浙江省杭州市2017年中考英语模拟试卷（十二）

1. 阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。
   Bored with your life? Dreaming of something different? When I feel like that I look up and wonder what life would be like 400km above my head. That's where the International Space Station orbits the Earth, with six astronauts living and working on board, for months at a time.
How do they sleep? They spend the night floating in a sleeping bag inside a small cubicle on the ceiling. American astronaut Sunita Williams explains: "It's like a little phone booth but it's pretty comfy and it doesn't matter if I turn over and sleep upside down. I don't have any sensation in my head that tells me I'm upside down."
Brushing your teeth in a place where you can't have a tap or a sink can be a challenge. Can you imagine the mess that running water would make in zero gravity? Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield uses a straw to put a big blob of water from a sealed bag onto an ordinary toothbrush and adds a little toothpaste - which he has to swallow when he's done.
Daily exercise is essential. The lack of gravity makes bones more brittle and muscles lose strength – so astronauts are encouraged to work out for at least two hours a day.
The role of astronauts in the International Space Station is to act as lab technicians for scientists back on Earth. So they spend their time maintaining their environment and performing and monitoring experiments in a confined space about the size of a Boeing 747. Almost every task is carefully planned by mission control - although most astronauts spend their first days losing stuff until they get used to sticking everything they use to the walls with Velcro, duct tape or clips.
One of their most valued perks is the view from "the office", dominated by that gigantic blue ball down there, sitting in the darkness of space. Wow! Absolutely breathtaking!

2. 阅读理解
One day a daughter complained to her father that her life was miserable and that she didn,t know how she was going to make it. She was tired of fighting and struggling all the time. It seemed just as one problem was solved, another one soon followed.
　　Her father, a chef, took her to the kitchen. He filled three pots with water and placed each on a high fire. Once the three pots began to boil, he placed potatoes in one pot, eggs in the second pot, and ground(研磨过的)coffee beans in the third pot.
He then let them sit and boil, without saying a word to his daughter.　　
After twenty minutes he turned off the burners. He took the potatoes out of the pot and placed them in a bowl. He pulled the eggs out and placed them in a bowl. He then ladled the coffee out and placed it in a cup. Turning to her, he asked. “Daughter, what do you see?”
　　“Potatoes, eggs, and coffee,” she hastily replied. 
　　“Look closer,” he said. She did and noticed that potatoes were soft. After pulling off the shell of the egg, she found the hard-boiled egg. Finally, the rich aroma from the coffee brought a smile to her face.
　　“Father, what does this mean?”She asked.
　　He then explained that the potatoes, the eggs and coffee beans had each faced the same adversity– the boiling water.
　　However, each one reacted differently.
　　The potato went in strong, hard, and unrelenting, but in boiling water, it became soft and weak.
　　The egg was fragile, with the thin outer shell protecting its liquid interior until it was put in the boiling water. Then the inside of the egg became hard.
　　However, the ground coffee beans were unique. After they met the boiling water, they changed the water and created something new.
“Which are you,” he asked his daughter. “Are you a potato, an egg, or a coffee bean? ”

3. 阅读理解
There was a man who had four sons. He wanted his sons to learn to not judge things too quickly. So he sent them each on a quest, in turn, to go and look at a pear tree that was a great distance away. The first son went in the winter, the second in the spring, the third in summer, and the youngest son in the fall.
　　When they had all gone and come back, he called them together to describe what they had seen. The first son said that the tree was ugly, bent, and twisted. The second son said no - it was covered with green buds and full of promise. The third son disagreed, he said it was laden with blossoms that smelled so sweet and looked so beautiful, it was the most graceful thing he had ever seen. The last son disagreed with all of them; he said it was ripe and drooping with fruit, full of life and fulfillment.
　　The man then explained to his sons that they were all right, because they had each seen but one season in the tree's life.
　　He told them that you cannot judge a tree, or a person, by only one season, and that the essence of who they are - and the pleasure, joy, and love that come from that life - can only be measured at the end, when all the seasons are up.
　　If you give up when it's winter, you will miss the promise of your spring, the beauty of your summer, fulfillment of your fall. Don't let the pain of one season destroy the joy of all the rest.

4. 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后在各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
    How old does one have to give   31all of one's profits to charity? 40? 30 at  2  ?
Well, the answer in this case, is 13. Yes, Raje, a 13-year-old girl from Bombay, gives all the   3   from her small handicraft business to help out those in need.
    One day, when Raje was being 4  about the food   5 at home, her mother took her to a neighboring slum area（贫民区） where a food truck was distributing food to the underprivileged（弱势群体）. Seeing children running behind the truck, unsure about   6  their next meal was coming from, Raje made up her mind to help in any way possible.
    Later that year, during Diwali, she started making and   7   small sky lantern and earned enough money to buy sweets for the kids and celebrate the festival with them. Since then, Raje has continued her initiative of spreading joy. She makes paper crafts  8  envelopes, photo frames, greeting cards, handicrafts as  9  as dolls, and uses the profits for a good cause.
    When her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer and was undergoing   10 , Raje began thinking about the cancer patients who could not  11 medical care. That year, she raised 30000 dollars for cancer patients. This Diwali, Raje will be conducting a workshop for poor kids  12 from cancer, teaching them how to make handicafts.
    Her inspiring story was shared over 1600   13  within two days on Facebook, and readers have showered her with hundreds of   14 comments. Raje,s story is certainly an  15   for everyone, it reinforces an important message-where there,s a will, there's a way!

5. 根据文章大意，填上空格
Last month, Mr. and Mrs. Walter moved to a small town because they both retired from work and wanted to live a peaceful life. After being there a short time, Mrs. Walter complained to her next-door neighbor. She told him about the poor service she received at the local convenient store. She was hoping the neighbor would repeat her (satisfy) to the store owner.
The next day the newcomer went to the store, the owner greeted her with big smile. He told her happy he was to see her again, and said he hoped she liked their town. He also offered (he) as a resource to Mrs. Walter and her husband as they got settled. Then he took care of her order quickly.
Mrs. Walter was very (surprise). When she got home, she reported the big change to her neighbor. “I suppose you told him how poor I thought the service was,” she guessed.
“Well, no,” the neighbor said. “In fact—and I hope you don,t mind—I told him you were amazed at the way he had built up this small town store, and you thought it was one of (good)-run stores you,d ever seen.”
Mrs. Walter, s neighbor understood that people want to (respect). Actually, most people will do nearly anything for you if you treat them respectfully. That means (make) it clear to them that their feelings are important, and their opinions are precious.

6. Over 4 m people visited Hangzhou during the Spring Festival because of G20 summit!  

7. Without thinking t, Jimmy jumped into the river to save the kid.  

8. During the winter camp, Emma became the quickest runner a the students.  

9. In Italy, ice cream is k as gelato.  

10. More and more people like to use WeChat Payment or Alipay i of cash when shopping.

11. The doctor asked my grandmother to have a physical checkup on F every year.   

12. Hearing someone came in, my younger sister hid h behind the door.  

13. Last Saturday we went to the countryside where we can e clean and fresh air.   

14. Nowadays many taxi apps enable people to get around the city more e.     

15. With the help of the Google maps, people needn,t worry about g lost anywhere.   

16. 现在越来越多的人开始参与体育锻炼，有的加入跑团，有的跳广场舞，有的甚至报名参加马拉松比赛，请结合自己的情况谈谈你经常参与的运动项目，以及运动给你带来的好处。
提示： 以下词组可参考（take part in   regularly be good for  feel relaxed   keep fit   get rid of）
注意：①词数：80左右；
      ②包含以上各点，意思连贯、符合逻辑。
      ③ 短文中不得出现任何人名，校名及其他相关信息，否则不予评分。
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