2018年河南省郑州市省实验中学中考一模英语试题+答案

You must have read or heard of the sad love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu. But can you imagine the two singing opera in English instead of speaking poetic Chinese?

Jia and Lin are two characters from the classic Chinese novel A Dream of Red Mansions（《红楼梦》）, written by Cao Xueqin（1715—1763）. Now the book has been made into an English—language opera. The opera was first performed last September in San Francisco, US. This month it comes to Beijing, Changsha and Wuhan.

Many of the opera’s creators have backgrounds（背景）in both Chinese and American cultures, including the director and playwrights. Their understanding of both cultures helped them to change a Chinese classic into a foreign—language opera.

The book, which covers the rise and fall of the Jia family, has 120 chapters and hundreds of characters. But opera writer David Henry Hwang cut down the number of characters to just seven. Hwang, a Chinese—American, focused on the love story between Jia and Lin and tried to write a heartbroken tragedy（悲剧） that everyone would understand.

The art director Timmy Yip, from Hong Kong, tried to help foreign people understand the characters using costumes（服装） and stage settings（布景）. He compared Lin to water and gave her a light green costume. When Lin shows up on stage, there is usually water around her on the stage.

The creators consider it to be a meaningful job to introduce a Chinese classic to Western audiences. Hwang told China Daily he was happy to “have made a contribution to the land where my parents were born.”

31．Who wrote the opera for the Chinese classic novel A Dreum of Red Mansions? A．Lin Daiyu. C．Jia Baoyu.

32．The opera was________ A．sung in poetic Chinese

C．performed in China after one year

B．first performed in Beijing D．performed in many languages B．Cao Xueqin. D．David Henry Hwang.

33．Which of the following is NOT a difference between the book and the opera? A．The language used. C．The number of characters.

B．The sad love story. D．The whole family’s story.

34．Why did the creators make the book into an English—language opera? A．Because they have backgrounds in Western culture.

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B．Because they thought the book was not good enough. C．Because they hope to help others learn English.

D．Because they wanted Westerners to know about the Chinese novel. 35．The best title of the passage is________. A．Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu Sing Foreign Opera B．A Dream of Red Mansions

C．The Sad Love Story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu D．David Henry Hwang’s Opera

When was the last time you used a phone booth on the street? With the rise of mobile phones, they have become something out of date. But Shanghai is trying to bring new life to the old phone booths by turning them into mini—libraries.

Shanghai plans to divide 263 phone booths in Xuhui district into six new types. One type will each offer 60 books for people to read or borrow. A second type will— allow users to listen to audiobooksand even record their own voices. A third type will become \（有声书）Exhibition Halls（名人亭）\Zhang.

Shanghai is not the only city trying to save the old phone booths. The British has cared about them even more, since the red phone booths became a part of the country’s identity（标识）. The world‘s first phone booth was built in the 1880s in Germany. But in the 1930s the UK painted them red and made them a special attraction in cities.

In recent years the country has come up with many ideas to help phone booths stay useful. The UK company British Telecom has added screens and free WiFi to some booths. Users can use them to surf online and search for maps and weather reports.

The company also allows people to rent（租） some booths to change them as they want to. Since 2009, more than 1, 500 phone booths have been turned into flower shops, mini—cafes, art museums and even shower rooms（浴室）, according to the Sina News.

Maybe in the future phone booths will become city attractions once again, but in a more creative way.

根据材料内容选择最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 36．How many books will be each library booth in Shanghai offered? A．263.

B．60.

C．44.

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D．1,500.

37．Among the six new types of phone booths in Shanghai, people can NOT ________. A．read and borrow books C．record their own voices

B．listen to audiobooks D．play video games

38．What is the main idea of the fourth paragraph? A．British Telecom has new ways to reuse telephone booths. B．The British can buy flowers from a telephone booth. C．If you want to take a shower in the UK, just enter a booth. D．Booths in the UK have been useless for years. 39．What does the underlined word “booth \ A．充电器

B．数据线

C．公用电话亭

D．车库

40．What can we infer from the story?

A．No one wants to use the telephone booths now.

B．Britain’s red phone booths are losing their social identity. C．Phone booths will attract people \D．Phone booths around the world are becoming popular.

Can one paper bag change the world? Sarah Murphy believes it can and she tries to do something about it.

The seventh grader from Massachusetts, in the United States, decorates（装饰） lunch bags for the homeless.41．. The decorated bags, together with a lunch, will be given to homeless people in the town of Beverly, through a charity program.

To attract the help of more children, she reached out to a local library and made a program. They set up a coloring station in the library. Children may take a bag, draw and write a message of hope and leave it on the front desk.42． . The program began on the first Saturday in August and has taken off（迅速发展） since then. Murphy bought 100 brown lunch bags and put them in the library. 43．. She will happily buy more.

Murphy first heard about the charity program from her friends. She has great interest in charity. She once donated money to charities and made gift bags for seniors at her school.44．.

A summer reading program she joined further inspired her with its theme, “45．.” After that, Murphy got the idea of coloring lunch bags and feeding the poor to make the world a better place.

根据材料内容,从下面五个选项中选出能填人文中空缺处的最佳选项，使短文意思通顺、

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内容完整，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A．Build A Better World.

B．She wants to bring hope to those people.

C．They can also take it home and return it after coloring. D．Children at the library have colored them. E.So she wanted to do something special.

阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。请将答案写在答题卡相应的位置上。每空限填一词，每词限用一次。方框中有两个词是多余的。

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Ever year, schools in Australia have a “Big Day.” Students put their old things on sale for charity. The money will be used to help 46．. But at my school, the topic of Big Day is only about eating!

After lunchtime, different grades got a 47．. All the students took turns running their 48． place. Each one only had 10 minutes so that everyone could have 49．. Every place had their main products.

For example, as 10th graders, we 50．different drinks. The most popular one was an Oreo milk shake 51．ice cream. For grade eleven’s place, the focus was the cheap lollipops（棒棒糖）,which only 52．$ 1 per packet.

I could only work from 1:50 pm to 2 o’ clock. But it was the53． 10 minutes of the activity. I arrived at our place three minutes 54．.

My partners waved at me and said, “Come here! We need some help!\table with a lot of paper cups. I was asked to shake each cup for 30 seconds to make it taste better.

However, when I 55． the first cup for nearly 20 seconds, the salesman shouted,\Hurry up! People are waiting!\wore out and I couldn’t even feel my own wrist. Finally, I finished my work and bought （手腕）a milk shake. It tasted a little bit bitter.

根据下面的对话情景，在每个空白处填上一个适当的句子，使对话的意思连贯、完整。请将答案填在答题卡相应位置。

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