新疆维吾尔自治区塔城地区2026年中考模拟（3）英语试卷（含解析）

1、We ______ have watered these flowers yesterday. Today’s rain will be too much for them.

A.can’t B.shouldn’t C.may not D.mustn’t

2、Urban congestion would greatly be relieved if the ______ charged on public transport were more reasonable.

A．prices

B．tickets

C．fees

D．fares

3、He is a teacher but his wife is a doctor， ________？

A.isn’t she B.isn’t it

C.aren’t they D.isn’t he

4、He has a gift for drawing. The underlined word can be replaced by_____.

A. genius B. present C. determination D. motion

5、She was disappointed that her elder daughter, _____ she had placed the greatest trust, failed to match her expectations.

A. in which   B. with which

C. with whom   D. in whom

6、—Are you going to borrow a dictionary or a magazine?

— _________.

A．Yes, a dictionary

B．No, a magazine

C．A dictionary

D．Yes, both

7、It’s quite warm here; we __________turn the heating on yet.

A．couldn’t

B．mustn’t

C．needn’t

D．wouldn’t

8、—Sorry I was not able to help.

—___________.

A．It just depends

B．It’s my pleasure

C．Not in the least

D．Thank you all the same

9、I have been convinced that the print media are usually more____ and more reliable than television.

A.accurate B.ridiculous

C.urgent D.shallow

10、Titled Pain，the book contains 51 poems, ________ has been written in the past three years, Zhao told China Daily in Beijing.

A．most of which

B．most of that

C．most of what

D．most of them

11、Her pale face suggested that she ______ ill and her parents suggested that she ______ a medical examination.

A．be; should have

B．was; have

C．should be; had

D．was; had

12、When asked about that horrible experience, Sue told me that so ______ in the darkness at that time that she didn't dare to move an inch.

A．she was scared

B．was she scared

C．scared she was

D．scared was she

13、It is universally acknowledged that money flows to ________ it is that controls the scarce thing.

A．whom

B．whomever

C．who

D．whoever

14、The team had won no games and it_______.

A. loses heart

B. lost heart

C. lost their heart

D. lost its heart

15、While sending flowers as gifts， we can't choose flowers 　　　　， because different flowers may carry different meanings.

A. arbitrarily   B. cautiously

C. originally   D. thoroughly

16、He's been informed that he wasn't _______ tor the scholarship because of his academic background.

A.occupied B.specialized C.qualified D.restrictive

17、If an entire country gets richer at the same time, individuals wouldn't ________ feel wealthier, since their relative positions in society haven't changed.

A.necessarily B.initially C.typically   D.sustainably

18、 —Who______ it be that is knocking at the door?

—It ______ be Father, but I’m not sure.

A. can; must B. can; may

C. must; can   D. may; must

19、— Why did you miss the interview yesterday?

— Terribly sorry.My pet dog got seriously injured and I ________ it all the day.

A. attend   B. was attending

C. had attended   D. have attended

20、Some students, hoping to get a high score, are _______ about the results of coming exam.

A. absurd B. guilty C. anxious D. puzzling

21、You may think that the story of Pygmalion (《卖花女》, 1913)---in which people are judged by the way they talk --- is something that only existed in the days of British high society. But thanks to etiquette (礼仪) expert and author William Hanson, we realize that little has changed during the past 100 years.

In a BBC radio program, Hanson released a list of common words used in British English that could reveal whether a person is “common” or “fashionable”.

And yet here comes the interesting part: While some of us might go through life using fancy words, dressing in ways that make us appear more well-off than we really are, there are wealthy people in the world who try to hide their riches because they want to be seen as “normal” instead of “showy”.

Beatrice, for example, is a New Yorker who inherited (继承) millions of dollars. She told The New York Times that she has a habit of removing the price tags from her clothes so her house staff don’t see them and feel uncomfortable.

“We don’t want that ‘Wow’.” said Scott, also a New Yorker, who had just inherited over $50 million. “We’re just not the type of people who wear it on our sleeve.”

【1】What does William Hanson find?

A. People failed to judge others’ manner.

B. People meet impolite persons frequently.

C. People tend to use more polite words.

D. People judge others by their way of talking.

【2】What do rich people prefer to do?

A. To earn more money.

B. To hide their riches.

C. To think highly of their wealth.

D. To judge others by their wealth.

【3】Why did Beatrice remove the price tags on her clothes?

A. To show off her fashion sense.

B. To avoid making people around her uncomfortable.

【4】What does the underlined word “it” in the last sentence mean?

A. The Times magazine.   B. The brand label.

C. The inheritance contract.   D. The price tag.

22、   A butterfly's wings can have many jobs besides keeping the insect in the air. They may be called on to attract mates, to warn potential enemies to stay away, to do other animals or even to provide disguise（伪装）.

All of these roles, though, depend on their colouration—which is unchanging. This plays into the idea that butterfly wings are dead tissue, like a bird's feathers or a mammal's hair. In fact, that is not true. For example, in some species males' wings harbour special cells that release chemicals which attract females.

Nanfang Yu, a physicist at Columbia University, in New York, has been looking into the matter. One of his interests is the optical（光学的）properties of biological materials. That has led him to study butterfly wings in more detail. And, in cooperation with Naomi Pierce, a butterfly specialist at Harvard University, he has now shown, in a paper published this week in Nature Communications, that butterfly wings are, indeed, very much alive.

Initially, Dr Yu and Dr Pierce wanted to know how the insects keep their body temperatures up without their wings overheating.

Unlike birds and mammals, butterflies do not produce enough internal heat to metabolize（新陈代谢）. Instead, they rely on outside heat sources—usually the sun—to bring their bodies up to speed. But their wings, being thin protein membranes（膜）, have a limited thermal capacity. Those wings can therefore overheat quickly if the insects are exposed to the sunlight too long, or, oppositely, can cool down too rapidly if they are flying through cold air.

In their experiments, the two researchers used a laser（激光）to heat up spots on the wings of dozens of butterfly species. When the temperature of the area under the laser reached 40℃ or so, the insects responded within seconds by doing things that stopped their wings heating up further. These actions included a butterfly turning around to minimize its exposure to the laser, beating its wings or simply walking away.

【1】What's Dr Yu's discovery about butterfly wings?

A.They contain dead tissue.

B.They are too thin to store heat.

C.They have different functions.

D.They react quickly to high heat.

【2】Which of the following is True according to the text?

A.Butterflies metabolize completely with its internal heat.

B.Chemicals from butterfly wings help drive away threats.

C.The color of butterfly's wings keeps fixed.

D.The researchers achieved big in optical properties.

【3】How can a butterfly stop its wings overheating?

A.By providing heat itself.

B.By flying through cold air.

C.By removing the source of heat.

D.By adjusting their heating surface.

【4】What's the best title for the text?

A.A Research into Butterfly Wings

B.The Jobs of Butterfly Wings

C.Butterfly Wings:  Dead or Alive

D.Butterfly Wings Temperature Changes

23、A busy public square in the Chinese city of Nanjing is home to an unusual experiment.

For almost two months, the country’s first “honesty bookshop” has occupied（占据） a sidewalk on HanZhong Road in the city’s Gulou District.

With no cashier or other staff, the store relies on trust for payment.

Making money isn’t the company’s main goal and they don’t punish those who take books without paying.

“If they can really finish the books, it doesn’t matter if they took the books for free,” Zhu Yu, the marketing director of the company says.

“In fact, we are really happy to witness so many people taking books from the honesty bookshop.”

After browsing the four wooden bookshelves, customers must drop their money in a locked box.

Prices are set at 30% of the usual cover price.

Zhu hopes that his sidewalk store, which sells, on average, 60 books a day, will make more people interested in reading.

Like elsewhere, e-books are affecting sales of traditional books, and traditional books and many independent booksellers are struggling.

Zhu got permission from the city government to use the sidewalk and says he’s determined to make it a long-term project.

He says the store is open every day, except when it rains, and it’s locked up each night.

In September last year, the company laid out 1,000 books and reading lamps on the ground and encouraged people “to go on a date” with a book.

“Independent bookshops represent the well-being of the city.” Zhu told CNN in 2013, “when a city is losing its bookshops, it’s actually losing something in its soul.”

If the success of the Honesty Bookstore is any guide, Nanjing’s soul is in pretty good shape.

【1】How is the bookstore different from other bookstores?

A. There is no cashier in it.

B. There are no paper books in it.

C. None of the customers need to pay for the books.

D. Only honest customers can visit the shop.

【2】What does Zhu Yu say about customers who take away books without paying?

A. They will be forbidden from visiting the bookstore again.

B. They will have to pay a lot of money next time they visit the shop.

C. They are not doing wrong if they finish reading the books.

D. They will not be allowed to take books away next time.

【3】What is one of the purposes of opening the bookstore?

A. To encourage people to read.

B. To make customers honest.

C. To check whether customers are honest.

D. To help people learn about Nanjing.

【4】What can we learn from the text?

A. The shop is only open on weekends.

B. The books in the shop are more expensive than shoes in other shops.

C. 30% of the normal cover price is charged for each book.

D. The shop is not locked at night.

24、   When she was studying to become a scientist, Megan Strauss rode in a small airplane to study giraffes. While a pilot flew over the Serengeti in Tanzania, Africa, the researchers looked down carefully and counted giraffes.

"I am always amazed how easily we can spot warthogs and other small animals, yet we sometimes have trouble seeing giraffes. Giraffes are slender in shape, and they may not throw a good shadow, " says Dr. Strauss, who has since become a wildlife scientist.

The Serengeti is about the size of Vermont, a state in the northeastern US, so the scientists could not study the entire area. Instead, they surveyed three areas where giraffes were studied in the 1970s. As they expected, they saw far fewer of these animals.

To find out if lions had been killing more giraffes in recent years, the team looked at the survival of young giraffes. Lions kill more young giraffes than adults, but the team found no decrease in young giraffes' survival after they are born, compared with the 1970s.

The team then looked at whether too many giraffes were being killed by parasites(寄生虫).The researchers counted parasite eggs in giraffe droppings, and they found too few to harm the giraffe population.

They looked into whether poachers (盗猎者)were killing too many giraffes. Two of the areas they studied are where giraffe meat is sometimes sold in local markets. Poachers catch more adult males than other giraffes. Researchers spotted too few males compared with females in those two areas, a sign of poaching.

When the food supply is short, the environment supports fewer giraffes and the females have fewer young giraffes. A lot of new trees have grown in the Serengeti, but many are a type that giraffes do not like to eat. The researchers found fewer young giraffes today than in the 1970s compared with the number of adult females, a sign that food was in short supply.

Dr. Strauss is working on an environmental education program for Tanzania including books for students. These materials will educate Tanzanians and help them to help giraffes. As knowledge grows and changes are made, they hope the giraffe population will increase.

【1】What did Dr. Strauss find while studying giraffes in the Serengeti?

A.It was too costly to study giraffes.

B.It was hard to spot giraffes from the air.

C.The number of giraffes had increased slowly.

D.Giraffes lived in smaller areas than in the 1970s.

【2】How did the team study the lion-giraffe relationship?

A.By analyzing giraffe droppings.

B.By comparing young giraffes with adults.

C.By comparing male giraffes and females.

D.By surveying the survival of young giraffes.

【3】What is Dr. Strauss doing to help giraffes?

A.She is founding a national park in Tanzania.

B.She is counting giraffes in the entire Serengeti.

C.She is educating students to write about giraffes.

D.She is raising environmental awareness in local people.

25、With time going by, I understood that my dad knew everything. In my teen years, he taught me things I’d need to know to ________ in the real world. How to drive a manual car. How to ________ your car tyre pressure. The ________ knife to use to cut a melon.

But, ________ I needed him less. I got married and moved away. My husband had most of the knowledge I ________ about the household chores (家务杂活). I loved my dad, of course, but I wondered if maybe he had already shared everything I ________ to know. Maybe I’d heard all his ________. Maybe, after knowing a man for 40 years, there’s ________ left to say.

Then, two years ago, my husband and I ________ with my parents while our house was being repaired. They own a lake house, and Dad asked me to help ________ the bulkhead (隔板) at their dock.

I didn’t baulk (退缩)—it was the least I could do for ________ rent-but I was anxious. It was ________ labour.

But as we put the new bulkhead together piece ________ piece, my dad knowing exactly what ________ where, I looked at him. “How do you know how to build a bulkhead？”“I spent a summer while I was at university building them.”I suddenly realized that maybe it’s not that there’s nothing left to say. Maybe it’s just that I’ve spent my life asking him the ________ questions.

A few weeks later, after moving back, I called my father. We ________ talking about everything. To anyone else, it would sound like a normal ________ between a dad and his daughter. But to me, it was a ________ beginning. I ________ the first part of my life needing to talk to my dad. Now I talk to him because I ________ to.

【1】

A．leave

B．survive

C．drive

D．cut

【2】

A．ease

B．bring

C．exchange

D．check

【3】

A．large

B．sharp

C．correct

D．dull

【4】

A．eventually

B．obviously

C．initially

D．clearly

【5】

A．talked

B．knew

C．lacked

D．moved

【6】

A．needed

B．pretended

C．hated

D．hesitated

【7】

A．arguments

B．news

C．reports

D．stories

【8】

A．something

B．anything

C．nothing

D．everything

【9】

A．moved out

B．moved in

C．dropped out

D．dropped in

【10】

A．sweep

B．advertise

C．rebuild

D．sell

【11】

A．annual

B．back

C．heavy

D．free

【12】

A．easy

B．hard

C．cheap

D．expensive

【13】

A．on

B．with

C．in

D．by

【14】

A．went

B．beat

C．stopped

D．happened

【15】

A．important

B．wrong

C．right

D．curious

【16】

A．ended up

B．relied on

C．resulted in

D．complained about

【17】

A．behavior

B．conversation

C．test

D．visit

【18】

A．novel

B．serious

C．casual

D．strange

【19】

A．caught

B．wasted

C．spent

D．kept

【20】

A．continue

B．afford

C．have

D．want

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。

Alexa and Brittany were best friends. They’d known each other since Brittany moved next door in 2nd grade. They hung out almost every day after school when they were getting along.

They were very different people. Alexa did great with her school work, read a lot of books, and took ballet classes. Brittany, on the other hand, would rather play soccer, chat with other kids at school, and rarely sat still for long enough to finish reading a chapter of a book.

Often, Alexa and Brittany would play together at the park across the street. They’d play on the equipment, or play soccer. If it was raining outside, they’d go in one of their houses to play video games, or do their nails. Some days they could spend hours together without a single problem, but other days they just could not agree on what to do.

One day, Alexa said. “Come on, let’s play on the equipment. We’ve played soccer for the last three days!”

“They just cut the grass, I love playing soccer when the grass is nice and short. I don’t want to play on the equipment,” Brittany replied.

“We always do what you want to do, Brittany. It’s my turn to choose.” Alexa was getting frustrated.

“Fine, go play on the equipment by yourself! I’m playing soccer,” Brittany shouted.

Alexa left. She was really angry. When she got home, she realized she still had Brittany’s notebook. “Well, I’m not giving it back today. I’m too mad at her.” Alexa thought.

The next day at school, their teacher asked for their notebooks. Brittany didn’t have hers, and asked Mrs. Stone if she could bring it in tomorrow instead. Mrs. Stone let them have just one late assignment a month, but Brittany had already used hers. Brittany looked upset. Alexa was having an internal (内心的) conflict. She knew she should tell Mrs. Stone that she had the notebook, but she was still mad at Brittany for not agreeing with her at the park yesterday. At last, she decided to admit her mistake.

注意:

1.续写词数应为150左右;

2.请按如下格式在答题卡的相应位置作答。

When it was time for lunch, Alexa talked with Mrs. Stone.

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After school, Mrs. Stone sat down and talked with the two girls.

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