北京市石景山区2020年7月中考二模英语试题及参考答案(12页)

北京市石景山区2020年7月中考二模英语试题
英 语 试 卷
考生须知：1.本试卷为闭卷考试，共 10 页，考试时间为 90 分钟。
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规范填涂，其他试题用黑色签字笔作答.
4.考试结束后，请将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
知识运用
一、单项填空
1.
Mrs. Smith is our teacher. ______ teaches us English.
A.
I
B.
You
C.
She

2.
I bought some pencils ______ the supermarket yesterday
A. on B. in C. to
3.
— John, ______ does it take you to go to school every day?
— About half an hour.
A. how far B. how often C. how long
4.
— Lily, ______ you speak French?
— Yes, I can.
A. must B. should C. need
.

5.
This dress looks beautiful, ______ it is too expensive.
A. and B. so C. but
6.
Jessica does well in all her subjects. She is one of ______ students in our class.
A. good B. better C. best
7.
Tom ______ basketball with his friends every weekend.
A. plays B. is playing C. has played
8.
—Sarah, what’s your mum doing?
—She ______ in the kitchen.
D.
He
D. of
D. how old
D. can
D. or
D. the best
D. was playing

A. cooks B. is cooking C. has cooked D. will cook
9.
Our life ______ a lot since we moved to a new country.
A. changes B. changed C. has changed D. will change
10.
If it’s too hot tomorrow, I ______ at home and study online.
A. will stay B. stayed C. have stayed D. was staying
11.
My brother ______ by his dream school last summer.
A. accepted B. will accept C. was accepted D. will be accepted
12.
—Excuse me, can you tell me ______ last term?
—Sure. I read every day before bed.
A. how you will improve your reading
C. how will you improve your reading
B. how you improved your reading
D. how did you improve your reading
二、完形填空
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。
Working from Home
My family recently had the bright idea that I should spend a day working from I mapped out such a
day, I had___13___working hard in my study, then taking a mid-morning cookie break with the kids, next returning
to work, and finally going for a family walk.


cookie jar
However, during the first hour of my workday at home, I____14____touched any work. The children kept
running into my study and asking me to play with 10:30 a.m., I decided to take that mid-morning
cookie____15____and then found that there was nothing left in the cookie jar. The kids had eaten them all! I returned
to my desk and began writing an e-mail until my wife walked in.
“I need to run to the store. Could you please fix the car battery (
电池
) for me?”, she said. I mumbled (
嘟囔
) to
myself all the way to the car, did the job, and went back to my desk. Then, my kids started asking for lunch. After
telling them over and over again to wait until their mom gets home, I finally put a sign to my door that ____16____ :
Go Ask Someone Else!

And that worked really well. I finally____17____ to finish writing that e-mail. The house was quiet up to
the____18____that the neighbor called and told me that my children went to ask him for lunch! I told him to send my
kids back. Frustrated (
懊恼的
), I made sandwiches for the kids and myself. Just as I was cleaning up, my wife walked
in.
I was so glad that she was back and couldn’t wait to escape. I____19____for the door to go back to my work. As
I sat down at the desk, I realised things were not like what I had imagined. And I also understood how____20____ it
is to take good care of a family.
13. A. suggested
14. A. even
15. A. break
16. A. read
17. A. offered
18. A. turn
19. A. paid
20. A. happy
B. forgotten
B. just
B. party
B. heard
B. refused
B. point
B. headed
B. relaxing
C. imagined
C. still
C. lesson
C. pronounced
C. preferred
C. time
C. waited
C. exciting
D. finished
D. hardly
D. walk
D. translated
D. managed
D. number
D. searched
D. hard
阅读理解
三、阅读理解
阅读下面的四篇短文，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。
A
Around the World on Children’s Day
In 1954, there was the first Universal Children’s Day on 20th November to celebrate and protect children all
over the world. This was International Children’s Day, but now many countries around the world have their own day
each year when they celebrate with their children.
TURKEY:
This day is a national holiday in Turkey. On this day,
23
rd
April






Turkey

invites groups of children from other countries to stay with
Turkish families
and celebrate with

them.

BULGARIA:
Parents do special things with their children and



1
st
June


give them big

presents. The day is like a second birthday for the children.
CHINA:
This is a very special day in schools. They take the

children on


camping trips or trips to the cinema. Many children also get gifts





from their




parents.

JAPAN:
The official children’s day is on 5th May. But some



5
th
May


people in Japan


celebrate two children’s days: one on 3rd March for girls and
one on 5th May
for boys. On 5th May they fly carp streamers (a type of wind





sock in the shape


of a fish).

MEXICO:
Some schools close for the day, other schools have a




30
th
April


special day

for the children when they play games. The children
also bring in their

favourite food to share with friends.
21. When is Children’s Day in Turkey?
A. 23 rd April. B. 30 th April. C. 5 th May. D. 1 st June.
22. Children’s Day is like a second birthday in ______.
A. Turkey B. Japan C. Bulgaria D. Mexico
23. On Children’s Day in Japan, ______.
A. parents invite other kids to their home
B. children get gifts from their parents
C. children share food at school
D. children fly carp streamers
B
When he was 23 years old, he climbed Mount Everest. In 2007, he set another world record by flying over
Mount Everest in a powered paraglider (
滑翔伞
). His first book, Facing the Frozen Ocean, got shortlisted for the
UK’s “Sports Book of the Year”. Since then he has written more than 15 books, including the No. 1 Bestseller: Mud,
Sweat and Tears.

Bear Grylls
His name is Bear Grylls, and he was the host of Discovery Channel’s famous TV show, Man vs Wild. In the
show, he was left in faraway areas in order to show survival (
生存的
) skills. Millions of viewers watched, breathless,
as he climbed terribly dangerous mountains, performed amazing ice climbing, and ran through a forest fire.
Grylls continues to shine with both his amazing shows and charity (
慈善
) work. And he has set up his own
company, Bear Grylls’ Survival Academy, where everyone can learn survival skills from him and his highly trained
team.
Recently, Grylls founded Young Survivors – training courses for teenagers, including survival skills and

adventure tasks designed to teach the basic rules of outdoor survival self-rescue. Those who complete the course are
given a Young Survivors Award. Skills taught include how to build and light a fire, how to tell directions in both day
and night, putting up a protection building, bad weather survival and so on. The key focus of the course is getting
young survivors back in touch with nature and away from technology.
In Grylls’ own words: “The thing I love about Young Survivor Course is that it is designed to put young adults in
just the kind of challenging, character-building and practical situations that help consider them as adults. So often,
young adults can feel almost over- protected and are stopped from experiencing some of the best things in life – but
the Young Survivor Award will challenge and empower them in an unbelievable fun environment.”
24. Why was Bear left in faraway areas in his TV show?
A. To raise money for charity.
B. To show skills for surviving.
C. To do a performance for fun.
D. To create stories for his books.
25. What is the key focus of Young Survivors?
A. Using technology in nature.
B. Making young adults famous.
C. Teaching young adults living skills.
D. Getting young adults back to nature.
26. According to the passage, Bear Grylls ______.
A. helps people start writing
B. cares about the environment
C. is an encouraging adventurer
D. is a very famous businessman
C
In the 1966 science-fiction (
科幻
) film Fantastic Voyage, a team of scientists and doctors are put into the body of
an ill man to fix his body.
Such an idea, while fun, sounds surprising to many. But what if it were possible to treat an illness like cancer (
癌
症
) by putting tiny pieces of something into the body to not only find the cancer, but also destroy it without harming
anything else? Although it may seem like science fiction, tools like this are now being developed and may, in fact,
become common in the near future – thanks to research now being done in the field of nanotechnology (
纳米科技
).
The main thing to know about nanotechnology is that it’s small – really small. Using this technology, it will be

possible to discover cancer at a certain level where there are perhaps only a thousand bad cells (
细胞
). Compare this
to what happens today: Doctors can discover cancer only after the dangerous cells have increased into the millions.
One of the advantages of discovering and treating cancer at an early period is that the cells are less likely to become
resistant to medicine treatment. In later period, cancer cells often change and get used to certain medicine so quickly
that many medicines become ineffective.
Once a certain type of cancer is discovered, nanotechnology will also completely improve the way it is treated.
Right now, most cancer treatments kill not only cancerous cells but the healthy ones as well, causing a number of side
effects in people, such as hair loss and bad pain. Nanotechnology will allow doctors to destroy cancerous cells
without harming healthy cells.
Unluckily, even though nanotechnology has great possibility for medical achievement, there are serious
concerns that it could have bad environmental and health effects. Many scientists believe that governments should
give more money for safety-related studies – to make sure that these tiny pieces of something do not get into our food
and water and cause serious problems.
Meanwhile, research into the uses of nanotechnology continues and it’s developing quickly. Even ten years ago,
many of these uses “would have seemed pretty unrealistic,” says Chemist Vicki Colvin. Perhaps that old movie,
Fantastic Voyage, isn’t hard to believe after all.
27. According to the passage, nanotechnology ______.
A. may cause a number of side effects such as hair loss
B. may help discover and treat cancer before it is too late
C. can be used to kill both cancerous cells and healthy ones
D. can discover cancer and treat it completely in later period
28. The words “
resistant to
” in Paragraph 3 probably means “______”.
A. undestroyed by B. useless for C. unsatisfied with D. harmless to
29. Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?
A. The Advantages of Nanotechnology.
B. The Near Future of Science Fiction.
C. A Tool for Creating Medicine?
D. A Treatment for Cancer?
D
Inside Animal Minds

Irene Pepperberg, a graduate of Harvard University, was interested in learning if animals could think. The best
way to do this, she reasoned, was to talk to them. So she bought an African grey parrot she named Alex and taught
him to reproduce the sounds of the English language. “I thought if he learned to communicate, I could ask him
questions about how he sees the world.” She explains.
When Pepperberg began her research with Alex, very few scientists agreed that animals were able to think. How
could a scientist prove that animals might, in fact, have intelligence (
智力
)? “That’s why I started my studies with
Alex.” Pepperberg says.
Alex the parrot was a surprisingly good talker. He learned how to use his voice to imitate (
模仿
) almost 100
English words, including those for foods, colors, shapes and numbers. Although imitation was once considered a
simple skill, in recent years, scientists have reported that it’s a very difficult ability. It requires the imitator to form an
image of the other person’s body and actions in their mind and then put his own body parts into same place. It is a
behavior that shows self-awareness (
自我意识
). Because Alex had mastered many English words, Pepperberg could
ask him questions about a bird’s basic understanding of the world. Alex could count, describe shapes and colors; he
even had a basic understanding of the idea of zero.
Many of Alex’s skills are normally only for humans and primates (
灵长类
). But parrots, live a long time in
mixed societies. And like primates, these birds must watch the changing relationships within the group. This may
explain Alex’s ability to learn a human language. Parrots learn to pronounce and use our words so they can become a
part of our group.
Many researchers say that creativity and language in animals, like other forms of intelligence, have developed.
“People were surprised to discover that some primates make tools,” says Alex Kacelnik, an animal researcher at
Oxford University. “But people also thought, ‘Well, they share our ancestry (
祖先
) — of course they are smart.’ Now
we are finding these kinds of behaviors in some birds. But we don’t have a recently shared ancestry with birds. It
means,” Kacelnik continues, “intelligence is not something only for primates or humans.”
30. Which of Alex’s skills showed self-awareness?
A. Describing colors.
B. Doing simple maths.

C. Copying human sounds.
D. Understanding the idea of zero.
31. What do parrots and primates have in common?
A. They both watch the relationships within the group.
B. They both lived a long time in the same society.
C. Neither of them can reproduce English words.
D. Neither of them likes to be part of a group.
32. Kacelnik probably agrees that ______.
A. some birds are more intelligent than humans
B. birds share a common ancestry with humans
C. only humans and primates are able to think
D. some animals are surprisingly intelligent
33. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Research that shows intelligence is not limited to humans.
B. Ways of teaching animals to become more intelligent.
C. How human and animal intelligence are different.
D. How animals can communicate with humans.
四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。
TED Talks: An Idea Worth Spreading
Have you heard of TED? TED stands for Technology, Entertainment and Design. TED is a set of meetings, held
in different cities around the world every year. With different speakers – also from different parts of the world – all the
speeches are uploaded (
上传
) to their website, for everyone to see.
TED meetings invite speakers to give speeches on different kinds of topics. The different speakers are usually
successful in their fields and talk about new ideas and recent developments that are important to their work. The
speakers are often also well-known, with people such as Bill Gates and Jane Goodall, having given talks. There are
many talks on environmentalism.
For example, and on international development, aid work, and how to help poor people. There are a number of
talks about education and topics that are important in the news.
While the talks cover many kinds of topics, all speakers have a strict time limit – each speech must last less than
18 minutes.
As with all organisations (
组织
), however, TED has had its downs as well as ups. The organization has been

criticised for turning great scientists into stars. Perhaps a bigger and more important criticism of the organization is
that only special people can attend the meetings. Those who attend the meetings must be special enough to get tickets
because TED events costing $$6000 or more.
However, , the organisation’s website, is where the many interesting talks become reachable to
everybody who has an Internet connection. Every weekday, a new video is uploaded from a TED event, allowing
people from around the world to listen to the talks for free. At only 18 minutes, even if the video is not that interesting,
you know you are not going to waste too much time.
Most TED talks are in English but there are talks in other languages, too. Besides, most of the English-language
talks also have the choice of subtitles (
字幕
) in different languages and, as a result, the website is great for practising
English and learning new vocabulary, especially in a topic that you find interesting and enjoyable. With so many
choices of subject, the videos are often much more exciting.
34. What does TED stand for?
_____________ ___________________________________

35. Can everyone see the speeches on the website?
________________________________________________
36. How long is every TED speech?
_____ ___________________________________________

37. According to Paragraph 4, what is TED criticised for?
______________________________ __________________

38. How often is a new video uploaded?
______________________________ __________________

书面表达
五、文段表达
从下面两个题目中任选一题，根据中文和英文提示，完成一篇不少于 50 词的文段写作。文
中已给出内容不计入总词数。所给提示词语仅供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。
39.
题目①
三年时光，转瞬即逝。你的初中生活即将结束，众多交换生也将结束留学生涯回国。
假如你是李华，你校交换生
Peter
打算下个月回国。你与全班同学打算于周日给
Peter
举办欢送会，请
用英语写一封电子邮件，告诉
Peter
欢送会的时间地点，欢送会的内容以及你的感受。
提示词语：
goodbye party, classroom, video, photo, sad

提示问题：
● When and where are you going to hold the party?
●What are you going to do at the party?
●How do you feel about Peter leaving?
Dear Peter,
I heard you are going back home next month. I am writing to tell you that we are going to hold a goodbye party
for
you.
______________________________________ __________________________________________________ _
_____________________________________________ ________________________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________
_ __________________________________________________ __________________________________________
____ __________________________________________________ _______________________________________
_______ __________________________________________________ ____________________________________
__________ ___
I hope you have a good time back home and looking forward to seeing you again.
Yours,
Li Hua
40.
题目②
疫情无情人有情。面对疫情，全国人民齐心协 力，互相帮助，共渡难关。在过去的四个月里，发生了
许多让人感动的事情，体现了人与人之间的温情。
某英文报社以
“
感动
”
为话题展开征文活动，请你用英文写篇短文给 报社投稿，谈谈疫情期间最让你感动
一件事，以及为什么感动。
提示词语：
teacher, trouble, help, responsible < br>months.
____________________________________ __________________________________________________
______________________________________________ _______________________________________________
_________________________________________________ ____________________________________________
__ __________________________________________________ _________________________________________
_____ __________________________________________________ ______________________________________
的
提示问 题：
●What happened that moved you most?
●Why were you moved?
A lot of things have happened in the past four

________ __________________________________________________ ______________________