2024年湖北省(黄石市,十堰市,宜昌市,襄阳市,鄂州市,荆门市,孝感市,荆州市,黄冈市,咸宁市,随州市,恩施土家族苗族自治州)中考二模英语试卷 （5）

2024届中考模拟题英语试卷 笔试部分(90分) 一、完形填空(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分) Eva sat in a quiet comer at the library. With her textbook open in front of her, she tried to make sense of all the practice questions for the__1__test. For example, "In what year did England beat the Spanish Armuda? " It's...It's... She didn't know! How she wished that the test were on poetry(诗歌)! Eve __2__ poetry and its rhyming(押韵的) expression. She dropped her head to the book and buried her face in the pages. "Impossible!" "Hi, Eva! Want to __3__ together?" Annie from her class asked while sitting with dozens of index cards(索引卡) and some colored pencils in front of her. Eva gave a __4__ look. "I thought you were studying history." "This is __5__I study," Annie said, "I like art, and the doodles(涂鸦) help me recall __6__. Sometimes memorization isn't enough,and I have to get __7__ . But right now, I'm having __8__ with this question 'What would you call someone who lives in Flanders?' " She pointed to a question she'd written on the front of an index card. After __9__ the answer "Fleming" to the question, an idea came into Eva's head. If Annie could use her artistic skills to review, then why couldn't she use her own love of poetry? She said aloud, "See the flamingo(火烈鸟) home to Flanders!” Annie __10__ at her. "Flamingo? What does a flamingo have to do with it?” She paused. "See the flamingo home... See the Fleming go home to Flanders. Yes! It's __11__ ! A Fleming lives in Flanders. Bingo!" Annie used a pink colored pencil to draw a flamingo on the back of the index card. "Hey, that was pretty __12__ " "Thanks. "Eva smiled. She looked down and repeated the when question "In what year did England defeat the Spanish Armada?" "It was 1588,"Annie answered, reading from the book faster than Eva this time. "But how can I even draw that? __13__ are hard." Eva excitedly wrote something down, then __14__ it to Annie. "1588 made England celebrate. And we could show that with steak and cake." "Wow, it sounds like a poem! s