2020无锡中考英语试卷节选

满分100分，限时100分钟，请在100分钟内完成答卷；超时则自动提交。
一、单项选择（每题3分，合计30分）。在A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
*1. Cheer up, son! You have friends here. You’re not _____.
*2. —_____are you looking for, madam? I think everyone is here.
—I don’t think so. Where’s David?
*3. Think twice and make the decision. ________ else can do it for you.
*4. —You promised that you ____ me to Disneyland, Dad.
—Well, I did, dear. But we have to change the plan.
*5. You ________ be able to control all the things that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them.
*6. —How is your cold, Tom? Did you take the medicine?
—Yes, three times a day. But it’s getting ________, I suppose. I have a headache today.
*7. The bush fires in Australia ________ after a few months, leaving millions of animals dead.
*8. — What do we know about the next Olympic Games?
— Very ________. The only news is that they won’t cancel it.
*9. I think the coffee beans are from Brazil, ________ I’m not completely sure.
*10. .— Hmm, something ________ so good. Is it a cake? Can I try some?
— Hand-made cookies Still warm. Here you go!
二、完形填空（每空3分，合计30分）
*11. 先通读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后在每小题所给的四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
I sat in the same seat every day on the school bus, just in front of Jessica and Cory. One day, they asked to see my lunch box. “Wow, it’s really cool,” they said. I couldn’t
the two ninth graders liked me that much. They returned my lunch box and thanked me for letting them see it. “Oh, my pleasure,” I said, filled with
both inside and out.

When I opened my box at noon, my lunch was gone. The empty box seemed to be
at me. I never even tried to think of another possibility. In one single moment, everything made such a painful
. They were never interested in me, they were not my friends, and this whole time I was some kind of
to them. I felt like a fool. That was how they saw me; that’s who I really was. Some little stupid seventh grader thinking she was fitting in with the
 kids.

I never cried. I never said a word. I didn’t tell the teacher because I didn’t want to get them in trouble. They
thought I was stupid. I didn’t want to add “unkind” to the list. I just closed the box and sat in
for the rest of the lunch period.

The next morning I tried not to even look to the back seat, which of course I did
. It was only Jessica alone. As soon as I sat down in the front seat, someone patted me on the shoulder. It was Jessica. I turned around and
a slight smile. “Look,” she said, “I’m so sorry about the lunch thing. Cory has been making a lot of trouble lately and gotten kicked out of school.” With that, Jessica handed me a brown paper bag filled with a freshly made lunch. “Hope this would make up for it.”
三、词汇运用（每空2分，合计28分）
*12. 根据句意和汉语注释，在对应题号的横线上，写出单词的正确形式。
1.What’s in the box? Let me
(猜). Is it a book?


2.I won’t let you in
(除非) you can provide a proper ID.


3.Go and talk openly with your friends. It helps build
(信任).


4.Wuxi opera is part of the local culture and it has a
(持久) value.
*13. 根据句意，在对应题号的横线上，写出括号内所给单词的适当形式。
1.The idea of wearing a mask in public is now
(wide) accepted.


2.People started to get
(patient) after waiting at the gate for two hours.


3.We are who we are today because of the
(choose) we made yesterday.


4.Anne Frank went into
(hide) with her family and wrote the famous diary.
*14. 用括号内所给动词的适当形式填空，并将答案写在对应题号的横线上。
1.Don’t worry. Hobo is a smart dog and I’m sure he
(come) back soon.


2.Schools are still closed in some countries
(stop) the spread of the virus.


3.Millions of young people
(fight) in World War Ⅱ so we could live in peace.


4.— Have you found any useful clues, sir?

— We
(work) on it. There’s nothing much I can say at the moment.


5.“When the book
(publish) in November, I’m going to donate all the money to help those people in need,” said J.K. Rowling.


6.He sent me a few messages, but I
(not reply) yet as I don’t know what to say.
四、阅读理解
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。
*15. This is a poster of ________.
*16. This event will start ________.
*17. If you take part in this event with your parents, the least cost will be ________.

 
NEW word in 2020
 
Coronavirus is this year’s Children’s Word of the Year. This is very interesting given that the 500 Words competition closed on 27 February 2020 the day before the first case was ed in the UK. This shows the influence of important events around the world on children’s creativity.
 
Highlights
 
The word coronavirus appeared for the first time in the 500 Words stories in 2020. It is not a word that has been used before.
 
The word has been used 459 times in the stories in 2020, with 287 of them as coronavirus, 168 as corona virus, and 4 as corona-virus.
 
It is amazing that many of the themes young writers explored in fiction soon became a reality with the world in lockdown.
 
Examples
 
The nurses came running over. I felt a pain in my neck, I started to gasp for air. My body started shaking I couldn’t control myself. My eyes rolled to the back of my head, a mask covered my mouth, my temperature raised and I have the coronavirus.
(The Ex, girl 13)
A few years later he finally landed on earth ... but when he landed he found out a deadly virus had struck earth, the corona virus ...
(Bob’s Trip Around the Universe, boy 10)
*18. This passage is most probably part of ________.
*19. The result is based on the findings from ________.
*20. What can we learn about the word coronavirus?