江苏省
常州市2020年中考英语试题
注意事项：
1.本试卷共8页，全卷满分为90分。考试时间为100分钟。考生须将答案书写在答題卡上，写在试卷上的一律无效。
2.答题前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号填写在试卷上，并填写答题卡上的考生信息。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
一、单项选择(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)
从A、B、C、D四个选项中, 选出可以填人空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. Take it easy. There will be_________ two buses coming in a few minutes.
A. another B. other C. others D. the other
2. Millie’s research 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 yourequired___________ 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. surprised; amazing
C. surpring; amazed D. surprised; 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 lent 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. set 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 (共12小题；毎小題1分，满分12分)
阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所铪的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A window is a common but powerful tool — a patch(小块) of the world, from which our body is separated. The only thing we can do is look. You have no 11 on what you will see. 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. I13 him atonce.
To my surprise, the man tried to 14 the damage he caused. However, his efforts all failed. Once he even funnily fell onto the road when trying to pull the fence. I15 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 else 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 watched out of my window as he kept on fixing the fence 20 it was extra safe, stronger than before.
This man was a hero. My21 assumptions, I realized, were all about myself. I would be22 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.
