[押题]江苏省常州市2019届九年级中考第二次模拟测英语试题

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九

年

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拟

测

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2019.5

英

语

试

题

注意事项：

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、本试卷分第Ⅰ卷（选择题）和第Ⅱ卷（非选择题）两部分。试卷

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分钟。

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、请将答案全部填写在答题纸相应的位置上，在本试卷上答题无效。

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Ⅰ

卷（选择题

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48

分）

一、单项选择（共

10

小题；每小题< /p>

1

分，满分

10

分）

从

A

、

B

、

C

、

D

四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

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1.

—

Which way do you prefer to chat with your friends, on the mobile phone or through QQ?

—

_________. I would rather _________Wechat.

A. Either; use

B. Both; to use

C. Neither; use

D. Neither; to use

2.

—

Could you tell me how much it _________ to take part in the study tour in the USA?

—

Sorry, I _________. I have no idea of it at all.

A.

takes; couldn’t

B. costs; can’t

C. costs; couldn’t

D. takes; can’t

3.

I never doubt _________ the Red Flute Cave in Guilin is well worth _________.

A. whether; visiting

B. if; a visit

C. that; a visit

D. that; to visit

4.

—

I'm going to miss you, dear.

—

Oh, I feel _________ the same.

A. hardly

B. exactly

C. seriously

D. properly

5.

—

Why are there so many policemen in the jewellery shop?

—

Don’t you know the shop _________ and that so

me jewellery was taken away?

A. was broken into

B. was broken out

C. was broken down

D. was broken off

6.

—

Nobody knows which team will win the football match.

—

No. That is the _________ of the wonderful game.

A. culture

B. magic

C. celebration

D. progress

7.

Jimmy broke his leg. _________, he will have to be away from school for two or three months.

A. As usual

B. As a result

C. In order that

D. First of all

8.

He was so angry at _______ she was doing _______ he walked out and closed the door behind him.

A. what; what

B. that; that

C. what; that

D. that; what

9.

—

What did our teacher say just now?

—

He asked _________.

A. whether we had any questions

B. if we needed any help or not

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C. which question we can’t understand

—

_________. I’d be happy to

.

A. Neither do I

B. Of course I do

D. that we could finish homework on time

10.

—

I’ll be away on holiday. Would you mind looking after my dog?

C. That's all right

D. Not at all

二、完形填空（共

12

小题； 每小题

1

分，满分

12

分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给 的

A

、

B

、< /p>

C

、

D

四个选项 中，选出可以填入空

白处的最佳选项。

It

was

my

first

day

as

a

newcomer

to

Miss

Hargrove’s

seventh

-

grade

class.

Past

“newcomer”

experiences had been

11

, so I was nervous about fitting in(

适应

).

At lunchtime, the girls crowded around my table. They seemed

12

so I began to relax. It was not

long

13

the class nerd(

讨厌鬼

) was pointed out to me: Mary Lou English. In fact she called herself

Mary Louise, a young girl with old- fashioned clothes. I thought she was pretty, but I had sense enough not

to say so.

After school, the girls invited me to

14

them in front of the school. I was excited to be a member

of the club.

Later, Mary Lou came down the school steps. The girls started

15

her. I stopped for a while, and

then

joined

right

in.

16

and

hard

words

fell

from

my

lips(

嘴唇

).

The

other

girls

stepped

back

and

became my cheerleaders. I was starting to fit in. I finally pushed her and Mary Lou

17

. Everyone was

laughing. I was a leader.

18

, I was not proud. Something inside me hurt.

Mary Lou got up and left. She held her head

19

. I watched her walk away down

the street.

Then I noticed a man. His skin and dark hair told me he was her father. He remained quiet and

watched the

20

girl walk toward him. Only his eyes

—

shining with both sadness and pride

—

followed. As I passed, he looked at me in silence with tears that spoke to my shame and burned my

21

.

He didn’t say a word.

Nothing could linger(

徘徊

) as much as that hurt in my heart from the day, when

a father’s

22

taught me kindness and dignity(

尊严

). After that, I never again hurt someone for my own gain.

11.

A. easy

12.

A. friendly

13.

A. after

14.

A. reach

15.

A. looking at

16.

A. Unkind

17.

A. dropped

B. wrong

B. modest

B. before

B. take

B. laughing at

B. Serious

B. trapped

C. difficult

C. unkind

C. when

C. interest

C. looking for

C. Powerful

C. fell

D. smooth

D. proud

D. since

D. join

D. going for

D. Strict

D. jumped

2

18.

A. Therefore

19.

A. high

20.

A. smiling

21.

A. head

22.

A. eyes

B. Anyway

B. low

B. patient

B. heart

B. shape

C. Instead

C. down

C. lonely

C. hand

C. idea

D. However

D. above

D. quiet

D. feet

D. words

三、阅读理解（共

13

小题；每小题

2

分，满分

26

分）

阅读下面的 短文，从各题所给的

A

、

B

C

、

D

四个选项中，选出最佳选项。

A

Amazing events in our birthday month

Time & Place

Event

Speaker

Claire Tay, writer of the book

Michael Hawes,

[

来 源

:Z#xx#]

25 April, 4 pm Fanta Centre, 3F

Introduction:

The School Diaries

26 April, 1 pm Retro Mall, 2F

28 April, 7 pm Winkle Mall, 1F

Discussion:

How to improve through reading

Lecture:

Question & Answer:

English profes

sor

David Koh,

Kate White, winner of many

The most popular books of the year

director of the book store

Face to face with a renowned writer

international awards

29 April, 8 pm Fanta Centre, 3F

Spend over $$50 and get a chance to win a $$10 gift card.

Spend over $$100 and get a chance to win prizes, from Nobel membership, e-dictionaries to concert

tickets!

23.

April is the birthday month of ________.

A. Nobel Book Store

B. Fanta Centre

B. 20% discount.

C. Retro Mall

C. 30% disc

ount.

D. Winkle Mall

D. 40% discount.

24.

If you want to buy 2 story books for your kid and a book for yourself, how much should you pay?

A. 25% discount.

25.

The main purpose of the advertisement is to ________.

A. find excellent writers

B. introduce new reading courses

C. celebrate Children

’

s Day

D. attract more book buyers

B

US

poet

Allen

Ginsberg

once

said,

“P

oetry(

诗歌

)

is

one

place

where

people

can

speak

their

original(

独创的

) human mind.”

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To know the special ability of poetry to catch the human spirit, World Poetry Day is held by the United

Nations on March 21 each year.

The magic of poetry lies in the connection built up through words between the writer and the reader.

When we read a poem, we often imagine what the poet was thinking when they wrote it, or what they were

doing at the time. These thoughts let us connect with the words better, as if(

似乎

) we had written the poem

ourselves.

But in the age of artificial intelligence (AI

人工智能

), would a poem still mean as much if it weren’t

written by a human at all? Today, computers can create all kinds of texts, including research papers, books,

news stories and even poe

ms.

In 2013, Australian researcher Oscar Schwartz and his friend created a website called “bot or not”,

where readers can read poems and guess whether they were written by a human or a computer. During a

recent speech at Ted

X Sydney, Schwartz said that all over the years, some of the website’s poems were

able to fool 65 percent of human reader

s into thinking they were written by a human.

By creating the website, Schwartz hoped that people would doubt the difference between humans and

machines

—

and be able to tell what makes us human.

“The human mind is not a cold, hard fact,” Schwartz said during his speech. A computer may be able

to create poems that are correct

in both grammar and style, but it wouldn’t be able to get the same meanings

and feelings across as a human poet could.

26.

The purpose of the first three paragraphs is to ________.

A. introduce where World Poetry Day comes from

B. show how popular poetry is around the world

C. show the importance and beauty of poetry

D. give some tips on enjoying poetry

27.

According to the article, computers can’t match humans in creating poems because they

_______.

A. can’t show feelings as well as humans

C. fail to use the correct grammar and style

B. can’t create poems that are meaningful

D. only know how to follow humans’ poems

28.

Which of the following is true according to the passage?

A. World Poetry Day is held by the United Nations every two years.

B. At present, computers are able to create different kinds of texts.

C. The magic of poetry lies in the ability of the writer.

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D. Some poems created by computers are incorrect in style.

C

Grace

Cogan’s

favorite

quote

(

引用

)

comes

from

Thomas

Jefferson,

“I

cannot

live

without

books”.

The 14-year-old girl thinks the same thing.

Grace was born with a disease that influenced her skin and eyes, and caused kidney (

肾

) problems.

Doctors told her parents she might not live. Yet, she made it. However, she was often sick. During these 14

years, she had 22 surgeries (

手术

) and a lot of doctor’s appointments (

约见

). It was reading that calmed her

in doctors’ waiting rooms or during long drives to appointments.

“I

always have a book with me,” she said.

When

Grace

was

little,

her

mother,

Kelly,

read

Little

House

on

the

Prairie

to

her.

Her

dad,

Brian,

offered

her

more

difficult

historical

novels

like

The

Red

Badge of

Courage

.

Then Grace,

despite

(

尽管

)

serious eye problems, started reading on her own, with her nose usually buried in a book.

“She wanted to know how things worked. She was so curious,” said Grace’s aunt.

Maybe because of those early books, or maybe because of where she lives

—

a farmhouse that’s been

home to five generations(

代

)

of her father’s fam

ily

—

Grace came to love history.

She asked her parents to take her to many different historical places. She read historical novels, from

Adventures

of

Huckleberry

Finn

to

1776

.

She

even

wrote

a

book,

The

Historical

House

,

to

explore

the

history of the farmhouse.

Because of her disease, Grace can’t go to a public school. But her passion (

热情

) for history meant she

came in fifth in the country for

the National History Day

Competition

this summer.

Grace’s grandmother

said

that

she

was

not

really

surprised

when Grace

called

to

tell

her

the

news.

“That girl does not give up. We knew she would do something great,”

Apart from reading, Grace also plays the piano and loves musical theater and performing. She would

like to work in theater someday. If she can’t, she w

ants to be an writer, probably writing about history.

29.

What is the article mainly about?

A. What Grace has learned from books.

B. How Grace developed an interest in books.

C. How her love for books has changed Grace’s life.

D. What efforts Grace has made to keep reading books.

A. She has visited many historical places with her parents.

B. She is not interested in anything else except reading.

C. She has made her mother read books to her for the past 14 years.

D. She surprised her grandmother with her prize in the National History Day Competition.

A. Emotional(

情感丰富的

) and helpful.

C. Curious and strong-minded.

B. Competitive and sociable (

爱社交的

).

D. Humorous and independent(

独立的

).

30.

Which of the following statements about Grace is TRUE?

31.

Which of the following words best describe Grace?

D

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