摘要：为了大家更好的备战中考，编辑老师为大家准备了中考英语考前练习，希望大家可以更上一层楼。

一、词汇。

A.根据汉语提示填写单词。

1.He won a gold medal(奖牌) at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

2.I don't think it's fair(公平的) for her to do all the work.

3.Many students come to the front of the classroom to talk about their countries with pride(自豪).

4.Li Ming didn't come to school today.I suppose(猜测) he was ill in bed.

5.Young people are quickly influenced(影响) by new ideas.

B.用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。每词限用一次，每空限填一词。

wise，especially，success，method，record

6.The players prepared so well that they realized their dream successfully.

7.Don't worry，Xiaodan!I can give you a good method to solve the problem.

8.The player kept the world record in the last Olympic Games.

9.It's a wise idea to give up smoking.

10.I don't like getting up early，especially in winter.

二、语法填空。

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Albert Einstein was one of the most successful scientists in the 20th century.Once a __11__ man asked Albert Einstein what the secret of __12__ (succeed) was.The great scientist told him that the first secret of success was hard __13__.

A few days __14__(late)，the young man came to ask him the same question again.Einstein felt unhappy and got very __15__.

He didn't want to say anything，so he turned to write a few words on a __16__ of paper and handed it to the young man.The young man looked at the piece of paper.On it was __17__(write)：

A=Y+X+Z

“Could you please tell me what this means?”__18__ the young man.

“It's the answer you need.”explained the old scientist.“A means success，Y stands for hard work，X stands for good __19__ of doing things，and Z means that you should stop __20__(talk) now and get down to work.”

11.young 12.success 13.work 14.later

15.annoyed/angry 16.piece 17.written 18.asked

19.methods/ways 20.talking