2015年厦门市中考英语试题及答案
2015厦门市初中毕业及高中阶段各类学校招生考试
英语
（满分：150分考试时间：120分钟）
（一）听力测试（30分）
I.Listen and choose the right pictures
B ．Listen to some short dialogues and choose the right answers to the questions you hear. （听简短对话，然后挑选最佳答案回答所听到的问题。听两遍）
5. A. Eric. B. Brown. C. Zhang.
6. A. Chocolate cookies. B. Lemon pies. C. Strawberry cakes.
7. A. Classmates. B. Mother and son. C. Teacher and student.
8. A. Very interesting. B. Quite simple. C. Too boring.
9. A. Problem and advice. B. Personal information. C. School life.
10. A. Martin Luther King. B. Thomas Edison. C. Mother Teresa.
III. Listen to a long dialogue and a passage，then choose the right answers to questions I1-16. （听一篇较长对话和一篇短文，然后选择正确答案作答11一16小题。听两遍）
Text A
11．The man would probably be a ·
A. teacher
B. reporter
C. policeman
12. The lady's T-shirt was ．
A. black
B. brown
C. red
13．The man collects the lady's information because he wants to her.
A. interview
B. catch
C. praise
Text B
14. Steve worked in a
A. hotel
B. cinema
C. restaurant
15．Many people asked Steve about the every day.
A. way
B. city
C. time
16. Steve put up a on the wall.
A. minor
B. clock
C. picture
注意：请将该题的答案书写在答题卡的第二部分
IV. Listen to a passage，then fill in the blanks with the right words.
（听一篇短文，用恰当的单词填空完成62-65小题，每空一词。听三遍）
(二)基础知识与运用（每小题 1.5分，共30分）
V.选择填空：从A、B、C中，选出一个最佳答案完成句子
17. -- Could you please tell me how to pronounce the word k-n-o-w-l-e-d-g-e?
-- Yes, It’s ____.
A. [?n?l?d?]
B. [?n??l?d?]
C. [n?l?d?]
18. -- Jenny, how nice the skirt looks on you!
-- ____.
A. Well, not good enough
B. I bought it yesterday
C. Thanks a lot.
19. Jeff will come to understand you one day. It’s a matter of ____ .
A. pleasure厦门英语
B. value
C. time
20. -- Lily, what kind of museums do you like?
-- I like museums ____ can provide visitors with free WiFi.
A. what
B. that
C. who
21. -- Welcome to Dream Music Club. Can you play the violin or the piano?
-- ____. But I can play the guitar.
A. Either
B. Both
C. Neither
22. Many volunteers will help to ____ the city parks next Friday.
A. give up
B. pick up
C. clean up
23. -- ____ do you play chess?
-- I play at least twice a week.
A. How much
B. How often
C. How long
24. -- What will happen ____ we hold the party next Monday evening?
-- Most of our classmates will not come.
A. if
B. though
C. since
25. In English, we say that sharing a problem is like cutting it ____.
A. into half
B. in half
C. by half
26. To our surprise, the walls of the new bookstore ____books.
A. are lined with
B. is lined with
C. have lined with
27. How beautiful Catherine sings! I have never heard a ____ voice.
A. good
B. better
C. best
28. -- Look! Someone ____ the icebox back to the corner.
-- Well, it wasn’t me. I didn’t do it.
A. has moved
B. is moving
C. was moving
VII．完形填空: 从A, B, C中，选出一个最佳答案使短文意思完整
Henry was a kind, good boy. His father was dead, and his mother was very poor. He had a
little sister about two years old. He wanted to __29__ his mother, for she could not always make
enough money to buy food for her little __30__.
One day, a man gave him a dollar for __31__ a wallet which he had lost. Henry might have
kept all the money, for no one saw him when he found it. __32__ his mother had taught him to be
honest, and never keep what did not belong to him.
With the dollar he bought a box, three brushes and some blacking. He __33__ went to the corner of the street and said to every one whose boots(靴子) did not look nice, “__34__ your boots, sir, please?” He was so polite that gentleman soon began to notice him, and to let him black their boots. The first day he brought home fifty cents, which he gave to his mother to buy food
with.
When he gave her the money, she said, as she dropped a tear(泪水) of __35__, “You are a dear, good boy, Henry. I did not know how I could make enough money to buy bread with, but
now I think we can manage to __36__ quite well. ”
Henry worked all the day, and went to school in the evening. He made almost enough money
to support his mother and his little sister.
29. A. save B. help C. leave
30. A. family B. man C. sister
31. A. buying B. finding C. hiding
32. A. But B. So C. For
33. A. still B. even C. then
34. A. Empty B. Black C. Dry
35. A. fear B. regret C. joy
36. A. dress up B. eat out C. get along
(三)阅读理解（每小题 2 分，共50分）
VII．阅读下面五篇文章，根据文章的内容选择最佳答案作答37-61小题。
A
Two men were going through a forest.
“Fear nothing, friend “I a m afraid,”　
said one, “that w e may meet with wild animals”　
we shall stand by one Quickwit,” cried the other, whose name was Braggart. “If they come at us,