英语（湖北统考卷）-学易金卷：2024年中考考前押题密卷

2024年中考考前押题密卷（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 day, three brothers were talking about the good old days, sitting on their boat. By accident, they watched lots of rubbish moving slowly on the St. James River. 1 conversation soon turned to it. “It didn’t use to be like this, ”said Manny. “Remember how freely we used to go swimming in this river? 2 now I wouldn’t even put my feet in this river as I might catch some 3 . It is time for people to know that rubbish should be put into the right place. ” It was all agreed that some lazy people were making this country so 4 . Then Jack had an idea. “Since we’re all retired (退休的), 5 don’t we do something instead of just talking? We can’t clean up everything, but maybe we could clean up our 6 . ”They all liked this idea, and Manny suggested a name for their effort—the Green Fleet, which aimed to turn the St. James River 7 again. The three brothers went out on the river almost every day. In their boat, they 8 all the rubbish they could see moving on the river. Soon some friends 9 them. Then friends told other friends, and by the end of the first year there were more than 200 volunteers, and they cleaned off more than 10 tons of rubbish from the river. Their work was 10 a cleaner-looking and cleaner-smelling river. Some companies 11 joined and donated money and materials. The Green Fleet got bigger and better every year. By the end of the second year, the Green Fleet had 12 to four bo