2019年广东省广州市中考英语真题试卷及解析
一、语法选择(共1小题;每小题15分,共15分)
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 of them 8 , but they helped to make space travel safer for humans. For their great service, we 9 forget these animals.
AlbertⅡwas 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
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when Ham 14
into space in 1961. Yes, he did everything well and lived for 15 16 years. ( )1. A. look
B. to look B. thousands
C. looking
D. looked
D. thousands of
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C. thousand of C. explored
B. to explore B. or B. safer B. them B. what
D. exploring
C. but
D. so
D. the safest
C. safest
C. their C. that
D. theirs
D. whose D. will die
D. needn't D. since
B. died C. have died
( )9. A. shouldn't B. may not ( )10. A. if
B. because B. Luck
C. don't have to C. after C. Luck
( )11. A. Luck ( )12. A. at ( )13. A. a
D. Luckily D. for D. /
D. was sent
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二、完形填空(共15小题;每小题1分,共15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握其大意,然后从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项。
John suddenly jumped off the swing without even slowing down. He called out nervously, “Mom, where's Charlie” He had just 16 he hadn't seen his new puppy
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for over an hour.
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. “Mom, I can't find Charlie!”
She came outside 18 . “Let's look around the garden first. Don't worry. I'm sure he's close by.
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 ( ). anger ( ). actively ( ). shouting ( ). give up ( ). missing
B. forgotten
C. understood
D. warning
D. annoyingly D. thinking
D. realized
B. hope C. fear
B. quickly B. talking
C. carelessly
C. fighting
B. look for B. asleep
C. run after
C. taken 1
D. take care of
D. quiet