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2023年中考英语模拟质量检测题
(90分钟 满分100分)
一、完形填空。从四个选项上选出最合适的一项。(15分)
Amy is 11 years old and lives in a city. She ____1____ much of her time at her grandmother’s home during the pandemic (疫情). The house has a large ____2____ that Amy explored (探索) when she wasn’t doing schoolwork online.
One day, she saw her first four-leaf clover (四叶草) in the yard. “I was just walking, and I was so ____3____ because I know that they are not very common,” she said, “some people say they bring good luck.”
Amy then researched ____4____ causes clovers to grow that fourth leaf. It’s because of the plant’s genes. The plant’s genes tell the plant to grow three leaves. ____5____ sometimes the genes tell the plant to grow four leaves. ____6____ a 2017 study found that just one in 5,000 clovers has four leaves.
Amy has learned that four-leaf clovers grow ____7____ groups. “Then I wanted to find more of them,” she said. Amy began searching for more four-leaf clovers in the yard and it ____8____ her new hobby. By the summer of the next year, she had ____9____ more than 500 of them.
Her parents felt happy that Amy found a way to lower stress that many children were ______10______ during the pandemic. Her grandmother was also ______11______ that Amy went outdoors and explored nature. “It’s a good thing that a city child was taking a(n) ______12______ in nature.”
For her part, Amy said she has a way of ______13______ the loneliness she felt during the pandemic. “It gave me something to do because I didn’t have the ______14______ of being sad,” she said. “I got ______15______,” she added, “and this was wonderful because they were right in my backyard.”
1. A. disliked B. wasted C. spent D. forgot
2. A. kitchen B. yard C. room D. hall
3. A. excited B. sad C. bored D. afraid
4. A. when B. what C. how D. which
5. A. Because B. Then C. But D. So
6. A. Quickly B. Carefully C. Finally D. Actually
7. A. about B. in C. from D. at
8. A. became B. finished C. showed D. broke
9. A. prepared B. bought C. touched D