2020年北京市朝阳区中考英语一模试卷.docx

1、2020年北京市朝阳区中考英语一模试卷知识运用（共14分）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（0.5分）Mike has a little sister _ name is Lily（）AMyBHisCHerDYour2（0.5分）Students usually start their new term _ September every year（）AonBinCatDfor3（0.5分）I called Jim last night， _ he didnt answer the phone（）AforBandCb

2、utDor4（0.5分）Kobe Bryant was one of _ basketball players in the world（）AgoodBbetterCbestDthe best5（0.5分）_ do you usually do exercise on Saturdays？At about 3 oclock in the afternoon（）AWhenBWhereCWhyDHow6（0.5分）My best friend _ an old man get home yesterday evening（）AhelpsBhelpedCis helpingDwill help7（0

3、.5分）James enjoys watching movies， and he often _ a movie in his free time（）AwatchesBwatchedCis watchingDwill watch8（0.5分）As soon as the rain stops， we _ out to play football（）AgoBwentCwill goDhave gone9（0.5分）My father _ in a panda protection center sine 2010， so he knows a lot about pandas（）AworksBw

4、orkedCis workingDhas worked10（0.5分）What were you doing at 10 oclock yesterday morning？I _ with my parents（）AreadBwill readCam readingDwas reading11（0.5分）Look at the flowers on both sides of the street They _ last month（）AplantBplantedCare plantedDwere planted12（0.5分）Could you tell me _ ？Next Sunday（

5、）Awhen we will have a picnicBwhen we had a picnicCwhen will we have a picnicDwhen did we have a picnic二、完形填空（共8分，每小题8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13（8分）I take after my mother From her I took over a curious nature， a sense of adventure and bright red hair However， I did not receive a

6、 talent （才能） for（1） from her My mother never doubted that I would be a child Mozart She found a strict Russian woman to be my piano teacher when I was four I did whatever the teacher told me in order to（2） herFeel the music， she always told me， I felt it But what is more unpleasant than too many wro

7、ng notes played continuously？ She felt my music， too， which is why she always left with a （an） （3） expression Once，in order to（4） my practice，I managed to record one of my own rehearsals（练习）I put on the tape recording and read until the tape had finished That method worked for a week，until my mother

8、 began to （5） why I always missed the same note She came in and found that I had fallen asleep while the tape of my performance played on and on Realizing I couldnt be a Mozart， my mother told me to pick another instrument From then on， I worked my way through several other instruments， but I sill c

9、ouldnt play any of them （6） Then my mother hit on another idea She took me to a drama （戏剧） teacher However， the teacher put me into painting scenery （舞台布景） instead of teaching to singImmediately I fell in love with this active and practical world， and 1 discovered that I had a skill for building and

10、 paintingI loved the（7） of taking our limited supplies and using them to make something beautiful! Im a sculptor （雕刻家） now， and every day I （8） once again the pleasure of being fully involved in the act of artistic creation Its a wonderful feeling I realize that my mother was trying to give me this

11、feeling Perhaps she went about it in the wrong way， but her heart was in the right place（1）A musicB sportsC cookingD writing（2）A praiseB pleaseC believeD help（3）A excitedB happyC angryD shy（4）A stopB continueC beginD escape（5）A requireB argueC wonderD expect（6）A secretlyB perfectlyC quietlyD politel

12、y（7）A challengeB changeC riskD advice（8）A createB considerC shareD experience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6分）14（6分）AI （人工智能） makes our lives easier and betterLets see the amazing AICool driverless busA bus door opens and you get onWait，where is the driver？Here is a n

13、ew kind of driverless bus called ApolongIt was produced in 2018It can seat 14 people and doesnt need a driverThe bus follows traffic rulesYour close friendHi，everyoneIm Xiaoice，a chatbot （聊天机器人）I was born in 2014I speak like a 17yearold girlIf you feel lonely，you can talk with meIm good at singing a

14、nd telling stonesI want to be your friend!Worlds first AI presenterHey，look!The famous Chinese presenter Qiu Hao is reporting the news for usBut，is he really Qiu Hao？The answer is noThis is the worlds first AI presenterIt was invented in 2018It looks and speaks just like a real personPopular AI arti

15、stThis beautiful painting was at an auction （拍卖） in 2018It sold for about 3，000，000 yuan!But it is not a work by a famous painter，such as Vincent van GoghIt was painted by an AI artistThree Frenchmen created the AI artist in 2017（1）When was Apolong produced？ AIn2019BIn2018CIn 2017DIn 2014（2）Both Qiu

16、 Hao and Xiaoice can AdriveBpaintCswimDspeak（3） created the AI artistAThree FrenchmenBA 17yearold girlCThe Chinese presenterDVincent van Gogh15（6分）As a teenager， school was difficult for me I had a kind of attention disorder， which means I couldnt direct my attention to what I was doing So when ever

17、yone else in the class was centering their attention on tasks， I could not In my first reading class， Mrs Smith asked us to read a story and then write on it， all finished in 45 minutes I immediately put up my hand and said， Mrs Smith， you see， the doctor said I have attention problems I might not b

18、e able to finish the task She looked down at me through her glasses， saying， You are not different from your classmates， young man With her encouragement， I tried But I didnt finish the reading when the bell rang I had to take it home In the quietness of my bedroom， the story suddenly all became cle

19、ar to me It was about a blind person，Louis Braille He lived in a time when the blind couldnt get much educationBut Louis didnt give upInstead， he invented a reading system of raised dots （点）， which opened up a whole new world of knowledge to the blind Wasnt I the blind in my class， being made to lea

20、rn like the sighted students？ With thoughts running through my head， I found myself deeply attracted in reading and writing I completed the task in less than 40 minutes I realized that I was not different from others I just needed a quieter place If Louis could find his way out of his problem， why s

21、hould I ever give up？ I didnt expect anything when I handed in my paper to Mrs Smith， so it was quite a surprise when it came back to me the next day with an A on it At the bottom of the paper were these words， See what you can do when you keep trying？（1）School was difficult for the writer because A

22、 he didnt like the teacherB the tasks were too boring to himC he got a kind of attention disorderD his classmates talked with him in class（2）Mrs Smiths words in Paragraph 3 show that A she encouraged himB she laughed at himC she felt sorry for himD she was pleased with him（3）What can we learn from t

23、he passage？ A Never stop readingB Never give up easilyC How to be a great teacherD How to learn as a blind16（6分）Success seems to be what everyone longs for in life no matter how old he isStudents want to succeed at studyAdults look forward to their success at workHave you ever wondered what is the k

24、ey to success？Some may say the answer is good luckSome may say hard work is the keyIn fact，hard work really does pay offScientists find that perseverance （坚持不解） leads to better grades and higher achievements in school Being passionate （热诚的） is not enough to make sure that you can achieve success in

25、your schoolwork， say researchers，and they thought of courage as a key to successCourage is also considered as effort in reaching longterm goals，and a strong will to continue ones efforts no matter what difficulties they might go through Researchers think that the finding could help create new traini

26、ng to help children develop the skill and help them to succeed in their future Researchers from the Academy of Finland studied more than 2，000 students from Helsinki They were followed through their learning from 12 to 16，the sixth grade until the ninth grade in local school yearsResearchers found t

27、hat the factor （因素） that best predicts courage was related to goalsWhat they had achieved in their past learning played no role in developing the skill Professor Katariina SalmelaAro，who led the study，said， Courage means a young person is really interested in his or her studies and does not give up

28、easilyA key factor of courage is high perseverance when facing difficulties or in a terrible situationThe important finding is that these factors are the key to success and wellbeingOur study shows the power of courage Professor SalmelaAro also thinks it is important to develop new practices and bui

29、ld character to improve courage in teenagersShe added， Young people should see everyday school work as part of their life in a wider context （背景） and set achievable goals for themselvesSchools must also serve as a place where it is safe to fail and learn to deal with setbacksOne must not be discoura

30、ged by setbacks，but draw power and new energy from them!（1）What is Paragraph 2 mainly about？ AWhere courage comes fromBHow students can draw powerCWhat courage is thought of asDWhy having energy is important（2）According to the passage，Professor Katarina SalmelaAro believes that Acourage might be dev

31、eloped with the help of schoolsBteenagers with courage show strong interests in successC courage can help reduce the number of difficulties in learningDteenagers achievement in the past can influence their courage（3）The word setbacks in Paragraph 6 probably means AchangesBdifficultiesCweaknessDeffor

32、ts17（8分）Do you have good friends？ Do you sometimes feel so close to them that they are like family to you？ It turns out that this isnt just an expression A study by Yale University has found that you and your friends have more genes （基因） in common than strangers do Researchers looked at the genes of

33、 1， 932 people and compared them in pairs of unrelated friends and strangers They found that friends have 1% of genes that match 1% of genes may not sound like much to the layperson （外行）， but to geneticists （遗传学家） it is a larger number， Professor Nicholas Christakis of Yale University told Discovery

34、 News In fact， this is the same amount of genes you share with your fourth cousins，those who have the same greatgreatgreat grandparents as you So do you happen to become friends with people who share your genes？ Not at all In fact， it is evolution （进化） that brings you together People who share certa

35、in genes also share skills and have similar likes and dislikes，researchers saidIn ancient times， it was important that people who were alike stayed together For example， people who had a similar susceptibility （易感性） to the cold were more likely to help each other build a fire， giving them a better c

36、hance to stay alive Researchers also found that among all the genes studied， those producing a change in sense of smell were the most similar in friends This is probably because people who smell things in the same way are more easily drawn to similar environments For example， people who like the sme

37、ll of coffee may hang out at cafes （咖啡馆） more often and as a result are more likely to meet and become friends with each other With their findings， the team has developed an interesting test called the friendship scoreIt can help tell how big the chances are that two people will be friends by studyi

38、ng their genes So， here is a question for you： would you like to take this test and know in advance （提前） who your friends are going to be， or would you still prefer to learn about it by yourself and let time be the judge？（1）From the passage， we know that friends A look like our cousinB share 1% of g

39、enes with usC feel close to our familyD can help us when we feel cold（2）According to the passage， the writer probably agrees A we develop our friendship by chanceB our genes decide who we can make friends withC everyone should take the test called friendship scoreD people sharing certain genes have

40、skills and interests in common（3）The writer takes the example of ancient people in Paragraph 5 to A study how ancient people dealt with the coldB predict that similar environments lead to friendshipC prove that it is evolution that brings friends togetherD explain why ancient people gave each other

41、chance to keep alive（4）Which of the following would be the best title for the passage？ A Friendship： Its Influence on People and BehaviorB Friendship： Its Benefits to Teens and Decision MakingC Friendship： Is it necessary to be judged by time？D Friendship： Is it possible to be influenced by genes？四、

42、阅读短文根据短文内容回答问题（共10分，每小题10分）18（10分） Psychologists （心理学家） are interested in the reasons why some people like taking part in risky sports When they studied people who were learning to jump from a plane with a parachute，they found that the parachutists bodies produced large amounts of two hormones （激素），

43、adrenaline （肾上腺素） and noradrenaline （去甲肾上腺素），just before they made their jumpThese hormones help to prepare us for any sudden activityAdrenaline increases the heart beat and provides more sugar for the muscles （肌肉），while noradrenaline makes us react （反应） more quicklyHowever，noradrenaline also suppli

44、es energy to a part of the brain which controls feelings of pleasureA feeling of pleasure caused by this hormone makes certain people want to take part in dangerous sports Another possible reason is the level of excitement in part of the brainAccording to some psychologists，the brain tries to manage

45、 a certain level of excitementThey believe that people who have a low level of excitement look for new experiences in order to fire themselves with excitement，but people who usually have a high level of excitement try to avoid risks in order not to become overexcitedIf the psychologists are right，pe

46、ople with a low excitement level are the ones who enjoy taking part in dangerous sports and activities It is thought that people with low levels of excitement have a slowerreacting nervous system than people with higher levelsSo it may be possible to find out your level of excitement by testing your nervous systemA quick way of doing this is to put some lemon juice on your tongue （舌头）If you produce a lot of saliva （唾液），