江苏省常州市2020年中考英语试题
学校:___________姓名：___________班级：___________考号：___________
一、单项选择
1．Take it easy. There will be_________ two bus coming in a few minutes.
A．another B．other C．others D．the other
2．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．To the west of our school__________ some bookstores and a park.
A．lies B．lie C．has D．have
4．—Were you required___________ 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 stay; work D．staying; work
5．—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．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．A factory will be built for the __________ of this type of new energy car.
A．position B．population C．production D．pronunciation
8．To my joy, we_________ go to the bank. Mary has le如此多的英语
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us some money.
A．shouldn’t B．needn’t C．couldn’t D．wouldn’t
9．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．—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
二、完形填空
A window is a common but powerful tool — a patch(小块) of the world, from which our body is par大学生求职信
ated. The only thing we can do is look. You have no___11___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____12____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____13____him at once.
To my surpri, the man tried to____14____the damage he caud.创业培训计划书
However, his efforts all failed. Once he even funnily fell onto the road when trying to pull the fence. I____15____a lot. The failure of this terrible man was brightening my whole day.
About 10 minutes later, the man left.
That, I thought, would be the____16____of his efforts. The man — that villainous(可憎的) man — was going to____17____all the mess behind for someone el to clean up.
But this is the____18____of windows. They contradict(与…矛盾)your easy assumptions. The man appeared a few minutes later with some____19____. For the next hour, I watch
ed out of my window as he kept on fixing the fence_____20_____it was extra safe, stronger than before.
This man was a hero. My_____21_____assumptions, I realized, were all about mylf. I would be_____22_____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.
11．A．agreement B．influence C．discovery D．impression
12．A．symbol B．sight C．sound D．sign
13．A．accepted B．remembered C．disliked D．greeted
14．A．confirm B．avoid C．cover D．repair
15．A．complained B．laughed C．learnt D．thought
16．A．end B．fun C．problem D．lesson
17．A．hide B．push C．move D．leave
18．A．quality B．shame C．power D．truth
19．A．friends B．tools C．medicines D．plans
20．A．until B．when C．after D．since
21．A．ugly B．friendly C．proper D．possible
22．A．encouraged B．plead C．scared D．relaxed
三、阅读单选
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 different 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 langua有关太空的知识
ge that has contributed many words to English. Indeed, the president of Greece once gave two speeches at an international meeting that included 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 e
xamples.
