广州市中考模拟试题
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英语
总分110分，考试时间120分钟。
一、语法选择（每小题1分，共15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1-15各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” _____1____ of China, Japan, Korea, ___2___ Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.
Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite ____3_____. Truly elegant chopsticks might be made of gold and silver _____4____ Chine characters. _____5____ workers also combine various hard woods and metal ____6_____ special designs.
The Chine ____7_____ chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in larg
否则用英语怎么说e pots, ______8___ twigs(树枝) to remove it. Over time, _____9____ the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces _____10____ with twigs which gradually turned into chopsticks.
Some people think that the great Chine scholar Confucius, ____11_____ live from roughly 551 to 497 B.C., influenced the ____12_____ of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killing and ____13_____ too violent for u at the table.
Chopsticks are not ud ____14_____ in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat ____15______ their hands.
1. A. cultural B. culturals C. cultured D. cultures
2. A. and B. or C. but D. /
3. A. art B. artistic C. artist D. article
4. A. by B. from C. in D. with
5. A. skills B. skilled C. skilling D. skill
6. A. to create B. creating C. creative D. created
7. A. had ud B. ud C. have ud D. have been ud
8. A. to u B. ud C. using D. had ud
9. A. as B. as soon as C. before D. after
10. A. can be eaten more easily B. should be eaten easier
C. must be eaten easier
D. could be eaten easily
11. A. / B. that C. which D. who
12. A. develop B. development C. developing D. developed
13. A. were B. are C. was D. had been
14. A. somewhere B. anywhere C. everywhere D. nowhere
15. A. by B. on C. in D. with
二、完型填空（每题1.5分，共15分）
阅读下列短文，掌握其大意，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36~45各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
I had the meanest（最刻薄的）mother in the whole world．While other kids ate candy for breakfast, I had to have cereal, eggs or toast．When others had cokes and candy for 16 , I had to eat a sandwich．As you can guess, my supper was 17 from the other kids' also．But at least, I wasn't 18 in my sufferings．My sister and two brothers had the same mean mother as I did．
My mother insisted upon knowing where we were at all times. She had to know 19 our friends were and where we were going．We had to 20 clean clothes and take a bath every day.
The worst is yet to come．We had to be in bed by nine each night and up at eight the next morning．We couldn't sleep till noon like our friends．So while they slept --- my mother 21 dare to break the Child Labor Law, she made us work．We had to wash dishes, make beds, learn to cook a
nd all sorts of cruel things. I believe she lay awake at night 22 of mean things to do to us.
My mother was a complete failure as a mother. All of us received higher education and 23 of us have ever been arrested or divorced. She forced us to 24 into educated and honest adult. I am now trying to rai my three children in this way. I am filled with 25 when my children call me mean. Why? Becau now I thank God every day for giving me the meanest mother in the whole world.
16. A. lunch B. supper C. breakfast D. food
17. A. same B. difficult C. different D. similar
18. A. lonely B. alone C. afraid D. upt
怀王之约19. A. why B. what C. when D. who
20. A. wear B. dry C. bring D. wash
21. A. cloly B. hardly C. briefly D. actually
22. A. putting B. cutting C. thinking D. looking
23. A. some B. both C. neither D. none
24. A. grow up B. t up C. put up D. dress up
25. A. fear B. surpri C. sorry D. pride
三、阅读理解（共两节，满分45分）
第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）藕怎么种植方法
阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
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This is News on the Hour, Ed Wilson reporting. The president and First Lady will visit Africa on a goodwill tour in May. They plan to visit eight African countries.
Reports from China say the Chine want clor ties between China and the U. S. and Western Europe. A group of top Chine scientists starts its ten-nation tour next month.
Here in Miami, the mayor is still meeting with the leaders of the teachers union to try to find a way to
end the strike. City schools are still clod after two weeks.
In news about health, scientists in California report findings of a relationship between the drinking of coffee and the increa of heart dia among women. According to the report in the American Medical Journal, the five-year study shows this: Women who drink more than two cups of coffee a day have a greater chance of having heart dia than women who do not.
In sports, the Chargers lost again last night. The BBs beat them 1 to nothing. The Wingers had better results. They beat the Rifles 7 to 3. It was their first win in their last five matches.
That’s the news of the Hour. And now back to more easy listening with Jan Singer.
26. Who gave the news on the Hour?
A. The mayor in Miami
B. Ed Wilson
C. Scientists in California
D. Jan Singer.
27. To improve the ties between China and the U. S. and Western Europe, China ________.
A. will nd a group of Chine scientists to pay a visit to the U. S. and the Western Europe.
B. will nd some scientists to visit U. S. only
C. has expresd its strong wishes
D. has given many reports to improve the ties
28. From the news in Miami we knew ________.
A. a peaceful way will soon be found
B. the teachers ' strike will last long
C. students haven't been to school for two weeks
D. students can't go into the school becau the classrooms are tightly locked
29. The news about health tells us that _______.
A. no heart dia will be found if people don't drink coffee
B. no one should drink more than two cups of coffee a day
C. the more coffee people drink, the more chance they’ll get to have heart dia
D. women's heart dia has something to do with their drinking coffee
30. From the last news we DO NOT know ________.
A. the results of the two matches
B. the number of the teams which played last night
C. how many wins the BBS has had altogether
D. the Wingers had four wins and one defeats
B
Kuwait is a country which is quite small, but which is very rich. It has a population of a little more tha
n a million and it is situated at the north end of the Persian Gulf, between Iraq on the north and Saudi Arabia on the south.
This small dert country is one of the world’s leading oil producers and it has about 15 percent of the world’s known petroleum rerves since the discovery of oil in 1938.
Kuwait’s rulers have turned the country into a prosperous welfare state. It has free primary and condary education, free health care and social rvices, and the Kuwaitis do not have to pay any personal income tax for tho rvices. The rate of literacy is high and constantly growing. The University of Kuwait was opened in 1966, but many of the Kuwaiti students still study in colleges and universities abroad, at state expen. Kuwait is an Arab country, and about 99 percent of the people who live there are Moslems. But fewer than half of the Moslems are actually citizen of Kuwait. This is becau there are many Moslem immigrants(移民)living and working there. The other 1 percent of the population, in other words the non-Moslems, are recent immigrants who were attracted by the opportunities to work for the oil companies. There are veral thousand Europeans and Americans in Kuwait. Many of them are employed by the oil companies.
31. Why is Kuwait so rich?
A. Becau It has fewer people than any other country in the world
B. Becau its education is highly developed
C. Becau there are many immigrants who have brought it science and technology.
D Becau it is rich in oil.
32. How many years after oil was discovered in Kuwait was the University of Kuwait opened?
A. 28 years
B.29 years
C. 30 years.
D. None of the above
33. What fraction (分数)of the world’s known petroleum rerves does Kuwait have?
A.1/3
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B.1/4
C.1/10
D. 3/20
34. How many people are there in Kuwait who are non-Moslems?
A. 10,000 or so
B.100,000
C. More than 20, 000
D. Less than 100, 000.
35. Which of the following maps gives the right position of Kuwait?
(Saudi Arabia=S Kuwait=K the Persian Gulf=P )
C
Mainland China's trade surplus(盈余) - or the difference between the total value of goods exported from China and goods imported into China - incread for the cond straight month. This suggests the recent recall of Chine toys from the United States for safety reasons has not affected the long term demand for Chine products.
Exports last month climbed to US$114.48 billion, an increa that was larger than 16.1 percent ri in imports, which climbed to US$88.56 billion, the custom bureau said yesterday. That brought the total trade surplus for the first nine months of this year to US$185.65 surpassing （超过）the US$177.5 billion for all of last year.
The recovery in China's trading performance over the past three months has surprid some economists. “Earlier this year the picture didn't look so good", said Bank of China official Li Hua. "The return of many Chine products from America due to safety issues had a negative impact （影响）on export levels. At the same time orders for new aeroplanes by Chine airline companies boosted（提高）the import causing the lowest level of surplus in more than 3 years.
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But the decrea in exports to the USA that followed the return of Chine products was less than the increa in the demand for Chine products from the European Union. European countries have bought 33.5% more Chine goods in each of the past three months. Exports to Asia and Africa also incread, although by lesr amounts, over that same period. Chine exports to the USA have also started to recover.
“The American toy compan y involved, Mattel, has admitted that most of the goods that they returned
were due to design problem by the company, not becau of poor manufacturing standards by the Chine factories involved. As a result China has not been required to carry the financial burden of this loss,” Mr. Li said.
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36. In which month did Chine airline companies buy many new planes?
A. January
B. February C March D. April
37. What was the total value of goods imported into China in September 2007?
A US$88.56 billion B.US$114.48 C.US$177.5. D.US$185.65
38. Why were most of Chine toys recalled from the United States earlier this year?
A. They could not be sold becau of low demand
B. Becau the toys were not well made by the factories
C. Becau the toys were not well designed by the toy company
D. Becau they were to be resold in Europe instead
39. Which area has en the greatest increa in demand for Chine goods?
A. America
B. Asia
C. Africa
D. Europe
40. By how much did the value of Chine exports increa between August and September 2007?
A. Less than16.1%
B. More than 16.1%
C. Exactly 33.5%
D. About 67%
D
Writer Caroline Knapp was 42 when she died, ven weeks after being diagnod（诊断）with a rious dia in 2002. She’s best known for Drinking: A Love Story, her 1996 memoir about life. But she also wrote Pack of Two(1998) on why people, including herlf, like their dogs so much. And it was dogs--not books-that connected Knapp with book critic Gail Caldwell, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 2001 for her reviews at The Boston Globe.
Theirs is an old story: I had a friend and we shared everything, and then she died and so we shared that too, Caldwell writes in the opening ntence of Let's Take the Long Way Home, a heartbreaker of a memoir.
Caldwell, who was nine years older, writes of Knapp, "For years we had played the easy, daily catch. One ball, two gloves, equal joy in the throw and return. Now I was in the field without her: one glove, no game.”
They first met at a party, but became friends walking their dogs in Cambridge, Mass. They were clo for less than ten years, but made up for lost time. "Finding Caroline was like placing a personal ad for an imaginary(假想的) friend, then having her show up at your door funnier and better than you had thought,” Caldwell writes.
They both loved books. Each had stopped drinking at 33. But it was their passion(热情) for their dogs that built their common ground. On meeting Knapp, she writes, "I was more interested in her dog than her book sales. So was she.”
With humor and sadness, the memoir celebrates relations between two strong-minded, single women. Caldwell is at her best not about herlf but about Knapp and their dogs. I wonder the book will attract mostly women readers.
"Men don't really understand women's friendships, do they?" Caldwell once asked another friend.
"Oh, no, " the friend replied. "And we must never tell them. " But Caldwell does just that.
