上海版2020年中考英语一模试卷B卷

第 1 页 共 18 页 上海版上海版 20202020 年中考英语一模试卷年中考英语一模试卷 B B 卷卷 姓名姓名 班级班级 成绩成绩 一 一 完形填空完形填空 共共 2 2 题 共题 共 2020 分分 1 10 分 通读全文 根据短文理解 选择正确答案填空 The ladies club 妇女俱乐部 always 1 a meeting 2Friday afternoon and someone came to talk to them about 3 After that they had tea and asked 4 One Friday a man came and talked to the club about the food problem There s not 5 food in the world for everyone he said More than half of the people in the world are hungry And when they have 6 food they have more babies 7 they never 8 being hungry Somewhere in the world a woman is having a baby every minute day and night What are you going to do about it He 9 for a few seconds Then one of the ladies said Well why not 10 that woman and stop her 1 A held B made C took D left 2 A in B at C on D for 3 A something important 第 2 页 共 18 页 B everything important C nothing important D anything important 4 A problems B questions C the man D the ladies 5 A good B clean C enough D pleasant 6 A better B more C less D fewer 7 A but B since C as 第 3 页 共 18 页 D so 8 A stop B enjoy C like D keep 9 A waited B asked C looked D played 10 A see B look C find D watch 2 10 分 你肯定听说过 早睡早起身体好 这句著名的俗语吧 为什么这么说呢 请看下文找找依据吧 然后让自己养成良好的生活习惯 There is an old saying It tells us we must go to bed 1 and get up early in the2 Then we will be 3 We will also be rich and 4 That is right The body must have enough sleep to be healthy Children of young age should have 5 hours sleep every night Children who do not have enough sleep 6 do their work well and 7 may not be healthy The body also 8 exercise Walking running jumping and playing games are all exercise 第 4 页 共 18 页 Exercise keeps the body strong Exercise also helps the blood 血液 to move around inside the body It s very 9 Our blood moves to all parts of our body The head also needs blood So exercise also helps us to 10 better 1 A late B early C happy D good 2 A room B afternoon C morning D evening 3 A healthy B important C angry D easy 4 A boring B smart C thirsty D weak 第 5 页 共 18 页 5 A ten B five C fifteen D twenty 6 A can B can t C should D shouldn t 7 A it B they C we D you 8 A wants B needs C does D gets 9 A easy 第 6 页 共 18 页 B important C good D same 10 A run B think C walk D jump 二 二 阅读理解阅读理解 共共 4 4 题 共题 共 4040 分分 3 10 分 阅读理解 What are the basic ingredients 要素 of good manners A strong sense of fairness is one of them A friend once told me an experience that he had When he was driving along a one lane 单行小路 unpaved 未铺路的 mountain road the car ahead of his produced clouds of choking dust 呛人的尘土 and it was a long way to the nearest paved main road Suddenly the car ahead stopped at a wider place on the road My friend thought there must be something wrong with the car ahead He stopped and asked if anything was wrong No said the other driver But you ve endured my dust so far I ll endure yours the rest of the way Another ingredient is empathy 同情心 It makes a person see into the mind or heart of someone else Recently I happened to read such a story in a book A man was having dinner alone and he was trying to open a bottle But he failed Then he asked a waiter for help The waiter took the bottle turned his back and opened it without difficulty Then the waiter closed it again and turned back He pretended 假装 to make a great effort to open the bottle without success Finally he took it into the kitchen and returned very soon He told the man that he managed to open it but only with a tool Yet another ingredient is the ability to treat people alike 一视同仁 No matter who he is and 第 7 页 共 18 页 what he does everyone is worth respecting 1 The driver in the car ahead stopped to A repair the car B have a rest C ask the way D let the back car go 2 The underlined word endure probably means in Chinese A 原谅 B 容忍 C 抱怨 D 谴责 3 In fact the waiter opened the bottle A by himself easily B with a tool C with difficulty D without success 4 The second story may happen A in the kitchen at home B on the main road C in the restaurant D on the busy street 5 The best title of the passage is 第 8 页 共 18 页 A The Ability to Solve Problems B The Ways to Help Others C The Good Manners to Treat Others D The Empathy for Strangers 4 10 分 根据短文内容 选择最佳答案 Winter solstice as the name shows means the coming of winter As an important solar term in the traditional Chinese calendar it is also a traditional holiday for Chinese which is also called 冬节 长至节 亚岁 etc Generally winter solstice occurs between December 21st and 23rd According to the traditional Chinese calendar five days constitutes a pentad and three pentads constitutes a solar term One year is divided into twelve periods and twelve climates which are regarded as twenty four solar terms The Winter Solstice is one of twenty four solar terms On this day in the Northern Hemisphere the period of daytime is the shortest of the year and the period of night is longest In Northern China during winter solstice there is a custom of eating dumplings 1 There are solar terms in a year A twelve B five C twenty four D thirty one 2 People often eat during winter solstice A mooncakes B dumplings C noodles D chicken 第 9 页 共 18 页 3 Winter solstice is in A January B September C October D December 4 On winter solstice the period of night is in China A the longest B the shortest C darkest D brightest 5 Which day has the longest daytime in China A The beginning of spring B Summer solstice C Grain full D The beginning of autumn 5 10 分 阅读理解 Long long ago people lived a nomadic 游牧民族的 life When the sun came up people began to collect food When the sun went down they went to sleep All of that changed when they began to build towns They needed a way to tell time and the first useful time telling tool was invented the sundial 日晷 As the sun travelled across the sky it made shadows 影子 on the face of the time of day The hourglass 沙漏 was another time telling tool It was possible to get a general idea of the time 第 10 页 共 18 页 In the 11th century mechanical 机械的 clocks were invented But they weren t very accurate They lost fifteen minutes each day and they became more accurate when small springs 小弹簧 were added to move the hands of the clock As a result of this invention clocks became smaller Over the next 300 years many improvements were made to clocks and soon many people could afford a clock or watch By the 1950s digital 数字的 watches had been invented in 1967 the atomic 原子的 clock was developed The atomic clock is accurate to within one second every twenty million years 1 What s the first time telling tool A The sundial B The hourglass C The water clock D The mechanical clock 2 The underlined word accurate means in Chinese A 稳定的 B 固定的 C 波动的 D 准确的 3 Compared with the sundial mechanical clocks with springs are A smaller B heavier C longer D wider 4 According to the passage 第 11 页 共 18 页 A the sundial was invented after the hourglass B mechanical clocks were invented in the 11th century C clocks were very expensive in the 11th century D atomic clocks were invented earlier than digital watches 5 What s the best title for the passage A Why clocks were invented B How clocks were invented C The importance of time telling tools D The history of time telling tools 6 10 分 根据短文内容 选择最佳答案 In Britain Boxing Day is usually celebrated on December 26th which is the following day after Christmas Day However strictly speaking Boxing Day is the first weekday after Christmas Like Christmas Day Boxing Day sing a public holiday This means it s a non working day in the whole of Britain When Boxing Day falls on a Saturday or Sunday the following Monday is the public holiday The exact origin 起源 of the holiday is unclear One of the thoughts is that during the Middle Ages when great sailing ships were setting off to discover new land a Christmas Box was placed by a priest 神父 on each ship Those sailors who wanted to ensure a safe return would drop money into the box It wassealed upand kept on board until the ship came home safely Then the box was handed over to the priest in the exchange for the saying of a Mass of thanks for the success of the sailing The priest wouldn t open it to share the contents with the poor until Christmas One more thought is about the Alms Box placed in every church on Christmas Day Worshippers 做礼拜的人 put gifts for the poor into it These boxes were always opened the day after Christmas that is why that day became know as Boxing Day Today many businesses organizations and families try to keep the traditional spirit of 第 12 页 共 18 页 Boxing Day alive by donating 捐赠 their time services and money to aid Food Banks providing gifts for the poor or helping families in need Besides spending time with family and shopping are popular Boxing Day activities now 1 If Christmas Day is on a Saturday Boxing Day will be celebrated on A December 25th B December 26th C December 27th D December 28th 2 Sailors dropped money into the Christmas Box in order to A save the poor B pay for the priest C discover new land D pray for sailing safely 3 What does the underlined phrase sealed up mean A 密封 B 悬挂 C 归还 D 传递 4 The following activities can show the traditional spirit of Boxing Day EXCEPT 第 13 页 共 18 页 A offering gifts to the poor B supporting families in need C spending time with family D giving money to aid Food Banks 5 The purpose of the passage is A to praise the kindness of priests B to introduce the origins of Boxing Day C to call on people to help the poor D to compare Boxing Day with Christmas Day 三 三 七选五七选五 共共 1 1 题 共题 共 5 5 分分 7 5 分 阅读短文 回答问题 Can you imagine a world without a writing system for your language It may be hard to picture it now but a man named Sequoyah lived in such a world Sequoyah was a member of a native American tribe 部落 the Cherokee Cherokee people speak their own language but for hundreds of years they did not have a system of writing Without a writing system the Cherokee had no newspapers or books before 1809 Sequoyah was probably born around the year 1770 and lived with his mother in a small village in the mountains of Tennessee When he grew up he became a blacksmith 铁匠 When he was doing business with those English speaking people he noticed that they used paper with marks to record their thoughts and ideas Sequoyah called these pieces of paper with marks talking leaves He began to wonder why people who spoke Cherokee did not have a way to write down their words 第 14 页 共 18 页 In 1809 Sequoyah decided to give the Cherokee their own talking leaves At first he tried to make a different symbol for every word in the Cherokee language But in that case there would be so many symbols and too hard for people to remember so he decided to make a picture for each syllable 音节 After much hard work Sequoyah invented 85 symbols In order to see whether it would work he helped his six year old daughter Ayoka learn each symbol and found she could learn to read and write very quickly Sequoyah s invention was a success Before long Sequoyah s writing system had spread far and wide Cherokee people living in all different parts of the country learned to read and write In 1825 Sequoyah s system was made the official written language for Cherokee people To this day Cherokee speakers still use Sequoyah s writing system In some parts of the United States you can see street signs and billboards written in both English and Cherokee Sequoyah will always be remembered for his important contribution 贡 献 to Cherokee people 根据短文内容 回答下列问题 1 How long did Cherokee people not have a system of writing 2 What did Sequoyah call the pieces of paper with marks 3 How many symbols did Sequoyah invent in the Cherokee language 4 When was Sequoyah s system made the official