2014中考完形填空和词汇运用考前演练

2014中考完形填空和词汇运用考前演练A（热狗的含义）A hot dog is one of the most popular American foods. It was named after frankfurter, a German food. Y ou may hear “hot dog” 1 in other ways. People sometimes say “hot dog” to express 2 . For example, a friend may ask 3 you would like to go to the cinema. Y ou might say “Great! I would love to go.” Or, you could say, “4 ! I would love to go.”People 5 use the expression to describe (描写)someone who is a “show- off”, who tries to show everyone else how 6 he is. Y ou often hear such 7 called a “hot dog”. He may be a baseball player, for example, who 8 the ball with one hand,making a (n) 9 catch seem more difficult. Y ou know he is a hot dog because when he makes such acatch,he bows (鞠躬) to the crowd, hoping to win their 10 .( )1. A.eaten ed C.cooked D.picked( )2. A.strength B.practice C.pleasure D.reply( )3. A.if B.how C.when D.where( )4. A.Hot dog B.Don’t worry C.Never mind D.Excuse me( )5. A. ever B. also C.still D.yet( )6. A. hopeful B. careful C. kind D. great( )7. A.a dog B.a land C.a person D.an action( )8. A.catches B.plays C.passes D.throws( )9. A. hard B. funny C. exciting D. easy( )10. A. thanks B. cheers C. medals D. matchesB（怎样学会道歉？）It’s never easy to admit you are in the wrong, but we all 36 to learn the art of apology. Think how often you’ve done wrong. Then count how many 37 you’ve expressed clearly you were 38 . Can you go to bed with an easy mind if you do 39 about a mistake you have made?A friend of mine, Mr. Lieb, who is a doctor told me about a man who came to him with several different kinds of signs: headache, heart trouble and insomnia (失眠症). 40 some careful exams, Mr. Lieb found nothing wrong with him and said, “If you don’t tell me what’s 41 you, I can’t help you.” The man admitted he was cheating his brother of his inheritance (遗产). Then the clever doctor 42 him write to his brother and 43 the money. As soon as the letter was put into the post box, the man started to cry. “Thank you,” he said to the doctor, “I think I’ve got well.”An apology can not only save a broken relationship, but can also make it 44 . If you can think of someone who should 45 an apology from you, do something about it right now.( ) 36. A. decide B. need C. try( ) 37. A. mistakes B. times C. ways( ) 38. A. sorry B. happy C. weak( ) 39. A. something B. anything C. nothing( ) 40. A. Before B. After C. Since( ) 41. A. hurting B. changing C. troubling( ) 42. A. made B. told C. saw( ) 43. A. gave B. pay C. return( ) 44. A. worse B. harder C. stronger( ) 45. A. own B. receive C. knowC（怎样学会道歉？）Student life is not what it used to be. There are a lot of subjects to learn and different tests__1___. It’s not__2___ that stude nts say they don’t have time to volunteer! However, volunteering isn’t as ___3__as you think. There are lots of volunteering__4__. They allow you to do as much or as little as you choose. Times can be__5__ with the organizations. Many of them are grateful for even one hour a week.Think about it, the time you give __6__ always worth more in the long run. The effects to the community is much__7__ than the hours you give. For the example, if you spend an hour with a child helping them to read, it will make a great __8__in his or her life.And think of what volunteering can do for you; you will get __9__and learn important skills in the __10___work. A few hours in volunteering now will help you in the future.本题可由to learn 想到动词不定式，再由tests 想到to pass eerig 推出。

D （乡村音乐）Have you heard country music? It’s very beautiful. And many people like singing and 1 to it. Do you know how it came from? Now let me say something about it. Western country music is very old. It came from the United States, Canada, Ireland and Great Britain. It is a 2 of music from all of these places. In the west of America, cowboys had to take care of their cows. They had to watch 3 all day and all night because the cows were nervous and 4 they ran away . A cowboy’s life was interesting and dangerous. When he was 5 in the desert with the cattle, nobody was around him, he drank strong coffee to stay awake at night. He also 6 music to the cows to make them quiet. Of course, the cowboys also sang music when they traveled to town to relax and 7 themselves. Western country music describes life. It talks 8 love, jobs, home and money . It talks about friends and enemies, farms and crops. People in many 9 of the world like western country music. Everyone 10 something about these ideas.E （大象的历史） in Elephants are the largest living animals___66___ land. More than 500 different kinds of elephants have been found on earth during the ___67___ 55 million years. Only two kinds are ___68___ alive today. The African Elephant and the Asian ( or Indian ) Elephant. These elephants can only be found in ___69___ places. The older kinds, which lived a long time ago, lived in colder places. An ___70___ is the mammoths----the largest hairy elephants. Mammoths were about the size of the largest living elephant, which is about seven ___71___. Unlike the elephants today, mammoths had ___72___ or dark brown hair covering their bodies. All the mammoths had tusks(象牙), and we can ___73___ this from their fossil teeth.Scientists found out about most of the extinct （绝迹） animals by studying the fossils, such as their bones and teeth that have been found. However, mammoths are quite different.During the Ice Age, mammoths died and were covered ___74___ in the ice. The ice kept them well. While many animals only left behind bones a nd teeth, scientists found the whole body of the mammoth. ___75___ the whole mammoth has been kept well, scientists can see even the hair, the tusks and the whole body.F （世界人口）A little over ten years ago, the world ’s population 1 at 6 billion. By the end of October,it will 2 7 billion. With five 3 being born every second, 78 million people are 4 to the global community each year.The population was 5 than 1 billion in 1800, 3 billion in 1960 and 6 billion at the end of the 6 century . According to the United Nations, the next landmark number will be 8 billion in 2025.Much of the big increase can be accounted for growth in the world ’s 7 nations, which 8 expected tobouble their numbers over the next ten years.Researchers say the 9 population will level off (使平稳) about 9 billion in the middle of the century. How to feed 9 billion people 10 2050 is going to be a very serious problem.。