湖北省武汉市2014年中考英语试题(word版,含答案)

二、选择填空

26、--We’ll travel to different places this winter vacation. Enjoy your trip!

--________.

A. The same to you

B. Yes, I’d love to

C. Me, too

D. Very well, thank you

27. Jim’s a taxi driver, ____ he really wants to be a doctor.

A. or

B. and

C. so

D. but

28. –Do you know if Jack will drive to London this weekend?

--Jack? Never! He_____ driving so far.

A. has hated

B. will hate

C. hated

D. hates

29. –A nice tie! A present?

--Yes, it is. My aunt ______it to me for my last birthday.

A. was sending

B. had sent

C. will send

D. sent

30. –Is Miss Green in the office? --No, she ____ to the library.

A. goes

B. had goes

C. has gone

D. would go

31. I turned to bookshops and libraries looking for information and found _______.

A. none

B. both

C. one

D. neither

32. –Oh, you sound just like an American.

--_____. I still have trouble expressing myself.

A. Yes, you’re right

B. Well, not quite like that

C. I don’t mind

D. You’re welcome

33.—We’d better invite Jim and Jack to the party tonight.

--Yes, _________? I’ll give the a call right now.

A. why

B. why not

C. what for

D. how

34. –This is quite a new phrase.

--Right. It has already ____the language.

A. spoken

B. used

C. entered

D. covered

35.—We’ve no money and the last bus has gone. Any______idea?

A. funny

B. bright

C. opposite

D. correct

36.—Will you fix up the machine according to the ______, David ? –No problem.

A. instructions

B. inventions

C. invitations

D. interviews

37.—How’s now?

--I hear the company ______ him a very good job, but he turned it down.

A. donated

B. served

C. offered

D. introduced

38. I used to _______ with my wife and watch TV movies at home.

A. show up

B. wake up

C. come up

D. stay up

39. –Is that Kate’s car?

--It ______be hers. She has just gone for a meeting.

A. can’t

B. should

C. mustn’t

D. may

40. I didn’t know ______.

A. when would the train arrive

B. where could I get the book

C. what has been done

D. who left the message

二、完形填空

There is an old English saying, “Laughter is the best medicine.” One person certainly would have agreed with this is Norman Cousins.

Norman Cousins was the editor of a magazine called Saturday Review for almost forty years. He also (41) and spoke about world peace and anti-war issues(反战议题), traveling to many different countries to share his (42).

In the 1960s, after returning to the United States from a busy and tiring trip to Europe. Mr. Cousins got (43) . He discovered he had a strange disease that caused great pain in his bones(骨头).

In less than a week after he got back, he could not (44) it. Every move that he made was painful. He was not able to (45) at night. The doctor told Mr. Cousins that they did not know how to cure (治疗)his problem and he might never (46) the illness. Mr. Cousins, however, refused to give up hope .

Mr. Cousins thought that the illness could be caused by (47) thoughts. He did not want to take (48) to cure himself. Instead, he felt that happy thoughts or laughter might cure his illness.

He began to experiment on himself while still in the hospital by watching comedy shows on television. Mr. Cousins quickly found that ten minutes of (49) laughter during the day gave him two hours of pain-free sleep at night.

Deciding that the (50) could not help him, Mr. Cousins left the hospital and checked into a hotel room where he could (51) his experiments with laughter. For eight days, Mr. Cousins (52) in the hotel room watching comedy shows on television, reading amusing books, and sleeping whenever he felt (53) . Within three weeks, he felt well enough to take a vacation to Puerto Rico where he began running on the beach for