[山东]2014年初中毕业升学考试（山东菏泽卷）英语

Doing lots of listening practice is one of ________ best ways of becoming ________ good language learner.

 We decide to make ________ a rule for us room-mates to turn off the lights at 10:30 pm.

My teacher gave me much ________ on how to study English well when I had some trouble.

  —How do you like the fish I cooked for you?
—I haven’t had it yet. However, it ________ good.

  I’d love to go to the English evening. But I’m a little ________, because I will be asked to sing an English song in front of the whole school.

It is believed that ________ December 21st, 1891, the first basketball game in history was played.

—Have you finished your homework yet?
—Yes. I _________ it twenty minutes ago.

People who eat a balanced diet should be ________ than those who only eat hamburgers.

—Which of the two pairs of shoes will you take?
—I’ll take ________. They are too small for me.

Look, so many people are running out of the station. I wonder what ________.

—Look, someone left a book.
—Oh, yeah … This book ________be Kitty’s. Only she likes to read this kind of books.

“Learning from Lei Feng Day” is only two weeks from now. We need to ________ a plan about it.

—When will you return the book to me?
—I’ll give it to you _________ I finish it.

—Look at the flowers I gave you last month. They are dying! ________ do you water them?
—Sorry, I forgot to water them.

—Why don’t you join an English language club to practice speaking English?
—__________.

The Vietnam (越南) War broke out. The young husband         the army and died in the war. His wife and son began to have a         life after that. Even though their life was very hard and sometimes they didn’t have enough food to eat, the         still decided to raise her son by herself.
Several years later her son immigrated (移民) to America         finally became an engineer. He often sent letters to his mother with much money. However, with many excuses,  the son         to come back home to visit his mother.
    his mother died, the son returned. But he didn’t cry. His mother left a box behind. During the funeral (葬礼), the son opened the box and         cried and shouted, “Mom! Mom!”         looked at each other and then looked at the box. It was full of $100 bills and a piece of paper.
It read, “Son, I don’t spend too much money. I miss you a lot. Every time I heard a motorcycle        , I ran out of the door but it wasn’t you. I saved money         you in case (以防) you get sick.”

A．joined B．moved C．found D．sent

A．comfortable B．easy C．hard D．happy

A．son B．father C．husband D．wife

A．but B．and C．so D．or

A．refused B．agreed C．asked D．offered

A．Before B．When C．While D．As

A．slowly B．hardly C．quickly D．suddenly

A．Nobody B．Anyone C．Everyone D．Somebody

A．passing by B．going away C．showing up D．running off

A．with B．on C．to D．for

There was a boy and his family was very rich. One day his father took him on a trip to a place. He wanted to show his son how poor people were there. They spent several days on a farm. There were many poor families living on the farm.
On their way home, the father asked the son, “How was the trip?” “It was great, Dad,” the son answered. “Did you notice how poor people were there?” asked his father. “Oh, yes,” said the son. “So, tell me,” said his father. The son said, “Well, we have one dog and they have four. We have a pool in our garden, while they have a river that has no end. We have expensive lanterns (灯), but they have stars above their heads at night. We have only a small piece of land to live on, while they have the endless fields. We buy our food, but they grow theirs. We have high walls around our houses to protect us, but they don’t need walls, because their friends will protect them.”
The father had nothing to say. Then the boy added, “Thank you, Dad, for letting me see how poor we are.”
The father wanted to show his son ________.

How often did they go to the farm?

When the father asked the son how the trip was, the son thought it ________.

According to the boy, people on the farm can see ________ at night.

Which of the following is TRUE, according to the passage?

Ironing a shirt is easy to learn. Just follow the steps in this short guide (指南), and you’ll learn how to iron your shirt properly with the help of the video. The most important thing is this: don’t try to iron a dry shirt.
● Get ready
You will need an iron, an ironing board and a bottle of water. Place the shirt on the ironing board. You can iron in whatever order you like, but most people like to start at the top — the collar. Have a bottle of water ready. Spray (喷) it onto the shirt to make it easier to iron.
● Do the ironing
First, iron the inside of the collar. Second, turn the collar over and iron the other side. Third, iron the back shoulders of the shirt. Fourth, iron the cuffs. Iron the inside, then the outside of the cuffs. Fifth, iron the sleeves. Sixth, iron the back of the shirt. Finally, iron the front of the shirt. Do one side, and then do the other side.
● Dry the shirt
Check your shirt and iron it again if you need to. Now put your shirt on a hanger and let it dry.

What’s the most important thing if you want to iron a shirt?

You will need all of the following things EXCEPT ________ before you iron a shirt.

Most people like to start with ironing ________ of a shirt.

How many steps are there to do the ironing, according to this guide?

The writer tells us it’s easy to learn how to iron a shirt by ________.

The first day of school, our professor introduced an old lady Rose to us.
“Why are you in college at such an age?” I asked her. She replied, “I always dreamed of having a college education and now I’m getting one!” We became friends quickly.
At the end of the term I invited Rose to make a speech to our football team. I’ll never forget what she taught us. She said, “There are some secrets of staying young and being happy. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You must have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you will die. There is a huge difference between growing old and growing up. Anybody can grow older. That doesn’t need any talent or ability. To grow up, you must always find the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The people who are afraid of death are those with regrets.”
At the end of the year, Rose finished her college. One week after graduation, Rose died peacefully in her sleep. We would always remember the great woman.
From the passage, we can learn that Rose ________.

At the end of the term the writer invited Rose to ________.

The underlined word “talent” in the third paragraph means “________” in Chinese.

If you want to stay young and be happy, ________, according to Rose.

What is the best title of the passage?

33-year-old spacewoman Wang Yaping made history — she is China’s first teacher in space.
Wang Yaping taught Chinese primary and middle school students on Earth physics problems in the zero-gravity environment (失重环境). She prepared for the lecture for a long time.
Wang, born in January 1980, is from east China’s Shandong Province. She was a pilot in the People’s Liberation Army Air Force (空军) with experience of 1,600 hours of flying.
The world’s first teacher in space was Christa McAuliffe, a 37-year-old middle school teacher from the United States, but the Space Shuttle Challenger (挑战者号) disintegrated (崩裂) after 73 seconds into flight on Jan.28, 1986. McAuliffe and other six members were killed.
“Wang’s lecture was a pleasant surprise, ” said Zhang Xiaoguang, an astronaut (宇航员) in the three members of Shenzhou-10 spacecraft. “________________________(她无论做什么都很优秀). Sometimes we’d like to give her a helping hand, but she just would not take the hand in help,” said Nie Haisheng.
Like many young Chinese people, Wang likes photography, music and basketball. She said, “We are all students in facing the universe (宇宙). We are looking forward to joining our young friends to learn and explore the mystical (神秘的) and beautiful universe.”

（一）请根据短文内容，简要回答下列问题。
Who did Wang Yaping give the lecture to on physics problems in space?
____________________________________________________________________
What was Christa McAuliffe?
_____________________________________________________________________
（二）请根据短文中所给汉语完成句子。
She ______________  ______________ in whatever she does.
（三）请把短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
______________________________________________________________________
（四）请给短文拟一个恰当的英文标题。
______________________________________________________________________

Last Monday, my husband and I       some time in the park next to our house. We often went to this      and we knew there were some homeless people. They sometimes stayed      the benches (长椅). We brought along some apples, oranges and a few bottles of water to share with them. I felt great happiness      I watched them eating our things. They said it was a big dinner for them and it was the luckiest day for them in their lives.
Among them, there   a homeless boy Bruce. He was about eight years old and he lost      parents in a car accident,    he couldn’t go to school. When I asked him, “Do you like to school?” He said yes. We decided to take him     and let him go to school. The boy was happy to live       us.
From that day on, little Bruce became our son and went to school   .

Yu Bing:    Hi, Mark! Have you watched the TV news this morning?
Mark:      No. ________________ 
Yu Bing:   Flight (航班) MH370 from Malaysia (马来西亚) to China disappeared last night.
Mark:   ________________ How many passengers are there?
Yu Bing:    ________________ Many countries are now searching for MH370, and yet we have no idea what happened to it.
Mark:     ________________
Yu Bing:    We are looking forward to finding the missing flight earlier.
Mark:      ________________

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