2019年中考真题精品解析 英语（广东广州卷）精编word版

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 B. to look C. looking D. looked 2. A. thousand B. thousands C. thousand of D. thousands of 3. A. explore B. to explore C. explored D. exploring 4. A. as B. or C. but D. so 5. A. safe B. safer C. safest D. the safest 6. A. they B. them C. their D. theirs 7. A. whom B. what C. that D. whose 8. A. die B. died C. have died D. will die 9. A. shouldn’t B. may not C. don’t have to D. needn’t 10. A. if B. because C. after D. since 11. A. Luck B. Lucky C. Luckier D. Luckily 12. A. at B. on C. in D. for 13. A. a B. an C. the D. / 14. A. send B. sent C. is sent D. wa