湖北省十堰市第一中学2024年学科特长生自主招生考试试题英语

十堰市第一中学2024年学科特长生自主招生考试试题 英 语 考试时间：100分钟 满分120分 ★热烈欢迎同学们报考市一中！ ★请同学们沉着、冷静、细心、守纪；预祝同学们考试顺利！ 初中学校：________ 考号：________ 姓名：________ 本卷分为两部分，1-35小题为客观题，语法填空及书面表达为主观题。 一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 I used to have little passion (激情) in my life. But what happened the other day changed my ____1____. That day I went home in Mom’s car. When Mom stopped at a red light, someone on the side of the road ____2____ my eye. It was a man dressed in rags (破旧衣服). He was homeless. That didn’t ____3____ me, because I had seen many like him before. Those people usually looked unhappy and hopeless. However, this man was quite ____4____ in some way. He was not sitting down with a sad ____5____. He, ____6____, had a radio in his hand and was dancing happily to the music. The radio seemed to be the most valuable thing he had. “Mom, why does that man have a radio ____7____ he’s homeless?” I asked. “He ____8____ it,” she replied. “But why doesn’t he ____9____ the money for food or clothes? He owned something that he didn’t ____10____ actually.” “Well, Sarah, sometimes food and clothes aren’t the most important.” That man must think ____11____ of music so that he bought a radio rather than food or clothes. I soon realized that happiness is the ____12____ to life. Since then I have always been thinking of what is truly important in life. A home, a meal, clothes—these things are ____13____ part of the life. What we often ____14____ is that we all need a joy, a light in a dark day. In our life, we all need ____15____ which gives a person the happiness they need to keep going. 1. A. knowledge B. mind C. decision D. situation 2. A. attacked B. hurt C. passed D. caught 3. A. interest B. worry C. disappoint D. relax 4. A. common B. different C. polite D. rude 5. A. emotion B. eye C. expression D. word 6. A. therefore B. also C. finally D. instead 7. A. because B. though C. until D. unless 8. A. bought B. stole C. fixed D. picked 9. A. earn B. spend C. waste D. use 10. A. prefer B. wait C. need D. hope 11. A. lot B. much C. little D. nothing 12. A. key B. solution C. answer D. road 13. A. never B. all C. also D. only 14. A. remember B. dislike C. forget D. value 15. A. passion B. patience C. warmth D. music 二、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2.5分，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题，每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 A Choose Your One-Day-Tours Tour A—Bath & Stonehenge including entrance fees to the ancient Roman bathrooms and Stonehenge—£37 until 26 March and £39 thereafter (此后). Visit the city with over 2,000 years of history and Bath Abbey, the Royal Crescent and the Costume Museum. Stonehenge is one of the world’s most famous prehistoric monuments dating back over 5,000 years. Tour B—Oxford & Stratford including entrance fees to the University St Mary’s Church Tower and Anne Hathaway’s—£32 until 12 March and £36 thereafter. Oxford: Includes a guided tour of England’s oldest university city and colleges. Look over the “city of dreaming spires (尖顶)” from St Mary’s Church Tower. Stratford: Includes a guided tour exploring much of the Shakespeare wonder. Tour C—Windsor Castle & Hampton Court including entrance fees to Hampton Court Palace —£34 until 11 March and £37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Windsor and Hampton Court, Henry VIII’s favorite palace. Free time to visit Windsor Castle (entrance fees not included). With 500 years of history, Hampton Court was a royal palace homing four Kings and one Queen. Now it is open to the public as a major tourist attraction. Visit the palace and its various historic gardens, which include the famous maze (迷宫) where it is easy to get lost! Tour D—Cambridge & King’s College including entrance fees to the Tower of Saint Mary the Great—£33 until 18 March and £37 thereafter. Includes a guided tour of Cambridge, the famous university town, and the gardens of the 18th century. 16. Which tours will you choose if you are a history lover? A. Tour A & Tour D B. Tour B & Tour C C. Tour A & Tour C D. Tour B & Tour D 17. Which of the following tours charges the lowest price on 17 March? A. Cambridge & King’s College B. Oxford & Stratford C. Bath & Stonehenge D. Windsor Castle & Hampton Court 18. Why is Hampton Court a major tourist attraction? A. It is a famous castle with a 500-year history. B. It used to be a well-known maze with gardens. C. It is the oldest palace for Henry VIII in Britain. D. It used to be the home of royal families. B “I have cancer.” Mom said and held me in a tight hug. I could feel her body shaking as she tried not to cry but failed. For all of my twenty-four years, my mom had been supportive. Strength and protection had always flowed from her to me. Now I knew it would have to flow the other way. Mom didn’t stay down for long. After the shock of breast cancer, she armed herself with a notebook and a pen and a thousand questions for the doctors. She took notes on white blood cell counts and medications with long names as though she were studying for entrance exams into medical school. “The not-knowing is the worst.” she said. The operation was successful. The chemo (化疗) was the harder part. I went with Mom to every chemo treatment. She hardly complained, though her hair was gone and her toenails and fingernails fell out one by one. She joked that she could save money on nail polish and put it toward the doctor bills, even though she never wore nail polish. “Cancer can take my hair, my nails, my health, my very life. But it can’t take my smile.” Mom said. Mom learned to share her fears with me, and it formed an even deeper connection between us. Yet, I am certain there were fears she didn’t share because she was still protecting me—worries she only shared with Dad. Even in the darkest hours, she would just joke about the cancer. Mom always said, “When you look your greatest fear in the eye and laugh at it, you take away some of its power.” Mom was one of the lucky ones. She did beat her cancer, though not without scars (伤疤) From her, I’ve learned I may not get to choose what I face, but I do get to choose how I face it. 19. What does the underlined sentence in Paragraph 2 mean? A. There were other useful ways to treat cancer. B. Knowledge of cancer would be helpful. C. Mom had to stay stronger to beat cancer. D. I should be the one supporting and caring for Mom. 20. Which of the following words can best describe Mom? A. Positive and determined. B. Caring and knowledgeable. C. Humorous and responsible. D. Helpful and successful. 21. What is the fifth paragraph mainly about? A. The jokes Mom told me. B. The fear Mom shared with me. C. The ways Mom faced fear. D. The connection Mom and I formed. 22. What lesson did the author learn from Mom? A. Jokes matter in beating diseases. B. Positiveness gets one through hardship. C. Fear does no good to one’s health. D. Sharing helps reduce suffering a lot. C Being a teenager can be challenging, but it can also be exciting. You’re gradually losing dependence on parents and making decisions for yourself. You are also learning to take risks and solve problems better than you could before. And changes are happening throughout your body, even in your brain. You can’t see the changes in your brain, but they’re influencing how you develop into an adult. At this time in your life, there is a process going on inside your brain that makes it work faster and more efficiently. Imagine that the inside of your brain is like a big road map. There are lots of roads leading to different destinations (终点). When you were a child, as you learned new things, your brain created more roads leading to different destinations. By the time you become a teenager, the most important places on the map have many different roads leading to them. Now your brain’s job is to make that map more efficient. It removes the roads that you don’t need and works to make the other roads faster. As a result, your experiences as a teenager actually influence the way that your brain develops. If you spend hours playing video games, what skills do you use? You learn to see something with your eyes and react to it with your hands, right? As you develop those skills, your brain is making sure that the roads leading to them are especially fast and efficient. So, your video game playing could be preparing you for a career such as a fighter pilot, or even a dentist. This is a great time for you to practice new skills and discover what you’re good at and what you love doing. Go out and try different activities, and stick with them if you think they’re useful. Remember that with everything you do, you’re shaping your brain for the future. 23. As a teenager, you are becoming more ________. A. challenging B. changeable C. excited D. independent 24. According to paragraph 2, how does the brain work in developing a teenager into an adult? A. By working more efficiently. B. By creating more new things. C. By finding more destinations. D. By changing its inside map. 25. According to the writer, what should teenagers do to shape the brain for the future? A. They should learn to be more efficient. B. They should never stop practicing skills. C. They should keep trying meaningful activities. D. They should play more video games when possible. 26. What’s the main idea of the passage? A. How a teenager develops skills. B. How the brain helps you develop. C. How playing computer games helps. D. How the brain changes at different ages. D After years of heated discussion, gray wolves were reintroduced to Yellowstone National Park. Fourteen wolves were caught in Canada and transported to the park. By last year, the Yellowstone wolf population had grown to more than 170 wolves. Gray wolves once were seen here and there in the Yellowstone area and much of the continental United States, but they were gradually displaced by human development. By the 1920s, wolves had practically disappeared from the Yellowstone area. They went farther north into the deep forests of Canada, where there were fewer humans around. The disappearance of the wolves had many unexpected results. Deer and elk populations, the main food sources (来源) for the wolf, grew rapidly. These animals ate large amounts of vegetation (植被), which made plant diversity less in the park. In the absence of wolves, coyote populations also grew quickly. The coyotes killed a large percentage of the park’s red foxes, and completely drove away the park’s beavers. As early as 1966, biologists asked the government to consider reintroducing gray wolves to Yellowstone Park. They hoped that these gray wolves would be able to control the elk and coyote problems. Many farmers opposed the plan because they feared that wolves would kill their farm animals or pets. The government spent nearly 30 years coming up with a plan to reintroduce the wolves. The U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service carefully monitors and manages the wolf packs in Yellowstone. Today, the discussion continues over how well the gray wolf is fitting in at Yellowstone. Elk, deer, and coyote populations are down, while beavers and red foxes have made a comeback. The Yellowstone wolf project has been a valuable experiment to help biologists decide whether to reintroduce wolves to other parts of the country as well. 27. What is the text mainly about? A. Wildlife research in the United States. B. Plant diversity in the Yellowstone area. C. The problem between farmers and gray wolves. D. The reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone Park. 28. What does the underlined word “displaced” in paragraph 2 mean? A. tested. B. separated. C. forced out. D. helped out. 29. What result did the disappearance of gray wolves bring about? A. Harm to local ecosystem. B. A fall in the percentage of coyotes. C. Protection of vegetation. D. An increase in animals’ population. 30. What is the author’s attitude towards the Yellowstone wolf project? A. Doubtful. B. Positive. C. Unsatisfied. D. Uncaring. 第二节（共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。 I always seemed to be running late and hurrying up. I’d wake up early in the morning in order to have enough time to get to where I wanted to go. But by the time I found myself on the road, I was clearly going to be late. ____31____ This constant rush entered every area of my life. For example, when I went shopping, I’d race up and down the passage. Then one day when going to work, I had been running behind again. Unluckily, on the way, my car was out of gas. As my car left the road, I looked at my watch. It’s clear that I’d be late. ____32____ I had a meeting in fifteen minutes and I hadn’t finished preparing for it. But as I looked out towards the east, the sun was just beginning to climb out of the hill. There was fog hanging over the river and some ducks were swimming across the glass-like surface of the water. A few boats sat on the river, which was shining in the sunshine. ____33____ I was surprised. This pretty scene had been going on right outside my car every morning. ____34____ I had been rushing around in such a hurry to not miss anything that I had been missing everything! ____35____ I understood I needed to set schedules and made good preparations for big events in case of any hurry. More importantly, I should try to stay relaxed and enjoy present life. And there was no need to worry about unimportant things. Now I am here traveling this life joyfully and patiently. A. How could I avoid it? B. I became worried and upset. C. What an amazing picture outside! D. I found some surprising things happened. E. However, I had never taken the time to see it. F. So I would drive fast to make up for the minutes I had lost. G. Finally a co-worker recognized my car and stopped for me. 三、语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分） 阅读下面的短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内所给单词的正确形式。（每空不超过2个词） “Lots of the restaurants say they’re the ____36____ (good).” To be honest, we are not and we’ve never said we are. “We just try to be a little bit better every day.” said Mr. Yang, who runs a restaurant ____37____ (call) Grandpa Yang in Chongqing. Yang ____38____ (run) the restaurant since 2011. At the beginning, he was ____39____ (happy) when quite a lot of food was left uneaten. “If customers know more about the food before they order, they’ll know what ____40____ (pick).” he thought. So he decided to write something about each dish on his menu online. “Now there is something about the food. Compared with our General Tso’s Chicken, this one is not THAT good.” says the introduction of Orange Beef. Another introduction warns, “Don’t be fooled by the name. This one is not ____41____ real Sichuan dish.” “People spend much time and energy searching ____42____ (careful) online to find the right restaurant. I don’t want them to say, ‘Oh, it’s one of the best in the area, and it must be very good.’ but then they come here, only to find it’s not so good.” Yang said, “Customers should read more about the food before they order, not only my introductions, but also other customers’ opinions about the ____43____ (dish).” Thanks to his ____44____ (honest), the restaurant is having a moment in the sun. “I have had a very ____45____ (excite) and busy time since I started doing this,” said Yang, “and I love it.” 四、书面表达（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 46. 假设你是十堰一中的学生李华，请根据以下四幅图的先后顺序，为英文校刊写一篇短文，记述你和同学们向校长提出建议，解决自行车存放问题的过程。 要求：1.文中不得出现个人真实的姓名和校名； 2.词数70词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数。 There was a problem with the parking place for bikes in our school. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 第二节（满分25分） 47. 阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。 One day, Ben was playing basketball in the living room after school when he accidentally threw the ball at a vase sitting on the shelf. The vase dropped to the floor and a large piece broke off. What made Ben more upset was that the vase was not a common decoration but an expensive antique, which was handed down through generations from the 18th century. It was also his mother’s favorite possession. To cover his terrible action, the terrified boy glued the pieces together hurriedly and put the vase back to its place. As the mother cleaned the vase (花瓶) every day, she naturally noticed the cracks (裂纹) that evening. To her surprise, the repair work was actually very good. At dinner time, she asked her boy if he had broken the vase. Fearing punishment, the suddenly inspired boy said that a neighbor’s cat jumped in from the window and he couldn’t drive it away no matter how hard he tried. It raced around the living room and finally her son lied, for all the windows were closed before she left for work each morning and opened after she returned. However, in the face of her son’s nervous eyes and the doubtful looks of the other family members, Ben’s mother remained calm. She realized she shouldn’t just simply blame and punish her son for lying. She came up with another idea. Before going to bed, the boy found a note from his mother in his room, asking him to go to the study at once. The boy thought he would now be punished but, as he had already lied, he was determined to hide the truth to the end, no matter how angry his mum became. In the study, calmly bathed in the light, his mother’s face showed no sign of anger. On seeing her son push open the door and slowly enter, she took out a box of chocolates and gave him one. 注意： 1.续写词数应为120左右； 2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。 Para 1: The mother said, “This chocolate is a prize for your imagination: a window-opening cat!” ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Para 2: Now with some chocolates in his hand, the boy’s bad attitude (态度) disappeared. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 十堰市第一中学2024年学科特长生自主招生考试试题 英 语 考试时间：100分钟 满分120分 ★热烈欢迎同学们报考市一中！ ★请同学们沉着、冷静、细心、守纪；预祝同学们考试顺利！ 初中学校：________ 考号：________ 姓名：________ 本卷分为两部分，1-35小题为客观题，语法填空及书面表达为主观题。 一、完形填空（共15小题，每小题1分，满分15分） 【1~15题答案】 【答案】1. B 2. D 3. A 4. B 5. C 6. D 7. B 8. A 9. D 10. C 11. B 12. A 13. D 14. C 15. A 二、阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2.5分，满分50分） 第一节（共15小题，每小题2.5分，满分37.5分）读下列短文，从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该选项涂黑。 A 【16~18题答案】 【答案】16. C 17. A 18. D B 【19~22题答案】 【答案】19. D 20. A 21. C 22. B C 【23~26题答案】 【答案】23. D 24. A 25. C 26. B D 【27~30题答案】 【答案】27. D 28. C 29. A 30. B 第二节（共5小题，每小题2.5分，满分12.5分） 【31~35题答案】 【答案】31. F 32. B 33. C 34. E 35. A 三、语法填空（共10小题，每小题1.5分，满分15分） 【36~45题答案】 【答案】36. best 37. called 38. has run 39. unhappy 40. to pick 41. a 42. carefully 43. dishes 44. honesty 45. exciting 四、书面表达（共两节，满分40分） 第一节（满分15分） 【46题答案】 【答案】 There was a problem with the parking place for bikes in our school. It was always too crowded, making it really hard for us to park our bikes safely every day. My classmates and I had a careful discussion and then we went to talk to the principal. We gave him our clear suggestions and he listened carefully. Soon, a new and larger parking area was built. Now we can all park our bikes easily and happily. We feel proud of what we have done for our school. 第二节（满分25分） 【47题答案】 【答案】例文① The mother said, “This chocolate is a prize for your imagination: a window-opening cat!” Slightly surprised, Ben insisted, “Mom, it was the cat! I promise.” With a forced smile, his mom gave him another chocolate, saying, “A reward for your perfect repair work!” Staring at the chocolates, the boy hesitated yet still hid the truth. Before he could speak, his mom handed him a third chocolate, saying, “And this one is for your bravery to stick to your decision.” Now with some chocolates in his hand, the boy’s bad attitude disappeared. Mom saw through everything. Ashamed, the boy hung his head and admitted, “Mom, I broke your favorite vase and lied because I was scared.” Relieved and pleased, the mother hugged him and whispered, “Good boy. It’s never too late to mend.” She gave him the chocolate box and said, “They are all for your honesty. Remember honesty matters more than any antique.” 例文② The mother said, “This chocolate is a prize for your imagination: a window-opening cat!” Hearing her sincere appreciation, Ben flushed, lowered his head and muttered a thank you. Surprisingly, the mother took out another chocolate and pressed it into his hand. “This one is for the delicate repair work you did to the broken vase.” She added she was moved by how much he cherished the family vase. Ashamed, Ben ducked his head lower and admitted he stayed calm during the accident. Now with some chocolates in his hand, the boy’s bad attitude disappeared. Sweating nervously, Ben finally looked up, admitting he alone had broken the vase and begged for punishment. “I’m sorry I lied to you, Mum. Please take back the chocolates.” Ashamed and tearful, he held out his hand to return them. Instead, his mother gave him the whole box and smiled, “Honesty deserves the best reward, my dear.” 第1页/共1页 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $