湖北省黄冈市2023年九年级中考自主招考模拟测试英语试题

2023 春季自主招生考试优录精典优录模拟训练英语试题 满分:75 分 时间:50 分钟 一、阅读理解(共 7 小题;每小题 2.5 分,满分 17.5 分) 阅读下面两篇短文,根据短文内容,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D 四个选项中选出最佳选项。 (A) Imagine you are walking along the beach. Suddenly you see something shiny in the sand. Your curious mind makes you move in for a closer look. It is a glass bottle, and inside is a rolled-up piece of paper. This message in a bottle may have travelled half way around the world before landing on this beach. Though it may seem strange, people really write notes, put them in bottles, and throw the bottles into the ocean. They do so for different reasons. Most often it is simply for fun. All the world’s oceans are connected, and tides( 潮 汐 )can carry the bottles in many different directions. There is no telling where a bottle may end up or how far it may drift. For example, a primary school student near Seattle, Washington, let go of a bottle that traveled more than 1,700 miles before being found in Alaska 21 years later. Similarly, a man threw a bottle into the ocean near his New Hampshire hotel. His note told the finder to return the bottle to his wife Tina for a reward. More than 50 years later, the bottle was found washed up on a Caribbean island nearly 2,000 miles away. In 2007, students at a school in Hawaii took part in a science experiment(实验) called Message in a Bottle. As part of the experiment, about 25 bottles were put into the ocean to drift. Each bottle contained( 包含)a message from a student. Six months later a 13-year-old gin in Papua New Guinea found one. She and the sender became pen friends. Overtime people found other bottles of the students. From time to time someone tries to use a message in a bottle to contact a certain person. In 1914, a British man fighting in World War I wrote a letter to his wife. Eighty-five years after the man threw his bottle into the sea, a fisherman found it in his fishing net. The fisherman delivered(递送)the letter to the man’s daughter, who was an adult by then. She was very excited to receive the