1、2012年无锡市初中毕业升学考试 英 语 试 题 本试题分两卷。第 I卷（客观题）在第 1 至第 6 页。第 II卷（主观题）在第 7至第 8页。 考试时间为 100分钟。试卷满分 90 分。 注意事项： 1. 答题前，考生务必用 0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在答题卡的相应位置上，并认真核对条形码上的姓名、准考证号是否与本人的相符合。 2. 答客观题必须用 2B 铅笔将答题卡上对应题目的正确选项涂黑。如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。答案不能答在试题卷上。 3. 答主观题必须用 0.5毫米黑色墨水签字笔作答，答案写在答 题卡各题目指定区域内相应位置上。如需改动，先
2、划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案。不准使用铅笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4. 考试必须保持答题卡的整洁。考试结束后，将试题卷和答题卡一并交回。 第 I卷（客观题 共 50分） 一、选择填空 在 A、 B、 C、 D 四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共 14 小题，每小题 1 分，共 14 分） 1. The _ action film has attracted millions of young people to the cinema. A. 130-minute B. 130-minutes C. 130 minute D. 13
3、0 minutes 2. Have you seen Dr. Adams recently? No. He _ Hong Kong for an international meeting. Hell come back tomorrow. A. has gone in B. has been in C. has gone to D. has been to 3. Dont drive so fast! We must slow down when we drive _ the tunnel. A. past B. across C. over D. through 4. If the rob
4、ot _ wrong, you can get a new one for free or get all your money back. A. went B. goes C. would go D. will go 5. Why is the traffic today moving so slowly? We are running late! Calm down. Lets take _ route. Turn left over there. A. a same B. the same C. a different D. the different 6. The lady in th
5、is photo _ be over fifty! She looks so young! A. mustnt B. must C. cant D. can 7. I like the dress, but Im _ I havent got enough money. Dont worry. I dont mind _ you some if you like. A. afraid; lending B. glad; lending C. afraid; to lend D. glad; to lend 8. My father doesnt like shopping much. He w
6、ould rather _ TV at home than _ around for hours in shops. A. watch; walk B. watch; to walk C. to watch; to walk D. to watch; walk 9. Jason is too stubborn sometimes. I quite _. But hes always friendly to others. A. accept B. argue C. agree D. admire 10. The old theatre will close soon_ some extra d
7、onations are made. A. so B. if C. because D. unless 11. Your brother often disagrees with you, _ he? _. We often have different opinions. A. does; Yes B. doesnt; Yes C. does; No D. doesnt; No 12. Mans understanding of nature is developing _. It never stays at the same level. A. at the right time B.
8、for the first time C. from time to time D. all the time 13. She got up to get some sleeping pills but found there was _ left at home. A. nothing B. none C. something D. nobody 14. How would you like your coffee? _. A. Black, please. B. Very much C. It tastes good D. No, thanks 二、完形填空 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，
9、然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共 10 小题，每小题 1 分，共 10 分） A little boy came up to his mother in the kitchen one evening while she was cooking supper, and 15 her a piece of paper that he had written something on. After his mother 16 her hands, she read what on the paper. For 17 the grass
10、$5.00 For cleaning up my room this week $1.00 For going to the supermarket for you $1.00 For looking after my baby brother while you went shopping $1.00 For taking out the rubbish $1.00 For getting a good report card $5.00 For cleaning up the garden $2.00 Total: $16.00 Well, his mother looked at him
11、 for a while, and then she picked up a pen, turned 18 the paper he had written on, and this was what she wrote: For the nine 19 I carried you while you were growing inside me, free. For all the nights that Ive sat up with you, fed you and sung songs for you , free. For all the tears(眼泪 ) that youve
12、20 through the years, free. When you add it up, the cost of my love is free. For all the nights that were filled with 21 , free. For the toys, food, clothes, and even cleaning your nose, free. And when you add it all up, the 22 cost of real love is free. When the little boy finished reading what his
13、 mother had written, there were tears in his eyes. He looked straight 23 at his mother and said, “Mom, I sure do love you.” And then he took the pen and in great big letters he wrote: 24 IN FULL. 15. A. passed B. posted C. offered D. borrowed 16. A. waved B. clapped C. dried D. shook 17. A. pushing
14、B. cutting C. mopping D. picking 18. A. back B. away C. over D. off 19. A. days B. weeks C. months D. years 20. A. enjoyed B. caused C. collected D. proved 21. A. jokes B. wishes C. smiles D. worries 22. A. full B. half C. high D. new 23. A. out B. around C. down D. up 24. A. PAID B. SOLD C. SPENT D
15、. BOUGHT 三、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共 13 小题，每小题 2 分，共 26 分） A Every August, Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, is the home of one of the most important arts festivals in the world. Three of our young readers went there and told us about it. 25. This passage is most p
16、robably from _. A. a local newspaper B. a TV guide C. a festival leaflet D. a sports magazine 26. Who went to the arts festival alone? A. Marti B. Jack C. Hannah D. None of them 27. What similar characteristic do the three teenagers share? A. They all expected that they would have a great time befor
17、e they went. B. They all thought the festival would be rather boring before they went. C. They were all music lovers and enjoyed singing and dancing a lot. D. They were all under 18 so they had to go to the festival with adults. B Martin had just finished high school. He would go to college at the f
18、ar end of the city. He didnt want to live there, and he didnt want to take the bus either. So his father agreed to buy him a car. My parents have always liked art exhibitions and theyve taken me to many, but I never enjoyed them, however, in Edinburgh we saw an exhibition of African masks at a museu
19、m and they were fantastic. I couldnt imagine that people made such beautiful things so long ago. Some of the masks were 2,000 years old. Marti, 14 My friend and I went to the theatre at the Edinburgh Arts Festival. We decided to see a musical(音乐剧 ). I used to think musicals were for people like my m
20、um, but it was very good. I loved all the singing and dancing. Everyone was very talented and it was really colorful. Jack, 13 Id never been to a ballet before and I didnt really want to go, but my aunt Celia said I had to. In the end, I was glad! We saw The sleeping Beauty at the Edinburgh Festival
21、. The dancers were beautiful and Tchaikovskys music made the story come alive. I cant wait to go to a ballet again. Hannah, 16 His father spent all his summer teaching him how to drive, from the ABC to the XYZ. Thinking of the great feeling of driving a new car, Martin learned very quickly, and rece
22、ived his drivers license(驾照 ) just before his eighteenth birthday. The second day, all the family, and their dog, went to a car shop. Martin spent almost all the morning going from one car to another. Finally he saw a red Blue Bird. He had a testing drive on the open ground, and called out, “This is
23、 what I want, Dad!” When everything was done, they were ready to leave. Martin climbed into the front seat. He said excitedly, “Its my first day driving alone. Dad, Mom, and Poo! Enjoy it!” His dad immediately took the back seat, right behind the new driver. Martin wondered why his father chose that
24、 seat, for his father always enjoyed looking in front. So he said, smiling, “Im sure youre back there to have a change after all those weeks of sitting in the front seat teaching me how to drive.” “No,” Dad replied, “Do you remember what you did to me all those years when I took you to and from scho
25、ol? I am sitting here to hit and kick the back of your seat all the way!” 28. Which of the following is NOT the reason why Martins father agreed to buy him a car? A. Martin would go to college and it was far from home. B. Martin preferred living at home to living at college. C. Martin didnt want to
26、take the public transport. D. Martin was able to learn how to drive very quickly. 29. In which order(顺序 ) did Martin do the following things? a. He finished his high school. b. He tested driving the new car. c. He got his drivers license. d. He decided to buy the Blue Bird. e. He kicked the front se
27、at while his father was driving. A. e a c b d B. a c b d e C. e c a b d D. a c d b e 30. How would the whole family probably feel on their way back home? A. Angry B. Sad C. Cheerful D. Shocked C Space travel is nothing new. The first spacecraft with a human was sent up into space in 1961. Since then
28、, people have not only traveled to space, but many of them have also lived there in space stations for some time. The Soviet Union(前苏联 ) sent the first space station into space in 1971. This space station was called Salyut I. Salyut I was designed as a place where people could live while they observ
29、ed space and did experiments. The first group of astronauts lived there for 23 days. The Soviet Union went on to make seven more Salyut space stations. At about the same time, the United States built its own space station, called Skylab. Astronauts visited and often lived in these space stations for
30、 a short time. However, it wasnt until the late 1980s when the Soviet Union sent the Mir space station that people began to live in space for a longer time. Mir stayed in space from 1989 until 2001, when it was decided that the space station was too old and no longer safe to live in. Living in apace
31、 stations seems to be fun, but astronauts face many problems. One of them is food. All the meals on space stations are put together on Earth and sent there by space shuttle. Because the food has to last a long time (sometimes up to three months), a lot of it has to be stored in cans. The space stati
32、on does not have a fridge, but it has a cool room to keep fruit and vegetables fresh. Astronauts also eat many other foods such as dried meat that do not need special care. Without the help of gravity, sitting down to eat can be tough. Astronauts sometimes have to fix themselves to the wall while ea
33、ting. They also have to be very careful to that food does not float away. 31. Which of the following has the closest meaning to the underlined word “observed” in Paragraph 2? A. Discovered B. Checked C. Watched D. Fixed 32. What can we infer(推断 ) from the passage? A. Astronauts can never have a chan
34、ce to eat fresh food when they live in space stations. B. The Soviet Union sent a total of 9 space stations into space in the 1970s and 1980s. C. Astronauts could live in the Mir space station for no more than three weeks. D. Space travel has quite a long history of more than 60 years. 33. What is t
35、he best title of this passage? A. Exploring Space B. Space Travel C. Living in Space D. Space Stations D During the 1800s, African Americans worked long days in the fields of the American South. They sang songs that they had brought from Africa while working. One person sang a line. Then a group of
36、workers repeated it. The songs words told of the hardships(艰苦 ) that people suffered. They clapped their hands and stomped(跺 ) their feet to the music. In the 1860s, the music changed greatly. African American music took new forms. It was also influenced by dance music, which had great rhythm(节奏 ).
37、Banjos(班卓琴 ) became popular. A blues singer usually s ang a line and then played the banjo in reply. By the early 1900s, the guitar had taken the place of the banjo in the blues music. The blues music has many obvious characteristics. One of them is that the musical notes() are often “bent”. That is
38、, they are changed slightly to give a song more strength. Lyrics are the words of a song. Blues lyrics describe everyday life. The lyrics are often about the relationships between men and women. They tell about sadness and overwork. They tell about finding and losing love, having money or being poor
39、, being happy or sad and lonely. They almost always use the rhythms of everyday speech. A group of blues lyrics usually has three lines. The second line repeats the first line. The third line has different words. By the 1940s, large numbers of African Americans moved to Chicago. There, a new kind of
40、 “Chicago” blues began. The new music was excellent dance music. Chicago blues led to the birth of a new music style rock and roll. 34. This passage is mainly about _. A. the blues music B. the life of African Americans C. the blues lyrics D. the rhythms of different music 35. What information does
41、the passage NOT provide? A. How the blues music developed as time went by. B. What the blues lyrics are mostly about. C. When African Americans moved to the American South. D. How long the banjo was popular in the blues history. 36. Which of the following is the most likely taken from a blues song?
42、A. You have to help me. Ill die if you dont. You have to help me. B. You have to help me. You have to help me. Ill die if you dont. C. Ill die if you dont help me. You have to help me. You have to help me. D. Ill die if you dont help me. You have to help me. Please help me. 37. What fact does the pa
43、ssage lead you to believe? A. African Americans sang songs after a long days work to relax in the 1800s. B. The blues singers in the 1860s usually played the guitar while singing songs. C. It is not difficult to tell the blues music from others from its musical notes. D. Rock and roll was the most p
44、opular blues music in Chicago in the 1950s. 第 II卷（主观题 共 40分） 四、词汇运用 （本大题共 8 小题，每小题 1 分，共 8 分） （ A）根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。 1. Audrey Hepburn was _(活跃的 ) in the film industry for nearly 40 years. 2. It will be a dangerous trip. Are you sure you want to take the _(风险 )? 3. I cannot _(许诺 ) you
45、 anything at this moment, but I will try my best. 4. The London Olympic Games , the _(第三十 ) summer games in history, will open on July 27th, 2012. (B)根据句意，在答题卡标有题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。 5. Sometimes it requires courage to tell the _(true). 6. This machine is _(special) designed for blind people. 7. Fo
46、llow me, guys! Close your eyes, open your arms and _(breath) deeply. 8. What a terrible painting! This is probably the _(ugly) painting Ive ever seen. 五、动词填空 用括号内所给动词的适 当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡标有题号的横线上。（本大题共8 小题，每小题 1 分，共 8 分） 1. Is everybody here? No, sir. Jim _(not arrive) yet. He is still on the way. 2. You can come over now, but 10 minutes is all I
