2023年江苏省锡山高级中学实验学校中考一模英语试题（含答案）

2023年江苏省锡山高级中学实验学校中考一模英语试题

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、单项选择

1．— The TV series Love Designer is the most romantic drama I have ever seen.      

— I’m afraid it’s not ________ cup of tea.

A．anybody’s B．everybody’s C．somebody’s D．nobody’s

2．AI will surely be a feature of future life, but it ________ be used responsibly and in a proper way.

A．can B．need C．will D．must

3．The BBC documentary Du Fu: China’s Greatest Poet _________ Du to William Shakespeare, one of the greatest writers of the West.

A．considers B．connects C．compares D．complains

4．—Why can’t we drive in the emergency lane (应急车道) on expressway?

—Because the lane makes it possible to race ________ the clock to save people’s lives.

A．beyond B．over C．against D．through

5．You’d better think ________ before taking up a new hobby, and don’t choose it just for fun.

A．properly B．bravely C．seriously D．politely

6．A man should follow his heart when reading, or ________ he reads as a task will do him little good.

A．that B．how C．why D．what

7．Men who stay fit can lower their risk of dying from a heart condition by 30% as compared with those who are ________.

A．out of shape B．out of place C．out of order D．out of control

8．________ interest in studying abroad is rising, more Chinese students who study abroad are also returning home upon completing their degrees.

A．While B．Since C．Once D．Until

9．—I hear you’re organizing a trip to the game next week. _________ me in!

—No problem. Just keep in touch on WeChat.

A．Matter B．Leave C．Count D．Mind

10．—Where’s Nancy?

—Your guess is ________ mine. She didn’t say anything to me.

A．as well as B．as good as C．as long as D．as soon as

11．—When did the singer Cindy Wang become famous?

—She first ________ the entertainment industry with a lead role in Westside Story(2003).

A．broke into B．broke down C．broke out D．broke away

12．—Have you decided ________?

—Yes. I will go there in August.

A．how you will go to Beijing this summer holiday

B．when you would go to Beijing with your parents

C．who you will go to Beijing with this summer holiday

D．when you will go to Beijing for a visit with your parents

13．—I feel relaxed to be back. How terrible I felt about the heavy traffic on the high way and hotel food during my trip!

—I can imagine. ________.

A．It never rains but it pours B．The grass is always greener on the other side

C．East or west, home is the best D．Travel is not your cup of tea

14．—Shall we go to the gym to play badminton together this weekend?

—________. Isn’t it meaningful that we do some voluntary work in the nursing house?

A．Take care B．Forget it C．Don’t mention it D．I couldn’t agree more

二、完形填空

I grew up in a house where my mother did not trust my sisters and me to manage our own appearance. As a result, there were ____15____, and fashion was largely ignored (忽视).

However, two years ago, I was home for a visit when my mom, in her early 70s, called me into her bedroom. “I don’t know what to wear”, she ____16____ “You girls always look so good.” I looked at her, wondering if I’d misunderstood. “What do you mean?” I asked her, “You know what to wear.”

“No, I don’t.” She answered. “Can you pick something for me?” She repeated the question again. I was so ____17____ and couldn’t believe my ears.

This was the same woman who had told my younger sister she wasn’t allowed to wear a pair of ripped (有破洞的) jeans; the same woman who, in high school, called me while I was out at a party to ask if my hair was up. “Don’t do that, because you look ____18____ with your hair down.” she told me, before I could ____19____.

Suddenly, I realized that my mother—always so strong—not only wanted my opinion ___20___ needed it.

I pulled a pair of blue jeans from the closet. “This ____21____ your black shoes perfectly,” I told her. She did. My mother certainly doesn’t need anyone to take care of her. In fact, she still looks after my grandmother who lives with her. But with that ____22____, my mother and I started the role exchange reversal (转变) that happens with all parents and all children, from caregiver to receiver.

Now, if I’m visiting or we’re together, it’s ____23____ for her to wear anything without asking me for advice first. I’m still always a bit surprised by the admission (承认) of her uncertainty. But every so often, it seems like she asks me just to be able to disagree with my answer and pick out something on her own instead. And ____24____ she does, I just tell her what I think of the way she looks. Sometimes it’s “great”. And sometimes it’s “awful”.

15．A．praises B．ideas C．plans D．rules

16．A．replied B．complained C．agreed D．advised

17．A．surprised B．angry C．pleased D．afraid

18．A．worse B．harder C．slimmer D．better

19．A．stop B．smile C．answer D．leave

20．A．so B．but C．and D．or

21．A．fits B．balances C．matches D．suits

22．A．saying B．call C．order D．question

23．A．rare B．possible C．likely D．often

24．A．before B．when C．unless D．since

三、阅读单选

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25．Which of the following group might receive an advantage most from sound learning?

A．School children. B．Industry experts. C．Parents of Grade 2. D．Literate adults.

26．Which of the following is TRUE about sound learning?

A．It can help children understand 76% of the text.

B．It can increase both reading accuracy (准确) and speed.

C．It can improve other types of learning by 85%.

D．It can help increase test scores of all subjects.

27．With the website, one will ________.

A．meet some technical difficulties B．have a chance to use many practical resources

C．watch the latest award-winning videos D．improve literacy in less than two years

Growing up, I thought math class was something to be endured, not enjoyed. I disliked memorizing formulas (公式) and taking tests, all for the dull goal of getting a good grade. One of my teachers told my mother that I was “slow”. But my problem wasn’t with math itself. In fact, when a topic seemed particularly interesting, I would go to the library and read more about it.

By high school, no one told me that I could become a professional mathematician. What I wanted to do then was to play college football. My goal was to get an athletic scholarship to attend a Big Ten school.

The chances of that happening were very low. But that didn’t stop my coaches from encouraging me to believe I could reach my goal, and preparing and pushing me to work for it. They made video tapes of my performances and sent them to college coaches around the country. In the end, a Big Ten school, Penn State, did offer me a scholarship.

I wish math teachers were more like football coaches. Students are influenced by more than just the quality of a lesson plan. They also react to the passion of their teachers and the engagement of their peers and they try to achieve a sense of purpose. They get advantages from detailed and exact instructions and constant feedback (反馈).

Until I got to college, I didn’t really know what mathematics was. I still thought of it as laborious (耗时费力的) calculations. Then my professor handed me a book and suggested that I should think about a particular problem. It wasn’t easy, but it was attractive. My professor kept giving me problems, and I kept chasing them, even though I couldn’t always solve them immediately. The mathematical research I was doing had little in common with what I did in my high school classrooms. Instead, it was closer to the math and logic puzzles I did on my own as a boy. It gave me the same sense of wonder and curiosity, and it rewarded creativity. I am now a Ph.D candidate (候选人) in mathematics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

28．Why did the writer think math class in school was “something to be endured” before entering college?

A．Because he wasn’t interested in math.

B．Because his math teachers didn’t care to push him.

C．Because he was too smart and talented for math class.

D．Because he was training hard for an athletic scholarship.

29．We can conclude that after entering college, the writer ________.

A．was busy looking for math problems to solve

B．studied on his own just as he was in high school

C．met with laborious calculations in his studies

D．began to realize what mathematics really is

30．What is the best title for the text?

A．Interest is the best teacher B．Be the best — you can make it

C．Math, taught like football D．Once your teacher, always your teacher

As people all over the world struggled with higher levels of stress, depression and anxiety this past year, many turned to their favorite comfort foods: ice cream, pizza, hamburgers. But studies in recent years suggest that the high-sugar and high-fat foods when we are stressed or depressed, as comforting as they may seem, are the least likely to be good for our mental (精神上的) health. Instead, whole foods such as vegetables, fruit, fish, eggs, nuts may be a better bet.

Historically, nutrition research has paid much attention to how the foods we eat influence our physical (身体上的) health, rather than our mental health, though. Over the years, large population studies have found that people who are asked to follow a Mediterranean diet for three months had greater reductions in symptoms of depression after three months compared to a control group. Public health professors around the world have started encouraging people to take and use lifestyle behaviors like exercise, sound sleep, a heart-healthy diet and avoiding smoking that may reduce inflammation (发炎) and have advantages for the brain. Individual clinicians (临床医师) are already including nutrition into their work with patients. Dr. Drew Ramsey, a clinical professor at the Columbia University, begins his meetings with new patients by exploring their diet. He asks what they eat, learns their favorite foods, and finds out if foods that he considers important for the connection are missing from their diets, such as plants, seafood.

Dr. Ramsey said he didn’t want people to think that the only factor involved in brain health is food. “Lots of people get their food exactly right, live very active lives, and still have many troubles with their mental health,” he said. But he also teaches people that food can be empowering. “We can’t control our genes,” he said. “But we can control how we eat, and that gives people actionable things that they can do to take care of their brain health on a daily basis.”

31．What do previous (以前的) nutrition studies mainly pay attention to?

A．How our diets influence our mental health. B．How our diets influence our physical health.

C．How our mental health influences our diets. D．How our physical health influences our diets.

32．Why are individual clinicians including nutrition into their work with patients?

A．They try to satisfy their patients’ needs.

B．They are questioning public health professors.

C．They want to prove the value of healthy diets.

D．They have accepted the findings of large population studies.

33．Which of the following might Dr. Ramsey agree with?

A．Some connection lives between our diets and mental health.

B．People can control their genes as well as how they eat.

C．People living active lives will not have mental problems.

D．Eating a healthy diet is going to cure depression.

Back in Brisbane, Australia, for the Christmas break, I found myself in a public transport dead zone. Bikeless, 7 kilometers from where I was meeting friends and unwilling to get a taxi, I decided to borrow an electric scooter. The trip took far longer than it would have by bike, mainly because of a major spill halfway there. A rock, hit at speed, is a terrible thing: weeks later, I still had the red knees of a primary schooler.

In the UK, they are legal (合法的) only on private land, but the Department for Transport is discussing how to control them on public roads and pathways, with the possibility for legalization later this year. Other cities that have e-scooter rental programs have had problems in the early period. In Paris, Mayor Anne Hidalgo described the situation last year as messy. She has announced that the city is reducing its number of e-scooters to 15,000 and plans to create laws forbidding them from pavements (人行道). France has put into force laws limiting e-scooter speeds to 25 kilometres per hour.

Similar to dockless (无桩的) hire bicycles, e-scooters are parked on pavements and people leave them up trees or throw them into rivers. Wild treatment shortens their lifetime, which is bad for both profitability (盈利) and the environment. Analysis suggests that the average e-scooter’s lifetime is just three months.

I think e-scooters are an basic part of the effort to make city transport greener. They are seen as a key to the “last mile” problem—a potential way to reduce transport jam by rapidly getting someone to their final goal. Cars can take up 28 times the space of a person riding a bicycle. As far as the environmental effect goes, recent research suggests that e-scooters are not as green as walking or cycling, but they are still better than cars. And though there are still many reports of serious accidents, scooting is about as safe as cycling. Stephen Gossling at Lund University in Sweden has suggested we build car-free “micromobility” streets, where cyclists, pedestrians (行人) and e-scooters could share the road. He thinks this will reduce accident risks and invite more vulnerable (易受伤害的) traffic participants, such as children, to become active transport users. If more e-scooters mean fewer cars on roads, an improvement in local air quality is also a likely result. When 20 kilometers of roads in central London closed for World Car-Free Day last September, the air quality was greatly improved according to the report.

34．What does the underlined part “a major spill” in Paragraph 1 probably mean?

A．A serious fall. B．A sudden illness. C．A legal reaction. D．A terrible breakdown.

35．What do we know about e-scooters in Paris?

A．They are illegal on pavements. B．They are already out of fashion.

C．They are facing more limits. D．They are more common on private land.

36．What is the writer’s opinion of e-scooters?

A．They are not as safe as cycling. B．They always cause the traffic jams.

C．They are as green as cycling or walking. D．They play a big role in the “last mile” problem.

37．What is Stephen Gossling’s suggestion?

A．To set up more care-free days. B．To invite more cyclists to use e-scooters.

C．To get vulnerable pedestrians off the road. D．To separate cars from e-scooters on the road.

四、根据汉语提示填空

38．I ________ (搁) the book borrowed from the library on the desk by my classmate yesterday.

39．Though it is _________ (令人疲倦的) to prepare for the High School Entrance Examination, we will “keep calm and carry on”.

40．—Li Lei, your English composition is not up to ________ (标准).

—Sorry, Mr. Wu. I’ll write it again.

41．I’m sorry you are ________ (完全地) wrong. Why do you always make the same mistake?

五、用所给单词的正确形式填空

42．Please put away those ____ keys to cars. They are going swimming. (Germany)

43．It’s harder to catch those ________ (know) thieves who forced their way into the flat.

44．She fell _______ (heavy) to the ground and was sent to hospital at once.

45．Red lanterns are often ________ (hang) along the street before the Lantern Festival.

46．—There is someone knocking at the door.

—It must be the computer repairman. I ________ (call) him to fix my computer.

47．It’s the first time that I ________ (regret) working with such a lazy and selfish man.

48．—I hear you ________ (work) in a pub. What’s it like?

—Well, it’s very hard work and I’m always tired, but I don’t mind.

49．Have they found it of great importance ________ (develop) the public health service system?

50．Hello, SONY China ________ (serve). What’s your problem?

51．How lucky you are! But didn’t you know there ________ (be) risks if you accepted that job?

52．Squirrels like saving some food, but they forget where it ________ (hide) from time to time.

53．Soon after, Mrs. Johnson was on her way to the show, ________ (carry) a lovely black handbag and a happy smile.

六、阅读填表

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在文章后表格的空格内填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格只能填一个单词。

Things adults should learn from kids

Children can teach adults a lot. In other words, there are many things adults can learn from children. For example, kids tend to show love. Every action they do for parents, friends, pets, and people they like, is filled with love. They don’t think twice before loving, and they just love. So adults can learn this: the best way to receive love is to first give it. Unluckily, most of us have developed the habit of questioning everything.

Kids never hide emotions. They cry when they hurt themselves, and express displeasure when things don’t go their way. However, we adults always try to hide our feelings, and never express ourselves sincerely. We often feel happy for others with negative thoughts in our hearts. Crying or expressing oneself is what normal people do. Never hold back tears or happiness. Kids are curious little beings, who always try to understand their surroundings by completely involving themselves in every task they undertake. They have a huge taste for knowledge, and ask lots of questions every day. This curious nature guides their life, and often leads them to simple yet excellent discoveries. Are adults as curious as kids? Well, most of us aren’t. Also, they no longer have the thirst for knowledge, and don’t even ask questions if they don’t understand something. Adults often forget that it isn’t talent or skill but our curiosity and a huge taste for knowledge that makes us worthy.

Kids live in the present, and give 100% to any task they are doing. They never worry about the future, and since they are so busy enjoying their present, life is great today. However, with a job, money, and relationships, it does get hard for an adult to enjoy life. The best thing to do here is to change oneself, and if that isn’t possible, we can live like a child. Just don’t worry about the future, because it isn’t in your control. The only thing you can control is your present, so work hard toward it.

As kids treat everyone equally, they make friends soon and also play a lot with them. Through playing, they make a lot of amazing discoveries about their friends and surroundings. So how long has it been since you played outdoors for fun as an adult? Not some serious sporting event or activity, just kicking a ball, running in the park, or any other silly game!

七、完成句子

59．那位帅气的男士经常被误认为是一个二十几岁的导演。

The smart man ________________ in his twenties.

60．自美国俄亥俄州的毒火车事件发生起，当地居民一直在为生命安全而担心。

Local people ________ since the dangerous train happened in Ohio in the USA．

61．我认为这些特价房如何售出的问题很值得再讨论一下。

I think how to sell the houses with ________________ once more.

62．我们考虑以视频的形式录制这个采访。

We considered ________________ a video.

63．安迪急于回到工作岗位，把手机的事情抛诸脑后。

Andy ________________ get back to work that he forgot about his mobile phone.

64．随着旅游的逐步复出，我们不确定他们对这里的民宿是否会感到满意。

With the recovery of tourism gradually, we are unsure ________________ the homestay here.

八、讲稿

65．伟大音乐家贝多芬说：“涓滴之水终可以磨损大石，不是由于它力量强大，而是由于昼夜不舍的滴坠。”坚持做好一件事情，成就更好自己，请根据下图提示，以“One Thing I Keep Doing”为题，用英语写一篇发言稿，参加学校的英语主题演讲活动。

注意事项：

1. 短文须根据思维导图自拟，要求语句通顺、意思连贯、符合题意；

2.省略号部分必须用适当信息补充完整；

3.词数在100个左右，短文开头已在答题卡上给出，不计入总词数；

4.短文中不得使用真实的个人及学校信息：

参考词汇：call on号召

Good morning, everyone!

I am very happy to be here to make a speech today. The topic is “One Thing I Keep Doing”.

______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

That’s all. Thank you for listening.

参考答案：

1．B

2．D

3．C

4．C

5．C

6．D

7．A

8．A

9．C

10．B

11．A

12．D

13．C

14．B

15．D    16．B    17．A    18．D    19．C    20．B    21．C    22．D    23．A    24．B

25．A    26．B    27．B

28．B    29．D    30．C

31．B    32．D    33．A

34．D    35．C    36．D    37．D

38．laid

39．tiring

40．standard

41．completely

42．Germans’

43．unknown

44．heavily

45．hung

46．called

47．have regretted

48．are working

49．to develop

50．Service

51．would be

52．was hidden

53．carrying

54．refuse    55．thirsty    56．depends##relies    57．difficulty##problems##trouble    58．controlled

59．is often mistaken for a director

60．have been worrying about their lives

61．special offers is well worth discussing

62．recording this interview in the form of

63．was in a hurry to

64．if/whether they’ll/they will be happy/satisfied with。

65．例文：

Good morning, everyone!

I am very happy to be here to make a speech today. The topic is “One Thing I Keep Doing”.

As we know, what we keep doing every day is very important for us to achieve our goals. That’s why I keep reading every day no matter how busy I am. I usually spend about one hour a day reading my favorite books and I often share what I read with my friends. Honestly speaking, reading not only brings me knowledge, but also teaches me how to get on well with others and how to be a better person.

Keeping reading helps me open my eyes to the outside world. The more I read, the wiser I will be.

That’s all. Thank you for listening.