2018年常州市中考英语试卷及答案
⼀、单项填空（共10⼩题；每⼩题1分，满分10分）
1. Time waits for no man. But some people won’t realize the importance of time ________ it’s gone.
A. as
B. since
C. when
D. until
2. — Two tickets for Sunday, plea!
— Sorry. There is ________ left.
A. nothing
B. none
C. some
D. anything
3. — Your father has pasd the driving test?
第六单元— Yes. ________ my father ________ my mother has.
A. Not only; but also
B. Neither; nor
C. Either; or
D. Both; and
4. —Hurry up, Jeff! Let’s cross the road as fast as possib le.
大学生创业案例— No, you ________. Don’t you e the light is still red?
A. couldn’t
B. wouldn’t
C. mustn’t
D. needn’t雾霾怎么形成的
5. Lights are out. The concert is to begin. The fans hold their breath for Jay Chou’s ________.
A. influence
B. guidance
C. experience
D. appearance
6. — Manager, all the machines ________ just now!
— What? Call the engineer at once.
A. broke down
B. turned down
C. broke out
D. turned out
7. As an American, Tom is a big fan of Chine Kongfu. ________, he is crazy about Beijing Opera.
A. Therefore
B. However
C. Moreover
D. Otherwi
8. — Can you describe ________?
漂亮的漂怎么写
— Yes. I was walking when a bike knocked me down from behind.
A. why did the accident happen
B. when did the accident happen
C. how the accident happened
D. where the accident happened
9. — I ________ you here, but you didn’t come.
说字成语—I’m terribly sorry. I was so busy that I forgot.
A. would expect
B. was expecting
C. am expecting
D. have expected
10. — Are you going to try out for the host of the English party?
—________? It is such a good chance to improve my spoken English.
A. What’s up
B. What’s wrong
C. Why me
D. Why not
⼆、完形填空（共12⼩题；每⼩题1分，满分12分）
阅读下⾯短⽂，从短⽂后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
Mrs. Walker sat down at her desk and sighed (叹息). “OK. Tell me what happened.”
“Yesterday,” Winston began, “when I got home, I went straight to my room to do my homework. After I finished, I needed a(n) 11 . So I took out my bubble gum (泡泡糖) to 12 . Michael and I are having a competition to e who can blow the biggest bubble.”
“That’s right,” Michael said. “We are.”
“I kept adding gum and my bubble kept growing. Soon it 13 my whole face.”
“What then?” asked Mrs. Walker.
“Then it happened. The bubble became as big as a beach ball.” He 14 his arms to show how big it was.
A few kids made faces —they didn’t 15 him, but Winston ignored (不理睬) them and went on.
“Suddenly a strong wind took the bubble right out of my mouth! The bubble 16 over my desk and out of the window. As it sailed away, I noticed something yellow stuck to it. Like paper. Then I noticed my 17 was missing.”
“So?” Mrs. Walker asked.
“I ran after the bubble into Mrs. Roovelt’s garden. I saw her cat attack it. The bubble broke. All I saw then was the cat running away. Mrs. Roovelt helped me arch the 18 . But my homework was nowhere to be en.”
Mrs. Walker shook her head. “19 , Winston, why didn’t you just tell me that the homework was too 20 instead of making up that wild story?”
Just then, the office worker walked in with a letter.
Winston opened the letter and took out the wrinkled homework paper and a note that said, “For Winston’s teacher.”
Mrs. Walker looked up. “It was all true!”
“Yes, madam.” Winston said quietly.
11. A. award B. rest C. surpri D. choice
12. A. practice B. create C. exerci D. enjoy
13. A. cleaned B. hurt C. covered D. hit
14. A. rounded B. held C. crosd D. waved
15. A. hear B. notice C. remember D. believe
16. A. floated B. rode C. climbed D. stayed
17. A. bubble B. book C. homework D. gum
18. A. room B. cat C. desk D. garden怎样才能写好作文
19. A. Generally B. Honestly C. Finally D. Exactly
20. A. hard B. different C. common D. interesting
21. A. refud B. promid C. managed D. wanted
22. A. introduction B. explanation C. suggestion D. instruction
三、阅读理解（共13⼩题；每⼩题2分，满分26分）
阅读下列短⽂，从短⽂后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。
A
Summer is finally here for most of us. Sadly, summer is not so pleasant to people in a bit less lucky places, where air conditioning(空调) is not easy to get for most of them.
But as a saying goes, where there is a will, there is a way, especially for tho who like doing it yourlf (DIY). A young man from Bangladesh(孟加拉国) designed an air conditioning system called
平方米换算成公顷the Eco Cooler, one that does not require power, and is made o f the world’s most common waste —plastic bottles.
The Eco Cooler is super simple to build — no special engineering skills are required. First, to fix it, a window should be taken away and replaced(替代) by it. Second, a board should be cut into the size of a window. Some bottle-neck sized holes should then be cut onto the board. Then, the funnel-shaped(漏⽃状的) bottlenecks, cut from the plastic bottles, should be put into the holes. The next step is to fix the design onto the window frame(框) with the wider side facing outwards. And this is it. The Eco Cooler then works by catching the winds and nding them inside the building. It can reduce the temperature of a room by as much as 5°C — a big difference when looking at comfortable 25°C compared to uncomfortable 30°C.
The idea of the inventor, Ashis Paul, was to show his great product to as many people as possible. For this purpo, he received help from some groups of volunteers. Together, they offered to help local people build and fix the units, as well as teach them how to make them themlves.
Yes, the Eco Cooler is not a super high-tech air conditioning system, but it is one that can make a big difference.
23. When building the Eco Cooler, we should pay special attention to ________.
校园霸凌事件怎么处理
A. the shape of the window
B. the direction of bottlenecks
C. the temperature of the outside
D. the weight of the board
24. What can we learn from the passage?
A. Ashis Paul is a clever inventor and a successful businessman.
B. An Eco Cooler can fix the room temperature to comfortable 25°
C.
C. The new invention of Eco Cooler is friendly to the environment.
D. Local people will replace their air conditioner with an Eco Cooler.
25. What’s the best title of this passage?
A. DIY air conditioning made from plastic bottles
B. Eco Cooler — a super high-tech air conditioner
C. Why do we need an Eco Cooler in summer?
D. A strong-willed inventor and his DIY dream
B
A. reason
B. result
C. method
D. guess
27. In Mary’s investigation, which of the following about the variables is true?
A. She can only change one variable at a time.
B. Some of the variables can’t be measured.
C. Her weight and age can be the variables.
D. The temperature of water cannot be a variable.
28. What is the passage mainly about?
A. How to do a scientific rearch.
B. How to explain a scientific finding.
C. How to deal with a chemistry problem.
D. How to understand some chemistry knowledge.
C
We wake up very early to go to school, maybe even earlier to meet with a teacher, complete our extracurricular(课程以外的) activities, come home to have a quick dinner, talk for eight minutes with our parents and do homework until we fall asleep. But then we remember. We have to look at the American College Test (ACT) exercis one more time. Half asleep, we run downstairs to get the ACT
book, and start studying. After this we finally get to turn off the lights and drift away to sleep. And then six hours later, we do it all over again.
In my health class, my teacher told us that teenagers need at least eight to nine hours of sleep each night. The sad truth is, with so much to do every day, high school students cannot keep to this sleep schedule(安排).
Let me ask you all a question: Doesn’t it em more humane(⼈道的) to give a teenager perhaps two hours of homework each night? This would allow us to have the eight to nine hours of much needed sleep. Or does it em better to pile students with five hours of work a night? It leaves us very little time to relax, therefore reducing the time that we can sleep.
In my opinion, the prent structure(结构) of the junior year of high school doesn’t work well. Junior y
ear of high school is a time for growth. By this time many students have the ability to think creatively, and solve challenging problems. Homework is important for a student’s growth. But do we really need to spend countless hours a night doing it? Too much homework can only lead to too little sleep and too low an ability. I do think it is time to change the structure, so that we sleep at home, and learn at school.
29. In the first paragraph the writer gives ________.
A. a picture of the prent daily life of high school students
B. an example of an ideal daily life of high school students
C. a reason for high school students to live a busy daily school life
D. a suggestion of what high school students should do to pass ACT
30. From the last paragraph we know that the writer thinks ________.
A. junior year of high school is the most important growth period
B. challenging problems are needed for a teenager’s growth
C. the ability to think has nothing to do with homework
D. the prent structure leads to students often sleeping in class
31. Why does the writer write this article?
A. To prove the role of enough sleep in teenagers’ growth.
B. To complain about the problems in the system of the ACT.
C. To ask for a change for less homework and more sleep.
D. To discuss the relationship between sleep and homework.
D
After a while attention to Tom ended, and the usual school murmur(嗡嗡读书声) ro upon the boring air once more. Now the boy began to steal cret glances(偷看) at the girl. She noticed it, made a face at him and gave him the back of her head for the space of a minute. When she slowly faced around again, an apple lay before her. She pushed it away. Tom gently put it back. She pushed it aw
ay again, but with less animosity(敌意). Tom patiently returned it to its place. Then she let it remain. Tom wrote on his paper, “Plea take it —I got more.” The girl glanced at the words, but made no sign.
Now the boy began to draw something on the paper, hiding his work with his left hand. For a time the girl refud to notice; but her human curiosity(好奇⼼) soon began to show itlf by hardly noticeable(明显的) signs. The boy worked on, emingly not aware. The girl made some non-committal(含糊的) efforts to e, but the boy did not display that he was aware of it. At last she
couldn’t bear it and whispered:
“Let me e it.”
Tom partly uncovered the picture of a hou with some smoke rising from the chimney(烟囱). Then the girl’s interest began to fasten itlf upon the work and she forgot everything el. When it was finished, she gazed a moment, then whispered:
“It's nice —draw a man.”
