江苏省苏州市2018年英语中考模拟试题（五）

I will see what I can do, but I can't             anything.

Father's Day is coming. I want to buy a fine tie for my father, but       is fit for him in the shops nearby.

If you have any question, please       free to contact me at smith@126. com.

—Did you watch "The Reader" yesterday?

—Yes. I never miss it        I have something really important to do.

If you can do what you're       in, you can deal with any challenge.

My room is a mess, but I       clean it before I go out tonight. I can do it in the morning.

—WeChat has made a great difference to people's life.

—     . We can use it to communicate with others easily.

—       is it from the park to the old city center?

—Less than 30 minutes by underground.

People       more chances to receive good health care than they used to, and they're living longer as a result.

—Why not use the computers, Jack?

—Our computers        by a virus, so the engineer disabled(禁用)all of them.

The two close friends are of the same       in clothes, though they are quite different in character.

—I'm sorry, Mr Chen. But my bike was broken on the way.

—That's all right. But I don't like persons who always    stories.

—My sister is going to the USA for further study.

—How lucky! It's a good chance to improve      .

What? You stayed up all night and ran ten kilometers. You know you can't      , don't you?

—Michael was late for Mr Smith's chemistry class this morning.

—     ? As far as I know, he never came late to class.

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    When I was ten, I was crazy about candy. Whenever in our small-town 1 with my mom, I would run my fingers through my favourite candy on the shelf.

    Once I noticed a man pushing buttons on the ATM machine. He seemed to be hurriedly waiting for his cash to appear. He quickly got a pile of bills and headed out. Curiously I walked over and saw a beautiful $100 bill at the bottom of the machine.2I wanted to believe my magic made the cash appear. I knew the man must have left it behind.

    I held the money in my hand, looking at the number "100" and feeling 3 than I ever had. I thought about putting the money into my pocket. No one would know, but it didn't feel4.So I told my mom what had happened. "We will look for him." she said. We rushed out and found him stepping into his car! We went over and asked if he had left money at the cash machine.

    "Let me 5" he said, pulling out his wallet and bill. "One hundred, two hundred, three...Oh!You're right," he said with surprise. "I'm 6a $100 bill."

    "Here you go," I said, smiling with pride, as if I was a detective who solved a mystery. "Thank you so much," he said. Before saying goodbye, he asked me for my name and address.

    On my way home, my7 was racing. 100 dollars. What could I have done with it? I bet I could have bought a puppy or every single candy bar or something else in town! But now 8 of that would happen. Yet I knew I had done the right thing.

    A few weeks later, I got a box with a note. I opened it to find packages of candy.

   "Dear Felice， thank you very much for returning my $100. Your are a great girl, and I appreciate(欣赏)your9action. I hope you enjoy this candy. Best wishes, Tom."The candy tasted sweet. Although my act wouldn't always be 10 with candy, it would make a difference to someone. And that was the sweetest part of all.

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    April Hot SALE@ Nobel Book store

    To celebrate our 30th birthday, we are having a big sale!

Children's books	Textbook	Picture book	Story book
	25% off	30% off	20 % off
20% disount(折扣)on all adults' books!

    Amazing events in our birthday month:

Time&Place	Event	Speaker
25 April, 4 p.m. Fanta Centre, 3F	Introduction: The School Diaries	Claire Tay, writer of the book
26 April, 1 p. m. Retro Mall, 2F	Discussion: How to improve through reading	Michael Hawes, English professor
28 April, 7 p. m. Winkel Mall, 1F	Lecture: The most popular books of the year	David Koh, director of the bookstore
29 April,8 p. m. Fanta Centre, 3F	Question & Answer: Face to face with arenownedwriter	Kate White, winner  of many international awards

    Spend over $50 and get a chance to win a $10 gift card.

    Spend over $100 and get a chance to win prizes, from Nobel membership, e-dictionaries to concert tickets!

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    It was already 8:30 in the morning. Lin Tao, a 14-year-old schoolboy, still didn't show up at school. He was often late for school! The teacher called his father and got to know he played computer games online late the night before and couldn't get up that morning. In fact, he had played online games since the age of 11. He almost dropped out of school last year.

    Lin Tao is not alone. Information from China Internet Center shows that the number of teenage Internet user in China had been about 170 million by the end of December, 2017. Many of them, like Lin Tao, spend too much time playing computer games online.

    To deal with this problem, the Chinese government worked out a draft regulation(法规草案)in January this year. According to the regulation, players need to use their own ID cards to play online games. Game companies will control teenagers' online game time. They will not be able to play online games between 12:00 at night and 8:00 in the morning. If they are still playing during the time, the game companies will lock them out.

    Many people think that the regulation can surely better protect Chinese young game players online, while others doubt whether it can successfully stop them from playing games too much. "More and more people come to know that playing online games too much not only brings teenagers healthy and study problems, but also makes them depressed(沮丧的)and lonely," Tong Xiaojun, director from a university, told CCTV. "We need support from the whole society to solve the problem."

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    THREE CENTURIES OF HOAXES(骗局;恶作剧)!

    A THINKING MACHINE

    In 1769, long before computers were invented, a man from Hungary(匈牙利)built a wonderful machine that could play chess very well. It made people all over Europe happy and beat nearly everyone it played against .including famous people like French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, and scientist and inventor Yenjamin Franklin. For years, many people believed that it was truly a thinking machine. There were people who said it was a hoax, but could not prove it or explain how it worked. About 85 years later, the secret was finally found. There was a man hiding inside the machine all the time... who was very good at playing chess!

ZOO ESCAPE(逃脱)

    On November 9, 1874, New York newspaper,The Herald, ran a terrible story on its front page. It said that all the animals in the Central Park Zoo had escaped and were running around the city. It said the police were working to save people, but 27 people had already been killed, and 200 people hurt. It warned everyone to stay at home to avoid the danger. Many people in New York were terrified, and did as the paper said. If only they had read the final words of the article, which said; "Not one word of it is true. Not a single act described has taken place." It was just a hoax. The story was made up by Thomas Connery, aneditor atThe Herald, who wanted to draw attention to the poor condition of cages in the zoo.

    ROSIE THE RUNNER

    The first woman to cross the finishing line of the 1980 Boston Marathon(马拉松)was 23-year-old Rosie Ruiz. However, as she climbed the stairs to receive her prize, people started to become suspicious(怀疑的).She didn't seem to be tired at all. Furthermore, none of the other runners remembered seeing her, and her picture never appeared in photos or TV broadcasts of the race. Later, several people said that they had seen her join the race only at the end. It turned out she had run only half a mile(about 805 meters) and taken the train for the rest of the race! Her prize was taken away, of course.

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    There is a popular belief that goldfish only have a three-second memory. But a 15-year-old schoolboy from Adelaide has just finished an experiment to tell us that it is not true. He shows everybody that the goldfish is smarter than we think.

    "I don't believe that they had a three-second memory because animals need their memory, so they build up over time a knowledge of where the food is," said Rory Stokes, a student at the Australian Science and Mathematics School.

    He did the experiment in a small tank(鱼缸)of goldfish. "I decided to get a bit of red Logo and just feed them next to that. Every day I'd put it in and spread food around it." He said.

    "At first they were a bit scared of it, but by the end of the three weeks, they were actually almost coming before I put the food in."

    After leaving the fish alone for a week, Rory placed the red Logo block in the tank again.

    "They remembered perfectly well," he said.

    "They actually had a time faster than the average(平均)of the three feeds before I left."

    The goldfish showed that they not only could store information, but also had the ability to get it back at a later date.

    Culum Brown, a researcher at Sydney′s Macquarie University, has studied fish behavior for more than ten years.

    He says his studies of Australian native fish show fish are smart animals that know how to avoid enemies and catch food like any other animal.

    "The thing that I really liked about Rory′s experiment is that he not only got that classical conditioning going but the fact that he could get thorn next just to that specific coloured marker. I thought it was really good." He said.

With the(发展)of economy(经济), our income(收入) has increased by 10% in less than a year.

Neil has many TF boys' posters in his room so that he can see them  (无论何时)he wants.

She's won many world competitions, (包括)four gold medals in the Olympics.

We are all against  (传播)other people's personal information on the Internet.

James looks at his watch from time to time. Why is he so (急躁的)?

It's important to know how to ask for help in a foreign country, but it's more important to know how to ask for help (礼貌地).

The boy has such a good  that he can remember all the details clearly.

—It's very kind of you to carry the box for me.

—It's my .

—I went to have the driving test this morning, but I didn't it.

—Better luck next time.

—What's the weather like tomorrow?

—to the radio, it will snow.

我想知道这对年轻的夫妇结婚多久了。

如果你在公共场所吸烟，将会被罚款。

唐明很粗鲁，不能和其他同学和谐相处。

三小时后这些游客们将直飞北京。

请尽可能少发出噪音，以免吵醒孩子。

阅读下面的短文用英语回答问题，并将答案写在横线上。

    It was a summer afternoon in the countryside. Wan Bo, a university student, was painting while his classmate Tang Qi was making a wooden box by the river. A little riding on a rocking horse caught their eye by chance. It brought them back to their childhood, warm and happy.

    "Why not try to make one by ourselves?" said Wan Bo. "You are good at making things and I am interested in painting."

    "Actions speak louder than words," Tang Qi said. Then, the two young men began to collect some information about it. During those days, watching videos about caring(雕刻) and shaping wood into horse shapes on the Internet became an important part of their life.

    Several months later, a wooden rocking horse appeared. They felt so excited that they put the picture of it on the Internet right away. To their surprise, it attracted lots of people's attention and some even hoped to order one.

    The two young men thought it might be a good chance. They sent some forms to the customers to make a survey. According to the result, they made each customer a special rocking horse. These horses were quite different from those produced in other factories, and they soon became popular among the customers.

    In the first year of their new hobby, Wan and Tang made thirteen rocking horses. Sometimes, they also repaired rocking horses for people. They made the old ones look new again. Wan and Tang helped those people bring back many happy memories.

    Their hobby has now become a successful and busy business.

保护环境是每一个人的责任。假设下面是你阅读了有关环保的书之后的变化，请根据表格内所给内容写一篇短文。

过去	现在
1）坐爸爸的车上学 2）东西旧了就扔 3）购物时要塑料袋	1）走路或骑单车上学 2）尽可能久地使用东西，并回收利用 3）购物时带自己的包
你认为作为中学生应该如何做才能保护好环境?(至少两点)

要求：1）短文必须包含所给信息，并适当发挥.要求语句通顺，意思连贯。

2）表格中最后一栏用2句话展开合理想象，做适当发挥。

3）词数在90个左右.文章的开头部分已给出，不计入总同数。

    It is our duty to protect our environment. After reading a book about the environment, I have changed a lot.