北京市顺义区2018届中考第一次(5月)模拟英语试题含答案

2．The meeting will begin ________ 4:30 this afternoon. Don’t forget it.

A. on

B. in

C. at

D. for

3．I’d like to go with you, I’m too busy.

A．or B．and C．so D．but 4．— ______ is it from your home to the school?

When I was a child, my father had to do three jobs for a family of seven. Every time I saw him come back late, looking tired, I promised myself that someday I would show my 13 to my father for what he had done.

Over the next twenty years, my father worked hard to support our big family and suffered a lot from a heart problem. One morning, my father’s old car broke down and he

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Ted Brown’s dream as a child was an unusual one: he wanted to fly. What was more unusual was the way in which he made his dream come true.

After high school, he wanted to join the U. S. Air Force but he failed because of his poor eyesight. However, his dream remained.

At the age of 33, Ted was a truck driver in Los Angeles. One day, while sitting outside in his garden, he watched planes fly overhead and an idea came to him: to use balloons to fly.

A few weeks later, Ted bought 42 huge balloons. He tied them to a chair and then he sat down in the chair with some beer, sandwiches and a gun. His plan was to fly to 10 meters above his garden, enjoy a few hours in the air, and then shoot some balloons with his gun to get back down. But things did not go as he planned.

Once his friends cut the ropes under Ted’s chair, the 42 balloons flew into the sky at an astonishing speed until about 4000 meters above the ground with Ted and his chair. He didn’t shoot any of the balloons because he was afraid he might break the balance of his “plane”. Ted stayed in the sky with his beer and sandwiches for 14 hours, cold and frightened.

Planes heading towards Los Angeles’ busy international airport reported the strange sight. And Ted’s balloons caused great danger to them. At last, Ted gathered his courage to shoot a few balloons and slowly landed on the ground, where many policemen were waiting for him.

Ted made his dream come true, but it cost him: he was fined $ 1,500 for breaking the law about air safety.

When asked by a reporter why he had done it, Ted answered, “A man can’t just sit around and do nothing, he should have his dream and go for it.”

24. Why couldn’t Ted join the American Air Force?

A. Because he was too short.

B. Because his parents stopped him.

C. Because he didn’t finish high school.

D. Because there was problem with his eyes.

25. He was fined $ 1,500 because ________.

A. he took a gun with him

B. he used too many balloons

C. he stayed too long in the air

D. his balloons caused trouble to planes

26. What does the passage mainly talk about?

A. Ted Brown paid the price for his behavior.

B. Ted Brown realized his dream in an unusual way.

C. Encouragement is very important to one's success.

D. Ted Brown became famous because he set a new flying record.

C

Why Do People Blink Their Eyes?

People blink(眨眼) their eyes tens of thousands of times every day. Scientists have long believed blinking was a natural movement and served mainly to keep the eyeballs wet. But a new study suggests it has a more important purpose.

An international team of scientists from the University of California studied the blinking of human eyelids. The journal Current Biology published their findings. The team said they found that blinking “repositions our eyeballs so we can stay focused” on what we are seeing. They said that when we blink our eyelids, the eyes roll back into their sockets(眼窝). However, the researchers found the eyes don’t always return to the same position. They said this causes the brain to tell the eye muscles to reorganize our eyesight.

Gerrit Maus , an assistant professor of psychology at a Technological University, said, “Our eye muscles are quite sluggish(迟缓的) and unclear, so the brain needs to repeatedly adapt（适应于）its motor signals to make sure our eyes are pointing where they’re supposed to. Our findings suggested that the brain measures the difference in what we see before and after a blink, and commands（指挥）the eye muscles to make the needed corrections.” The researchers said that without such corrections our surroundings would appear unclear and even jumpy.

The researchers said they asked volunteers to sit in a dark room while staring at a small dot on a flat surface. They used special cameras to follow the volunteer’s blinks and eye movements. After each blink, the dot was moved one centimeter to the right. The volunteers did not notice this, but the brain did. It followed the movement and directed the eye muscles

28. The underlined word “register” in Paragraph 5 probably means ______.

A.realize

B. review

C. remind

D. reason

29. This passage shows that ______.