C.  Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words（在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给):（14分）

The written word is one of the most powerful forms of expression. Classic literature(经典文学)written many years ago still has the power to educate people. Many people find it difficult to read the classics. In fact, reading the classics can be fun especially as you grow up and

d   86    a deeper understanding of the world.

☆      Read for enjoyment.Classic literature should be read for enjoyment as well as education. Look for the works by authors you are f   87    with or have heard about through movies or TV. Choose the type of classic literature that you enjoy reading from past experience.

☆      Keep a dictionary on hand.Use the Oxford English Dictionary as a reference for the words you don’t know or to find out some certain words that have changed in meaning over time. Start slowly and work on reading 30 minutes a day to get into the         h   88   .

☆      Get to read its biographical information(生平).This is b   89    it introduces the background of the story and author. To have a better understanding of the story, find out more about the time in which a work has created and the background of its author.

☆      Do r    90    on the Internet.Large numbers of websites, like Baidu.com, provide information for the study of classical literature.

☆      Understand how the story takes place.Classic literature is often hard to understand and contains difficult character development. Don’t give up r   91    till you finish the whole story and take notes if necessary.

☆      Understand the use of footnotes(脚注) in literature.Classic literature is full of references to social and culture information of the past. Footnotes may be used to explain these references c   92    and make the material easier to understand. 

D. Answer the questions（根据短文内容回答下列问题): ( 12分)

Most of us have never thought about building an educational toy by ourselves. If we need a learning toy or something, we simply go to the nearest store and buy it. However, things are not as easy in third world countries. With families even having no food to put on the table, buying toys, especially the educational ones, is the last thing on the parents’ minds.

So how can one get these kids interested in science? This was a question that worried the Indian engineer Arvind Gupta so much that he decided to give up a good job and spend his life making toys from trash, things that people no longer want or need!

Mr. Gupta began teaching in the 1970s. While still an engineering student at the Indian College of Technology, he volunteered to teach the children who could not afford to go to school. Upon graduation, he found a good job at India’s Tata Motors and spent the next five years designing cars.

But he soon realized that this was not something he wanted to do for the rest of his life. So he took a year’s training course and took part in the Hoshangabad Science Teaching Program whose aim was to make science fun and exciting for poor children using available materials.

Mr. Gupta found the whole project so satisfying that he decided to leave his high-paying job and focus his attention on designing educational toys that were not only cheap and easy to build, but are also full of scientific principles(科学原理), so that children could get interested in this interesting subject.

When the Internet started becoming a more widespread learning tool, Mr. Gupta created aToys from Trash website and also recorded over 250 YouTube videos.

Today, over 50,000 children and teachers visit the website daily to download the videos for the toy creations based on cool science. Some young children have become so inspired(鼓舞)that they have even won international science competitions with the help of his creations.

93. What are these educational toys made from?

   _____________________________________________________________________.

94. Did Arind Gupta start building educational toys as soon as he graduated from the college?

   _________, ___________________________________________________________.

95. Who did Mr. Gupta build these educational toys for?

   _____________________________________________________________________.

96. How are the educational toys designed by Mr. Gupta?

   _____________________________________________________________________.

97. What did Mr. Gupta do to introduce his educational toys?

   _____________________________________________________________________.

98. How can these educational toys help the children in third world countries?

   _____________________________________________________________________.

VII. Writing: （20分）

99. Mr. Jones introduced Lin some school rules on the first day when Lin arrived at the new school in New York. Lin found quite a few differences about Dos and Don’ts between Chinese school rules and American school rules.

在纽约新学校上学的第一天，Jones先生给Lin介绍了学校的一些校规。Lin在日记里描述了一些中美学校校规的对比，并记叙了他/她的感受。假设你是Lin，写一篇不少于60个字的日记。

Suppose you were Lin, write at least 60 words to describe the differences between the Chinese school rules and the American school rules and how you felt about the differences in the diary.

（注意：短文中不得出现任何人名、校名及其它相关信息，否则不予评分。）

Here are the school rules introduced to Lin:

希望同学们能够认真阅读2013年上海徐汇区中考英语试题，努力提高自己的学习成绩。

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