初四英语中考模拟试题二

二．单项选择。（15分）

1. The girl eats ______ junk food and she is ______ fat.

A. too many, many too

B. too much, much too

C. too many, much too

D. too much, too much

2. She doesn’t eat junk food any more. She has ______.

A. give up it

B. give it up

C. given up it

D. given it up

3. Will you please ______ me _____ this evening, May?

A. to help; to wash clothes

B. to help, cooking supper

C. help, with the cooking

D. help, doing some washing

4. —Do you often see William _____ on the playground?

— No, but he is often seen ______ Chinese Kongfu in the park.

A. run, play

B. run, to play

C. running, play

D. running, to play

5. I _______ a letter from him since he left.

A. didn’t receive

B. haven’t got

C. didn’t have

D. haven’t heard

6. If you don’t have a chance _______ in daytime, you should sleep longer at night.

A. sleep

B. to sleep

C. sleeping

D. sleeps

7. — Mr. Wang, I have trouble ______ the text.

— Remember ______ it three times at least.

A. to understand, reading

B. understand, reading

C. understanding, to read

D. to understand, to read

8. Don’t make her _____ all the time. Tell her _____ a rest.

A. study, have

B. to study, to have

C. study, to have

D. to study, have

9. Mum often asks us ______ games too much because it’s a waste of time.

A. to play

B. not to play

C. playing

D. not playing

10. It’s wrong ___you to___your exercise book at home.

A. of ,forget

B.for,forget

C.of,leave

D.for,leave

11. Is there ______ in today’s newspaper?

A. important anything

B. important something

C. something important

D. anything important

12.The more you exercise ,the____you will become.

A.more health

B.more healthily

C.healthy

D.healthier

13. — Listen, the wind is blowing strongly.

— Yes, tell Tom _____ the window. A. not to open B. to open C. open D. not open

14. I think this room is _______ 100 people.

A. so big that can hold

B. very big to holding

C. enough big for holding

D. big enough to hold

15. — The dish is delicious!

—Well, at least it’s ______ the one I cooked yesterday.

A. as good as

B. worse than

C. as well as

D. as bad as

三.完形填空（15分）

In America, on school and work days, breakfast in most homes is often a hurried meal of milk, bread, juice or coffee. Some people even don’t have it in order to get to __1___ or school on time. Others just stop at coffee shops for coffee. But on weekends, ___2___ are quite different. People usually get up late, and they have enough time to have a large breakfast with eggs, home-fried potatoes and bread. Lunch is just a ___3___ break from the day’s work rather than a large, long meal. It usually lasts ___4___ half an hour or an hour, so family members do not have time to ____5___ home. Most people have a sandwich or a hamburger , and fruit or ice cream for lunch. ___6____ people either take their lunches to work in the brown paper “lunch bag”, ___7___ eat a sandwich at a fast food restaurant. Children ____8____ to bring the “lunch box”.

Dinner is the most ___9___ meal of the day in the United States. At this meal, most American families can sit down ____10___. It is usually a hot, large meal and it is quite different from lunch. Lunch is often cold and quick. ____11___ usually cooked dinner for their families in the past. Nowadays, ___12____, with more women working and as a result of “Women’s liberation (解放)”, Men are doing more in the ___13___. Dinners throughout America are quite ____14___, but most people have a meat dish, rice or bread. Milk, water and soft drinks are common at dinner, but wine is only for ___15___ occasions (场合). Dinner is usually eaten between 5:00 p.m and 7:00 p.m and often later in restaurants. Most Americans enjoy themselves at this time.

1. A. hospital B. shops C. work D. factories

2. A. things B. activities C. reports D. prices

3. A. real B. long C. boring D. short

4. A. only B. exactly C. nearly D. almost

5. A. leave B. get C. return D. drive

6. A. Careful B. Clever C. Famous D. Working

7. A. and B. or C. but D. so

8. A. forget B. stop C. prefer D. decide

9. A. important B. serious C. terrible D. common

10. A. quietly B. straight C. early D. together

11. A. Men B. Parents C. Women D. Children

12. A. whenever B. however C. whatever D. wherever

13. A. dining- room B. kitchen C. study D. garden

14. A. strange B. simple C. healthy D. different

15. A. special B. usual C. traditional D. ordinary

四.阅读理解(30分)

A

In 1826, a Frenchman named Niepce needed pictures for his business .But he was not a good artis .So he invented a very simple camera (照相机).He put it in a window of his house and took a picture of his garden .That was the first photo.

The next important date in the history of photography (摄影术) was in 1837. That year, Daguere, another Frenchman ,took a picture of his reading room .He used a new kind of camera in a different way.

In his picture you could see everything very clearly ,even the smallest thing. This kind of photo was called a Daguerreotype.

Soon, other people began to use Daguerre’s way. Travelers brought back wonderful photos from

all around the world .people took picture of famous buildings, cities and mountains.

In about 1840, photography was developed .Then photographers could take picture of people and moving things .That was not simple .The photographers had to carry a lot of film and other machines. But this did not stop them ,for example, some in the United States worked so hard.

Mathew Brady was a famous American photographers. He took many picture of great people .The picture were unusual beause they were very lifelike(栩栩如生的).Photographers also became one kind of art by the end of the 19th century .Some photos were not just copies of the real world .They showed ideas and feelings,like other kinds of art.

1.The first photo taken by Niepce was a picturte of ____________

A. his business

B. his house

C. his garden

D. his window

2. The Daguerrotype was____________.

A. a Frenchman

B. a kind of picture

C. a kind of camera

D. a photographer

3. If a photographer wanted to take pictures of moving things in the year of 1840, he had