阅读理解 Sarah stood in front of the mirror(镜子). &quot;It looks like a raincoat on me,&quot; she said. &quot;Perhaps the blue,&quot; said Mama, gently. &quot;Sure,&q...

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江苏省无锡市2018年中考英语试卷

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Sarah stood in front of the mirror(镜子). "It looks like a raincoat on me," she said.

"Perhaps the blue," said Mama, gently.

"Sure," the shopkeeper said. But when she took the blue coat, there on the shelf behind all of the dark coats, hidden like a spring flower in winter darkness, there, as if by magic, was a pink coat.

"A pink coat!" Sarah cried. "I want the pink coat."

"That coat is smaller than the other ones," Papa said.

Sarah spoke up. "I'm small, too. Papa, please let me try it on, Mama? Please?"

"It wouldn't hurt to let her try it on," Mama said.

Without a word, the shopkeeper took the coat from the shelf and held it for Sarah.

"Ohhh!" Sarah said. The coat was smooth and shiny inside like her sister Sylvia's blouses. "Ahhh!"

Sarah stood very straight and looked in the mirror. She looked for a very long time. In the pink coat she looked like a spring flower.

"Sarah!" Mama said.

Sarah looked up. Mama was standing behind her. She was holding the brown coat.

"I'm afraid the pink coat will only fit one year," Mama said, taking a step closer.

"And there's no one to pass it on to," said Papa.

And the shopkeeper said, "It's wise to save money."

Sarah backed away. No one was going to put her into a raincoat again. She wanted to be a flower.

"Sarah!" It was Papa. He came over to her. "You're old enough to know that you can't always have your own way," he said seriously.

"Wise and true," said the shopkeeper.

Sarah took off the pink coat, slowly.

"It is her colour, though," Mama said.

"Ahh," said the shopkeeper. "Anyone can see how the pink of the coat brings out the roses in her face."

Papa looked thoughtful for a moment.

"We are lucky." continued Mama, "that it is only one little coat for Sarah and not also new coats for Sylvia and Susan and Sally."

Papa looked from the brown coat to the pink coat. "The cows will give milk soon enough," he said "And how can we let Sarah wear a brown coat when she looks like a flower in this one?"

"Papa!" Sarah cried, putting on the pink coat back, quickly. She threw her arms around Papa's neck. " " she whispered.

"Like a rose in spring," Papa said.

（1）、What did Sarah try on first?

A、A big pink coat. B、A small pink coat. C、A big brown coat. D、A small brown coat.

（2）、Why did Mama want Sarah to try brown and blue?

A、Because Sarah looked better in them. B、Because Sarah could wear them longer. C、Because they were big enough for Sarah. D、Because they cost less than the pink one.

（3）、What did Sarah most probably say to Papa in the end?

A、How do I look? B、How does the coat look? C、I do look like a flower, don't I? D、The coat looks nice, doesn't it?

举一反三

One midnight, a little girl woke up to pass water. She by herself got up and down her bed, walked to the bedroom door and opened it. She looked outside and walked back, for it was so dark in the hall that she feared.
Her mother said, “Don't be afraid, honey. Take courage!”
“What's courage?” she asked, running to her mother'' bed.
“Courage is the brave breath,”her mother answered.
“Mum, do you have courage?”
“Certainly.”
The girl held out her little hands, saying, “Mum, blow some of your breath of courage to me.”
After her mother blew out two mouthfuls of breath into her little cold hands, the little girl clenched her fists(握拳) nervously, afraid that the “breath of courage” would run away. Then with her fists clenched, she walked out of the bedroom towards the bathroom with nothing to fear.
Her mother said to herself, “It will be nice if someone can blow some kind of ‘breath' to me. Then I can hold it in my hands too when I feel terrified or lost.”
In fact, mostly, what we are terrified of is nothing but the fear in our mind. Who we should defeat(战胜) is nobody but ourselves.

    One day, Allan and his friend Henry went swimming in a river. It was very hot. How happy they were in the river! After they got out of the water, they played games in the sun for a while.
    On their way back, Henry saw some flowers. He liked flowers very much and ran into the green field to look at them. Now Allan was walking by himself.
    Then he heard Henry calling out, "A snake（蛇）! Help!..."
    "What's wrong with you?" asked Allan.
    "A snake bit（咬）me in the leg. Come here!"
    Allan ran over and saw a small red wound（伤口）on Henry' s leg.
    "The snake was in the grass. I didn't see it."
    "Sit down quickly"! Allan told Henry.
    Allan put his mouth at the little red wound and began to suck（吸）at it. In this way he saved （挽救）Henry's life. "Oh, Allan, it's very kind of you to help me."
    "That's all right. We are friends and we must always help each other."

阅读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容，在每小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。

John was a very strong man. Once he got a job of cutting wood in a forest. His boss gave him an axe(斧子) and showed him the area where he should work.

The first day, John cut down 18 trees. "Good," the boss said, "keep it up!" John was encouraged by the words of the boss and tried harder the next day, but he could only cut down 15 trees. The third day he tried even harder, but he could only cut down 10 trees. Day after day he was cutting down fewer and fewer trees.

"I must be losing my strength," John thought. He went to the boss and said that he could not understand what was going on. "When was the last time you had sharpened(使锋利) your axe?" the boss asked. "Sharpened? I had no time to do it. I have been very busy trying to cut more trees." said John.

The moral of this story: While John was working hard, he didn't think about how to do his job better.

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Droughts(干旱) are common in Kenya. Before, they came every 10 years, but now they seem to be hitting us more often and for a longer time.

We gave the droughts names "longoza" was the drought when many animals died; there was the drought of the "planes" because food was dropped from the air by planes; and one particularly bad drought was called "man who dies with his money in his fist(拳头)", because, even if there was money, there was simply no food to buy.

I was born in 1951 in Machakos. From what my mother tells me, when I was 7, there was a serious drought . I clearly remember the terrible weather and the hunger. I can't tell you how many times I went to bed without eating. "I slept like that," is how we described it. I can't count the number of days when "I slept like that," or describe the feeling of going to sleep hungry, knowing I'd wake up and there would still be no food for breakfast.

My father would leave early in the morning carrying a little basket to ask for food on credit(赊欠). Each night he would return home around 10:00 pm. My mother would try to encourage me by telling me to keep the water in our pot boiling so that when my father arrived we could quickly cook any food he brought in the already prepared water. I would keep the fire burning and the water boiling, along with the hopes that we would eat that night. But my father would arrive frustrated and empty-handed. And I would sleep like that.

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September 21st, 2050—At a press conference today, it was announced that the first tourist heading for Mars would be the 38-year-old American businessman Patrick Clifford. He would leave the Earth in the launching window of June, 2052, and he would set his foot on the surface of Mars in November, together with 6 astronauts who would further explore the planet.

Patrick has a two-year training ahead of him to get ready for the trip. Not only will he spend five months in getting to Mars, but another 600 days there before he can go back home. Patrick was very excited, "This has been my dream since I was four, and seeing the first man on Mars 20 years ago made me realize that it was possible."

To be able to pay the 1.3 billion dollars for his ticket for the trip, Patrick sold his majority stocks in the company which his father had built. "I know that my father would have been proud of me if he had still been alive today. He knew what this meant to me," says Patrick.

So, how is he going to spend his 600 days on the red planet? "Well, since I don't have a job, when I get back after selling the company, I have plenty of time to come up with a new business idea," Patrick says and laughs. If he brings a shovel(铲子), he can start building the first hotel there, but maybe he shouldn't expect too many guests until someone can offer a lower transfer fare.

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Cross-country skier Man Dandan won the women's 1.4km individual sprint here on Monday, earning China's first gold at the eighth Asian Winter Games.

"I was in good form today, "said the 28-year-old girl after winning the title in the final round with3 minutes and 48.29 seconds." I didn't think much, but just focused on the games. As an old member, I want to set a good example for my younger teammates by doing my best no matter what the result is."

Mikko Olavi Virtanen, head coach of the Chinese cross-country skiing team, said after the game he is satisfied with Man Dandan's performance." She is a super talented sprint skier. Her biggest problem before was to maintain the speed for four rounds of the competition. We have been working on that for the past seven months. I have been giving her advice, such as how to save the energy till the final round," he said, adding that Man is a good learner.

He also said that the Chinese cross-country skiing team has huge potential. "We have a quite young team. We still have five more years to Beijing Winter Olympics. I hope we can continue this good work for a long term," he said. Yelena Kolomina from Kazakhstan took the silver and Ju Hye Ri from South Korea got the bronze. Australia's Casey Wright finished the third in the final round but did not get a medal as a guest athlete.

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