2021年中考英语模拟题及答案：(六)

2021年中考英语模拟题及答案：(六)

2021年九年级英语模拟试题（六）

一、语法选择（共15空格，每个空格1分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Coffee has long been one of the most popular 1 in the world. In 9

century Arabia，it was first recorded 2 people drank coffee. Planting of

coffee first 3 in Yemen, in the Middle East, in the 15 century, and it 4

to take coffee plants out of the country. However, plants were eventually

smuggled to India and 5 there to Europe. The first coffeehouse in London

6 in the 1680s, and soon they were hundreds all over the city. Coffeehouses

were known as ‘penny universities’ 7 you could buy a cup of coffee for

only a penny and learn more at the coffeehouse than in class!

In 1690, the Dutch introduced coffee farming to their colonies in

Indonesia. Coffee 8 South America several decades later, when the French

brought a coffee plant to the island of Martinique. When a rare plant disease

destroyed the coffee plantations of Southeast Asia 9 the mid-19 century,

Brazil emerged as the world’s 10 coffee producer, which it 11 is

today. The first automatic coffee 12 machine was produced in France in

1822 and instant coffee was first marketed in 1909.

To give you 13 idea of the popularity of coffee, Starbuck Coffee

opened its first store in 1971 and today has over 5,000 locations in more than

20 countries. Why is coffee so popular? People believe that coffee gives you

energy so it 14 you concentrate on work. It also tastes

15 , and everyone has his or her favourite type of coffee: cappuccino,

espresso, iced, mocha. 1. A. drink 2. A. which 3. A. start 4. A. forbid 5.

A. from

B. drinks B. how

C. drunks C. what

D. drinking

th

th

th

D. that D. starts

B. was starting

C. started

B. was forbidden

B. in

C. were forbidden D. forbids

D. for

C. to

1

6. A. open

B. opens C. was opening D. opened C. because

D. although

7. A. while B. however

8. A. arrives in B. arrived in C. arrived from D. arrives at 9. A. in

10.A. big 11.A. also

B. for

C. by

D. with

B. bigger

B. still

C. much bigger D. biggest

C. even

D. almost

12.A. to make 13.A. a

B. make

C. making

D. made

B. an C. the D. / C. help

D. helping

14.A. helps 15. A. good

B. helped B. well

C. better D. best

二、完形填空（共10个空格，每个空格1.5分，满分15分）

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16～30各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

Last summer I was a volunteer at a shelter for the homeless, a place for

homeless people to sleep at night. I wasn’t working that summer and was 16

only two classes in summer school, so I had some free time.

Three nights a week, I helped in the kitchen of the shelter along with

other four volunteers. We planned and 17 hot meals of vegetables, chicken,

fish and fruit for 45 people. The homeless people needed this good food

because many of them usually don’t eat well. They were very grateful.

I 18 this volunteer work very much and made 19 with the four

volunteers in the kitchen. One was a very nice elderly housewife, one a movie

actor, another a young teacher, and the other a college student, like me.

I talked to a lot of the homeless people at the shelter. Their life

stories filled me with sympathy. Some of them had 20 with alcohol or drugs

while others only had bad luck. One woman worked for almost 30 years for a

small company, and then she lost her 21 . She looked for a new job, but

couldn’t find one, as she

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was too 22 . She could do nothing but sell her furniture ― sofas,

chairs, and tables so that she could pay for her 23 .The woman went on job

hunting, but she still couldn’t find one. She had no money for her 24 and had to sleep in her car. Then she had to sell her car. Alone, 25 , and

homeless, she finally came to the shelter. 16. A. studying 17. A. ordered 18.

A. wanted

B. planning B. bought

C. holding

D. taking

D. finished

C. cooked

B. had C. owned D. enjoyed

C. friends D. changes

19. A. decisions B. wishes

20. A. habits B. worries C. fears D. problems 21. A. bag

B. job C. home

D. money

22. A. old B. poor C. sick D. dull 23. A. company

24. A. block 25. A. afraid

三、阅读（共两节；满分45分）

第一节 阅读理解（共20小题；每小题2分，满分40分）

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

（A）

It was meant to be the holiday of a lifetime―my first trip abroad alone,

without my parents. I had organised everything myself and I would show them