2012年厦门市初中毕业及高中阶段各类学校招生考试英语一.选择填空：从A、B、C中，选出一个最佳答案完成句子。
17. ---You look worried. What's your______?---I have trouble in learning math.A. planB. ideaC. problem18. ---I can't find my dictionary.---Is the one on Jack's desk______?---Yes, thank you.A.hisB. yoursC. ours19. ---What does your sister____?---She is tall and thin.A. look likeB. look forC. look up20. ---I really like your backpack, is it______?---I don't know how much it is. It's my brother's.A. expensiveB. heavyC. useful21. ---Jenny, will you still be here this afternoon?---Yeah, I think I'll stay _____five. Then I'm leaving for dinner.A. atB. sinceC. until22. ---I saw David in the teacher's office this morning. Do you know____ he was there?---He slept in geography class.A.whyB. howC. when23. ---____ do you read English newspaper?---I read China Daily every day.How soon B. How often C. How long24. Most of my classmates have had the expensive of taking a plane, but I ____.1.wasn't B. haven't C. won't25. ---Oh, where's my key?---Is it possible that you ____it in the car?A. caughtB. foundC. left26. ---Does Aunt Tara enjoy____?---Yes, She has three dogs, two rabbits, four birds and some fish in her house.A. visiting the zooB. keeping petsC. working on the farm27. ---Excuse me, may I smoke here?---I'm afraid you____. It's not allowed here.A.canB. can'tC. needn't28. I heard that most of Jeff's best books____ when he was sick and poor.A.had writtenB. were writingC. were written29. ---What's the terrible noise upstairs? I can hardly stand that.---Our neighbors ____a party.A.are havingB. were havingC. will have30.---I'm always feeling stressed out before a big exam.---____.You can go out for a walk or listen to some light music.A. Take it easyB. Make a decisionC. Work it out31. ---Would you like to go to the gym with me this Saturday afternoon?---____, but I promised to go swimming with Eric.A.Never mindB. I don't think soC. I'd love toⅥ.完形填空：从A、B、C中，选择一个最佳答案，使短文意思完整。
A doctor said in his study that four "people" live in a person's mind(意识、内心).They are father, mother, adult, and child. The father is like a teacher __32__ asks himself and others a lot.The mother is so ___33__that she always cares about other people. The adult is a smart worker but likes to correct others' mistakes. And the child is cute but may not ___34___others.If the four "people" in a person's mind __35__, the person can become a happy and healthy man. He __36__ his life and people like to be with him. However, not everyone is like this, because people come from___37___families. If a person's parents ask him __38__, he will not show his real feeling easily. He asks too much of himself, too. That is, among the four people in his mind, the "father" and the "adult" are stronger than the "mother" and the "child".__39__if a person's parents are too kind to ask him anything, he will care about himself only. In his mind, the "__40__"is stronger than the other three "people". How to __41__the four "people" in the mind is very important in having a happy life. So we need to learn to develop a happy and healthy mind.32. A. who B. which C. what33. A. serious B. kind C. wild34. A. find out B. laugh at C. think of35. A. get along well B. argue a lot C. fight hard36. A. saves B. spares C. enjoys37. A. different B. poor C. small38. A. a little B. too much C. no more39. A. And B. But C. So40. A. mother B. adult C. child41. A. balance B. discover C. describe(三)阅读理解（每小题2分，共50分）Ⅶ.阅读下面五篇短文，根据文章的内容选择最佳答案作答42-66小题。
A“You'll have to take care of the baby today,”a woman told her husband. "I'm not feeling well.""Then you must stay in bed and rest, dear" her husband said. "I'll be pleased to look after our baby." "By the way, shall I do the shopping for you as well? " her husband asked.The woman was very glad and said, "That will help me very much. I'll give you a list of things to buy"She wrote out the list and gave it to him.The man took the baby to the supermarket and put him in the shopping cart. Then he pushed the shopping cart along the rows of things and looked for those that were on his list.At first everything was OK, but then the baby began to cry.Then he started to scream.And scream!And SCREAM!“Keep calm, George,” the man said. “Don’t get excited.Don’t shout, George. Don’t lose your temper, George.”A woman in the supermarket heard him saying so. She walked up to him.“I think you are wonderful,” she said. “You are so pati ent with your little George.”“Madam,”the man said, “I’m George.He’s Edward.”42. The man took care of the baby instead because his wife was .A. illB. busyC. angry43. The baby cried so hard .A. at homeB. in the supermarketC. in the street44. When the baby was crying, the father kept taking to for relaxing.A. his babyB. the womanC. himself45. The underlined sentence “Don’t lose your temper.”in this passage means“”.A. calm downB. shut upC. walk on46. The baby’s name is .A. GeorgeB. EdwardC. ScreamBIn the last few years, some researchers have decided to study why kids lie(撒谎)，So they made up a special team of 12students,all under the age of 21.Each student was given 36 cards, and each card listed a topic that teens sometimes lie about to their parents ,The researchers worked through the cards with the teens, learning what things the kid was lying to his parents about ,and why.By the end of the interviews, the kids saw for the first time how much they were lying and how many of family’s rules they had broken. It was reported that 98% of the teens had lied to their parents.Out of the 36 topics, the average(平均) teen was lying to his parents about 12 of them. The teens lied about what movie they went to, and whom they went with .They lied about how they spent their afternoons while their parents were at work, and something like that.Most parents hear their ch ild lie and think he’s too young to understand what lies are or that lying’s wrong. They believe their child will stop, when he gets older .Many books also advise parents to just. let lies go—they’ll grow out of it .But the truth is that kids grow into it. In studies where children are observes(观察) in their natural environment, a 4-year-old child will lie once every two hours ,while a 6-year-old child will lie about once every hour and a half.47. The researchers started the project by .A. playing cardsB. free talkingC. doing a survey48. The topics on 36 cards are mostly between kids and .A. parentsB. teachersC. researchers49. From this passage, the teens lied on about of the 36 topics as an average.A. 12%B. 33%C. 98%50. On this topic, the advice from many books for the parents is that they .A. needn’t worry about it too muchB. should take it serious enoughC. had better do something to stop it51. According to the studies, children tell lies as they get older.A. lessB. moreC. noCThere are many TV programs on Chinese cuisines(烹饪、美食)，but few are like A Bite of China. It tries to bring something new by introducing more cultural features related to dishes, such as eating habits and wonderful stories about food.It’s said that more than 100 million Chinese people are watching the program .Most Chinese people see this program as more than just the regular food shows. They see it as an amazing documentary providing a special view of Chinese as well as the relations between people and food and between people and society.On the other hand ,the documentary also stimulates(刺激)Chinese people’s consumption. Taobao,one of China’s biggest online shopping sites,reports that the search(搜索) on food items that were introduced by the documentary has increased to 4 million times within one week, and sales have increased to 5.82 million, or 20%.To get enough good stories, the production team spent three months doing research and interviews in about 60 cities before they started making the documentary last July. Filming lasted about nine months.Liu Wen, the director, says “As CCTV-9 serves as a window. allowing the world to better understand China, the documentary aims to help the world not only appreciate the beauty of Chinese cuisines ,but also learn Chinese customs.”52. A Bite of China is a .A. filmB. TV showC. book53. This program is quite different from other food shows because it has more features of .A. cultureB. cuisineC. news54. The main idea of the 3rd paragraph is that the program brings a new opportunity on .A. Internet communicationB. film makingC. food business55. It took the production team about to complete the whole program.A. 3 monthsB. six monthsC. a year56. Which of the following statements is TRUE according to this passage?A. Most people watch the program because they want to learn how to cook.B. There’re many wonderful stories about Chinese cuisines in “A Bite of China”.C. You can buy some food that’s more deli cious and cheaper through the program.DThere was an American writer who often told such a story to his friends and readers:It was an exhibition of the artists’ works organized by the Red Cross. I was invited as a special guest to take part in the exhibition. During this period, two cute girls of 16 or 17 years old came to me and asked for my signature(签名)。