52. What did the restaurant in Xinjiang do to support the campaign?

A. Its owner would have dinner with those who had eaten up their food.

B. It offered a free meal to the guests who had finished all their food ten times.

C. It gave stickers to the guests who ordered small dishes.

D. It encouraged customers to take leftovers home.

C

The Song of Cicadas

Late in the summer, on a cool evening, Addy and her father heard a song high in the trees. “Listen!” said Daddy, “Cicadas!”

Together they searched the trees around their yard and found empty cicada shells, “An insect used to live inside,” Daddy explained. “When it grew bigger, it left its shell behind.” Gently Addy and Daddy pulled the fragile(易碎的)shells off the trees and collected them in a bucket.

Just as Addy reached for one of the shells, it began to walk! The cicada was still inside. Addy watched it slowly crawl up the tree. Then it stopped and sat motionless for what seemed like a long time. A small crack began to open down its shell. The crack got wider and wider, until Addy could see the insect’s back emerging. When it head popped out, Addy looked right into its shiny green eyes.

Slowly and gently each leg slipped out of the shell – two small ones on the front, two in the middle, and two bigger ones on the back. Addy could see two tiny, thin wings that looked like wet paper.

Daddy brought out a chair. “Aren’t your legs getting tired?” he asked, “You’ve been watching for almost an hour now.”

“Look, Daddy!” exclaimed Addy, “Something is happening to the wing.” “The cicada has tiny vessels(脉管)in its wings,” said Daddy. “It fills these vessels with fluid from its body to expand the wings.”

Patiently Addy sat in her chair and watched and watched. The sun went down and the air became very cool. Mommy called from the house, “Time to come inside!”

Reluctantly Addy went inside. When she was ready for bed, she and Daddy took his flashlight out to check on the cicada once more. It was still resting on its shell.

“It was hard work for the cicada to come out of its shell,” said Daddy. “It probably needs a long rest.”

When Addy woke the next morning, she ran outside to the tree to check her cicada. A fragile, dull, empty shell was hanging in the spot she had stared at for so long.

That evening, as Daddy pushed Addy on her swing, they heard a familiar song high in the trees.

“Listen!” said Addy. “My cicada!”

53. Which event happens first in the story?

A. Addy’s mother calls her inside.     B. Addy runs out to check her cicada.

C. Addy discovers a shell that moves.  D. Addy’s father brings her a chair.

54. Read the sentence in paragraph 3. The underlined word “emerging” most likely means ______.

A. coming out          B. bending over          C. growing larger       D. changing color

55. What can we learn from the story?

A. Daddy likes collecting the cicada’s shells    B. Cicada can sing many different songs.

C. Addy is curious about the nature.          D. Mommy isn’t happy with them.

D

Why do people drink too much, eat too much, smoke cigarettes or take drugs? What’s to blame for all the bad behavior? Most people would say that, while these self-destructive(自我毁灭性的)acts can have many root causes, they all have one obvious thing in common: they are all examples of failures of self-control, lacking the will power to resist them.

According to a recent study, however, if you really think about it, something about that simple answer doesn’t quite make sense. In fact, it turns out that sometimes it’s having will power that really gets you into trouble.

Think back to the time you took your very first sip(啜饮)of beer. Disgusting, wasn’t it? When my father gave me my first taste of beer as a teenager, I wondered why anyone would voluntarily drink it. And smoking? No one enjoys their first cigarette – it tastes awful. So even though smoking, and drinking alcohol or coffee, can become temptation(诱惑)you need will power to resist, they never, ever start out that way.

Just getting past those first horrible experiences actually requires a lot of self-control. Ironically(讽刺的是), only those who can control themselves well, rather than give in to them, can ever come to someday develop a “taste” for Budweiser beer, Marlboro cigarettes, or dark-roasted Starbucks coffee. We do it for social acceptance. We force ourselves to consume alcohol, cigarettes, coffee and even illegal drugs, in order to seem experienced, grown-up, and cool.

These bad habits aren’t self-control failures – far from it. They are voluntary choices, and they are in fact self-control successes. Self-control is simply a tool to be put to some use, helpful or harmful. To live happy and productive lives, we need to develop not only our self-control, but also the wisdom to make good decisions about when and where to apply it.

56. What do most people think causes bad behavior?

A. Being forced by others.          B. Not having enough will power.

C. Enjoying their first experience.    D. Following the examples of their friends.

57. The author mentions his experience in the third paragraph to prove ______.

A. will power helps develop bad habits sometimes

B. drinking beer is harmful to the health of teenagers

C. self-control should be developed when one is young

D. everyone can be challenged by different temptations

58. In the last paragraph, the author stresses(强调)that ______.

A. without self-control, no one can succeed

B. bad habits don’t always lead to bad results

C. applying self-control correctly is important

D. people can develop wisdom from bad behavior

59. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. My First Sip of Beer                              B. Do You Have Will Power

C. Will Power Benefits Us                         D. Dark Side of Self-control

七、阅读短文，根据短文内容，从短文后的五个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有一项为多余选项。(共8分，每小题2分)

Solar power (太阳能) is clean and environmentally-friendly, and it’ll never be used up. It offers a good way to collect the energy from the sunlight and change it into electricity.  60  . At the same time, you can do something very helpful for the environment.

61  . Here is a special house. The sun gives it power. It’s a solar house!

The walls of the house are made of glass on which you can feel the heat of the sun. It makes the house warm. Inside the house there is a kitchen. Panels (控制板) on the roof of the kitchen catch the sunlight.  62  , because its power comes from the sun. There is also a lovely bathroom in the house and the sun will give heat to its water pipes on the roof. Solar power is very popular now.

63  It has been used to power some cars and boats. Swiss engineers have come up with a car that uses both electricity and solar power to successfully travel on roads.

A. The kitchen is special

B. It’s for not only homes but also businesses

C. Using solar power, you don’t need to pay for expensive electricity

D. People have been using solar energy for hundreds of years

E. Solar power also can offer you a way to heat your home in the colder part of the year

八、阅读短文，根据短文内容回答问题。(共10分，每小题2分)

Are you expecting something big from Disney? Well, it may be a big hit, but it’s not a big hero.

Young Piglet, so small that he is often overlooked by his friends, lives in the Hundred Acre Wood. When Piglet’s friends set out to harvest honey from the beehives(蜂窝)in the forest, the little pig is told that he’s too small to come along. Feeling inferior(自卑的)to his friends, Piglet sets off to work out his place in the world.

When the honey hunters return, they can’t find their little friend Piglet, only

his notebooks of their past adventures. As they look through the books, Winnie the Pooh(小熊维尼), Tigger, Eeyore and the Rabbit realize just how much their small friend means to them, and how much they’ve taken him for granted.

So, they set out to find Piglet in order to ask him to come back home. Along the way the little pig shows that he had been a hero in many ways.

Piglet’s Big Movie(小猪历险记) is a new, warm Disney offering. It follows films starring

Winnie the Pooh and Tigger.

Piglet’s film came out in mid-March and it has ranked among the top ten since March 21 in American box offices.

Piglet’s Big Movie, with its lessons has been warmly welcomed by kids. “Piglet is so sweet, so warm-hearted. It is hard not to love him,” said Loren King, a girl in the United States. “There are messages about self-respect and appreciating people who are important to you.”

The animation(动画片) is partly made by computers, but mostly made up of attractive watercolor art, which gives it a classic look.

64. What does Young Piglet look like?

65. Why does Piglet leave to work out his place?

66. How do Piglet’s friends feel when they look through the notebook?

67. When did the Piglet’s Big Movie come out?

68. What’s the Piglet’s Big Movie mainly about?

九、完成句子(共10分，每小题2分)

根据中文意思完成句子。

69. 今天天气不错，咱们出去散散步怎么样?

It’s sunny today.¬                              going out for a walk?

70. ‘中国式过马路’到了该禁止的时候了

the Chinese style of crossing the road.

71. 体育加试就要到了，你最好每天都坚持锻炼。

P.E examination is coming.                          doing sports every day.

72. 你能告诉李明尽快来图书馆吗?

to the library as soon as possible?

73. 目前H7N9禽流感日益严重，对我们来说养成良好的卫生习惯很重要。

H7N9 Bird Flu              in China , so              a good healthy habit.

十.文段表达(15分)

根据中文大意和英文提示词语，写出意思连贯，符合逻辑不少于60词的短文。所给英文提示词语供选用。请不要写出你的校名和姓名。

74.随着中考的临近，初三学生面临的压力越来越大，“减压(to relieve pressure) 成了老师，家长和学生业余谈论最多的话题。调查表明：旅游(traveling)，读书(reading)，听音乐(listening to music) 和参加体育锻炼(doing sports) 等是最受学生们欢迎的减压方式。请你结合自己的生活实际，谈一谈你是采用什么方式减压的，效果如何?

提示词语：Senior High School Entrance Examination(中考)，stress(压力)

随着中考的临近，初三学生面临的压力越来越大，“减压(to relieve pressure) 成了老师，家长和学生业余谈论最多的话题。调查表明：旅游(traveling)，读书(reading)，听音乐(listening to music) 和参加体育锻炼(doing sports) 等是最受学生们欢迎的减压方式。请你结合自己的生活实际，谈一谈你是采用什么方式减压的，效果如何?

提示词语：Senior High School Entrance Examination(中考)，stress(压力)

As the Senior High School Entrance Examination is approaching, a lot of students in my class are under plenty of stress which makes us come to the point of desperate exhaustion. So how to relieve the pressure on us has been a hot topic among the teachers, students and their parents.

I am not such kind of person as most of my classmates who choose to travel or do some sports to relax. As for me, reading is the priority whenever I am down. Every night after I have finished my homework, I would like to read a few pages of Reader Digest in which the stories will always give me the courage to keep moving on and drive all the tiredness away.

I think books are great guidance of our life. Through reading I could get the pleasure that I will never get through other ways.

总结：以上就是中考英语一模试卷的内容，希望能帮助同学们找到技巧复习，在中考时发挥最好的水平！

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