【统考中考】英语模拟练

本部分共33题，共40分。在每题列出的四个选项中，选出最符合题目要求的一项。

一、单项填空（每题0.5分，共6分）

从下面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1．Some of his spare time is spent in reading. What about ________?

A．othersB．the othersC．the restD．other

2．We are going to visit Shenzhou-18 ________ Thursday morning.

A．inB．onC．atD．to

3．My grandfather is talented and hard-working. He ________ speak five languages.

A．canB．shouldC．mustD．need

4．—Why did you keep your clothes shop ________ last week?

—I took a trip with my ________ friend Jennifer.

A．closed; closeB．closing; closeC．closed; closedD．close; closed

5．—Steve, ________ did you begin to learn how to play chess?

—About two years ago.

A．whatB．whenC．whyD．where

6．It was difficult to climb the mountain,  Sam got to the top at last.

A．orB．soC．forD．but

7．You ________ fit if you take exercise every day.

A．keptB．have keptC．will keepD．are keeping

8．Some people think that robots ______ students with their

homework in the future.

A．help B．will  help     C．helped     D．have  helped

9．Suzy ________ her bedroom at this time yesterday, so she didn’t go shopping.

A．tidiesB．tidiedC．is tidyingD．was tidying

10．Susan ________ many Chinese characters since she came to China.

A．learnsB．has learnedC．is learningD．learned

11．—What language ________ in Singapore?

—Well, they speak English, but most of them can speak Chinese, too.

A．speakB．is speakingC．spokeD．is spoken

12．—Do you know ______ for the autumn outing next week?

—Yes. We are going to the Palace Museum.

A．where we will goB．where will we goC．where did we goD．where we went

二、完形填空（每题1分，共8分）

阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选择最佳选项。

Goals Are Easier to Achieve in Small Steps

The new high school was too large for Riya. She spent the first week trying to keep different    13    in her mind. She was always confused by the school’s buildings. She decided that she would memorize where her classes were and then pretend(装作) that the rest of the places didn’t exist. All the different hallways and classrooms were too many to    14    about, let alone keep them in her memory. 

In PE lesson, Mr. Black drove her mad when he announced(宣布) that everyone had to run one mile around the track on the playground. Riya searched the faces of her classmates for signs of fear. There was nothing she was    15    of more than having to run a whole mile. To Riya, the word “a mile” was considered as a long distance. 

When Mr. Black blew his whistle(哨) , Riya thought she would be    16    far behind. However, while some of her classmates ran ahead, others couldn’t keep up with them actually. “It’s just the beginning,” she thought, “I’ll be the    17    one in the race for sure.” 

Riya started using a mind trick on herself. She stopped thinking about the word “mile”. Instead, she made efforts to reach the shadow(影子) cast on the track by a tree up ahead. Then she    18    on running to the spot where the track curved(弯曲). After that, she tried to see if she could complete her first lap. One lap    19    into two, then three, then four. When Mr. Black gave her a high five and said, “Nice work,” Riya was shocked. She would never have predicted that she had just run a whole mile. 

As Riya walked back to the school building after the PE class, she felt less confused by its    20    . Maybe she would come to know the place. One lap at a time would be the right way.

13．A．teachersB．classesC．subjectsD．classmates

14．A．thinkB．talkC．argueD．doubt

15．A．afraidB．tiredC．proudD．sure

16．A．fallenB．hiddenC．leftD．stayed

17．A．funniestB．politestC．strongestD．slowest

18．A．continuedB．insistedC．focusedD．managed

19．A．dividedB．turnedC．countedD．formed

20．A．signsB．addressC．routesD．size

三、阅读理解（每题2分，共23分）

A

When she was just 10 years old, Angela entered her first piano competition. Each participant (参赛者) had to go up onstage one by one and perform their piece. At first Angela was excited. But when she was next up to play, doubts began to flood her mind.

“What if I played the wrong notes? What if I forgot the notes? What if I just messed up?” Angela remembered thinking.

As these worries raced through her mind, Angela watched another girl perform. The girl played beautifully. Once the girl finished, she walked offstage to where Angela was waiting, and did something unexpected in Angela’s eyes.

“She looked at me and smiled with a thumbs-up,” said. “Her smile was so warm and encouraging. It was like a beam of sunshine cutting through the clouds of my doubt. Her smile made me believe that the stage was just right for me, and that the piano was just right for me. Most importantly, that smile made me think that I was just right and I could perform on the stage that day.”

With newfound confidence, Angela walked out to the piano and performed her piece. She focused on the music, letting the notes flow (流淌) from her fingers. Her performance turned out to be successful indeed. When she finished, she saw her competitor clapping (鼓掌) for her. Seeing such a show of support has stuck with Angela over the years.

“As a competitor, she gave me respect and her gesture (手势) of goodwill helped a shy girl to face the stage,” Angela said. “She changed an important moment of my life, and her kind smile remains in my memory. And I’ll take that smile as a precious (珍贵的) gift.”

21．When Angela was next up to play, ________ began to flood her mind.

A．doubtsB．excitementC．tirednessD．happiness

22．When the other girl finished her playing, what did she do to Angela?

A．She looked at Angela strangely.

B．She laughed at Angela.

C．She smiled at Angela with a thumbs-up.

D．She hugged Angela warmly.

23．Why will Angela take that smile as a precious gift?

A．Because the smile reminded her of her own mistakes.

B．Because the smile made her feel respected and confident.

C．Because the smile made her realize she was better than others.

D．Because the smile made her want to become a really good pianist.

B

Nowadays, most of the world’s population lives in the city, where poor air quality and noise pollution are common, and there is little chance to connect with nature. People may prefer going outdoors and enjoying the health benefits of being in nature. So, don’t be surprised that your doctor gives you a prescription (处方) for parks instead of pills.

Nature prescribing, gaining its popularity recently, involves a doctor encouraging patients to spend time in nature as a health activity. The nature-based activities have developed as an effective healthcare treatment to improve people’s well-being.

What are the nature prescriptions like? Well, doctors may give patients a variety of choices. Patients may choose direct exposure (接触) to nature, by using a natural space for running, walking, open-water swimming, or other physical activities. Other times, the exposure to nature might not be that obvious, such as biking along a path near a river on the way to work. Patients may also be encouraged to participate in environmental protection projects. For example, they can help build bird houses in forests, which provide a safe space for birds to live in and raise their young.

Research into nature prescribing activities has found that participants experience both physical and mental health benefits. For example, nature-based activities can result in a reduction of blood pressure and better heart health. Besides, spending time in nature has been linked to lower levels of stress and anxiety. Not only that, an outdoor program in nature involving a group of people can also reduce feelings of loneliness among participants.

Nature prescribing has been carried out successfully throughout the world. For example, in England, the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust runs the Blue Prescribing Project. The project provides opportunities for people with poor mental health in London to enjoy wetland environment. This has led to great improvement of their situation.

However, there are still several challenges when nature prescribing is adapted to different settings. One major difficulty is the need to train qualified health providers who can organize effective activities, which takes time and requires money. Moreover, since some patients may not find certain nature-based activities interesting, more activities need to be designed to meet various needs.

24．If patients want to take part in nature prescribing activities, they can ________.

A．swim for hours in an indoor swimming pool

B．plant trees in the local park near their houses

C．paint birds and flowers at community libraries

D．watch environmental protection programs on TV

25．What do you know about nature prescribing from the passage?

A．It can never take the place of having medicine.

B．It fails to benefit patients when carried out in London.

C．It requires further development to meet different needs.

D．It works much better for physical health than mental health.

26．Which might be the best title for the passage?

A．From Indoors to Outdoors: An Active Way to Relax

B．A Step into the Wild: The Time to Protect Our Planet

C．A Trip Through Forests: A Chance to Enjoy the Beauty

D．From Pills to Parks: The Influence of Nature on Health

C

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D

]Me and My Brain

We all know that meaningful changes happen in our bodies during adolescence (青春期), but have you ever stopped to wonder what’s actually going on inside our brains during this time?

To paint a clear picture, we should first know about ourselves with the different parts of the brain. Did you know, for example, that our brains are made up of around 100 billion nerve cells (神经细胞) called neurons (神经元)? And coming from these neurons are several branch-like structures for sending and receiving electrical signals? Every time we do or think anything, a signal is sent. The signal travels down a long structure called the axon (轴突) and, at the end, it passes across small gaps called synapses (神经元的突触) to the dendrites (树突) of another neuron, which receive the signal. In this way, messages are sent across our neural network.

Our brain structure changes greatly as we grow up. Newborn babies have almost all their neurons but few connections between them, which is why they can’t do very much. After a few months however, the number of connections increases quickly, which in turn helps small kids master new skills such as walking and talking. Most brain development is completed in the first few years, but we now know that our brains continue to develop throughout our lives and perhaps the most surprising time of change and development is during adolescence.

During this period of reorganization, the brain notices a sudden increase in neurons not dissimilar to a plant growing uncontrollably in spring. Just as we cut back a plant to make it stronger and healthier, we cut back our brains. The connections that are used become stronger, whereas those which aren’t used dry and die. So, the more often an action or thought is activated, the stronger the connections become between the neurons, which in turn makes the part of the brain being used stronger. This explains why the more you do something, the better you become at it,reinforcingthe old saying “practice makes perfect”. In fact, the teenage brain provides conditions for perfecting skills such as playing a musical instrument, speaking another language, or learning a difficult computer game. It could be argued that teenagers decide the development of their own grey matter through the activities they take part in and their experiences.

It may also be unsurprising to many to learn that the last part of the adolescent brain to develop is the frontal cortex (额皮质), responsible for self-control, problem solving and decision making. So, long before teens are good at abstract thinking (抽象思维) and logical decision making, they depend on the emotional center of the brain to make choices and think. So perhaps unpredictable, uncertain, risk taking teenage behaviors, often put down to hormones (荷尔蒙), may actually have more to do with what’s going on inside our brain.

30． What do we learn about the structure of the brain?

A．All neurons are activated when we think.

B．The structure of a brain cell is compared to a tree.

C．Neurons allow a message to travel around the brain.

D．The structure of a brain changes when a message is sent.

31． What does Paragraph 3 tell us?

A．A decision helps babies learn how to speak.

B．Most changes in brain happen after adulthood.

C．The process of brain development is continuous.

D．Babies are born with the ability to do anything.

32． The word “reinforcing” in Paragraph 4 probably means “_________”.

A．judgingB．challengingC．supportingD．limiting

33． The writer agrees that teenagers ________.

A．are cleverer than they used to be when they study their brains

B．are misunderstood and they can play difficult computer games

C．want to learn more about the changes in their brains and bodies

D．can benefit from understanding the changes that happen in their brains

第二部分

本部分共5题，共20分。根据题目要求，完成相应任务。

四、阅读表达（第34—37题每题2分，第37题4分，共 10分）

Thanks to social media, common foods like eggs, cheese, cucumbers are becoming superstars! In Iceland, cucumbers and a certain kind of cheese are so popular that stores even run out of them! Why? Because people watch cooking videos online and want to make the same dishes! As you can see, social media is changing our cooking and diet.

People have always used new ways to share cooking. Long ago, a French chef started to write cookbooks with pictures to teach others French dishes. In the 1960s, Julia used TV to make cooking fun. She showed how people could make fancy meals at home. Maybe that was the origin (起源) of sharing cooking through electronic media.

Nowadays, cooking is one of the most loved topics online, especially during holidays. Many people make videos about cooking, and the videos make cooking fun to share. Some online food videos can even get millions of views. According to a recent (近期的) study, food cooking is the 4th most popular topic online!

The Internet can turn anyone into a cooking star! You don’t need to be a fantastic chef to get famous. Nick, a 28-year-old Harvard university student often posts cooking videos online. And his cooking videos have 21 million fans online! Why does social media make us care so much about food? The reason is simple: everyone eats! More importantly, videos teach better than books. Words like “cook until golden” can be confusing, but videos show clearly what to do.

Today’s online cooks don’t just share how to cook food—they share a lifestyle. What you eat and watch says something about you. A social media expert (专家) says good cooking stars “Listen to what viewers want”. Some want fun, others want to learn or try new foods through others.

So next time you see an Internet-famous recipe, how about searching for videos about it and starting to cook the dish yourself? You might also become a famous cook.

34．What is changing our cooking and diet?

35．When did Julia start to use TV to make cooking fun?

36．How popular is food cooking online according to a recent study?

37．Would you like to learn to cook by watching videos online? Why or why not?

五、文段表达（10分）

从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据所给提示，完成一篇不少于50词的英语文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

题目①：

38．根据所给的中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的英语文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出真实校名和姓名。

某英文网站正在开展以“缓解压力”为主题的征文活动。假设你是李华，请用英语写一篇短文投稿，记述你缓解压力的一次经历以及你的感悟。

提示词语：worry, park, walk, listen, helpful

提示问题：

·What was your experience of reducing stress?

·What have you learned from the experience?

It’s normal to feel stressed, but we can find ways to reduce it. _______________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

______________________________________________________________________________

题目②：

39．根据所给的中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于50词的英文文段写作。文中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出真实的校名和姓名。

假设你是李华，你们学校将要组织一次社区环境保护志愿活动。你打算邀请交换生Peter参加这次活动。请你用英文给他写一封电子邮件，告诉他活动时间和地点、活动安排以及需要准备的物品等。

提示词语：gate, clean, pick up, rubbish bags, gloves

提示问题：

●When and where will you meet?

●What will you do for the community?

●What do you advise Peter to prepare for the activity?

Dear Peter,

How is everything going? I’m writing to invite you to take part in a volunteer activity for a better environment in a community.

_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Hope to hear from you soon.

Yours,

Li Hua

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一、单项填空

1．【答案】C

【详解】句意为：他的一些空闲时间花在阅读上。剩下的时间呢？

考查代词的用法。others其他人，泛指别的人或物；the others其余的人或物，特指某一范围内的其余全部；the rest剩余的，既可指代可数名词也可指代不可数名词；other其他的，修饰名词。根据“Some of his spare time”可知空白处应该指代“剩余的空闲时间”，time是不可数名词，因此需用the rest。故选C。

2．【答案】B

【详解】句意为：我们将于周四上午参观神舟十八号。

考查介词辨析。in在某年某月某季节；on在某一天或某一天的早中晚；at在某时刻；to到。空后是具体某一天的上午，用介词on。故选B。

3．【答案】A

【详解】句意为：我的祖父有才华且勤奋。他能说五种语言。

考查情态动词辨析。can能，会；should应该；must必须，一定；need需要。根据“speak five languages”可知，说五种语言是祖父的能力，强调能力用can。故选A。

4．【答案】A

【详解】句意为：——你的服装店上周为什么关门了？——我和我的密友詹妮弗去旅行了。

考查形容词作宾语补足语和定语。 keep sb./sth.+adj./doing，意为“使某人/某物保持某种状态”。此处“your clothes shop”是宾语，后面需要一个词作宾语补足语，说明商店的状态。商店是被关闭的，应用形容词closed表示关闭的状态。根据“…with my friend Jennifer”可知，此处需要形容词修饰名词friend，close作形容词时，意为“亲密的，亲近的”。故选A。

5．【答案】B

【详解】本题考查疑问词。由答语“About two years ago.”可知，询问什么时间，应用when。

6．【答案】D

【详解】本题考查连词。由句意“虽然爬山很难，但是 Sam 最终爬到了山顶。”可知，前后两句句意转折，应用表示转折的连词 but。

7．【答案】C

【详解】句意为：如果你每天锻炼，你会保持健康的。

考查时态。if条件状语从句遵循“主将从现”原则，C项符合。故选C。

8．【答案】B

9．【答案】D

【详解】句意为：昨天这个时候，苏西正在整理她的卧室，所以她没有去购物。