— Can you tell me ______?
— Just try to use it, I think.
A. how can I learn English well B. how I can learn English well
C. how could I learn English well D. how I could learn English well
科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市门头沟区中考一模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
Chinese are very generous(慷慨的) when it comes to educating their children. Not caring about the money, parents often send their children to the best schools or even abroad to England, the United States and Australia. They also want their children to take extra-course activities where they will either learn a musical instrument or ballet, or other classes which will give them a head in life. The Chinese believe that the more expensive an education is, the better it is. So parents will spend an unreasonable amount of money on education. Even poor couples will buy a computer for their son or daughter. However, what most parents fail to see is that the best early education they can give their children is usually very cheap.
Parents can see that their children are very skilled in some areas while poor in others. What most parents fail to realize though, is that today’s children are short of self-respect and self-confidence.
The problem is that parents are only educating their children on how to take multiple-choice tests and how to study well, but parents are not teaching them the most important skills that they need to be confident, happy and clever.
Parents can achieve this by teaching practical skills like cooking, sewing and doing other housework. Teaching a child to cook will improve many of the skills that he will need later in life. Cooking requires patience and time. It is an enjoyable but difficult experience. A good cook always tries to improve his cooking, so he will learn to work hard and finish his job successfully step by step. His result, a well-cooked dinner, will give him much satisfaction and lots of self-confidence.
Some old machines, such as a broken radio or TV set that you give your child to play with will make him curious and arouse(激发) his interest. He will spend hours looking at them, trying to fix them; your child might become an engineer when he grows up. These activities are not only teaching a child to read a book, but rather to think, to use his mind. And that is more important.
1.. Most Chinese parents don’t realize __________.
A. how much the best education is worth
B. when children should be educated
C. what children really need in later life
D. why school tests don’t satisfy children
2.. What is the main idea of the last paragraph?
A. Fixing old machines is very important.
B. Interest is necessary for everything.
C. Broken things are useful for children.
D. Using hands helps improve thinking ability.
3.. The writer’s attitude(看法) to children’s education is that __________.
A. the cheaper an education is, the better it is
B. children today should learn different skills
C. practical skills are useful to children's growth
D. school education can’t meet parents’ expectation
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市西城区中考一模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
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It was early evening on September 14th. Glen James, a homeless man was passing by a store in Boston when he happened upon a black bag. To see whose the bag is, Glen opened it only to find that it was filled with money - $2,400 in cash and almost $40,000 in traveler’s checks, as well as, a passport and other papers.
While other people in similar situations would have been tempted (引诱), Glen who has been homeless since 2005, did not even think twice. He showed the bag to 
a police officer, and the police officer gave it back to a Chinese tourist who had reported it lost. What Glen did was reported by newspapers, all over the country.
While most people that read it felt surprised at the man’s honesty, 27-year-old Ethan Whittington thought Glen should get money for what he did. So he decided to set up a money collection website. He set a goal of $50,000, which he believed was reasonable because it was more than what Glen had discovered in the bag. The m
arketing manager from Virginia thought he would be lucky to raise a few hundred dollars. Instead, within just a day, the website had gone over the $50,000 goal, encouraging Ethan to set a higher goal of $250,000 so that he could help Glen buy a house and start a new life.
As of now, $113,000 has been raised. Ethan who has talked to Glen over the phone, plans to visit Boston soon and also help him manage the money wisely. Needless to say, the homeless man is surprised at what he is receiving for doing the right thing – Honesty, certainly pays off!
1.Did Glen find money in the black bag?
2.Who gave the bag back to the Chinese tourist?
3.What did Ethan decide to do after he read the news of Glen?
4.How much money has been raised by now?
5.What can we learn from Glen and Ethan?
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市西城区中考一模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
I was feeling hungry, ______ I bought myself a sandwich.
A. butB. soC. orD. because
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市石景山区中考二模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：阅读理解
I needed to buy a camera, one that was simply good at taking good snaps (快照). So I went on the net, spent 15 minutes reading product reviews on good websites, wrote down the names of three top recommendations (推荐) and headed for my nearest big camera store. There in the cupboard was one of the cameras on my list. And it was on special offer. Oh joy. I pointed at it and asked a salesgirl, “Can I have one of those?” “Do you want to try it first?" she said. It didn’t quite sound like a question. “Do I need to?” I replied. “There’s nothing wrong with it?” “No, no. But you should try it,” she said encouragingly. “Compare it with the others.”
I looked across at the others: shelves of similar cameras placed along the wall, offering different prices. With so many models to choose from, it seemed that I would have to spend hours weighing X against Y, always trying to consider Z and possibly H at the same time. But when I had finished, I would still have only the same two certainties that I had entered the store with: first, soon after I carried my new camera out of the shop, it would be worth half what I paid for it; and second, my wonderful camera would very quickly be replaced by a new model.
But something in the human soul whispers that you can beat these traps (陷阱) by making the right choice. In the end, I agreed to try the model I had chosen. The salesgirl seemed a kind girl. So I let her take out my chosen camera from the cupboard, show how it took excellent pictures of my fellow shoppers... and when she started to introduce the special features, I cut in to ask whether I needed to buy a carry-case and a memory card as well.
Why do we think that new choices still offer us anything new? Perhaps it is because they offer a chance to avoid facing the fact that our real choices in this culture are far more limited than we would like to imagine.
1.The salesgirl insisted that the writer should ______.
A. try the camera to see if there was anything wrong with it
B. compare the camera he had chosen with the others
C. get more information about different companies
D. trust her and stop asking questions
2.What does the writer mean by “it would be worth half what I paid for it”?
A. The camera was not good.
B. He should get a lower price.
C. The camera would soon fall in value.
D. The price of the camera was too high.
3.The writer decided to try the model he had chosen because he ______.
A. knew very little about it
B. didn’t trust the salesgirl any more
C. wanted to make sure he chose the best one
D. wanted to take pictures of his fellow shoppers
4. It can be inferred from the passage that in the writer’s opinion, ______.
A. salespersons are not always very kind
B. people waste too much money on cameras
C. cameras have become an important part of our daily life
D. we don’t actually need so many choices when buying a product
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市石景山区中考二模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
We are sure one day the air in Beijing will be much ______ than today.
A. clean B. cleaner
C. cleanest D. the cleanest
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市石景山区中考二模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
Mike lost his key. ______ couldn’t enter the room.
A. HeB. SheC. TheyD. It
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市石景山区中考一模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
______ is waiting for you at the gate. She’s got a letter for you.
A. Nobody B. Anybody C. Somebody D. Everybody
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科目：初中英语 来源：2014年北京市海淀区中考一模英语试卷（解析版） 题型：单项填空
—Would you like to hang out with me this weekend?
—I'd love to, ______I have a lot of things to do.
A. soB. or C. butD. and
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