江苏省常州市2018年中考英语试卷真题

1、精选优质文档-倾情为你奉上2018年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷 一、单项选择（共10小题，每小题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 1Time waits for no man. But some people won't realize the importance of time _ it's gone. (D) A. as B. since C. when D. until 2. Two tickets for Sunday， please! Sorry. There is _left. (B) A. nothing B. none

2、C. some D. anything 3. Your father has passed the driving test？ Yes. _my father _ my mother has. (A) A. Not only; but also B. Neither; nor D. Both; and C. Either： or 4. Hurry up, Jeff! Let's cross the road as fast as possible. No, you _. Don't you see the light is still red？(C) A. couldn'

3、;t B. wouldn't C. mustn't D. needn't 5. Lights are out. The concert is to begin. The fans hold their breath for Jay Chou's_. (D) A. influence B. guidance C. experience D. appearance 6. Manager, all the machines_just now! What？ Call the engineer at once. (A) A. broke down B. turned do

4、wn D. turned out C. broke out 7. As an American, Tom is a big fan of Chinese kung fu. _, he is crazy about Beijing Opera. (C) A. Therefore B. However C. Moreover D. Otherwise 8. Can you describe_？ Yes. I was walking when a bike knocked me down from behind. (C) A. why did the accident happen 分享精品资料B.

5、 when did the accident happen C. how the accident happened D. where the accident happened 9. I _ you here, but you didn't come. I'm terribly sorry. I was so busy that I forgot. (B) A. would expect B. was expecting D. have expected C. am expecting 10. Are you going to try out for the host of

6、the English party？ _？ It is such a good chance to improve my spoken English. (D) A. What's up B. What's wrong D. Why not C. Why me 二、完形填空（共1小题; 每小题12分, 满分12分）阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项. Mrs. Walker sat down at her desk and sighed（叹息）. “OK. Tell me what happened. “ “Yesterday, “ Wi

7、nston began, “when I got home, I went straight to my room to do my homework. After I finished, I needed a（n） （1） . So I took out my bubble gum（泡泡糖） to （2） . Michael and I are having a competition to see who can blow the biggest bubble. “ “That's right, “ Michael said. “We are. “ “I kept adding g

8、um and my bubble kept growing. Soon it （3） my whole face. “ “What then？” asked Mrs. Walker. “Then it happened. The bubble became as big as a beach ball. “ He （4） his arms to show how big it was. A few kids made facesthey didn't （5） him, but Winston ignored（不 理睬） them and went on. “Suddenly a str

9、ong wind took the bubble right out of my mouth! The bubble （6） over my desk and out of the window. As it sailed away, I noticed 分享精品资料something yellow stuck to it. Like paper. Then I noticed my （7） was missing. “ “So？” Mrs. Walker asked. “I ran after the bubble into Mrs. Roosevelt's garden. I sa

10、w her cat attack it. The bubble broke. All I saw then was the cat running away. Mrs. Roosevelt helped me search the （8） . But my homework was nowhere to be seen. “ Mrs. Walker shook her bead. （“9） , Winston, why didn't you just tell me that the homework was too （10） instead of making up that wil

11、d story？” Just then, the office worker walked in with a letter. Winston opened the letter and took out the wrinkled homework paper and a note that said, “For Winston's teacher. “ I am sure Winston （11） to hand this in. He's a good boy. I have no idea how his homework got stuck to my cat, but

12、 I'm sure Winston can give you a（n）（12） Mrs. Roosevelt Mrs. Walker looked up. “It was all true!” “Yes, madam, “ Winston said quietly. ( B) A. award B. rest C. surprise D. choice D. enjoy B. create C. exercise ( D) A. practice B. hurt hit ( C) A. cleaned C. covered D. D. waved ( A) A. rounded C.

13、crossed B. held B. notice ( D) A. hear C. D. believe remember C. climbed stayed ( A) A. floated B. rode D. ( C) A. bubble D. gum C. homework B. book C. ( D) A. room desk D. garden B. cat ( B) A. Generally B. Exactly D. Finally C. Honestly B. different interesting D. ( A) A. hard C. common C. wanted

14、D. managed ( D) A. refused B. promised ( B) A. introduction D. B. suggestion C. instruction explanation 分享精品资料三、阅读理解（共4小题; 每小题6分, 满分26分）阅读下列短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出最佳选项. 12. Summer is finally here for most of us. Sadly, summer is not so pleasant to people in a bit less lucky places, where air c

15、onditioning（空调） is not easy to get for most of them. But as a saying goes, where there is a will, there is a way, especially for those who like doing it yourself（DIY）. A young man from Bangladesh（孟加拉国） designed an air conditioning system called the Eco Cooler, one that does not require power, and is

16、 made of the world's most common wasteplastic bottles. The Eco Cooler is super simple to buildno special engineering skills are required. First, to fix it, a window should be taken away and replaced（替代） by it. Second, a board should be cut into the size of a window. Some bottleneck sized holes s

17、hould then be cut onto the board. Then, the funnelshaped（漏斗状） bottlenecks, cut from the plastic bottles, should be put into the holes. The next step is to fix the design onto the window frame（框） with the wider side facing outwards. And this is it. The Eco Cooler then works by catching the winds and

18、sending them inside the building. It can reduce the temperature of a room by as much as 5°Ca big difference when looking at comfortable 25°C compared to uncomfortable 30°C. The idea of the inventor, Ashis Paul, was to show his great product to as many People as possible. For this purp

19、ose, he received help from some groups of volunteers. Together, they offered to help local people build and fix the units, as well as teach them how to make them themselves. Yes, the Eco Cooler is not a super hightech air conditioning system, but it is one that can make a big difference. ( B)When bu

20、ilding the Eco Cooler, we should pay special attention to . A. the shape of the window B. the direction of bottlenecks 分享精品资料C. the temperature of the outside D. the weight of the board ( C)What can we learn from the passage？ A. Ashis Paul is a clever inventor and a successful businessman. B. An Eco

21、 Cooler can fix the room temperature to comfortable 25°C. C. The new invention of Eco Cooler is friendly to the environment. D. Local people will replace their air conditioner with an Eco Cooler. ( D)What's the best title of this passage？ A. DIY air conditioning made from plastic bottles B.

22、 Eco Coolera super hightech air conditioner C. Why do we need an Eco Cooler in summer？ D. A strongwilled inventor and his DIY dream 13. How to investigate Planning ?Decide on a scientific problem to investigate For example, a student named Mary has decided to research into how quickly sugar dissolve

23、s（溶解） in water. ?Write down your hypothesis You may already have an idea of what you expect to happen in your investigation. This idea is called your hypothesis. It may not be right! It is just an idea, though it may be based on work in science which you have done before. The aim of your investigati

24、on is to test your idea. ?Decide what variables（变量） you are dealing with Things like temperature, size, weight, and colour are called variables. Variables are things you can measure（测量）. In your investigation, you have to decide what the variables are, which ones you 分享精品资料will keep fixed, and which

25、 you will change. You need to change just one variable at a time. If lots of variables change at once. it won't be a good test. ?Decide what equipment you need, and in what order you will do things ?Prepare tables for your results Getting your evidence（数据） ?Make your measurements, and record you

26、r results Reaching conclusions ?Look for patterns in your results ?Present your conclusions What links（关联） did you find between any of the variables？ How would you explain these links？ Checking your findings ?Compare your conclusions and hypothesis Do your results support your idea？ ( D)What does th

27、e underlined word “hypothesis” most probably mean？ A. reason B. result C. method D. guess ( A)In Mary's investigation, which of the following about the variables is true？ A. She can only change one variable at a time. B. Some of the variables can't be measured. C. Her weight and age can be t

28、he variables. D. The temperature of water cannot be a variable. ( A)What is the passage mainly about？ A. How to do a scientific research. B. How to explain a scientific finding. C. How to deal with a chemistry problem. D. How to understand some chemistry knowledge. 分享精品资料 14. We wake up very early t

29、o go to school, maybe even earlier to meet with a teacher, complete our extracurricular（课程以外的） activities, come home to have a quick dinner, talk for eight minutes with our parents and do homework until we fall asleep. But then we remember. We have to look at the American College Test（ACT） exercises

30、 one more time. Half asleep, we run downstairs to get the ACT book, and start studying. After this we finally get to turn off the lights and drift away to sleep. And then six hours later, we do it all over again. In my health class, my teacher told us that teenagers need at least eight to nine hours

31、 of sleep each night. The sad truth is, with so much to do every day, high school students cannot keep to this sleep schedule（安排）. Let me ask you all a question： Doesn't it seem more humane（人道的） to give a teenager perhaps two hours of homework each night？ This would allow us to have the eight to

32、 nine hours of much needed sleep. Or does it seem better to pile students with five hours of work a night？ It leaves us very little time to relax, therefore reducing the time that we can sleep. In my opinion. the present structure（结构） of the junior year of high school doesn't work well. Junior y

33、ear of high school is a time for growth. By this time many students have the ability to think creatively, and solve challenging problems. Homework is important for a student's growth. But do we really need to spend countless hours a night doing it？ Too much homework can only lead to too little s

34、leep and too low an ability. I do think it is time to change the structure, so that we sleep at home, and learn at school. ( A)In the first paragraph the writer gives . A. a picture of the present daily life of high school students B. an example of an ideal daily life of high school students C. a re

35、ason for high school students to live a busy daily school life D. a suggestion of what high school students should do to pass ACT ( D)From the last paragraph we know that the writer thinks . A. Junior year of high school is the most important growth period 分享精品资料B. challenging problems are needed fo

36、r a teenager's growth C. the ability to think has nothing to do with homework D. the present structure leads to students often sleeping in class ( C)Why does the writer write this article？ A. To prove the role of enough sleep in teenagers' growth. B. To complain about the problems in the sys

37、tem of the ACT. C. To ask for a change for less homework and more sleep. D. To discuss the relationship between sleep and homework. 15. After a while attention to Tom ended, and the usual school murmur（嗡嗡读书声）rose upon the boring air once more. Now the boy began to steal secret glances（偷看） at the gir

38、l. She noticed it, made a face at him and gave him the back of her head for the space of a minute. When she slowly faced around again, an apple lay before her. She pushed it away. Tom gently put it back. She pushed it away again, but with less animosity（敌意）. Tom patiently returned it to its place. T

39、hen she let it remain. Tom wrote on his paper, “Please take itI got more. “ The girl glanced at the words, but made no sign. Now the boy began to draw something on the paper, hiding his work with his left hand. For a time the girl refused to notice; but her human curiosity（好奇心） soon began to show it

40、self by hardly noticeable（明显的） signs. The boy worked on, seemingly not aware. The girl made some noncommittal（含糊的） efforts to see, but the boy did not display that he was aware of it. At last she couldn't bear it and whispered： “Let me see it. “ Tom partly uncovered the picture of a house with s

41、ome smoke rising from the chimney（烟囱）. Then the girl's interest began to fasten itself upon the work and she forgot everything else. When it was finished, she gazed a moment, then whispered： “It's nicedraw a man. “ The artist created a man in the front yard; she was satisfied, and whispered：

42、 “It's a beautiful mannow draw me in it. “ 分享精品资料 Tom drew an hourglass（沙漏） as the body, a full moon as her head and some arms added to it. The girl said： “It's ever so niceI wish I could draw. No one has ever taught me that. “ “It's easy, “ whispered Tom, “I'll learn you. “ “Oh, wil

43、l you？ When？” “At noon. Do you go home to dinner？” “I'll stay if you will. “ “Goodthat's a deal. What's your name？” ( B)What probably happened in the classroom before this passage？ A. The girl introduced herself to the boy. B. Something noticeable happened to the boy. C. They had a lesso

44、n on how to draw. D. The boy drew an apple for the girl. ( C)What most probably happened to the apple finally？ A. Eaten by the boy because the girl didn't accept it. B. Eaten by the boy because it was the last one he had got. C. Eaten by the girl because they finally became friends. D. Eaten by

45、the girl because the boy was drawing all the time. ( B)What can we learn from the 2nd paragraph？ A. The boy didn't want the girl to show interest in his drawing. B. The girl didn't want to show interest in the boy's drawing noticeably. C. The boy didn't notice the girl trying several

46、 times to see his drawing. D. The girl didn't want the boy to do the drawing in class any more. ( A)What in this passage made Tom succeed in making friends with the girl？ A. Using her curiosity. B. Showing off his drawing ability. C. Teaching her how to draw. D. Inviting her to dinner. 分享精品资料四、阅

47、读表达（共1小题; 每小题5分, 满分5分）阅读下面短文, 并根据所读内容在文章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词. 注意：每个空格里只填一个单词. 16. When a thought has found words Poetry（诗歌） is the forgotten child of literature. Few people read it for pleasure. In Western high schools, poetry is seldom taught because it is considered to be out of date and have little

48、 to do with the life of today's students. In ChinA. however. poetry is still an important part of the curriculum（课程）. Recently, the Ministry of Education has increased the number of ancient Chinese poems for students to memorize and recite, from 14to 72. Why is it important to learn poems？ First

49、 of all, poetry is a necessary part of learning traditional Chinese culture. It is a path to understanding your history and your society. It is also the key to understanding the thoughts and feelings that are common to everyone but that we may be unable to expressthe joy of Li Bai dancing with the m

50、oon, for example. Everyone has feelings of joy, love, loneliness, sadness and even anger, and a good poem can put those feelings into words and bring us selfunderstanding. Poems can also express beauty. In a few short lines, even something common can become beautiful. Here is a poem called Fog by Ca

51、rl Sandberg： The fog comes/on silent haunches（弓腰）/and then moves on. Yes, fog does move smoothly, silently and like a cat, and Sandberg catches that feeling and image（形象）, and makes it beautiful. Of course, to really enjoy poetry, it has to be read aloud. After all, a poem is really just a song with

52、out music. Most ancient poetry, like Homer's Epics（荷马史诗） and China's Book of Songs, was spoken for hundreds of years before it was written. The American poet Robert Frost said, “Poetry is when an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words. “ You are lucky that you now have

53、 seventytwo poems to learn! 分享精品资料 When a thought has found wordsTitlDetailed informationPassage outlineMost people think poetry iIn the Wests studentsfrom the life of todaStudents must memorize and recite more ancient Chinese ps recent actionChinemsLearning poems helps youhistory and societyPoems h

54、elp express your personal thoughts and feelingsfor learning poetryPoems can express beauty ofthings with very few linesA tip on enjoying poet In tact,aloud is the best way to enjoy poetry.ymany ancient poems were spoken before they were writtenConclusionChinese students should feel lucky to have 72p

55、oems to learn! 【答案】1. different. 2. Reasons. 3. understand. 4. common. 5. Reading. 用括号中所给, 分）A）根据句子意思每小题1分, 满分4; 五、词汇（共4小题 . , 每空填一词词的正确形式填空 Is this your umbrella？17. ）. visit s another （'No, it s '【答案】visitor ？18. How much should I pay 分享精品资料18yuan in all, （include）the pen you picked out just now. 【答案】including 19. Time is limited. You'd better make a （