松江区2008-2009学年初三二模英语试题（含答案） - 图文

visitors, making up over a quarter of all arrivals. Travelers from Taiwan Province, South and Southeast Asia and Japan made up the most of other visitors. Tourism remained a major source of foreign exchange, although tourists spending dropped.

Tourists often made short visits, staying an average of three to four days. Most tourists came to Hong Kong for business or leisure (休闲), or a mixture of both. Shopping was still the favorite thing of tourist activity and spending. The average visitor spent about HK$ 3,000 – not including accommodation (住宿) and food.

Hong Kong Tourist Association officials developed various plans to develop interest in Hong Kong as a tourist destination, and they hoped these policies (政策) would work. 78. What situation was Hong Kong facing in the passage? A) The tourism business was developing quickly

B) Fewer tourists were visiting Hong Kong than before. C) It was no longer a popular destination in Asia.

D) There were far fewer international meetings and exhibitions. 79. In 1998, ________.

A) the figure of visitors in Hong Kong was down by 8% B) tourism in Hong Kong had its best year C) 10.4 million tourists visited Hong Kong

D) Hong Kong didn’t hold any international meetings

80. What is the largest source (来源) of the visitors to Hong Kong? A) Japan. B) Southeast Asia

C) U.S.A D) The mainland of China 81. The underlined word “both” (in Para. 4) refers to (指代) “________”. A) short visits and long visits B) Hong Kong and the mainland C) business and leisure D) shopping and other activities 82. Which of the following statement is NOT true?

A) The figure of tourists to Hong Kong was 10.4 million in 1997. B) Tourists spending continued increasing. C) Tourists preferred short visits to long visits. D) Shopping was still popular in Hong Kong.

83. The Hong Kong Tourist Association officials ________.

A) couldn’t do anything to develop the tourism in Hong Kong

B) were sure that tourism would develop fast because of their plans

C) hoped more people would travel to Hong Kong as a result of the politics D) don’t want so many people to take a trip to Hong Kong 84. Which is the best title for the passage?

A) 1997, the Best Year of Hong Kong Tourists

B) International Meetings and Exhibitions in Hong Kong C) Tourism in Hong Kong Ten Years Ago D) The Politics to Attract More Travelers

C. Choose the words or expressions and complete the passage (选择最恰当的单词或词语完成短文): (14分)

Are you nervous? Maybe you should sit in a blue room. Are you always cold? Maybe you should sit in a room painted in a “warm color” such as soft orange. Are you often sad? Maybe you

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should sit in a yellow room. Some researchers believe that color has the 85 to influence (影响) our feelings. They believe that colors affect everyone in the same way.

One study was in a workplace. The researchers 86 heavy boxes white and light boxes black. They wanted to see how color affected the workers’ feelings. Which boxes do you think were more difficult to lift? The heavy white ones? No. The white boxes were heavier but they looked light. The researchers think that this is because light colors seem 87 .

Another study was 88 . Researchers at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, studied children with behavior problems in their classroom. When the walls were brown and yellow, the children’s heart rate 89 and they were over-active. 90 when the walls were light and dark blue, the children’s heart rate was slower and the children were much calmer.

If this is true, we might think carefully 91 the colors around them – not just in our homes, but also in offices, in schools, in hospitals, in gyms, in museums, in restaurants and even in prisons. 85. A) power B) charge C) energy D) force 86. A) drew B) gave C) painted D) put 87. A) light B) heavy C) beautiful D) ugly 88. A) in a restaurant B) in a museum C) in a prison D) at a school 89. A) went on B) went over C) went up D) went out 90. A) So B) However C) Because D) Though 91. A) for B) about C) to D) with

D. Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给): (14分)

Two American scientists told the people in industrial nations that they would be much healthier if they ate more of the same kind of foods eaten by humans living more than 10,000 years ago.

The scientists say that the human body has changed very l 92 since human first appeared on earth, but the way we live has changed greatly. Our body has not been able to deal with these changes in life style and this has led to new kinds of d 93 . These new sicknesses were not known in ancient times. So they are called “diseases of civilization（文明）”. Many cancers and diseases of the blood system, including heart attacks and strokes（中风）are examples of such diseases.

Scientists noted that early stone-age people used very little alcohol（酒精）or tobacco (烟草), probably none. Ancient people also got a great deal of physical e 94 , but a change in food is one of the main differences b 95 life in ancient times and life today. Stone-age people hunted wild animals for their meat, which had much less fat than farm animals. They also ate a lot of fresh vegetables and fruits. They did not use m 96 and other dairy products, and they made very little use of grains. But today, we eat a lot of dairy products and grain foods. We eat six times more salt than stone-age people. We eat more sugar. We eat twice as much fat but much l 97 vitamin C.

People today probably do not w 98 to live as people thousands of years ago did, but scientists say that we would be much healthier if we ate as those ancient people did, cutting the amount of fatty, salty and sweet foods.

E. Answer the questions (根据短文内容回答下列问题): ( 14分)

An American magazine wanted to see how hard it would be to put a bomb on an airplane. A reporter put a suitcase on the floor of the airport to see if anyone would check it. Security officers walked by the bag but didn’t stop. Two airplanes arrived and left. A cleaner swept the floor around

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the bag three times. Three people tripped over it. Finally after three hours, the reporter took his bag away.

The magazine said it would be easy for a terrorist (恐怖分子) to put a bomb on an airplane in America. Suitcases aren’t x-rayed unless you carry them with you on the airplane. You can put a suitcase on an airplane even you don’t have a ticket for the plane.

Terrorists often use plastic bombs--the size of a small radio-- that can blow up (使爆炸) an airplane while it’s in the air. The government is building a new $900,000 machine that can find a plastic bomb.

The people who check the bags that Americans carry with on the plane aren’t paid much money. The magazine asked one of them what would happen if he made a mistake and an airplane exploded. He said if it happened once, he would have to have some more training. If it happened again, he said he might be fired--out of job.

99. Why does a reporter put a suitcase on the floor of the airport? 100. How many planes arrived and left during the three hours?

101. It is very difficult to put a bomb on an airplane in America, isn’t it?

102. In what case (在什么情况下) will people’s bags be x-rayed in America? 103. What do terrorists often use to blow up an airplane? 104. What is the government doing to find plastic bags?

105. What will happen when an airplane explodes because of a clerk’s mistake for the first time? IX. Writing (作文): (共18分)

106. Write at least 60 words about the topic “Reading helps me a lot”. （用所给题目写一篇不少于60个词的短文，标点符号不占格。)

The following points are for your reference： (所给提示仅供参考) ◆ What kind of books do you like to read? ◆ In what ways does reading help you a lot?

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Key to the test （0904）

Part One

I. Listen and choose the right picture (根据你听到的内容，选出相应的图片): (共6分) 1. Vegetables and fruit are good for our health. (C)

2. Drawing cartoons was my favorite when I was a student. (E) 3. Tom’s father goes fishing with his friends every Sunday. (G) 4. My father has been a taxi driver for about fifteen years. (F) 5. Children often enjoy themselves in Disneyland Park. (D)

6. I’d like to buy a new camera when I am going to Japan next month. (A)

II. Listen to the dialogue and choose the best answer to the question you hear (根据你听到的对话和问题，选出最恰当的答案): (共10分) 7. M: Were you here on March 5?

W: Emm…not really. In fact, I arrived three days later. Q: When did the woman arrive? (B)

8. M: How do you go to work every day, by bus or by bike?

W: I used to drive to my office. But now, to protect the environment I take a bus. Q: How does the woman go to work now? (A) 9. M: What do you want to be when you grow up?

W: Maybe an engineer like my parents. Maybe a teacher or a lawyer. Q: What is the girl’s mother? (A)

10. W: I hear not many people going to the lecture. How was it, Mike?

M: Well, not too bad. In my dormitory only I attended. Tom, John and Jack were playing basketball. (D)

Q: Who attended the lecture?

11. M: Let’s go to a restaurant this evening.

W: A meal at home is OK. We don’t have much money left this month. Q: What will they probably do? (B) 12. M: I want to borrow the three books.

W: Show me your card, please. By the way, you can keep them for 2 weeks at most. Q: Where does the dialogue take place? (C)

13. W: When do you want this report finished, Mr. Watson?

M: Tomorrow morning will be fine. Make ten copies and give them to the manager, please. Q: What’s the probable relationship between the two speakers? (A) 14. M: I hear you are going to move into a new apartment soon?

W: Yes, it is a little bit too expensive, but my present neighbor is playing the piano all night

long.

Q: Why is the woman moving? (C)

15. M: I wonder how George could finish the work so quickly. W: He didn’t do the work alone.

Q: What can we learn from the conversation? (C) 16. W: Jason is good-looking, smart and friendly. M: What he needs now is a change of luck. Q: What does the man say about Jason? (D)

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