江苏省扬州市2017年中考英语真题试题(含答案)

2017年扬州市中考英语试题及答案

（总分：120分时长：120分钟）

一、单项选择(共15小题;每小题1分，计15分）

在下列各题A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个能填入题干空白处的最佳答案。

1. They stopped in ______ beautiful place for camping, near _______ farmhouse of the Smiths.

A. a, a

B. the, a

C. a, the

D. the, the

2. We all like watching the TV programme Readers _______ Saturday evening.

A. in

B. on

C. at

D. for

3. Bryan will not want to have _______ to do with horses in the future.

A. everything

B. something

C.anything

D. nothing

4.——All done! Let’s swim, Martine!

——Swimming! I just _______get used to it in winter.

A.can’t

B.shouldn’t

C. mustn’t

D. needn’t

5.___________ she couldn’t see his face, she could tel l by his voice that he was young.

A.Unless

B.If

C.Because

D. Though

6.—— What are you reading?

——A book about a baseball player. This guy was well __________for his devotion to charity work.

A.enjoyed

B. respected

C. behaved

D.expected

7.——__________bad news! We didn’t win the 15th Sudirman Cup.

——It’s a pity.

A.What

B.What a

C. How

D. How a

8.Mrs. White is ________enough to spend her spare time on our maths problems.

A.confident

B. curious

C. wise

D. generous

9.—— I went from a school desk to a ship in my teens.

—— _____________days would you be at sea? Homesick?

A.How long

B. How many

C. How much

D. How soon

10.My grandpa knows the history and medical _______ of many plants.

A.wealth

B. price

C.value

D.cost

11.—— You have a nice car.

—— Thank you. I __________ it for less than one month.

A.bought

B.have bought

C. had

D. have had

12.Mom does all the housework so that Sarah can take the time _______ her words on paper.

A.put

B. putting

C. to put

D. puts

13.—— What do you think of the sofa?

—— Not bad, but it may _________ too much space of our living room.

A. take up

B. put up

C. open up

D. make up

14.—— Excuse me, could you tell me ___________?

——Well, there’s one on your left.

A.when th e bank opens

B. where the bank is

C. how far is the bank

D. how can I get to the bank

15.—— Only those who have a lot in common can get along well.

—— _____________. Opposites sometimes attract.

A.I hope so

B. I think so

C. I don’t care

D. I don’t think so

二、完形填空（共15小题;每小题1分，计15分）

阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

When Charles Lee handed me the small red notebook in 1974, he changed my life. “While travelling, you should keep notes on the things you see and do.__16__, you will forget them some day,” he explained. I was staying in his house when travelling in England.

I took his __17__.I wrote in the notebook every day during the homestay and back to university.

I recorded weekend trips, my professors and ideas about my life and future.

When I wrote, I wondered about my __18__ and purpose. Who would read this? Was I recording events and ideas just as a reminder to memory, or was there some larger purpose for this __19__ exercise?

I got a big picture for the task. I was recording events, thoughts, words that were__20__ to my life. I __21__ a future me sitting down to read the pages. I wondered what it would feel like to read those words later.

I filled the notebook Charles gave me. I bought a new one and __22__ it. Then another and another.

Recently, I decided to look through my notebooks in the past 42 years. Charles had been __23__.