2011年宁夏回族自治区中考英语试卷

任务型阅读。(10分)
A way of taking up new hobbies
Starting a new school term is always exciting. It is a chance to  66  your friends again. But the most exciting of all, a new term is a good chance to take up new hobbies. It is common (普遍的) in Britain for students to take up new hobbies after the Christmas holidays. To start something new is a common New Year resolution.
Most schools offer (提供)  67  kinds of hobby classes. Students take them in their free time or after school. Some classes you have to pay for and the others are free. For example, I once took a free Wednesday evening gymnastics class, but when I learned how to play the drum, my parents  68  to pay for the lesson.
The most popular extra classes at my school were piano lessons and drama club. Both classes offered exams students could take. Students with many hobbies sometimes feel more  69  than those without any. But the students with hobbies leave school with many extra skills.
I haven’t continued any of the hobbies I began at school, but I have never regretted (遗憾) taking them. My  70  friend today is someone I met in my gymnastics class.
根据短文内容，完成下列任务。(每题1分)
任务1：选用所给词语的适当形式填入短文中的空格内。

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任务2：把短文中划线的句子译成汉语。
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任务3：根据英文释义及首字母提示，从短文中找出正确的单词。
h______: a thing you like to do when you are not working; an interest
p______: give money for what you buy
任务4：回答问题。
What classes were the most popular extra classes at school? (根据原文回答。)
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What hobbies would you like to start in the new term? (根据你自己的实际情况回答。)
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You eat too much junk food. Why not eat some healthy food i__________?
He gets a_________ when someone talks to him while he’s reading.
My classmate has been s__________ on the ice for the whole five hours.
I hope that there will be more trees and less p__________ in our city.
It was raining when the plane l__________ in London.

用所给词组的适当形式填空。

Have you ever __________ __________ Donald Duck?
She’s doing her homework. Would you mind _________ your voice_________?
We often see the boy __________ __________ the litter in the school yard.
He _________ __________ __________ drive a car when he was 18.
Last summer Lisa went to Guilin. She __________ __________ __________ with it.

How are you _______ _________ _________(相处) your American classmates?
It’s impolite to ________ _________ ________(插队) when we take the bus.
A: __________________________________________________________?
B: People will have robots in their homes in the future. (根据答语写出问句)
A: ___________________________________________________________?
B: She has already studied for more than three hours. (根据答语写出问句)
They asked me, “Are you writing to Tom?”(改为间接引语)
They asked me ________ _________ ________ _________ to Tom.

假如你是王杰，现在银川姨妈家探亲。到达银川一周后，你用英语给父母发封电子邮件，内容要点如下：
1.于上周六早晨抵达银川，旅途愉快；  2.姨妈全家人身体都好，他们都对我非常亲切；
3.这几天表兄们带我参观了博物馆、影视城 (the Western Film City) 等； 
4.假如明天天气好，我们打算去沙湖......；  5.谈谈你对银川的印象。（至少写出3点）
要求：邮件须包括所有内容要点，要求语句通顺、意思连贯。80词左右。
Dear Dad and Mom,
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Uncle and Aunt send their best wishes.
Love,
Wang Jie

附加题
任务型阅读 (10分)
Moscow is the capital of Russian. The city has a long history and was founded more than 850 years ago. Moscow became the center of a unified (统一的) Russian country in the 15th century. ①One hundred years later it had grown into the capital of a strong kingdom.
For most of eight centuries, the Kremlin, at the very heart of Moscow, has been the seat of power (权力宝座) for the emperors and most recent presidents. For Western people, the round roofs of ST. Basil’s Cathedral have become the symbol of Russia. Around this center, there are a lot of high buildings. However, some older classical houses and impressive structures, such as the Bolshoi Theater are well kept here.
②21世纪，俄罗斯正在迅速发展。Although the Russians are paying more attention to the protection of most of the old structures, they are also creating new wonders in the form of buildings, shopping malls, and churches. ③Many of them are designed in both the ancient and modern Russian styles, especially in central Moscow.
根据短文内容，完成下列任务。
1. When was the city of Moscow founded according to the passage?
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2. What is the symbol of Russia in Western people’s eyes?
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3. 请将①处的英语翻译成汉语。_________________________________________________
4. 请将②处的汉语翻译成英语。_________________________________________________
5. 用“Russians”作主语，改写③处的句子，句意不变。
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--What do you think of the book you borrowed from the library yesterday?  
--I have no idea. I____________ read it.

I don’t know if my uncle will come. If he _________, I will be very happy.

– Millions of people know about Susan Boyle now, __________?
-- _________, she becomes well-known because of her success on Britain’s Got Talent.

– Would you mind _________ here? – I’m sorry about that. I’ll go somewhere else.

The station was crowded, and Alice couldn’t see Dave_________.                                                 
A. anywhere           B. everywhere                  C. nowhere          D  somewhere

—Could you please tell us_________ the World EXPO in Shanghai? – In July.

Miss Li didn’t leave here _________I returned this morning.

You should _________ your subject before you began to do your homework.
A look at           B. look through              C look after       D. look in

---We are going to visit Lushan Mountain this weekend. – Really? ___________.

– What was the terrible noise yesterday evening? – The neighbors ________ a party.

Would you wake me up at six tomorrow morning, mum? It’s my _________to clean the classroom tomorrow. So I’ll go to school earlier.

– What would you like to _________ if you were in a university? -- Science

– I heard that Jackie Chan would come here tomorrow. – That’s great. I’m really _______ about it.

– Wow! Her English is getting _________. – Yes, she practices every day.        

I’m really __________ playing ping-pong. No one can beat me in my class.

Liam works in Sydney. Last week he had   41   holiday, but he didn’t know   42   to go. He said to his friend Robert, “I   43     the hot weather here, but I can’t find a cool place in Australia. How will I spend my holiday?”
“That. ’s   44   ,” said Robert. “You’d better go to Moscow. It’s   45    there because it is covered with snow and ice now.”
Liam    46   with his friend. He bought an air ticket and soon   47   Moscow. He made a   48   journey there. But one day he got into trouble. After lunch he went outside the city. He saw a dog   49  him while he  50   by a house. It was   51    and wanted to get some food to eat. Bad luck! He had no pieces of bread or cake with him. He tried to send it away. But it began to shout at him. He wanted to 52    something to make the dog go away, but he couldn’t find anything  53    snow and ice. Suddenly he saw a stone(石头) on the ground. He tried to   54   but he failed.
“ How strange the Russians are!” Liam said to himself. “They do not tie(拴)their dogs, but firmly(紧紧地)tie the   55    ”.

A．two-week B．two weeks C．two weeks’ D．a two-week

A．how B．what C．where D．if

A．like B．unlike C．hate D．not like

A．right B．easy C．exciting D．interesting

A．hot B．cold C．warm D．humid

A．agreed B．disagreed C．liked D．hated

A．arrived in B．got C．left D．returned

A．sad B．happy C．tired D．boring

A．to follow B．is following C．following D．followed

A．was walking B．walked C．was crossing D．crossed

A．full B．thirsty C．happy D．hungry

A．have B．discover C．look for D．look out

A．besides B．except C．beside D．without

A．look for it B．put it up C．throw it away D．pick it up

A．dogs B．stones C．food D．sticks

   Once there lived a rich man and a poor tailor. They were     . The rich man lived upstairs and the poor tailor lived downstairs.
The poor tailor    singing when he made clothes. But the rich man liked     . One day the rich man said, “ Tailor, I can’t sleep well. I’ll give you a bag of money every day if you    singing.”“  !” said the tailor. And so the tailor didn’t singing any more and became richer and richer. But the more money he got from the rich man, the more     he was, because he wanted very much to sing again.
At last he    all his money to the rich man. “ Here.” He said. “  your money back, I can’t be happy    I can’t sing.” And soon he was     than before.

If the reader has an English Coaching Paper of March 3, 2011, he will get a small present __________..
A. every day                       B. from English Coaching Paper   
C. on March 6, 2011                 D on February 3, 2011
If a Britain editor who has worked in China for three years comes to English News Paper office to ask for the job on time, he should___________.

Where and when will the football match be?

It was Mother’s Day. A man stopped his car at a flower shop to order some flowers. He wanted the shopkeeper to send the flowers to his mother, who lived two hundred miles away.
As he got out of his car, he found a young girl sitting on the road crying.
He asked her what was wrong and she answered, “ I want to buy a red rose for my mother, but I only have seventy-five cents. A rose costs two dollars.”
The man smiled and said, “Come into the shop with me, I’ll buy you a rose.”
He bought the little girl a rose and ordered his own mother’s flowers. As they were leaving, he offered to drive the girl home. She said, “Yes, please! You can take me to my mother.” She brought him to a cemetery(墓地). Where she placed the rose on the grave(墓碑).
The man was moved. He returned to the flower shop, picked up the flowers he ordered and drove two hundred miles to his mother’s house.
Today is the day for your mother. Send a flower to your kind and beautiful mother.
The man went to the shop to____________.

The man’s mother lived ___________away from him.

The girl was crying on the road because__________.

We can learn from the passage that___________.

Jean is a bright young woman who comes from a rich and famous family. She goes to a good university and has everything that money can buy, well, almost everything. The problem is that the people in Jean’s family are so busy that they can hardly find time to be with her. In fact, Jean is quite lonely.
So Jean spends a lot of time on her QQ. She likes being anonymous(匿名), talking to people who do not know about her famous family and her rich life. She uses the name Linda on QQ and has made a lot of friends who she keeps in touch with quite often.
Last year Jean made a very special friend on QQ. His name was David and lived in San Francisco. David was full of stories and jokes. He and Jean had a common(共同的)interest in rock music and modern dance. So it always took them hours to talk happily on QQ and sometimes they even forgot their time. Of course, they wanted to know more about each other. David sent a picture of himself. He was a tall, good-looking young man with a big happy smile. As time went by, they became good friends and often sent cards and small things to each other.
When Jean’s father told her that he was going on a business trip to San Francisco, she asked him to let her go with him so that she could give David a surprise for his birthday. She would take him the latest DVD of their own rock singer. But when she knocked on David’s door in San Francisco, she found that her special friend was a twelve-year-old boy named Jim.
Jean spends a lot of time on QQ because she is ____________.

Jean thought “David” was special because he __________.

When Jean and “David” met and introduces themselves to each other, who felt surprised?

What’s the main idea of the passage?

The weather can influence(影响)intelligence(智力). For example, in a 1983 report by scientists, IQ of a group of students was very high when a very strong wind came, but after the strong wind, their IQ was 10% lower. The wind can help people have more intelligence. Very hot weather, on the other hand, can make it lower. Students in many schools of the United States often get worse on exams in the hot months of the year(July and August).
Weather also has a strong influence on people’s feelings. Winter may be a bad time for thin people. They usually feel cold during these months. They might feel unhappy during cold weather. But fat people may have a hard time in hot weather. At about 18 °C, people become stronger.
Lower air pressure may make people forgetful. People leave more bags on buses and in shops on low-pressure days. People feel best at a temperature of about 18 °C.
Are you feeling sad, tired, forgetful or unhappy today? It may be the weather’s problem.
What can influence people’s intelligence according to the first paragraph?

Students get worse on exams because ___________.

At a temperature of about 18 °C. people may_________.
A. leave more bags on buses                    B. like to go shopping
C. remember things better                      D. feel unhappy
Which of the following is NOT true?

How to protect your teeth
        . The first of twenty being to grow when you are over six months old. The second set of thirty-two grows from the age of six until you are about twenty-one years old.
       , you must drink plenty of milk and eat greens.
       . Then little food will be left on or between them to cause decay(导致蛀牙). Make sure that you turn the brush and go up and down as well as brushing side ways. Use dental floss(牙线)to make sure all food is removed from in between each tooth, if you cannot brush your teeth after eating, raise them with water, or eat an apple or a carrot.
      . If there is a hole in a tooth, he or she will fill it. If you do not have it filled, then the hole will grow larger. When a hole grows too big,       . It is better to keep all your second set of teeth for as long as possible. Filling a gap where a tooth has come out with a kind of bridge and using a false tooth costs a lot of money.

Most of the work was done by my sister and
me B. I C. my D. Mine

—When will the second class begin?
—_two minutes.

—Do you know the girl __is talking to our English teacher?
—Yes. She’s my sister.

—Could I use your eraser for a while? —Yes, of course you _.

Tom’s mother is busy _____ breakfast for Tom.

—When will he leave for Shanghai?
—As soon as he _ his work.

—Need I wash your car after repairing it?
—Yes, that would be much _    .

We have only one Earth. It’s our common _.

My brother and 1     in Yinchuan since 1997.

—_       did he come?
—He came to ask for help.

Bob asked me_         .

You are_____ young to understand it.

—Are there any story-books for students In read in the library?
—There are only a few, if _.

Look! We can’t cross the bridge. It   by some workers.

When the shy girl was asked to answer the question, her face     red.

Tom, along with three other boys,     seen playing football a moment ago.

—Terribly sorry! I have broken your glass!

The two pictures look the same to me. It’s hard to ____ one from the other.

We had to _____the sports meet because of the heavy rain.

Hurry up ____ finish your soup!

It was very late at night. An old man came to a small town. He found an inn (小旅馆) and Wanted to slay there for the night. After he went to his room, the owner said to his 41   ."Look at hisbag. There must be much money in it. Let’s take it away when he’s 42 , shall we? ’
"Oh, no," said the woman. "He must 43 his bag when he wakes up tomorrow morning. If he can’t find it, he’ll telephone the police."
They thought for a few minutes. Then the woman had an 44 . "We have forgetful grass. Why not put some forgetful grass into his food? If he 45 the food, he will forget lo take his bag away."
The old man ate the food 46 the forgetful grass and went to bed. The next morning when the owner got up, he found the door 47 and the old man had gone away with his bag. He woke his wife up and said to her angrily, "How foolish you are! Your forgetful grass isn’t 48 at all."
"No, I don’t think so. He must forget_49__," his wife said.
"Oh! I remember now! He forgot to 50 for the night," cried out the man suddenly. Then they looked at each other without saying a word.

A．sister B．friend C．aunt D．wife

A．asleep B．awake C．alive D．alone

A．set off B．give up C．look for D．take off

A．idea B．advice C．instruction D．excuse

A．eats B．receives C．likes D．refuses

A．onto B．for C．with D．into

A．open B．opens C．opening D．lo open

A．interesting B．important C．delicious D．useful

A．anything B．nothing C．something D．everything

A．spend B．cost C．take D．pay

Most people graduate from school and then get a job. Everyone wants a job that pays well. How much money can you make? Ask yourself these questions: What can I do? What skills do I have? Also ask yourself: How much education do I have? For most jobs, the higher your education, the higher your earning power.
In the United States, high school graduates make about $ 18,600 a year. If you do not finish high school, you make only $10,800 a year. You can make $7,800 more each year by staying in high school!
If you stay in school, then you can make more money. A person with a high school degree makes about $18,600 a year. If that person goes to college and gets a bachelor’s degree（学士学位), he can make S42,000. With a master’s degree (硕士学位), he can make about $53,000. If the person gets a PhD（博士学位), he can make almost $79,000 or more a year.
We can learn a very important, thing from this information. If you want to work and make more money, get a good education.
The passage mainly talks about_.

According to (根据) the passage, "earning power" means the ability to _____ money.

The writer thinks that a high school graduate usually makes more money than_.

Each year a person with a PhD can make more than a person who does not finishhigh school.

From the last paragraph(段落) we know that______.

Time Temp Glasses
Are you a person who wants to know the time and temperature during the day? You might like Temp Glasses. These special glasses show the time above your right eye and the temperature your left eye. It is surely easier than wearing a wristwatch, and you never have to guess the Tature.
Alarm() Fork
Do you eat too quickly? Do you eat too much? How can the Alarm Fork help you? Aren’t you is (好奇的)? Well, this special fork has two lights: one green and one red. When the green is on, it’s OK to eat a piece of food. The fork "knows" when you eat a piece, and soon the red goes on. Wait for the green light before you eat another piece.
Smell This
Sow do you know if your breath smells nice, or if it smells bad? It’s difficult It) know, because it’s very hard to smell the air that comes out of your own mouth. Smell This is useful for this ion. Smell This covers your nose and your mouth. Docs your breath smell nice, or do you need a piece of gum(口香糖)?
Banana Suitcase(手提箱)
Has this ever happened to you? You put a banana in your bag lunch in the morning, and when pen the bag at noon, the banana looks like someone drove a car over it. If you put your banana Banana Suitcase, this will never happen. It keeps a banana safe, delicious, and looking like a m!
The writer thinks that the four inventions are_.

A person who wants to lose weight may be interested in_.

Which invention is most helpful for someone waiting for a train?

If you want to know how your breath is. you may buy _.

Who might use the Banana Suitcase?

Here are two stories from different parts of the world. They seem strange but, believe it or not, they re all true!
John Lee was an Englishman who refused to be hanged! In 1884 the police said Lee had killed an old woman who he used to work with. There was nothing to show that Lee had killed the woman. Lee told the police he hadn’t done it, but no one believed him and he was going to be hanged. On the day of the hanging, however, the door in the floor, through which Lee’s body would fall, did not open. They tried three times but each time the door stayed closed, even though it had worked well the day before. In the end they sent Lee back to prison, where he lived for the next twenty-two years. At all times, John Lee said he hadn’t killed the woman, and he believed it was the "hand of God" that had saved him from death by hanging.
The police in Venezuela (委内瑞拉)in South America followed a man home one night. He was the thief they wanted to catch. However, half of his house was standing in Venezuela and the other half was standing in Colombia (哥伦比亚). Venezuela’s neighbor. When the police entered the house, the man ran upstairs to his bedroom, which was in Colombia, and called his lawyer (律师). The Venezuelan police were not allowed to enter Colombia so they could not enter the bedroom. They asked the police in Colombia to help. The Colombian police refused to help because the man’s crime (罪行)was not a crime in Colombia. In the end, the Venezuelan police gave up and went back to the police station.
The underlined（下划线) word "hanged" in this passage probably means _.

What do we¹ know about the door in the floor?

From the story we know that the thief’s bedroom was____.
A. in Venezuela B. in Colombia
C. in neither Venezuela nor Colombia I), in both Venezuela and Colombia
Why didn’t the Venezuelan police go into the man’s bedroom?

The police in Colombia didn’t help the police in Venezuela to catch the thief because

We had a long __________ (讨论)about the plan.
Driving on mountain roads always makes me __________ (紧张).
I__________ (写 )her several letters, hut she didn’t reply.
He introduced his lovely daughter to the guests __________ (高兴地 )
I couldn’t decide  __________(是否)or not to go to the party.

从下面方框中选择适当的词填入短文中，使短文通顺正确（注意有些词要用适当的形式）。方框中有两个多余的词。

Last Sunday my brother and I went fishing. We got up very early that day. When we __________ home,the moon could still be seen in the sky. The morning air was cool and Ifelt wind on my lace. This made us very comfortable. We laughed and talked__________ the way while we were riding our __________. By about six we were already sitting by theriver. Fishing is not easy. If you want to be __________, you must be very careful. Thatday we had another good catch. We caught a lot of fish and enjoyed ourselves very much. It was latewhen we got home. We fell a little tired __________ happy. Fishing is a very good sport.I like it very much.

阅读下面短文
The Greenest School in Britain
The pupils and teachers at Fairfield School think it's worth looking after the environment! This is what they've been doing:
Growing vegetables
Fairfield School pupils started their own vegetable garden. Both children and teachers plant and water the seeds ( 种子), then I hey pick the vegetables, which are used in school meals. Now they can all enjoy healthy food at lunchtime. "School dinners are tastier than ever before! " says one pupil.
Recycling
The Fairfield pupils don't just bring their books to school—they bring their rubbish too! There are recycling bins (回收箱 )in the playground for cans, plastic bottles, batteries and paper. The teachers give a prize every month to the pupil who's tried the hardest to recycle.
Planting trees
"This used to be one of the least beautiful areas of the city with no green areas, says the head teacher Lynne Johnson. "Now every child has planted their own tree, which he or she looks after during the week. They've made the view from the classroom more beautiful!
Finding cleaner ways to get around
Everyone walks or cycles to Fairfield School! "When the roads are busy, it’s faster to ride bikes than to go by car anyway,” says one pupil. Even the teachers don't use their cars. "We won't encourage our pupils to look after the environment if we don't do it ourselves! " says one teacher.
Every month the pupil who has done the best to recycle will_ _from the
teachers.
Neither the__________nor the __________ in Fairfield school go to school by car.
The pupils have made the view from the classroom more beautiful by __________.
From the passage we know that the teachers in this school set a good __________ to the pupils in protecting the environment.
They use the vegetables which are __________ and picked by themselves in school meals.

假设下面是你校的校园示意图，请你根据示意图及说明用英语写一篇80词左右的短文。短文首句已给出，不计入总词数。文中不得提及真实的校名和姓名。
说明：1. 老师办公室在教学楼二楼；2. 校园四周都是树。
参考词汇：示意图 diagram

This is a diagram of our school