上海中考二模英语试题（一）

 （满分150分）2014.4
（完卷时间：100分钟  答案一律写在答卷纸上）

Part 1  listening (第一部分 听力)
I. Listening Comprehension (听力理解): (共30分)
A. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片) ( 6分)

B. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案)  (10分)
7. A）Warm.         B) Rainy.         C) Snowy.       D) Cold.
8. A)  At 7:00 a.m.    B) At 7:30 a.m.    C) At 7:00 p.m. D) At 7:30 p.m.
9. A）Mother and son.                  B) Teacher and student
  C)  Doctor and patient                D) Driver and passenger.
10. A) By bus.        B) By underground. C) On foot.       D) By taxi.
11. A) A ring.         B) A scarf        C) A watch.      D) A skirt.
12. A) Have lunch with him.              B) Help Jim clean the house.
   C) Look after her baby.               D) Prepare lunch for Jim.
13. A) He got up later than usual           B) His car broke down.
   C) He was stuck in traffic.             D) He left home too late.
14. A) Megan doesn’t like the novel.        B) Rob has read the novel.
   C) Megan has seen the movie.          D) Rob wants to see the movie.

C. Listen to the passage and tell whether the following statements are true or false (判断下列句子是否符合你听到的内容, 符合的用“T”表示，不符合的用“F”表示) (7分)
15. Sam teaches others to play basketball.
16. Joe’s school basketball team lost all the games before Sam helped them.
17. In the first half of the 11th game, the school team didn’t play well.
18. The team wanted to invite Michael Jordan to join them.
19. Miller is a very famous basketball player.
20. The story mainly tells us that we should encourage team work if we want to succeed.

D. Listen to the passage and complete the following sentences（听短文，完成下列内容。每空格限填一词）（7分）
21. Plane spotting(看飞机) is a great example of a ____ but ____ hobby.
22. Plane spotters like to guess ____ _____ of the plane and the year it was built.
23. Bird-watching started as a way for people to ____ _____, and over time it became more useful.
24. Bird-watchers formed groups to find ways to protect ____ ____ and the environment.
25. Some people who are skillful at computers have ____ ____ computer work as a hobby.

Part 2  Vocabulary and Grammar

 (第二部分 词汇和语法)
II. Choose the best answer (选择最恰当的答案) (共20分)
26.She heard a very loud noise coming from the forest. Which of the following is correct in pronunciation for the underlined word in the sentence?
A [hɪəd]         B [hɜ:d]        C[hɑ:d]       D [heəd]
27.Which of the following underlined parts is different in pronunciation from others?
A Our flight was canceled.            B My father has bought a DSLR camera.
C Smoking can damage your health.    D They are holding a debate on keeping pets.
28.My father ______his sixties, but he looks much younger.
A in            B on           C at          D for
29.Do you have to wear______ uniform if you work at McDonald’s?
A a             B an           C the         D /
30.Jimmy has made up ______ mind to go to Oxford University for further study.
A he            B his           C him        D himself
31.The Chinese______ the first to use paper money, probably as early as the 11th century.
A is            B are           C was        D were
32.This pair of shoes is to small for me ,can you show me _____pair?
A other         B others        C another      D the others
33.They are looking for someone who is familiar ______ computers.
A to            B with         C at          D for
34.The food in this restaurant tastes ________ and the price is right.
A good         B well         C bad         D badly
35.This kind of car is _______ than that one because it uses less fuel.
A popular      B more popular   C most popular  D the most popular
36.Must we hand in the exercise book now?
   No, you______, you can hand in it tomorrow.
A mustn’t      B needn’t        C can’t        D shouldn’t
36.-Must we hand in the exercise book now?
--No, you ____________. You can hand it in tomorrow.
A. mustn’t      B. needn’t    C. can’t         D. shouldn’t
37. You should go to bed early, ____________you will feel tired in the morning.
A. or           B. but       C. and          D. so
38. The President __________China in the near future.
A. visit         B. visited     C. have visited    D. will visit
39. The old lady _________along the road when the car hit her suddenly.
A. was walking   B. walked    C. had walked    D. has walked
40. __________there are many advantages of television, some people are not satisfied with it.
A. until        B. Since       C. Although     D. When
41. If I can’t finish _____________my homework now, I’ll go on with it after supper.
A. do          B. doing      C. did           D. to do
42. The old man was upset because his favorite vase __________ by his grandson.
A. broke       B. had broken   C. is broken     D. was broken
43. The teacher told the student __________attention to his spelling and grammar.
A. pay         B. will pay      C. to pay       D. paying
44. --__________do you go to the after-school activity centre?
  ---Once a week.
A. How long   B. How often   C. How soon     D. How many times
45. –Would you like to play basketball with me after school?
  ---____________I have to work for the wall paper.
A .That’s great   B. I’m afraid I can’t   C. Sure. Please go ahead.   D. No, I wouldn’t

III. Complete the following passage with the words or phrases in the box. Each can only be used once (将下列单词或词组填入空格。每空限填一词，每词只能填一次)  （共8分）
A.compared    B. effect    C. course    D. effort    E. improve
Several studies in the past few years have shown that music lessons can have a good   46   on kids’ brain.
The longer a student learns it, the more greatly he will   47  . As little as four months of music lessons can lead to progress during brain development. The study followed a few four to six year old music learners over the   48   of a year, measuring changes in each kid’s brain. When the scientists
  49   the music learner with a group of non-music learners, they found music students’ brains were developing differently.
A.by the end of    B. president    C. surprising    D. surprised    E. turned out
Michelle was flying from Houston to London, and during the flight, she began talking to John, the man in the seat next to her. She found out that he was   50   of a famous jeans company based in Texas, in fact, she was wearing a pair of blue jeans from his company! But that wasn’t the most   51   thing. He had lived in San Francisco when he was in high school, and it   52   that he knew Michelle’s best friend, who also grew up in San Francisco! They continued talking. And   53   the trip, they felt that they had known each other for much longer than eight hours.

IV. Complete the sentences with the given words in their proper forms（用括号中所给单词 的适当形式完成下列句子)  (共8分)
54.  The club organizes short trips to the mountains,        , museums ,and so on.(beach)
55.  After years’ practice, the boy became a very famous        (art)
56.  The love from our parent is the        love in the world (deep)
57.  Italy beat France by 6:4,and won the championship for the        time (four)
58.  The weather is very        at this time of year.(change)
59. He played the piano so          that a lot of people lost themselves in it.(beautiful)
60. People are wondering how Malasia Airline Flight MH370 could          off radar(appear)
61. It’s Dad’s birthday and we’re going out for a meal to            (celebration)

V. Rewrite the following sentences as required（根据所给要求，改写下列句子。每空格限填一词)  (共14分)
62. Sally had to finish her homework before dinner.(改为否定句)
Sally                 to finish her homework before dinner.
63. My mother prefers to pay for things by credit card.(对划线部分提问)
                  your mother prefer to pay for things .
64. The driver and the injured passengers were sent to the hospital immediately. (保持句意基本不变)
The driver and the injured passengers were sent to the hospital                    .
65. The bookcase was too heavy for little Susan to lift.(保持句意基本不变)
The bookcase was           heavy          little Susan couldn’t lift it..
66. “Have you finished your project on France?” asked Tom.(改为宾语从句)
Tom asked           I            finished my project on France.
67. The school shouldn’t allow students to take iPads to school.(改为被动语态)
Students shouldn’t                       to take iPads to school
68. a fireworks, show, end, the festival, with ,will(连词成句)
                                                       

Part 3  Reading and Writing（第三部分 读写）
VI．Reading comprehension （阅读理解）：（共50分）
A. Choose the best answer（根据短文内容，选择最恰当的答案) ( 12分)
Dear Addie,
Greetings from New Jersey, how is New Zealand? I’m very excited to have you as my pen pal. I guess it’s my turn to tell you about myself.  
First off, I live with my parents, two sisters, and our pet dog Brighty. Our town is called Whippangong. It is only about a half-hour away from New York City. My oldest sister, Ingrid, just turned 17, that means she now has a drive’s license. She drives us to the mall. Do you have a mall near you in Te Awamutu? My other sister is 11 and her name is Lucy. I guess I would say that she is my best friend. We still fight, though. She rides horses and takes lessons every Saturday morning. I have to go with her sometimes, and that is truly the most boring thing in the world. Do you like horses? 
I take tap dancing classes. I like to practice in the food store. The sound of my feet stepping on the hard floors echoes(发出回声). I play scores in the fall; I’m on the swim team during the summer. I like swim, but I am really looking forward to diving this year. Next year I will start music lessons in school. I think I am going to play the piano.
Our house has eight rooms and a small backyard where every year we try to grow vegetables. We mostly get zucchini because the rabbits eat everything else. I guess rabbits don’t like zucchini. I have a bike and mum allows me to ride up and down our street, but nowhere else. I hope that I will get to ride it to school someday. Right now I ride the crowed and yucky bus.
Well, that is enough about me for now. I look forward to hearing from you again soon. I hope your surfing lessons went well. And I hope your mum dose let you learn to play the drums.
Write soon
Love,
Jessica
69. In this letter, Jessica doesn’t talk about     .
A) her family numbers      B)her spare time
C) her house              D)her ambition
70. what does the underlined word “fall” mean here?         .
A) 跌倒     B）降落     C）秋天      D）瀑布
71. Jessica thinks riding horses is very      .
A) different   B) fool      C)exciting    D)frightening
72. Zucchini is likely to be a kind of        .
A) animals    B)vegetable  C)flower    D)fruit
73. Which of the following is TURE?        .
A) Jessica likes Lucy very much but they don’t always get along.
B) People below 18 can’t get driving licenses in New Jersey
C) Jessica usually goes to school by bike, but sometimes by bus.
D) Ingrid gets to take riding lessons and Jessica wishes she could, too.
74. What might be Addie’s problem?
A) She can’t take surfing lessons.
B) She wants to play the drums.
C) There are no malls near her house.
D) She has no family.

B. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage（选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文)（12分） 
                           Grow deep roots
  When I was young, I had an old neighbor, Dr. Gibbs. He ____invited us to play in this yard, but he was a very kind person.
  Dr. Gibbs had some ___ideas about planting trees. He never watered his new trees. Once I asked why. He said that watering plants would spoil them. If you watered them, each young tree would grow weaker and weaker. So you had to make things difficult for them and __the weaker trees early.
  He talked about how watered trees grew shallow roots, and how trees that weren’t watered had to grow deep roots in ____of water under the earth by themselves. Deep roots were very important. So he never watered his trees.
  Dr. Gibbs died several years after I left home. When I came back home, I walked by his house and looked at the trees that I watched him plant about 25 years ago. They were very big and strong. I planted some trees a few years later and carried water to them for a whole summer. After two years of caring too much, whenever a cold wind blow in, they ____a lot.
  Every night before I go to bed, I check on my two sons. Mostly I hope that their lives will be ____. But now it’s time to change my thought . I know my children are going to face difficulties. There’s always a cold wind blowing somewhere, so what we need to do is get roots that reach deep into the brave heart. When the rains fall and the winds blow, we can face them strongly and won't be beaten down.
 75 A)always               B)never             C)probably            D)directly
 76 A)general               B)crazy             C)interesting           D)wrong
 77 A)look up               B)put off            C)depend on           D)pick up
 78 A)search                B)need              C)charge             D)favour
 79 A)grow                 B)cover             C)shake               D)change
 80 A)long                  B)easy              C)difficult            D)horrible

C) Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):（14分）
I didn’t think I had a passion(激情). I would sit in front of the TV all day, thinking about nothing but the next show.
It was not long ago that I first learned how important having a passion is to life.
On that day I went with my mum to drive my sister to the gym. I was bored. Then, as my mum stopped at a red light, s        on the side of the road caught my eye. It was a man dressed in rags (衣衫褴褛). He was homeless. That didn’t interest me, for I had seen many like him b         .
     But in some ways he was d         . This man was not sitting down with a sad expression. He had a radio in his hand and was dancing h         to the music. The radio seemed to be the most precious(珍贵)thing he had.
    “ Mum, why does that man have a radio even thought he’s homeless?” I asked.
    “He bought it,” she replied.
    “But if he’s homeless, why doesn’t he use the money to buy food or clothes? He w       it on something he doesn’t need.”
    “Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t the most important things. We need happiness, too.”
    That man must c          enough music to buy a radio instead of food or clothes. I soon realized that happiness is the k           to life.
Without it, there’s nothing to look forward to. A passion gives a person the happiness they need to keep going.

D．Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题）（12分）
Alice Munro has won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature. The short story writer is the first-ever Canadian, and the 13th woman, to win the prize. She has been called “the master of the modern short story”.
Alice Munro was born on July 10, 1931, just outside Wingham, Ontario, which has appeared in her stories many times.
Munro said that she began to escape into books when she was only ten years old. After her mother was diagnosed(诊断)with a serious disease, she started to throw herself into the world of books to make herself feel better.
Munro was a late bloomer(大器晚成) as a writer. She produced her first collection when she was 37 and didn’t get known outside Canada until the 1970s.
In fact, Munro works with an easy-to-read writing style, which is often described to be “practically perfect”. Her story, The Bear Came Over the Mountain, was made into a movie called Away From Her.
The 83-year-old author is often compared to Chekhov, the 19th century Russian who is considered one of the greatest short story writers in history.
Munro lived for many years in the small town of Clinton, Opt, but she was so shy that many people in the town didn’t know who she was. Munro said she was trying to be more social and accept invitations and go out to see people.

88.Who is Alice Munro?
                                                       .
89.How old is Alice Munro?
                                                        .
90.Why did she escape into books?
                                                         .
91.Can readers find any information about Wingham in Munro’s stories?
                                                         .
92.What is the film Away From Her based on?
                                                          .
93.What kind of person do you think Alice Munro is? Tell us your impression of her in TWO to THREE sentences?
                                                                               

VII. Writing (作文): (20分)
99. Write a passage of at least 60 words on the topic “I want to volunteer in/at_________”.以“我想在________担任志愿者”为题,写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。)
（ 注意：短文中不得出现考生的姓名、校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。）
Questions for reference （以下问题仅供参考）
Where do you want to volunteer?
Why do you want to be a volunteer there?
Do you have any problem with volunteering?