浙江省温州市外国语学校2023年九年级中考第二次模拟考英语试题

温州市外国语学校 2023 年九年级第二次模拟考 亲爱的同学： 英语试卷 2023.4 欢迎参加考试！请你认真审题，积极思考，细心答题，发挥最佳水平。答题时，请注意以下几点： 1.全卷共 8 页，有五大题，56 小题。全卷满分 90 分。考试时间 90 分钟。 2.答案必须写在答题纸相应的位置上，写在试题卷、草稿纸上均无效。祝你成功！ 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 A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出一个最佳选项。 “Are you listening, Simon?” Simon’s teacher asked. It was a pretty usual question. Simon smiled and shook his head. He 1 listened in class. Talking was so much better. He always thought he had good opinions! He preferred to be 2 than to listen. “I am talking to Susan,” he said lazily. “You should listen, so you will learn something,” Mrs. Jacobs said 3 , trying to control her voice. She tried every day, but he always turned a deaf ear to her. That evening, Simon started to feel a little sick. By his bedtime snack, his throat* really hurt. He had ice cream to make his throat feel better, but he wasn’t 4 that it would work. The next morning, when he opened his mouth to say “Good morning”, 5 came out. His mother looked at him worriedly. “Honey, you’ve lost your 6 .” “Can I stay home?” he tried to ask, but words didn’t come out. Instead, his mother checked 7 for a fever and said he was good to school, even if he couldn’t talk. How 8 he felt! When he got to school, Mrs Jacobs said “Hello” to him, he just 9 . When his friends asked him what TV shows he watched last night, he just shrugged*. Almost everyone looked at him 10 as if he’d grown a third eye or an extra nose. In class Simon got bored because he couldn’t talk to his neighbors. He had nothing to do, so he tried listening to his math teacher. You know what? It wasn’t that bad! He 11 do his homework on his own that night! He even had cartoon time and game time because he finished the 12 in a shorter time. All this happened just because he listened ! The next day, 13 his voice was coming back, he stayed quiet again. The third day, he could talk fine, but he didn’t cut in or waste time. He just listened and then 14 his hand! Everyone listened and then