1、2023年江苏省无锡市经开区中考二模英语试卷一、单项选择（本大题共14小题，每小题1分，共14分）1. I can tell _the look on his face that something good has happened to him. Exactly. A. inB. byC. toD. at2. Excuse me, I wonder _I can pay for the new shoes?You can pay by using Wechat or Alipay. A. whenB. whatC. howD. where3. Cooking is boring, well
2、 _order fast food. You know, take-away food is not healthy. A. simplyB. exactlyC. completelyD. hardly4. We know _about the new teacher except that she just came back from the US. We hope to know her better. A. anythingB. somethingC. everythingD. nothing5. Is it Jack who didnt hand in the history hom
3、ework this morning?No, it _be Jack. History is his favourite subject. A. cantB. needntC. mustntD. shouldnt6. Coffee is ready. How nice it _! Would you like some?Yes, please. A. looksB. soundsC. feelsD. smells7. We were all surprised when he made it clear that he _office soon. A. leavesB. would leave
4、C. leftD. had left8. _most people get news online, printed newspapers wont disappear in a hurry. A. BecauseB. SinceC. ThoughD. Unless9. The novel Treasure Island is attractive. So it is. Could you tell me _?A. how long I could keep itB. that I can borrow itC. if I can keep it for another weekD. when
5、 should I return it10. You havent said a _word since last Friday. Whats wrong?Nothing. Just leave me alone. A. singleB. similarC. simpleD. silent11. What should we do for the disabled children in the Childrens Home?Youre supposed to _a study group to help them. A. take upB. set upC. make upD. stay u
6、p12. There is a famous saying “_”. Similarly, you will never realize your dream only in a very short time. A. Many hands make light work. B. Rome wasnt built in a day. C. Put all your eggs in one basket. D. The early bird catches the worm. 13. Song of Autumn by Liu Yuxi describes autumn in a differe
7、nt way. I agree. Most poets describe this season to _a feeling of sadness, but in Lius eyes autumn is full of life and hope. A. excuseB. expectC. explainD. express14. Do you think that I can win the final?_. Everyone stands a chance. A. You never know. B. You got it. C. Yes, I do. D. You bet. 二、完形填空
8、 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共10小题，每小题1分，共10分）One day, a teacher entered his classroom and gave his students a surprise test. He walked around the classroom and 15 the question papers with the text facing downwards. Once he had given them all out, he asked his studen
9、ts to turn the page and begin. To everyones surprise, there was no 16 , but just a black dot in the centre of the page. The teacher saw the expressions on everyones face and said, “I want you to write what you see there. You have three minutes to finish this.” the confused students got started on th
10、e 17 task. After three minutes, the teacher collected all the answer papers and read each one of them. All of them, with no exception, described the black dot and tried to explain where it was on the paper. After each paper had been read, the classroom was 18 . The teacher began to explain, “I am no
11、t going to grade you according to this. I just wanted to give you something to think about, no one wrote about the white part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dots, and the 19 thing happens in our lives. We have a piece of white paper to enjoy, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our l
12、ife is a 20 filled with love and care. We always have reasons to celebratefriends that help us or jobs that 21 our lives.”22, we keep focusing o“ 22 only on the dark spotsthe health problems, the lack of money or the bad relationships with other people. The dark spots are really annoying, but they a
13、re very 23 . Take your eyes away from the black spots in your life. Enjoy each moment that life gives you. Be joyful and live 24 .”15. A. handed outB. looked throughC. put awayD. picked up16. A. choiceB. questionC. answerD. title17. A. unusualB. regularC. boringD. important18. A. silentB. noisyC. ac
14、tiveD. nervous19. A. commonB. sameC. generalD. different20. A. giftB. raceC. challengeD. chance21. A. shareB. supportC. provideD. praise22. A. MoreoverB. AnywayC. HoweverD. Instead23. A. smallB. goodC. badD. big24. A. simplyB. peacefullyC. successfullyD. happily三、阅读理解 阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出
15、最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。（本大题共13小题，每小题2分，共26分）A（word bank：insurance 保险；cruise 航海；quote 报价；premium 保险费；discount 折扣）25. The picture above is a (an) _.A. comic stripB. advertisementC. reportD. cover26. If you have this travel insurance, what benefit (好处) can you enjoy?A. Free treatment for any disease. B.Covid
16、-19 vaccine (疫苗).C. Experts for travelling on sea. D. Medical emergency support. 27. What can we learn from the picture?A. We can call 08081962118 for the premium. B. Everyone can get 20% off of the premium. C. We can go to ask for a discount. D. We cant enjoy a discount until 30Jun 2023. B28. Which
17、 part of the magazine is the passage most probably taken from?A. Culture. B. Health. C. Education. D. Entertainment. 29. According to the passage, _.A. you can only share gossip about yourself with othersB. you should let as many adults as possible know that you are bulliedC. you should help these b
18、ullied people instead of leaving them in dangerD. you can be more popular if you bully others30. The passage is mainly written to _.A. encourage young people to help these bullied peopleB. tell people not to bully othersC. ask young people to be heroesD. share bullying experiences with othersCChrist
19、mas can never go by without my remembering a certain little cat. I first saw her at Mrs. Pickerings. “I didnt know you had a cat,” I said to Mrs. Pickering. Mrs. Pickering smiled. “We havent really. Debbie is a stray. She comes here two or three times a week, and we give her some food. I dont know w
20、here she lives.”“Do you ever get the feeling that she wants to stay with you?” I asked. “No.” Mrs. Pickering shook her head. Shes a timid little thing. Just creeps in, has some food, then slips away. I looked at the little tabby cat again. “She isnt just having food today.”I often visited the Picker
21、ing home and I always looked for the little cat. The last I saw was the little tabby figure flitting away across the grassy field. “I wonder where she goes?” I murmured. It was three months later that I next heard from Mrs. Pickering and it happened to be Christmas morning. “Im so sorry to bother yo
22、u today of all days,” said Mrs. Pickering apologetically. “Dont worry at all,” I said. “Which of the dogs needs attention?”“Its not the dogs. Its Debbie. Shes come to the house and theres something very wrong. Please come quickly.”Mrs. Pickering had a very worried look on her face as she led me thro
23、ugh to the sitting room. Debbie was there, but she wasnt sitting upright in her usual position. She was lying quite still and huddled close to her lay a tiny kitten. I knelt on the rug and passed my hand over Debbies body. She was very, very thin, and her coat was dirty. I knew that she didnt have l
24、ong to live. Mrs. Pickering looked at me, and I saw there were tears in her eyes. “Isnt it strangeDebbie knew she was dying so she brought her kitten here. And on Christmas Day.”Mrs. Pickering was stroking the kitten. The tears had dried, and she was bright-eyed as she looked at me. “Ive never had a
25、 cat before,” she said. I smiled.” Well, it looks as though youve got one now.”And she certainly had. The kitten grew rapidly into a sleek, handsome and bouncy tabby cat, and Mrs. Pickering called him Buster. I was on my way home after visiting a farmer with a sick cow and I was looking forward to m
26、y Christmas dinner. “Come into the garden,” said Mrs. Pickering. “I want to show you something.” She lifted a hard rubber ball, threw the ball across the lawn and Buster bounded after it over the frosty grass. He seized the ball in his mouth, brought it back to his mistress, dropped it at her feet,
27、and waited. Mrs. Pickering threw it, and again Buster brought it back. I gasped. A retriever-cat!Mrs. Pickering turned to me. “Have you ever seen anything like that?”“No,” I replied. “He is a most remarkable cat.”“Debbie would be pleased,” she said. 31. What does the underlined word “a stray” in par
28、agraph 3 mean in this passage?A. a lost catB. a friendly catC. a strange catD. a special cat32. What can we infer from the passage?A. Debbie doesnt care about Mrs. Pickering. B. Debbie has a mixed feeling during her stay in Mrs. Pickerings house. C. Mrs. Pickering prefers cats to dogs. D. Debbie is
29、thankful to Mrs. Pickering. 33. Which is the best title for the story?A. A Retriever-cat. B. A Kind Woman. C. The Best Christmas Present. D. Debbie and Mrs. Pickering. DMattel is known for making childrens toys. The company recently used an AI image generator called DALL-E to come up with ideas for
30、new toy cars The used vehicle seller CarMax is using ChatGPT to gather thousands of customer comments. The social media service Snapchat has added a chatbot to its messaging service. And Instacart, a delivery service, now uses ChatGPT to answer food questions. Even the Coca-Cola company plans to use
31、 AI to help create new marketing content. It has not said exactly how it plans to use the technology. But the move shows that businesses are under stress to use the tools that many of their employees and customers are already trying on their own. “We must take the risks,” Coca-Cola CEO James Quincey
32、 said in a video announcing a partnership with OpenAImaker of both DALL-E and ChatGPT. Some experts warn that businesses should carefully consider possible harms to customers, society, and their own companies before choosing to use AI tools in the workplace. Claire Leibowicz is with The Partnership
33、on AI, a non-profit group. “I want people to think deeply before using this technology,” Leibowicz said. “They should play around. but we should also think, what purpose are these tools serving in the first place?” There is a reason for the concern. While text generators like ChatGPT can make the pr
34、ocess of writing emails and marketing documents faster and easier, they also appear to present misinformation as fact. And image generators like DALL-E are trained in copying widely available digital art and photography. This has raised copyright concerns from the creators of those works. “For compa
35、nies that are really in the creative industry, if they want to make sure that they have copyright protection for those models, thats still an open question,” said Anna Gressel. She is with the law firm Debevoise & Plimpton, which advises businesses on how to use AI. Gressel said it is safer to use A
36、I tools as a “thought partner” but still people as the creator of final products. Rowan Curran is with the research and advisory company Forrester. He said AI tools should speed up some office work much like using word processors and spell checkers. The growing interest in AI tools among the public
37、has fueled growing competition among technology companies Microsoft, Amazon and Google. Microsoft announced earlier this year it was spending billions more dollars on its partnership with OpenAI. Google is adding Bard chatbot to its search engine. And Amazon started working with Hugging Face to deve
38、lop Bloom, a competitor to ChatGPT. 34. The writer mentioned several companies from Paragraph 1 to 2 to _.A. tell a storyB. solve a problemC. introduce a subjectD. give an example35. What does the underlined word “concern” in paragraph 4 refer to?A. WorryB. ProblemC. UnhappinessD. Thought36. What ca
39、n we learn from the passage?A. The usage of artificial intelligence (AI) tools remains to be explored. B. More actions should be taken to reduce the risk of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. C. Artificial intelligence (AI) tools require to be improved. D. More people will care about artificial int
40、elligence (AI) tools. 37. The public are _about the future of artificial intelligence (AI) tools. A. crazyB. uncertainC. worriedD. confident第II卷（主观题共50分）四、词汇运用（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）（A）根据句意和汉语注释，在答题卡对应题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。38. This young man will be a _ (先锋) in this new field in the near future. 39. Can you
41、_ (猜测) which team will take the lead in the competition？40. The company believes that the new technology will be _ (广泛地) accepted by more and more people. 41. Its _ (不寻常的) for sakura to flower so late. （B）根据句意，在答题卡对应题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。42. He stepped on a chair and _ (hang) the picture of flowers
42、on the wall carefully. 43. Could you share your _ (person) experience in Volunteer Camp with me? Im quite interested in this activity. 44. My cousin dreamt of becoming an excellent _ (direct) like Zhang Yimou after watching the film. 45. The machine cant run _ (smooth). It needs repairing. 五、动词填空 用括
43、号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。（本大题共8小题，每小题1分，共8分）46. I have no choice but _ (believe) what youre saying. 47. He Jie _ (break) the national records in Wuxi Marathon on March 19th, 2023. 48. The advice that we can use ChatGPT to practise making up dialogues is well worth _ (take). 49. Its reported t
44、hat a deep breath often _ (help) when you feel stressed. 50. Tom together with his parents _ (plan) his birthday party when the door bell rang. 51. I am surprised by her tears and realize what a silly mistake I _ (make). 52. Amy, why are you in the classroom? All your classmates are on the bus. Im s
45、orry, but I _ (not tell) what time to get on the bus. 53. The football match _ (not cancel) unless it rains heavily next Saturday. 六、阅读填空 先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在文章后表格的空格内填入一个最恰当的单词。所填单词必须写在答题卡对应题号的横线上。每个空格只能填一个单词。（本大题共5小题，每小题1分，共5分）For many time-poor, health-conscious people, the must-have kitchen gadge
46、t at the moment is an air fryer. From top cooks to humble students, many are singing the praises of the device (设备) that seems to be flying off the shelves at shops and online. One British department store reported sales increased by 400% in 2021. But are they really the best thing? An air fryer neednt deep-fry food in hot and often unhealthy oil. Instead, the food is cooked by having very hot air blown on it at high speed- it doesnt fry but bakes the food. The technology sounds simple, and Dr Jakub Radzikowski, C
