Ever since we became pen pals, Julien has sent me strange things. Once, she sent her sneeze in a jar.（“I have a cold, can you tell?” she wrote.） Then she sent her fingerprint.（“So you’ll recognize me in a crowd.”）
Julien sent me breakfast, all right: cornflakes. Soggy, milky, grainy, crumbly, limp cornflakes scraped from the bottom of her cereal bowl. I lost my appetite, but I read the letter.
Dear Caitlin, These cornflakes were so nutritious that I wanted to share this high-fiber, low-so-dium, just-three-calories, balanced breakfast with you. Enjoy, Julien P. S. Next week I’m sending you a sunset. |
“She’s mistaken,” I told my mom. “No one can send a sunset, not even Julien. It’s impossible.”
“I don’t know,” Mom said. “Julien might find a way. After all, she did send you her sneeze.”
A week later I checked the mail and found a box with air holes and the words “FRAGILE—THIS SIDE UP” printed in bold black letters on the top. It was from Julien.
I stroked the box with my fingers. It was perfectly dry. I smelled it. It didn’t smell. I held my breath and started opening the package. What if sunbeams spring out and hit me in the face like those fake snakes in a can? I thought.
My hands shook as I lifted the last flap and peeked inside. Where in the world was the sunset? All I could find was a letter and a twisty, gray, papery shell. It looked like a submarine. I read the letter.
Dear Caitlin , The sunsets at my house are so beautiful that I had to give you a piece. I counted at least five different colors in one yesterday. Can you find more? Hugs and smoochies, Julien |
I looked again at the gray shell. That’s no sunset, I thought. “You must mean the submarines at your house, Julien,” I said. Without reading the postscript, I laid the letter and the submarine on the kitchen table. Then I left the room to find a pen so that I could cross out “sunset” and write “submarine” above it.
When I returned, I stared in shock at the submarine. A creature was oozing out of it! Was it a sea monster? I looked closer. It was a winged creature... an insect... a butterfly. An orange, blue, purple, red, and gold butterfly. It looked like... a sunset!
While the sunset opened and closed its wings to dry them, I read Julien’s postscript. It said, “P. S. Next week I’m sending you Japan.”
1.What does the underlined word“ oozing” probably mean?
A．Moving. B．Jumping.
C．Swimming. D．Flying.
2.What did Julien really want Caitlin to see in the fourth mail?
A．The setting sun. B．Colors of a sunset.
C．A colorful butterfly. D．A new submarine.
3.We can learn from the passage that Julien was ________.
A．strange and clever B. honest and friendly
C．creative and giving D. funny and inventive
4.What can be inferred from the passage?
A．Caitlin was from Japan and had never seen Julien.
B．Caitlin’s mom thought Julien’s gifts were fantastic.
C．Caitlin was pleased with the cornflakes that Julien sent.
D．Caitlin was expecting another unusual gift from Julien.
科目：初中英语 来源：2014-2015学年初三中考专项突破英语试卷2（解析版） 题型：单项填空
一look! Do you know____ man under the tree?
一Sorry.It’s too far to see____ clearly.
A．this;him B．that;his
C．this;her D．that;him
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— Didn’t you give roses to your father on Father’s Day?
— Oh, not only my father, _____ my grandpa got red roses.
A．or B．and
C．but D. until
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I don’t think she will agree with me,______?
A．won’t she B．will she
C．does she D．isn’t she
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014-2015学年初三中考专项题型冲刺之阅读理解英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
“Track!” said my master.
Like any good tracker-dog who has received the command（命令） he most loves, I gave a bark of excitement, put my nose down to the ground and sniffed. The ground was rich with smells. Even in the high-class housing area where we were working, the stones held traces of many sole and confusing scents （smells）. As I searched for the scent that would give me a clue to the tail of the guilty man, my tail wagged slowly, thoughtfully, delightedly. Work was like play to me； I enjoyed it.
A small group of people gathered behind us. Among these onlookers was the old caretaker of the building next door to ours. He spoke in a scornful voice, “You actually think your dog might catch a thief three days after the event?” My master said nothing, but I'm sure he must have smiled. I did not turn to look. I knew he would not speak unless it was to give me a new command.
I needed to concentrate. My task was difficult. I had to pick out one scent among the many that lay about and then tracked it to its source.
“You're wasting your time,” said the caretaker. I looked at him without raising my head. He was running his hand over his fat stomach. His rough palm and smooth shirt combined to make a slight noise. It was part of my training to be aware—often it is only a little whisper of a noise that alerts（提醒）you to be drawing of a weapon. But of course the aging caretaker was going to do no such thing. There was no smell of fear or nervousness about him. He was merely being clever and talkative.
“I've seen many tracker-dogs in my time,” said the caretaker to the onlookers. I served with the police years ago. We would never have thought of using a tracker-dog to find a car thief. Impossible. Everyone knows that dogs are useless in such matters.
In a sense he was right. I'm sure there's no need to tell you that, just as a dog's hearing is much better than a human being's, so his sense of smell tells one thing from another far better than a great detective. If Sherlock Holmes could work out that a man had had an egg for breakfast by seeing the yellow stain on his mouth, a trained dog could tell you whether the hen that laid the egg was healthy or not.
I know it sounds funny and I mean it to be. But I'm not exaggerating. A dog can tell you—if you understand a dog’s way of communicating—all this and more without even setting eyes on the man he is investigating.
1.Who do you think the dog was tracking?
A．The thief. B．The caretaker.
C．The master. D．The onlookers.
2.How did the dog react to the command to track?
A．It thought for a while and did what was asked.
B．It was happy, even though it wasn't trained for the task.
C．It was angry because there were so many smells.
D．It was excited because it took pleasure in tracking.
3.In the dog's opinion, its sense of smell ________.
A．can give us fewer details about what a human has already discovered
B．can achieve more than what a human's only if the smell is not hidden
C．is particularly trained to pick out one scent among hundreds
D．is better than its sense of hearing when it does tracking
4.According to the passage, the dog is ________.
A．honest and hopeful B．smart and helpful
C．kind and careful D．popular and thoughtful
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014-2015学年初三中考专项题型冲刺之阅读理解英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
There were two McDonald’s – Mac and Dick – and they were brothers. In 1948 they owned a restaurant in California. They liked working in the restaurant, but they got tired of the customers(顾客) ordering so many different things to eat.
“If we gave customers a smaller menu(菜单), we could make some of the food before they came, and they wouldn’t have to wait so long for their meals,” said one of the brothers. The other brother agreed and said, “If we made the customers come to the counter(柜台), we wouldn’t need any waiters and waitresses(女服务员). We could also use plastic plates so there wouldn’t be any washing-up.”
These were such good ideas that the McDonald’s brothers used them, and the customers were very pleased. They got their meals very quickly – in less than a minute – and they paid only 15 cents(分) for hamburgers and 10 cents for fries(油炸食品). The first McDonald’s restaurant had no seats for customers to sit on. This meant that people had to take their food away, and that no one had to clean up any tables after them.
Then a man called Ray Kroc came to the brothers and asked to buy their business. They agreed to sell it to him for $27 million. After that, people paid Ray Kroc to open their own restaurants using the McDonald’s name and menu. Before long, there were McDonald’s restaurants all over the United States, and nowadays, they are all over the world – even in China and Russia. The most successful McDonald’s business is in Hong Kong of China. The Hong Kong McDonald’s sells more hamburgers every day than any other McDonald’s anywhere else in the world.
McDonald’s restaurants are so successful because children love going to them. They like the food, and they like the toys and games they can get at McDonald’s.
【小题】The McDonald brothers offered customers fewer kinds of foods so that _____.
A． they didn’t need waiters or waitresses
B． they could use plastic plates
C． customers could get their meals quickly
D．customers would pay less.
【小题】Customers“paid only 15 cents for hamburgers”means the hamburgers were___.
A. expensive B. new
C. cheap D. worth a lot less
【小题】The first McDonald’s customers took their food away because_____.
A． They wanted to eat it quickly
B． they did not want a large menu
C． There were no seats in the restaurant
D． they wanted to eat at home
【小题】Nowadays, the owners of McDonald’s restaurants pay for ____.
A． the McDonald’s name and menu
B． children to play games
C． people to take the food away
D． customers to eat quickly
【小题】This story mainly tells us ____.
A． a restaurant in California in 1948.
B． how Ray Kroc made money for the McDonald brothers.
C． where McDonald’s restaurants are in the world.
D． how the McDonald’s business started and grew.
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014-2015学年初三中考专项题型冲刺之阅读理解英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Spending two or three hours playing outdoors each day can reduce a child’s chance of becoming short-sighted, a research shows. It challenges (挑战) the belief that short-sightedness is caused by computer use, watching TV or reading in weak light.
The Australian government researchers believe that sunlight is good for people’s eyes. They compared the vision(视力) and habits of 100 seven-year-old children in Singapore and Australia. In all, 30% of the Singaporean children were short-sighted—this rate(比率) was ten times higher than Australian children.
Both groups spent a similar amount of time reading, watching television and playing computer games. However, the Australian children spent an average(平均) of two hours a day outdoors—90 minutes more than the Singaporean children.
Professor(教授) Ian Morgan, from the Australian Research Council’s Vision Centre, said, “Humans are naturally long-sighted, but when people begin to go to school and spend little or no time outdoors, the number of short-sighted people gets larger. We’re also seeing more and more short-sighted children in cities all around the world—and the main reason may be that city children spend less time outdoors.”
Daylight can be hundreds of times brighter than indoor light. But why does playing outside prevent us from becoming short-sighted? Scientists believe that natural light has a special chemical(化学物质) which stops the eyeball from growing out of shape and prevents people becoming short-sighted.
So be outdoors. It doesn’t matter if that time is spent having a picnic or playing sports.
1.How much time did the Singaporean children spend outdoors on average every day in the research?
A. 2 hours. B. 90 minutes.
C. 1 hour. D. 30 minutes.
2.What is the fifth paragraph mainly about?
A. Why people become short-sighted.
B. Why natural light has a special chemical.
C. Why playing outside is good for one’s eyesight.
D. Why daylight is much brighter than indoor light.
3.Which of the following is true according to the passage?
A. People will all become short-sighted after they begin to go to school.
B. Playing outdoors for 2 or 3 hours every day can help protect your eyesight.
C. Children in Australia are more likely to get short-sighted than those in Singapore.
D. If you spend two or three hours playing outside each day, you won’t get short-sighted.
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I’m busy every day. 1. I leave my home at seven and walk to the bus stop. The bus stop is in front of a cinema. It is about 2 hundred metres from my home.
Usually, I catch the No. 11 bus to work, but sometimes I go by train. I work in a factory about ten kilometers from my home. 2._.
I like doing sports after work. 3.. Weekends are my busiest time because I often play basketball. I get home a little later then. I am the shortest man on the team, but I am the fastest.
I usually get back home at a quarter past five. I get into the lift(电梯) and go up to 12th floor. 4..
Every day I do the same thing. Do you know why I don’t use the lift for the last three floors?
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014-2015学年初三中考专项题型冲刺之完成句子英语试卷（解析版） 题型：补全对话
“一夜成名”不像我们想得那么容易。
An overnight success is _________we think.
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