2012湖北宜昌中考英语试题

一、听力测试（共20小题，计20分）

（一）录音中有五个句子，每个句子听一遍，然后从每小题A、B、C中选出适合每个句子的答语。 ( ( ( ( (

) 1. A. Autumn, of course . C. Never mind.

) 3. A. She is a pianist. ) 4. A. Yes, I have.

B. Han Hong. C. She is tall.

B. It will be on this Saturday. C. It‘s interesting.

C. I‘d like to travel by train .

B. I like winter best.

C. Spring,of course.

) 2. A. You‘d better stand up. B. Sorry, I‘ll turn down the radio.

) 5. A. Not yet. B. It‘s beautiful.

（二）录音中有五组对话，每组对话听一遍，然后从每小题A、B、C中选出能回答每个问题的正确答案。 ( (

) 6. How will the boy go to the Shanghai Museum ?

B. By taxi . C. By bus.

) 7. What did Tom do yesterday ?

A. By subway.

A. He watched a football game.

B. He went to the hospital with his mother . C. he looked after his mother at home. ( ( (

) 8. Where does this conversation probably take place ?

B. In a library.

C.Dogs.

C. In a shop.

) 9. What pets does the girl think are better for a twelve-year-old boy ?

B. Cats.

) 10. Why was the girl late for the movie ?

A. In a bookstore . A. Birds .

A. Because her car stopped working on the way to the cinema.. B. Because she forget the exact time of the movie. C. Because she didn‘t know the address of the cinema..

（三）录音中有一段对话，听对话两遍，然后从每小题A、B、C中选出能回答每个问题的正确答案。 (

)11. What does the girl want to do ?

B. To improve her English.

A. To improve her Japanese . C. To improve her Chinese. ( (

)12. How did the boy feel about the summer school he went to last year? A. Just so-so. B.It was bad.

C. It was pretty good..

)13. What did they do mostly in the summer school?

B. They wrote articles in Chinese .

A . They played many games.

C. They read a lot of Chinese books. ( (

)14.How many classes did the man have each week?

B. 17.

C.14 .

)15. How much did the boy pay ?

B.500yuan. C.300yuan.

A.40 .

A. 400 yuan

（四）录音中有一篇短文，听短文两遍，然后从每小题A、B、C中选出能回答每个问题的正确答案。 (

)16.What did Jenny go to New York for ? A. She want to go to school .

B.She did some shopping . C. She went to see her friends. (

)17.Where did they go in New York ? A.They went to a big cinema.

B.They went to a farm. ( ( (

C.They went to a shopping center.

)18. When did they get back to New York on Sunday? A.At 3:00 pm.

B.At 9:00 am. C. At 2:00 pm.

)19. How did Jenny come back home ? )20. How long did Jenny stay in New York ?

A. By ship B.By train. C. By plane.

A. For two nights. B.For one night. C. For three nights. 注意：请同学们翻到第Ⅱ卷，继续做第五大题——听力填表。 二、单项填空 （共15小题，计15分）

从每小题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入句中空白处的最佳答案。

21. ________little girl in_________ yellow skirt over there is Lucy.

B. An; the

C. The ; a D. our

D. so many

D. in

D. The ;the

A. An; a

22. Life is _______dictionary, we should learn directly from it.. A. ours B. we C. us

23.Being a volunteer, I‘ll try best to offer_______ help as I can to old people. A. as much B. as many C. so much

A. for

B. at

24. The accident happened _________ a cold winter early morning.

C. on

25. —Look ! A book is on the floor .Whose is it?

— It be Tom‘s .It has his name on it. A. need — . A. So am I

B. So do I

C. Neither do I D. neither am I

27. — I don‘t have blue shoes for tomorrow‘s speech contest.

B. two ; them C. one ; them D. a ; it

B. must

C. can‘t

D. mustn‘t

26. —Lin Tao doesn‘t know many people here !

— My brother has ______ pair . Would you like to try ________ on ? A. one ; it

without food.

A. very important

B. important

C. more important

D. the most important .

28. Breakfast is ______meal of the day. It provides us with energy after a long night

29. —I am too tired to walk any farther, Lucy. — ______,Kate. You can do it. A. Come on B. That‘s all — For about ten years. .

A. How much B. How long C. How often D. How soon — is OK . I‘m free today and tomorrow. A. None — Yes, A. so what

B. Both ? B. what

C. why

D. why not

C. Neither D. Either

C. No hurry D. No problem

30. — ______ have you lived in Zibo?

31. — Can I come this afternoon or tomorrow morning?

32. —It might be cool to see a film this afternoon.

33. Please turn to page________ and look at the ______ picture in this unit.

A. twenty; first B. twenty; one

D. twentieth;first

C. twentieth; one

34. —I‘m sorry I broke your glass.

— . Be careful next time. A. No, thanks

B. Yes , please

C. Sure D. It doesn‘t matter

35. — Liu Fei, could you come to our art club tomorrow? — ______.

A. You‘re welcome B. Never mind

C. Sure, I‘d love to D. I‘m sorry to hear that 三、完形填空（共10小题，计10分）

阅读下面短文，从各题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。 I know World Book Day falls on April 23 every year. It was set up by UNESCO(联合国教科文组织) in 1955 to encourage people,especially teenagers, to discover the pleasure of

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Many countries celebrate World Book Day. On that day in the UK,millions of students can buy books of special prices, much lower than usual in any bookstore. It has been done every year

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1998. World Book Day is also celebrated in China .Premier Wen Jiabao does lots

of reading 38 he‘s very busy . On World Book Day 2009. He called on people to do more reading .He suggested that young people should spend more time reading . ―Books can‘t change the world, but people can change the world by changing 39 said.

Reading can benefit (有益于)people 40 . Reading helps us become more knowledgeable and more intelligent . Reading helps us to follow the 41 developments of science and technology.Reading provides us with information about other culture and places of the world.When we read, we may find many things 42 are unfamiliar to us. We would have to use our brain to think about them or do more reading to find out the answers. The more we read, the more we know, The more we know, the smarter we 43 important ways to learn a foreign language 44

. Reading is also one of the most

learn

English. We all know that we 45

through reading,‖ he

everything at school , for example, the ways English people are speaking and writing today. ―Reading makes a full man.‖ Books magazines, newspapers and other kinds of reading materials can help to know more about the outside world and perfect us. Therefore, it is necessary for us to from the habit of reading every day. 36. A.singing B. writing 37. A.of

C. listening

D. reading

D. by

D. through

B. from

C. since

38. A. though B.because C.when 40. A. in the way 41. A. last

42. A. where 44. A.like

39. A. itself B. yourself C.ourselves D. themselves

B. by the way C. in any way D.in many ways B.later C.latest B.that C.how B. about

D. earlier D. those

43. A. come B. go 45. A.must

C.become D. start

C.at D. towards

D.can

B. can‘t C.have to