浙江省金华市2018年中考英语试卷一、完形填空1阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项 One morning, when I was leaving for my business, a middle-aged man came up and asked me for help. He said he had no （1） to get food for his large family. You look （2） . Why dont you work？ I asked. Simply because I cannot get work，sir.If I give you work, what you want? （3） I can get bread for my family, sir. he answered. I decided to find out if he （4） meant what he said. OK. Ill give you one pound an hour, if you will （5） a brick(砖)under your arm and walk around the square for five hours without stopping. Thank you, sir. I will. I found a brick and started him on his walk before I went to my （6） . I never thought he would he had （7） . When I came back five hours later, I saw him （8） walking, with the brick under his arm. I stopped him and gave him （9） pounds. He thanked me and told me that some people had （10） to help him when they knew why he was doing all this. He would go and ask （11） for work. Before leaving, he asked if I would give him the （12） .I did. Several years later, a well-dressed man greeted me on a train. Seeing I was not sure who he was, he （13） that he was the brick man and had his own business now. You know, I still keep that brick and always value it as the most （14） thing I have as it has brought me luck and success. （15） , it was not the brick that made the man successful, but his faithfulness(坚定) in doing even a very little thing.（1）AcourageBmoneyCplanDtime（2）AfunnyBsickCseriousDstrong（3）AAs long asBAs soon asCEven ifDEver since（4）AcertainlyBsimpleCreallyDusually（5）AbreakBcarryCfixDhide（6）AbusinessBlessonCprogrammeDresearch（7）AplannedBpreparedCpromisedDsuggested（8）AalsoBalreadyCevenDstill（9）AfourBfiveCsixDseven（10）AcontinuedBforgottenCofferedDrefused（11）AhimBthemCmeDher（12）AbrickBchanceCjobDbread（13）AexplainedBimaginedCrealisedDsupposed（14）AbeautifulBexpensiveCimportantDinteresting（15）AAs a resultBAt lastCIn a wordDIn fact二、阅读理解2阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。 Teenagers are known for being creative and full of new ideas. Lets have a look at these teenage inventions that might change the world. Banana leaves usually go bad in two or three days. Tenith Adithyaa, a teenager from India, used UV to make the leaves stay fresh for a year. Tenith thinks that one day the leaves will be used for making plates, cups and other things. David Cohen, an American teenager, built an earthworm(蚯蚓) robot. It is able to go into the smallest places, where humans or dogs cant go. It will be used for finding people in a fire or an earthquake. Remya Jose, a 14-year-old from India, found it tiring and boring to handwash clothes in the nearby river. She reused some bicycle parts and created a washing machine that saves time, energy and keeps people fit at the same time. Kenneth Shinozuku, a 15-year-old from New York, noticed that his grandfather who got Alzheimers disease（老年痴呆） would often leave home and get lost. So he invented the wearable sensors(感应器)to help people find their family members like his grandfather.（1）What is the passage mainly about?APopular adsBUseful machinesCStrange pictures.DTeenage inventions（2）The earthworm robot by David Cohen can _.Amake things stay freshBhelp people wash clothesCgo into the smallest placesDtake care of the old people（3）Which of the following is TRUEAPlates and cups are made of fresh banana leaves.BRemyas washing machine can also keep people fit.CDavid Cohen is a middle school student from India.DKenneths wearable sensors will keep old people at home.3阅读下列材料，从每题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项Understanding Graphics（图表） When we are reading, we often see one or two graphics in a text. Have you ever thought about these questions: Why are they there? What information do they give? Do they help with our reading and understanding? Graphics are things like pictures, maps, charts and tables. They give information to readers. Very often, we can see different kinds of graphics in books, magazines and newspapers. Writers use graphics to get the readers attention and give them some particular(特别的)information. Graphics help to understand the given information in a text. And graphics put the information in a particular order so that its easy to understand when we take a quick look. It is not always true that a picture is worth a thousand words. But many things are easier to show than to tell and they may also be easier to understand. Graphics are just the right things that give a great deal of information but it doesnt take much time to read and understand. The right way to read and understand a graphic is to look at the picture and the words t