2019年南京市秦淮区初三二模英语试卷.doc

2018-2019学年秦淮区初三年级第二次模拟考试
英语试卷

第一卷 选择题（共40分）

一、单项填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最住选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. Millie drew a chart below to introduce a website. The missing word might be ______.

A. gifts B. places C. hotels D. weather
2. Mother’s Day was ______ the same day as International Nurses Day this year.
A. in B. on C. at D. for
3. There will be a great ______ for the 70th birthday of China in October.
A. condition B. location C. instruction D. celebration
4. --- Are people in Internet companies complaining about long working hours?
--- Yes. They make great contributions to IT industry, ______ they can’t achieve a balance between life and work.
A. or B. if C. but D. since
5. A survey was ______ to see how many students would like to move away from the Earth.
A. put out B. carried out C. broke out D. came out
6. --- ______ do you go to Jinling Library?
--- We borrow books twice a month. You can find books for all ages there.
A. How soon B. How often C. How long D. How far
7. The ground floor of Beijing Daxing Airport covers an area as ______ as 35 football fields.
A. big B. bigger C. biggest D. the biggest
8. Some people can succeed ______ because they don’t give up easily.
A. heavily B. mainly C. hardly D. closely
9. Yuan Longping has developed better rice plants ______ the problem of hunger.
A. solve B. solved C. to solve D. to solving
10. A meeting on 5G technology ______ in Jiangbei New District last month.
A. held B. was held C. will hold D. will be held
11. --- What a heavy rain! When did it start?
--- It started at about seven this morning. I ______ the newspaper at home then.
A. read B. will read C. have read D. was reading
12. --- Why don’t we go to see Tea House at Poly Theatre tonight?
--- Good idea. Let me check ______.
A. when will the play start B. where is the Poly Theatre
C. how much does a ticket cost D. whether there are tickets or not
13. --- Shall we go to see the works by Picasso in Nanjing Museum?
--- ______. We will go if we still have time after visiting the Presidential Palace.
A. It depends B. My pleasure
C. Never mind D. Don’t mention it
14. Which of the following sentences has a different sentence structure from the other three?
A. We have four seasons. B. Ice cream tastes nice.
C. Spring is warm and sunny. D. Autumn leaves turn brown.
15. Which of the following books might be put in a different area in a library?
A. Treasure Island B. Gulliver’s Travels
C. Alice in Wonderland D. Oxford English Dictionary

二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Recently, great scientists around the world were able to create a real picture of a black hole. The black hole named Powehi is about 55 million light years from Earth. This means light travelling from that point takes 55 million years to be ___16___ on Earth. When we look at the picture of Powehi, it’s like we are looking into the past. Light started a journey from Powehi to planet earth millions of years ago, ___17___ light from the sun takes only about 8 minutes and 20 seconds.
Black holes have always attracted scientists because a black hole isn’t a hole. ___18___, it is a place in space with a lot of matter (物质) inside. It has so much gravity that our sun can be pulled into it ___19___. Even light can’t avoid it. As a result, it’s always black.
It was an amazing discovery. It ___20___ many ideas about black holes. It also proved Albert Einstein was ___21___ about his Theory of General Relativity (相对论) which explains the relationship between space and time.
This discovery is more than a story about the development of technology that ___22___ humans to see a black hole for the first time. It’s also a story of how these scientists from all over the world worked together for many years to have this great ___23___.
Scientists also point out that the first picture of Powehi is the ___24___ of many more discoveries. One of the important lessons we learn from this picture is to keep learning. Aristotle once said, “The more you know, the more you ___25___ you don’t know,” You never know what amazing discovery you will find.
16. A. seen B. touched C. covered D. used
17. A. after B. until C. while D. because
18. A. In all B. In fact C. In place D. In order
19. A. freely B. easily C. clearly D. exactly
20. A. forgot B. chose C. doubted D. confirmed
21. A. right B. sorry C. worried D. crazy
22. A. allowed B. forced C. advised D. invited
23. A. attraction B. application C. achievement D. agreement
24. A. chance B. challenge C. beginning D. boundary
25. A. realize B. report C. refuse D. repeat

三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下列材料，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A

26. The beginning of a plastic bottle’s life cycle is ______.
A. oil B. water C. coal D. pellets
27. How many of the waste plastic bottles are recycled?
A. Almost all. B. More than half.
C. Less than a quarter. D. Less than one third
28. The picture can be used to advise people to ______.
A. extract more oil B. reuse extracted oil
C. recycle plastic bottles D. reduce water pollution

B
Thornton, Pete and Hans, with Buck and six other dogs, started going to the east. When spring came, they found a lake in a wide valley. Through the water the gold showed like yellow butter, and here their search ended. They worked every day, filling bag after bag with gold.
Buck spent many evenings sitting by the fire. He always heard something calling him into the forest. The call of the wild reminded him of the wolf who had run beside him.
“He’s the finest dog that I’ve ever seen,” said Thornton to his friends one day as they watched Buck walking out of camp.
“There’ll never be another dog like him,” said Pete.
In autumn, Buck started to see moose (麋鹿) in the forest. One day he met a group of about twenty. The largest was two meters tall. When the moose saw Buck, it got very angry. For hours Buck followed the moose; he wanted the big one, but he wanted it alone. By the evening Buck had driven the big old moose away from the others, and then he began his attack. The animal weighed six hundred and fifty kilos --- it was big enough and strong enough to kill Buck in seconds. Buck followed it for four days, attacking and then jumping away. He gave it no peace, no time to eat or drink or rest, and slowly the moose became weaker. At the end of the fourth day. Buck pulled the moose down and killed it. He stayed by the dead animal for a day and a half, eating and then turned towards camp and Thornton.
29. Thornton and his friends stopped searching because they ______.
A. felt tired of work B. found gold in a lake
C. met a wolf on the way D. heard the call of the wild
30. The underlined “him” in Paragraph 4 refers to (指的是) ______.
A. Pete B. Hans C. Buck D. Thornton
31. What was Buck like while hunting the big moose?
① clever ② patient ③ brave ④ angry
A. ①②③ B. ②③④ C. ①③④ D. ①②④

C
You are sitting in the cinema with popcorn in mouth when a scene flashes on the screen --- the moment when the hero fights against the villain (反弹) --- and you doubt whether success is possible. Then, the hero wins and you realize you’ve been holding your breath all the time. Superhero movies come out every year. Avengers: Endgame was so popular that tickets for the first week were sold out quickly. Why do we never get tired of watching these movies?
Superhuman abilities, alien worlds, and strange situations are features of our favorite superhero (超级英雄) movies. Yet these characteristics are absent from our real life. The great difference between these movies and our daily life allows us to separate one from the other. When our real life becomes too hard for us to face, we can get away into the world of superheroes.
Superheroes are those who have super powers and are brave enough to sacrifice (牺牲) themselves. This kind of courage is often translated on screen as superheroes using their abilities to protect humans. This is another reason why we love them. We are born to be attracted to people who protect weaker ones.
In recent movies, superheroes with amazing abilities also experience very human moments like losing loved ones. As a result, we see part of ourselves in these characters and they help us face challenges like them.
The last reason why superhero movies are so popular today is money. These movies make a great deal of money. This win-win situation drives a lot of filmmakers to keep making the films.
Over the past few years, superheroes have turned from comic-book characters to movie stars. They have become such a common part of popular culture that it seems we can’t live without them. You might eat your popcorn while watching the breath-stealing scenes again soon.
32. In Paragraph 1, people hold their breath because they ______.
A. have popcorn in mouth B. expect to see the villain
C. worry the hero may fail D. feel excited to get a ticket
33. In Paragraph 2, we want to enter the world of superheroes when we ______.
A. can protect the weaker ones B. cannot separate it from real life
C. want to get away from real life D. find strange situations in real life
34. How many reasons are there for people to love superhero movies?
A. Three B. Four C. Five D. Six
35. What does the writer think of the future of superhero movies?
A. People will get tired of the superhero movies soon.
B. Filmmakers may not make money from the movies.
C. Superhero movies will have to face new challenges.
D. Superhero movies will still be popular for some time.

D
There are about 7,000 languages spoken around the world. All the languages are different from one another in sounds, vocabularies and also structures. That leads to an ancient question: Does the language we speak shape the way we think? Charlemagne, Holy Roman emperor, said, “To have a second language is to have a second mind.” However, Shakespeare once had Juliet say, “What’s in a name? A rose by any other name would smell just sweet.”
Recently, researches have been done to answer this question. Kuuk Thaayoorre people in Australia don’t use words like “left” and “right”. Instead, everything is in directions: north, south, east and west. They would say, “Oh, there’s an ant on your southwest leg.” The way they say “hello” is “Which way are you going?” The answer would be “North-northeast in the far distance. How about you?” People speaking languages like this can always tell directions correctly.
Language makes a difference in how people think about time. In a research, people speaking different languages are asked to organize pictures of a man in time order. An English speaker may organize pictures from left to right. But speakers of Hebrew (希伯来语) may do it in the opposite direction. This has something to do with writing direction. How would the Kuuk Thaayoorre people organize these pictures? For them, the order of pictures changes every time they face different directions.
Languages also influence how people describe events. If a man broke a plate by accident, English speakers may say, “He broke the plate.” People speaking Spanish (西班牙语) are more likely to say, “The plate broke itself.” This difference has a consequence that makes people speaking different languages pay attention to different things. In this example, English speakers will remember who did it, but Spanish speakers are more likely to remember it was an accident. Two people see the same event but end up remembering different details about the scene.
Speakers of different languages think differently. You could ask yourself, “Why do I think the way I do?” or “How could I think differently?”
36. In Paragraph 1, Juliet’s words are mentioned to ______.
A. give a different answer B. describe the smell of a rose
C. support Charlemagne’s idea D. introduce works by Shakespeare
37. The purpose of using Kuuk Thaayoorre people as an example is to prove ______.
A. Hebrew speakers write from right to left
B. words like “left” and “right” are necessary
C. English speakers have a poor sense of direction
D. language influences ideas of direction and time
38. The underlined word “consequence” means ______.
A. fact B. purpose C. result D. advantage
39. Which of the following is TRUE according to Paragraph 4?
A. English speakers are good at remembering accidents.
B. The language of English has more details than Spanish.
C. Spanish speakers can always tell who caused accidents.
D. Details from two witnesses at one scene may be different.
40. The article is mainly about how language ______.
A. helps us find directions B. attracts human attention
C. changes in different areas D. shapes the way we think

第二卷 非选择题（共50分）

四、填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
A) 根据括号中所给的汉语写出单词，使句子意思完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为41-45的相应位置上。
41. They love ballet and dream of becoming successful __________ (舞蹈者).
42. Xuanwu Lake Park is a good place to __________ (放松) after a hard day’s work.
43. We should realize that any job we’re given is a chance to prove __________ (我们自己).
44. --- David, whatever you do, do it a hundred percent. Then you will have nothing to __________ (遗憾).
--- OK, Dad. I will try my best to do so.
45. The sweet memories of summer days are about walking __________ (沿着) Boai Road with trees and shade to feel cool.

B) 根据句子意思，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为46-50的相应位置上。
46. We can never learn to fly without __________ (crash) a few times.
47. --- Have you heard that Judy is going to work as a volunteer in a mountain area?
--- What an __________ (usual) experience! She will remember it forever.
48. The Three-Body Problem is so popular that millions of __________ (copy) have been sold out.
49. Mr. I.M. Pei who never __________ (fail) to make people amazed at his works died a few days ago.
50. --- What do you think of the weather in Nanjing recently?
--- It’s like magic. Every time the temperature rises above 30 degrees, it drops __________ (rapid) soon after that.

C) 根据短文内容，从下面方框中选择适当的单词或短语填空，使短文内容完整正确，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为51-55的相应位置上。
great; wisdom; discover; something; your own way
“It’s time,” Papa said. “I think it is,” Mama agreed. “Time for what?” Adri asked. Papa’s voice softened, “To share some (51) __________.”
Always be on the lookout for a new friend. Look for beauty wherever you are, and keep the memory of it with you. Find (52) __________. You don’t have to follow the crowd. Know when to speak; know when to listen. No matter how you look at it, there is so much to (53) __________. if you make a wrong turn, circle back. If (54) __________ is on your way, move around it.
Mama kissed Adri on the top of his head. “There’s only one you in this (55) __________ world,” she said. “Make it a better place.”
51. __________ 52. __________ 53. __________ 54. __________ 55. __________

五、阅读填空（共20小题；每小题1分，满分20分）
A) 阅读下面短文，根据所读内容，在文章后第56-65小题的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为56-65的相应位置上。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。