精品解析：2023年江苏省常州市实验初级中学中考一模英语试题

九年级教学情况调研测试2023.4 英语试题 一、单项选择（共10小题;每小题1分,满分10分） 从A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 1. —________ valuable advice he shared with us yesterday! —Exactly. I am going to think over my plan more carefully. A. How B. How a C. What D. What a 2. —Where is your cousin James? —He ________ the school library since two hours ago. A. has been to B. has gone to C. was in D. has been in 3. Because of the terrible weather, the Greens had to ________ their trip to Yunnan. A. cut down B. cut short C. cut out D. cut in 4. Before taking medicine, you’d better read the ________ first. A. invention B. invitation C. instruction D. attention 5. It took the little boy a long time ________ he ran away from the Nazis camp during World War II. A. before B. until C. after D. as soon as 6. —Is that man in black over there your manager? —It ________ be him. He went abroad a week ago. I doubt if he has come back. A. mustn’t B. needn’t C. should D. may 7. Yesterday’s talk covered table manners. ________, we should wait till everyone is ready at the table. A. After all B. Above all C. At all D. In all 8. This year’s Taihu Music Festival will be sure to attract ________ visitors from Changzhou. A. a great deal of B. the number of C. a team of D. plenty of 9. —A train crash happened in the USA several days ago. —That was really awful. People all wondered ________. A. how many people are killed in the crash B. that why it happened smoothly C. what caused the terrible accident D. what did the government do after it 10. —Gaoye maybe one of the best actresses in the film industry. She acted well in The Knockout. —________. Her acting skills go beyond words. A. I can’t agree more B. That’s not the case C. Not exactly D. You must be kidding 二、完形填空（共12小题;每小题1分,满分12分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 A few weeks ago, Catherine asked Thomas, her 7-year-old son, what he would like to be when he grows up. Thomas said he wanted to either run a dog hotel or be a Lego (乐高) ____11____. “When I was