精品解析：2022年江苏省常州市中考英语真题

常州市二〇二二年初中学业水平考试 英 语 试 题 注意事项： 1.本试卷共8页，全卷满分为90分。考试时间为100分钟。考生须将答案书写在答題卡上，写在试卷上的一律无效。 2.答题前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号填写在试卷上，并填写答题卡上的考生信息。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、单项选择(共10小题;每小题1分，满分10分) 从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 1. —How ________ this question is! I’ve spent two hours on it. —Let me help you! A. practical B. general C. difficult D. natural 2. —________ does your school organize an English Reading Festival? —Once a term. A. How often B. How old C. How long D. How soon 3. Learning is a life-long journey, for it brings us ________ new every day. A everything B. nothing C. anything D. something 4. To achieve our dream, we ________ rest on what we have done. A. may not B. should not C. need not D. could not 5. —Why didn’t you open the door for me, Jim? —I ________ clothes in the bathroom. I didn’t hear the knock. A. am washing B. have washed C. was washing D. washed 6. The summer vacation is coming. Don’t swim in the lake ________ when you are alone. A. probably B. possibly C. especially D. exactly 7. Although the match is moving in an unexpected ________, our team will win finally, I believe. A. instruction B. introduction C. position D. direction 8. If you want to keep healthy, going to bed early and getting up early is highly ________. A. recommended B. challenged C. translated D. influenced 9. —Mum, do you know ________? An engineer. —That’s interesting. I guess you often fix things for others in your school. A. what do my classmates call me B. what my classmates call me C. why do my classmates call me D. why my classmates call me 10. —It’s necessary for us to spend more time with our grandparents. —________. They won’t see us often after we go to college. A. I hope not B. I think so C. I’m sorry D. I’m not sure 二、完形填空(共12小题;每小题1分，满分12分) 阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项。 The three men were moving down a fast and rocky river. Thornton was in the boat, while Hans and Pete had to move along the river bank, holding the boat with a rope. Buck, the dog, followed them, keepin