2012中考英语动词填空模拟及答案.doc

2012中考英语动词填空模拟
There is a beautiful island located(位于) at the outer east side of the Zhujiang River mouth, which(1)______(call) Hong Kong. It lies to the west of Macao and (2)________(face) to the South China Sea. On the north it is connected(相连) with the Shenzhen Special Economical Zone.
It (3)__________(cover)about 1,075 square kilometers (平方公里)and includes three main parts—Hong Kong Island, Kowloon Peninsula(半岛) and New Territories. There are more than six million people in Hong Kong, of which about 98 percent are Chinese. Its weather is suitable and its scenery（风景） is very beautiful.
Although its area isn’t very large, its economy（经济）（4）_________(develop)quickly. Today’s Hong Kong (5)___|__ already________ (become) the famous heart of the international trade, finance(金融), shipping, travel and information. It (6)_______(keep) the foreign trade relations with over 170 countries. It has a lot of skyscrapers(摩天大楼) and docks. It attracts several million travelers all over the world.
About 109 years ago, Hong Kong (7)_______ (occupy) (强占) by the English invaders （侵掠者）and (8)______(rule) for nearly one century. This is the great shame（耻辱） for the Chinese nation.

On July 1, 1997, Hong Kong returned to the embrace(怀抱) of our motherland again. This is one of the greatest events in the 20th century. It (9)_________ (end) the English rule. It shows that Chinese people have wiped out the shame. It(10) _______(write) in the historical records forever.

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Once there lived an old man in a town. He always 1___ (forget) a lot of things. So his wife always had 2_______ (say) to him, “3_____ _____ (not forget) this.”
One day, he went on a long trip alone. Before he left home, his wife said, “ Now you 4___ (have) all these things. They are what you 5_____ (need) for your trip. 6 ___ (take) care of your things during the trip.” He went to the station. He bought a ticket and got on the train with it.
About an hour later, the conductor began 7___(check) the tickets. He came to the old man and said, “Will you please show me your ticket?” The old man looked for his ticket in all his pockets, but he 8___ (not find) it. He was very worried. “I can’t find my ticket. I really bought a ticket before I got on the train,” said the old man.
“I think you are right. I believe you 9____ (buy) a ticket,” said the conductor kindly But the old man still looked worried and said sadly, “You don’t know why I am worried. If I don’t find my ticket, I 10_____ (not remember) my station. Where am I going?”

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Bananas don’t grow on trees. They grow on a thick stalk(茎) that (1)________(look) just a little like a stalk of corn. The stalk is soft enough (2)_______( cut) with a knife.
It takes about a year before bananas are ready to be picked. Some are as small as fingers. Others are as long and thick as men’s arms. Some banana plants grow as tall as a house — even taller!
Not all bananas are eaten as fruit. Some never get sweet, and they (3)______(cook) as a kind of vegetable.
People in most countries never see a banana until it reaches the store. But if you visited a country where it’s hot and rains a lot all the year, you(4)________(see) a banana plantation(种植园), a large farm where bananas grow.
The tasty fruit doesn’t come from a seed （种子）but from a root(5)_______( plante) deep in the ground. First a stalk pushes up into the air. Then leaves (6)________(appear). In the beginning the banana plant grows very fast—sometimes as much as the length（长） of your feet in one night. Soon, sweet-smelling flowers appear, and when their flowers drop off, bananas begin to grow.
As they get bigger, bananas start(7)_______( turn) up. It looks as if they’re growing upside down!Bananas are ready to eat when they turn soft and yellow. But they(8)_________( pick) long before this — when they’re hard and bright green. This is because bananas have to travel many miles before they arrive at a store. On trucks and boats and trains bananas travel all over the world. There are special boats just for bananas and special trains that keep them just cool enough so that they (9)______(get) ripe while(10)_________( travel). If bananas are picked when they are ripe, they will spoil(变坏) on the way.

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UN Year of Deserts
The United Nations 1____ already ______(name) 2006 as the International Year of Deserts（国际沙漠年）. The UN wants people 2______(notice) the beauty and wonders of deserts throughout the world.But the United Nations also wants to pay attention to the dangers the world faces as more and more land becomes desert. Large amounts of land that could once grow crops 3_______( become) desert. Food 4_____no longer ______(grow) in those areas. More land is lost to be desert each year.
Special habitats
Deserts are special environments,Tt's home of many different animals and plants. For thousands of years, deserts have also been home of many civilizations（居民）.
Deserts are fragile environments. The UN is hoping to protect the older deserts as well as ______(stop) new deserts from forming.
The dangers
Experts believe that one-third of the earth’s land surface 6_____( threaten)（威胁） by the loss of farmland. When the land dries up and becomes desert, people cannot grow enough crops to eat. Experts believe this danger 7_____( effect) 1 billion people.Africa has been especially hard by 8______(grow) deserts. Experts believe about two-thirds of Africa’s people are threatened by this loss of farmland.
Causes
People and climate change 9______( cause) much land to turn to desert. People cutting down too many trees has harmed the land. So more cropland is lost each year, more and more people try to live for the remaining good land. This speeds up the harm to the land.
Scientists are using pictures 10______(take) from space to describe the growing deserts.
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Protect wild animals
A thousand years ago, Hong Kong 1_______(covered) by a thick forest. As more and more people came to live in Hong Kong, these trees 2______(cut) down and burnt. Now there is no forest 3_______(leave), though there are still some small areas are covered by trees. We call these woods. Elephants, tigers, and many other animals used to live in the thick forest.
When people came to live in Hong Kong, the animals began to die out. Early farmers grew rice and 4_____(keep) pigs and chickens in the valleys（山谷）. They cut down the trees and burnt them. They needed fire 5______( keep) themselves warm in winter, to cook their food and to keep away from the dangerous animals. Elephants quickly disappeared because there was not enough food for them. So 6_____(do)most of the wolves and tigers. Monkeys and many other animals soon died for the same reason.
You might think that there are no longer any animals in Hong Kong except in the zoos. But there are still about 36 different animals 7_____(live)there. One of the most interesting animals in Hong Kong is the barking deer. （赤麂）These are beautiful little animals with a rich brown coat and a white patch under the tail.It8_____(look) like deer but they are much smaller. They are less than two feet tall. They make a sound rather like a dog barking. There are now not many barking deer 9_____(leave). So it is important for people to protect them and other wild animals.
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Heavy schoolbags
Are you carrying too much on your back at school? I’m sure lots of children of your age (1)______( say) “yes”. Not only do the students in China have this problem, but also children in the United States have heavy schoolbags.
Experts (2)________( start) to worry that younger and younger students (3)______ (have) back and neck problems as a result of schoolbags being too heavy for them.
“It’s hard for me(4)_______( go) upstairs with my bag because it’s too heavy,” said Rick Hammond, an 11-year-old student in the US.
Rick is among students who have common schoolbags with two straps(带子) to carry, but many students(5)________( choose) rolling(有滚轮的) bags.
But even with rolling bags, going upstairs and getting on buses are still problems for children. Many of them hurt their backs or necks because of the heavy schoolbags.
But how much is proper for them? Doctors say students(6)________(carry) no more than 10% to 15% of their own body weight(重量).Scott Bautch, a back doctor, said children under Grade 4 should stay with 10%. But it is also important that other children don’t stay with over 15%, because their bodies (7)_____ still______( grow). “Children are losing their balance and falling down with their schoolbags,” he said.Parents and teachers are starting to tell children to only take home the books they need (8)______( read) that night. Some teachers are using pieces of paper or thin workbooks for students (9)_______(take) home.One of the best answers is, as some children (10)______say), to have no homework at all!
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　If you look at the sky one night and see something （1）_______(move) and shining that you (2)_____ never ______(see) before, it might be a comet (彗星).
　　A comet sometimes looks like a star. Like a planet, a comet has no light of its own. It shines from the sunlight it reflects (反射). Like the earth, a comet (3)_______(go) round the sun, but on a much longer path (轨道) than the earth travels.
If a comet isn’t a star, what is it then?
　 Some scientists think that a large part of a comet is water frozen into pieces of ice and (4)______(mix) with iron and rock dust and perhaps a few big pieces of rock. When sunshine melts (融化) the ice in the comet, great clouds of gas go trailing after it. These clouds, together with the dust, form a long tail.
Many people perhaps (5)______(see) a comet. However no one knows how many comets there are. There (6)_______( be) millions of comets, but only a few come close enough for us to see.
　An Englishman (7)_______(name) Edmund Halley, who lived from 1656 to 1742, found out a lot about the paths that comets take through the sky. Some comets move out of our sight and never come back. Others keep (8)________(come) back at regular times. A big comet that keeps coming back was named after Halley because he was the one who worked out when it(9)_______(come) back again. Maybe you have ever seen Halley’s Comets because the last time it came close to the sun and the earth was in the year 1986. Then people all over the world were outside at night to look at it. You (10)____probably ______( see) Halley’s Comets when it comes near the earth again.
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Mr Clark (1)___________ (bear) in a small town of England. When he finished middle school, he (2)find) work in the police station and he (3)___________(work) there for 42 years and he’ll retire(退休)this autumn. He tried to work hard in the past 42 years but he wasn’t a lucky man and never caught a thief. He was often sorry for it.
Last weekend, when Mrs Clarke (4)____________ (cook) supper, she found there was no sugar. So she asked her husband (5)____________ (buy) some in the shop near their house. He came in the shop and found a young man (6)__________ (steal) some money from a woman’s bag. He ran to the thief quickly, but the young man found and (7)___________ (run) away at onec. Mr Clarke ran after him. The thief ran into a blind alley（死胡同）and Mr Clarke (8)__________ (catch) him at last.
“Please give me a chance, sir, said the young man. “I never stole before.”
“Who (9)__________ (give) me a chance?” said Mr Clarke. “I’ll soon retire and I (10)_________ (catch) a thief for the first time!”
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A sudden ringing woke Peter up. He turned on the light, got up and went to answer the phone.
“ 1 you still _______ (lie) on the bed?” Came Henry’s voice.
“Yes,” said Peter. “But it’s only four.”
“ 2 your watch ________ (not work)? Open the window and look outside. I 3 (arrive) at the bus stop already.”
Peter did as his friend said. It 4 (snow) heavily and it was white everywhere. Skiing was both Peter’s favorite hobby and mine, too. I ran to the telephone and said, “Wait for me there and I 5 (get) there in a quarter of an hour.”
After half an hour Peter and his friends were on the bus. It was cold and the roads 6 (cover) with snow. The old driver seemed to be careful. He drove slowly and all the passengers 7 (understand) why he did so.
Suddenly a woman in the front of the bus called out. People 8 (not know) what happened and they looked ahead. A truck quickly approached our bus. We were too 9 (frighten) to say a word. At the last moment the driver turned the bus aside and it hit a tree by the road. The truck passed by quickly and fell into the river. Luckily, none of the passengers 10 (hurt). But they were not happy. They had to save the truck driver!
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Once a boy came to ask a fisherman how (1)___________(become) cleverer because his mother always called him “foolish boy”. “That is easy, ” answered the fisherman. “I know one way to make you (2)_______(be ) a clever boy.”“Really?”
“Of course. A fish head is good for brains. If you eat one a day, you (3)______(become) much cleverer. (4) _________(pay) only three pounds for one fish head.” The boy paid him three pounds and the fisherman (5)_________(cut) off a fish head and gave it to him.
A raw(生的)fish head is no good--- not even for a hungry boy (6)______(eat)----but the boy ate it up in two gulps.“Do you feel anything?” asked the fisherman after the boy ate the fish head.“Not in my head,” said the boy.The boy sat on the ground and (7)_________(think), “One whole fish (8)_________(cost) only two pounds, but I (9)_________(pay) him three pounds for the fish already. Why couldn’t I have the whole fish for soup, a head for brain and one pound left over?” He jumped up and shouted at the fisherman, “The fish head(10) _________(work) now, you see?”
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Peter went into a restaurant because he was very hungry. The weather was cold and so he asked the waiter (1)________(bring) him a bowl of hot soup.
“What kind of soup, sir?” asked the waiter.
“Chicken,” said Peter. “I feel like (2)_________(drink) some thick chicken soup.”“No problem sir.”
After a short time, the waiter came back with a bowl of hot soup. Peter looked at it and said, “The soup can’t (3)________(eat), I think.”
“Then, I’ll bring you some fish soup. I’m sure you(4)__________(like) it. ”Ten minutes later, the waiter brought Peter a bowl of fish soup. After 5)__________(look) at it, Peter said again that he couldn’t eat the soup. When the waiter was on his way to the kitchen, he met the head of the restaurant and (6)____(tell) him that Peter was very hard.
When he (7)_________(hear) this, the boss went up to Peter and asked him politely, “Sir,