宿迁市中考英语试题

2016年宿迁市中考试卷（总分：85分）第一卷选择题（共50分）一．单项选择1.---Have you read a book called “The Merchant of Venice”?---Yes. _______ book is very interesting.A.AnB. A D./2.The 31st Olympic Games will take place _______August 5, 2016.A.atB. of3.Which sign of the following means “No Smoking”?A. B. C. D.4.---Do you know whose iPhone6s this is?---Let me see. Oh, it’s _______.A.hers5.I can’t go with you. I _______stay at home until my parents come back.A.can6.---_______ is it from Suqian to Jiuzhai valley?---About 1,200 kilometers away. But I’m not sure.A.How often soon long D. How far7.When the man went through the forest alone, he lost his _______ and felt afraid.A.task8.Wearing white can help people _______when they feel stressed.A.calm down down down down9.---Did you watch the China’s Military Parade on TV?---Yes. _______ great it was!A.How a D. What a10.---What do you think of the movie Zootopia?---It is _______one I’ve ever seen.A.more excited exciting most excited most exciting12.---There is a beautiful park near your school, _______?---Yes. I often go walking there.A.is there ’t there there ’t there13.The structure of the sentence “The students visited the museum” is _______.A.S+VB. S+V+DO +V+IO+DO +V+DO+OC14.---could you please tell me _______?---OK. I will go to Beijing next week.A.where will you go you will go to Beijingyou will go to Beijing will you go to Beijing15.---The women badminton players won the UberA.What a pity!B. With pleasure mind. ’m glad to hear that.二．完形填空“You don’t understand me!” I shouted. Then i ran out of the door and got on a bus. I didn’t know ___16____ it was going. I just want to get away from home as ___17____ as i could.I couldn’t ___18____ what had just hap pened to me. My mother, the person i believe in, had just read all of my ___19____ from my close friends! It shouldn’t have happened to me. She read my letters and told me not to write to ___20____any more! I couldn’t __21_____ the tears from falling when i thought about this.Later that day, i went to my close ____22___ house. ___23____ my friend gave me a cup of water, the phone rang.“It’s your mother,” she spoke to me in a low ____24___.“Tell her that i’m not here!” I replied. However my mother heard it. “Tell her not to leave! I’ll be right there!”Then she rang up the phone ____25___ a goodbye. In fact, i should say that i was a little ____26___i couldn’t imagine what would happen.But to my ___27____, when my mother arrived, “sorry” was the first word she ___28____ to me. Her ___29____ told me that she had been crying and her voice told me that she was really tired. “will you forgive me?” at last she asked. I didn’t know what to say. I just __30_____ her, and gave her a hug(拥抱).She held me so tightly. You know, at that time, i felt so warm. I really love you, Mum!16.17.18.19.20.21.22.’s’s’s23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30. to in on in三、阅读理解（共10小题；每小题两分，满分20分）ACats are animals that live on land. They can be divided into two groups: big cats and small cats. Big cats are the larger animal species. Here are some materials about big cats.Tigers are one of the largest cats.They live in the forests and marsh areasof South-East Asia, India, Russia andSouthern China. Tigers mostly livealone and mainly hunt at night. Youngtigers leave their mothers at about twoyears of age.Lions live mostly on the largergrassland of Africa. Unlike tigers,lions are the most social of the bigcats. They live in family groups andhunt together. There can be up to 35lions in a group. They use speed andstrength to catch and kill their prey.Leopards live mostly in the foreston the edges of plains in Africa andAsia. New born leopards only open theireyes after 10 days. They spend much ofthe day resting in trees. They do mostof their hunting at night. They eatalmost any animal they can catch.31.When do tigers mainly hunt?the morning. noon.the afternoon. night.32.Lions live mostly in .33. What do leopards often do in the daytime?in trees. in caves.after their babies. small animals.BMany hundreds of years ago, the moon was a mystery to people on the earth. What was that glowing ball came out at night? Why did it keep getting smaller, then larger? Why didn’t it fall from the sky? Through the ages, people have tried to come up withanswers.To the native people of Bolivia, in South American, the moon was a great chief who once lived on the earth. The Abaluyian people of Kenya, in Africa, believe the moon and the sun were brothers who fought in the sky. In other parts of the world, people believed they saw different pictures in the moon. The Haida Indians of Canada saw a woman carrying a bucket. The Chinese saw a road.People in the past also used the moon to mark time as a kind of calendar. In fact, in some languages, the word for moon meant “month”. A Native American nation called the Sioux made a calendar of 13 moons, or months. Each moon had a name, such as Moon of Black Cherries, Moon of Green Corn, and Moon of Severe Cold.Though people of the past found the moon was helpful, mysterious and interesting, they didn’t know much about it. They only knew what they could see with their own eyes.Then almost 400 years age, an Italian acientist named Galileo made a new telescope(望远镜) that was more powerful than any telescope made before. Galileo decided to take his new implement to look at the moon. He discovered that the moon was not the smooth, shiny ball. The brighter places were mostly hills and mountains. The flat areas were lower, which is why they appeared darker.As more people saw the moon through telescopes, they discovered more about it. Yet, people still had much to learn about the moon.34.Which name of the moon is NOT mentioned in the passage?of Severe Cold. of Red Trees.of Black Cherries. of Green Corn.35.The underl ined word “implement” probably means .36. From this passage, we can know that .of years ago, Galileo used his implement to look at the moonin the past also used the moon to mark time as a kind of calendardiscovered that the darker areas in moon were hills and mountainsnative people of Bolivia thought that the moon and the sun were sistersC“Neville is my brother,” Sir Henry continued,”about five years age, my brother and I quarreled, Soon after this, our father died. I am the elder son, and I got everything. I wanted my brother to apologize to me. He didn’t, and so I gave him nothing. With the little money he had, he left England for South Africa. I wrote to him several times, but I received no replies. Perhaps, he never got my letters. I don’t know. But as time passed, I worried more and more about him.”“Mr. Quatemain, will you please tell me everything you know about him?”“Very well,” I said, “but you will be the first person to whom I have told what I know.” Your brother wanted to find King Solomon’s Mince. That is why he feltfor Inyati”“King Solomon’s Mines!”Sir Henry screamed.”I have never heard of are they?”“There is a tale about them.” I will tell you what I know if you promise to keep it secre t,” I said.“You have our promise.” Sir Henry said.“An elephant hunter. Evans, told me the tale.” I said, “he told me there was a destroyed city northwest of the Solomon Mountain, and Solomon had his diamond mines there”“Then one evening a Portuguese(葡萄牙人)。