【10套模拟】宁波市中考模拟考试英语试题含答案
中考英语第一次模拟测试试卷
一、单项填空（共6分，每小题0.5分）
从下面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. We all like ______ English teacher because she is very kind and hard-working. A. we A. at
B. our
C. us
D. ours
D. in
2. My parents and I will celebrate our birthdays together ______ October.
B. on C. of
3. —______ is your home from the subway station? — Quite near. It’s about 5 minutes’ walk. A. How far
B. How often
C. How much
D. How many
4. — Wow! What a big house!
— Yes. It’s twice ______ than the old one. A. big
B. bigger
C. biggest
D. the biggest D. has walked
5. My brother ______ his lovely dog after supper every day. A. walks B. walked C. will walk A. didn’t sleep B. don’t sleep A. is
B. was
6. I ______ well last night because I had a bad headache.
C. haven’t slept D. won’t sleep C. will be
D. has been
7. Our school trip ______ over tomorrow morning, but I’ll remember it forever. 8. — Where is Miss Li?
— She ______ a report at the meeting room now. A. gave
B. gives C. is giving B. made B. and
D. will give
9. The girl ______ five houses for her dolls since last month. A. makes A. but A. gave
C. will make D. has made C. or
D. so
D. will be given
10. I think the countryside in New Zealand is beautiful ______ peaceful. 11. No hurry! You ______ plenty of time to decide.
B. will give
C. are given
12. — Tom, could you tell me ______? — On 30th of June, 2014.
A. when will your pet cat be born C. when your pet cat was born born
B. when was your pet cat D. when your pet cat will be
born
二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
The Museum of Failure
Around 80 examples of failed products, businesses and ideas are showed in the newly opened museum in Sweden. It is to celebrate modern history’s worst 13 — from Coca-Cola Blak, a coffee-inspired drink, to Bic pens made just for women.
Besides showing long-forgotten failures, founder Dr. Samuel West is on a task to help us learn from our 14 . Samuel set up the museum after growing tired of success stories. He said understanding bad design could be more 15 than copying good design.
“Most of all creative projects fail, and learning is the only way to turn failure into success,” says the museum’s website. “I hope that visitors 16 home two messages: that failure is connected with success, and that they should understand the 17 of learning from failure,” said Dr. West.
“The purpose of the museum is to show that creativity requires failure,” Dr. West said as he introduced some of the products in a video. “If you are 18 of failure, then you can’t create.” So the world will not ignore (忽视) them and pretend they never happened.
Many of the museum’s items can be seen online. West believed that poorly-designed products have little in common with one another. One of the items, for example, is a frozen beef lasagna (意式千层面) made by Colgate (Yes, the company that makes toothpaste). West 19 this as a classic case of “failure in producing an improper new product by a well-known company”.
A collection of nine objects from the museum is on tour. The traveling collection of failures will then visit Los Angeles, New York, Shanghai and Tokyo in 2019.
History may be written by the winners, but we should not ignore the losers. At least, that’s what the Museum of Failure wants us to 20 . 13. A. plan
B. design B. serious B. find B. tired
C. problem
C. valuable C. leave C. short
D. message
D. success D. popular D. send D. difficulty D. afraid D. described D. introduce
14. A. technology 15. A. difficult 16. A. take 18. A. proud 19. A. forgot 20. A. believe
17. A. possibility
B. dryness
C. mistakes
B. importance C. difference
B. mistook C. imagined
B. promise C. compare
阅读理解（共36分）
三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。（共26分，每小题2分）
A
There are many English idioms (习语). Here are some interesting ones and their origins (起源). Meaning: Pull someone’s leg Joke or fool with someone. Origin: To pull someone’s leg had much more unpleasant meaning when it first came in use. It was a method used by thieves to cheat other people and then force them to give their money or valuable things to them. Luckily, these days the saying is much friendlier, though being on the end of a joke might not always be fun. Meaning: Meet a deadline To finish something by a preset time. Origin: This saying comes from the prison camps during the Civil War. In the camps a line was drawn to mark the areas for the prisoners. The line became known as a deadline because any prisoner who tried to cross it was shot. Meaning: The achievement of three successes or wins. Hat trick Origin: It came from the English game of cricket (曲棍球) . It refers to three wickets taken by a bowler in three continuous balls. This was considered quite an achievement and was traditionally given a hat. The term is now used for other sports, too. A popular use today is three goals by a single player in one game of hockey or soccer. Rule of thumb Meaning: A basic rule that is usually but not always correct. Origin: It is based on the use of one’s thumb as a tool to show the length. Most old English measures (测量) of distance were based on the body measurements of the king—the length of the foot, inch (thumb tip to first knuckle指节), cubit (elbow肘-to-fingertip), and yard (nose-to-fingertip). 21. Which of the following means joking with someone? A. Pulling someone’s leg. C. Hat trick.
B. Meeting a deadline. D. Rule of thumb. B. achievement in sports
22. The origin of “Hat trick” has something to do with ________. A. methods used by thieves