2019年广州市英语中考试卷

2019年广州市初中毕业生学业考试

英语

本试卷共四大题，满分110分。考试时间120分钟。

一、语法选择(共15小题：每小题1分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1～15 各题所给的A、B、C 和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

The First Astronauts

Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines 1 at the sky. This is very different from the situation 2__years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of 3 the universe. When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago, 4 the first astronauts were not people —they were animals.

Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as 5 as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test 6 in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals 7 first went into space. Many of them 8 but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we 9 forget these animals.

Albert II was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died 10 his spaceship landed back on Earth.

11 the result was different for Ham the Monkey. His story ended happily when he returned to Earth 12 very good health. Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: could 13 animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham 14 into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for 15 16 years.

1. A. look B. to look C. looking D looked

2. A. thousand B. thousands C. thousand of D. thousands of

3. A. explore B. to explore C explored D. exploring

4. A. as B. or C. but D. so

5. A. safe B. safer C. safest D. the safest

6. A. they B. them C. their D. theirs

7. A. whom B. what C. that D. whose

8. A. die B. died C. have died D. will die

9. A. shouldn’t B. may not C. don't have D. needn't

10. A. if B. because C. after D. since

11. A. Luck B. Luck C. Luckier D. Luckily

12. A. at B. on C. in D. for

13. A. a B. an C. the D./

14. A. sends B. sent C. is sent D. was sent

15. A. another B. other C. others D. the others

二、完形填空(共10小题；每小题1.5 分，满分15分)

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～25各题所给的A、B、C 和 D 项中选出最佳选项，

并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

John suddenly jumped off the swing without even slowing down. He called out nervously, “Mom, where’s Charlie? " He had just 16 he hadn't seen his new puppy for over an hour.

John looked around the garden, behind the bushes, and under the picnic table, No dog! His mother heard the 17 in his voice as he called her a second time. “Mom, I can’t find Charlie!”

She came outside 18 . "Let’s look around the garden first. Don’t worry. I’m sure he’s close by.”

Both son and mother were 19 now, but still no Charlie. Their calls were not completely wasted, though. Joe, the next-door neighbor, and his two daughters Tania and Julie, immediately agreed to help them 20 the lost dog.

But even with five people now searching the towns streets, they had no luck. Charlie was still __21 .

Tania suggested they make posters with Charlie’s 22 . She had done this when her own cat was lost a year earlier, she told John, and the cat was found the next day.

John agreed. When they got home, he made a poster with a photo of Charlie. Then John heard a 23 and opened his bedroom door. It was Charlie. John was greeted with a big wet kiss. Charlie had been 24 in the bedroom this whole time, sleeping. John had never been so __25 in his life!

16. A. decided B. forgotten C. understood D. realized

17. A. anger B. hope C. fear D. warning

18. A. actively B. quickly C. careless D. annoyingly

19. A. shouting B. talking C. fighting D. thinking

20. A. give up B. look for C. run after D. take care of

21. A. missing B. asleep C. taken D. quiet

22. A. address B. character C. name D. picture

23. A. message B. noise C. voice D song

24. A. shut B. woken C. tied D. saved

25. A. afraid B. silly C. happy D. proud

三、阅读(共两节；满分45分)

第一节阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从26～45 各题所给的A、B、C 和D 项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

(A)

An elephant and a crocodile were once standing beside a river. They were disputing which was the better animal.

“Look at my strength,”said the elephant.

“I can pull up a tree, roots and all, with my trunk.”

“Ah! But your skin is not nearly so thick

as mine,”replied the crocodile. “No knife or

tooth can cut through it.”

Just as they were coming to blows, a lion happened to pass.

“My dear friends!”said the King of all animals, going up to them. “Let me know the cause of