2015年初中毕业升学考试（江苏镇江卷）英语

Our Chinese teacher recommends        new book to us every month and asks us to read ourselves after school.

—Which of the two subjects do you like, PE or music?
--        . They are really interesting.

Ma Yun, the chairperson of Alibaba Group, has made much money       the Internet.

After reading the novel Treasure Island, Paul has more       than before because of the main character, brave Jim.

—Three-D printing technology could be used to build a house in less than 24 hours.
-- It       amazing. It’s my first time to get to know the news.

The girl riding a horse there       be Shirley. Her left leg was badly hurt in an accident yesterday.

– Does your aunt only have a piece of bread for supper?
--Yes. She eats a little       . She looks slimmer than before.

—Does your school hold the raising of the national flag every Monday morning?
---Yes,         it rains heavily.

The new film The Left Ear        by Su Youpeng a few months ago, who is also a famous singer.

—Will you watch the program Running Man in Zhejiang Star-TV tonight?
-- Yes, of course. It        one of the most popular shows since last October.

The young firemen were so brave that they         the fire and saved the children in that house.

—Hi, I didn’t see you at the party in the company yesterday evening.
-- Oh, all my family        my son’s birthday at home.

– The radio says there will be a rainstorm this weekend, so we have to cancel the hiking to Nanshan.
--       I’m looking forward to it.

– Mum, the visit to the science museum is so wonderful.
-- Really? Could you tell me        ?

—Never give up. If you keep practicing speaking English every day. you’ll make great progress.
---Thanks for encouraging me. I know        .

阅读下面短文，根据短文内容，从短文生各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
At the present time, more and more people love travelling. It’s a very good       of getting to know new people and cultures and acquiring (获得) experiences. It helps travelers       a lot. Travel can make our minds become      .
But travel does more than all that. It can also make us more creative. In recent years, some professors have been doing research on what many people have already learned from travel experiences. They believe that spending time abroad has the           to affect (影响) people’s mind. For example, they found that the students who lived abroad for a longer period were better at         problems creatively than those who did not. If you stay in the same place, you can’t experience new sights, new smells, new sounds and new cultures. All these can       your mind and make it more active.
      , that doesn’t mean the more places you’ve been, the more creative you’ll become. Another group of professors have been doing       research. They found the people who often travelled from one place to another didn’t have enough       to immerse（使……沉浸）themselves in a new place and a new culture. They weren’t as creative as the people who spent the time       getting to know a place. You have to interact（相互影响）with the places you go to and then you can benefit（得益）from it.
If you go travelling. which do you prefer, staying in a place for a certain period or rushing all the way ?

A．way B．area C．sign D．state

A．present B．produce C．get D．check

A．thicker B．smoother C．wider D．healthier

A．ability B．possibility C．personality D．difficulty

A．solving B．causing C．controlling D．spreading

A．set up B．wake up C．turn up D．clean up

A．Instead B．Otherwise C．Moreover D．However

A．secret B．rapid C．common D．similar

A．interest B．money C．time D．quality

A．nearly B．probably C．hardly D．really

阅读下面的三篇短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
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There are more typical（典型的）expressions that you may not know. Here are Mr Bean’s examples.

	“cheers” or “thanks”	British people use “Cheers” much more often than “Thanks”. “Cheers” is often used by them in daily informal conversations for small favours（帮助）, such as opening doors for others, lending somebody a pen, showing strangers ways,…
Present Perfect Tense or Simple Past Tense	It’s more common to hear the British say “Have you done your work?” than “Did you do your work?” They prefer present tense to simple past tense.
…	…

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The passage is most probably a(n)        .

Some typical British expressions are quoted（引用）mainly because the course organizers think         .

If you and thress of your classmates have decided to take the course, how much will you pay all together?

For many Chinese, winter holiday season doesn’t seem complete without the CCTV Spring Festival Gala. But it’s impossible to satisfy all 1.3 billion Chinese.
Even if you, especially young audience（观众）complain about the Spring Festival Gala, watching it while having Lunar New Year’s Eve dinner has become a common way for families to get together. It’s much more than just a TV program, it’s also a way to bring family members together and get them talking during the holiday. Think about how you’ll watch the gala and discover its fun.
1. Share your opinions（观点）about the programs and artists with your family members. Introduce artists who young people enjoy to the elderly memebers of your family, such as “fellow brother” William Chan, or former（以前的）singing group EXO members Kris Wu and Lu Han.
2. Post your compliments and complaints on micro blogs and WeChat moments to share with friends. Then they will know what you’re satisfied with and what you complain about. In recent years, the gala is trying to attract young people by using Internet slang（俚语）. Guessing when and what Internet chat lingo（术语）will be mentioned in the show is surely going to be hot on social media. Will there be “drunk and tired”（也是醉了）? Have a bet with friends.
3. Online video websites such as IQiyi and Youku have introduced a real-time online discussion system. All comments（评论）are displayed on the screen. You can try watching the show in this interactive（互动的）way instead of the traditional TV sets so that you may know others’ opinions about the programs in the Spring Festival Gala.
What does the underlined word “compliments” mean?

Which of the following is NOT mentioned in the passage?

The writer mainly wants to tell us         .

It is believed in some ways that the daughter is father’s lover. But my experience has taught me in a different way. For a long time, my father has been a very vague figure（模糊的形象）to me. He was a man of few words, tall but slim and nothing else.
When I was in primary school, my father was never there to pick me up, and he never came to any of my parent-teacher meetings. He was always busy doing projects. I remember when I was in middle school and my head was badly hurt in a PE class. During my operation, my father was nowhere to be found. This hurt me most. At that moment, I considered my father as a cold-blooded man who did not care about me at all.
But things seemed different at my high school graduation ceremony, where I was chosen to represent my class and give a speech. My father, once again, told me he had a business trip in a place outside the city and would be unable to show up（露面）. “Don’t come. I will be very nervous if I see you,” I told him.
I remember my speech went smoothly. After the ceremony was over and I was about to leave. I suddenly noticed a familiar（熟悉的）looking man sitting in a corner of the hall. It was my father! I was so surprised that I rushed to him with tears（眼泪）running down my face. “Well done,” he said. His eyes were also filled with tears.
Later, I found out that my father had managed to finish his work by staying up late, and he drove for eight hours to get back. He had been sitting in the corner because he didn’t want me to see him. My father remembered every word in my speech.
For much of my life, I described my father was a cold-blooded man who only cared about his work. But when I thought deeply about this, it was obviously（明显地）not true. At my graduation ceremony. I could feel my father’s deep love. The fact is that seeing is not believing, and seeing may not be the fact if we don’t perceive（感知）the world with our hearts and minds. There’s no doubt that life doesn’t lack（缺少）love, but sometimes our eyes have trouble seeing it.
Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?

The writer rushed to her father with tears running down her face mainly because        .

What does the underlined word “this” in the last paragraph refer to（指代）?

What’s the best title of the passage?

根据句意，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空，每空一词。
It’s       (polite ) of Tom to push in before others in public.
We will be        (punish) if we take no action to protect the environment.
Art exam is just like any other exam in        (student) studies in that middle school.
The survey, carries out in that university, shows that three        ( five) of the teachers wear glasses.
The athlete Su Bingtian came third with a run of 9.99 seconds in the men’s 100-meter race. He has become the ______(proud) of us Chinese.

根据句意及汉语提示，写出各单词的正确形式，每空一词。
Like China, the UK has a long history. Kings and queens were once its       （统治者）.
Many people have got a cold because the temperature         (下降) a lot several days ago.
When the little boy saw the dog playing wonderful tricks, he began to       (笑) loudly.
To our surprise, there was no salt in the fish. Dad did the cooking a little        (粗心地).
– How       (令人疲倦的) it is to reach the top of the mountain after three hours’ climbing!
-- Don’t care much for that. The view from here is so beautiful.

根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词，使短文意思完整，每空一词。
Do you remember how you get your English name? Your English teacher gave it to you or you looked up the d     to get it? Have you ever thought w     your English name will bring you good luck or bad luck?
A new study found a name that others felt difficult to pronounce might i     a person’s future. The study shows that the e     your name is to pronounce, the more trustworthy（值得信赖的）people will think you are. The research also shows that people with more familiar（熟悉的）names are probably to hold higher positions in a s  . In other words, a weird（古怪的）name may prevent someone from going to be a l   or a boss. You may think about your name again. If your first name sounds strange and you can’t c      it, you can do as the following s  . Try using a middle name if it’s not hard to pronounce. If you don’t have a middle name, you can use a nickname（绰号）. And when you get to the interviews, you can e     that you often use a nickname because people find your r     name difficult to pronounce.
Your name may mean more than you think.

How do you talk with people when meeting them if you want to leave a good impression? Here a some tips for you/

阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的短文，每空一词。
When you meet new people, you always want to leave a good impression. But do you know how to be a good speaker? Here is some advice for you.
The first advice is that you have to show up and observe or listen to others even if you can tell stories     . If you go near a group of people, watch their body language to see if they will offer you a       to talk with them. The second advice for you is that some topics should be     before the conversation. Next, you don’t need to be       of silences. You can rush to fill them or leave for another group. The last is relaxing. If you can’t keep a conversation going or you      what you should say next, take a break and clear your head, then return to the discussion.

For many Chinese people, potatoes are considered as a kind of vegetable. But in the future, this will no longer be the case（情况）. Potatoes will be added to China’s list of food products, like rice, wheat and corn. And potato starch（淀粉） will be mixed into bread, steamed buns（馒头）and noodles to suit（适合） Chinese people’s tastes and eating habits.
In fact, potato is more than just a main food of diet in America. In many ways, it’s an integral（不可或缺的）part of the American pop culture.
“Mashed Potato Dance” began in 1962. The name of the dance came from the song, Mashed Potato Time. American R&B singer Dee Dee Sharp sang this song. The move(舞步) is something like Twist dance style.
“Hot Potato!” is an action puzzle video game released（发行）in 2001. In the game the player must drive a bus and clear the road of alien potato begin at the same time. The potato beings are either red or blue. When two like-coloured potatoes touch each other, they disappear. Over the years, this game has been welcomed by many players, especially children.
“Mr Potato Head” is an American toy invented by George Lerner in 1949. The toy is made up of a plastic potato model and plastic parts like hands, feet, ears and a mouth. In 1952, this toy became the first toy advertised on television.
阅读以上信息，用恰当的词完成下面的表格，每空一词。

Potatoes in China	Many Chinese people consider potatoes as a kind of vegetable. In the future, bread, steamed buns and noodles with some popato starch will        at dinner table as main food.
Potatoes in America	A kind of main food of diet
An integral part of pop culture	Mashed Potato Dance	Its name came from the song , Mashed Potato Time,      by Dee Dee sharp. The move of the dance is something like the Twist dance style.
Hot Patoto	The game has been played since the    of the 21st century. The players have to obey the game rules while playing. The game is popular       children.
Mr Potato Head	The     of the toy was George Lerner. The toy is made up of a plastic potato model and some plastic parts. It was the first toy advertised on TV.

书面表达（共1题，满分15分）
帮助他人，快乐自己。李华一家常在周末去社区参加志愿者活动。假如你是李华的同学，请根据提供的信息介绍李华一家，描述他们上周六所做的事，你对他们的做法有何感想？你是否愿意参与类似的活动？说明理由。

要求：
1.所写内容必须包括提供的所有信息，可适当发挥。
2.评价李华一家的做法：表达你的意愿，并说明理由。
3.文章不少于90词，开头已给出，不计入总词数。
4.语气通顺，意思连贯，语法正确，条理清楚，字迹工整。
5.文中不得出现真实的姓名，校名及地点。
I am Li Hua’s classmate and I’ve known that he and his parents often go to the community centre to do some voluntary work.