C

　　Monarch butterflies from eastern Canada make the most amazing journey in the insect world. Each year, this butterfly travels about 3000miles to its winter home in central Mexico(墨西哥). How can it fly so far? And why does it make this long and dangerous trip? Scientists still don’t have an answer.

　　For many years, people in Mexico wondered where the orange-and-black butterflies came from every winter. Then, in 1937, a scientist started to follow and study the butterflies. For the next 20 years, he discovered that one butterfly started its journey in Canada. Four months later, it arrived in Mexico.

　　The length of the butterflies find their way back to the same place? Another amazing thing is that the butterflies always return to the same area in central Mexico.

　　How do the butterflies find their way back to the same place? This is an interesting question because only every fourth generation(代)makes the trip south. In other words, the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild of the butterfly that traveled there last year.

　　Each year, four generations of a Monarch butterfly family are born. Each generation of the family has a very different life. The first generation is born in the south in late April. It slowly moves north, reproduces(繁衍), and then dies. On the trip north,two more generations are born, reproduce, and die. Each of these generations of butterflies is born. This generation has a much longer life. It lives for about eight months. This generation of butterflies makes the amazing journey back to the winter home of its great-great-grandparents. The butterflies spend the winter there, and in the spring they reproduce and then die. Their offspring will be the first generation of the next circle of life.

　　Today, people are still studying the Monarch butterfly. But they are not clear about everything.

　　41.The best title of the passage can be ________.

　　A .Family of Monarch butterflies B. Mystery of Monarch butterflies

　　C .Monarch butterflies’ birthplace D .Monarch butterflies’ winter home

　　42.It took the scientist ______ to find out that monarch butterflies came from Canada.

　　A . 20 years B. four months C .five weeks D .eight months

　　43.We know that the _____ generation of Monarch butterflies travel back to central Mexico.

　　A .first B. second C .third D .fourth

　　44.The underlined word “offspring” in the passage is closest in meaning to______.

　　A . seasons B. butterflies C .children D .parents

　　45.Which statement is true according to the text?

　　A .Monarch butterflies spend winter in eastern Canada.

　　B .The four generations have the same length of life.

　　C .Some generations die on the way north to Canada.

　　D .Scientists are clear about everything of the butterflies

　　C

　　本篇屬于科普類閱讀，講述了黑脈金斑蝶的特點(diǎn)及生活習(xí)性。

　　41.解析：答案B，推斷題，難度較大。由文章第一段提出的一系列問題及下文科學(xué)家的一系列發(fā)現(xiàn)不難知道題目的答案。

　　42.解析：答案A，細(xì)節(jié)題，難度較低。由文章第二段的for the next 20 years可知答案。

　　43.解析：答案D，推斷題，難度較大。由第四段中the butterfly that travels to Mexico this year is the great-great-grandchild 可知今年遷徙到墨西哥的是玄孫輩，也就是第四代蝴蝶。

　　44.答案C,推斷題，難度較小。由倒數(shù)第二段最后一句可以推斷出答案。

　　45.答案C，細(xì)節(jié)題，難度中等。由文章最后一段第三排:on the trip north, two generations are born,reproduce and then die可知答案。

　?、?詞匯運(yùn)用(共15小題;每小題1分，滿分15分)

　　A)根據(jù)句子意思，從方框中選用恰當(dāng)?shù)膯卧~或短語填空。

　　lead to, fall behind, once a month, take care of , terrible, on business, closed, chopsticks, the most expensive

　　1. Simon works hard all the time so he won’t ________.

　　2. This is ________watch in the shop. I can’t afford it.

　　3. Amy goes to the reading club________.

　　4. It’s our duty to _______our parents when they are old.

　　5. A __________earthquake hit Nepal on April 25,2015 and many people gave a helping hand.

　　6. My father has gone to Hongkong __________. He will stay there for two weeks.

　　7. The local government _____ the factories which caused water pollution in that area.

　　8. Those western students in our school try to use ________when they have meals.

　　四.詞匯運(yùn)用

　　A

　　1.fall behind 2.the most expensive 3.once a month 4.take care of

　　5.terrible 6.on business 7.closed 8.chopsticks

　　B) 根據(jù)句意，用括號中所給單詞的正確形式填空。

　　9. Please don’t go _________(swim) on your own. It’s too dangerous.

　　10. The office worker __________(catch) the early bus to work every day.

　　11. Emily’s mother didn’t allow her to watch her favorite programme Running Man and it made her ________(happy).

　　12.Miss Green advised us to decorate a card for each other with those __________(leaf).

　　13.Little Edison is clever enough to learn paper-cutting by _________(he).

　　14.It’s important for us to use natural resources ________-(wise).

　　15.Peter and his wife live on the ____________(seven) floor and they go up and down by lift.

　　B

　　9.解析：答案swimming，難度較低。 go+V-ing形式，表示去做….。

　　10.解析：答案catches, 難度較低。由every day可知采用一般現(xiàn)在時(shí)。

　　11.解析：答案unhappy，難度較大。本題屬于“動(dòng)詞+賓語+賓補(bǔ)”結(jié)構(gòu)，充當(dāng)賓語通常用形容詞。如：

　　I found the door closed when I got home

　　12.解析：答案leaves，難度中等。以f/fe結(jié)尾名詞，復(fù)數(shù)通常變f/fe為v加es。如:shelf—shelves

　　13.解析：答案himself，難度較低。teach oneself = learn…by oneself 自學(xué)。

　　14.解析：答案：wisely, 難度中等。wisely副詞，修飾動(dòng)詞use.

　　★拓展：以e結(jié)尾的形容詞變副詞方法：

　?、賣e結(jié)尾,去e加ly, 如：true---truly

　?、趌e結(jié)尾，去e加y, 如：possible---possibly

　?、燮渌鹐結(jié)尾，直接加ly。 如:polite---politely wise---wisely

　　15.解析：答案seventh/7th，難度較低。定冠詞the后通常要用序數(shù)詞。

　?、? 完成句子。(共5小題;每小題2分，滿分10分)

　　16.像往常一樣，我們放學(xué)后步行回家。

　　_____________, we went back home ____________after school.

　　17.你最好不要熬夜，這樣才能保持健康。

　　You _________not stay up late, so you can ________.

　　18.今天下午我們將上一節(jié)關(guān)于美國鄉(xiāng)村音樂的課，不要遲到。

　　This afternoon we will have a lesson about American _________. Don’t class.

　　19.打開電視好嗎? 我想知道明天的天氣預(yù)報(bào).

　　Would you please _______ the TV? I want to know the __________ for tomorrow.

　　20. 這個(gè)女孩既不喜歡唱歌也不喜歡跳舞,但她偏愛畫畫.

　　The girl enjoys ________, but she prefers to draw pictures.

　　五.完成句子

　　1.解析：答案As usual; on foot。難度較低，初一下學(xué)期內(nèi)容。

　　2.解析：答案had better; keep(stay) fit/healty，難度較低。had better (not) do最好(不)做…。

　　3.解析：答案country music; be late for，難度較低

　　4.解析：答案turn on; weather report，難度中等?？疾欤篧ould you please do….?結(jié)構(gòu)

　　5.解析：答案neither singing nor dancing，難度較大。neither….nor既不….也不…。注意句式對稱

　　Ⅵ.任務(wù)型閱讀(共10小題;每小題2分，滿分20分)

　　A

　　Ma Yun became one of the richest men in China when his company Alibaba went on the stock(股票)market last year with a value of around 140 billion-the largest public offering in history. Here are some stories about him on the way to success.

　　Ma made his first trip to the a US in 1995 and used the Internet for the first time. After searching for “beer”, he saw that no results came up about China. Then he searched for “China” and still saw no results. He decided to set up a Chinese website--the seed for Alibaba was sown(播種).

　　Ma said he was refused many times in his life. He failed the College Entrance Examination in China three times and few companies offered him jobs, including one at KFC. And he was refused by the famous Harvard University 10 times.

　　It was difficult to learn English when Ma was a teenager because of limited resources. However, he found that he could learn English well by giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou. And he kept it for nine years. Ma said that tourists opened up a new world for him because everything they said and did was so different from what he had been taught at school and by his parents.

　　Ma’s hero is Forest Gump who never gives up. When he made a speech about his success at Davos(達(dá)沃斯論壇)in 2015,Ma said, “Life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you are going to get.”

　　根據(jù)上面短文的內(nèi)容回答問題。

　　21. When did Ma Yun make his first trip to the US.

　　22. How many times was Ma Yun refused by Harvard University?

　　23. How did Ma Yun learn English well when he was a teenager?

　　24. Did Ma Yun make a speech at Davos in 2015?

　　25. Why does Ma Yun consider Forest Gump as his hero?

　　A

　　本篇閱讀介紹阿里巴巴創(chuàng)始人馬云的成功故事，突出“where there is a will, there is a way”這一主題，

　　同時(shí)通過介紹名人勵(lì)志事跡，對應(yīng)“正能量”這一熱門話題。

　　21.解析：答案In 1995，細(xì)節(jié)題，第二段第一句可知答案。

　　22.解析：答案10/Ten times，細(xì)節(jié)題，第三段最后一句可知答案。

　　23.解析：答案By giving tourists free guides around his hometown Hangzhou.細(xì)節(jié)題，第四段第二排可知答案。

　　24.解析：答案Yes, he did.細(xì)節(jié)題，文章最后一段一、二排可知答案

　　25.解析：答案Because he never gives up，細(xì)節(jié)題，最后一段第一句可知答案。

　　B

　　Many companies today hold meetings to discuss their new plans. As people are paying more attention to the environment problems, more companies are looking for ways to reduce their bad influence on the environment. Many of them achieve this by using web meeting.

　　Web meeting is a technology that allows people to communicate better over the Internet. It’s an easy way of hosting and attending a meeting. Participants(與會者) don’t have to leave the office. Each of them will receive an invitation with the meeting time and date on it. When the meeting is ready to begin, they must sit before their computers.

　　With web meeting, all participants can attend the meeting at their own desks. They don’t need to drive a car to travel to and from the meeting. As a result, no fuel(燃料) is used and less time is taken up in attending a web meeting.

　　Materials for the meeting are simply e-mailed to all the participants before it begins. Then participants can just read them on the screen. For the company, this not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost.

　　As a meeting hall is not used, the only power for a web meeting is the power that is used by the computers. Besides, organized don’t have to pay for food or accommodation(住宿)for the participants. All this means that less energy is used.

　　In a word, web meeting is a cheaper, greener, and more friendly way of hosting and attending a meeting. Companies that hold web meetings are willing to work hard for a better environment. So they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas. In return, they develop good relationship with other companies and improve their business.

　　根據(jù)上面短文內(nèi)容填空。

　　26.Many companies are looking for ways to _____ on the environment, because people are paying more attention to the _____.

　　27.Web meeting is an easy way to ______the meeting. Participants just sit before their computers instead of ___the office.

　　28.The use of paper______and the ______is greatly reduced by e-mailing meeting materials.

　　29.Power is only used by the computers because there is no need for a_____. Besides, organizers needn’t ____on food and accommodation for the participants.

　　30. If they have the same_____, it’s _____for companies to find their working partners.

　　B

　　本篇閱讀介紹網(wǎng)絡(luò)視訊會議這一新生事物的特點(diǎn)，對應(yīng)初二下學(xué)期最后一課greener world這一主題。

　　26.解析：答案reduce their bad influence/effect ; the environment problems。細(xì)節(jié)題，文章第一段可知答案。

　　27.解析：答案host and attend，leaving替代題，難度中等。a/the way of doing = a/the way to doing，做…的方法。由第二段第二排及第三排don’t have to leave the office可知答案。

　　28.解析：答案is saved, mailing cost，替代題，難度中等。由第四段This not only saves the use of paper but also greatly reduces the mailing cost可知答案。

　　29.解析：答案hall, spend。細(xì)節(jié)及替代題，難度中等。由倒數(shù)第二段第一句及第二排可知第一空答案。Pay sth for…=spend sth on。

　　30.解析：答案green ideas，easier，細(xì)節(jié)及替代題，難度較大。由最后一段so they can more easily find their working partners who have the same green ideas可知答案。副詞+動(dòng)詞=it’s+形容詞+to do。如：I luckily passed the exam = It was lucky for me to pass the exam

　　★鏈接高中：take up 占據(jù)、占用。 In return 作為回報(bào)。

　?、? 書面表達(dá)(滿分20分)

　　在生活中，人們常用有一些快樂需要分享，煩惱需要傾訴，這時(shí)就需要一個(gè)好的傾聽者。請以Be a good listener 為題寫一篇短文，內(nèi)容必須包括以下要點(diǎn)：

　　1.一次傾聽的經(jīng)歷(時(shí)間、人物、經(jīng)過)

　　2.你對傾聽的認(rèn)識(至少兩點(diǎn))

　　注意：1.文中不得出現(xiàn)真實(shí)的人名、校名和地名;

　　2.詞數(shù)在80--100之間，已給出的文字不計(jì)入總詞數(shù)。

　　Be a good listener

　　I strongly believe it is important to be a good listener.

　　七.書面表達(dá)

　　2015年中考淮安市英語作文取材于2008年江蘇省高考英語作文。延續(xù)了近幾年淮安市中考話題作文的

　　特點(diǎn)：論述與自身實(shí)際的有效結(jié)合。

　　范文：I strongly believe it is important to be a good listener.

　　I used to feel stressed before the exam.However, I kept it to myself,as a result, I felt

　　worried and couldn’t pay attention to what the teacher said in class. One day, after

　　I bravely told it to my close friend, I felt that relaxed.

　　Being a good listener plays an important role in communication. Parents should listen to their children, so they will understand them better and trust(信任) each other. Teachers should also listen to their students so that(以便于) they can increase their understanding and improve relationships. Students should listen to their classmates, then their friendship will be increased and they will help each other.

　　In a word, good listening can really make us get closer to each other.