2024年江苏省扬中市中考二模英语试卷

1 2024 年初中结业学科学业水平测试模拟评价 II 九年级英语试卷 一、单项选择（共 10 小题：每题 1 分，满分 10 分） 1.---Kate, will you please get the book on the shelf for me? --- I‘m afraid I can’t ______▲_____ it. The shelf is too high . A. find B. read C. reach D. arrive 2. ---It’s dangerous to walk across the street carelessly. --- You are right. We can’t be ____▲____ careful while crossing the street. A. so B. very C. too D. more 3. Tom is such an excellent student that he always stays ____▲____ his class. A. at the bottom of B. near the end of C. in the front of D. at the top of 4.---Tom and I share ____▲____ hobbies. --- No wonder you take part in a lot of social activities together. A. separate B. same C. similar D. simple 5.---To tell you the truth, I want to give up joining in the swimming competition. --- Come on, you just need to practice more to build up your ____▲_____ A. challenge B. confidence C. development D. energy 6. ---China has formed a great friendship with countries all over the world. --- That’s true ,we are ___▲_____ working together in many fields. A. closely B. luckily C. politely D. hardly 7. A better future is the goal of the Chinese people,___ ▲___ it’s also the common interest of the world. A. so B. and C. or D. but 8.---Dad, I got hired as a computer engineer. --- Congratulations! Make yourself___▲____ so that the company won’t want to lose you. A. fashionable B. valuable C. changeable D. possible 9. ---Amy, Can you give me some advice on how to write the diary “A trip to Nanjing" ---You’d better write it in ____▲_____ like this because we use this method when we write about an experience or an event. A. time order B. space order C. general to specific D. specific to general 10．--- How is your May Day holiday, John? --- Not bad. and you seem so happy, could you tell me ____▲____? A. what place you have been to B. if you visit your grandparents C. who did you spend the holiday with D. that you watched a football match 二、完形填空（共 10 小题：每小题 1 分，满分 10 分） 阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 When I was about 12, I didn’t like a girl who liked to ___11▲___ my shortcomings (缺点). Week by week her list __12▲___: I was very thin, I wasn’t a good student, I talked too much, I was too proud, and so on. I tried to bear all this as long as I could. At last, I became very__13▲__. I ran to Daddy with tears in my eyes. He listened to me ___14▲___. Then he asked, “Are the things she says true or not? Allen, didn’t you ever wonder ___15▲___ you’re really like? Go and make a list of everything she said and mark the points that are true. Pay no attention to the other things she said.” I did as he told me. To my great ___16▲___, I discovered that about half the things were true. Some of A trip to Nanjing First,--- Next,--- Then,--- Finally,--- 2 them I couldn’t change (like being very thin), but a good number I could and suddenly I wanted to change. For the first time I got a __17▲__ picture of myself. I brought the list back to Daddy. He refused to take it. “That's just for you,” he said. “You know better than anyone else the truth about yourself. But you have to learn to listen, not just __18▲__ your ears in anger and feel hurt. When something said about you is true, you'll find it will be of help to you. Don't close your ears. Listen to them all, ____19▲__ hear the truth and do what you know is the right thing to do.” Daddy’s advice has ____20▲___ to me at many important moments. In my life, I’ve never had a better piece of advice. 11. A. point out B. look out C. give out D. work out 12. A. stopped B. grew C. made D. remained 13. A. angry B. happy C. excited D. worried 14. A. happily B. worriedly C. quietly D. quickly 15. A. how B. what C. when D. where 16. A. joy B. sadness C. worries D. surprise 17. A. beautiful B. clear C. good D. famous 18. A. open B. pull C. close D. wash 19. A. or B. and C. but D.so 20. A. returned B. run C. rewarded D. taught 三、阅读理解（共 15 小题：21-30 小题，每小题 2 分：31-35 小题，每小题 1 分，满分 25 分） 阅读下面的三篇短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的 A、B、C、D 四个选项中，选择最佳选 项。 A Short Story Writing Competition The Kids News Short Story Competition: free. Age groups: Kindergarten to Grade 2; Grades 3-4; Grades 5-6 and Grades 7-9. Word count: Stories must be between 250 and 750 words for students in Kindergarten to Grade 4, and between 500 and 1,000 words for students in Grades 5 to 9. Process: A panel of judges (评审团), led by award-winning author Jackie French, will choose the winning entries (获奖作品). Prize: The first prize winner in each age group will get 10 copies of their short story published by HarperCollins. The story will be made into a printed book with a personally designed cover. One second prize winner and three highly commended recommended entries will be in each age group. The first prize winner in each age group will also receive personalized feedback (反馈) on their story from the HarperCollins editorial team(编辑团队)and get the chance to ask for advice from them about writing and publishing. Time: The 2024 Kids News Short Story Competition opens at 9 am (AEST, ) Monday, May 6, and closes at 4 pm(AEST) Friday, May 31, 2024. 21. How many first prize winners will the competition have? A. One B. Two C. Three D. Four 22.No entries are accepted later than_________. A.9am(AEST) on May 6 B. 4pm(GMT) on May 31 C.4pm(AEST) on May 31 D. 9am(AEST) on June1 23.What can we learn about the competition? A . An entry can be 1,000 words for kindergartens. B. The first prize winners will get printed story books of their own stories. C. Jackie French will choose the winning entries. D. One second prize winner will get the chance to ask for advice about writing and publishing. 3 B Jane, a reporter, is collecting information for the local newspaper. She is interested in the following things introduced in a magazine. Smart Schoolbag Forget to pack the books you need into your schoolbag in the morning rush? A schoolboy aged 11 has invented a schoolbag. It tells you which books to pack. A small computer and a scanner(扫描装置)are fixed in the bag. As each book is put into the bag, it is checked by the scanner. If any book is missing, a message will be shown on the computer screen to remind you. Weather Sweets Can you eat weather? A university makes that happen. It uses a 3D printer to create sweets based on the weather information of a certain day. The shapes of the sweets are affected by wind speed. The colors of the sweets are decided by temperature. The sweets act as a weather record of the day when they are made. Sunrise Bed It's hard for you to get up in the morning, isn't it? To help you get up, a company has created a “tool” -a sunrise bed. It wakes you up gently as a sunrise does. Lights built into the bed turn on and start to get brighter and brighter. When the lights are fully on, soft music will begin to play. It will be louder and louder until you turn it off. The company explains, “The gentle light tells your body that it is morning, so it stops producing a chemical that helps you sleep." 24. What can the smart schoolbag do? A. Help you repair computers. B. Tell you when to pack books. C. Teach you how to fix screens. D. Remind you of the missing books. 25. Which of the following shows how a sunrise bed wakes you up? A. lights on → music on → lights brighter → music louder B. music on →music louder → lights on → lights brighter C. lights on → lights brighter → music on → music louder D. music on → lights on →music louder → lights brighter 26. In which section of the magazine has Jane most probably found the information? A. Wonderful food. B. Future schools. C. Amazing inventions. D. Modern furniture. C "I realized I couldn't go home every weekend for my mom's delicious dishes," says Shreya, who is about to enter university. Shreya has recently started following her mother around the kitchen, taking notes on how to make her "masala chai" and tasty kachoris. "Those special tastes can immediately unlock a whole flood of emotions, memories and feelings of family, love, and comfort," says she. She adds, "I am looking to the day when my kids will come to know of their grandmothers through the dishes they cooked." But many of us find it difficult to keep the food connection with our busy life. Even if we have time, not many of us take the effort to collect and record the recipes from our grandmothers and parents. We often get a recipe on the phone and take it down quickly on a piece of paper. We just stick it onto the fridge for a week or two and forget about it as soon as the paper disappears from there. Actually, there are simple ways to keep family recipes, Scrapbooks(剪贴薄)are easily found in the market. You can even add photos to record every detail of your memories about the recipe. With the help of some popular apps like Story Scans, recording family recipes has never been easier. What is needed is to scan the recipes and record the story behind each of them. It can become the most meaningful work you 4 have ever done with and for your family. Keeping family recipes is saving and honoring our tradition so that future generations can continue to make family ties stronger. Every time you remember your loved ones. recreate one of the dishes from your collection and let the memories from the good old days comfort you. So why not gift your kids a family recipe book when they are starting a new life? 27. Why does Shreya follow her mother around the kitchen? A. To clean up the kitchen. B. To note down recipes. C. To prepare family dinners. D. To talk about family rules. 28. Which question could best help us find out the writer’s purpose? A. Did the writer make us practise cooking? B. Did the writer tell us how to cook well? C. Did the writer want us to keep family recipes? D. Did the writer teach us how to choose a gift for kids? 29. What can we learn from the passage ? A. Ways to record recipes can be easy . B. Most people like writing recipe books. C. Recipes have become popular with kids. D. People often buy recipe books in the market. 30. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage? A. Family Recipes: Secrets of Cooking B. Family Recipes Are at a Crossroads C. Family Recipes: Connections to Interests D. Family Recipes Are More than Just Recipes D 阅读以下内容，从其后得选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，有两项是多余的。 Knowing how to communicate well needs very personal attention between you and another human being. Is there a better way to learn how to communicate effectively? Yes, there is. _____31▲_______ * Relax and breathe Whether it's a business meeting or a first date, the first thing you must do in order to communicate is to relax. When you relax, you are in control. You control your reactions and your reactions do not control you. Breathing is central to relaxation. Take a few deep breaths and your body will begin to be more at ease. _____32▲_______ * Think and you will be prepared _____33▲____ Well, it is true. By thinking ahead about how the conversation might flow, you will be better prepared, more at ease and more confident. * ________34▲_______ If you are uncomfortable, being silent will only make it worse and make the other person uncomfortable as well. So when all else fails, follow through with small talk until a common topic appears. A good way to keep a conversation going is to ask the other person questions. People love to talk about themselves and if you do this, they will leave the conversation, thinking very highly of you._________35▲_________If you make an effort, you will succeed. A. Have you ever heard the old saying "think before you speak"? B. First think, and you will be prepared. C. Follow the flow of the conversation. D. This will help you apply what you already know about how to communicate well. E. You and the other person will have fun chatting with each other. 5 F. Please follow the 3 basic steps below. G. Learning good communication skills is not something out of reach 四、词汇运用（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适当的形式填空（每个词或短语只能用一次） at least take up anyway as soon as be absent from success because of angry smoothly possible 36.These hard-working scientists tried hundreds of times and finally ____▲______. 37.The more he talked, the ____▲_____ he became. Finally, he rushed out of the restaurant. 38.She failed in the test this time.______ ▲_______, she was happy all the time. 39.Remember to give me a call ____▲_____ you arrive at the airport. 40.There were ____▲_____ two thousand people attending the meeting.. 41.With everybody’s efforts, our company is developing as ______▲______ as we expected.. 42.Nowadays, most of our time___▲______ by the electronic products like smart phones and iPads. 43. —Kate, is there any ____▲_______of living on the Moon one day? —I am not sure. 44.Students now have more colourful activities at school _____▲_______ the double reduction policy. 45.—Is everyone here? —No, Jack ____▲______ school because he fell off his bike yesterday. 五．阅读填空（共 20 小题：每小题 1 分，满分 20 分） A）根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词，使短文意思完整，每空一词。 I really like Peking Opera because it makes me feel peaceful and happy. When I was 8 years old, I saw Peking Opera actresses dancing with flowing sleeves and s__46▲_____ in a graceful (优雅的) way on television. I told my mom that I wanted to learn Peking Opera，and she put me in classes. Since then I've been on my learning j___47▲______ for 5 years. I have to wake up at 6 o'clock every morning to practice the key skills in Peking Opera performance， such as leg exercises, somersaults (翻筋斗)， and voice t_____48▲_______. When practicing handstands (倒立), all the w___49▲______ is on my arms and I sweat. And to make my p___50▲_____ more clear, I read the lines loudly and quickly. It makes my lips numb (麻木的), but I don't give up. In practice, what really w____51▲_____ me is getting hurt. One time, I fell down while practicing. That made it d___52_▲_____ for me to go up and down stairs for a long time. As the saying goes, “One minute on the stage needs 10 years' practice o__53▲____ the stage." All the hard work was worth it o____54▲____ I got the chance to perform Peking Opera onstage. In 2020, I took part in King Cross(《跨界歌王》) on Beijing TV and performed Ode to Pear a part from The Drunken Beauty(《贵妃醉酒》)during a show on CCTV. Peking Opera puts t___55_▲____ different parts of theater like writing, music, painting, and costumes. The charm of Peking Opera is timeless. I hope Peking Opera will be loved and enjoyed by more young people. B)根据短文内容在文章后表格中的空白处填入一个最恰当的词，每空一词。 I remember the first time I suggested screen-free days in our school to some of our student leaders. Jokingly, I said to the group, "What do you think if we go a week without using our laptops or smartphones?" They laughed, and one of them said, "No way, Mr. White. They would be too much. " I could feel their worry, and told them that I was only thinking about single screen-free days. Even that idea left them feeling upset. According to a survey we did, most students in our school spend about six hours a day on screens. Many of my students start their day by checking their smartphones. I often see them looking at their phones when getting off the bus or at parents' drop-off, they can't use their own "screens" at school. They usually work on computers at school for at least two hours during the day. 6 It's clear that our students spend a lot of time on screens. We do see the benefits of technology. However, we teachers also want to make sure that students have balanced learning and social experiences away from their screens. That's why we have come up with the idea of screen-free days. During the course of the year, we have built in several screen-free days that require us to make different plans for our students about how they will communicate with one another and the world around them without "screens". For some teachers, this means bringing back a valuable lesson plan that has been put off for some time because it is “out of date". Others have designed something completely new. Fun activities, for example, card games and room escape(密室逃脱)games, are organized at school. In these activities, students socialize without smartphones and have face-to-face communication without checking on "likes" they’ve got online. These fun activities also make it possible for the whole grade to enjoy the company of their friends with no smartphones. After our first screen-free day, students mentioned that they were surprised they enjoyed it. Finding ways to help our students connect with one another is important. While technology is already part of our world, it shouldn't play such an important role in a learner's life. Screen-Free Days The __56▲_____ of having Screen-free Days ●To achieve the balance between learning and social experiences ●To ___57▲_____ students' time spent on laptops or smartphones. The __58▲_______ of the activity In the beginning ●Student leaders ____59▲____ the idea that if they could go a week without screens ●They felt upset even though they were told I just ___60▲__the idea. During that activity ● A valuable lesson plan will be __61▲____ back. ●Fun activities make students __62▲_____ to enjoy face-to-face communication After that activity Surprisingly, they found the __63▲______ between students was of great importance. ____64▲_____ Although technology is important, there is no need to __65▲___ a learner's life 六、书面表达（共 1 题：满分 15 分） 现实中，大到自然环境和社会环境，小到个人生活和学习，变化无处不在，面对变化，唯有积极 适应，才能有所进步和收获。 某英文网站正在开展征文活动，假如你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，谈谈你生活和学习中 一个变化或一点进步，你可以谈谈你是如何应对在生活和学习中这个变化的，以及有什么收获。或者 谈谈你如何取得进步，以及有什么收获。 a change a little progress What happened? ------- ------ How did you deal with it? ------- -------- What have you learned from the experience? ------ -------- 参考词语：plan, task, attention, make use of, progress, help, challenge 要求： 1. 所写内容必须符合征稿要求，可选用参考词语，可适当发挥 2. 文章不少于 90 字，文中不得出现真实的校名，姓名等信息。