2023年中考第三次模拟考试卷：英语（江苏连云港卷）（考试版）A4

2023年中考英语第三次模拟考试卷

英 语

一、单项选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。

1．According to a recent study, adults ________ often do housework might stay healthy into old age.

A．when B．which C．who D．what

2．The Yellow River Delta National Nature Reserve (黄河三角洲国家级自然保护区) is the ________ of more than six million birds.

A．area B．home C．house D．family

3．—What else did the students ask Chinese astronaut Nie Haisheng about the space station?

—They asked him ________.

A．how long would he stay there B．when he will arrive

C．how did he communicate with his family D．how much the spacesuit cost

4．________ health, happiness is impossible.

A．With B．For C．Without D．To

5．—When and where shall we talk about the plans?

—You can come to my office tomorrow ________ I’ll come to your place next Monday.

A．and B．or C．but D．so

6．Spud Webb ________ at first because of his height, but he didn’t lose heart.

A．refuses B．refused C．was refused D．will be refused

7．There are reports that animals ________ wildlife tourism. It’s not safe for people.

A．are used for B．are used from C．used to D．used by

8．—The paper cutting is pretty lively, who made it?

—It ________ be Amy. None of us except her is able to do it.

A．would B．need C．must D．can

9．—Sssh! Be quiet. I’m on the phone.

—Who ________ you ________ to, mom?

A．do, speak B．are, speaking C．will, speak D．have, spoken

10．Huawei has put so much into research ________ it has become a great company in the world.

A．that B．while C．because D．as

11．Father’s love seems like ________ mountain. He always hides love deep at ________ bottom of his heart.

A．the; a B．/; the C．a; the D．a; /

12．Steen, what you said has hurt her. You’d better ________ sorry to her, ________ you will lose a good friend.

A．say; and B．to say; so C．to say; but D．say; or

13．—English is difficult ________ at the beginning.

—Yes, but if you keep ________ , you can make progress.

A．to be learned; trying B．to learn; trying

C．to be learned; to try D．to learn; to try

14．—How many times _________ you ________ to Beijing this year?

—Three times.

A．have...been B．had...been C．have...gone D．had...gone

15．—Can I ________ Robinson Crusoe, Mrs Zhao?

—Sure, it’s very interesting, but you can only ________ it for a week.

A．borrow; lend B．lend; borrow C．borrow; keep D．lend; keep

二、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

One day, Jenny brought her only son Max to a restaurant. When they left, Max wanted to throw away half of the sandwich that he couldn’t eat. But Jenny stopped him “Wait! You should never ____16____ any food!” The boy replied in a loud voice, “But I’m too ____17____ now!” Jenny didn’t say anything but took it into her hand. As they walked out of the restaurant, Max spilled (洒出) some ____18____ on his coat because of carelessness. Without thinking, he just took it off and wanted to throw it away again. Jenny came up ____19____ and said, “We can wash the juice off the coat. And do you know someone is wishing to have a coat like that?” However, Max answered angrily, “I don’t care!”

At this, Jenny was very surprised and decided to do ____20____. For a while, she turned to Max and said softly, “You know when you don’t ____21____ what you have, there is someone else wishing for all that you have.” Max just kept in ____22____.

On their way home, they saw an old man ____23____ around the corner. Mother asked Max to give the piece of sandwich to him. ____24____ he was unhappy, he walked towards the old man and handed the sandwich. “I’m not sure whether you want this or not. It’s just our leftovers (剩菜).” “Oh, my God! I can’t tell you ____25____ this means to me. I am so hungry now.” The old man thanked Max again and again for giving him food, which really made Max feel ashamed. Some ____26____ later, they met another old man with few clothes on him. This time, Max ____27____ before him without thinking twice and asked, “I wonder if this coat will help you. But there is a stain (污渍) on it.” The old man was so glad that he ____28____ the coat immediately and said, “Thanks so much. You don’t know what this means to me. It is so ____29____ these days.”

With his face turning red, Max went back to his mother and said, “Mum, I’m so ____30____. You’re right.” And then he could see a big smile on his mum’s face. Exactly, in life what you want to throw away may be the very thing someone does wish to have.

16．A．waste B．take C．have D．bring

17．A．hungry B．full C．glad D．thirsty

18．A．milk B．water C．beer D．juice

19．A．deeply B．quickly C．carelessly D．simply

20．A．anything B．everything C．something D．nothing

21．A．care B．give C．ask D．believe

22．A．agreement B．excitement C．silence D．danger

23．A．eating B．playing C．shouting D．sitting

24．A．Because B．Though C．When D．Before

25．A．what B．why C．whether D．which

26．A．days B．minutes C．weeks D．months

27．A．washed B．threw C．stopped D．caught

28．A．threw away B．took off C．put on D．clean up

29．A．cold B．warm C．hot D．bright

30．A．honest B．proud C．bored D．sorry

三、阅读理解（共两节，20小题；满分35分）

第一节：阅读下面短文，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）

A

You probably choose calorie (卡路里) burning with training. You can get great calorie burning effects with the following exercises.

Running

Running is one of the best calorie burners out there. An average person can burn anywhere from 500 to 1,000 in one hour of running. Speed and pace are both important for calorie burning. But running uses every muscle group in the body, allowing you to burn more calories.

High Intensity (强度) Interval Training (HIIT)

If you want intensity, HIIT is just for you. This physical exercise means working hard for a curtain period of time and then resting. Because your heart rate will stay at a high level, you'll burn more calories in less time. On average, a person will burn 400 to 600 calories in 30 minutes.

Jumping rope

This childhood activity can actually do wonders for your health. Jumping rope is great for making the lower and upper body stronger while training your balance and coordination, because your mind has to work while you jump. Jumping rope can burn 600 to 1,000 calories in an hour.

Swimming

Swimming is a low-intensity form of exercise that also uses muscle groups of your body. In just 30 minutes of swimming, an average person can burn 200 to 300 calories. Swimming also helps to shape your body, control blood pressure, and increase strength—all great reasons for you to jump into the water.

31．Which exercise burns the most calories in an hour?

A．Running. B．Swimming.

C．Jumping rope. D．High Intensity (强度) Interval Training

32．Who will be interested in jumping rope?

A．Those who want to train their mind.

B．Those who have to control blood pressure.

C．Those who expect to improve their balance.

D．Those who can only do low-intensity activities.

33．What is the purpose of the text?

A．To explain a healthy lifestyle.

B．To instruct people how to do exercise.

C．To introduce ways to burn calories.

D．To encourage people to compete in sports.

B

①One day Becky went shopping. She stopped to look at some dresses. Becky saw a lovely dress with different coloured stripes (条纹) like a rainbow. It was just what she wanted. Becky had enough money so she decided to buy it. When she touched the dress, Becky felt a strange feeling of excitement as if there was something very special about it.

②Becky hurried home and tried the dress on. As she did so she felt very odd. She started to float in the air and fly like a bird! The dress was magic!

③She flew up and high in the sky. She flew high above the clouds. When she looked down, everything looked smaller—the cars looked like beetles and the people looked as small as ants! Her house looked like a little box!

④Becky flew over the sea. She waved to the people on boats below. They were very surprised! She waved to the whales. They blew water into the air at her. She waved to the dolphins. They jumped out of the water when they saw her.

⑤Becky flew over the jungle. She waved to the tigers. They growled at her. She waved to the elephants. They lifted their trunks and trumpeted at her. She waved to the monkeys. They threw bananas at her.

⑥Becky flew over the desert. It was very hot. She waved to the camels. She waved to the snakes. She waved to people in tents in the oasis.

⑦Becky began to get tired so she flew home and landed in her garden. What an adventure! What a dress!

34．What does the underlined word “it” refer to in paragraph 1?

A．The lovely dress. B．The colorful rainbow.

C．The colored stripes. D．The pocket money.

35．The writer uses so many exclamation marks (感叹号) in the passage because he wants ________.

A．to draw readers’ attention B．to ask others to obey orders

C．to show the feelings of excitement D．to express the strong determination

36．In which order does the story take place?

①Becky flew over the sea and saw some whales.

②When she tried the dress on, Becky started to float in the air.

③In the desert, Becky saw some camels.

④Becky bought a new dress.

⑤When Becky flew over the jungle, some monkeys threw bananas at her.

A．④②⑤①③ B．②④⑤①③ C．④②①⑤③ D．②①⑤③④

37．What’s the structure of the story?

A． B． C． D．

C

Along with firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, tea is considered one of the seven necessities for life in China. Now, it has also won global recognition as a shared cultural treasure of mankind.

On Nov. 29, Chinese traditional tea processing skills and their related social practices were added to the UNESCO intangible cultural heritage (非物质文化遗产) list. Since ancient times, Chinese people have been planting, picking, making and drinking tea.

More importantly, China’s tea culture has formed Chinese customs. It is Chinese traditional custom that a host should welcome visiting guests with boiled tea. A poem by Song poet Du Lei reads, “I offer tea, not wine, to a guest on a cold night. When water boils on the stove, fire burns with flame bright.”

Boiling tea is one of the oldest Chinese tea brewing methods, dating back to the Tang Dynasty (618—907). Tea leaves were boiled for a long time and sometimes they were cooked together with different kinds of herbs and fruits. During this process, people can enjoy a quiet time. Later in the Ming Dynasty (1368—1644), a faster and more convenient method become more popular—steeping (冲泡).

________. On the app Xiaohongshu, or Little Red Book, there are over 40,000 posts on the topic of “stove-boiled tea” (围炉煮茶). They lightly roast tea leaves before boiling them in a teapot on a stove. People sit around the stove in a natural setting and have snacks with their hot tea. Some also wear traditional hanfu as if it could take them back to those ancient times. Through “stove-boiled tea”, people can taste a slower life and find their inner peace. As is written in one Xiaohongshu post, “It is very relaxing to drink hot tea, feel the fall breeze, and chat with best friends.”

38．The writer introduces the topic by ________.

A．asking questions B．listing numbers

C．telling stories D．stating facts

39．We can learn from the third paragraph that ________.

A．Du Lei is a great poet in Tang-Dynasty

B．“stove-boiled tea” becomes popular again

C．Chinese tea culture has spread to western countries

D．it is an old tradition to welcome guests with boiled tea

40．The best sentence to fill in the blank in the last paragraph is “________”.

A．Let’s try the old method of boiling tea in spare time

B．These days, the old method is making a comeback

C．Chinese invented many different ways of drinking tea

D．Therefore, it is a good choice to drink tea with friends

41．The writer writes this passage to ________.

A．introduce a popular way of making tea, “stove-boiled tea”

B．invite more and more people around the world to visit China

C．call on the young to learn more about Chinese traditional tea

D．show how popular and interesting the app Xiaohongshu is

D

From writing poems to making music, ChatGPT has amazed the world since its launch in late 2022 by the US-based company Open AI. It even passed several law exams in four courses at the University of Minnesota, US, according to CNN.

The AI program can answer questions on a whole host of topics and write articles, stories and any other written texts you can think of. It does this by drawing on information collected from a data base.

What makes ChatGPT so impressive? As Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI said in an interview, “It’s not actually new technology that made this (ChatGPT) so amazing.” According to MIT Technology Review, ChatGPT is based on GPT-3, a large language model. Because texts are not simply made up of the meaning of every word, language models require a type of neural network (神经网络) that can make sense of texts.

One improvement behind today’s model is a network called Transformer, which was invented by Google researchers in 2017. The neural network can infer word meanings by finding where the word appears in a sentence. Transformer can therefore get the meaning of texts more correctly. The GPT models can learn by themselves without being told what to look at. ChatGPT can now produce human-like answers at once because of the plenty of texts it learned from.

“One of the biggest problems with ChatGPT is that it comes back, very confidently, with falsities,” Michael Woold at the Alan Turing Institute in London, told The Guardian (a British newspaper). This means that ChatGPT doesn’t know the truth about the world—it learns information from all kinds of resources but it cannot decide what is true or false.

Some argue that ChatGPT will be used to produce unreal news, spread falsities, or be used for bad purposes.

42．How does ChatGPT work?

A．By making long texts shorter.

B．By collecting a lot of information.

C．By passing several law exams in four courses.

D．By selling information to people in need.

43．What makes ChatGPT so amazing?

A．A completely new technology.

B．The ability to find the location of a word.

C．The mixture of a network and self-learning.

D．Better understanding of the meaning of every word.

44．What does the underlined word “falsities” mean in the passage?

A．False information. B．Something new.

C．Various resources. D．Timely responses.

45．What may the writer talk about in the next part of the article?

A．The usage of ChatGPT.

B．The history of ChatGPT.

C．The advantages of ChatGPT.

D．The disadvantages of ChatGPT.

第二节：阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的选项中选出能填入短文空白处的最佳选项，使短文通顺连贯，其中有两项是多余选项。（共5小题；每小题1分，满分5分）

___46___ The collections include stamps, postcards or antiques（古董）. In the 18th and 19th centuries, wealthy people travelled and collected plants, historical objects and works of art. ___47___ And then it was given to a museum. The 80, 000 objects collected by Sir Hans Sloane, for example, formed the main collection of the British Museum which opened in 1759.

The parts of a museum open to the public called galleries or rooms. Often, only a small part of a museum’s collection is on display. ___48___

Many museums are lively places and they attract a lot of visitors. When looking at showcases, visitors can play with computer simulations（模拟）and imagine themselves living at a different time in history or walking through a rainforest. At the Jorvik Centre in York, the city’s Viking settlement（移民点）is recreated. ___49___ Historical accuracy（准确性）is important but so is entertainment. ___50___ Most museums also welcome school groups and organize special activities for children.

A．Most of it is stored away or used for research.

B．None of them want to have an experience there.

C．Many people have the hobby of collecting things.

D．Their collections would be sold to the museum in the end.

E．And people experience the sights, sounds and smells of the old town.

F．They kept their collection at home until it got too big or until they died.

G．Museums must compete for people’s spare time and money with other amusements.

四、词汇运用（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

A.根据句意和汉语提示，在空白处填入一个适当的单词。

51．Our government has paid more attention to the problem about food ________ (安全) .

52．All of us went and cleaned up the old people’s home ________ (除……之外) Eric. He had a cold.

53．The play was so ________ (幽默的) that audiences laughed all through it.

54．I ________ (更喜欢) to experience failure rather than give up my dream.

55．By tradition, children play tricks on ________ (四月) the first.

B.根据短文意思和首字母提示，写出一个完整正确的单词。

Spring Equinox (春分) is the f____56____ of the 24 solar term (节气). It’s on March 21 this year. On this day, day and night all over the world are equal length. After this day, daytime will l____57____ longer than night.

Spring Equinox means the most exciting days of spring have come. Spring is the best time for going outside and flying k____58____ in China. There are also other traditions for this day, such as balancing eggs. In some places, people paint the eggs in many colors and h____59____ egg — balancing competitions. They think special gravitational forces (引力) can help eggs stand on their ends. In fact you can balance an egg on its end any day of the year, have a t____60____ for fun.

五、选词填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）

从方框中选择恰当的词或短语并用其正确的形式填空（每个词或短语只能用一次）。

61．Tom felt bored at home during the long holiday. Many students ________ had the problem, too.

62．It’s raining outside. Sally, ________ your raincoat.

63．—Your shoes are so old. Why don’t you buy a new pair?

—Because I ________ all my money on computer games.

64．—Who ________ the books on my desk?

— Tom did. He is always so careless.

65．—Why weren’t you in the room at 10 o’clock this morning, Betty?

—Oh, I ________ my grandma in the garden.

66．I’m trying to sleep. Would you mind ________ the music?

67．________ the World Book Day, the bookstore sold books at a lower price on April 23rd.

68．These days the students of Junior Grade 3 are busy and they ________ the entrance exam.

69．—Does Jack like the new robot that I sent to him?

—Yes. He ________ it very much. He plays with it all day.

70．Maybe his advice ________ at tomorrow’s meeting because it is worth taking.

六、完成句子（共5小题；每小题2分，满分10分）

根据所给汉语和句子意思，用英语补全句子。

71．那些运动员们都有一个共同点，就是面临困难时他们从不轻易放弃。

Those athletes have one thing ________ ________. They never give up easily when they face difficulties.

72．我最大的挑战是学习如何在餐桌上表现得体。

My biggest challenge ________ ________ how to behave at the dinner table.

73．在学习上取得成功的方法之一就是制定一个好的学习计划。

One way ________ ________ success in studying is to create a good study plan.

74．毫无疑问，中国人最了解茶的本质。

The Chinese are without doubt the ones ________ ________ understand the nature of tea.

75．春天是充满生机和希望的季节。

Spring is a season ________ ________ life and hope.

七、书面表达（共1小题；满分25分）

76．假设你是李明，应邀在与海外友好学校的“云班会”（virtual class meeting）上就烧饭做菜（cook noodles, make sandwiches, make tomato and egg soup...）的话题做交流分享。请你选择一个你擅长的菜，并介绍制作的具体步骤和烧饭做菜给你带来的改变内容要点如下：

注意：

（1）短文必须包括所有要点，并适当发挥；

（2）文中不得出现真实的人名和校名：

（3）词数：80—100：标题已给出，不计入总词数。

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