2023年广东省广州市天河区中考二模英语试题

天河区2023届初三毕业班综合测试（二） 英语 （本试卷共四大题，10页，满分90分。考试时间为100分钟.） 注意事项： 1.答卷前，考生必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔将自己的学校、姓名、班级、座位号和考生号填写在答题卡相应的位置上，再用2B铅笔把考号的对应数字涂黑。 2.选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑；如需改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案，不能答在试卷上。 3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的铜笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区城内的相应位置上；如需改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答索：不准使用铅笔或涂改液，不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4.考生必须保证答题卡的整洁，考试结束后，将试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、语法选择（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分） 阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Do you know the film Forrest Gump? One of ____1____ famous lines impresses people a lot. “Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” The sentence tells us that surprise is part of the fun. The surprise is not only ____2____ the chocolates you find in the box but also the experience of opening the box. Now blind box toys ____3____ very popular since they first appeared in China in 2014. Blind box toys ____4____ inside the same packaging, such as the boxes and the bags. So the buyers won’t know what is in the boxes ____5____ they open them. The most popular toys in the blind boxes are characters from pop movies, comics and cartoons because they look ____6____ real and cute for people to refuse. There are just ____7____ special ones in many common boxes. “Maybe the next one is ____8____ gold toy. My wish is to open another box!” said one buyer. As a result, people find it hard ____9____ buying the blind boxes. And they believe if they buy more boxes, they will get a ____10____ result. Besides expecting good results, people also enjoy the surprise and uncertain mysteries. “Just like opening a birthday gift, ____11____ a blind box is an enjoyable surprise for our simple daily lives,” said a ____12____ lady. “Once I get the boxes, I will ____13____ open them. I may feel disappointed at one, but I get ____14____ at another.” Simon, another school student, cares more about ____15____ in opening the boxes, that is, fearing for the unknown and waiting for the uncertainty. How about you? What’s your idea about blind boxes? 1. A.