广东省潮州市2025年中考真题（一）英语试卷（含答案，2025）

1、What would have happened _________, as far as the river bank?

A.if Bob has walked farther B.had Bob walked farther

C.if Bob should walk farther D.if Bob walked farther

2、Ade acknowledged ________ in the examination.

A．to cheat

B．cheated

C．to be cheated

D．cheating

3、He telephoned the travel agency to ________ three air tickets to London.

A. order   B. arrange C. book D. take

4、--- Where is Jack? I cannot find him anywhere.

--- He went to the library after lunch and ______ his essay there ever since.

A.has been written B.had written C.had been writing D.has been writing

5、—Let’s go to the cinema tonight, shall we?

—Sorry, ________. I’m very tired today.

A. I’m grabbing a bite to eat

B. I’d like to

C. I’m not in the mood for a movie

D. Let’s meet at the gate of the cinema

6、He doesn’t like sports and his passion is ________.

A．to paint

B．painting

C．painted

D．being painted

7、Here ________ the president.

A.is coming B.does come C.comes D.is come

8、The traditional Chinese lunar calendar divides the year ________ 24 solar terms.

A.through B.from C.into D.for

9、Seeing their son back home safe and sound, the couple smiled _____.

A.in peace B.in relief C.in return D.in turn

10、   The entire hall burst into a great cheer and applause _______ the Nobel Prize winner appeared on the stage accompanied by the chairman.

A．until

B．while

C．by the time

D．the moment

11、Without the Internet, they found themselves ______ from the outside world.

A．cut off

B．cutting off

C．cut up

D．cutting up

12、The news was __________ in a radio broadcast that the great poet was lost to the world .

A．put out

B．brought out

C．made out

D．turned out

13、The teacher, along with the students, playing this game.

A. like   B. likes

C. is like   D. are like

14、In the face of failure in exams, what we need to do is to ______ our learning methods and make some possible adjustments.

A．pass down

B．look on

C．comment on

D．reflect on

15、After the show, everyone stood up and began to ________ loudly for their wonderful performance.

A．escape

B．establish

C．contribute

D．clap

16、Taking a gap year is a good chance for students to learn skills and gain life experience, ______ them an edge in the job market.

A. given B. to give  C. giving  D. having given

17、 As far as I am concerned, a good plan must be ______ so that it can adapt to some necessary changes.

A. flexible B. fragile

C. faithful   D. firm

18、It is no use _____ him here. It’s too late already.

A. sending   B. to send

C. sent   D. being sent

19、One way to understand thousands of new words is to gain _____good knowledge of basic word formation

A．/ B．the C．a D．one

20、I’ll ________ the famous tourist spot these days to avoid the peak season.

A．set out

B．set off for

C．set up

D．set off

21、   Although it has been revealed in recent years that plants are capable of seeing, hearing and smelling, they are still usually thought of as silent. But now, for the first time, they have been recorded making ultrasonic (超声的) cries when stressed, which researchers say could open up a new field of precision agriculture where farmers listen for water-starved crops.

Itzhak Khait and his colleagues at Tel Aviv University in Israel found that tomato and tobacco plants made cries at frequencies humans cannot hear when stressed by a lack of water or when their stem it cut.

Microphones placed 10 centimetres from the plants picked up sounds in the ultrasonic range of 20 to 100 kilohertz, which the team says insects and some mammals would be capable of hearing and responding to from as far as 5 metres away. A moth may decide against laying eggs on a plant that sounds water-stressed, the researchers suggest. Plants could even hear that other plants are short of water and react accordingly, they speculate (推断).

On average, drought-stressed tomato plants made 35 sounds an hour, while tobacco plants made 11. When plant stems were cut, tomato plants made an average of 25 sounds in the following hour, and tobacco plants 15. Unstressed plants produced fewer than one sound per hour, on average.

It is even possible to distinguish between the sounds to know what the stress is. The researchers trained a machine-learning model to recognize between the plants’ sounds and the wind, rain and other noises of the greenhouse, correctly identifying in most cases whether the stress was caused by dryness or a cut, based on the sound’s intensity and frequency. Water-hungry tobacco appears to make louder sounds than cut tobacco, for example.

Enabling farmers to listen for water-stressed plants could “open a new direction in the field of precision agriculture”, the researchers suggest. They add that such an ability will be increasingly important as climate change exposes more areas to drought.

“The suggestion that the sounds that drought-stressed plants make could be used in precision agriculture seems feasible (可行的) if it is not too costly to set up the recording in a field situation,” says Anne Visscher at the royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, in the UK.

She warns that the results can’t yet be broadened out to other stresses, such as salt or temperature, because these may not lead to sounds. In addition, there have been no experiments to show whether moths or any other animal can hear and respond to the sounds the plants make, so that idea remains based on guesses for now, she says.

【1】The experiment by researchers at Tel Aviv University shows that________.

A.tomato plants cry more often than tobacco when hurt

B.plant sounds can be heard by plants quite far away

C.humans can hear water-hungry plants crying

D.moths like laying eggs on stressed plant

【2】What is Anne Visscher’s attitude towards the finding of the experiment?

A.Disappointed B.Cautious. C.Appreciative. D.Optimistic.

【3】Taking advantage of the new research finding,farmers can________.

A.harvest crops in time B.reduce greenhouse effects

C.diagnose plant condition faster D.detect and remove insects easily

【4】Which of the following would be the best title for the passage?

A.Plants get stressed Just Like Us.

B.Sounds of Plants Detected Far Away.

C.Cries of plants break Farmers’Hearts

D.Plants scream in the presence of stress

22、How Much Exercise Do I Need?

When it comes to exercise, less is not more-but it’s certainly better than none. Physical inactivity accounts for as many as 23 percent of all deaths from major chronic diseases, yet almost one of every three Americans is sedentary. According to the Centers for Disease Control, 29.4 percent of those surveyed report they have no free-time physical activity at all. City people tend to be more active than country folks, with 27.4 percent saying they are sedentary, compared with 36.6 percent of those in rural areas.

Light activity can improve physical and mental well-being. While light activity is good, moderate activity is even better, and health experts encourage everyone to have at least 30 minutes a day of moderate physical activity. But you don’t have to head to a gym. As recent studies have confirmed, “lifestyle” activities, such as walking, house cleaning and gardening, are as effective as a structured exercise program in improving heart function, lowering blood pressure and keeping or losing weight.

In one study, overweight, sedentary middle-aged men and women who learned behavioral skills to make them more physically active, such as walking around airports or train stations while waiting for a departure, reduced their body fat percentage and improved their blood pressure and heart function as much as individuals participating in structured programs at a fitness center. In another study, fat women ranging in age from 21 to 60 who adopted a more active lifestyle lost as much weight as women in a low-impact aerobics (有氧健身)program-and regained fewer pounds in the following year.

Recognizing the value of different levels and types of activity, the American College of Sports Medicine has changed its recommendations on quantity and quality of exercise to include flexibility as well as aerobic and muscle exercise and to acknowledge that multiple short periods of exercise during the day are nearly as beneficial as one long session.

【1】By saying that almost one third of Americans are sedentary, the author means________ .

A．they take proper exercise to be healthy

B．they know nothing about light activity

C．they are very fond of physical activity

D．they take little free-time physical activity

【2】We can learn from the passage that________ .

A．light activity is especially good for the middle-aged people

B．people like light activity because it won’t make them feel tired

C．people only need to do light activity three times a week to keep fit

D．light activity promotes people’s well-being physically and mentally

【3】What do health experts suggest about moderate activity?

A．No less than half an hour’s moderate activity daily can do us good.

B．Moderate activity is no better than light activity to people.

C．“Lifestyle” activities don’t belong to moderate activity.

D．People may go to the gym to take moderate activity.

【4】According to the passage, which of the following belongs to a structured exercise program?

A．Doing gymnastics at a gym.

B．Taking outdoor activities.

C．Walking.

D．Gardening.

23、   There are two kinds of secrets: secrets of nature and secrets about people. Natural secrets exist all around us; to find them, one must study some undiscovered aspect of the physical world. Secrets about people are different: they are things that people don't know about themselves or things they hide because they don't want others to know. So when thinking about what kind of company to build, there are two distinct questions to ask: What secrets is nature not telling you? What secrets are people not telling you?

It's easy to assume that natural secrets are the most important: the people who look for them can sound authoritative (权威的).This is why physics PhDs are difficult to work with—because they know the most basic truths, they think they know all truths. But does understanding electronic theory automatically make you a great marriage counselor? Does a gravity theorist know more about your business than you do? At PayPal, I once interviewed a physics PhD for an engineering job. Halfway through my first question, he shouted, "Stop! I already know what you're going to ask!" But he was wrong. It was the easiest no-hire decision I've ever made. Secrets about people are relatively overlooked. Maybe that's because you don,t need a dozen years of higher education to ask the questions that uncover them: What are people not allowed to talk about? What is forbidden or taboo?

The best place to look for secrets is where no one else is looking. Most people think only in terms of what they've been taught; schooling itself aims to spread basic wisdom. So you might ask: are there any fields that matter but haven't been standardized? Physics, for example, is a real major at all major universities, and it's set in its ways. The opposite of physics might be astrology, but astrology doesn't matter. What about something like nutrition? Nutrition matters for everybody, but you can't major in it at Harvard. Most top scientists go into other fields. Most of the big studies were done 30 or 40 years ago, and most are seriously flawed (有缺陷的).The food pyramid that told us to eat low fat and large amounts of grains was probably produced by Big Food(美国著名食品公司)than real science; its chief impact has been to worsen our obesity(肥胖)problem. There’s plenty more to learn: we know more about the physics of far away stars than we know about human nutrition. It won't be easy, but it's not obviously impossible: exactly the kind of field that could produce secrets.

【1】What can we learn about secrets in Paragraph 1?

A.To establish a company, one should explore secrets of both nature and people.

B.Trying to discover people themselves will help them to find the natural secrets.

C.Secrets of nature are more important than secrets about people.

D.We have to find the secrets that nature and people have told us.

【2】The PhD's example suggests  .

A.the physics PhD was not hired because he sounded authoritative

B.higher education will ensure a better understanding of secrets

C.it is necessary and important to appreciate secrets about people

D.it is not easy for physics PhDs to find an engineering job

【3】What can we infer from the last paragraph?

A.The best place to find secrets is where many great scientists are studying.

B.Eating low fat and large amounts of grains is certainly good for our health.

C.There may be some hidden secrets for us to find in the field of human nutrition.

D.Without physics, secrets in astrology and human nutrition would not have been found.

【4】What can be the best title for the passage?

A.Secrets of nature B.Secrets about people

C.How to build a secret company D.How to find secrets

24、Screens during meals rob kids of opportunities to improve language and communication skills （storytelling, making jokes, etc.）, as well as to develop patience and even imagination as they entertain themselves waiting for food to arrive.

Meals are an opportunity to connect, to learn more about and enjoy each other. They strengthen the bonds that will bring benefits to the rest of our lives. We squander that opportunity when we stick a screen in front of our kids during dinner.

Of course, we all want to have enjoyable family meals, which is why I love Bruce Feiller's book "The Secrets of Happy Families", in which he devotes an entire chapter to ways to make them fun and meaningful for everyone---such as "fill in the blank" sentences you make up. Sharing something good and something challenging makes for pleasant conversations, too. And I've had fun playing Uno with my daughters until the food arrives in a restaurant.

The American Academy of Pediatrics (小儿科）also offers guidelines to help families manage children's screen time. The academy recommends avoiding digital media for children under 2, except for video-chatting, and limiting screen time to just one hour a day of high-quality programming for children ages 2 to 5.

Fundamentally, we all benefit from more human connection, not less — and that's especially true for children. Schools, airplane trips, most jobs, games, even "social" interaction were all once done without screens but now are filled with them. And while we have gained some advantages, including new connections, we have lost something fundamental, as well.

Less is always more when it comes to screens, even if they are effective at keeping kids quiet. But soon after complaining that they are "bored, ” kids have a natural tendency to fill the screenless void （空虚）with creative games, art, exploration and conversation. There are no studies that warn against having too many hours of those activities.

Let's all work harder to keep family meals special by getting rid of the iPads and nourishing our personal connections as we nourish our bodies.

【1】What's the author's attitude to the kids' staring at screens during meals?

A．Disapproving.

B．Favorable.

C．Cautious.

D．Unconcerned.

【2】What does the underlined word "squander" in paragraph 2 probably mean?

A．Take.

B．Waste.

C．Expect.

D．Create.

【3】What will kids do if they have no access to screens?

A．Keep quiet.

B．Refuse to eat.

C．Feel bored all the time.

D．Find ways to entertain themselves.

【4】What is the author's purpose in writing this passage?

A．To introduce the iPads to the children.

B．To stress the importance of family meals.

C．To appeal for family meals without screens.

D．To teach parents how to punish their children.

25、   My parents always told me that I couldn't________, because it was a girl's sport. But I never________my dream of becoming a dancing star. I practised secretly, learning from books, movies, and shows. However,________my parents' support, that dream seemed all but impossible to reach. One summer, my little sister Maggie was going to dance lessons. I immediately asked my parents for permission to take her to the lessons. What a________chance to learn dancing!

One afternoon, I was practising a new dance in my room, when Maggie________.

What's the matter, Maggie?" I________dancing.

Denis, you are a great dancer! Can you help me? "

"What is it?" I wondered.

There'll be a dancing performance in my school, but the boys think I'm slow, and________of them wants to be my partner. Could you dance with me for it?" She looked at me________.

"You can be a good dancer!" I encouraged her, "Let's________those people that they have been wrong all along."

In the following months, we________every evening, hiding from my parents. I was having a________time and soon Maggie improved a lot.

Finally came the big day. I became________when I heard my parents would come to________the performance. As the music began, I took a deep breath and tried to________. We moved perfectly, shining with pride. From the cheering of the crowd, I was sure we had succeeded.

My heart was beating wildly when I saw my________coming towards me. He put his hand on my shoulder. Well done, son.________it is hard for me to admit it, you really looked like you belonged to this stage. Go for it and make us________."

I'd been waiting for this________for so long. I knew that the road ahead wasn't going to be________, but I wouldn't give up. I wanted________more in life than to dance.

【1】A.dance B.sing C.draw D.write

【2】A.gave in B.gave away C.gave up D.gave out

【3】A.through B.with C.without D.by

【4】A.strange B.good C.grand D.different

【5】A.walked in B.went out C.walked through D.went away

【6】A.started B.stopped C.learned D.practised

【7】A.both B.none C.neither D.either

【8】A.eagerly B.happily C.angrily D.quickly

【9】A.ask B.encourage C.require D.show

【10】A.played B.achieved C.practiced D.struggled

【11】A.boring B.fantastic C.tired D.difficult

【12】A.angry B.relaxed C.shy D.anxious

【13】A.ruin B.watch C.design D.show

【14】A.break down B.put down C.calm down D.fall down

【15】A.mother B.cousin C.friend D.father

【16】A.Though B.Because C.If D.When

【17】A.worried B.sad C.proud D.excited

【18】A.moment B.party C.opportunity D.performance

【19】A.hard B.funny C.boring D.easy

【20】A.everything B.something C.anything D.nothing

26、 假设你是新华中学高二学生李华，即将进入高三的你的朋友William感到压力很大，学习效果基微，请你给他写一封电子邮件，帮助他放松身心，提高学习效率。

内容要点

1.快乐学习，保持愉快的心情

2.积极参加体育活动，听听歌曲音乐

3.多与同学交流，互相鼓励。

注意

1.开头和结尾已经为你写好，词数100左右。

2.可适当增加细节，以使行文连贯。

Dear William.

Recently, I have heard that you feel stressed as a to-be student of Senior Three.

Best wishes!

Yours.

Li Hua