常州市二〇二〇年中考 英语试题 一、单项选择 1. Take it easy. There will be_________ two buses coming in a few minutes. A. another B. other C. others D. the other 【答案】A 【解析】 【详解】句意：放轻松，几分钟之后还有两辆公共汽车过来。 考查不定代词。 another 又一个，再一个（三者或以上）；other 其他的，形容词；others 其他的，代词，泛 指；the other（两个中的）另一个，代词，剩余的，形容词。根据“two buses”可知此处用“another+基数词+ 复数名词”的结构，此处表达“还有两辆公共汽车”用 another two buses。故选 A。 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 【答案】D 【解析】 【详解】句意：米莉的研究论文没有达到标准，尽管她已经写了两个星期了。 考查连词。since 自从；unless 除非；if 如果；although 尽管。“she has worked at it for two weeks”她已经研究 它两周了，表达让步，用连词 although 引导让步状语从句，故选 D。 3. To the west of our school__________ some bookstores and a park. A. lies B. lie C. has D. have 【答案】B 【解析】 【详解】句意：一些书店和一个公园位于我们学校的西部。 考查动词和主谓一致。lies 位于，动词的第三人称单数；lie 位于；has 有，动词的第三人称单数；have 有。 地点状语“To the west of our school”位于句首，是全部倒装，句子的主语是“some bookstores and a park”，一 些书店和一个公园是复数概念，谓语动词用 lie 表示“位于”。故选 B。 4. —Were you required___________ 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 【答案】A 【解析】 【详解】句意：——COVID-19 爆发期间，你被要求待在家里吗？——是的。幸运地是，互联网使我们许 多人在家里工作成为可能。 考查非谓语动词。require sb to do sth 要求某人做某事；require doing sth 某事需要被做。由“Were you required___________ home”可知，此处应为“要求某人待在家里”，故应用 to stay；由 “the Internet made it possible for many of us________ from home”可知，本句为 it 作形式宾语，动词 不定式作真正宾语 句式，故此处应为 to work。故选 A。 的 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 【答案】D 【解析】 【详解】句意：——吉姆，把音乐关小点。我们的孩子在睡觉。——别担心。他已经醒了半小时了。 考查动词时态。“孩子醒了半小时了”对现在的动作“是否要将音乐关小”产生了影响，故本句为现在完成时态； 句中“for half an hour”表时间段，故此处应用延续性动词 be awake，在现在完成时态下与时间段连用， 即 has been awake。故选 D。 6. Jenny’s parents were completely__________ when they saw the_______ changes in her. A. surprising; amazing B. surprised; amazing C. surprising; amazed D. surprised; amazed 【答案】B 【解析】 【详解】句意：当珍妮的父母看到珍妮的令人惊喜的改变时，他们完全惊讶了。 考查形容词。surprising 令人惊讶的；surprised 感到惊讶的；amazing 令人惊喜的；amazed 感到惊喜的。根 据 Jenny’s parents 可知主语是人，第一空表达“父母感到惊讶的”，用 surprised 作表语。第二空修饰名词 changes，用 amazing 做定语，表示“令人惊喜的改变”。故选 B。 7. A factory will be built for the __________ of this type of new energy car. A. position B. population C. production D. pronunciation 【答案】C 【解析】 【详解】句意：将建一座工厂来生产这种新能源汽车。 考查名词辨析。position 位置，职位；population 人口；production 生产，产品；pronunciation 发音。根据句 意可知，建工厂是为了新能源汽车的生产。故选 C。 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 【答案】B 【解析】 【详解】句意：使我高兴的是，我们不必去银行了。玛丽借给了我们一些钱。 考查情态动词辨析。shouldn’t 不应该；needn’t 不必，不需要；couldn’t 不可能；wouldn’t 不会。由 “Mary has lent us some money”可知，玛丽已经借给我们钱了，所以我们不必再去银行了。故选 B。 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 【答案】A 【解析】 【详解】句意：我的很多时间都被练习弹吉他所占据。 考查动词短语。taken up 占据；made up 构成；put up 张贴；set up 建立。根据主语 time，及“with practicing playing the guitar”可知弹吉他占据了我的时间，用动词短语 taken up。故选 A。 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 【答案】C 【解析】 【详解】句意：——你想尝尝野鸭吗？——不行。我们应该保护野生动物。 考查情景交际。上文“Do you want to try some wild duck?”表示提建议，由下文“We should protect wild animals.”可知，我们应该保护野生动物，所以不能吃野鸭，故此处对上文的提议表示拒绝，应用 No way “不行，绝不”。故选 C。 二、完形填空 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. I____13____him at once. 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. I____15____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 contr