2012中考模拟（四） Woody Allen is famous for the way he changed comedy films in the 1970s. He not only directed many movies but also ______ in many of them. He did very well in those movies. Allen won great fame with the success of Annie Hall. Annie Hall won four Academy Awards, ______ a Best Director Oscar for Woody Allen. His other films include Anything Else and Hollywood Ending.
James Cameron has directed many films, and Titanic is one of the most famous. Titanic ______of those award, including Best Picture, Best Score, Best Costume, Best Song. Cameron himself who three Academy Awards for Titanic for director, producer and editor.
George Cukor has a wonderful ability to direct strong female characters. Cukor directed Katharine Hepburn in her first film, A Bill of Divorcement. Other ______female characters that George Cukor directed include Judy Garland in A Star is Born and Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady. George Cukor’s other excellent ______include Little Women and The Philadelphia Story. 2012中考模拟（五） At a busy crossing, what controls traffic? Of course, the traffic lights do. They show us when to stop and when to go. But it seems that some people don’t pay to them. They always cross the road while the lights are red. How can we solve this problem? We can try using lights that “speak”.
People in some places have tried using such traffic lights. Above the lights, there is a speaker. When the lights _____ color, the speaker tells the people what to do.For example, when the yellow lights turn green, you will hear “Go on, please”. While the yellow lights turn you’ll be told to stop.
People say that this kind of traffic light is good for both drivers and the people who are walking. Even if they don’t see the lights, they can them. The blind are the happiest users of this new invention. In the past, it was difficult for them to cross the street. Now they can cross safely without other people’s help. Some even say the bling may become more confident because of this kind of light. 2012中考模拟（六） One day, a man called Mark Cooper went walking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the United States with his , Zorro. As they were going along a narrow path, Mark tripped and fell into stream. On the way down, he knocked his head and lost consciousness.
He feel anything when he lay in the stream, but as he woke up, he realized that Zorro was pulling him out of the stream, finally, he was away from the water. Them Zorro lay with him to keep him .
After some time, someone saw Mark and hurried away to help. A helicopter arrived the next day. Soon Mark was lifted the helicopter and flew to the safe place.
It wasn’t until later that Mark realized that Zorro had been forgotten! He had been left in the mountains. A search was organized and Zorro was soon , still sitting beside Mark’s backpack.
For his great love to his master, Zorro was awarded the title “Dog Hero of the Year” and given a medal. 2012中考模拟（七） Fire is widely used in our lives. We can use fire in many ways. At home, we use fire to cook food and boil water. In factories, we use fire to melt metals. In the wild, we use fire to keep warm. Anyway, we live without fire. But how was fire first made?
When the world was very young, people lived only in warm places. They didn’t live in cold places because they could not keep warm there. At the time fire was very important for three . It kept people warm and frightened away wild animals. Moreover, people also used fire to cook food, making it much better.
But at first men didn’t know how to make a fire. Sometimes trees were hit by lightning and set on fire. Then people took some of the fire to their homes. Once they had a fire, they wouldn’t let it stop burning. If it went out, they couldn’t ______ it again. They had to wait for lightning to start another fire, sometimes they had to wait for years.
Later, they learned how to build a fire. But still it was not to make something bun at first. Fortunately now we have matches. We can carry them in our pockets and make a fire easily when we want to. 2012中考模拟（八） A long time ago there was a king. He was a hard-working king. He wanted to learn all the wisdom in the world. But he was very busy, so it was impossible for him to go everywhere in the world. So he asked some of his ministers to help him collected a lot of wisdom. They ______ all over the world and collected a lot of wisdom. Then they compiled(编写) the wisdom into books.
Ten years later, they came back and showed thousands of books to the king. However, the king was too busy to read so many books. The ministers had to spend another ten years condensing(压缩)these books into ______ of books. But the king was still very busy, and what’s more, he was much ______ than twenty years before. He didn’t have enough energy to read these books.
This time, his ministers tried their best to condense these books into booklets, which had only several pieces of paper each. It ______ them more than ten years.Unfortunately, by the time they showed them to the king, the king was dying. He was so weak that he______ even hold a booklet. The king died without getting any of the wisdom.
2012中考模拟（九） There are more and more people keeping dogs as pets. It is dangerous to leave your dog alone or allow him to run freely. Many ______ may happen if you allow him to run around. He could bite or injure someone, or a car could hit him. When going out for a walk, you ______ keep him on a short rope. And pay attention to him at any time, in addition, in order to ______ him running around, please regularly check the chain, the door, and so on.
Are you going out for a walk with your dog? Aren’t you ______ anything? Dog owners must clean up their dogs’ feces(粪便) in order not to cause problems for other people. So please, do not forget to clean it up.
It is very ______ to understand your dog’s habits and train him. If you do not train him, he may do things like barking for noting, biting things and people, pulling objects, and disturbing the neighbours. 2012中考模拟（十） Being blind, deaf, unable to walk or use your hands easily is something that most people can’t imagine. But there are many people who face these difficulties, and I am one of them. Because I ______ use my arms or legs well, it is difficult for me to do normal things like answering the telephone, opening or ______ doors, or carrying things. Then one day last year, a friend of mine said that she would like to help me get a specially trained dog. She also thought a dog might cheer me up. I told her that I love ______ , and that I’d love to have a dog.
After six-month training with a dog at “Animal Helpers”, I was able to take him ______. My dog’s name is “Lucky”— a good name for him because I feel very ______ to have him. For example, I say, “Lucky! Fetch my book.”And he will do it at once. He is very clever, and he can understand many English words, even some difficult ones like “upstairs”. Lucky is an amazing dog. I really like him. 2012中考模拟（十一） Air is all around us. From the time when we were ______, air is around us on every side. When we walk and play, air is around us. When we sit down, air is around us. When we are asleep, air is also around us. We live in air.
Everything that is alive needs air. We can live without food or water for a few days but without air we can only live for no
more than a few ______. When we work or run, we need more air. When we are asleep, we need ______ air.
We live in air but we can’t see it. We can only ______ it. We can feel it when it’s moving. ______ air is called wind. How can you make air move? Here is one simple way. Hold an open book in front of your face. Close it quickly what you feel is air. 2012中考模拟（十二） David was very happy living with his wife in a small town during the first month after wedding. But things changed after his wife’s mother came to live with them.
David found it not _______ to live with her. She was always complaining and never seemed to stop talking.
David never said any bad _______ of his mother-in-law because he loved his wife, though the old lady was bringing him more and more trouble.
As time _______ by, things became worse and worse. His mother-in-law complained day and night. David was very unhappy. He thought, “I must find a way to stop her talking.”
One day the old lady was ill, so David sent her to see a doctor. She complained to the doctor that she was cold, her head hurt, and she _______ fall asleep.
The doctor examined her and took her temperature. He put a thermometer in her mouth. He asked her to sit quietly and not to _______ her mouth. For the first time David did not hear her complaint.
He was so surprised and happy to look at the thermometer and he thought he found the way to solve his problem. He decided to buy one for her mother-in-law. 2012中考模拟（十三） School Trip Day
On Friday, June 1,our class will go on a school trip to North Park Zoo. Many _______ we have been learning about will be there for is to have a close examination. Our class will be divided into four teams.
What You Need to Know
All students should wear a blue shirt. Make sure to wear _______ shoes because we will walk all day. Please bring a packed lunch and a drink. We will have a picnic in the zoo.
When you are in the zoo, stay with your team. Do not leave the _______ without the team leader’s permission.
Feed the Animals
The ONLY animals that students are allowed to feed are those in the Children’s Zoo. Special food is _______ in the zoo for 25cents. Do not feed your lunch to them. It is not good for the animals.
Other Information
The cost is $1.00 for each student to enter the zoo. We will leave the school at 9:00 am and _______ at 2:30 pm. 2012中考模拟（十四） Energy is an important part of our daily life. We can use it to produce electricity, make lights shine and cook dinner. So it is _______for us to know about energy. There are many different kinds of energy, like water, wind, and so on.
Falling water is a sort of mechanical(机械的)energy. The force of _______water can turn the turbine(涡轮) and give us electricity.
Heat is another kind of energy. We burn fuels to get _______and then use it to produce electricity. Electricity is also a sort of energy. It does many kinds of work for us. It _______ trains go and causes machines to run. There are still other kinds of energy, such as light, sound, and atomic(原子的)energy.
According to the Law of Energy Conservation(守恒), energy can be _______created nor destroyed. It can only be changed from one form into another for different purposes.
2012中考模拟（十五） The Spring Festival’s tradition of setting off fireworks is falling out of favor.
Sun Ruoran believed the Spring Festival of 2012 _______be quieter than most. She is a 13-year-old girl, living in Beijing. She said she had also lost enthusiasm(热情)for the tradition of _______the Lunar New Year’s arrival with fireworks. “Mum asked if I wanted some fireworks, but I’m not as interested in them as I used to be,” she said. “They are _______and scary, though there are moments of brightness.”
Her family live in a 16-storey building near the Asian Sports Village on the Northern Fourth Ring Road. She recalled(回想起)that her neighbors drove to nearby counties to buy a lot of fireworks in 2007.
“Almost all our neighbors were out setting off fireworks, or at least watching, but fireworks were set off just _______ midnight on Lunar New Year’s Eve,” she said.
This year, Sun stayed at home and made e-cards online, while her mother and grandparents were watching the Spring Festival TV Gala(春节联欢晚会)。Her neighbor, who _______ fireworks in 2007, did not set any off, either, because the family now believes fireworks are “expensive and dangerous” and they pollute the environment.
“Children grow up,” Sun’s mother said.” And they have many other ways of celebrating the New Year. 2012冲刺模拟一 The telescope was invented at the beginning of the 17th century. Since that time, it has _______ the way we get to know our universe. Before the use of the telescope people thought that the Earth lay inside a glass ball and that the stars were simply holes in that ball and light from the heaven could pass through these _______ .
This belief came to an _______ in1610. In that year, a scientist by the name of Galileo first saw the stars through his small home-made telescope. He saw lots of stars. Some were very far while some were _______ . He also discovered moons around Jupiter, and many other things that people didn’t know before.
Since then humans have raced to build bigger and better telescopes. The bigger a telescope is the more _______ it shows the far away objects, and thus the more we can learn about them. 2012冲刺模拟二 My life has changed a lot since I started high school. I remember that when I was young, I used to have much time. I used to spend plenty of time playing funny games with some of my friends, which _______ me a lot of happiness. In the evening, I used to sit on the sofa and watch TV or talk with my grandmother. She often told me wonderful _______ in the past. My father used to take me to concerts because he knew that music is my _______. My mother used to buy many comics for me because I liked reading them. But now I’m too _______ to do such activities again. In the morning, I have to get up early and stay in school all day. After school, I go right home and do my homework, thenI eat dinner. I almost spend all my _______ on studying. So I don’t have time to play with my friends or listen to my grandmother’s stories any more. My father doesn’t take me to the concert and my mother doesn’t buy any comics for me, either. How I miss the old days! 2012冲刺模拟三 In Europe, bikes, as a kind of transportation, are quite important. Bikes were most often used in China some years ago. But now, in many big cities, more and more people say “No” to the question “Do you ride your bike?” With the development of the economy(经济)，many people have bought their own. Some people thing a car is a symbol of status(身份). It is enjoyable to work or travel in a car. Cars are muchthan bikes. This is true. But at the same time, the gases from these cars do harm to our environment. And cars make the traffic busier. There are traffic happeningevery day.
In many developed countries, however, bikes are more and more. In Europe, bikes have been a very important part of the
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