广东省2020年中考英语模拟试题含答案
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 9th century Arabia，it was first recorded 2 people drank coffee. Planting of coffee first 3 in Yemen, in the Middle East, in the 15th 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-19th 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 B. drinks C. drunks D. drinking
2. A. which B. how C. what D. that
3. A. start B. was starting C. started D. starts
4. A. forbid B. was forbidden C. were forbidden D. forbids
5. A. from B. in C. to D. for
6. A. open B. opens C. was opening D. opened
7. A. while B. however C. because D. although
8. A. arrives in B. arrived in C. arrived from D. arrives at
9. A. in B. for C. by D. with
10.A. big B. bigger C. much bigger D. biggest
11.A. also B. still C. even D. almost
12.A. to make B. make C. making D. made
13.A. a B. an C. the D. /
14.A. helps B. helped C. help D. helping
15. A. good 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 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
