上海市2019年初三下学期中考英语二模汇编：五选四

上海市2019年中考英语二模汇编：五选四

长宁

Ⅲ. complete the following passage with the words in the box. Each can only be used once（将下列单词填入空格。每空格限填一词，每词只能填一次）（共8 分）

Here are some problematic habits that smart-phone should ___46___.

Imagine you’re rushing through a crowded subway station, late for an appointment. Suddenly someone is blocking your way, walking very slowly, fiddling（用手拨弄）with their smart-phone. You ___47___ feel annoyed, but do you ever do the same thing? For your own safety, but the phone away while walking.

When you see someone who looks ___48___, you may want to take a picture or a video. But recording people’s daily lives can be rude and hurtful. If you want a picture, ask for permission. Your friends may not mind you taking pictures of them. But make sure you ask before posting anything embarrassing online. Showing their ___49___ for the world to see is sure to hurt your

Smart-phone are great tools for communication. It’s common to see people sitting together, not speaking but staring ___50___ at their smart-phones. Real friendships require face-to-face interaction （互动）. Facial expressions and body language express far more than words.

What you ___51___ reflects your priorities（优先）. Interrupting a conversation to check your phone means that the person you’re with is less important than your messages.

As your smart-phone is always ___52___, you always have something to do. But that may not be a good thing. Some say that unused time is necessary f or creative thinking. So don’t spend every ___53___ moment with your phone. Instead, see what great ideas you can think up.

of the strangest ___46___ forests on earth.

Often known as the Dancing Forest, it ___47___ trees in a variety of shapes. Unlike trees that develop normally and stand up ___48___, these trees turn in all different directions. According to tourists that have seen the forest, the trees almost appear to be dancing.

A few years ago, a manager of the forest invited students from local universities to conduct studies, and find the answer to the mystery. Since then, some people have suggested that the trees are actually growing in sand. But the most popular idea is that the ___49___ winds blowing in the

the Mekong River in Southeast Asia have reported that rath er than fireworks, they’ve noticed strange lights in the sky.

These lights are said to look like balls of fire that seem to shoot ___50___ out of the river into the sky, and then disappear after a few seconds. The ___51___, of the fireballs isn’t known, bu t some scientists think they could be due to a gas which comes from under the river, and ___52___

when it escapes into the air. Other experts disagree with this idea, believing that the gas may be too heavy to rise into the air.

The appearance of the fireballs always brings great ___53___ of people along the river, and is a wonderful attraction to visiting tourists.

徐汇

Is trash a problem to the city anymore? This year, garbage sorting (垃圾分类) is a major task for Shanghai (46)_________ to do. Students at schools and kindergartens had classes on waste sorting at the beginning of the term.

Students learned to dump waste into different bins. “The class was very helpful and interesting. I will certainly tell my family about it when I get home.'" said a third-grader student. “Before, I was not sure on how to classify some (47)_____ of waste properly. I usually put food (48)_________boxes in the recyclable bin, which I learned today is the wrong thing to do,” said another student. “They should go into the dry garbage bin.”

The school has activities such as special days to collect recyclable items from students. Schools around the city are (49) _________ events to help students learn about garbage sorting. Our

(50)_________of photos taken of family picnics in the park. Reading "The Trees Are Talking’ in a magazine made me realize that they are (51)_________more alive than humans in some ways. I was attracted by the fact that dying trees are (52)_________by the trees nearby-"their forest friends”. Whether they do it voluntarily(自愿地)or not is uncertain. If voluntarily, then that is great. If they do it on their own, then I would learn from plants because they take care of each other. And I would say that makes them even more (53)_________. How magic out nature is!

松江

You may have seen many pumpkins(南瓜)in TV recently since Halloween came on Oct 31. Lanterns made of pumpkins，also known as jack-o’-lanterns, are often seen during Halloween(万圣节). Many people in the U.S. like to make them and put them in front of their houses. People hollow out (挖空）a pumpkin, draw a face on one side and _____46_____ a candle inside to make the pumpkin bright. The lanterns can look funny or scary.

This is not the only way pumpkins are ______47____ of American culture. During the Thanksgiving holiday, pumpkin pie is a _____48_____ food. It is made from pumpkins and has some delicious spices to give it a nice taste. People often put some cream on top of it before

There is _______50___“pumpkin chucking(丢)”. It’s a competition where people build machines to throw pumpkins through the air. The person whose pumpkin flies the _____51_____ wins the competition. The world record for pumpkin chucking was ______52____ in Utah(犹他州)in 2010. The distance for that world record was about 1.69 kilometers!

Finally, have you ever heard pumpkin growing contests? Farmers try to ____53______ the

biggest pumpkins they can. The person who has the biggest pumpkin will win the first prize.

monuments（纪念建筑）. Every year over 7 million visitors are 46 by it.

The Eiffel Tower was 47 for taking part in the World’s Fair – a celebration held in Paris between May and October, 1889. Before it was built, however, several French artists didn’t think it was proper to build such a strange 48 tower in Paris, the capital of France. They believed that it wouldn’t match the 49 beauty of Paris’s other famous monuments, such as the

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his project. With the 51 of 300 metres, the Eiffel Tower was the tallest man-made structure in the world at that time.

The tower opened to the public on the 6th May, and the 52 was a great success. Over 28 million visitors came to the World’s Fair and 1,896987 visitors climbed the tower. Since then, over 250 million people have enjoyed the 53 of Paris from the tower’s balconies. Later, Paris officials decided that the tower served as an effective communications tower.

闵行

2019 is the Year of the Pig according to Chinese tradition. Do you know what pigs are really like? People sometimes say, "You are as stupid as a pig." But pigs are not stupid. They are (46)_________ one of the 10 smartest animals. They have a good memory and can tell different shapes apart. Many experts think pigs are (47)_________to train than dogs or cats. In France, people teach pigs to find truffles(松露).With their good sense of smell, they can find truffles even faster than dogs. People in ancient China really liked pigs. People thought the pigs big head and ears were a symbol of (48)_________. If someone had a round and chubby face, he or she was thought to be blessed(有福气的).People also believed the animal (49)_________wealth. Piggy

they care for others too much and are willing to sacrifice their own (50)_________. They also forget things quickly. Many famous people were born in the Year of the Pig, such as US writer Earnest Hemingway and Chinese athlete Liu Xiang. Pigs often (51)_________in fairy tales, cartoons and movies. In the story the Three Little Pigs, a mother pig sends her three children to live on their own. Each of them builds a house with different (52)_________. When the big bad wolf comes, each pig hides in his own house. Whose house will survive? Another popular pig is Mc Dull. He is a little pink pig who lives in Hong Kong. He is not bright, but he works hard. One of his simple wishes is to make his mother (53) _________him. He also wants to go to the Maldives and have a turkey dinner for Christmas.

静安

But you might not know that it is very __46___.

Sand is widely used in glass-making and road-building. It is the second most-used ___47___ after water in the world, the BBC reported. However, the UN said that sand is not limitless and that we might be running out of it.

Sand is made up of very small pieces of rock, soil and minerals. It can take thousands of ___48___ to form, but now we are using sand too quickly. According to the BBC, we use about fifteen billion tons of sand every year to build houses, roads etc. That is ___49___to build a 20-

People ___50___ put sand into the sea to make new islands. Singapore, for example, is now 20 percent bigger than it was in 1965. Palm islands are three large man-made islands in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They took 94 million cubic meters of sand to build.

If people ___51___using this much sand, it will run out in many places. For example, Vietnam may run out of construction sand by 2020, Live Science noted.

Since people need so much sand, they are trying to mine（开采）more of it. But this is bad for the environment. Mining sand may cause beaches to ___52___and more floods to happen in places close to the sea. Also, this will ___53___affect the habitats（栖息地）of many plants and animals.

drumbeat, people want to tap their feet. They want to move their bodies with the music. People all over the world love to dance. Every culture has 46 dances. Dances can tell stories. They can be done to celebrate. One dance might celebrate a great success. Another might celebrate a wedding. A dance might 47 sadness when someone dies.

Dance can be a way for the community to come together. People have shared experience through dance. They understand the world around them and their relationship to it through their dances. But dance does not have to be done 48 . Dancing can be a very personal thing. A person

experience the song in a whole 50 way. Dance is also great exercise. When you really start moving, you work up a sweet. Your 51 starts beating faster. That’s a sure sign that you are getting a good workout. You can move your body in ways that build strength and make you more relaxed. It is one of the most fun kinds of exercise. It is a change that many people 52 too shy to dance in front of others.

Dancing is such a great way to forget all of your cares and worries. Just for a few minutes, you become once with the music and nothing else matters. So it is important to 53 about the people watching. Just get lost in the music!

黄浦

know that there is also air pollution inside homes, offices, hotels and other buildings? The air in your home can be 2 to 100 times more polluted than the air ____46_____! In fact, some American doctors say that 50% of illnesses have something to do with polluted indoor air.

A lot of pollution comes from indoor activities _____47____ smoking and cooking. As most people spend about 80% -90% of their time inside buildings, it is important to take indoor air pollution seriously, too.

Air pollution influences our health in many ways. When the air is polluted, not only young children and old people suffer from it, but people with health problems suffer as well. Indoor air pollution can hurt people’s eyes, noses and throats. Air pollution, both indoor and outdoor, can also _____48____ lung cancer and heart disease! In the great London fog in 1952, 4,000 people died in a few days____49_____ the pollution! It is said that half a million young children and

going to be brought into _____50____ in Chinese middle school soon.

Heavy schoolbags have been a serious problem for a long time, but the e-schoolbags will work it out. A schoolbag is much lighter than a usual schoolbag. Perhaps the e-schoolbag should be ___51______ an e- textbook. It is a small computer for students. It is as small as a usual book, but it can still have all the things for study, such as textbooks, exercise-books and so on. They can be made into chips( 芯片) like _____52____. The students can read the text page by page on the screen, take notes, or even send e-mails to their teachers. They only need to put the right chip into the e-schoolbags.

Some people say that e-textbooks can be ____53_____ broken, while others say they are good for students’ eyes. Perhaps only time will tell who is right.

奉贤

good conditions? Does the chicken you buy come from free-range chickens? These days, ethical （伦理的）eating is getting popular as many famous people are helping to promote it.

Some animals live in very 46 conditions. Hundreds of chickens stay in a cage, pigs have to live in spaces that are not big enough for them to turn around in, and cows are kept in larkened places for the 47 of their unnatural lives. Now more and more people are 48 about the conditions of livestock animals.

Jamie Oliver, a British chef, took part in a 49 focusing on pigs. The Save Our Bacon Campaign showed the public what pig farming is like. He also questioned the actual quality of the

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（素食主义）. He gave up meat in the mid1970s. His wife Linda wrote vegetarian cookbooks. Paul and his daughters, designer Stella and photographer Mary, started their “Meat-free Monday”campaign and call on people to stop eating meat once a week.

TV chef Hugh Whittingstall started a campaign called Chicken out! He wanted to make the public 51 how had the conditions are for factory-farmed chickens.

The film The End of the Line looked at the fishing industry. It is the world’s first film on this pic, It shows that overfishing 52 the balance of life in the oceans. English actor chard E Grant, and film director Terry Gilliam appeared in advertisements to promote this film.

Hope these campaigns will draw 53 to eating ethically and saving nature.

have one of your best ___46___ experiences in life.

Masouleh was built halfway up a steep mountain. It is to keep the village safe from ___47___ ir the valley and to keep it safe from the cold wind blowing on the top of the mountain.

the village is most famous for its unique way of building the houses. Each house in the village was built on the rooftop of the house ___48___it. rooftops here serve both as front gardens of the houses above and as roads. Wherever you go in the village, you can have a rooftop view and you will never ___49___it. But remember that you can only walk around the village because cars are

seen even in heavy fog; the village is often covered in a blanket of fog. ___51___, houses here usually have large windows in the front walls to let in sunlight. It is one of the traditional ways in which local residents keep themselves warm ___52___ cold winters.

Masouleh has long been a trading center. For centuries, people came from all around the region to ___53___ their goods there. although many young people have moved out of the village to live in Iran’s towns and cities, the village is still full of vitality as it has become a popular tourist destination in Iran.

Everyone has a true friend in his life. Mary Allen was my best friend—like the (46)_________ I had never had. We did everything together: piano lessons, movies, swimming, horseback riding. When I was 13, my family moved away. Mary and I kept in touch through letters, and we saw each other on (47)_________occasions(场合)—like my wedding and Mary's Soon we were busy with children and moving to new homes, and we (48)_________less often. One day a card that I sent came back stamped “Address Unknown. "I had no idea how to find Mary.

Over the years, I thought of Mary often, I wanted to share stories of my children and then grandchildren. And I needed to share my (49)_________when my brother and then mother passed

lot like Mary and whose last name was Lee—Mary's (50) _________name. "There must be thousands of Lee.” I thought, but I wrote to her anyway.

She called as soon as she got my letter. "Mrs. Tobin! ” she said in a(n) (51) _________voice, "I

haven't heard from you for yea rs!” Minutes later I heard a voice that I recognized (52)_________ .even after 40 years. We laughed and cried and caught on each others lives. Now the empty place in my heart is (53) _________. And there's one thing that Mary and I know for sure: We won't lose each other again!

答案

长宁

46-49 EBAC 50-53 CEBD

杨浦

46-49 DECB 50-53 DAEB

徐汇

46-49 DEBC 50-53 BCAE

松江

46-49 DBEC 50-53 CBEA

普陀

. 46-49 CAED 50-53 BDCA

闵行

46-49 BECA 50-53 CDAB

黄浦

46.D 47. A 48. B 49. C 50. D 51. A 52. E 53. C

奉贤

36-40 A A C D B 41-45 C B B D A

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