福建省厦门市英语中考模拟试卷

– I hear you have to get up early every morning.
– Right. It’s one of the ___________ in my family.
A. reasons                    B. orders                  C. rules

– Are these books ___________?
– No, they are not mine. They belong to ___________.
A. yours, her                B. your, her                C. you, hers

– Which park would you like to visit, People’s Park or West Hill Park?
– ___________. I would like to visit Seaside Park
A. Both                      B. Neither                  C. Either

– Let’s finish off the rest of the cake.
– None for me, thanks. I ___________ more than enough.
A. am having                  B. will have             C. have had

The price of cars is getting ________now, more and more people can afford to buy them.
A. cheaper and cheaper        
B. lower and lower         
C. higher and higher

– What a beautiful school!
– Yes. Many trees ___________ in our school every year.
A. plant                     
B. are planted             
C. were planted

– Have you decided where to go for your summer vacation?
– Not yet. We ___________ go to Mount Lu. It is a good place for vacation.
A. may                       B. should                 C. must

—The children in rural areas have few books to read. Let’s _________ some books to them.
— Great, it is a good idea.
A give away                   B hand out                C take away

– Kate, do you know ___________ it is from here to the gym?
– About 20 minutes by bike
A. How long               
B. how far                 
C. how often

– Our holiday in Beijing cost a lot of money.
– Did it? Well, that doesn’t matter ___________ you enjoyed yourselves.
A. unless                      B. if                       C. while

Do you want to know ___________ in the future? A special mirror invented by the French scientists can help you.
A. what you will look like    
B. what will you look like    
C. how you will look like

– Can you tell me how to use a micro blog on my phone?
– ___________. But I have to finish my work first.
A. No problem                  
B. No way              
C. Don’t mention it

It was a cold afternoon. Ginny and I were walking home after work when suddenly a young man asked us, "Do you want a hug（拥抱）?”He carried a sign in his hand which read "Free Hugo". I looked     and noticed there were other young people with him. They all lifted their handmade signs high. The message was the same on all of them - Free Hugs!
"Sure!" Ginny smiled and hugged him with all the     she had in her heart,
"WOW!" he shouted. "That is the best hug I've had all day!"
Then the young man looked at me and asked, 'How about a hug?"
"You got it!" I walked into his     arms. We held a hug briefly（简短地）and parted at once.
Ginny and I stepped back and watched the "free huggers" hug those who     them. All of the young people offered hugs to them.
Not all the people accepted their offers, but the fact was that those who opened their arms in return, walked away with      on their faces.
I felt warmth in my heart. So warm that it seemed as if it were not a cold winter day. At that time, Ginny and I were going through       times. We had little money and were heavily in debt(负债). We were stressed and     , but that afternoon, for a short moment, we   ___    all our problems because of a hug with love.
It took a simple hug to make everyone smile and make everything better.
A. out                  B. down                  C. round
A. strength              B. feelings                C. love
A. open                 B. warm                  C. strong
A. accepted              B. attracted               C. admired
A. kindness              B. shyness                C. smiles
A. busy                 B. lonely                  C. difficult
A. bored                B. worried                 C. surprised
A. forgot                B. solved                  C. met

One day, I happened to meet an Englishman in the street and soon we began to talk. As I was talking about how I was studying English, the foreigner seemed to be very surprised, gently shaking his head and saying, “You don’t say! You don’t say!” I was puzzled, and I thought, “Perhaps this is not a right thing to talk about.” So I said to him, “Well, shall we talk about the Great Wall? Have you ever been there?”
“Certainly, everyone back home will laugh at me if I leave here without seeing it. The Great Wall is wonderful!” “Yes, it is one of the wonders in the world. And people of many countries have come to visit it.” As I went on telling him more about it, he stopped me again, “You don’t say!”
I couldn’t help asking, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”
The foreigner said, “I don’t say that. Why do you think so?”
“Didn’t you say ‘you don’t say!’?” I asked again.
Hearing this, the foreigner laughed loudly. He began to explain, “’You don’t say!’ means ‘Really?’ Perhaps you know little about English idioms.”
Wow! How foolish I was! Since then I have been careful with English idioms.
The writer began to talk about the Great Wall because ______.
A. the Englishman told him to do so     
B. he tried to find a new and right topic
C. he couldn’t talk about his study any more
When the writer asked, “Why do you ask me not to talk about it?”,
the Englishman felt ______.
A. angry                        B. interested                   C. surprised
Here “You don’t say!” means ______.
A. “Stop talking!”               
B. “really?”                 
C. “Look out.”
The story may happen in ______.
A. China                        B. England                  C. Australia
This is a story about ______.
A. nice trips                  
B. good manners            
C. English idioms

Molly Daniels opened the door so hard that the door nearly broke it. Then she looked through the window at her neighbor across the yard. “ She is in my garden again. Those are my strawberries, not hers. Maybe I should call the police.”
Her friend, Doris, was sitting at the table with a cup of coffee in her hands. “You want to call the police because she picks your strawberries?” she asked.
“Of course,” Molly answered angrily. “What would you do if your neighbor walked into your yard without your permission and picked your strawberries?”
“I would say, better her than the bees.”
“The bees don’t take my strawberries.”
“But the birds do,” Doris continued. “That old lady only picks a few strawberries every year, and the only ones she picks are those you leave to the birds. Why don’t you pick some of your good strawberries and give them to her?”
“Are you crazy? What are you thinking?’
“Don’t you remember what happened when you were in hospital last year? She went to see you and gave you a pot full of chicken soup. When you give her the strawberries you can tell her that you still remember that.”
Molly was shocked. She had almost forgotten that little kindness because she was too angry. Then she picked a basket of good strawberries and went out. Through the window, Doris could see that the anger on Molly’s face changed into a bright smile.
Molly opened the door very hard because _____
A. she was very angry        
B. she was very happy      
C. Doris wasn’t friendly
Who was in hospital last year?
A. Doris                     B. Molly                C. Molly’s neighbor
The underline word “shocked” in the passage means “_____”.
A. angry                     B. surprised                C. upset
Which sentence is similar to the sentence “I would say, better her than the bees.”?
A. It’s better to let the neighbor pick the strawberries than to give them to the bees.
B. The bees are better than the neighbor.
C. The bees like strawberries more than the neighbor does.
From the last paragraph, we can infer(推断)what Molly did at last with a basket of good strawberries.
A. She called the police to drive the neighbor away.
B. She happily gave a basket of good strawberries to the neighbor.
C. She ate up the strawberries herself.

Five teenagers from Sarasota, Florida, are making music from garbage. The Garbage-Men band’s instruments are made from old things. The guitars are boxes. The horn (喇叭) is made from pipes . The keyboard is formed from old bottles.
The band started about two years ago. Jack, who was in eighth grade at the time, decided to make a homemade guitar. After some hard work, he ended up building it from a cereal box, a big ruler and some little sticks. After Jack showed his guitar to his friend Ollie, Ollie had the idea to make a band using other homemade instruments as a way to suggest people recycle old things. “We want to show people there is more to recycling than throwing things away in the rubbish box,” Jack, 16, told TFK. “You can actually recycle old things.”
Ollie, 15, plays the drums made from rubbish cans. Evan, 14, plays the guitar; Harrison, 15, plays the horns and the violin; and Austin, 16, plays the keyboard. They make up the band The Garbage-Men and play at local parties around. They wand to help people get interested in recycling old things. “Music is a really good way to get a good message across to people because it’s really easy for people to understand,” Jack says. Their instruments may be garbage, but their message isn’t.
What are the Garbage-Men band’s instruments made from?
A. Big boxes.         
B. Little sticks.            
C. Old things.
Which of the followings is NOT true?
A. Evan is the youngest in his band.     
B. Jack came out of the idea to make a band first.
C. There are five members in the Garbage-Men band.
Ollie’s drums are made of           .

A.                     B.                       C.
What do the five teenagers suggest people do?
A. Making instruments.    
B. Listen to music.         
C. Reuse garbage.
The best title of the passage is           .
A. Five music Fans        
B. Reduce, Reuse, Replay    
C. A Strange Band

Recently a Beijing father sent in a question at an Internet forum(论坛) asking what “PK” meant.
“My family has been watching the ‘I Am the Singer’ singing competition TV program. My little daughter asked me what ‘PK’ meant, but I had no idea,” explained the puzzled father.
To a lot of Chinese young people who have been playing games online, it is impossible not to know this term. In such Internet games, “PK” is short for “Player Kill”, in which two players fight until one ends the life of the other.
In the case of the “I Am the Singer” singing competition, “PK” was used to refer to the stage where two singers have to compete with each other for only one chance to go up in competition raking.
Like this father, Chinese teachers at Middle schools have also been finding their students using Internet jargons which are difficult to understand. A teacher from Tianjin asked her students to write the compositions with simple language, but they came up with a lot of Internet jargons that she didn’t understand.
“My ‘GG’ came back this summer from college. He told me I’ve grown up to be a ‘PLMM’. I loved to ‘FB’ with him together; he always took me to the ‘KPM’,” went one composition.
“GG” means Ge Ge (Chinese pinyin for brother). “PLMM” is Piao Liang Mei Mei (beautiful girl). “FB” means Fu Bai (corruption). “KPM” is short for KFC, Pizza Hut and McDonald’s.
Some specialists welcome Internet jargons as a new development in language. If you do not even know what a Kong Long (dinosaur, meaning an ugly looking female) or a Qing Wa (frog, meaning an ugly looking male ) is, you will possibly be regarded as a Cai Niao!
By writing the article, the writer tries to _________.
A. explain some Internet jargons               
B. suggest common Internet jargons
C. draw our attention to Internet jargons
What does the underlined word Internet jargons mean?
A. Internet language            
B. Internet action           
C. Internet fashion
What does the writer think about the word “PK”?
A. Fathers can’t possibly know it.
B. The daughter should understand it.
C. Online game players may know it.
The example of the Beijing father and the Tianjin teacher are used to show that Internet jargons__________.
A. are used not only online
B. cause trouble to our mother tongue
C. are welcomed by all the people
What would be the best title for the passage?
A. A Puzzled Father!    
B. Do You Speak Internet English?
C. Kong Long or Qing Wa?

A French-language daily in Belgium has issued(出版) what is thought to be Europe’s first 3D newspaper. But you must read it with a pair of special glasses.
All the photos and ads in La Derniere Heure’s (DH) special edition(版) were given a three-dimensional effect(3D效果), but the text remained the same.
DH’s editor said there were no further 3D plans because of the costs.
Reviewers in France spoke highly of the paper, but they said the overall result was “far from perfect”.
Editor Hubert Leclercq said it took two months to get ready for the special edition, which had a higher than normal print run of 115,000 copies for the stores selling newspapers.
“We hear about 3D cinema, television and video games, so we took up the challenge,” Mr. Leclercq told the AFP news agency.
According to PC World’s French edition, readers could get the best results by holding the paper 50cm from the eyes in a well-lit area.
“It takes a few minutes to get used to pictures in 3D,” it said, noting the limited quality of the viewing lenses(镜片).
It’s said some of the images - especially the ads - had a good 3D effect, but that other pictures were not clear or difficult to look at.

The Europe’s first 3D newspaper was from             .
A. Belgium                     B. France                 C. Germany
           in La Derniere Heure’s (DH) special edition had a three-dimensional effect.
A. All the pictures and the text
B. All the ads and the text
C. All the pictures and ads
From the forth paragraph, we know that           .
A. the 3D newspaper is very good
B. they should improve the 3D newspaper
C. they should stop issuing the 3D newspaper
The underlined word “well-lit” in Paragraph 7 means            in Chinese.
A. 照明条件好的                
B. 火燃烧得好的       
C.光线良好的
Which of the following is right?

Zhang:  Hi, Amy. How are you?
Amy:   Hi, Zhang. I'm glad to see you.
Zhang:  Me too. My friend Mary said you had ___________ ill for a few days. Are you OK?
Amy:    I am feeling well now. Thanks. But today I was very upset.
Zhang: Why? What___________ to you?
Amy:    First of all, my alarm clock didn’t go off this morning. So I was late at the bus stop. The bus had already left ____________ I got there. Then I had to walk to school.
Zhang: That's a long walk.
Amy:    Yeah. And then it started __          and I'd forgotten my umbrella.
Zhang: Oh no! Did you get wet?
Amy:    Yes, I was late and wet. You know we will have a physics test tomorrow but I missed the class.
Zhang: I am sorry to hear that. You did have a bad day. But I am sure you will get good
___________ in the physics test. You are always good at it.
Amy:    Thanks. I will try my best.

根据情景提示，用恰当的短语或句子填空。（每空2分，共8分）
* 你想请Tony把音乐的音量调小点，你可以这样说：
Would you mind _____________________________________________________, Tony?
* 本周末你要开一个生日派对，你想邀请Lucy参加，你可以这样说：
________________________________________________________this weekend, Lucy?
* 你不知道去银行的路怎么走，你可以这样询问路人：
Excuse me, could you tell me _______________________________________________?
* 你想告诉父母，将来你要当一名医生，你可以这么说：
                                                             in the future.
* 看到小汽车越来越普遍，你很想知道小汽车是什么时候发明的，你会这样问他人：
________________________________________________________________________

段落编写（本题10分）
使用所给的词语，编写一个意义相对完整的语段。
提示词：exam, nervous, teacher, joke, encourage
要求：1. 使用全部提示词，并在语段中用下划波浪线“﹏﹏﹏”标出提示词；
2. 语段具有一个相对合理的主题意义；
3. 词数为50词左右，最多不超过80词。
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每天都有很多食物从餐桌直接进入垃圾桶，这种浪费令人痛心。近日你所在的学校开展了“光盘行动”(“clear your plate” campaign) 主题活动，旨在引起同学们对食物浪费现象的关注。请你根据以下要点，用英语写一篇宣传微博：
1、校园内外食物浪费行为随处可见 （举例说明）；
2、你对食物浪费行为的看法；
3、提出应对食物浪费行为的建议（至少两点）
注意：短文中不允许出现与考生本人相关的真实姓名和校名等信息。
Food waste can be seen everywhere in and out of the school. __________________________
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