2019年广州市初中毕业生学业考试
英语
一、语法选择
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和D项中选出最佳选项。
The first astronauts
Since the earliest times, people have looked up at the stars, the moon and the planets. Today people use modern machines ___1___at the sky. This is very different from the situation___2___years ago when people could only use their eyes. Perhaps they dreamed of___3___the universe. When did humans first go into space? The story began not so very long ago, ___4___the first astronauts were not people-they were animals.
Scientists wanted to make travelling to space as ___5___ as possible for humans. So they decided to experiment with animals and test___6___ in spaceflights. Insects, mice, frogs, dogs and monkeys were some of the animals___7___first went into space. Many of them ___8___, but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we___9___forget these animals. Albert Ⅱ was the first monkey to go into space in 1949. Sadly he died ____10____ his spaceship landed back on Earth.
____11____ the result was different for Ham the Monkey. His story ended happily when he return to earth____12____very good health. Scientists wanted to know the answer to the important question: could ____13____ animal like Ham do the same things in space as he could do on Earth? The answer came when Ham ____14____ into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for ____15____ 16 years 1. A. look 2. A. thousand 3. A. explore 4. A. as 5. A. safe 6. A. they
B. to look B. thousands B. to explore B. or B. safer B. them
C. looking C. thousand of C. explored C. but C. safest C. their
D. looked D. thousands of D. exploring D. so D. the safest D. theirs
7. A. whom 8. A. die 9. A. shouldn’t 10. A. if 11. A. Luck 12. A. at 13. A. a 14. A. send 15. A. another
B. what B. died B. may not B. because B. Lucky B. on B. an B. sent B. other
C. that C. have died C. don’t have to C. after C. Luckier C. in C. the C. is sent C. others
D. whose D. will die D. needn’t D. since D. Luckily D. for D. / D. was sent D. the others
二、完形填空
John suddenly jumped off the swing without even slowing down. He called out nervously, “Mom, where's Charlie? \John looked around the garden, behind the bushes, and under the picnic table. No dog! His mother heard ___17___in his voice as he called her a second time. \She came outside ___18___. \
Both son and mother were ___19___now, but still no Charlie. Their calls were not completely wasted, though. Joe, the next-door neighbor, and his two daughters Tania and Julie, immediately agreed to help them ___20___the lost dog.
But even with five people now searching the town's streets, they had no luck. Charlie was still___21___ Tania suggested they make posters with Charlie’s ___22___She had done this when her own cat was lost a year earlier, she told John, and the cat was found the next day.
John agreed. When they got home, he made a poster with a photo of Charlie, Then John heard a___23___ and opened his bedroom door. It was Charlie. John was greeted with a big wet kiss Charlie had been___24___ in the bedroom this whole time, sleeping. John had never been so ___25___in his life! 16. A. decided 17. A. anger 18. A. actively 19. A. shouting 20. A. give up
B. forgotten B. hope B. quickly B. talking B. look for
C. understood C. fear C. carelessly C. fighting C. run after
D. realized D. warning D. annoyingly D. thinking D. take care of
21. A. missing 22. A. address 23. A. mess 24. A. shut 25. A. afraid
B. asleep B. character B. noise B. woke B. silly
C. take C. name C. voice C. tied C. happy
D. quiet D. picture D. song D. saved D. proud
三、阅读 第一节 阅读理解
A
An elephant and a crocodile were once standing beside river. They were disputing which was the better animal. “Look at my strength,” said the elephant. “I can pull up a tree, roots and all with my trunk”
“Ah! But your skin is not nearly so thick as mine,” replied the crocodile. “No knife or tooth can cut through it.” Just as they were coming to blows, a lion happened to pass.
“My dear friends !” said the King of all animals, going up to them. “Let me know the cause of your disagreement.”
“Will you kindly tell us which is the better animal?” cried both at once.
“Certainly”,said the lion, pointing across the river. “Do you see the soldiers’ metal hat on that wall?” “Yes!” replied the beasts.
“Well, then,” continued the lion, “ go and get it, and bring it to me, and I shall be able then to decide between you.”
Upon hearing this, off they started. The crocodile, being used to the water, reached the opposite side of the river first, and was soon standing beside the wall.
Here he waited till the elephant came up. The elephant, seeing that the crocodile had no way of reaching their goal, raised his long trunk, and took down the hat quite easily.
They then made their way together back again across the river. The elephant was trying to keep up with the fast-moving crocodile in the water and became careless. When he was forced to turn sharply to avoid a floating tree branch, the elephant dropped the hat and it fell to the river bottom. The crocodile noticed the accident, so down he dived, and brought it up in his huge mouth. They then returned, and the crocodile laid the metal hat at the lion's feet. The King took it up, and turning to the elephant, said:
“You, because of your size and trunk, were able to reach the hat on the wall but, having lost it, you were unable
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