英语（湖北统考专用）-学易金卷：2024年中考第二次模拟考试

2024年中考第二次模拟考试（湖北统考卷） 英语 （考试时间：100分钟 试卷满分：90分） ★祝考试顺利★ _____________________________________________________________________________ 注意事项: 1.答卷前,考生务必将自己的姓名、准考证号填写在试卷和答题卡上,并将准考证号条形码粘贴在答题卡上指定位置。 2.选择题的作答:每小题选出答案后,用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 3.非选择题的作答:用黑色签字笔直接答在答题卡上对应的答题区域内。写在试卷、草稿纸和答题卡上的非答题区域均无效。 4.考试结束后,请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 ____________________________________________________________________________ 笔试部分（90分） 一、完形填空（共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分） 阅读短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 One afternoon, I went to pick up my mother from work. I got there a little early, so I 1 my car by a small park, and 2 for her. As I looked outside the car window, I saw a little boy, around two years old, running 3 on the grass as his mother 4 from a short distance. The boy had a big smile on his face as if he had just been 5 free from some sort of prison. The boy would then fall to the grass, 6 up, without looking back at his mother, run as 7 as he could , again , still with a smile on his face, as if nothing had happened . At that moment, I thought to myself, “why aren’t most adults this way?” Most adults, when they fall down, make a big deal out of it and don’t even 8 a second try. They would be so 9 that they would not try again if someone saw them fall. Or, because they fall, they would find a good 10 for themselves that they’re not fit for it. They would end up too afraid to try again for fear of failure. However, with kids, when they fall down, they don’t consider their falling down as a failure, instead, they treat it as a 11 experience. They try again and again until they 12 . The answer must be that they have not connected “falling down” with the word “failure”. As a 13 , they are not discouraged in any way. Besides, they 14 think to themselves that it’s quite okay to fall down and that it’s not wrong to do so. In other words, they allow themselves to make 15 , so they remain ener