2023年四川省绵阳市中考四模英语试题

绵阳市高中阶段学校招生暨初中学业水平考试 英语诊断卷（四） （考试时间：100分钟 满分：120分） 本试卷分试题卷和答题卡两部分。试题卷共8页，答题卡共2页。满分120分。考试时间100分钟。 注意事项： 1.答题前，考生务必将自己的班级、姓名用0.5毫米的黑色墨迹签字笔填写在答题卡上。 2.选择题答案使用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡对应题目标号的位置上，非选择题答案使用0.5毫米的黑色墨迹签字笔书写在答题卡的对应框内。超出答题区域书写的答案无效；在草稿纸、试题卷上答题无效。 3.考试结束后，将试题卷和答题卡一并交回。 第I卷 选择题（共70分） 第一部分：读（共两节，满分70分） 第一节：阅读理解（共20小题，每小题2分，满分40分） 阅读下面短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 A My master decided one day to visit some friends. James Howard, a stable (马厩) boy, was to drive them. The first day we traveled thirty-two miles, but James drove so carefully that Ginger and I were not at all tired. Just as the sun was going down, we reached the town where we would spend the night. We stopped at a big hotel in the Market Place. We were taken to a long stable. In the evening, a young man with a pipe (烟斗) in his mouth came into the stable for a gossip (闲谈). “Towler,” said an ostler (马夫), “put some hay (干草) down into this horse’s rack, will you? Only put your pipe down first!” “All right,” said Dick Towler, the young man. Later I heard him step across the floor overhead and put down the hay. Then James came in for a last look at us before he went to bed. At night I woke up feeling very uncomfortable. The stable seemed full of smoke and I couldn’t breathe. Just then Dick Towler came in with a lantern and began to untie the horses. He seemed so frightened that he frightened us, too, and none of us would go with him. Next I heard James’s voice, “Come on. Beauty, we’ll soon be out of here.” He tied his scarf lightly over my eyes, and he led me out of the stable to a safe place, then he went back for another. I was joyful when James was coming through the smoke, leading Ginger out. Soon firemen arrived with a heavy fire engine and quickly put out the fire. Next day, everyone was wondering how the fire had started. At last someone remembered that Dick Towler had been smoking a pipe when he came into the stable. Dick said that he had put his pipe down, but no one believed him. Pipes were n