2023年江苏省无锡市中考二模英语试题（含答案）

2023年江苏省无锡市中考二模英语试题

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

一、单项选择

1．—Coffee or juice, York?

—________ is OK. I care little about it.

A．Both B．None C．Neither D．Either

2．— Mark, where is Jim now?

— He is testing ________ he can jump in the playground.

A．how long B．how far C．how soon D．how often

3．一May I enter the laboratory?

一No, it is only open to teachers and students ________ you own a school ID card.

A．since B．although C．unless D．if

4．一Mum’s birthday is coming, but I have no idea what present I should prepare.

一Whatever you give to her, it will ________ be liked by her.

A．properly B．hardly C．certainly D．specially

5．一My parents always make decisions ________ my will. You know I was not born yesterday.

一You should communicate with your parents and let them know your feelings.

A．against  B．beyond C．over D．through

6．一The new energy cars are becoming popular, but some people are caring about their safety.

一We ________ worry about it with the development of modern technology.

A．mustn’t B．needn’t C．can’t D．shouldn’t

7．—I think some online eating shows waste a lot of foods.

—I do agree with you. Laws should be made to ________ food waste.

A．avoid B．accept C．allow D．afford

8．It is said the conditions along the Yangtze River are suitable for the ________ of green tea.

A．introduction B．invention C．situation D．production

9．You’d better draw a mind map of the key words while preparing for the report. ________, you may easily forget some.

A．Instead B．However C．Moreover D．Otherwise

10．—I prefer to see and touch what I’m buying before I pay for it, especially for clothes and shoes.

—That’s right. ________.

A．No pain, no gain B．Seeing is believing

C．Every dog has its day D．Don’t burn the candle at both ends

11．一Quan Hongchan ________ to be a big success after practicing the 207C action hard in May.

一I can’t agree more.

A．turned out B．took out C．broke out D．put out

12．—How do you like the story?

—I don’t know ________ , but I really like its surprising ending.

A．what the story is about B．whether the story is true

C．when did the story take place D．who are the main characters

13．Peter called to tell his mother that he ________ home before 9 p.m., but he broke his promise.

A．will return B．would return C．returned D．had returned

14．—Making friends on the Internet sounds great. I want to try.

—________. It’s not easy for you to tell whether the online information is true or not.

A．You said it B．I feel the same C．I am with you on that D．That’s not the case

二、完形填空

“I want my book back Right now!”

“You told me I could ____15____ it!” I said confusedly(困惑地).

“Yes, I said you could keep it, but I didn’t say you could lend it to her. I saw her ____16____ it at lunch!” Brittany pointed into the classroom at Maria.

Now everything made sense.

Brittany was my best ____17____.  We slept over at each other’s houses all the time. She also bought us friendship necklaces.“If you take it off I’ll die of heartbreak.” So I wore it all the time, even as the metal (金属) changed colors and made a mark on my neck.

In Grade Five, we weren’t in the same ____18____ and I met Maria. Soon, Maria and I did everything together.

However, Brittany was ____19____. She thought it was Maria who broke the friendship between us. So she ate with Evelyn at lunch. When I came to her, she said, “Why don’t you go and sit with your best friend Maria?” My faces turned red as if she’d hit them with her hand.

Brittany ate lunch with Evelyn for a week. I worried that Brittany had forgotten me. But the next Monday, she acted like ____20____ had changed. “Come on. We’d better hurry if we want to get our favourite place.”

I had started walking with her when I saw Maria and Andy laughing together. I wanted to know why they were laughing and ____21____ to look at them.

“No!” said Brittany. She caught my arm. But my hand was holding a glass of chocolate milk. So the milk poured down my dress.

Mum came to bring me new ____22____. As I changed, she noticed the mark on my neck.“ It’s time to take this off,” she said, unclasping (解开) it. Suddenly, I found myself ____23____ harder than I had in years.

That was several weeks ago. Brittany and her mom had moved to a different street, without her dad. I worried about her and sometimes I would walk toward her, but then I would stop, with a ____24____ feeling in my stomach. I didn’t worry that she’d catch my arm. It was something about the way a hedgehog (刺猬) curls (蜷缩)up around its soft stomach when it feels endangered.

“Hello?” Britany was still looking at me.

I thought about all the things I wanted to say. And also I wondered if she ever felt that hedgehog feeling. So, I took a deep breath.

“Brittany” I said. “Are you doing OK? I heard about your dad.”

And then it was Brittany’s turn to cry.

15．A．buy B．sell C．throw D．keep

16．A．eating B．drinking C．reading D．drawing

17．A．aunt B．friend C．brother D．teacher

18．A．class B．grade C．school D．city

19．A．happy B．unhappy C．confident D．unconfident

20．A．nothing B．something C．anything D．everything

21．A．refused B．failed C．turned D．hoped

22．A．necklaces B．glasses C．books D．clothes

23．A．working B．thinking C．crying D．laughing

24．A．nervous B．hungry C．exciting D．comfortable

三、阅读单选

25．The picture above is ________.

A．a survey B．a poster C．a notice D．a diary

26．You may read the picture above ________.

A．in a story book B．in a film review C．in a charity magazine D．in a food advertisement

27．The picture above is mainly about________.

A．how to help poor people B．how to choose healthy food

C．how to support local farmers D．how to make a clever buyer

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28．Which word is the most suitable for  ▲  .

A．plans B．notes C．videos D．cards

29．The passage is most probably written for ________.

A．teachers B．visitors C．students D．parents

30．The passage is mainly about ________.

A．how to make plans B．how to organize things

C．how to be successful D．how to form a good habit

It was dark and I was standing in front of a stranger’s house in an unfamiliar street. The little bird waiting inside the house would be my first test as a volunteer wildlife rescuer (救助者).

A kind-looking man led me inside to see my first patient. I would have to look confident, like I’d done this kind of thing many times before. I lifted the edge of the shoe box very slightly to see a bird standing on very thin legs. The bird seemed very aghast, so I decided not to catch it by hand but just move the whole shoe box into my rescue box.

I hadn’t seen this species (物种) of bird before, so I searched the Internet for its information: a rufous fantail, so called because of its red-brown tail feathers that, when fully open, spread out into a neat little “fan”. I phoned the bird specialist of the rescue group. She told me this species hunts insects on the wing and keeping it longer than overnight would only do it harm.

I waited until dusk the next day, which would provide the cover of darkness, to set it free. I held the bird up as high as I could to give it a good lift off and open the flap. The little bird flew off quickly into the darkness.

My first successful rescue was not just a second chance for the bird. Five months earlier, I received a cancer diagnosis (诊断) and I was now at the point where I wasn’t planning my days around hospital visits.

For me, it was making room in my life for wildlife rescue. I’d been interested in animals ever since I was a young girl but had always thought that I’d missed that boat. But I heard about a local wildlife rescue group that was looking for volunteers, and was holding a two-day intensive (强化的) course in wildlife rescue.

I had a free weekend. The only thing stopping me was a lack (缺乏) of confidence. I generally didn’t put my hand up for tasks that I might fail in, especially in public. But the wildlife rescue organization was willing to take a chance on me, then I could find the courage to take on the responsibility of this role.

And one day, there was a small bird picked up by an elderly man who’d looked out of his front window after hearing bird calls. It was in a box waiting just for me.

31．What does the underlined word “aghast” mean in this story?

A．quiet B．bored C．excited D．scared

32．What can we infer from the passage?

A．The rescue was a change in direction for the writer.

B．The rescue mainly helps these birds to search for food.

C．The writer would like to be a rescuer when she was young.

D．The writer felt hopeless after receiving the cancer diagnosis.

33．Which can be the best title of the story?

A．Just for Me B．A Second Chance C．A Kind Girl D．A Successful Rescue

The typical image of a knitter may be a white-haired lady but in the 1940s, young male Royal Air Force pilots used needles as they waited for their next task. Wartime pilots crashed a lot and knitting helped rebuild flexibility(灵活性) in wounded arms and meanwhile calm wounded minds. They were the basis of early career therapy.

There is increasing evidence that practising creative and meaningful jobs can have a positive influence on health and well-being. Career therapist Jill Riley was part of a team from Cardiff University that surveyed more than 3,500 knitters worldwide and found that the more often people knitted, the calmer and happier they felt. Knitting in a group created happiness, improved social contact and communication with others. As one person surveyed put it,“That rhythm of making stitch (针脚) after stitch is like deep breathing. It’s a flow where you don’t have to stress about it and you’ve got the rhythm happening.”

“Flow”is an invention first named by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentrnihalyi. As he wrote in his book Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, “The best moments in our lives are not the passive or relaxing times. The best moments usually happen if a person’s body or mind is in a voluntary effort to complete something difficult and worthwhile. During the flow, attention is freely paid to achieving a person’s goal because there is no disorder to strengthen out or no threat (威胁) for the self to guard against.”

“When a person can organize his or her mind so as to experience flow as often as possible, the quality of life starts to improve.”An artist, Shauna Richardson, knows just how true this is. The artist spent 18 months in a state of flow when she knitted three seven-metre-long lions for the 2012 Cultural Olympiad.

To complete the task, she says she had to fix all her attention and keep a state of mind driven by rhythm and process (过程). Csikszentrnihalyi also describes the opposite to flow. He points out that although people are healthier and 1ive longer, they often end up feeling anxious and bored, and they are usually cut off from satisfying work.

Because knitting is so accessible(可到达的)—at its heart it’s two sticks and one stitch—it helps people build confidence in their abilities. After all, if you make a mistake, you can just pull it all out and start again.

34．Why does the writer mention “a white-haired lady” in paragraph 1?

A．To give an example. B．To introduce the topic.

C．To compare two things. D．To prove the writer’s opinion

35．According to the passage, how does “career therapy”help people?

A．Fill their free time by doing handwork. B．Reduce their stress by breathing deeply.

C．Improve their mind and body by knitting. D．Perfect their skills by completing a task

36．How do people feel in a state of flow?

A．Fixed. B．Bored. C．Relaxed D．Satisfied

37．What can we learn from the passage?

A．It is certain that young males are interested in knitting at present.

B．It is proved that knitting has a bad effect on people’s health and life.

C．In the writer’s opinion knitting can bring people good points and bad points.

D．In the kitting process, knitters can enjoy it without worrying about making mistakes.

四、根据汉语提示填空

38．We spent the whole afternoon ________ (宁静地) without noisy kids around.

39．It is a ________ (常见的) sense that drinking milk can help kids grow stronger.

40．Scientists around the world are working to ________ (发现) a cure for cancers.

41．Reducing the risk of heart diseases is an important ________ ( 优势) of regular exercise.

五、用所给单词的正确形式填空

42．The boy ________ (simple) won’t accept his parents’ decision.

43．We can clearly see the pain from her ________ (worry) eyes.

44．They will never know the ________ (true) behind what happened.

45．Peter ________ (regret) wasting much time playing computer games and failed his exam.

46．All that ________ (matter) is that you are safe. Take care!

47．Don’t worry! I ________ (help) you to complete the task in the following week.

48．The bus was late. The poor old man had no choice but ________ (wait) in the rain.

49．一I can’t find my mobile phone anywhere. Someone on the bus ________ (steal) it!

一Are you kidding me? It’s in your hand right now.

50．Michelle Yeoh ________ (win) the Oscar for Best Actress and became the first Asian woman to get the award.

51．Billions of paper cups ________ (use) every day in the world, so recycling is necessary.

52．—You looked serious. What troubled you?

—Well, I ________ (think) about how to write my application.

53．Thousands of people ________ (leave) homeless in the earthquake which happened in Turkey in February, 2023.

六、阅读填表

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在文章后表格的空格内填入一个最恰当的单词。每个空格只能填一个单词。

Museums are magical places where history is kept alive. Ancient relics (遗物) and national treasures are proudly on show for everybody. One of the oldest public museums in the world is the British Museum in London.

The British Museum is famous for its rich collection. People from around the world come to admire some of the greatest treasures in the world. From 2,000-year-old war helmets to classical Greek vases and Roman sculptures, history follows us into the present.

Interestingly, the whole history of the British Museum started with a gift. An Irish man named Sir Hans Sloane had collected many wonderful items over the years, including old coins, medals and drawings. Before he died, he wanted these treasures to be stored. So he handed them over to the king. and in 1753, the museum was created.

In its early days, about 5, 000 people visited every year. Before the COVID- 19 pandemic (流行病), around 6 million people flooded into the museum, according to the British Museum’s website. Also one in four foreign visitors to London would visit the museum. It has been voted the most visited attraction in the UK for many years. Its popularity makes the British Museum a British icon.

七、完成句子

59．《灌篮高手》在中国的票房已遥遥领先。

The First Slam Dunk has ________________ in China’s box office.

60．海外熊猫的居住环境将受到人们更多的关注。

People will ________________ the living conditions of oversea pandas.

61．这个剧本被晒在论坛上，碰巧吸引了一位著名导演的注意。

The script was shown on the forum, which ________________ a famous director.

62．人们认为父母在孩子的教育中起着重要的作用。

Parents are ________________ in children’s education.

63．那个女孩真粗心，把我的吉他误认为是她的了。

The girl was so careless ________________ hers.

64．小米系列产品清楚地表明了信息技术怎样对我们的生活产生翻天覆地的影响。

The Xiaomi products show clearly ________________ to our life.

八、电子邮件

65．假定你是红星中学的初三学生李华，你的英国朋友Jim在给你的邮件中提到他对中国文化感兴趣，计划明年来中国旅游，他向你咨询相关信息，请你给他回邮件。

内容包括：

1.the purpose of the email

2.cities or places of interest you will recommend (eg. Beijing, the Place Museum, the Great Wall, …)

3.your recommendation reasons (list two or three reasons)

注意事项：

1.邮件须自拟，要求语句通顺、意思连贯、符合题意；

2.词数在 100 个左右，邮件的开头和结尾已给出，不计入总词数；

3.邮件中不得使用真实的个人及学校信息。

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参考答案：

1．D

2．B

3．C

4．C

5．A

6．B

7．A

8．D

9．D

10．B

11．A

12．B

13．B

14．D

15．D    16．C    17．B    18．A    19．B    20．A    21．C    22．D    23．C    24．A

25．B    26．C    27．D

28．A    29．C    30．D

31．D    32．A    33．B

34．B    35．C    36．A    37．D

38．peacefully

39．common

40．discover

41．advantage

42．simply

43．worried

44．truth

45．regretted

46．matters

47．will help

48．to wait

49．has stolen

50．won

51．are used

52．was thinking

53．were left

54．history    55．because    56．Background    57．included    58．number

59．taken the lead

60．pay more attention to

61．happened to catch the attention of/happened to attract the attention of

62．considered to play an important role

63．that she mistook my guitar for/that my guitar was mistaken for

64．how IT/information technology makes/has made a great/big/much difference

65．例文

Dear Jim,

I am glad to hear that you would like to visit China. Welcome to travel to China!

Since you are interested in Chinese culture, I recommend you to visit Beijing. First, you can visit the Palace Museum. With wonderful buildings and art treasures inside, it is well worth a visit. The Great Wall is another good choice. The wall was built over 2000 years ago. It looks like a dragon running across northern China. What’s more, if you are interested in Chinese art, I advise you to go into a teahouse. There you can enjoy Beijing opera with a lasting value.

If you have any question about China, do let me know.

I look forward to seeing you in China.

Best wishes,

Li Hua