河南省洛阳市洛龙区2024年中考一模英语试卷(含答案).docx

河南省洛阳市洛龙区2024年中考一模英语试卷学校：___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________一、阅读理解TIPS ON BIRD WATCHINGHow can I learn about birds?You can use apps and handbooks, for example, a book called Guide to the Birds of China (《中国鸟类野外手册》) and an app called MockingBird.What equipment do I need?A pair of binoculars (望远镜) would be enough. You can also get a notebook to keep all the birds you have seen.How can I recognize bird languages?There are songs and calls. Songs are generally heard more during the breeding (繁殖) season and are used by birds to show off and find mates (配偶). Calls are heard throughout the year, including small birds begging for food. How can I join bird watchers’ clubs?Many universities have such clubs. There are also local clubs in different cities that you can find through WeChat. For example, one in Beijing is called Beijing Feiyu (北京飞羽).1．How can we learn about birds according to the passage?A. Use a map of our city.B. Use an app called Guide to the Birds of China.C. Use a book called MockingBird.D. Use an app called MockingBird.2．If Jim wants to watch birds, what does he need to take?A. B. C. D. 3．When can we hear birds sing most?A. Throughout the year. B. At night.C. During the breeding season. D. During the day.4．How can we find bird watchers’ clubs?A. Through the police. B. Through Wechat.C. Through the volunteers. D. Through the magazines.5．Who is the text written for?A. Sports lovers. B. Bird lovers. C. Stamp lovers. D. Music lovers.Sometimes when people speak, their words become a riddle and are not easily understood.A man who made his living gathering coconuts in the countryside. He learned this lesson when he stopped to ask a young boy how long it would take him to get home. He had been working late gathering coconuts and piling them high on his wagon.At the end of the day, his wagon was filled with coconuts. He decided to head home, for it was getting late. He wished to know how long it would take to get back to his village so that he could arrive before darkness fell.He noticed a small boy along the roadside and stopped to ask for directions.“Young boy,” he said, “I am late and I must get home soon. How long will it take to get to my village from here?” The boy answered, “If you go slowly, it will take only a short while for you to get home. But if you go quickly, it will take a long time and you will not get there until late in the night.”The coconut gatherer thought about this answer, but he could not understand it. He gave the boy an angry look and hit his horse with the whip. The horse began to run quickly. But soon, coconuts began to fall from the wagon. Each time the man got off to gather the fallen coconuts and put them back into his wagon.The faster he went, the more coconuts fell from his wagon, and the more time he had to take stopping to pick them up. But, if he had travelled slowly, none of the coconuts would have fallen, and the man would have arrived home much earlier.And so, as the young boy warned, go slowly and it will take only a short while.6．What did the man do for a living?A. He lived with a young boy. B. He piled coconuts.C. He collected a kind of fruit. D. He had no work.7．Why did the man ask the small boy?A. He wanted to find another wagon to gather more coconuts.B. He wanted to see his family.C. He wanted to know the time then.D. He wanted to know how long it would take to get home.8．Why would the man get home quickly if he went slowly?A. The faster road was a longer one.B. The man had to spend time picking coconuts up if he went fastly.C. There were many things stopped the man from getting home.D. He would have an accident if he went quickly.9．How did the man probably feel at the end of the story? ·A. Happy. B. Sad. C. Regrettable. D. Worried.10．What’s the best title for the passage?A. More hurry less speed B. A man and his coconutsC. A man and a boy D. A riddleThe cost of raising a child is highest in South Korea and China, according to a new report by Beijing’s YuWa Population Research Institute.The institute compared costs using different countries’ GDP per person. GDP per person is the total value of all the work done and things made in a country in one year, divided by the number of people who live there. And the report said the average cost of raising a child in South Korea to the age of 18 is 7.8 times the country’s GDP per person.In China, the average cost of raising a child is about $75,000, which is more than 6. 3 times the GDP per person. It’s even more expensive to raise a child in Chinese cities, with an average cost of almost $94,000.South Korea and China both have very low birth rates. South Korea’s is the lowest in the world — and with those costs, it might be easy to see why.Japan also has a low birth rate, but it costs about 4.3 times the GDP per person to raise a child there. It’s 4.1 times in the US, and 2.1 ti。