浙江省温岭市2017年初中学业水平模拟考试英语试题及答案

his stores. He began to look at people’s umbrellas. He found that they had to try very hard to keep their umbrellas in the right place. At that moment an idea came into his mind. He ran to his desk and drew a picture. In this way, the nubrella was born.

One cool feature of the nubrella is that you don’t hold it like a normal umbrella; you wear it. The shoulder straps (肩带) of the nubrella allow people to be fully hands-free, so when walking in the rain with the nubrella, you are able to use your cell phone or drink a hot cup of coffee. Also, the nubrella will never be inverted (颠倒) in the wind. The new umbrella is far safer than traditional ones, because it has no sharp points.

38. The passage is probably taken from the column of . A. science

B. sports

C. travel

D. poster

39. The underlined word ―idea‖ in Paragraph 2 refers to . A. buying a new umbrella B. inventing hands-free umbrellas C. selling umbrellas in his own store D. producing lots of normal umbrellas 40. From the passage we know that . A. nubrella is held by people like a normal umbrella B. Alan Kaufman used to be a professional inventor

C. the inventor thought for a long time before inventing the nubrella D. you can free your hands to do other things while using the nubrella 41. The writer writes the passage in order to . A. share with the readers a new invention that is very useful B. tell the readers that the inventor didn’t want to invent anything C. introduce a great inventor named Alan Kaufman to the readers D. show this new kind of umbrella to people who are selling umbrellas

D

One day, a boy was playing in a garden. He was running after butterflies and trying to catch them. He was very happy to see the colorful flowers.

Then he saw a frog skipping and jumping. As he ran behind the frog, it jumped into the pond. A cow was also eating grass in the garden. He saw how the cow was chewing (咀嚼) grass. A fly then came there and buzzed (发出嗡嗡声) over the cow. The cow swung her tail to make the fly move away. The child clapped and laughed. He lost himself in the beauty of nature.

When he saw a squirrel, he ran after it and reached near the bed of roses. He tried plucking (拉扯) some of the roses, but a thorn (刺) pierced his finger. It was very painful. The boy started crying and ran to his house.

His mother asked him, \of the rose pierced my finger while I was plucking it and now I feel serious pain.\

His mother said, \is your mistake. You should not have tried plucking the flower. The flowers are meant to be seen and not to be plucked. Besides, natural beauty should never be harmed. One should not interfere with the natural processes. Instead, we should help to keep the balance of the nature.\

The boy said, \