江苏省盐城市2024届中考英语试卷(含答案).docx

江苏省盐城市2024届中考英语试卷学校：___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________一、阅读理解 At present, many foreigners show great interest in learning Chinese idioms (成语). Terry and Kate are among them. Most Chinese idioms have four characters. For example, qingchuyulan (bluer than indigo), and houjibofa (success comes with time and effort). Terry and Kate are now reading stories behind the Chinese idioms they have learnt recently. In the Spring and Autumn period, Duke Huan of Qi led his army to help the State of Yan fight the enemies. They set out in spring. However, when they won the war and wert back home, winter began. Everything in the mountain was covered with snow. They walked and walked only to find they came back to the same place. The army felt hungry and cold. As that time, the minister Guan Zhong picked out some old horses and set them free. The horses started to walk by themselves. The army followed the old horses, Soon, they found their way and walked out of the mountains. In the Spring and Autunm period, the Stute of Wu and the State of Yue didn’t get along well. They were fighting for years. People in each state didn’t have a good relationship, either. Oue day, the people of Wu and Yue happened to be on the same boat to cross a river. When the boat was in thus center of the river, a strong wind came. It seemed the boat would turn over anytime. Just then, they forget all the hatred between the two states and began to help and support each other just like they were family. In the end, they safely got to the river bank.1．Which of the following best describes the first story?A. B. C. D. 2．What is the second story mainly about?A. Going travelling on horses together. B. Going through difficulties together.C. Trying to finish tasks on one’s own. D. Putting all hearts into making boats.3．Which is a similar point of the two stories?A. They happened on sunny days. B. They happened in big mountains.C. The people got success in the end. D. The people got help from animals. How can we stop climate change? How can we stop air pollution? How can we live on a green planet? One way is to use clean energy. Clean energy does not harm the Earth. It never runs out. Energy from the Sun is clean. We just need to learn how to get and store more of it. Plants use energy from the Sun. They use it to turn water and air into sugar. The sugar can be used as food. Scientists know a lot about how plants make food. Some scientists want to get energy from the Sun like plants do. They want to make a machine that can use sunlight to make fuel (燃料) from water. Water is made up of two different parts. Breaking water into its parts is hard. Plants do it all the time, though. It is part of how they make food. With energy from the Sun, the new machine will break water into its parts. One of the parts will be used as fuel. Then the fuel is used to make electricity (电). The electricity can power cars, houses, and so on. This fuel is better for the Earth than gasoline (汽油). It does not pollute the air. Plants can help us learn how to make clean energy!4．How does the writer start this article?A. By telling stories. B. By asking questions.C. By comparing facts. D. By giving examples.5．What will the new machine do?A. Break water into its parts. B. Make some food from plants.C. Turn water and air into sugar. D. Produce sugar as new energy.6．In which part of a magazine can we read the article?A. Health. B. Society. C. Science. D. History.Taking Root. How many kinds of plants are there in the world? Lucy Braun wondered that as a child. She showed great interest in plants at a young age. She often had energetic walks with her family through the nearby woods. Some plants and wildflowers seemed to shout at her with their wild colours. Others hid behind rocks. Lucy looked at the shapes of leaves as she walked in the woods. She kept a record of what she saw. She also learnt to draw what she saw. Then she could compare all kinds of plants. Later, Lucy grew more and more interested in botany, the study of plants.Branching Out At university, Lucy took classes in geology, or the study of rocks and minerals. Her work with geologists changed how she looked at the natural world. She continued her studies in botany as well. Lucy also took classes in ecology (生态学). Lucy believed that plant life in some are as was able to move to other places over time.In Full Bloom In 1917, Lucy began to teach botany at a university. She lived in a house near the woods. Lucy collected plants from all around the country. She took many photos of them, too. Colour photography was still new then. Because of that, people enjoyed her lessons and photos a lot.The ▲ of Labour (劳动) Later in her life, Lucy wrote many field guides. In 1950, she published her most important guide. It describes the plants in the forests across the country. Ecologists still use it to study cha。