北京市石景山区中考一模英语试卷

I like the little girl, so I tried to help ______.

Ten students in our class will celebrate their birthdays ______ October.

— Mum, ______ are my shoes?
— Under your bed. You should put away your things.

Jim likes coffee ______ I prefer tea.

— ______ I have some more cake?
— No, I’m afraid you can’t.

______ is waiting for you at the gate. She’s got a letter for you.

I want ______ some bird-watching this weekend.

She likes tennis and she thinks it’s ______ of all sports.

Last year my father ______ the city where he was born.

The sweater can’t ______ in the machine.

His book is wonderful. I ______ it for three times.

I _______ you a ring if I hear anything.

If you can’t find the place, I’ll show you ______.

I work for a major airline. One afternoon while running through LAX to my plane, I tore (撕破) one of my nylon socks.          , there was a convenience store close to my gate. I knew I could buy a new pair. However, as I waited in line, I         that I had no money in my purse. I thought to myself that maybe the store manager would sell me a pair and let me pay her back the next time. I have been inside her store a lot, even though we have never been         . When it was my          to pay, I showed her my socks and explained that I had no money on me. She laughed and          said, “Take them.”
Well, for whatever reason, two months passed, and I           had not paid the money back.
Then one day while I was busy doing my usual preflight preparations, a passenger asked me if I would           him a newspaper.
I went off the airplane and walked to the same convenience store. I was too embarrassed (尴尬的) to go inside because I had never paid the money back, and I wasn’t carrying my          . Then a man with a friendly face came near.         he could walk past me, I stopped him and asked him for help. He smiled and said that he would do so gladly but wanted to know why I couldn’t do it         . He was rather outgoing and kept saying, “Come on, and tell me.” I needed a newspaper, so I           and told him.
Suddenly he said, “Hold on.” and then took me into his arms quickly and carried me into the store. With his free hand he reached into his pocket and            out a five-dollar bill and said to the manager, “I’d like to pay for the socks this person owes you for and for a newspaper.”
I later learned that this big, gentle man was Rosie Grier, the former L.A. Rams and Hall of Fame football player.

A．Probably B．Luckily C．Doubtfully D．Hopefully

A．believed B．thought C．felt D．discovered

A．noticed B．mentioned C．introduced D．required

A．turn B．time C．chance D．duty

A．simply B．seriously C．actively D．hurriedly

A．even B．still C．just D．ever

A．return B．pass C．leave D．buy

A．socks B．package C．purse D．passport

A．After B．Until C．Before D．Unless

A．myself B．himself C．ourselves D．itself

A．checked in B．gave in C．broke in D．got in

A．handed B．sent C．carried D．pulled

THEME PARKS – FUN AND MORE THAN FUN

Disneyland will bring you into a magic world. As you walk around Disneyland, you may see Snow White and Mickey Mouse in a parade or on the street. If you want to have fun and more than fun, come to Disneyland!

Dollywood, in the beautiful Smoky Mountains in the southeastern USA. Although Dollywood has rides, the park’s main attraction（吸引力） is its culture. You can even take a ride on the only steam-engine train still working in the southeast USA. Come to Dollywood to have fun learning all about America’s historical southeast culture!

If you want to experience the ancient days, England’s Camelot Park is the place for you. Every area of the park is modeled after life in the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. To enter a world of ancient England, come to Camelot Park!

Some theme parks are not only for fun but also educational. Take the Polynesian Cultural Center(PCC) in Hawaii as an example. It not only shows visitors the Polynesian way of life but also protects their skills and culture for the future.

Which park will bring you into a magic world?
A. Disneyland.                          B. Dollywood.
C. Camelot Park.                        D. The PCC.
What’s Dollywood’s main attraction?

What can you enjoy in Camelot Park?

Give this memory test a try. Mix up 52 playing cards. Now look at the top seven for a second. Can you remember them in order?
Players at the World Memory Championships can. In fact, the 2002 champion (冠军), Andi, memorized the order of 1196 cards after looking at them for only an hour! And a German girl, Lara, only ten years old, memorized 75 faces and names in fifteen minutes!
In 1987, a Japanese man, Mr. Tomoyori, wanted to prove that his memory was the best in the world by remembering by heart pi (π), a number in math which starts 3.14159…This number never repeats itself or ends. He recited pi to 40,000 decimal places (小数位). It took the fifty-five-year-old man more than twelve hours to say the numbers, but he did it without making a mistake!
To remember pi, Mr. Tomoyori connected each number with a sound. He then made up stories to help him remember the words he made from the sounds. In an interview after his achievement, he said, “I decided to go ahead and memorize the value of pi up to one thousand places. But it wasn’t easy – in fact, it took me three years. To get to 40,000 decimal places it took me about ten years.”
Unluckily for Mr. Tomoyori, his record was broken in 1995, when another Japanese man, Mr. Goto, memorized pi to 42,195 places.
Why was Lara’s success special?

What is true about Mr. Tomoyori?

Who remembered the greatest numbers according to the passage?

Time can be categorized (分类) into three general types:
Predictable Time: Such activities as classes, team practice, eating and sleeping. If you know the restaurant is open between 7:00am and 7:30pm, you should plan to eat sometime between that block of time.
Discretionary Time: This is free time that can be planned in a manner matching with your lifestyle and to carry through the most important considerations in your life.
Imposed Time: Activities including unexpected and difficult or dangerous situations which happen suddenly and which require quick action to deal with them.
How to manage your Time:
Value Your Own Situation. The first step is to know yourself. People work differently. Some people are very active in the early morning and can carry out much at that time. Others find that their most powerful time is later in the day.
Get Organized. Make a shopping list or make some type of planned notebook. This may seem simple but you would be surprised how many people do not use these necessary things.
Prepare a To-Do List. Consider all that you wish to complete and make a list. Prioritize (优先排序) these items using three rules A, B, C:
A=" Most" important goal that needs to be completed very soon
B=" Next" important goal that does not have immediate necessity
C=" Finally," do all other things.
Plan Your Time. Fill in any spaces purposely left blank, and block out time to sleep. Be realistic, most college students don’t go to bed at 9 pm. Choose time for recreation each day.
Plan Study Time. Students should study 2-3 hours for every unit, for a total of 25-35 hours per week.
Time management is a system of learning to give first concern to the tasks you wish to complete. The key to being a good time manager is to learn to make full use of discretionary time and try to use it successfully.
What does the underlined phrase “Imposed Time” mean?

Which of the following can be considered as Rule A according to the To-Do List?

What is the passage mainly about?

Thousands of teenagers will be able to move to a new wave of “studio schools” at the age of 14 to improve their chances of finding a job in UK. Twelve new-style schools are open to act as a bridge to the workplace and cut the number of NEETs.
Under plans, schools will operate longer days and work outside standard school terms.
Each teenager will be expected to spend between four hours and two days a week on work placements with business related to the school and a personal coach will be sent to the teenagers to act as a school “line manager”.
The reforms (改革) are put forward because of the fears that too many teenagers are finishing full-time education at present but they are short of the skills needed to succeed in the workplace. According to a recent report, more than two thirds of employers (雇主) believe school and college leavers have less important employability skills, while 55% say they are unable to manage their time or daily routine. And the number of NEETs who are not in education has hit a record high, with almost one-in-five young people being left without a job or a training place.
The Department for Education will tell the public the building of 12 studio schools – providing for around 3,600 teenagers – in areas such as Liverpool, Stevenage, Stock-on-Trent and Fulham, west London. Each one will be connected to the local employers. Under plans, teenagers will be able to move out of ordinary schools to attend them between the ages of 14 and 19.
The government said all subjects would be taught “through projects, often prepared with employers” – with rules such as science being connected directly to local engineering companies or hospitals. Schools will operate a longer day to give teenagers a better understanding of the needs of the workplace. Along with their studies, students will carry out work placements for four hours a week, rising to two days a week of paid work for those aged 16 to 19. They will also get the chance to take professional qualifications (专业资历) connected directly to the needs of local employers.
According to the passage, NEETs refer to those who ______.

Compared to ordinary schools, studio schools will offer the young more ______.

What makes the government decide to build studio schools?

What can be the best title for the passage?

阅读下面短文，从短文后方框中所给的五个句子中选出四个，分别填入文中相应的序号后，使短文语义连贯，结构完整。
Do you get angry when your friends sing loudly while you are trying to work or when your best friend does not wait for you after school?
__________. Getting angry with others can cause you to lose friends.
Gary Egeberg, an American high school teacher, has written My Feelings Are Like Wild Animals to help you control your feelings. It tells how to stay cool when bad things happen.
The book says that getting angry only makes problems worse. __________. “Getting angry is not a natural way to act,” the book says, “It’s just a bad habit, like smoking.”
The book says you can control your anger easily – all you have to do is to tell yourself not to be angry.
The book gives many tips to help you if you get angry easily. __________.
◆ Keep a record. When you get angry, write down why you are angry. Look at it later and you will see you get angry too easily.
◆ Ask your friends to stop talking to you when you get angry. This will teach you not to be angry.
◆__________. When you get angry, walk away from the problem and go somewhere else. Try to laugh.

阅读短文，根据其内容回答问题。
The British are known for their sense of humour. However, it is often difficult for foreigners to understand their jokes. The main point to remember is that the British often use understatement.  
Understatement means saying less than you think or feel. For example, if someone gets very wet in a shower of rain, he might say, ‘It’s a little damp (潮湿的) outside.’ Or, if someone is very impolite and shouts at another person, someone else might say, ‘She isn’t exactly friendly.’ Understatement is often used in unpleasant situation or to make another person look silly. Understatement plays an important part in British humour.
Another key to understanding British humour is that the British like to make fun of themselves as well as others. They often laugh about the silly and unpleasant things that happen to our everyday life when someone accidently falls over in the street. They also like to make jokes about people from different classes of society. They like to make jokes about their accents, the way they dress and the way they behave. What’s more, the British love to watch comedies (喜剧) about people who do not know how to behave in society. The comedies series Mr Bean is a good example of this kind of humor.
Mr Bean is the character created by British actor Rowan Atkinson in 1990. Mr Bean doesn’t talk often, and instead he uses his body movement and facial expressions to make people laugh. Perhaps what makes Mr Bean so funny is that he does things that adults in the real world cannot do. Mr Bean is popular in many countries round the world because you do not have to speak English to understand the humour. Because of this, many people have become familiar with the British sense of humour.
Is it difficult for foreigners to understand British jokes?
What does ‘understatement’ mean?
What do the British love to watch comedies about?
How does Mr Bean make people laugh?
What are the key points for people to understand British humour?

根据中文意思完成句子。
为什么不和我一起参加那个游泳俱乐部呢？
______ join the swimming club with me?
该放暑假了，你有什么打算？
______ summer vacation. What’s your plan?
雾霾天里很难看清路标。
It’s ______ see the road sign clearly in such smog-weary weather.
沿着这条路往前走，直到第二个路口再右拐。
Walk along this road. ______ you get to the second crossing.
请你告诉Tom在任何情况下都不要放弃梦想，好吗？
______ his dream in any situation?

根据中文和英文提示，写一封意思连贯、符合逻辑、不少于50词的回信。信的开头和结尾已给出，其词数不计入所完成的回信内。所给英文提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的真实校名和姓名。
假如你叫李平，最近和英国朋友Mike通过邮件谈论成长过程中对自己产生过重要影响的人，他想了解你生命中最重要的人是谁，请你根据他的问题回复邮件。
提示词语： helpful, patient, look after, brave, love

To         Mike From       Li Ping Subject     The most important person in my life Hi! Mike, I’m glad to hear from you. ______________________ ________________________________________________ Yours, Li Ping