海南省定安县2025年中考模拟（2）英语试卷-有答案

1、Tell your mother not to make a call while driving and her car_______missed a cyclist when she was on the way to work the other day．

A． merely   B． narrowly

C． closely D． hardly

2、— Are you going to Tom’s birthday party?

— ________ . I might have to get prepared for mid-term exams.

A．It depends

B．Thank you

C．Sounds great

D．Don’t mention it

3、Actually all the empty apartments in downtown areas have been rent at______ high prices.

A. extremely B. constantly  C. approximately  D. frequently

4、The problem is ________ being settled, so it will be discussed again.

A.nothing like B.more than C.all the time D.far from

5、A lot of tall buildings ________ in his hometown in the last three years.

A．have set up

B．have been set up

C．were set up

D．are being set up

6、—I’m still working on my project.

—Oh, you’ll miss the deadline. Time is ______.

A. running out   B. trying out

C. letting out   D. looking out

7、Hannah, devoting herself to charity, is one of many examples of young people who are making a_________to the world.

A.choice B.profit C.judgement D.difference

8、— Did you enjoy yourself at the party?

—______!I’ve never been to a more exciting one before.

A. You bet B. That’s right

C. No problem   D. Don’t mention it

9、With him ____ the way, we had little trouble finding the school.

A. leading   B. led

C. to lead   D. lead

10、There is a lot of public about the plastic particles recently found in water．

A．agreement

B．concern

C．content

D．responsibility

11、A new high-speed railway line was ________between Ji’an and Ganzhou over a year ago.

A．set down

B．set off

C．set out

D．set up

12、She felt ______ about wearing the improper garment in the party.

A. embarrassing   B. embarrass

C. to embarrass   D. embarrassed

13、_________ the children are excited - this is the first time they've been abroad.

A. No problem   B. No way

C. No idea   D. No wonder

14、We _______ each other since we _______ young.

A．have known, are

B．knew, were

C．have known, have been

D．have known, were

15、_______ in remembering 1080 irregular numbers within an hour and 646 poker cards in random, Yan Jiashuo, a 10-year-old girl, earned International Master of Memory.

A. Having succeeded   B. Succeeded

C. She succeeded   D. To succeeded

16、The cigarette end thrown away by a careless woodcutter _______ the big forest fire.

A.resulted from B.resulted in C.brought off D.brought up

17、—How can I use this washing machine ?

—Well , just________ the instructions.

A．look up

B．refer to

C．make up

D．agree to

18、You’d better leave out anything, when writing your resume for application, ________ is thought unnecessary or misleading.

A. that   B. what   C. which   D. where

19、Frank ________ London by train which at 8:30 next morning.

A．is heaving for; will leave

B．is leaving for; leaves

C．will leave for; will leave

D．leaves for; leaves

20、---Please ______ us in the discussion.

---I’d like to, but I have a meeting to ______.

A. join; attend     B. attend; join

C. attend; take part in    D. take part in; attend

21、A group of second-year college students have discovered hidden writing on a page from a book from the 1500s, using a special camera system they built.

Surprisingly, finding hidden writing on very old documents isn’t all that unusual. In fact, there’s even a special name for documents like this: a palimpsest (再生羊皮纸卷).

Long ago, writing was done on parchment — thin, dried animal skins specially prepared for writing. But parchment wasn’t easy to make and wasn’t cheap. So it became common to erase the old writing off a parchment and then reuse it for another piece of writing. That’s what creates a palimpsest.

The writing erased off the parchment can’t be seen directly, but scientists have learned ways to use special lighting to reveal the original writing. But it’s unusual for young college students to discover palimpsests.

Last year, first-year students at the Rochester Institute of Technology took part in a class that brought together many students to take on a project as a group. The project was to build a special camera system that could take pictures using different kinds of light.

Over the summer, the students working on the imaging camera managed to finish it. When they were done, they borrowed several old parchments from the collection at the school’s Cary Graphic Arts Collection. When they put one of the pages under their camera system with UV light, the hidden writing suddenly appeared. Under the UV light, handwriting in French could easily be seen behind the fancy writing and decorations normally visible on the page.

Zoe, a student involved in the project, said, “This was amazing because this document has been in the Cary Collection for almost 10 years and no one noticed it.” The students are even more excited because even though the parchment is no longer part of a book, they know where 29 other pages from the same book are. The students, who are now working with others to locate the other parchments, hope these, too, will have hidden writing and that they can figure out what it means.

【1】What was parchment designed for in ancient times?

A．Writing.

B．Decorating.

C．Imaging.   

D．Collecting.

【2】What does the underlined word “reveal” in paragraph 4 mean?

A．Heat up.

B．Bring out.

C．Adjust to.

D．Clear away.

【3】What are the students expecting to do according to the last paragraph?

A．Make a handwriting-recognizing camera.

B．Identify what the parchments are made of.

C．Track the origin of the palimpsests in the Cary Collection.

D．Discover hidden writing and its meaning on more parchments.

【4】What’s the purpose of this text?

A．To tell about a new discovery.

B．To recommend a special book.

C．To explain a cultural phenomenon.

D．To introduce an old document.

22、I'd never heard of the yangqin - an 18th century Chinese stringed instrument — until this past Sunday, when I had the pleasure of hearing Eastman graduate and music performer Zhang Wenzhuo perform on it in a virtual concert.

Wenzhuo, a Chinese native, began her training on the yangqin at age five. When she was only 13, Wenzhuo was awarded a scholarship to the Arts School of Hebei Province; the highly competitive program only accepted a single yangqin student every two years. After graduation, she placed first in nationwide competitions and was admitted into the National Academy of Chinese Theatre Arts in Beijing, where she was awarded her bachelor's in yangqin performance in 2005. She obtained her doctorate from Boston University in music education in 2015 and studied ethnomusicology at Eastman from 2017 to 2019. Wenzhuo has performed with countless orchestras and groups of musicians and won countless awards for her performances.

Before Wenzhuo performed on her yangqin, she presented a brief historical background of the instrument's origin, and discussed its continued usage up to the present day. Determined by musicologists to be based on the similarly-structured English hammered dulcimer (大扬琴), the yangqin was first used in Chinese folk music performance and operas. As time went on, performances began to be sponsored by the country, and yangqin performers were given a path to higher levels of social mobility.

Wenzhuo performed four pieces, three tracing their origins to centuries' old Chinese composers, and one from the modern era. Needless to say, Wenzhuo's performances sounded fantastic. The yangqin is a unique and beautiful instrument and its sound, coupled with Wenzhuo's musical ability, allowed the four greatly differing pieces to stand together as a wonderful introduction to the instrument.

It was fascinating to learn about the yangqin and a joy to watch Wenzhuo perform on it.

【1】What can we learn about Zhang Wenzhuo?

A．She has been trained for 13 years.

B．She topped many competitions.

C．She studied ethnomusicology in Boston.

D．She became a bachelor at Eastman.

【2】What is paragraph 2 mainly about?

A．Wenzhuo's personalities.

B．Wenzhuo's nationality.

C．Wenzhuo's contributions.

D．Wenzhuo's schooling.

【3】What made Wenzhuo's performances fantastic?

A．Her high level of social mobility.

B．Her knowledge of the instrument.

C．Her gift and the charm of the yangqin.

D．Her understanding of different cultures.

【4】How does the author sound toward the yangqin?

A．Favorable.

B．Curious.

C．Strange.

D．Cold.

23、   Though the earliest form of wind power has been around for almost one thousand years it was not used to convert wind energy into electricity until the 20th century. It has become more important as oil prices are rising.【1】Especially popular in Europe, wind power makes up almost 20% percent of the electricity in Demark and close to 10% in Spain. Wind power is becoming increasingly attractive over other forms of alternative energy because of its comparatively low cost and free of pollution.

The attractiveness of wind energy is that it is clean and also renewable. As research has progressed wind power has become more cost effective as construction cost has gone down. Wind towers are large towers that have a turbine (涡轮机) installed on top and wired to wind blades. The turbine is protected from the elements by a casing known as the nacelle. The multi-bladed wind towers turn as wind blows on the blades. As the blades turn, the turbine is turned around resulting in the conversion of the wind energy into electricity. 【2】

As the wind tower design has improved, the efficiency in which electricity is made is also improved. In 2005 it cost 1500 euro to produce one kilowatt of electricity, but the cost has fallen to 1300 euro by 2007.【3】Less time is needed to maintain towers while the amount of electricity that each tower produces has gone up. Improvements in design have made towers much safer not only for the technicians to work on them but also for the residents nearby. Brakes are added to all towers as a result of several tower collapses.

【4】 Though it can be argued that the processes required to manufacture wind towers creates pollution, the negative effects caused by manufacture of towers can be offset within nine months. While fossil energy is required to manufacture the wind towers which results in carbon dioxide emission, the “pay back” is quick and clear. The continued operation of wind towers helps further conserve and reduces the amount of energy of fossil used.

A.The electricity is then routed to a power station.

B.Then the wind is converted into a new form of energy.

C.With its weak points, wind power is still one of the best forms of alternative energy.

D.The public desire a reliable source of alternative energy.

E.Changes are also being made to wind farms to allow for more efficient use of wind.

F.The decrease in cost has made the wind power more feasible.

24、No one knows exactly how many disabled people there are in the world，but estimates suggest the figure is over 450 million．The number of disabled people in India alone is probably more than double the total population of Canada．

  In the United Kingdom，about one in ten people have some disability．Disability is not just something that happens to other people：as we get older，many of us will become less mobile，hard of hearing or have failing eyesight．

  Disablement can take many forms and occur at any time of life．Some people are born with disabilities．Many others become disabled as they get older．There are many progressive（逐渐的）disabling diseases．The longer time goes on，the worse they become．Some people are disabled in accidents．Many others may have a period of disability in the form of a mental illness．All are affected by people’s attitude towards them．

  Disabled people face many physical barriers．Next time you go shopping or to work or visit friends，imagine how you would manage if you could not get up steps，or onto buses and trains．How would you cope if you could not see where you were going or could not hear the traffic?But there are other barriers：prejudice（偏见）can be even harder to break down and ignorance represents the greatest barrier of a11．It is almost impossible for the able-bodied to fully appreciate what the severely disabled go through，so it is important to draw attention to these barriers and show that it is the individual person and their ability，not their disability，that counts．

【1】The first paragraph mainly points out that ______________．

A． there are many disabled people in the world

B． the number of disabled people in India is the greatest

C． India has much more disabled people than Canada

D． it is impossible to get an exact figure of the world’s disabled people

【2】The key word in paragraph 4 is _______________．

A． disability    B． ignorance

C． prejudice  D． barriers

【3】The last word of the text“counts”most probably means ____________．

A． is most important

B． is considered

C． is included

D． is numbered

【4】Which of the following statements is NOT true? ________________．

A． even the able-bodied may become disabled in some way

B． the disabled prefer to be ignored by the able-bodied

C． prejudice against the disabled should be removed

D． The disabled make up about 10 percent in the UK’s population

【5】it can be concluded from the passage that ______________．

A． we should try our best to prevent disablement

B． physical and metal barriers are equally hard to break down

C． we should take a proper attitude towards the disabled

D． all of us will be disabled at a certain time of our life

25、One day, the sewer line(污水管道) under our house burst. My first _______ was to call the plumber(水管工). An hour later, Steve arrived in his truck. I _______ anxiously as he walked down into the damp depths. A few moments later he _______, saying, “It’s broken.”

“Can you fix it?” I asked with a mixture of doubt and _______.

Steve looked at me as if scolding me for my lack of _______, saying, “Sure.” Then he told me he had to get a backhoe(挖土机) and _______ the street to the main sewer line and that it wouldn’t be done until evening.

I didn’t _______ to watch the excavation(挖掘). All I wanted was to _______, go somewhere, and, upon my _______, see everything the way it was before the damage.

I felt somewhat ________ upon driving off in my clean vehicle, leaving Steve to such a(n)________ task. I went into town and visited a few friends. Around 6 p.m., I went home and saw a sweeter________: the newly­paved street and a covered­up excavation across my front garden—all was tidy.

I was taken by the very idea that, sometimes terrible things might happen to an unlucky homeowner, ________ there is always somebody ________ in its solution. If that’s not the reason for ________, I’m not sure what is.

【1】

A．requirement

B．solution

C．schedule

D．response

【2】

A．shouted

B．watched

C．hesitated

D．explained

【3】

A．refused

B．dropped

C．nodded

D．appeared

【4】

A．hope

B．anxiety

C．happiness

D．regret

【5】

A．wisdom

B．strength

C．faith

D．courage

【6】

A．go along

B．get through

C．drive into

D．tear up

【7】

A．accept

B．desire

C．volunteer

D．agree

【8】

A．perform

B．relax

C．leave

D．entertain

【9】

A．return

B．retirement

C．disappearance

D．arrival

【10】

A．proud

B．upset

C．relaxed

D．guilty

【11】

A．dangerous

B．unpleasant

C．urgent

D．meaningless

【12】

A．situation

B．phenomenon

C．environment

D．sight

【13】

A．but

B．so

C．and

D．for

【14】

A．interested

B．fortunate

C．successful

D．experienced

【15】

A．kindness

B．gratitude

C．generosity

D．reward

26、阅读下面材料，根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段，使之构成一篇完整的短文。

Ellen Kalish runs the Ravensbeard Wildlife Center in New York. She is used to getting calls about taking in wild animals. When a man called asking if she could rescue an owl（猫头鹰）, she was happy to help. Then, the caller told her where this tiny owl was hiding out. It was found inside the Christmas tree in the Rockefeller Center, where it is a yearly tradition to decorate trees. But this year，the tree looked a little worse. Many people made fun of its sagging（低垂的）branches. They called the tree a “symbol of 2020”, meaning its sad look reminded them how tough the past year was.

The tale of the owl's rescue quickly became the highlight of this year's tree. Before the tree was put up to decorate, one of the workers spotted the creature. It was buried in the base of the tree. The owl most likely traveled with the tree on its journey to Manhattan. So, how did it end up stuck in the tree in the first place?

Kalish offered a few possibilities. The owl could have flown to the tree to hide there because it was injured and then got trapped later. Or maybe once the tree was loaded onto a truck, the branches squeezed it into the trunk. The bird may have just been too scared to move. Actually, there is no proof about where it came from. “That would be the last place it would want to go. Why would it pick that tree if it had a choice not to? It's smart and it wouldn't do that. ,” she explained.

In that case, the worker had to bring the owl home. He decided to find a place that rescues wildlife animals. That was why he called the Center. After Kalish got the full story about the bird. she met the man at a gas station. Then the man handed her a box with the owl inside.

Paragraph 1:

Kalish opened the box gently.

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Paragraph 2:

Several days passing, the owl looked in good shape.

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