江苏省徐州市2020年中考英语试题
一．选择填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
从下列各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择可以填入空
白处的最佳选项。
1. Look at the picture on the right. What is the woman probably saying?
A. Come in,please. B. Turn round, please.
C. Stand up, please. D. Hold on, please.
2. I met Nancy ________ my way home yesterday.
A. in B. at C. by D. on
3. Give me a chance, __________ I will give you a wonderful surprise.
A. or B. and C. but D. so
4. We can ___________ the TV. Nobody is watching it.
A. turn off B. turn on C. turn up D. turn down
5. Could you please pass me a _________ to write with?
A. ruler B. tape C. pen D. knife
6.—Alice has gone out. — Oh, has she? What time _________ she _________?
A. has; gone B. is;going C. will; go D. did; go
7. My grandma is a really nice person—one of_________ people I know.
A. nice B. nicer C. nicest D. the nicest
8. We’re not very close friends _________ we’ve known each other for a long time.
A. until B. although C. as D. if
9. It’s lucky we booked a room; otherwise we’ll have __________ to stay now.
A. somewhere B. anywhere C. nowhere D. everywhere
10. Mother had a hard time getting Helen up in the morning. She called and called, but Helen _________ wake up.
A. wouldn’t B. mustn’t C. needn’t D. shouldn’t
11. You look the same now as you looked ten years ago. You’ve _________ changed.
A. completely B. hardly C. greatly D. already
12. If steel is heavier than water, why are ships able to __________ on the sea?
A. float B. fly C. fall D. flow
13. It’s an either-or situation —we can buy a camera this year or we can go on holiday but we can’t do __________.
A. other B. either C. all D. both
14.—Are you sure you won’t come for a drink with us? —_________, if you insist.
A. Not at all. B. All right then C. It depends D. I don’t care.
15. Tom became interested in books at a very young age. He read every book he could find and bought books of all kinds. Today Tom has a big collection of books. His favourite books are mystery novels and books about detective stories.The story mainly tells us___________.
A. why Tom does the reading B. how Tom learned to read C. how much Tom likes to read D. what Tom’s favourite books are
二、完形填空
阅读下面的短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。
Long, long ago, a man had a cat which he loved very, very much. He thought it was such an unusual animal that he decided to name it Sky.
One day, a friend said to him, “Allow me to 16 to you that there is something stronger than sky. I mean the clouds, for they 17 the sky.” “You are right, ” 18 the man . “From now on, I’m going to give my most unusual cat the name Cloud.”
Sometime later, one of his neighbors was drinking tea at his house. “ 19 do you call this unusual animal Cloud? For there is 20 much stronger than the clouds. I mean the wind that blows away the clouds 21 it. ” So from then on the man called the cat of which he was so 22 by the name of Wind.
But a week had not passed when the leader of the town noticed this quite unusual cat. “Wind,” he said, “seems to me a 23 that is not worth the quality of this animal. The wind meets his master every day. I mean the wall that it cannot 24 through.” “Ah, so,” said the 25 of the cat, “my most beloved pet will be called Wall.”
A little later, a young man from a nearby school respectfully said to the man that there was something which could beat even a wall —the 26 that bit a hole through it. “That is
