精品解析：2024年湖北省宜昌市宜都市外国语学校中考一模英语试题

2024年4月中考模拟考试 九年级英语试题 （本试题卷共10页，满分90分，考试时间100分钟） 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 of my earliest memories is playing “shops” with my granddad when I was 5 years old. After ____1____ school, I worked in a fruit shop, but I had no ____2____ to run my own shop back then. Several years later, I got married. My husband Eric and I heard about a shop for sale in the nearby village. We had a look and decided to have a shop of our own. That was January 1973. Shop-keeping was ____3____ to us, so we often didn’t know what the ____4____ were asking for. But we soon learned. You can tell how ____5____ it’s going to be by the weather. On wet days, there are very few people around, and when it’s snowy people want bread and milk, as they’re worried about being snowed in. When it’s ____6____, everyone buys cold drinks and ice cream. More people shop online nowadays, but they still come here for things ____7____ from their online order. I’ve kept up with technology and have a card reader, but the shop itself hasn’t changed much. Now, as I’m getting older, it’s open ____8____ 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. on weekdays. Eric passed away 16 years ago, but I ____9____ considered closing the shop. I love it all—talking to the customers and getting ____10____ they want. There are customers who come in two or three times a day. Customers often tell me their ____11____ and I offer advice if I can. It was the 50th birthday of the shop on January 13 this year. I wanted to do something ____12____, so I held a party and had drinks and snacks with my customers. I also ____13____ a book about my memories in the shop. It’s ____14____ Just Ask Jenny. This shop has been my life. I never ____15____ I’d still be here after 50 years, but I love it and the people. T