Why do people wear clothes? Your answer may be to keep w1. and to cover the body. That’s why people wear clothes, but people also want to look attractive and appear successful to others.
If people wear clothes only for warmth and to cover their bodies, most clothes would be simple and c2. . In many countries, however, clothes are sometimes very expensive. The main reason for this is not the cost of the materials or the cost of making clothes. The clothes are expensive because of fashion. Successful businessmen, for example, often wear very expensive suits, shirts and ties. So they p3. thousands of dollars for a suit and hundreds of dollars for a tie. It’s still just a suit and a tie, but they pay these prices because of the famous designs.
Fashion is constantly (持续不断地) changing. It means that people who want to be fashionable have to buy new clothes every few months, even if last month’s clothes have only been worn once or t4.. Some people have boxes f5. of clothes, but some of these clothes have never been worn. These clothes are no longer in fashion though they are still new.
1.warm 2.cheap 3.pay 4.twice 5.full 【解析】这篇短文主要讲述了衣服就是一种时尚，它在随着社会的改变而改变。 1.句意：你的回答可能是保暖或遮盖身体。Keep warm表示保暖。根据句意及首字提示，故填warm。 2.句意：大部分衣服会简单和便宜。Cheap的意思是“便宜的”，根据句意及首字母提示，故填cheap。 ...科目：初中英语 来源：2018年广州中考英语压轴专题练习卷：非谓语动词（选择题） 题型：单选题
(2017·四川内江·30)In some African countries，children are made ________ heavy work because their parents have died.
A. doing B. done C. do D. to do
D 【解析】句意：在一些非洲国家，由于父母已经去世，孩子们被要求做了大量的工作。“be made to do…”为“被要求做…”，这里是“被要求做重活”（be made to do heavy work），选D。查看答案和解析>>
科目：初中英语 来源：2018春人教英语八下Unit1-Unit5 期末训练题 题型：单选题
Could you _________the window? I feel a little cold.
A. please not to open B. please not open
C. not please to close D. please not to close
B 【解析】 句意：你能不要开窗户吗？我感到有点冷。固定句型“Could you please do…?”为“你能做…… 吗？”，“Could you please not do…?”为“你能不要做…… 吗？”本题是“你能不要开窗户吗？”，应为“Could you please not open the window?”，故...查看答案和解析>>
科目：初中英语 来源：江苏省苏州市2018年张家港市中考网上阅卷适应性考试英语试卷（含答案） 题型：单选题
一When did you leave your office yesterday?
一 I finished the project.
A. Until B. While C. When D. Not until
D 【解析】句意：昨天你什么时候离开你的办公室的？——直到我完成那个任务。本题考查连词。A. Until 直到···时候才结束，要与延续性动词连用；B. While 当···时候 ；C. When 当···时候；D. Not until直到···时候才开始，与非延续性动词连用；句子中finished（完成）是非延续性动词，故选D查看答案和解析>>
科目：初中英语 来源：江苏省苏州市2018年张家港市中考网上阅卷适应性考试英语试卷（含答案） 题型：单选题
―Tom! I you 40 times that I'll beat you if you don't leave that apple jam alone.
―Sorry, Aunt!
A. tell B. told C. have told D. am telling
C 【解析】句意：Tom!我已经警告过你40次，如果你不留下那个苹果酱，我就揍你。 对不起，姑姑！本题考查动词tell(告诉)的时态。A. tell 动词原形 ；B. told 一般过去时； C. have told 现在完成时； D. am telling现在进行时。根据题意知动作发生在过去查看答案和解析>>
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Jenny wasn’t interested in playing the piano. She liked writing stories and acting them out with her friends. But Mrs. Windsor gave her p1. lessons for free, so she felt she should have a try. Every S2. she had her piano lessons in Mrs. Windsor’s house.
One Sunday morning, Jenny walked into Mrs. Windsor’s music room and sat down on the piano bench as u3..
“Hello, ” Jenny heard a v4. behind her. She turned around and saw a young girl.
“What’s your name?” The girl asked.
Before Jenny could a5., Mrs. Windsor walked in and said, “Jenny, this is my niece(侄女), Pasha. Pasha, this is Jenny. I need to go to hospital, so Pasha will give you your l6. today.”
Pasha sat beside Jenny on the piano bench and asked, “What piece do you like best?”
“I don’t know.” Jenny said. “They’re all the same to me.”
“You mean you don’t have a f7.?” Pasha was surprised.
“No, not really.” Jenny said.
Pasha opened Jenny’s music book and asked Jenny to play.
After about a page or two, Pasha gently put her hand on top of Jenny’s. Jenny stopped. Then Pasha said, “Jenny, what are you h8. in the music?” Jenny looked at Pasha strangely.
“I don’t know.” Jenny said.
“Let me t9. and you listen, ” Pasha said. “All you have to do is learning to hear the stories in the music.”
“I’ve never thought of it that way.” Jenny said.
“Let’s try together, shall we?” Pasha smiled. Together they played that afternoon and tried to find the story in the m10.. That day Jenny found playing the piano was not that difficult.
1.piano 2.Sunday 3.usual 4.voice 5.answer 6.lesson 7.favorite 8.hearing 9.try 10.music 【解析】这篇文章讲了一个小女孩帕莎启发另一个小女孩珍妮懂得倾听音乐中的故事从而鼓励她弹钢琴的故事。 1.句意：但温莎太太免费给她上钢琴课，所以她觉得她应该试一试...查看答案和解析>>
科目：初中英语 来源：江苏省苏州市2018年中考英语模拟试卷(五)含答案 题型：阅读单选
THREE CENTURIES OF HOAXES(骗局;恶作剧)!
A THINKING MACHINE
In 1769, long before computers were invented, a man from Hungary(匈牙利)built a wonderful machine that could play chess very well. It made people all over Europe happy and beat nearly everyone it played against .including famous people like French leader Napoleon Bonaparte, and scientist and inventor Yenjamin Franklin. For years, many people believed that it was truly a thinking machine. There were people who said it was a hoax, but could not prove it or explain how it worked. About 85 years later, the secret was finally found. There was a man hiding inside the machine all the time... who was very good at playing chess!
ZOO ESCAPE(逃脱)
On November 9, 1874, New York newspaper, The Herald, ran a terrible story on its front page. It said that all the animals in the Central Park Zoo had escaped and were running around the city. It said the police were working to save people, but 27 people had already been killed, and 200 people hurt. It warned everyone to stay at home to avoid the danger. Many people in New York were terrified, and did as the paper said. If only they had read the final words of the article, which said; "Not one word of it is true. Not a single act described has taken place." It was just a hoax. The story was made up by Thomas Connery, aneditor at The Herald, who wanted to draw attention to the poor condition of cages in the zoo.
ROSIE THE RUNNER
The first woman to cross the finishing line of the 1980 Boston Marathon(马拉松)was 23-year-old Rosie Ruiz. However, as she climbed the stairs to receive her prize, people started to become suspicious(怀疑的).She didn't seem to be tired at all. Furthermore, none of the other runners remembered seeing her, and her picture never appeared in photos or TV broadcasts of the race. Later, several people said that they had seen her join the race only at the end. It turned out she had run only half a mile(about 805 meters) and taken the train for the rest of the race! Her prize was taken away, of course.
1.Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?
A. The thinking machine used a computer to win games.
B. 200 people were killed by zoo animals in 1874.
C. Rosie Ruiz wasn't tired at the finishing line.
D. Rosie Ruiz didn't appear in TV broadcasts of the race.
2.What is true about all the hoaxes in the passage?
A. They made people scared. B. They fooled a lot of people.
C. They made people suspicious. D. They made people happy.
3.The title of the passage shows us that the writer thinks that hoaxes .
A. are not new B. are easily avoided
C. are always interesting D. are usually unbelievable
1.D 2.B 3.A 【解析】本文讲述的是发生在三个不同世纪中的三个骗局，分别是18世纪有人“发明”了一个下象棋的机器高手，后来证明是有人藏在机器中；19世纪美国纽约的一家报纸报道说，一家动物园里的所有动物都从园里逃了出来，在大街上踩死踩伤很多人，提醒市民注意安全。最后被告知这是一起恶作剧；第三则是20世纪马拉松国际长跑比赛的“冠军”获得者是弄虚作假得来的荣誉，最后被取消成绩。...查看答案和解析>>
科目：初中英语 来源：江苏省苏州市2018年中考英语模拟试卷(五)含答案 题型：单选题
Father's Day is coming. I want to buy a fine tie for my father, but is fit for him in the shops nearby.
A. no one B. nothing C. none D. neither
C 【解析】句意：父亲节就要来了。我想要给我的父亲买一个精美的领带，但是在附近的商店里没有一个适合他。no one没有人；nothing没什么；none没有一个；neither两者都不。根据in the shops nearby.可知在附近的商店里，没有一个领带适合我的父亲，附近商店里的领带超过三个，故用代词none。故选C。查看答案和解析>>
科目：初中英语 来源：2018年四川宜宾中考英语试卷 题型：单选题
That’s the boy won the first prize in the competition yesterday.
A. who B. which C. whom
A 【解析】句意：那是做题比赛赢得一等奖的那个男孩。这是一个定语从句，先行词是the boy，引导词在从句中做主语成分；故选A查看答案和解析>>
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