内容正文:
2021年浙江省中考模拟黄金卷(十七)
学校:___________姓名:___________班级:___________考号:___________
(满分:90分;考试时间:80分钟)
笔试部分
第I卷
注意事项:
1. 本试卷共四部分,共六大题,满分90分,考试时间80分钟。
2. 请务必在答题卡上答题,在试卷上答题无效。
3. 考试结束后,请将试卷和答题卡一并交回。
第一部分 阅读理解(共两节;满分40分)
第一节 (共15小题;每小题2分,满分30分)
阅读下列短文,从每题所给的四个选项(A、B、C、D)中选出最佳选项。
A
There was once a boy called Joseph Webb. He always loved to show off how many friends he had at school. One day his grandfather said to him, “Joseph, I bet (打赌) you a big bag of popcorn that you don’t have as many friends as you think. I’m sure many of them are nothing more than companions (同伴).”
Joseph accepted the bet at once. However, he wasn’t sure how to test whether his classmates were real friends or not, so he asked his grandfather. The old man answered, “Wait a minute.” Then he left and returned soon as if carrying something in his hands, but Joseph could see nothing there.
“Take it. It’s a very special chair because it’s impossible to be seen. It’s rather difficult to sit on, but if you take it to school and manage to sit on it, you’ll start its magic and it’ll be able to tell who your real friends are.”
Joseph, brave and determined, set off for school with the strange and invisible(隐形的) chair. At break time, he asked everyone to form a circle, and he put himself in the middle, with his chair. Having difficulty seeing it. Joseph tried to sit on the chair but he missed the seat and fell straight onto his backside. Everyone around him had a pretty good laugh.
“Wait! Let me try again,” Joseph said. But again, he missed the seat, causing more surprised looks and a few catcalls. Joseph didn’t give up and keep trying to sit on the magic chair. But he kept falling to the ground until suddenly he tried again but didn’t fall. Looking around, Joseph saw three of his best friends holding him up. However, many others he had thought of as friends had done nothing but made fun of him.
And there, the show came to an end. Joseph understood that true friends were those who cared for him, and not