无锡市新区中考英语一模试卷及答案

29. The purpose of making a canoe on the island was to _____________.

A. escape in it               B. get to the other side of the island

C. use it for food            D. go around the island

30. To survive, the writer did the following EXCEPT _____________.

A. keeping goats for milk      B. making clothes from animal skins

C. working in the cornfields    D. going fishing in the sea

31. Why didn’t the writer use his first canoe?

A. Because it was too small for a long journey.

B. Because it was too heavy to get down to the sea.

C. Because there was something wrong with it.

D. Because the writer was busy building a second house.

C

Trees are useful to man in three important ways: they give him wood and other useful things, they give him cool places, and they help to stop drought and flood.

Unluckily, in many parts of the world, man has not found that the third of these points is the most important. Man wants to make money from trees, so he has cut them down in large numbers, only to find that without them he has lost the best friends he had. And also, he is usually too careless to plant and look after new trees. So the forests slowly disappear.

This does not only mean that man will have fewer trees. The results are even worse: for where there are trees, their roots break up soil(土壤)-make the rain in-and also bind(粘合) the soil,  thus(这样) stopping it from being washed away easily; but where there are no trees, the rain falls on hard ground and flows away, causing floods and carrying away the rich top-soil. When all the top-soil is gone, nothing is left but useless desert.

32. The most important points of trees to man is that________.

A. they help him to make money             B. they give him cool

C. they give him wood and other things        D. they help him to stop drought and floods

33. In many places forests slowly disappear because ________ .

A. many trees have been cut down by man

B. new trees are not well looked after

C. man has not paid enough attention to planting trees

D. all the above

34. Land becomes desert after all trees are cut down because ________ .

A. roots of trees break up the soil

B. there are too many rainfalls

C. strong winds bring a lot of sand

D. there are no longer trees to keep the rain and protect the top-soil.

35. Which title best fits the passage?

A. Trees and Man                 B. The Function of Tree Wood

C. How do People do with Trees?    D. The Usage of Tree Roots

D

Mr father woke me up early one summer morning when I was fourteen and announced(宣布): “Get up, you’re going with me to cut the grass in the garden.”

The idea that my father thought I was old enough to help him in his business made me feel proud and excited. From sunup to sundown, my father, my younger brother and I worked in the large garden. By the end of the day I was too tired to say a word but I felt good. This was my first time to help my father in his business. I got $ 6 for my work that day.

One day my father found some leaves I had missed and pulled me aside. “Take away these leaves!” he said, “and don’t make me have to tell you to do it again.” The message was clear. Today I value(珍视) the importance of doing a job well the first time. It will never fail to impress(给……留下印象) the person you are working for.

After two years, my father told me and my brother that he felt we were old enough to cut the grass by ourselves. Every Saturday during my last two years of high school, we set off early in the morning with the same strong wish we had gained while working under our father.

Looking after the garden was neither exciting nor high paying, but that didn’t matter. It taught me that any job was a good job and that whatever I was paid was more than I had before.

A newspaper reporter once asked me how someone could possibly live with hard work and low pay. “If you’re only thinking about hard work and money, you probably don’t want to do any better than you are doing.” I answered. In every job, from cutting the grass to washing dishes, I’ve learned much. I’ve learned something that helps me in my next job.

If you work hard enough, you can learn from any job you do.

36. The writer felt proud and excited when he was asked to cut the grass because he thought _________.

A. he could cut the grass himself   B. he could make much money

C. he could enjoy sunup and sundown  D. he could help his family

37. The word “message” in the passage probably refers to(指) __________.

A. not leaving leaves behind              B. giving no excuse for your mistakes

C. doing a good job at the very beginning    D. missing things which can be found out

38. When the writer finished high school, maybe he was _________ years old.

A. fourteen      B. eighteen         C. twenty         D. twenty-two

39. Which of the following does the writer probably think is the most important?

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