1. — is it from here to No. 1 Middle School？
—About half an hours walk. Let’s go and visit it.
A. How far B. How long
C. How many D. How much
[解析]
根据答句大约步行半小时的路程，可知问句应该是询问距离， 用how far.选A.
2. The heavy snowstorm made the mountain climbers halfway.
A. stop B. to stop
C. stopping D. stopped
[解析]
make sb. do sth.意为让某人做某事，make后面接不带to的动词不定式作宾语补足语。选A.
3. —Do you think English is more important than Chinese？
—I don‘t think so. I think English is important Chinese. We should study both well.
A. too， to B. as， as C. so， that D. so， as
[解析]
结合上下文可知，答句要表达的意思是我认为英语和汉语同样重要。as + 形容词或副词原形 + as意思是和……一样。选B.
4. The air in Beijing is getting much now than a few years ago.
A. clean B. cleaner
C. cleanest D. the cleanest
[解析]
由句中的than可知这是一个比较级句型。比较级前可以用much， a lot， a little等词来修饰。选B.
5. the students in their school over two thousand.
A. The number of， is B. The number of， are
C. A number of， is D. A number of， are
[解析]
a number of意思是许多的；大量的，后接复数名词作主语时谓语动词用复数。the number of意思是……的数目，后接复数名词作主语时谓语动词用单数。结合句意可知， 此处指学生的数目。选A.
[初中英语中考题目及解析]