淮安市中考英语试题及答案解析(2)

　　C

　　Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000miles to its winter home in central Mexico(墨西哥). How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don’t have an answer.

　　For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.

　　The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place? Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.

　　How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation(代)makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.

　　Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces(繁衍), and then dies. On the trip north,two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.

　　Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.

　　41.The best title of the passage can be ________.

　　A .Family of Monarch butterflies B. Mystery of Monarch butterflies

　　C .Monarch butterflies’ birthplace D .Monarch butterflies’ winter home

　　42.It took the scientist ______ to find out that monarch butterflies came from Canada.

　　A . 20 years B. four months C .five weeks D .eight months

　　43.We know that the _____ generation of Monarch butterflies travel back to central Mexico.

　　A .first B. second C .third D .fourth

　　44.The underlined word “offspring” in the passage is closest in meaning to______.

　　A . seasons B. butterflies C .children D .parents

　　45.Which statement is true according to the text?

　　A .Monarch butterflies spend winter in eastern Canada.

　　B .The four generations have the same length of life.

　　C .Some generations die on the way north to Canada.

　　D .Scientists are clear about everything of the butterflies

　　C

　　本篇属于科普类阅读，讲述了黑脉金斑蝶的特点及生活习性。

　　41.解析：答案B，推断题，难度较大。由文章第一段提出的一系列问题及下文科学家的一系列发现不难知道题目的答案。

　　42.解析：答案A，细节题，难度较低。由文章第二段的for the next 20 years可知答案。

　　43.解析：答案D，推断题，难度较大。由第四段中the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild 可知今年迁徙到墨西哥的是玄孙辈，也就是第四代蝴蝶。

　　44.答案C,推断题，难度较小。由倒数第二段最后一句可以推断出答案。

　　45.答案C，细节题，难度中等。由文章最后一段第三排:on the trip north, two generations are born,reproduce and then die可知答案。

　　Ⅳ.词汇运用(共15小题;每小题1分，满分15分)

　　A)根据句子意思，从方框中选用恰当的单词或短语填空。

　　lead to, fall behind, once a month, take care of , terrible, on business, closed, chopsticks, the most expensive

　　1. Simon works hard all the time so he won’t ________.

　　2. This is ________watch in the shop. I can’t afford it.

　　3. Amy goes to the reading club________.

　　4. It’s our duty to _______our parents when they are old.

　　5. A __________earthquake hit Nepal on April 25,2015 and many people gave a helping hand.

　　6. My father has gone to Hongkong __________. He will stay there for two weeks.

　　7. The local government _____ the factories which caused water pollution in that area.

　　8. Those western students in our school try to use ________when they have meals.

　　四.词汇运用

　　A

　　1.fall behind 2.the most expensive 3.once a month 4.take care of

　　5.terrible 6.on business 7.closed 8.chopsticks

　　B) 根据句意，用括号中所给单词的正确形式填空。

　　9. Please don’t go _________(swim) on your own. It’s too dangerous.

　　10. The office worker __________(catch) the early bus to work every day.

　　11. Emily’s mother didn’t allow her to watch her favorite programme Running Man and it made her ________(happy).

　　12.Miss Green advised us to decorate a card for each other with those __________(leaf).

　　13.Little Edison is clever enough to learn paper-cutting by _________(he).

　　14.It’s important for us to use natural resources ________-(wise).

　　15.Peter and his wife live on the ____________(seven) floor and they go up and down by lift.

　　B

　　9.解析：答案swimming，难度较低。 go+V-ing形式，表示去做….。

　　10.解析：答案catches, 难度较低。由every day可知采用一般现在时。

　　11.解析：答案unhappy，难度较大。本题属于“动词+宾语+宾补”结构，充当宾语通常用形容词。如：

　　I found the door closed when I got home

　　12.解析：答案leaves，难度中等。以f/fe结尾名词，复数通常变f/fe为v加es。如:shelf—shelves

　　13.解析：答案himself，难度较低。teach oneself = learn…by oneself 自学。

　　14.解析：答案：wisely, 难度中等。wisely副词，修饰动词use.

　　★拓展：以e结尾的形容词变副词方法：

　　①ue结尾,去e加ly, 如：true---truly

　　②le结尾，去e加y, 如：possible---possibly

　　③其他e结尾，直接加ly。 如:polite---politely wise---wisely

　　15.解析：答案seventh/7th，难度较低。定冠词the后通常要用序数词。

　　Ⅴ. 完成句子。(共5小题;每小题2分，满分10分)

　　16.像往常一样，我们放学后步行回家。

　　_____________, we went back home ____________after school.

　　17.你最好不要熬夜，这样才能保持健康。

　　You _________not stay up late, so you can ________.

　　18.今天下午我们将上一节关于美国乡村音乐的课，不要迟到。

　　This afternoon we will have a lesson about American _________. Don’t class.

　　19.打开电视好吗? 我想知道明天的天气预报.

　　Would you please _______ the TV? I want to know the __________ for tomorrow.

　　20. 这个女孩既不喜欢唱歌也不喜欢跳舞,但她偏爱画画.

　　The girl enjoys ________, but she prefers to draw pictures.

　　五.完成句子

　　1.解析：答案As usual; on foot。难度较低，初一下学期内容。

　　2.解析：答案had better; keep(stay) fit/healty，难度较低。had better (not) do最好(不)做…。

　　3.解析：答案country music; be late for，难度较低

　　4.解析：答案turn on; weather report，难度中等。考察：Would you please do….?结构

　　5.解析：答案neither singing nor dancing，难度较大。neither….nor既不….也不…。注意句式对称

　　Ⅵ.任务型阅读(共10小题;每小题2分，满分20分)

　　A

　　Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock(股票)market last year with a value of around 140 billion-the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.

　　Ma made his first trip to the a US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website--the seed for Alibaba was sown(播种).

　　Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

　　It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.

　　Ma’s hero is Forest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(达沃斯论坛)in 2015,Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”

　　根据上面短文的内容回答问题。

　　21. When did Ma Yun make his first trip to the US.

　　22. How many times was Ma Yun refused by Harvard University?

　　23. How did Ma Yun learn English well when he was a teenager?

　　24. Did Ma Yun make a speech at Davos in 2015?

　　25. Why does Ma Yun consider Forest Gump as his hero?

　　A

　　本篇阅读介绍阿里巴巴创始人马云的成功故事，突出“where there is a will, there is a way”这一主题，

　　同时通过介绍名人励志事迹，对应“正能量”这一热门话题。

　　21.解析：答案In 1995，细节题，第二段第一句可知答案。

　　22.解析：答案10/Ten times，细节题，第三段最后一句可知答案。

　　23.解析：答案By giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou.细节题，第四段第二排可知答案。

　　24.解析：答案Yes, he did.细节题，文章最后一段一、二排可知答案

　　25.解析：答案Because he never gives up，细节题，最后一段第一句可知答案。

　　B

　　Many companies today hold meetings to discuss their new plans. As people are paying more attention to the environment problems, more companies are looking for ways to reduce their bad influence on the environment. Many of them achieve this by using web meeting.

　　Web meeting is a technology that allows people to communicate better over the Internet. It’s an easy way of hosting and attending a meeting. Participants(与会者) don’t have to leave the office. Each of them will receive an invitation with the meeting time and date on it. When the meeting is ready to begin, they must sit before their computers.

　　With web meeting, all participants can attend the meeting at their own desks. They don’t need to drive a car to travel to and from the meeting. As a result, no fuel(燃料) is used and less time is taken up in attending a web meeting.

　　Materials for the meeting are simply e-mailed to all the participants before it begins. Then participants can just read them on the screen. For the company, this not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost.

　　As a meeting hall is not used, the only power for a web meeting is the power that is used by the computers. Besides, organized don’t have to pay for food or accommodation(住宿)for the participants. All this means that less energy is used.

　　In a word, web meeting is a cheaper, greener, and more friendly way of hosting and attending a meeting. Companies that hold web meetings are willing to work hard for a better environment. So they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas. In return, they develop good relationship with other companies and improve their business.

　　根据上面短文内容填空。

　　26.Many companies are looking for ways to _____ on the environment, because people are paying more attention to the _____.

　　27.Web meeting is an easy way to ______the meeting. Participants just sit before their computers instead of ___the office.

　　28.The use of paper______and the ______is greatly reduced by e-mailing meeting materials.

　　29.Power is only used by the computers because there is no need for a_____. Besides, organizers needn’t ____on food and accommodation for the participants.

　　30. If they have the same_____, it’s _____for companies to find their working partners.

　　B

　　本篇阅读介绍网络视讯会议这一新生事物的特点，对应初二下学期最后一课greener world这一主题。

　　26.解析：答案reduce their bad influence/effect ; the environment problems。细节题，文章第一段可知答案。

　　27.解析：答案host and attend，leaving替代题，难度中等。a/the way of doing = a/the way to doing，做…的方法。由第二段第二排及第三排don’t have to leave the office可知答案。

　　28.解析：答案is saved, mailing cost，替代题，难度中等。由第四段This not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost可知答案。

　　29.解析：答案hall, spend。细节及替代题，难度中等。由倒数第二段第一句及第二排可知第一空答案。Pay sth for…=spend sth on。

　　30.解析：答案green ideas，easier，细节及替代题，难度较大。由最后一段so they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas可知答案。副词+动词=it’s+形容词+to do。如：I luckily passed the exam = It was lucky for me to pass the exam

　　★链接高中：take up 占据、占用。 In return 作为回报。

　　Ⅶ. 书面表达(满分20分)

　　在生活中，人们常用有一些快乐需要分享，烦恼需要倾诉，这时就需要一个好的倾听者。请以Be a good listener 为题写一篇短文，内容必须包括以下要点：

　　1.一次倾听的经历(时间、人物、经过)

　　2.你对倾听的认识(至少两点)

　　注意：1.文中不得出现真实的人名、校名和地名;

　　2.词数在80--100之间，已给出的文字不计入总词数。

　　Be a good listener

　　I strongly believe it is important to be a good listener.

　　七.书面表达

　　2015年中考淮安市英语作文取材于2008年江苏省高考英语作文。延续了近几年淮安市中考话题作文的

　　特点：论述与自身实际的有效结合。

　　范文：I strongly believe it is important to be a good listener.

　　I used to feel stressed before the exam.However, I kept it to myself,as a result, I felt

　　worried and couldn’t pay attention to what the teacher said in class. One day, after

　　I bravely told it to my close friend, I felt that relaxed.

　　Being a good listener plays an important role in communication. Parents should listen to their children, so they will understand them better and trust(信任) each other. Teachers should also listen to their students so that(以便于) they can increase their understanding and improve relationships. Students should listen to their classmates, then their friendship will be increased and they will help each other.

　　In a word, good listening can really make us get closer to each other.