2024年广东省东莞市中考一模英语试题

2024年广东省初中学业水平考试第一次模拟考试 英语 二、语法选择(每题1分，共 10分) My mum’s birthday is coming. Her birthday is ____1____ April 10. I was thinking of buying a gift for my mum. But my best friend Sandy advised me to make ____2____ a birthday card. I thought that was an excellent idea. Then I went to Sandy’s home to make the card ____3____ I wanted to keep it secret. I planned to make the card with some roses on it. Sandy helped me with the drawing. We had fun ____4____ together. It took me two hours to finish. Lots of things went wrong during that time. I made some mistakes when I ____5____ the sentence “Happy Birthday, Mum”. I kept spelling the words wrong a few times. I was too ____6____. Finally, I colored the roses red, blue and pink. I also put a picture of colorful balloons and stuck it on the cover. When the card ____7____, I really felt a strong sense of satisfaction. But we found that there was paint on everything: the table, Sandy’s books, Sandy’s hands and faces, my clothes, my hands and face! We laughed ____8____ when we saw each other’s face. This is ____9____ card I made for my mum. ____10____ meaningful it is! I hope she will like it. 1. A. on B. in C. at 2. A. she B. hers C. her 3. A. because B. although C. so 4. A. to work B. worked C. working 5. A. write B. wrote C. have written 6. A. excite B. excited C. exciting 7. A. completed B. is completed C. was completed 8. A. happy B. happily C. happier 9. A. the first B. first C. one 10. A. What B. What an C. How 三、完形填空(每题1分，共 10分) It was about two o’clock in one early morning in 1999. I was sleeping when the earthquake started. At first, it was not so strong. Then I heard a ____11____ noise like thunder. The earth started to shake. People screamed (尖叫) ____12____. Outside, people were running in all ____13____ while pieces of glass and bricks (砖) were falling down. Then the walls began to come down too! Finally, the noise and shaking ended. It was dark and silent around me. I could not see anything at all, and