2018届北京市顺义区中考一模试题英语笔试试卷知识运用（共14分）一、单项填空（共6分，每小题0.5分）从下面各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空白处的最佳选项。

1．Tomorrow is my mother’s birthday and I’d like to buy ____ some flowers.A. themB. herC. usD. him2．The meeting will begin ________ 4:30 this afternoon. Don’t forget it.A. onB. inC. atD. for3．I’d like to go with you, I’m too busy.A．or B．and C．so D．but4．— ______ is it from your home to the school?—About ten minutes’ walk.A. How farB. How longC. How oftenD. How soon5．— Which do you like ______, tea or coffee?— A cup of tea, please.A. goodB. betterC. bestD. the best6．— Mum, may I go out to play basketball for a while?— No, you _________. The air outside is too dirty to do sports.A．can’t B. shouldn’t C. wouldn’t D. needn’t7．My grandpa ___________ a walk after supper every day.A. takesB. tookC. will takeD. has taken8．–– Where is Mary, Mum?–– She ____ to music in her room.A. listenB. listensC. is listeningD. has listened 9．— What did you do after school yesterday?— I ____ football with my friends.A. playB. playedC. will playD. am playing10．— This school has a long history.— Yes, it _____ more than sixty years ago.A. was builtB. builtC. is builtD. builds11．We _______ in the same school since three years ago.A. studyB. will studyC. were studyingD. have studied 12．— Could you please tell me______ now, Tom?— Yes. I live in Beijing.A. where do you liveB. where did you liveC. where you liveD. where you lived二、完形填空（共8分，每小题1分）阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every time I saw him come back late, looking tired, I promised myself that someday I would show my 13 to my father for what he had done.Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to support our big family and suffered a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my father’s old car broke down and he asked me to pick him up after his medical examination. He had strongly refused when I 14 to replace his old car. He said that he did not want anything that he was unable to pay himself.As he stepped out of the doctor’s office, he looked unusually 15 . We drove in silence and he made me promise to keep the medical report as a 16 . I did this with a heavy heart.At that time, I was expecting a new car, I asked my father to go with me to pick one out.When I started talking with the salesman, I noticed my father 17 a brown car. I finally chose a white car. My father took one final look at the brown car and seemed kind of sorry before leaving. I heard him muttering(嘀咕), “Really like that car. Wish I could 18 it.”Several days later, I asked my father if he could go with me to pick up my new car. As we arrived, the salesman handed him a 19 to his new car---- the brown one, and explained that it was for him, from me. My father looked at me in great surprise, I explained it was my childhood promise and smiled at this man who had 20 everything for his family.13. A. thanks B. dreams C. regrets D. talents14. A. took B. gave C. brought D. offered15. A. angry B. moved C. serious D. friendly16. A. fact B. secret C. decision D. suggestion17. A. seeing B. looking C. admiring D. finding18. A. afford B. borrow C. collect D. choose19. A. report B. bill C. note D. key20. A. set up B. picked up C. given up D. showed up阅读理解（共36分）三、阅读下列短文，根据短文内容，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。

（共26分，每小题2分）A My favourite book…Li MeiMy favorite book is A Friend like Henry. It’s about how a family dog helps a boy deal with his autism(孤独症). When I felt sad, my best friend gave me the book. It cheered me up.Share（7）Support（9）TonyReading in the holiday is an interesting thing. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is my favorite book. It’s about a captain’s travel under the sea. The story is very interesting and the pictures are fantastic. This book can make you relaxed.Share（9）Support（16）MaryIn my opinion, The Little Prince is the best one. In this book, a young prince falls to the Earth from a small planet and experiences a lot. It’s not just a fiction story, but tells us about the correct values.Share（11）Support（18）BobI like reading the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese Literature although I’m a foreigner from Sydney. I can’t wait to tell the st ory The Romance of the Three Kingdoms. It taught me a lot about the three kingdoms of Wei, Shu and Wu. If you are interested in history, don’t miss it.Share（17）Support（23）21. Tony’s favorite book is ________.A. Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaB. The Romance of the Three KingdomsC. A Friend like HenryD. The Little Prince22. Mary thinks The Little Prince is the best because ________.A. it has a long historyB. it tells about the correct valuesC. it has fantastic picturesD. it can deal with her autism23. We can learn a lot about ________ from The Romance of the Three Kingdoms.A. natureB. scienceC. historyD. travelingBTed’s Dream to FlyTed Brown’s dream as a child was an unusual one: he wanted to fly. What was more unusual was the way in which he made his dream come true.After high school, he wanted to join the U. S. Air Force but he failed because of his poor eyesight. However, his dream remained.At the age of 33, Ted was a truck driver in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting outside in his garden, he watched planes fly overhead and an idea came to him: to use balloons to fly.A few weeks later, Ted bought 42 huge balloons. He tied them to a chair and then he sat down in the chair with some beer, sandwiches and a gun. His plan was to fly to 10 meters above his garden, enjoy a few hours in the air, and then shoot some balloons with his gun to get back down. But things did not go as he planned.Once his friends cut the ropes under Ted’s chair, the 42 balloons flew into the sky at an astonishing speed until about 4000 meters abo ve the ground with Ted and his chair. He didn’t shoot any of the balloons because he was afraid he might break the balanc e of his “plane”. Ted stayed in the sky with his beer and sandwiches for 14 hours, cold and frightened.Planes heading towards L os Angeles’ busy international airport reported the strange sight. And Ted’s balloons caused great danger to them. At last, Ted gathered his courage to shoot a few balloons and slowly landed on the ground, where many policemen were waiting for him.Ted made his dream come true, but it cost him: he was fined $ 1,500 for breaking the law about air safety.When asked by a reporter why he had done it, Ted answered, “A man can’t just sit around and do nothing, he should have his dream and go for it.”24. Why couldn’t Ted join the American Air Force?A. Because he was too short.B. Because his parents stopped him.C. Because he didn’t finish high school.D. Because there was problem with his eyes.25. He was fined $ 1,500 because ________.A. he took a gun with himB. he used too many balloonsC. he stayed too long in the airD. his balloons caused trouble to planes26. What does the passage mainly talk about?A. Ted Brown paid the price for his behavior.B. Ted Brown realized his dream in an unusual way.C. Encouragement is very important to one's success.D. Ted Brown became famous because he set a new flying record.CWhy Do People Blink Their Eyes?People blink(眨眼) their eyes tens of thousands of times every day. Scientists have long believed blinking was a natural movement and served mainly to keep the eyeballs wet. But a new study suggests it has a more important purpose.An international team of scientists from the University of California studied the blinking of human eyelids. The journal Current Biology published their findings. The team said they found that blinking “repositions our eyeballs so we can stay focused” on what we are seeing. They said that when we blink our eyelids, the eyes roll back into their sockets(眼窝). However, the researchers found the eyes don’t always return to the same position. They said this causes the brain to tell the eye muscles to reorganize our eyesight.Gerrit Maus , an assistant professor of psychology at a Technological University, said, “Our eye muscles are quite sluggish(迟缓的) and unclear, so the brain needs to repeatedly adapt（适应于）its motor signals to make sure our eyes are pointing where they’re supposed to. Our findings suggested that the brain measures the difference in what we see before and after a blink, and commands（指挥）the eye muscles to make the needed corrections.” The researchers said that without such corrections our surroundings would appear unclear and even jumpy.The researchers said they asked volunteers to sit in a dark room while staring at a small dot on a flat surface. They used special cameras to follow the volunteer’s blinks and eye movements. After each blink, the dot was moved one centimeter to the right. The volunteers did not notice this, but the brain did. It followed the movement and directed the eye muscles to refocus on the dot. After the dot was moved in this way 30 times, the volunteers’ eyes changed their focus to the place where they predicted it would be.Professor Maus said, “Even though participa nts did not consciously（自觉地）register that the dot had moved, their brains did, and adjusted with the corrective eye movements. These findings add to our understanding of how the brain constantly adapts to changes, commanding our eye muscles to correct for errors in our bodies’ own hardware.”27. According to the new study, blinking eyes can ______.A. reposition eyeballs to stay focusedB. consciously correct eye movementsC. make our eyes adapt to motor signalsD. serve to keep the eyeballs wet28. The underlined word “register” in Paragraph 5 probably means ______.A. realizeB. reviewC. remindD. reason29. This passage shows that ______.A. eye muscles are quite inactive and unclearB. the research is of great value in the eye movementC. the brain plays an important role in seeing things clearlyD. volunteers control their blinks to follow the changes of the dotsDDo you find that it’s hard to look at your phone without getting discouraging looks from teachers and parents? What if using social media was an assignment（作业）?In America, the push for more technological classrooms comes from things like smart boards and online textbooks. Some feel that interaction between students and teachers over social media is a bad thing, but others see the benefits. Barrington history teacher Robert Seidel uses the social networking website Twitter to interact with his class. He said technology is a valuable tool in his classroom.“What matters most is how the teacher is using technology, and I have found that technology can help me increase the number of students who actively participate in my course,” said Seidel.Humanities and media teacher Scott Glass from Glenbrook South High School in Illinois believes that social media like Twitter can connect students to the professional world and give them a chance to get their names out there as soon as they can.“I think students are sometimes surprised by how easy it is to connect with professionals,” Glass said. “A simple Google search for any profession will turn up many individuals and organizations who are active on platforms like Twitter.”However, there are problems with putting class work on social platforms (平台). Many teachers, including Seidel, believe that social media and technology in general can easily distract(使分心) students. However, they hope they can find a way to use it properly.“For teachers and students, technology has become both a powerful tool for learning and a potential distraction in the classroom,” Seidel said. “Not only can it improve collaboration,communication and creation in endless ways, but it can also serve as an infinite（极大的）distraction. Properly using technology in the classroom requires additional management from the teacher as well as a great deal of self-discipline (自律) from the students.”Glass believes it’s very important for schools to teach students how to use so cial media. “As a teacher, I think part of my job is to help students understand how best to make use of it as thoughtful learners and creators,” said Glass.30. By using social media, ______.A. it will be easier for teachers to observe students’ perfo rmanceB. students will become more actively involved in coursesC. students will become independent learnersD. fewer students will attend the class31. According to the passage, Glass probably believes that social media ______.A. is a good platform for students to share their class workB. can help students to contact professionals more easilyC. offers students the latest knowledge in real worldD. makes it much easier for students to get jobs32. Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?A. Social media should not be used in the classroom as it distracts students.B. Students will become less creative if they always use technology for study.C. Humanities teachers can make fuller use of social media than science teachers.D. Both teachers and students need to work hard in order to use social media properly.33. What is probably the best title for this passage?A. Social media is popularB. Classes use social mediaC. Technology distracts studentsD. Technology is important四、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。