2015年苏州市中考英语模拟试卷（一）
（试卷满分100分 考试时间100分钟）
一、单项填空(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中 , 选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
( ) 1. Throughout_______ history, English language has gone through many changes.
A. /; / B. the; the C. the; an D. /; the
( ) 2. -What would you like to drink, tea or juice?
-_______ is OK. They are both my favourite.
A. Both B. All C. Either D. None
( ) 3. -Did you hear that John lost his job?
-It_______ that he had made some serious mistakes in his work.
A. felt B. smelt C. seemed D. looked
( ) 4. Thank you for the_______ that you gave me when I felt English too difficult to learn.
A. praise B. encouragement
C. prize D. award
( ) 5. The patient's progress was encouraging, as he could _______ get out of bed without help.
A. nearly B. only C. hardly D. badly
( ) 6. -Look! Someone_______ the floor. It's clean.
-Well, it wasn't me. I went shopping just now.
A. is sweeping B. was sweeping C. had swept D. has swept
( ) 7. After a short time, the bad news had_______ all over the city and everybody knew it.
A. showed B. spread C. covered D. explored
( ) 8. -Mr White asked me to remind you of the meeting this afternoon. Don't forget it !
-OK, I_______.
A. won't B. don't C. will D. do
( ) 9. Chairperson Xi calls on us to do what we can_______ as much as possible.
A. save B. to save C. saved D. saving
( )10. -How can we help the children in the mountain village?
-We can_______ leaflets to ask people to donate money.
A. give in B. give off C. give up D. give out
( )11. -Could you tell me_______?
-Until tomorrow afternoon.
A. how long you will stay there B. how soon you will stay there
C. when will you stay there D. how often will you stay there
( )12. -This kind of sports is exciting.
-Yes, but it's dangerous. One can't do it_______ he or she has got some training.
A. if B. after C. when D. unless
( )13, -How do you like this piece of music by Tan Dun?
-Well, of all the music that he has written, I think this is his_______ one.
A. better-known B. well-known
C. best-known D. most-known
( )14. Ladies or gentlemen, whether young or old, _______ some money of yours to the poor people in the mountain area who are suffering.
A to donate B. donating C. donate D. will donate
( )15. -The young man who entered our factory last month has made some mistakes this week.
-Well. _______.
A. He that climbs high falls heavily
B. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing
C He who laughs last laughs best
D. He that will not work shall not eat
二、完形填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Joe Azougar was walking his dog when a bear appeared suddenly.
‘‘When it came up, the first thing my dog did was to 16 me and attack the bear, ' Azougar said from his bed in Lady Minto Hospital.
Then Azougar ran into his house and began to 17 his neighbours, warning them what was going on. 'As I looked around, I saw the bear pull my dog into the 18 .And to my great sadness, the dog was killed, ' he said.
Then suddenly, the bear came back and it broke through the house's back window. Azougar began throwing things at the bear and making loud noises. Then he stood on a chair to make himself look much 19 .
'It seemed as if the bear was very hungry, ' said Azougar.“I thought my best chance was to run outside 20 someone could find me.”
Azougar began running, but the bear 21 him.
“It had four paws on top of me, ' he said. 'Then, it 22 my body and tried to bite my stomach. That gave me just a few 23 to turn into a ball and protect my head.'
The bear began to pull Azougar's body, 'By that time I could feel my body becoming lifeless, ' Azougar said.
Luckily, two women, who were driving by, saved him. Their car was such a(n) 24 thing in the bear's eyes that it ran quickly into the woods.
'I am just thankful to those two angels that saved me in time, ' he said.
'People, who have lived here for 20 or 30 years, said they had 25 seen anything like this,' said Azougar. He is the first one, and he hopes that he will be also the last one. 'Now I'm planning to move somewhere else once I come out of hospital.'
( )16. A. protect B. follow C leave D. stop
( )17.A. calm B. visit C. save D. call
( )18.A. water B. fire C woods D. grass
( )19.A. larger B. kinder C. smaller D. cleverer
( )20. A. ever since B. so that C. even if D. as if
( )21.A. ate B. forgot C. caught D. changed
( )22.A. turned over B. put up C cut off D. poured into
( )23. A. days B. hours C. minutes D. seconds
( )24.A. funny B. interesting C modern D. frightening
( )25. A. sometimes B. once C. never D. often
三、阅读理解（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分）
阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。
A
Once a traveller came into a village which was suffering from hunger. The villagers asked him to leave, for they feared he wanted them to give him food. They told him that there was no food. The traveller explained that he didn’t need any food and that, in fact, he was planning to make a soup to share with them instead. The villagers watched suspiciously as he built a fire and filled a pot with water. With great ceremony(仪式), he pulled a stone from a bag, and dropped the stone into the pot of water. After a moment, he smelt the soup and shouted with excitement, “How delicious the soup is!” As the villagers began to show interest, he mentioned how good the soup would be with just a little cabbage in it. A villager brought out a cabbage to share. This episode(情节) repeated itself until the soup had cabbage, carrots, onions, and beets—indeed, a full pot of soup that could feed everyone in the village was ready. This story describes when there are not enough resources(资源), humans will store things. We do not want to share. The story of stone soup helps us realize that, in doing so, we often prevent ourselves and everyone else from having a feast(盛宴).The meaning of this story goes far beyond food. We keep to ourselves ideas, love, and energy, thinking we will be richer, but in fact we make the world, and ourselves, poorer. The traveller was able to see that the villagers were holding back, and he had the ability to inspire(激发) them to give. In this way, they created a large meal that none of them could have created alone.Are you like one of the villagers? If you come forward and share your gifts, you will inspire others to do the same. The reward is a feast that can feed many.
26. What does the underlined word “suspiciously” most probably mean?
A. doubtfully B. excitedly C. curiously D. Fearfully
27. The traveller put a stone into the pot in order to_______ .
A. teach the villagers to cook a soup with stone
B. inspire the villagers to bring out their own food
C. prove to the villagers that he didn’t want their food
D. help villagers to survive by giving them some food
28. The writer mainly wants to tell us that ________.
A. storing things in hard times is human nature
B. a good leader is very necessary in hard times
C. skills are needed to inspire people to share with others
D. sharing is more important than keeping things to oneself
B
Please sit down and enjoy your meal. Just don’t talk about it.
These are the requirements at a popular dining party that is
known as 'silent dinners'. It encourages people who take part in the
dining party not to speak for one to two hours and not to use
electronic devices. Instead, the idea is to just on the food.
'Silent dinner parties are fast growing, ' said Honi Ryan, who has hosted 32 silent dinner parties in 11 cities across eight countries, including Germany, Australia and the United States. 'The way we communicate is changing so fast that we need to stop and think about it. '
According to a 2013 nationwide survey, restaurant noise came in second only to poor service among customer(顾客) complaints. And 19 percent of dinners who took part in the survey said noise and crowds disturbed them most while eating out_______.
Though silent dinners may seem curious, the idea is not a new one. Yogis (瑜伽信徒) have long enjoyed silent meals as part of a deepened practice. In fact, it was a trip to a temple(寺庙) in India by a man that encouraged one Brooklyn restaurant recently to add a silent dinner to its event programming.
'We'll make a small speech at the beginning of the meal to make sure everyone understands what is happening and ask them not to speak or use their mobile phones for at least an hour, ' said EAT Greenpoint owner Jordan Colon. And background music will be turned off, too.
'It's funny, when I first opened EAT, I didn't play music for some time and people had very different reactions(反映) to that, ' said Colon. 'Some people who come out to eat are ready to party, but it was so quiet without music. But I wanted to create an environment that makes you relaxed. '
'Although personal reactions to a silent dinner may be various, in general they are more likely to get into a lot of talk afterwards, ' said Ryan. 'At the end of the night people always have a lot to say about silence. But the most reaction is that there is always a good laugh.'
( )29. The first paragraph is written to be a(n)_______.
A. conclusion B. introduction C. argument D. warning
( )30. At silent dinner parties, people should not_______.
A. leave before they finish eating
B. just pay attention to the food
C. use a mobile phone or listen to music
D. take electronic devices to the party
( )31. What does the writer try to tell us in Paragraph 5?
A. Silent meals help people live longer.
B. Yogis are the first to hold silent dinners.
C. More and more people like eating in silence.
D. The idea of eating in silence appeared long ago.
( )32. In Jordan Colon's opinion, silent dinners_______.
A. make people comfortable and relaxed
B. are hard to be accepted by most people
C. can help him to attract more customers
D. provide a chance to get to know others
C
Nearly eight hundred million people in this world cannot read or write, most of them in developing countries. Two-thirds are women and girls.
John Wood who started the Room to Read campaign(运动), has opened 1, 650 schools and 15, 000 libraries in some of the world's poorest communities (社区). He said that from the beginning, Room to Read's goal was to reach 10 million children around the world in the poorest countries.
In 1998, on a three-week vacation journey in Nepal, Wood met a local headmaster who invited him to visit his school in a far mountain village. The experience changed Wood's life.
'This headmaster had 450 students at the school, but he didn't have any books, ' Wood said. 'He had a library that was empty. '
Wood promised to fill the library shelves and returned to the village year later with some of his friends with 3, 000 books. And that was just the start. Later, Wood used some of his personal money to start Room to Read. He believes that world change begins with educated children. Today, the programme can be found in 10 countries across Asia and Africa.
Wood believes the key to the programme's success is local support. While Room to Read gives away money and provides books, communities offer land and parents help build the school. Agnes, a Room to Read teacher in Zambia who also runs the library, is proud to say the literacy at her school has improved. Room to Read's biggest challenge is the huge need. Hundreds of communities have asked for literacy programmes. One way of Room to Read's success is that it will achieve Wood's goal of reaching 10 million kids by 2015, five years earlier than it is planned.
( )33. The purpose of the Room to Read campaign is to_______.
A ask parents to read together with their children
B. help poor children to learn to read and write
C. tell more people the importance of reading
D. help 10 million children to go to college
( )34. When John Wood travelled in Nepal in 1998, he_______.
A. visited many local schools
B. sent many books to local children
C. started the Room to Read campaign
D. met a man who changed his life
( )35. The underlined part 'the literacy' in the last paragraph refers to (指的是) _______.
A. the teaching conditions
B. the teaching quality
C. students' ability to read and write
D. the money teachers earn every month
( )36. John Wood is a person that is_______.
A. helpful and generous B. honest and brave
C. careless but active D. strict but friendly
D
When you watch 3D movies or TV, you have to wear a special pair of glasses. The 3D glasses make the images from the screen look like they are there in the room with you.
Three-dimensional, or 3D, means having three dimensions (维度): width, height and depth. 3D technology(技术)is based on the way the human brain(大脑) and eyes work. Because the pupils of a person's eyes are about 6. 5cm apart(分开), when we look at something, each eye sees it from a different angle(角度). Our eyes send the two images to our brain, and the brain puts them together. The small difference between the image from the right eye and the image from the left eye allows us to see depth.
When we view pictures and television in two dimensions, each eye gets the same information. That is because the image has no real depth, and there is only one of viewing it. So the goal of 3D technology is to get a different image into each of the viewer. It uses two film projectors. One projects a left eye image and the other projects a right image. The 3D glasses allow us to see a different image in each eye.
While watching 3D films, we feel that we are in the same environment as the things we're watching. However, it also has its disadvantages. The 3D glasses work by controlling the amount of light that reaches the eyes. It makes the screen look darker. What's more, people with eye problems may get headaches if they spend too much time watching 3D movies, because their brains need to work harder to 'read' the images.
( ) 37. According to the passage, we can see 3D TV with the help of _______.
A. the exciting games B. the special glasses
C. the dark screen D. the image in the room
( )38. The second paragraph mainly tells us_______.
A. how we see things in 3D
B. how 3D films are made
C. what the human brain does for our eyes
D. how different images get into the brain
( )39. The underlined word 'pupils' in the passage means_______ in Chinese.
A．学生 B．视线 C．睫毛 D．瞳孔
( )40. Which of the following is TRUE?
A. 3D glasses make the screen look brighter.
B. People with eye problems can't see 3D films.
C A 3D film needs making by two film projectors.
D. 3D glasses help people get the same image in each eye.
四、词汇检测（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
根据下列句子及所给汉语注释或通过上下文，写出空缺处各单词的正确形式。每空只写一词。
41. MH370 with 239 people_______（失去，丢失）contact on March 8th, 2014.
42. She had to sell the house even though it was_______（违背）her own wishes.
43. The machine is_______（控制）by a robot instead of a worker.
44. The_______（南面的）side of the building gets more sunshine than the northern.
45. Suzhou is beautiful，_______（尤其，特别）in spring.
46._______（不幸地）, they had no money for their mother's medical treatment.
47. Do you know the_______（第三）Sunday of June is Father's Day?
48. -I'm afraid a car is too expensive for me.
-But more and more Chinese can_______ to buy one.
49. -Where did you go last Sunday?
-We went to the beach, and we had great fun_______ volleyball.
50. -Who knows what pandas and sheep like eating?
-I know pandas like eating_______ and sheep like eating grass.
五、句子翻译（共5小题；每小题3分，满分15分）
将下列句子译成英语。
51．警方正忙于查明事故的原因。
_____________________________________________________________________________
52.大雨使得我们没能放成风筝。
_____________________________________________________________________________
53.这些句子必须都记在笔记本上吗？
_____________________________________________________________________________
54．我认为这是我所看过的最有趣的电影。
_____________________________________________________________________________
55.让我一个人待着，以便我能想出一个好主意。
_____________________________________________________________________________
六、书面表达（共1题；满分20分）
最近，你们班就“是否应该帮助陌生人”展开了讨论，同学们就这一话题意见不一，你的看法如何？根据所提供的信息，以“Should we help strangers?'为题，写一篇短文。
要求：①表达清楚，语法正确，上下文连贯；
②必须包括表格中所有的相关信息，并适当发挥；
③词数100左右（短文的开头已给出，不计入总词数）；
④不得使用真实姓名、校名和地名等。
参考词汇：美德virtue
Should we help strangers?
Recently our class had a discussion about whether we should
help strangers. Different students have different opinions.