2012 江苏省苏州市中考英语真题及答案
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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,选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. — She has gone abroad,______?
—No. She is still teaching us English at our school now.
A. is she
B. isn’t she
C. has she
D.
hasn’t she
2. — Congratulations! Your speech is excellent.
— ______.
A. Oh, no
B. It doesn’t matter
C. That’s a good idea
D. Many thanks
3. In order to find ______ better job, she planned to learn ______ second foreign
language.
A. the; a
B. a; a
C. the; the
D. a; the
4. — Could we see each other at 9 o’clock tomorrow morning?
— Sorry, let’s make it ______ time.
A. other’s
B. the other
C. another
D. other
5. Yesterday I downloaded a new program ______ the Internet. Now I can watch TV
and movies ______ my computer.
A. from; on
B. with; in
C, in; with
D. on; from
6. It was ______ lovely weather ______ we decided to spend the day on the beach.
A. such a; that
B. such; that
C. such; as
D. so; that
7. —I hear you’ve got a new iPhone 4S. ______ I have a look?
—Yes, certainly.
A. May
B. Do
C. Shall
D. Should
8. The chairperson received about three ______ applications to join the Bird
watching Club.
A. hundred
B. hundreds of
C. hundred of
D. hundreds
9. You don’t know ______ I want to see you again. It’s a year since I last saw
you.
A. how soon
B. how long
C. how often
D. how much
10. 一 What would you do if it ______ tomorrow?
一 We have to carry it on, since we’ve got everything ready.
A. is raining
B. rains
C. will rain
D, rain
11. I had to call a taxi because the box was ______ than I’d expected.
A. heavy
B. heavier
C. the heavier
D. the heaviest
12. Some of my friends eat with their eyes. They prefer to order what
______
nice.
A.feels
B. smells
C. looks
D. tastes
13. We haven’t discussed ______ yet
.
A. where we are going to put our new table
B. where are we going to put our new table
C. what we are going to put our new table
D. what are we going to put our new table[来源:Zxxk.Com]
14. Maggie wanted an evening job that would allow her to ______ her son during the
day.
A. look at
B. look around
C. look after
D. look out
15. The film made by ______ Walt Disney all over the world.
A. is used to show
B. is used to showing
C. used to show D. used to be shown
二、完形填空(共 10 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 10 分)
先通读下面的短文,掌握其大意,然后在每小题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,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。
Is the art of conversation dying? The other day, my wife
16
two teenage
children did something we haven’t
17 for ages. It didn’t require the Internet,
a TV screen, batteries… or anything else for that matter. But we all
18
it
so much we’re thinking of doing it again sometime.
We had a conversation. The kind of real, live conversation that was
19
when
I was growing up, but which seems all too rare these days. Today we have chat rooms,
text messages, e-mails but we seem to be losing the
20
of communicating
face-to-face. We all know
21
young people are out on a date(约会)these days,
they spend most of that time
22
their mobile phones. And teenagers nowadays
seem to
23
communicating with their friends by sending text messages rather
than actually
24
to them.
If we carry on like this,in the future, we’ll lose the use of our
25 . What
do you think? E-mail me, and who knows? Maybe we could even have a real conversation
about it!
16. A. and
17. A. made
18. A. acted
19.A.common
20.A.name
21. A. because
22. A. buying
23.A.dislike
24.A.writing
25. A. eyes
or
known
blamed
B.careful
art
how
collccting
prefer
introducing
voiccs
D. after
D. seen
D. enjoyed
D. enough
D. aim
D. unless
C. but
C. done
C. decided
C. extra
C. attention
C. when
C. repairing[来 D. answering
C. admire
C. speaking
C. mouths
D. believe
D. hurrying
D. hands
三、阅读理解(共 15 小题;每小题 2 分,满分 30 分}
阅读下列短文,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
You may not have heard the words “freshman fifteen” before, but they are very
important for students who are entering university. A freshman is a first-year
college student. “Fifteen” refers to fifteen pounds—the fifteen pounds added
to a student’s weight in his or her first year. The re are a number of reasons why
first-year university students gain (增力 n) weight; but it’s encouraging to know
that freshmen don’t have to add these harmful fifteen pounds.
Mistakes choosing food
University kitchens serve(供应)many kinds of food. Some students choose
unhealthy food,because now their parents are not nearby to help them choose. Some
students visit the kitchen many times while studying. Late at night, some students
get harmful fast food such as fish and chips with Coke to drink. Students also have
less time for walking, running, and doing sports because of their schoolwork.
Eating right
If you,re careful, you don,t have to add fifteen pounds. Here are some ideas:
Think more about what you eat.
Eat plenty of vegetables and healthy meats.
Don’t eat desserts full of sugar; have fruit after dinner.
Try not to eat so much unhealthy food while you study.
It,s all right to have a little fast food sometimes—but not often.
Write down the foods you eat.
Walk, run, do sports—move and you will feel better!
Remember that the “freshman fifteen” can happen to anyone. Talk to your friends
about it. Together, try to eat healthy food and not to eat unhealthy food. Walking,
running, and playing sports is always more fun with friends. Help each other and
you can have a healthy and happy freshman year.
26. The “freshman fifteen” is ______.
A. weight that high school students gain
B. weight that first-year university students can gain
C. fift een pounds of food that first-year students eat
D. fifteen students who eat unhealthy food
27. The main idea of this reading is to ______.
A. get students ready to gain fifteen pounds
B. sell healthy food to new students
C. help new university students not to gain fifteen pounds
D. show the mistakes students make in studying
28. Which of these mistakes students make choosing food is not mentioned in the
reading?
A. Choosing unhealthy food. B. Visiting the kitchen while studying.[来
源:Zxxk.Com]
C. Getting fast food at night.
D. Eating too much chocolate.
29. Which of these ideas would the writer of the reading probably agree with?
A. You’d better not eat unhealthy food.
B. Not eating unhealthy foods is easier with friends’ help.
C. Gaining fifteen pounds can help you study better.
D. Some students can eat anything they want.
B
What would you do if you found a snake in your house? Many people might be afraid
or try to kill it. However, if you live in North Carolina in the USA, one thing
you can do is to call the Snake Catchers.
The Snake Catchers are four men who love snakes, even poisonous ones. Their
newspaper advertisement says, “Snake Catchers: free snake removal(除去)一 Please
do not kill them — Call us. ”
The Snake Catchers, who started their service in 1998, don’t charge anything
for helping people. “We do this as a hobby,” explained Fred Johnson, one of the
Snake Catchers.
Because of their love of snakes, the Snake Catchers try to keep them alive.
“One man asked us to kill a python(蟒蛇), so he could make a pair of boots from
the skin. We refused, because we like snakes, and we don’t want to see them killed, ”
said Fred.
Some of the snakes that they catch are kept as pets; some are given to the North
Carolina State University. Most, including the poisonous snakes, are set free in
the wild, usually in a national park.
Fred suggests that people should treat snakes with care. “Actually snakes are
very shy and gentle creatures. They only attack if they are frightened. However,
you have to know how to treat a snake properly!”
According to one happy family, the Snake Catchers are good. One day, the
Greenwood fa mily found a snake skin in the kitchen. They looked very carefully and
saw a snake sleeping behind a cupboard. They thought about what to do. Then Steve
Greenwood remembered the advertisement for the Snake Catchers. He called them.
“The Snake Catchers arrived within an hour and they finished the job quickly
too,” said Steve Greenwood. “One of them went into the kitchen, found the snake
and took it out alive. The Snake Catchers did a very good job.”
Last year, the Snake Catchers removed more than seventy snakes from houses in
North Carolina.
30. The Snake Catchers catch snakes because ______.
A. they want to kill the snakes
B. they like trying to catch snakes
C. they don’t want people to hurt snakes
D. they like eating snakes
31. When a man asked them to kill a python, the Snake Catchers
______.
A.made some boots from the skin
B. were very happy
C. gave him some old boots
D. did not agree
32. The Snake Catchers set most of the snakes free ______.
A. in a national park
C. in a garden
B. in a university
D. in their own houses
33. According to Fred,
______.
A. s nakes are very dangerous B. people should attack snakes
C. snakes are not usually dangerous
D. people should run away if they see a
snake
C
In 1901, the citizens of Colorado Springs in the USA decided to collect everyday
items and to seal (封住)them in a special box. The box was marked “To be opened
after midnight, December 31st, AD 2000”,and was kept in the Colorado College Library.
One hundred years later, on the appointed (约定)day, 300 people gathered to
watch the opening of the box. Many in the crowd were the descendants (后代)of people
who had placed things inside the box.
When the box was opened after midnight, the things inside the box were in very
good condition. There were newspapers, photos, diaries, name cards, family trees,
books and lots of letters, including one written by Theodore Roosevelt, who became
the President of the USA later that year. One of Roosevelt’s friends lived in
Colorado Springs at that time.
Many of the letters were written to their descendants. They describe the hopes
that the people of 1901 had for the people of the next century. At that time, Colorado
Springs had just a few thousand people. Now nearly half a million people live there.
Colorado College Library has scanned the materials and put them on a website.
Cecil Muller, whose grandfather had placed a collection of postcards in the box,
said that the time capsule was a great treasure. “This is a wonderful educational
resource(资源). We can learn so much about our history,”he said. “I never knew
my grandfather, but now I feel very close to him. ”
34. According to the passage, “time capsule” means ______.
A. a collection of clocks and wat ches
B. a machine for travelling through time
C. a collection of items for people to look at in the future
D. a collection of unwanted items
35. Many of the letters in the time capsule talked about
.
A. the history of the town
B. the people who lived in the town
C. the politics of the USA
D. people’s hopes for the future
36. Cecil Muller says that the time capsule ______.
A.helps him to get to know his grandfather
B. is worth a lot of money
C. brings back his memories of his grandfather
D. helps him to remember his younger day[来源:Zxxk.Com]
D
TOKYO, JAPAN--What do you do when you see a cockroach (蟑螂)? Do you hit it
w ith a newspaper? Do you step on it?
When researchers at Tokyo University see a cockroach, they take the remote
control and make the cockroach turn around, run left or right, or go forward. These
scientists are changing the cockroaches into robots. Each cockroach has a very small
pack that has in it a microprocessor(微处理器).Then researchers can send signals
from the remote control to the pack. The signals control the movements of the
cockroaches.
Why does anyone want to control a cockroach? “Insects can do many things that
people can’t,” says Isao Shimoyama, head of robot research at Tokyo University.
In a few years, he says, these robot insects will carry very small cameras. They
will be able to move through earthquake rubble(瓦砾)to look for people or move under
doors to find information about someone.
This may seem strange, but the Japanese government thinks the research is very
important. The government is giving the scientists $ 5 million for this research.
First, the researchers breed (培育)hundreds of cockroaches. They use only the
American cockroach because it is bigger and stronger than other cockroaches. Then
they choose the best cockroaches and remove their wings and antennae(触须). They
put small packs where the antennae were. The packs weigh about three grams, or about
two times the weight of the cockroaches themselves. “Cockroaches are very strong,”
says Ralph Holzer, who is a researcher at Tokyo University. “They can lift 20 times
their own weight. ”
With a remote control, the scientists send signals to the packs. When a cockroach
gets the signal, it moves. The problem is that the cockroaches don71 alw ays move
in the right direction.
37. The scientists are changing the cockroaches i nto robots because ______.
A. they want cockroaches to do things people can’t in the future
B. they want to control the movements of the cockroaches
C. they want cockroaches to take photos of the earthquakes[来源:Z。xx。k.Com]
D. they want to send signals to the packs on the cockroaches
38. What can cockroaches do to help people?
A. They can lift 20 times their own weight.
B. They can help people to carry very small cameras.