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2019
年江苏省常州市中考英语真题试卷及解析
一、单项选择（共
10
小题；每小题
1
分，满分
10
分）
从
A
、
B
、
C
、
D
四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处
的最佳选项。
1.
—
When would you like to go
swimming with me, this Friday or this
Saturday?
—
___________. I am free only
this Sunday.
A.
None
B. Both
C.
Either
D. Neither
2.
—
Can you give
me some advice on how to be
slimmer
？
—
Eat _____ meat and
_____cakes.
A.
less
；
less
B.
fewer
；
fewer
C.
less
；
fewer
D.
fewer
；
less
3. Jim is watching a football match
which is shown ______on TV
. Though he
is not on the scene,
he can still cheer
for his team.
A.
lively
B. live
C.
living
D. alive
4.
—
_______I keep the book for a
week?
—
Sorry, I'm
afraid you __________.
A.
Need
；
couldn't
B.
Need
；
can't
C.
May
；
couldn't
D.
May
；
can't
5. You must raise your hand if you have
any questions in class._______, your teacher won't
notice
you.
A.
Otherwise
B. Anyhow
C. Instead
D.
Moreover
6. He chose to
study in a junior school near his home. It ______
to be a wise decision.
A.
put out
B. put on
C. turned out
D. turned
on
7. I won't stop loving
English ______ the sun rises in the
west.
A. if
B.
although
C. because
D. unless
8. In the library, students are
required to keep ______ and move
_______.
A.
quiet
；
quiet
B.
quiet
；
quietly
C.
quietly
；
quiet
D.
quietly
；
quietly
9.
—
Could you
tell me _____ the music?
—
He used
traditional Chinese music art and the sounds of an
ancient Chinese bell.
A. how
he made
B. how
did he make
C. why he
made
D. why did
he make
10.
—
How would you like your
coffee?
—
__________.
A. I like it very much.
C. No thanks.
B.
With some milk, please.
D. Yes, it smells good.
二、完形填空（共
12
小题；
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每小题
1
分，
满分
12
分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的
A
、
B
、
D
四个
选项中，选出最佳选项。
Basketball can
be fun, or it can be trouble, People gather around
a ball, but their reactions
（反应）
often
go
11
the
object.
It
was
a
terribly
hot
summer
day
when
the
group
of
us
appeared on
the basketball court. Silently, we
12
up and played, as always. The sun was a
big “squeezer
（挤压者）
”, as it not only
squeezed out of us
sweet
（
汗水）
and
13
, but also
our unhappy feelings. Body contact
became more and more often, and we could all
14
the
attacks of
elbows
（肘部）
. After another
round of game, one of the players and I fell to
the ground
at the same time. From his
burning eyeballs. I could see a
15
was almost unavoidable.
It suddenly came to me that my tins of
Cola were lying on the ground, about an inch away
from me. “Buddy, hot down here. What
about a
16
?” I said to him.
17
I rolled
（滚动）
one to him,
looking at him in the eyes with my most sincere
facial expression. “I guess I'm quite
fine. Lucky no
18
bones or
we'll end up in the hospital!” I said.
Other players watching nearby all
laughed. I could clearly see some movement on his
face.
My
19
did work! He picked the Cola up, tried
to open it, and walked over. As he passed by
my side, he
20
his left
hand, and smiled at me. I smiled back, took his
hand, and gave him a
light
shake.
A gentle wind caught
me on the face as I returned to the basketball
court. The sun continued
to
provide
21
for
us. What
could
be
better
than
a
group
of
school
students
22
basketball
skills on a warm, sunny
afternoon?
(
) 11. A.
towards
(
) 12. A.
teamed
(
) 13. A.
time
(
)
14. A. accept
(
) 15. A.
match
(
) 16. A.
game
(
) 17. A.
Angrily
(
) 18. A.
lazy
(
)
19. A. humor
B.
about
B.
cheered
B. energy
B. afford
B. fight
B. talk
C.
beyond
C. cooked
C. health
C. smell
C. touch
C. drink
C. Guiltily
C.
medical
C. advice
D. for
D. caught
D.
pride
D. feel
D. risk
D.
ball
D. Carefully
D. broken
D.
trust
D. held out
D. peace
D.
comparing
B.
Equally
B. hidden
B. chance
(
) 20. A. looked at
(
) 21. A. worry
B. thought of
B. warmth
C. put away
C. stress
(
) 22. A.
protecting
B.
encouraging
C.
exchanging
三、阅读理解（共
< br>13
小题，满分
26
分）
阅读下列短文，从短文后各题所给的
A
，
B
，
C
，
D
四个选项中，
选出最佳选项。
A
The Dead
Sea
At 430 meters below sea
level, the Dead Sea is Earth's lowest point on
land. It is popular for
its wonderful
buoyancy
（浮力）
. The high salt
content
—
more than 34
percent
—
makes swimming
more like floating.
Now the Dead Sea is actually dying.
People are using water from the Jordan River,
which
takes water away from the Dead
Sea. Since 1930, its surf area has reduced by
almost 40 percent.
Venice,
Italy
With waterways instead
of streets. This
City
has
attracted
visitors
for
centuries. But no visit
to Venice is complete
without
a
ride
on
one
of
its
famous
gondolas, human
powered water taxis. Water creates Venice. But
water will also kill the city.
Built on soft earth, Venice has slowly
been sinking
（
下沉）
for
centuries. Now, with rising sea
levels
caused
by
human
activities,
it's
sinking
faster.
According
to
US
-
based
magazine
Architectural
Digest, the city may disappear in the next 100
years. Better book your gondola soon!
Great Barrier Reef,
Australia
Covering more than
2,300 kilometers of Australia's northeast coast,
Great Barrier Reef is the
world's
largest reef ecosystem, and an ideal place for
scuba divers
（水肺潜水者）
.
Thousands of
colorful
coral
（珊瑚）
and
fish make homes in the blue sea water. It's like a
big underwater party!
Sadly,
the
party
might
be
over
soon.
The
reef
is
dying.
Human
activities
are
changing
the
weather. Warming ocean, water kills the
coral, and this causes problems up
the
food
chain.
The
New
York
Times
reported
that
large
parts
are
already
dead, and the reef
system might be gone by 2030.
23. What can be the best title of the
passage?
A. Disappearing Watery
Wonders
C. Lost
Watery Wonders on the Sea
B. Amazing
Man
-
made Wonders on the
Sea
D. Last Watery Wonders
in the World
24. Which of
the following is the shared cause of the problems
all the three places are facing?
A. Water loss
B. Sea
pollution
C.
Warming seas
D.
Human activities
25. If Tom
wants to visit all the following places before
they are gone, and he can only afford one
in the next 15 years, where must he go?
A. The Dead Sea
B. Venice
C.
Italy
B
There
is
good
news
for
students
of
vocational
（职业的）
colleges
in
China
：
the
government
has
announced
plans
to
develop
modern
vocational
education.
Premier
Li
Keqiang
said
the government should speed up the development of
modern vocational education to meet the
need for skilled workers and
technicians
（技术人员）
in the job
market. High school graduates and
workers with no special training are
encouraged to study in higher vocational colleges.
Li said that
the number of the new
students in higher vocational colleges in China
should go up by 1 million
this year.
This is the first time the central government has
a clear plan.
This
comes
after
the
news
of
the
large
shortfall
（不足）
in
highly
skilled
technicians
，
although China has millions of
technical workers. China is expected to face a
shortfall of 3 million
skilled
workers
who
can
operate
the
newest
machines
by
2020.
The
shortfall
will
grow
to
4.5
million by 2025. Also, vocational
education is
unsatisfactory
（不令人满意的）
,
although there are
many
vocational
colleges
in
China.
In
some
vocational
colleges,
the
education
methods
and
courses cannot meet the
need of upgrading
（升级）
,
manufacturing
（制造业）
. As can
be seen
from the job market, some
companies still can't find highly skilled
technicians even with high pay.
To
deal
with
the
problem.
some
vocational
colleges
have
worked
with
companies
to
teach
students. They have
hired skilled technicians from companies as
teachers. With the rising of the
skilled workers' social position and
pay, it is believed the vocational education
system in China
will start to play a
bigger role in the development of
China.
26. What's the main
purpose of the development of modern vocational
education in China?
A. To train more highly skilled
technicians for the job markets.
D. Great
Barrier Reef
B. To help
vocational college graduates get higher pay from
their work.
C. To ask more
people to live on themselves with technical
skills.
D. To encourage more
companies to upgrade manufacturing.
27. What is one of the problems of
Chinese vocational education according to the
passage?
A.
Higher vocational college teachers are not well
paid and valued.
B. There
are only a small number of higher vocational
colleges in China.
C. The
education methods and courses in vocational
colleges are unsatisfactory.
D. Some of the vocational college
teachers are skilled technicians from
companies.
28. The writer
believes China's future vocational education
is______.
A.
hopeful
B. doubtful
C.
unsatisfactory
C
Nowadays, it
never seems we have enough time to realize all of
the reading goals
（目标）
that we set for ourselves. Luckily, we
have mobile apps such as Latte Read and Get
Abstract to
provide
abstracts
（梗概）
of
a
text.
Abstracts
are
useful
tools,
especially
for
students,
but
like
having a friend
describe the main content of a story to
you,
you cannot experience
the joy and
excitement of reading the
original
（原来的）
text of
yourself.
I recently
finished reading a thick book of W. Somerset
Maugham's collected short stories. It
took me around ten years to get
through. Thomas Mann's difficult
The
Magic Mountain
took me
about
six
months
to
read;
Ayn
Rand's
Atlas
Shrugged
made
me
very
bored
most
of
the
time.
Reading
a book, whether it is good or bad, is a
formative
（建设性的）
experience.
There are plenty
of books which I
probably shouldn't have taken the time to read.
But the challenge of living for a
time
in the thoughts and experiences of a different
history or character makes even the worst book
a valuable effort.
Whenever I finish the last line of a
book and slowly close it, I like to sit there and
think over
D. worrying
its lines with a mix of nostalgia
（怀旧之情）
and pride.
I then take the book in hand and find a
place for it on my bookshelf. When I
step back and look at the books on my shelf, it is
as if I am
looking at the history of
the different lives that I have lived.
Abstracts are useful as a tool to an
end, but reading the actual
（真正的）
book is
something
much richer. Reading, like
anything else in life, is much more about the
journey than it ever was
the
destination
（目的地）
.
29. What does the writer mainly want to
say?
A. Reading abstracts is a
best short way to enjoy literature.
B. Reading abstracts cannot bring you
the true feeling of actual reading.
C. Reading different kinds of books
brings you many advantage.
D. The journey and the destination are
equally important in our reading.
30. What can we know about the writer
from the second paragraph?
A. He prefers thick and difficult books
to short stories.
B. A good
book is better worth reading than a bad one to
him.
C. He achieves a lot
from reading some challenging books.
D. He is lucky enough never to have
read a regrettable book.
31.
In the third paragraph the writer_____ his main
point of
view
（主要观点）
.
A. explains the meaning of
C. makes a conclusion
of
B. provides further support
for
D. offers an opposite
example for
D
When Major, the most respected pig, saw
all the animals were present, he cleared his
throat
and began:
“Now, comrades
（同志们）
, I don't think I shall
be with you for many months. Before I die,
let
me
ask
you
a
question.
What
is
the
nature
of
this
life
of
ours?
Let
us
face
it:
our
lives
are
miserable and short. We
are born, we are given just so much food as will
keep the breath in our
bodies, and
those of us who are able to do it are forced to
work to the last.
“Why then
do we continue in this miserable? Because nearly
the whole of the produce of our
hard
work is stolen from beings. There, comrades, is
the answer to all our problems. It is summed
up in a single
word
—
Man. Man is the only
real enemy we have. Remove
（消灭）
Man from the
scene, and the basic cause of hunger
and overwork is ended for ever.”
“And now, comrades, I will sing an old
song that came into my dream last night to you. I
am
sure, it was a song sung by the
animals of long ago and have been lost to memory
for marry years.
It is called Animals
of England.”
His voice was
hoarse
（
沙哑的）
, but
he sang well enough to throw the animals into the
wildest
excitement. Almost before Major
had reached the end, they had begun singing it for
themselves.
Unluckily, the
singing woke Mr. Jones, the farm owner, who jumped
out of bed, thinking that
there was a
fox in the yard. He took the gun which always
stood in a comer of his bedroom, and
let fly 6
shots
（射击）
into
the darkness. The pellets
（子弹）
flew into
the wall of the yard and
the meeting
broke up hurriedly. Everyone ran to his own
sleeping place. The birds jumped onto
their trees, the animals settled down
in the straw, and the whole farm was asleep in a
moment.
32. Why did Major
make the speech?
A. To encourage
the animals to fight against Man.
B. To teach the animals to sing an old
song.
C. To say goodbye to
the animals before death.
D.
To complain about his personal miserable
life.
33. What does the
underlined word “miserable” in the second
paragraph most probably mean?
A. common
B.
boring
C. lonely
D. painful
34. Which of the following is true
according to the passage?
A. The animals
on the farm were brave.
B.
Major's speech was nearly successful.
C. Major and Mr. Jones were friendly to
each other.
D. Mr. Jones
forced his animals to work from birth to
death.
35. Why did Mr. Jones
fire his gun?
A. To break up the animals'
meeting.
B. To kill the fox he saw in the
yard.
C. To make sure his
gun was in good condition.
D. To protect the animals he raised on
his farm.
四、阅读表达（共
5
小题
;
每小题
1
分，
满分
5
分）阅读下面短文，并根据所读
内容在文
章后表格中的空格里填入一个最恰当的单词。注意：每个空格只填一个单词。<
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One cannot discuss Chinese
music without mentioning the Chinese
seven
-
string zither
（
七弦
琴）
,
also known as the guqin, one of the four
arts
—
along with go,
calligraphy and painting
．
It
first appeared over 3,
000 ago and represents China's solo musical
instrument tradition.
At
first, the guqin had only five strings,
representing the five elements of metal, wood,
water,
fire and earth. Later, in the
Zhou dynasty, King Wen of Zhou added a sixth
string for his son, King
Wu of Zhou,
added a seventh string to encourage his army to
fight with the Shang.
Ambience
（环境气氛）
was
important in playing the Chinese zither. Usually,
it was practised
in quiet setting and
never for public performance.
Ancient
artists
enjoyed
performing
by
a
stream
in
the
mountains.
The
sound
of
the
guqin
mixed
with the echoes
（回音）
from the mountains, until the musician
found himself at one with
nature.
Playing
it
in
snow
was
also
a
favorite
pastime
for
ancient
artists,
who
believed
the
instrument was the purest of its kind
in the world. Also, a night with moonlight was
considered
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