浙江省杭州市萧山区2023年初中毕业生适应性考试英语模拟练习

2023年杭州市萧山区初中毕业生适应性考试

英语模拟练习

学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________

一、阅读单选

The word hobby is an interesting word. Everyone may have one thing to do, and he or she likes to do it for fun. Some people like to collect things like stamps or storybooks. Others like to play football or go window shopping.

I have many hobbies for fun. Sometimes I play golf (高尔夫球) with my son. Sometimes I play tennis with my friends, I like to collect music books. I also collect musical instruments from China, like erhu, dizi and pipa.

My favorite hobby is fishing. I like to go to the State of Alaska. I take a boat to a small river. I fish for salmon, American most famous fish.

根据短文内容，选择最佳答案。

1．What’s the writer’s favorite hobby?

A．Playing golf with his son. B．Fishing.

C．Collecting Chinese musical instruments. D．Playing football.

2．Salmon is _________.

A．a river’s name B．a town near Alaska

C．a kind of instrument D．a kind of fish

3．Which musical instrument isn’t from China?

A．Erhu. B．Dizi. C．Pipa. D．Piano.

A great number of people in the world have never seen snow. Others see more of it than they want to. Hail is much more common: it happens even in deserts.

Hail is a small round ball of alternating layers(交互层) of snow and clear ice. It forms inside large dark clouds that you can see before or during a storm. There are two ideas about how hailstones form (构成).

One idea shows that hail forms when drops of water freeze in the upper air. As they fall, they collect more drops of water. They also collect snow. The ice and snow build up in layers. If you cut a hailstone, you can see these alternating layers.

The other idea says that hail starts as a raindrop. The wind cries it higher into the atmosphere(大气层) where it gets covered by snow. It becomes heavy and begins to fall. As it falls, it gets a layer of water, which freezes. Then the wind carries it back up to the snow area, and it gets another layer of snow. This can happen a number of times. Finally the hailstone is too heavy to travel on the wind, and it falls to the ground.

Only a thunderstorm, a storm with loud noises and lightning can produce hail, but very few of them do. Perhaps only one in 400 thunderstorms creates hailstones.

A hailstone is usually less than eight centimeters in diameter. However, hailstones can be much bigger than that. Sometimes they are as big as baseballs. The largest hailstone which people have ever recorded weighed over 680 grams and had a diameter of thirteen centimeters.

Hail can cause the death of plants, especially since hail usually appears in the middle of summer, when the plants are partly grown. If the crops are destroyed, it is too late to plant more, and the farmer has lost everything. In one terrible hailstorm in 1923 in Rostov, in Ukraine, twenty-three people and many farm animals were killed.

4．Which of the following is about HAIL?

A． B． C． D．

5．According to the passage, which of the following is the fact about hail?

A．Hail is formed of snow and ice.

B．Hail can’t be found in deserts any more.

C．Hail often comes in cold winter.

D．People can see snow more often than hail.

6．What does the underlined word “them” in the fifth paragraph refer to?

A．Noises. B．Hailstones. C．Thunderstorms. D．Deserts.

7．What’s the passage mainly about?

A．Different ideas about how hail forms.

B．A brief introduction about hail.

C．The size and the weight of hailstones.

D．The influence that hail causes.

D

Do you and your friends ever talk about your dreams with each other? If you do, you might have noticed something interesting – some of your friends seldom remember their dreams, but some can always describe their dreams so clearly that it seems like they’re describing things that really happened to them. What makes those people different?

The answer is simple. There are two different types of dreamers – low dream recallers（回忆者）and high dream recallers.

Low dream recallers usually remember their dreams only twice a month. But high dream recallers are able to remember them about five mornings a week. And a new study suggests that activity in a certain part of the brain could have something to do with it, reported The Huffington Post.

Perrine Ruby, a French researcher at the Lyon Neuroscience Research Center, studied 41 people (21 high dream recallers and 20 low dream recallers) and recorded their brain activity.

She found that a part of the brain called the temporo-parietal junction (颞顶联合区) was more active in high dream recallers than in low dream recallers – both when they were sleeping and awake.

This brain area collects and processes（编程）information from the outside world. This means that high dream recallers know more about what’s happening around them. For example, when they are awake, they respond (对……有反应) more strongly to hearing their own names, and when they are sleeping, they are woken more easily by sounds and movements.

 By closely studying people’s brain activities, Ruby found that high dream recallers have twice as much “wakefulness time” during sleep as low dream recallers do. And it is during these short times of wakefulness that the brain remembers dreams.

 “The sleeping brain is not able to remember new information,” Ruby told The Washington Post. “It needs to wake up to be able to do that.”

 This is not hard to understand. Just try to think of your own sleeping experiences. If you are worried during the night, you are more likely to remember your dreams, but if you sleep well, you will remember little in the morning, and this is because “you never get a chance to remember”, Robert Stickgold, a Harvard Medical School researcher, told The Washington Post.

8．According to the article, high dream recallers ______.

A．have very little brain activity during sleep

B．can remember their dreams clearly

C．don’t know how to describe their dreams

D．remember their dreams twice a week

9．Compared to high dream recallers, low dream recallers ______.

A．have higher sleep quality

B．have more sleepless nights

C．are more easily woken at night

D．respond faster when hearing their names

10．What is the main purpose of the last paragraph?

A．To show the advantages of being a low dream recaller.

B．To suggest what to do to become a low dream recaller.

C．To make readers interested in future studies.

D．To further explain Ruby’s research.

If you are in Shanghai and want to throw away a cup of milky tea, be careful. You need to follow these steps: First, pour out any leftover (残留物) into a wet waste bin. Second, put the paper wrapper into a recyclable waste bin. Third, throw the single-use cup and straw (吸管) into a dry waste bin.

Sound complex (复杂的)? You’ll have to get used to it. From July 1, 2019 on, people in Shanghai are required (要求) to sort (将……分类) their garbage according to strict rules. Many other cities in China are planning to create similar garbage-sorting rules.

Why should we sort our garbage? The answer lies in the increasing amount of waste we are producing. Chinese cities produce over 200 million tons of waste each year, according to China Economic Net. Most of this waste is buried (填埋) in landfills (垃圾填埋场), which may pollute water and soil. Moreover, we are running out of space for new landfills.

In fact, more than half of our waste can be recycled. Recyclable garbage can be made into new materials, while wet garbage can be used to make gas, heat and fertilizer (肥料). But in order to recycle efficiently (有效率地), we need to sort our garbage.

Can’t garbage-processing companies do the sorting job for us? They can. But that requires a lot of work and costs lots of money. Things will become much easier if each of us can sort our own garbage. Besides, the troublesome task of sorting might encourage people to produce less waste. Do you still want to buy that milky tea?

11．The first paragraph is mainly about ________.

A．the importance of garbage-sorting B．the way to sort wet waste

C．the rules of garbage-sorting D．the kinds of garbage-sorting

12．What can we learn from China Economic Net?

A．People in Shanghai are required to sort the garbage.

B．Many cities are planning to create garbage-sorting rules.

C．We are producing more and more waste.

D．Chinese cities produce over 200 million tons of waste each year.

13．How much of our waste can be recycled?

A．About 30%. B．About 45%. C．About 55%. D．About 90%.

14．What are the benefits of garbage-sorting?

a. reduce pollution　 b. recycle things　 c. make more money  d. produce less waste  e. save space for landfills

A．abc B．bcd C．abe D．cde

15．The writer’s purpose is to tell us that _______.

A．how we sort garbage

B．we shouldn’t produce waste

C．we can recycle garbage and get some money

D．we should sort garbage

二、阅读还原6选5

In China, more and more middle school students are getting shorter sleeping time than before.

_______16_______ , because they have much homework to do. Some homework is given by their teachers, and some by their parents. Also,________17________ . They are not careful enough while they do their homework,________18________ . some students spend too much time watching TV or playing computer games. They stay up very late. Some students have to get up early every morning on weekdays to get to school on time by bus or by bike.________19________ . It will probably make them sleepy during school hours. Schools and parents should cut down some of the homework so that our children can enjoy more than nine hours of sleep every night for their health. For children, they should make the best use of their time.________20________ , they will find it much better for both their study and health.

A．Some homework is too difficult.

B．Most students sleep less than nine hours every night.

C．When they have enough time for sleeping.

D．It can be a long way home to school.

E．so it takes them a lot of time

F．some students don’t know how to save time

三、完形填空

先通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个可以填入相应空白处的最佳答案。

In the Southern and Northern Dynasties Period (420-589 AD), there was a famous man called Zhang Sengyao. He was ___21___ at painting and lots of people ___22___ his paintings.

One day, the ___23___ visited a temple. He painted four dragons on the ___24___. The dragons looked great, but Zhang gave none of ___25___ eyes.

Some people stood in front of the wall and looked at the dragons. They asked Zhang ___26___ he had not painted eyes for the dragons.

Zhang answered, “___27___ are very important for dragons. When I painted eyes for them, the dragons would ___28___. ”

After hearing Zhang’s words, they laughed. Nobody ___29___so. The dragons were painted on the wall, how could they fly away?

Zhang didn’t say anything. He ___30___ his brush and added eyes to two of the dragons. As soon as he finished painting the eyes, the two dragons flew into the ___31___. The two without eyes ___32___ stayed on the wall.

The people were ___33___ to see the two dragons flying away. They believed Zhang’s words and praised him ___34___ his painting skills. They all agreed ___35___ Zhang was a great painter.

Word Bank

dynasty  朝代   period   时期  temple  寺庙  none 没有一个  praise   夸赞

21．A．good B．tired C．possible D．different

22．A．shared B．sold C．loved D．hated

23．A．poet B．writer C．painter D．gate

24．A．ground B．wall C．door D．teacher

25．A．it B．they C．their D．them

26．A．when B．where C．why D．how

27．A．Ears B．Eyes C．Teeth D．Arms

28．A．fly away B．walk away C．move away D．give away

29．A．doubted B．tried C．thought D．decided

30．A．gave up B．picked up C．looked up D．set up

31．A．ocean B．forest C．mountain D．sky

32．A．hardly B．still C．only D．already

33．A．surprised B．disappointed C．relaxed D．unhappy

34．A．in B．for C．of D．with

35．A．which B．why C．where D．that

四、语法填空

The human story began around 65 million years ago, when animals first appeared on Earth. Over thousands of years, their bodies became almost human. Their brains became ____36____ (big), and they learned how to use language, light fires and make tools. Modern human-people like us-developed ____37____ these creatures about 100,000 years ago.

Many scientists believe modern humans first appeared in Africa. By 20,000 B．C．, they had travelled and settled all over the world. They travelled farthest during _____38_____ Ice Ages, when most seas were frozen, leaving bridges of dry land, ____39____ people could walk across.

The first farmers on Earth lived in the Middle East. Around 9,000 B．C．, people ____40____ (find) that grains of wheat and barley dropped on the ground grew and produced seeds, ____41____ they cleared land and planted more seeds. By around 6000 B．C．, people in Southeast Asia had discovered how to grow rice. By 5000 B．C．, in Central and South America, people were growing ____42____ (potato) and corn.

Early peoples had to make the big discoveries-how to build homes, farm the land, communicate and protect ____43____ (they). The world we live in has been built on the work of past generations, and it is still changing today. As each year ____44____ (pass), it becomes another chapter in our ____45____ (amaze) history.

五、根据首字母填空

46．In China, J________ and A________ are the hottest(最热的) months of the year.

47．B________ is the color of the sky on a sunny day.

48．As Chinese, we are all very p________ of what we have done in space.

49．Lisa, don’t talk with your m________ full! It’s bad manners.

50．During the National Holiday, I went to c________ some fish in the pond with my friends.

51．The m______ goes around the earth.

52．Lucy tried her best to work out the problem. Two days l__________, Lucy made it.

53．Doing chores helps to develop children’s independence and teaches them how to look after t________.

54．Sam felt very sorry because he b________ his brother’s favorite music player.

55．Some people read for p________, some people read for knowledge.

六、电子邮件

56．假如你是李明，你校正在举办英语读书节活动，你在参与的过程中遇到一些困难，请给你的朋友Amy写一封邮件向她求助。内容要点如下：

要求：词数80词左右，开头已给出，不计入总词数

Dear Amy,

How is everything going?

__________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Yours,

Li Ming

参考答案

1．B    2．D    3．D

4．A    5．A    6．C    7．B

8．B    9．A    10．D

11．B    12．D    13．C    14．C    15．D

16．B    17．F    18．E    19．D    20．C

21．A    22．C    23．C    24．B    25．D    26．C    27．B    28．A    29．C    30．B    31．D    32．B    33．A    34．B    35．D

36．bigger    37．from    38．the    39．which    40．found    41．so    42．potatoes    43．themselves    44．passes    45．amazing

46．   (J)uly     (A)ugust

47．(B)lue

48．(p)roud

49．(m)outh

50．(c)atch

51．moon

52．(l)ater

53．(t)hemselves

54．(b)roke

55．(p)leasure

56．例文：

Dear Amy,

How is everything going?

Our school is holding an English reading festival this June. I’m very interested in it. There are many different activities in the festival such as reading good English books and sharing good stories. It’s a good chance for us to learn more about western cultures. However, I have some problems. First, I don’t have enough books. For example, I want to get some books about western history. Next, I’m not so good at English. I have trouble in reading. Would you please share some good books with me and give me some advice on reading?

I expect to hear from you soon.

Best wishes!

Yours,

Li Ming