北京市门头沟区2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编：完形填空

北京市门头沟区 2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编 完形填空 2023年北京市门头沟区中考二模英语试题 二、完形填空（每题1分，共8分） 阅读下面的短文，掌握其大意，然后从短文后各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选择最佳选项。 An Older Brother’s Gift It was the Christmas season of 2022. Nine-year-old Jaron and his six-year-old brother, Parker, were excited. They had entered a reading__13__ sponsored(赞助) by a store in their hometown. The two students who read the most books would each win a new bicycle. All they had to do was to have their parents and teachers __14__ for each book they read. Two bikes were to be awarded(颁发), one for the first-to-third grade levels and one for the fourth-to-sixth grade levels. Parker was especially excited because this was a great way for him to earn(赢得) a bike by reading books. He really__15__ one. So he started to read books as fast as he could. But no matter how many books he read, someone in his grade level had read more. Jaron had not been all that enthusiastic(狂热的) about the competition. When he went to the store and checked the chart(排行榜) with all the readers listed and how many books each had read, however, he could see that his younger brother had__16__ chance of winning the competition. Touched with the true meaning of Christmas, the joy of__17__ , he decided to do for Parker what he could not do for himself. He read and read. He read as much as eight hours a day. The excitement of perhaps having such a wonderful gift to give kept him going. The__18__ came when the final lists were to be turned in. Jaron’s mother took him to the store, and he turned in his list. By reading 280 books, Jaron had won! With his parents’ help, he__19__the bicycle in his grandma’s basement(地下室) until Christmas Eve. He could hardly wait to give Parker his gift! On Christmas Eve, the whole family gathered(聚集) at Grandma’s home for a special family home evening. They talked and laughed. Then Jaron ran to the basement where Grandma had moved the bike. The rest of the family__20__smiled while he wheeled out the two-wheeled treasure he had earned for