广东省湛江市2019中考英语模拟试题(10)

（广东湛江市）2019中考英语模拟试题(10)

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、D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

In a far-away place, there was a village. The village was___1___ in potatoes than anywhere else in the country. At the end of every growing season,

___2____potatoes were dug out of the ground, and readied for market. In each home, men and women would_____3_____divide the potatoes into three groups, large, medium and small.

One year, there was a young man___4_____received his share of the potatoes. As the other villagers_____5_____, he walked around the village laughing and talking._____6____villagers thought he was lazy, and they worried that this man would never get______7_____potatoes ready in time. When it was time for the villagers____8______to market, they were greatly surprised to find that the man’s potatoes____9____perfectly into three groups.

After _____10____the man how he did it, they understood he was not lazy, ____11____very clever. He had put all his potatoes in a cart and pulled it along the village’s rough dirt road. As the cart moved up and down over the road, the potatoes moved_____12____. The small potatoes moved to the bottom, the larger potatoes rose to the top and the medium potatoes rested___13___ the middle.

Life___14____like this too. The rough roads we travel along can also___15____us.

1. A. rich B. richer C. richest D. more rich

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

3. A. busily B. busy C. more busily D. busier

4. A. who B. which C. what D. whose

5. A. work B. was working C. were working D. works

6. A. A B. An C. The D. /

7. A. he B. him C. himself D. his

8. A. go B. going C. to go D. went

9. A. are divided B. were divided C. are dividing D. divided

10. A. asking B. asked C. ask D. asks

11. A. so B. and C. or D. but

12. A. too B. also C. either D. neither

13. A. on B. in C. with D. by

14. A. has B. are C. were D. is

15. A. to help B. help C. helps D. helped

二、完型填空（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36~45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。

There once was a farmer who lost his watch in his barn (谷仓). The watch was only cheap but was very ____36 to him because it was a gift from his father.

After _ 37 __ the barn for a long time, he gave up and asked for __38 __ from a group of children playing nearby.

He __39 __ them that the person who found the watch would be rewarded.

Hearing this, the children hurried inside the barn ___40 __. They searched everywhere but still could not find the __41 ___. Just when the farmer was going to give up, a little boy went up to him and asked to be given another ___42___.

The farmer looked at him and thought, “ Why no t? After all, this kid looks honest.”

So the farmer __43 _ the little boy back into the barn. After a while the little boy came out with the watch in his hand! The surprised farmer asked the boy how he ___44__ where the rest had failed.

The boy replied, “ I did nothing but sit quietly and listen for the sound of the watch.”

This shows us that sometimes a __45__ mind can think better than an excited one.”