2012年佛山华英中学中考英语第三次模拟考试.doc

2012年佛山市高中阶段学校招生考试 英语

华英中学第三次模拟考试
本试卷共l0页，四大题，满分为120分。考试用时90分钟。
一、听力（共三节，满分20分）
第一节 听句子，选择最佳答语（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
每句播放两遍。各句播放前每小题有4秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各句内容及其相关小题，在4秒钟内从各题所给的A、B、C项中选出最佳答语，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. A. Have a good time. B. Best wishes to you. C. Congratulations
2. A. So it is. B. I’m afraid so. C. I hope so.
3. A. I’m afraid you can’t. B. That’s great.　　　　　 C. It doesn’t matter.
4. A. Good idea 　　　　　 B. Don’t mention it. 　　　C. Not at all
5. A. She is very kind. 　 B. She likes dancing.　　　 C. She is tall and pretty.
第二节 听力理解（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
每段播放两遍。各段播放前每小题有4秒钟的阅题时间。请根据各段内容及其相关小题，在4秒钟内从各题所给的A、B、C项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
听下面一段材料，回答6～7两个小题。
6. What are they going to do?
A. Have a picnic. B. Go to the cinema. C. Draw some pictures.
7. What would Anne like?
A. Oranges and coffee. B. Sandwiches and milk. C. Hamburgers and coffee.
听下面一段材料，回答8～9两个小题。
8. When was the sports meeting held?
A. Last Monday. B. Last Sunday. C. Last Saturday.
9. Who ran fastest in the 100-meter race?
A. Sam. B. Jack C. Tom
听下面一段材料，回答10～12三个小题。
10. Where does the dialogue happen?
A. In the school B. At the stadium. C. On the road.
11. Which team is Tony in?
A. HAS. B. BIG. C. The national team.
12. What was the score of HAS when it played against BIG last season?
A. 96. B. 54. C. 56.
听下面一段材料，回答13～15三个小题。
13. How long did the first balloon(气球) trip last in 1783?

A. Eight minutes. B. Eight hours. C. Eight Days.
14. Where did the American and the Frenchman decide to cross in 1784?
A. France. B. England. C. The English Channel.
15. Finally how did the American and the Frenchman save themselves?
A. They jumped out of the balloon. B. They threw away most of their things.
C. They stopped the balloon.
第三节 听取信息（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）
听下面两段独白，请根据题目要求，从所听到的内容中获取必要的信息，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16～20的相应位置上。听录音前，你将有10秒钟的阅题时间，录音播放两遍。你将有40秒钟的作答时间。
New Energy in the Twenty-first Century

Advantages
Disadvantages
Wind Energy
It’s clean. There is a lot.
It needs (16)__________.
Water Energy
(17) No __ _________
It is expensive.
Energy from the
(1)__________

(19) It’s __ _______
Only possible in a few places.
Solar Energy
Clean and plentiful(丰富的).
It depends too much on (20)__ ________
二、语言知识及应用(共两节，满分25分)
第一节　单项选择(共15小题；每小题l分，满分l5分)
阅读下列各题，从各题所给的A、B、C项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
21. Sweeping away bad luck before Spring Festival is a Chinese __________ because people hope to have a good start at the beginning of the year.
A. tradition B. decoration C. celebration
22. ---Will there be a new library in our school?
--- _______. We will have more books to read.
A. Yes, it will. B. No, there won’t. C. Yes, there will.
23. Jack is a _______ driver, but he drives ________ of all my friends.
A. careful; most carefully B. careful, most carelessly C. carefully; most careless
24. Betty was writing a postcard and ________ in her class were doing their homework at that moment.
A. the others B. others C. other
25. _______ useful advice! I will take it.
A. How B. What C. What a
26. --- _______ will people work in the future?
--- Three days a week. And they will have lots of free time.
A. How soon B. How long C. How often
27. Could you please tell me __________?
A. how much does the book cost B. how long you have stayed here
C. when you would visit the museum
28. --- What kind of movies do you like?
--- I like the movies ____ are about Chinese history.
A. who B. that C. whose
29. Study harder, or you _________ your younger brother.
A. will be caught up by B. will catch up with C. will be caught up with by
30. ---Where is John? I want to talk to him face to face.
---He _________ Australia for a week. Didn’t you know?
A. has gone to B. has been in C. has been to
31. The programme on my computer is useless. I want to ________.
A. take it off B. take it away C. take it out
32. _____ the policeman for help if you get lost in a strange city.
A. Ask B. To ask C Asking
33.---Mary didn’t come to school today, did she?
---______, though she had got a bad cold.
A. No B. Yes C. I am not sure
34. At the English corner in our school, Chinese ______ be spoken in order to practice English.
A. might not B. mustn’t C. needn’t
35. He learns English by himself ______ listening to BBC news every day.
A. with B. through C. by
第二节 完形填空(共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从各题所给的A、B、C项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
More and more people are becoming interested in the Internet. They have formed a bad habit. In fact, the bad habit has become a (36) —Internet Addiction Disorder (IAD网络综合征). Staying (37) for more than six hours a day (38) working or studying, and feeling very upset from not being able to get online, are the two major symptoms (症状) of IAD.
Internet addiction(上瘾) is (39) in China now. A recent research (40) that 42% of Chinese young people get quite interested in the web, while only 18% of Americans feel in the same (41) .
What causes IAD? Some people believe that it’s the lack (缺乏) of family care. Most children in China are the (42) ones in their families. They are only told to (43) hard, but few really care about their personal interest. So some children would like to keep (44) away from the real world.
How can people stay away from IAD? Don’t get online any more, go back to the real world and if it doesn’t work, go to see the (45) .
36. A. disease B. task C. rule
37. A. home B. online C. in school
38. A. because of B. out of C. instead of
39. A. changing B. increasing C. becoming less
40. A. shows B. notices C. knows
41. A. road B. way C. country
42. A. best B. worst C. only
43. A. study B. play C. think
44. A. themselves B. their parents C. their teachers
45. A. friend B. teacher C. doctor
三、阅读(共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
第一节 阅读理解(共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
( A )
Americans with small families own a small car or a large one. If both parents are working, they usually have two cars. When the family is large, one of the cars is sold and they will buy a van(住房汽车).
A small car can hold(容纳)four persons and a large car can hold six persons but it is very crowded(拥挤). A van hold seven persons easily, so a family with three children could ask their grandparents to go on a holiday travel They could all travel together.
Mr.Hagen and his wife had a third child last year. This made them sell a second car and buy a van. Their children sixth and seventh seat are used to put other things, for a family of five must carry many suitcases(衣箱)when they travel. When they arrive at their grandparents’ home , the suitcases are brought into the two seats can then carry the grandparents.
Americans call vans motor homes. A motor home is always used for holidays. When a family are traveling to the mountains or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or to the seaside, they can live in their motor home for a few days or weeks. All the members of a big family can enjoy a happier life when they are traveling together. That is why motor homes have become very popular. In America there are many parks for motor homes.
46. From the passage, a van is also called ____________.
A. a motor car B. a motor home C. a motorbike D. a big truck
47. Before Mr. Hagen and his wife bought a van, they__________.
A. sold their old house B. moved to their grandparents’ house
C. built a new place for a van D. sold their second car
48. A motor home is usually owned by a family with__________.
A. a baby B. much money C. more than two children D. interest in vans
49. Americans usually use motor homes____________.
A. to travel with all the family members of holiday
B. to do some shopping with all the family members
C. to visit their grandparents at weekends
D. to drive their children to school every day
50. Motor homes have become popular because___________.
A. they can take people to another city when people are free
B. they can let families have a happier life when they go out for their holidays
C. some people think motor homes are cheap
D. big families can put more things in motor homes
( B )
In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business .But he was not a good artist .So he invented a very simple camera.He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden .That was the first photo.
The next important date in the history of photography was in 1837. That year, Daguere, another Frenchman ,took a picture of his reading room .He used a new kind of camera in a different way. In his picture you could see everything very clearly , even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.
Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from all around the world .people took picture of famous buildings, cities and mountains.
In about 1840, photography was developed .Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things .That was not simple .The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them , for example, some in the United States worked so hard.
Mathew Brady was a famous American photographers. He took many picture of great people .The picture were unusual because they were very lifelike(栩栩如生的).
Photography also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century .Some photos were not just copies of the real world .They showed feelings, like other kinds of art.
51. The first photo taken by Niepce was a picture of ____________
A. his business 　　 　B. his house　　　　C. his garden 　　　D. his window
52. The Daguerrotype was____________.
A. a Frenchman　　B. a kind of picture 　　C. a kind of camera 　　D. a photographer
53. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had to__________.
A. watch lots of films B. buy an expensive camera
C. stop in most cities D. take many films and something else with him
54. Mathew Brady______________.
A. was very lifelike 　　　　　　　　B. was famous for his unusual pictures
C. was quite strong 　　　　　　　　D. took many pictures of moving people
55. This passage tells us_____________.
A. how photography was developed B. how to show your ideas and feelings in pictures
C. how to take pictures in the world D. how to use different cameras
( C )
According to a new survey, students’ safety has become a big problem .Nearly 50% of students say they are worried about robbery (抢劫)on the way to and from school. Now in main big cities in China, some schools have taught all unusual lesson: self-protection. Students like this lesson because there are no exams or boring classes. And they can learn how to save lives and know how to stop danger before it really happens.
Chen Haoyu, a teacher at Beijing No. 25 Middle School ,gives young students advice on how to deal with danger.
If you are robbed, keep calm. lf you can not cry for help or run away. Give the robber your money. Try to remember what the robber looks like and tell the police later. If you are in a traffic accident.
It a car hits you, you should remember the car number. If it is a bicycle, try to call your parents before you let the rider go. This is because you don't know how seriously you are hurt
If it is raining hard and there is lighting. (闪电),don’t stay in high places and stay away from trees.
When there is a fire, get away as fast as yon can. Put wet things on your body and try to find an exit. Do not take the lift.
　　If someone is drowning(溺水), if you can’t swim, don’t get into the water. Cry out for help.
　　Remember that danger is never as far away as you think. Take care of yourself at all times!
56. Why do students like the self-protection lesson?
　　①Because there are no tests.
　　②Because the lessons are boring
　　③ Because they can learn how to save lives.
　　④Because they know how to slop danger before it happens.
　　A. ①② B. ②③ C. ①②④ D. ①③④
57. What will you do if a bicycle hurts you?
A.I will remember the bicycle number.
B.I won't let the rider go until I call my parents.
　　C. will let the rider go before I call my parents.
　　D.I will let the rider go because I know how seriously I am hurt.
58.lf your house is on fire, you must __________.
A. put dry things on your body
B. run quickly and take the lift
　　C. run away and find an exit as quickly as you Can
　　D. take everything you have and then run away
59. There _______ ways of self-protection mentioned in the passage.
　　A. 3 B. 4 C.5 D.6
60.The best title for this passage is _ .
　　A. How to Keep Calm B. Self-protection 　C. An usual lesson D. Danger
第二节 主题匹配(共5小题；每小题2分，满分l0分)
阅读下面 5段语言材料，从A到F选项中找出与它们相对应的标题，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
61. In many western schools, sports day is a big event. Children take part in competitive(竞争性的) sports, trying to break school records and take the first place.
62. Sports days, or sports meets, are usually held in the warmer seasons, either at the beginning or the end of the school year. They are also called field days.
63. Primary school sports days are fun. They usually have activities such as the egg and the spoon race and the sack race. Other events include the skipping race(跳绳) and the three-legged race. In middle and high schools, sports days include many of the common track and field events (田径项目). They are more serious and competitive than primary school ones.
64. Students’ parents and other relatives also come to the school on sports days. They watch children play. Many schools in the West have “mothers and fathers” races for parents to take part in!
65. Although sports days are exciting they also have some problems. According to some reports in the US, sports days have become too competitive to be good for students. Some parents put too much pressure(压力) on the children. Some schools don’t have “mothers and fathers” races any more as there is much fighting and cheating.
A. Sports days in primary schools are different from sports days in middle and high schools.
B. Why are sports days called field days?
C. Sports day is a big event in western schools
D. Sports days are held in warmer seasons.
E. Parents can also take part in sports days.
F. There are some problems in sports days
四、综合语言运用(共三节，满分35分)
第一节综合填空(共10小题；每小题l分，满分l0分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后根据短文内容和首字母提示，在短文空白处填入适当的单词，使短文内容通顺、合理。并将完整的单词填写在答卷的相应位置上。
I think life will be very different in one hundred years’ time. Some things will be better but some things will be (66)w______.
Firstly, people won’t live on the