常州市中考英語試卷及答案

1、常州市二 0 一五年初中畢業(yè)、升學(xué)統(tǒng)一文化考試 英語試題 本試卷共 8 頁。全卷滿分為 90 分，考試時(shí)間為 100 分鐘。考生須將答案 書寫在答題卡上。 一、單項(xiàng)選擇（共 10 個(gè)小題；每小題 1 分，滿分 10 分） 從 A,B,C,D 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中， 選出可以填人空白處的最佳選項(xiàng)， 并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng) 涂黑。 1. Your home town is really nice!The air quality is as good as _ of Sanya. A. it B. one C. that D. the one 2. -Who will give us the speech on

2、public manners? -Mr. Brown _ ,but Im not sure. A. can B. need C. must D. might 3. -Would you like to visit the zoo with me now? -Sorry. Its _ the visiting hours. Lets go there tomorrow. A. on B. over C. during D. beyond 4. _ -Dont you think it of some teenagers to be crazy about pop stars? -Well, I

3、dont think so. We were once young and had the similar experiences. A. creative B. silly C.wise D.curious 5. _ -Could you tell me the of making such tasty cakes? -Well， I just follow the instructions in the cookbook. A. time B. method C. cost D. menu 6. Life is a journey with trouble, but with care a

4、nd wisdom you can _ any problem you face. A. work out B. hand out C. find out D. put out 7. -Jenny，will you leave for the USA now? -No. It will be two weeks _ I leave here. A. until B. since C. before D. when 8 .Mike used to be a top student, but he _ behind since he lost himself in computer games.

5、A. fell B. has fallen C. was D. has been 9.-Jack, Id like to have your opinions about my report. - _ .But I have one suggestion. A. Thats a good idea B. I agree with you C. It looks fine to me D. Check it first 10.-Im going to give a talk on the Dragon Boat Festival to the exchange students. -Great!

6、 But dont forget to tell them_ . A. what should they eat at the festival B. why people enjoy the full moon C. what kind of race is often held D. How do people celebrate it 二、完形填空（共 12 小題；每小題 1 分。滿分 12 分） 閱讀下面短文，從短文后各題所給的 A 、B、C、D 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中，選出最佳選項(xiàng) . 并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑 How often do You let other peoples rude act

7、ions change your mood? Do you let a bad driver or an impolite waiter make your day in a mess? However, the mark of your wise reply to the actions is how _11_you can come back to smiling to them. Sixteen years ago, I learned this _ 12 _ at the back of a taxi in New York. We were driving fast in the r

8、ight lane （車道）when suddenly, a black car jumped_13_ a park ing space right to front of us. My taxi driver stepped on the brake（剎車）as hard as possible, and at the_ 14 _ moment our car stopped just one inch from the back of the other car. I couldnt _15_ what happenednext. The driver of the car turned

9、his head around and started_16 _ bad words. But then heres what really_ 17 _ me. My taxi driver just smiled and waved（揮手致意）at the guy. I said, Why did you just do that? This guy nearly _18_us! He told me what I now remember The Law of the Garbage 垃圾）Truck. He said, “Likgearbage trucks, many people r

10、un around full of garbage, full of anger, and full of regret. _ 19_their garbage increases more and more, they look for a place to pour it.If you let them, theyll pour it on you. So when someone wants to pour it on you, dont feel hurt. Just smile, wave, and move on. You will be_20_. I started thinki

11、ng: how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and_21_it to other people? Then I knew clearly what I should do. I began to see Garbage Trucks. I see the bad_22_people are carrying. I see them coming to pour it. And like my taxi driver, I dont feel hurt

12、. I just smile, wave, and move on。 11 .A. clearly B.quickly C. exactly D.correctl 12.A. example B.experienc C. lesson D.case 13.A. out of B. across C. next to D.far from 14 .A. next B. busy C. right D.last 15.A. doubt B. consider C . accept D.believe 三、閱談理解 （共 13 小題;每小題 2 分，滿分 26 分） 閱讀下列短文， 從短文后各題所給

13、的 A,B,C,D 四個(gè)選項(xiàng)中， 選出最佳選項(xiàng) 并在答題卡上將該項(xiàng)涂黑。 A Last fall a beaver moved into the small stream beside our house. He began taking down small trees right away. and in a couple of weeks our stream turned into a pon d 冰塘）.Every day,he added more to his dam （水壩） and to his house. Were sure youve all heard the say

14、ing, as busy as a beaver. Now, we understand this saying as we saw the work that this beaver did over a very short period of time. We thought that would be the last of the beavers busy activity as winter came. To our amazeme nt, however, he started chew ing 咀嚼）on a very large tree. The tree was over

15、 18 meters tall and around 1.5 meters in diameter 直徑 ） .We were amazed at the challenge this beaver was trying. All winter, he chewed and chewed. He had setbacks 挫折）as we faced major win ter storms and ice-cold weather. But sure eno ugh, when the weather allowed, he would come back and chew a bit mo

16、re. The beavers first goal （目標(biāo)） was to survive-to build。 home for the winter. Working every day with that goal in mind, he successfully achieved that goal. But the large tree he started chew ing on last fall was a future goa 一 he wan ted the large tree to provide new food and bran ches 樹枝）for the co

17、ming spri ng. Eve n with the setbacks he faced over the winter, he never gave up until he reached it. Our beavers experience reminds us that we need to set goals for tomorrow. Sometimes just surviving seems to take up all of our time. But, if you do just a little bit when time allows and stick to yo

18、ur future goal, you will achieve it. When faced with setbacks, have your goal in heart and dont let the setbacks stop you. Keep 16.A.shouting 17.A. cheered 18.A. attacked 19.A.Since 20.A. happier 21 .A. donate 22 .A. news B. telling C. whispering B. encouraged C. surprised B. killed C. warned B. Whi

19、le B. busier B. lend B. Prize C. As C. safer C. spread C. name D.expressing D.satisfied D.beat D. Before D.luckier D.hang D.mood chewing like the beaver, and you will achieve your goal in the end. 23. What is the purpose of the beavers chewing on the large tree? A. To provide more food for the winte

20、r because of the snow. B. To add more branches to his dam and his house. C. To prepare new food and branches for the coming spring. D. To keep working every day with a goal in mind. 24. Here is。paragraph 段）When spring arrived, we went down to see the beavers progress. The tree was about to fall. Our

21、 beaver had almost completely chewed around and through the whole tree. ”According to the passage, it should be put _ A. between paragraph I and paragraph 2 B. between paragraph 2 and paragraph 3 C. between paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 D. between paragraph 4 and paragraph 5 25. The best title of this

22、 passage might be_ A. Keep Chewing B. Be Like the Beaver C. As Busy as a Beaver D. Set Proper Goals B Sometimes, you feel down or unhappy and it is hard to come back t0 your high spirit. So if youre having a bad day and need a boo，stthen help is just a click away. A website is trying to offer people

23、 positive（積極的messages from strangers to cheer them up. It announces to be“thenicest place on the Internet，where happy people can present their positive thoughts and feelings to those who are in low spirits. The website, thenicestplaceontheinter.ne,tlets people post videos of themselves blowing kisse

24、s and leaving positive and encouraging messages to lift visitors spirits. The website was created by Jeff Lam and is considered to help many people out when they feel low. The well-known artist who lives in San Francisco said he came up with the idea when he and his friend Lauren were having one of

25、those bad days. We tried to become cheerful，but none of the usual methods seemed to be working. Not music. Not food. What we hoped was something positive, honest and good.So with only a camera and work-free weekend, we created The Nicest Place On The Internet, he explained on his website. One user o

26、f the site, Joseph Meehan, 27, from Birmingham, said, “its a fun and exciting website. I visit every once in a while when Im missing my friends or family. I think it could really be a help to people that are feeling down or sad. It may even stop them from doing something stupid. You can also post yo

27、ur video to the website, and they add it to the series. Itsevry easy to share the love. ” Mr. Lam is now working on a new project that allows people to leave positive voicemails for strangers. The idea is that strangers send an audio（聲音）diary by leaving a voicemail and then anyone can listen to it.

28、26 .The underlined word boost in paragraph 1 probably means A. 鼓舞 B.放松 C.休閑 D.提高 27. The website was created in order to _ A. provide a place for those who want to post their videos B. discover something positive, honest and good C. recommend positive voicemails on the website to people D. offer som

29、ething positive to cheer people up 28. According to the text, which of the following is TRUE? A. Jeff Lam is working on a new project to collect more audio diaries. B. Jeff Lam met a lot of difficulties during the time of creating the website. C. Joseph Meehan has got help from the website and suppo

30、rts it. D. Joseph Meehan has shared his own positive videos with strangers. C I was just out of college, only three days into a graduate （研究生 ）year in England,and I was pulling a heavy bag and suitcase（箱子 ）through the London Underground. I was also crying out of control. The day before yesterday, my

31、 uncle told me never to speak to him, his wife, or my two cousins again.Earlier, I made a joke. I didnt mean to hurt my aunts feelings, but it did.I spent the evening in an ugly blue telephone booth （ 電話亭）. crying as I spoke to a family friend who lived in England. When I left the phone booth, I wen

32、t back to a silent house with three closed bedroom doors. In the morning, I heard everyone get up and leave for work and school. I wrote a note to say sorry and pulled my bags to the train station. When I got into London, I had to take the underground to Angel Station to get to my family friends hou

33、se. I was familiar with the underground, but at the time, it was just endless white tiles （瓷磚）.Coming to England seemed like a bad decision. Crying yet again, I tried to lift my suitcase up the stairs. When I was trying hard to walk forward, there were hands. Each time I faced another group of steps

34、,a hand would lift the suitcase. At the top of the steps, the hand would let go, and Id pull the suitcase to the next group. And just as I wanted to try again，another hand would appear. It happe ned several times. I n ever looked up, because I could nt stop cryin g.Each hand looked differe nt, and m

35、any differe nt people helped me, without ask ing or say ing anythin g. I could nt look up. I was nt able to say tha nk you. I went on to have an amazing year studying in England, but that was the last time I saw or spoke to any of my uncles family. Yet when I think about that terrible loss in 2008,

36、I remember those stra ngers han ds. They were there whe n I n eeded them, and eve n now, they help me out of the sad ness of that memory. I thi nk of them as I ride the underground in Washington D. C. today, and I watch the citizens and tourists to offer hands at any time. 29. What was the writers f

37、eeling while she was walking in the station? A. She felt sad and helpless at first, but might feel warm later. B. She was look ing forward to gett ing help from frien ds. C. She expected to leave London and go back home D. She regretted maki ng the joke, but was angry with her un cle. 30. In the las

38、t paragraph, the underlined words that terrible loss probably mean _ . A. I was crying when I took the underground in London B. I left my un cles family and have nt con tacted them since the n C. I did nt say tha nk you to those who gave hands to me D. I lost my good mood and felt sad whe n I left m

39、y un cles family 31 .What is the passage mainly about? A. It tells us a story about an uni ucky and homeless college stude nt. B. It.describes the writers experie nce through the un dergro und. C. It expresses the idea of giving hands to stra ngers who are in n eed. D. It shows the helping hands tha

40、t writer got from strangers. D Is your TV conn ected to the Intern et? What about your chair or your fridge? It is possible that they are not. But in the future, most things in your home may be conn ected, as the so-called I nternet of thi ngs is develop ing. The Internet of things may be coming soo

41、ner than you think. It is reported that during his speech earlier this year, Samsung CEO 首席執(zhí)行官）BK Yoon spent a lot of time talking about the Internet of things. He said that five years from now , every Sams ung product will be part of the Internet of thi ngs, whether its a wash ing mach ine or a vac

42、uum clea ner 吸塵器）. So, how do household（家用 ）objects that are part of Internet of things work? Well, think of a usual chair. Whe n conn ected to the Intern et, the chair warms up whe n it knows that the user has just walked into the room and is feeli ng cold. An Intern et-c onn ected camera, like a s

43、mart-home camera, could help people feel safer in their homes. It can recognize 識(shí)另）peoples faces, and even can see when someone passes by in the dark. Then it can send you a message on your smartphone to let you know whos there. If the person is someone you dont know, it can tell you that, too. But

44、according to MIT Technology Review, whether companies are connecting dog food bowls or security（安全）systems to the In ternet, there may be problems. For example,ma ny early conn ected-home devices 裝 置）dont have much built-i n security, which means they could be hacked 被黑客攻擊）,In addition, it could be

45、difficult to get these devices to work together because they are made by different companies. To fight this, many companies have joined the Open Interconnect Consortium, which had 45 members by late 2014. So, picture this: you walk in through the front door of your home. The temperature changesto ma

46、ke you feel comfortable after a long day at school. Your favorite music starts playing for you. Do you think that this would be a good thing? It may happen sooner than you think. 32. The Samsung CEOs speech is mentioned to prove that _ . A. the Internet of things will appear in our daily life sooner

47、 B. Samsung has produced the Internet of things recently C. Samsung products have been part of the Internet of things D. he spent a lot of time talking about the Internet of things 33. We can in fer 推斷）from paragraphs 3 and 4 that A. the chair can know whether the user feels cold or not B. a usual c

48、hair can warm up when it knows the user comes in C. an Internet-connected camera can be used to take photos in the house D. an Internet-connected camera can be connected to the users smartphone 34. Accord ing to the passage, it is men ti oned that _ the temperature in side is n either too high nor t

49、oo low your fridge provides the drinks for you the chair warms up if you feel cold your favourite music starts play ing your wash ing machi ne starts worki ng A. B. C. D. 35. Whats the problem about the Internet of things? A. Companies which produce connected-home devices havent joined together. B.

50、Connected-home devices may not work together and can easily get hacked. C. Compa nies have difficulty connecting security system to the In ternte D. These new devices are produced by differe nt compa ni es. 四、閱讀衰達(dá)（共 5 小題;每小題 1 分，滿分 5 分） 閱讀下面短文，并根據(jù)所讀內(nèi)容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一個(gè)最恰當(dāng)?shù)膯?詞 注意:請將答案寫在答題卡上相應(yīng)題號(hào)的橫線上。每個(gè)空格

51、里只填一個(gè)單詞。 Any time of the day you can devote to exercising is a good time for getting active,but if you want to make a healthy fitness plan, it may be helpful to keep several points in mind and find out the best time to exercise. First, try to know what kind of person you are. Especially, are you an

52、early bird who always wakes up early in the morning, or a night owl （貓頭鷹） who almost never goes to bed before mid ni ght? Once you are gen erally aware of what your sleep characteristics are,you will un dersta nd better whe n your body n eeds exercise, either early in the mornin g,sometime duri ng t

53、he day, or later on in the eve ning. Second, con sider your daily pla n. Whe n do you seem to be most busy, and whe n do you pla n your most importa nt tasks? Try to fit in your exercise before or at least around these eve nts if possible, so that you can keep exercis ing and your life wont be affec

54、ted 影卩向）as well. Third, thi nk about whe n you feel you have the most en ergy. For most people, that time is usually in the morning after a good ni ghts rest, or after a long day of work. After a busy or much stressful day, exercis ing can reduce your worki ng stress from hard work. Lastly, find out

55、 the place you plan to do exercise. Your house provides exercise at any time if you own fitness equipment（設(shè)備）,but if there is a gym（健身房）down the street or along the way home from work, it will make it more suitable for you to exercise. More importantly, you need to make a plan and try sticking to it

56、 for one week. If you do so and can get through the exercise without being pulled in ano ther directi on, make it a habit. And once you have set up your fitness plan, dont make any great cha nges to it uni ess your doctor allows you to. 丄,丄. 36 to take several points about exercise and find out the

57、best n troduct ion - . time to exercise. Mai n Poi nts .Know your sleep characteristics and you will have a better 37 of your body n eeds exercise. .Make your daily Pla n well 50 that you can keep exercis ing 38 your life. .Think about when you are most energetic.Exercising after work can make 39 stressed. .Fi nd out where to do exercise a nd it will make it more suitable for you. Suggesti ons .S