2020年江苏省常州市中考英语试卷
1.（单选题，1分）Take it easy. There will be_________ two bus coming in a few minutes.（ ）
A.another
B.other
C.others
D.the other
2.（单选题，1分）Millie's rearch paper isn't up to standard_________ she has worked at it for two weeks.（ ）
A.since
B.unless
C.if
D.although
3.（单选题，1分）To the west of our school__________ some bookstores and a park.（ ）
A.lies
B.lie
C.has
D.have
4.（单选题，1分）-Were you required___________ at home during the outbreak of COVID-19？
-Yes. Luckily, the Internet made it possible for many of us________ from home.（ ）
A.to stay； to work
B.staying； to work
C.to表里如一打一字谜
stay； work
D.staying； work
5.（单选题，1分）-Jim, turn down the music. Our baby is sleeping.
-Don't worry. He__________ for half an hour.（ ）
A.woke up
B.has woken up
C.was awake
D.has been awake
6.（单选题，1分）Jenny's parents were completely__________ when they saw the_______ changes in her.（ ）
A.surprising； amazing
B.surprid； amazing
C.surprising； amazed
D.surprid； amazed
7.（单选题，1分）A factory will be built for the __________ of this type of new energy car.（ ）
A.position
B.population
C.production
D.pronunciation
8.（单选题，1分）To my joy, we_________ go to the bank. Mary has lent us some money.（ ）
A.shouldn't
B.needn't
C.couldn't
D.wouldn't
9.（单选题，1分）A great deal of my time is__________ with practicing playing the guitar.（ ）
A.taken up
B.made up
C.put up
D.t up
10.（单选题，1分）-Do you want to try some wild duck？
-__________． We should protect wild animals.（ ）
A.No idea
B.No problem
C.No way
D.No doubt
11.（填空题，12分）A window is a common but powerful tool - a patch（小块） of the world, from which our body is parated. The only thing we can do is look. You have no（1）___ on what you will e. However,your brain may make an assumption（猜想） out of whatever happens to appear.
One day,I was taking a nap（小睡）in my office when I woke up to the（2）___ of a car crash.I looked out of my window. A car had just backed into a fence（围栏）and damaged （毁坏）it.
The driver got out of the car. He was short without hair on his head. I（3）___ him at once.
To my surpri, the man tried to（4）___ the damage he caud. However, his efforts all failed. Once he even funnily fell onto the road when trying to pull the fence. I（5）___ a lot. The failure of this terrible man was brightening my whole day.
About 10 minutes later, the man left.
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uld be the（6）___ of his efforts.The man - that villainous（可憎的）man - was going to（7）___ all the mess behind for someone el to clean up.
But this is the（8）___ of windows. They contradict（与…矛盾）your easy assumptions. The man appeared a few minutes later with some（9）___ ． For the next
hour,I watched out of my window as he kept on fixing the fence（10）___ it was extra safe, stronger than before.
This man was a hero. My（11）___ assumptions, I realized, were all about mylf. I would be（12）___ and run away if I came across such a messy situation.
My window had woken me up from a nap to teach me a lesson, a lesson that changed my whole day and even my whole life.
（1）A． agreement | B． influence | C． discovery | D． impression |
（2）A． symbol | B． sight | C． sound | D． sign |
（3）A． accepted | B． remembered | C． disliked | D． greeted |
（4）A． confirm | B． avoid | C． cover | D． repair |
（5）A． complained | B． laughed | C． learnt | D． thought |
（6）A． end | B． fun | C． problem | D． lesson |
（7）A． hide | B． push | C． move | D． leave |
（8）A． quality | B． shame | C． power | D． truth |
（9）A． friends | B． tools | C． medicines | D． plans |
（10）A． until | B． when | C． after | D． since |
（11）A． ugly | B． friendly | C． proper | D． possible |
（12）A． encouraged | B． plead | C． scared | D． relaxed |
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12.（填空题，6分）With so much free time on our hands during lockdown, many of us have entertained the idea of knowing more about the world. Learning a foreign language is a good choice. Here are a few examples, in order of time it takes people to learn them.
Latin languages （about 600 hours）
The popular Latin languages - Italian, French, Spanish and Portugue - require about 600 hours to learn. Of the, Spanish and Italian are the easiest for English speakers to learn. They are followed by Portugue and finally French.
Latin languages share many words with English.However,tho shared words look or sound similar, but have di亲子英语
fferent meanings over time.
Greek （1，100 hours）
Modern Greek is maybe the easiest language to learn that us a different alphabet（字母表）．It is also a language that has contributed many words to English. Indeed, the president of Greece once gave two speeches at an international meeting that include
d just Greek loan words（外来词） as well as the unavoidable basic English.
Japane （2， 200 hours）
Counting objects in Japane depends on whether they are long and thin （like "roads"）， small and round （like "apples"）， thin and flat （like "sheets of paper"）， and hundreds more examples.
