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2017年广州市初中毕业生学业模拟考试
英语
本试卷共四大题，11页，满分110分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1 .答卷前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号，再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。
2 .选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动，用橡皮擦干
净后，再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。
3.非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4 •考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结束，将答题卡交回。
一、语法填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，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。
Levi Strauss —a n ame that is now famous —was the man 1 inven ted jea ns. Levi Strauss was born in Germa ny in 1829, but went to the USA as 2 you ng man. At first he lived in New York,
3_in 1853 he moved to San Fran cisco, where he worked with his brother. They worked in a shop
selling clothes to men who 4 for gold in the California Gold Rush. The men were working very
5 in difficult con diti ons, and they n eeded very strong trousers.
Strauss was the first man to begi n produc ing special, strong trousers 6 work ing men.
He made these trousers from a tough fabric（结实的织物）called "denim" （牛仔布）probably from
a tow n 7 Nimes in France. Many people now thi nk the En glish word "de nim" 8 from the
French words "de Nimes", which means "from Nimes". Later, Strauss added special metal buttons to
the trousers to make them eve n 9 and they immediately became very popular.
In the early part of the 20th century, only working menwore jeans in workplaces like factories.
But after the Second World War, tee nage boys and young men at college started to wear 10 to ______ go out. These boys called the trousers "jea ns". I n the 1960s, more young America ns started 11 __ them as in formal, casual clothes outside the workplace and denim jea ns became fashi on able.
At that time, jeans were usually flared（向外展开的）,but today, 12 ^mnydifferent styles
of jea ns: straight, baggy, flared, low-waisted —almost any style you can 13 . ________ Today, 14 people wear jea ns to go to work in offices, as well as to go out. Jea ns are as
15 today as they ever were, but there is one thing no one is really sure about —why are they called "jea ns"?
1. A. what B. where C. who D. which
2. A. a B. an C. the D. /
3. A. and B. or C. but D. so
4. A. work B. were worki ng C. are worki ng D. have worked
5. A. hard B. hardly C. harder D. more hardly
6. A. to B. at C. for D. by
7. A. call B. called C. calli ng D. to call
8. A. comes B. come C. came D. has come
9. A.good B. better C. best D. the best
10. A. it B. its C. they D. them
11. A. wear B. weari ng C. wore D. worn
12. A. have B. has C. there are D. there is
13. A. imagi ne B. imagi ned C. imagi ning D. to imagi ne
14. A. millio n B. millio ns C. million of D. millions of
15. A. popular B. popularly C. more popular D .more popularly
二
_ 、完型填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~25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。
There was a woman in Detroit（底特律）,who has two sons. She was worried 16 them, especially
the younger one, Ben, 17 he was not doing well in school. Boys in his class made fun of him because he seemed so slow.
The mother decided that she would, herself, have to get her sons to do better in school.
She told them to go to the Detroit Public Library to read a 18 a week and do a report about it
for her.
One day, in Ben's 19 , the teacher held up a rock and asked if anyone knew it. Ben put up
his hand and the teacher let him speak. “Why did Ben raise his hand?” the class wondered. He
