2011夏津县中考英语模拟试题
36. From the passage, we know that bicycling is becoming very .
A. surprisingB. excitingC. expensiveD. popular
37. When you are riding your bicycle around your neighbourhood, you may .
A. pollute the environment around B. find something you didn’t notice
C. go everywhere and use a little oilD. get off your bike and begin to work
38. If you travel with a folding bike, you can fold it and _ .
A. get out of the car B. take it onto a train
C. put it in your purse D. go on airline websites
39. One of the benefits from bicycling is that .
A. you can fold the bicycleB. you will be friendly to others
C. you will be more relaxedD. you may get fatter and fatter
40. Which is TRUE according to the passage?
A. Bicycling is enjoyable exercise for people.
B. Driving cars is healthier than riding bikes.
C. Riding a bike pollutes your neighbourhood.
D. Common bikes are welcomed by all airlines.
C
Are you interested in country music? I like it very much! It will take me away for a while after I am tired .The guitars and songs will take me to mountains and fields.
Country music usually talks of everyday life and feelings. It’s the spirit of America , easy to understand ,slow and simple.
Country music developed in the Southern United States. It was the folk music of American countryside. Many of songs tell about the lives of farmers .They talk about love, crops or death. The life of the countryside can be hard, so the words in country music are often sad. At first, people played the music only at family parties. But it became more popular later. In the 1920s, people played country songs on the radio, and they made them into records.
When people in the countryside moved to towns and cities to look for work, they took their music with them. Country music continued to change and became popular across America.
John Denver was one of America’s most famous country singers in the 1970s.His song “Take Me home, Country Roads” is well-known and people still play it today.
41. Country music is usually about _______.
A. everyday life and feelings B. farmers’ feelingsC. the lives of workers
42. Country music developed ________.
A. in John Denver’s city
B. in the Southern United States
C. in the Northen United States
43. People bagan to make country song records _______.
A. in the 1920s B. in 1920C. in the 1970s
44. Why did Country music become popular in America?
A. Because city people liked the music.
B. Because farmers moved to cities with their music and it continued
to change.
C. Because country music talked about city people’s lives.
45. Who is famous for the song “Take Me Home, Country Roads”?
A. A farmer in the countryside.B.A person who moved to towns
C. John Denver.
D
People often say that the Englishman’s home is his castle. They mean that the home is very important and personal to him. Most people in Britain live in houses rather than flats, and many people own their homes. This means that they can make them individual（个体的）;they can paint them, and change them in any way they like. Most house have a garden, even if it is a very small one, and the garden is usually loved. The house and the garden are the private（私人的）space of the individual.
People usually like to mark their space. Are you sitting now in your home or on a train? Have you marked the space around yourself as yours? If you are on the train you may put your coat or small bag on the seat beside you. If you share a flat you may have one corner or chair which is your own.
Once I was travelling on a train to London .I was in a section for four people and there was a table between us .The man took on the space on my side of the table at all. I was angry. Maybe he thought that he owned the whole table. I had read a book about non-verbal communication, so I took various papers out of my bag and put them on his briefcase! When I did this he stiffened and his eyes nearly popped(瞪出)out of his head. I had invaded(侵犯)his space! A few minutes later I took my papers off his case in order to read them. He immediately moved his case to his side of the table. Of course, it is possible that he just wanted to be helpful to me!
If you are visiting another country you may feel that you don’t have any private space. Hotel rooms look much the same in every country in the world. All day long, you share public spaces with other people. You see the local people in their private spaces and you feel lonely and “outside”. Local people can create their private spaces by talking about things you don’t know about .And you even feel that they like you to be outside them so that they will enjoy being inside even more! This is one of the difficulties of being a traveler! But if you understand it then it helps you .Haven’t you enjoyed being part of a group and “owning” a bit of space?
46. The writer was angry as he was travelling on a train to London because______.
A. he had no place to sit
B. someone had invaded his “space”
C. too many people shared a section with him
D. some other people talked about things he didn’t know about
47. “… you feel lonely and ‘outside” in paragraph 4 means that_______.
A. you are alone outside the house
B. you feel lonely because you travel on your own
C. you are alone and therefore you go outside to have some fun
D. you feel lonely and you don’t belong to that place or that group of people
48.In Paragraph 4 ,the pronoun “them’ refers to（所指） “___________”.
A. public spacesB. private spaces C. local people D. other countries
49.Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A. British people dislike marking their space.
B. You always feel at home in another country.
C. Most British people prefer living in houses to flats.
D. You can’t mark your private space in a foreign country.
50. The main purpose of the passage is to tell readers to _______.
A. own private spaces by living in houses
B. have one corner of their own in public places
C. realize the importance of “space” in communication
D. create their private spaces by talking with local people
2011夏津中考英语模拟试题
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