广东茂名市博雅中学2023年中考模拟考试英语试题

2022—2023学年度第二学期初三级模拟考试 英语试卷 考试时长：70分钟 满分：90分 一、语法选择(本大题有10小题，每小题1分，共10分) 通读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后按照句子结构的语法和上下文连贯的要求，从每题所给的三个选项中选出一个最佳答案， 并将答题卡上对应题目所选的选项涂黑。 My mom loves to feed the birds. Every autumn, she 1 up a bird feeder(鸟食槽). She buys bird food at the store. Then, she fills up the feeder and waits 2 the birds to come. She looks out our window and watches all the wonderful 3 there. There is a problem. Every year, the squirrels(松鼠) come and steal all the bird seeds. It really makes my mom angry. In the past few years, Mom 4 every way in the book to stay away from the squirrels. But squirrels are very smart animals. And they can jump really far when they need to. Mom put some barriers(栅栏) to try to keep the squirrels away, but the squirrels just found a way 5 over it. Mom didn't give up 6 though. She went on the Internet and read all about the problem. She discovered there was only one method to get rid of them. Yes, that’s right! You catch the squirrel in a trap(陷阱). It's just a small cage. Do you know 7 ? You put some food inside the trap. The squirrel comes in to eat and the door closes. The squirrel is inside and cannot escape. Then, you take the squirrel away from your house. One day, the squirrel 8 by Mom in the trap. She drove it outside of the city and let it go free. Now, only birds come to Mom's bird feeder. Both my mom and the birds are very 9 . And of course, the squirrel is living happily in the countryside 10 there is always plenty to eat. ( ) 1. A. puts B. put C. putting ( ) 2. A. among B. for C. towards ( ) 3. A. bird B. bird’s C. birds ( ) 4. A. try B. has tried C. tries ( ) 5. A. to jump B. jumped C. jumping ( ) 6. A. easier B. easy C. easily ( ) 7. A. how does the trap work B. how the trap works C. how did the trap work ( ) 8. A. was caught B. is caught C. will be caught ( )9. A. happy B. happiness C. happily ( ) 10. A. unless B. until C.