliz

29、abeth Porter _.A. was older than Johnson by twenty-one yearsB. helped Johnson to get the dictionary writing jobC. was a sick womanD. died before the dictionary was completed because she was too old. ( )41. The Dictionary of theEnglish Languagewas the first _ .A. dictionary to include so many wordsB.

30、 dictionary in the worldC. dictionary that was written in EnglandD. English dictionary to have 40,000 words( )42. It took _ people _ years to completethe Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage.A. eight; nineB. six; nine C. six; seven D. seven; nineCI was 9 years old when I found out my father was ill. It

31、 was 1994, but I can remember my mother s wordsas if it were yesterday.“ Kerrel, I don t want you to take food from yourbecause he has AIDS. Be very careful when you are around him.”AIDS wasn t something we talked about in my country when I was growing up. From thenon, I knew that this would be a fa

32、mily 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 father s otherchildren lived far away, so it fell to mectokt after him.We couldn t affoad the necessary mediation for him, and because Da

33、d was unable to work. I had nomoney for school supplies and often couldn t even buy foodvfaurldinirb en.class feeling completely lost, the teacher s wordsledirfs I tried to figure out how I was goingto manage.I did not share my burden(负担)with anyone. I had seen how people reacted to AIDS. Kids laugh

34、ed atclassmates who had pare nts with the disease. And eve n adults could be cruel. Whe n my father was movedto the hospital, the nu rses would leave his food on the bedside eve n though he was too weak to feed himself.I had known that he was going to die. But after so many years of keep ing his con

35、 diti on a secret, I wascompletely un prepared whe n he reached his final days. Sad and hopeless, I called a woman at thenonprofit(非赢禾 U 的)National AIDS Support. That day, she kept me on the phone for hours. I was so lucky tofind some one who cared. She saved my life.I was 15 whe n my father died. H

36、e took his secret away with him, hav ing n ever spoke n about AIDS toanyone, even me. He didn t want to call attention to ALDSio.()43. What does Kerrel tell us about her father?A. He had stayed in the hospital since he fell ill.B. He depe nded on the nu rses in his final days.C. He worked hard to pa

37、y for his medicati on.D. He told no one about his disease.()44. What can we lear n from the un derl ined senten ce?A. Kerrel couldn t understand her teacher.B. Kerrel had special difficulty in heari ng.C. Kerrel was too troubled to focus on the less on.D. Kerrel was too tired to hear her teacher s w

38、ords.()45. Why did Kerrel keep her father s disease a secret?A. She was afraid of being looked dow n upon.B. She thought it was shameful to have AIDS.C. She found no one willing to listen to her.D. She wan ted to obey her mother.()46. Why did Kerrel write the passage?A. To tell people about the suff

39、eri ngs of her father.B. To show how little people knew about AIDS.C. To draw people s attention to AIDS.D. To remember her father.第 II 卷、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 helpnear he finalA woma n was eati ng in a restaura nt. She asked the waiter to do many thi ng

40、s for her. Now she was 1the waiter a lot of trouble. First, she asked the waiter to turn on the air conditioner （空调） because she 2 toohot. 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 ki nd and 5. He did everyth ing the woma n a

41、sked 6 todo without gett ing an gry.7, some one else in the restaura nt asked why the waiterdid n tjust throw the woman out.“ Oh, I don t care. ” the waiter said, Smiling.“Wedonair con diti oner.”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 gran dmother.2.南希喜欢安静Nancy likes musi

42、c_ .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._ , dontmiss this exhibiti on.5.这些衣服正在橱窗里展览。The clothes_ in the shop win dow.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 milli on yua n, I would buy you a palace! Do I have one millio n yua n? No, I don t! So Ionly can spe nd ten fen o

43、n this short message, sending you my best wishes! Today, SMS Short MessageService is popular, and China Mobile says that every sec ond, there are 410 messages being sent.Look around you! People are watching their mobiles, smiling or laughing. Thumbs are moving quickly onmobiles, bringing happ in ess

44、 to their frie nds. Through SMS, we know the weather report, share jokes and news, express love and frie ndship.SMS is becoming more and more popular. It is reported that 67% of young people like to send shortmessagesto greet each other. Internet SMS will be more helpful to people. I am tha nkful for the progressbecause SMS saves me much mon ey. Just on the top end of a thumb, so much joy can be found!1. Is SMS Short Message Service very popular in Chi na?2. How much does one short message