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绝密★启用前
2023年中考考前最后一卷(浙江温州专用)
英 语
注意事项:
1.本试卷包括四道大题。全卷总分90分。考试时间100分钟。
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一、完形填空(本题有15小题,每小题1分,共15分)
阅读下面短文,掌握大意,然后从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出最佳选项。
A few years ago I worked in a project for homeless people. There had been one young man in his early twenties that we all ____1____ about. He had no one in his life. His father was in ____2____ for murder. His mother had died.
When he was six years old, he was placed in foster care (寄养). He ____3____ the rest of his childhood in and out of children’s homes. He had ____4____ going for him in life. He started to be lost in computer games, got kicked out of the hostel he was living in and ended up ____5____.
I’d been asked to see him because the nurses had become worried about his ____6____. He couldn’t see the point of keeping going. Someone with his history, in his situation is at a very high ____7____ of killing himself.
We started talking and I asked him ____8____ about if he had been thinking about killing himself. “I think about it every day,” he said. I asked him if he had made plans. He ____9____ his head. “I couldn’t do it to Becky,” he said. I was at a loss. Who was Becky? I’d thought he was completely _____10_____—no family at all.
“She talks to me every day,” he explained. “She’d be heartbroken. She’s the only reason I keep going.”
Becky was not a family member or a friend. She was _____11_____ a person who, on her way home from work every day, stopped, and spoke to him.
She only stopped for 10 minutes or so while she waited for her train, but would often _____12_____ him a coffee or sandwich and would sit with him in the waiting hall.
“It’s funny,” he said. “She’s got a good job, but she always sits on the floor next to me.”
She never _____13_____ to stop. It was a tiny gesture. For her, it was an insignificant (微不足道的) event in her day. Yet for him, it meant something so much more.
I suspect even now she has no idea