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　　2017年江苏省扬州市中考英语试题及答案
　　（总分：120分    时长：120分钟）
　　姓名：                  成绩：             .     
　　一、单项选择(共15小题;每小题1分，计15分）
　　在下列各题A、B、C、D四个选项中选择一个能填入题干空白处的最佳答案。
　　1. They stopped in ______ beautiful place for camping, near _______ farmhouse of the Smiths.
　　A. a, a             B. the, a               C. a, the               D. the, the
　　2. We all like watching the TV programme Readers _______ Saturday evening.
　　A. in               B. on                 C. at D. for
　　3. Bryan will not want to have _______ to do with horses in the future.
　　A. everything        B. something           C.anything            D. nothing
　　4.—— All done! Let’s swim, Martine!
　　——Swimming! I just _______get used to it in winter.
　　A. can’t            B.shouldn’t             C. mustn’t            D. needn’t
　　5.___________ she couldn’t see his face, she could tell by his voice that he was young.
　　A. Unless           B.If                   C.Because            D. Though
　　6. —— What are you reading?
　　—— A boot a baseball player. This guy was well __________for his devotion to charity work.
　　A. enjoyed           B. respected             C. behaved          D.expected
　　7.—— __________bad news! We didn’t win the 15th Sudirman Cup.
　　—— It’s a pity.
　　A. What             B.What a               C. How              D. How a
　　8. Mrs. White is ________enough to spend her spare time on our maths problems.
　　A. confident          B. curious              C. wise             D. generous
　　9.—— I went from a school desk to a ship in my teens.
　　—— _____________days would you be at sea? Homesick?
　　A. How long          B. How many            C. How much        D. How soon
　　10. My grandpa knows the history and medical _______ of many plants.
　　A. wealth             B. price                C.value             D.cost
　　11.—— You have a nice car.
　　—— Than. I __________ it for less than one month.
　　A. bought B.have bought          C. had              D. have had
　　12. Mom does all the housework so that Sarah can take the time _______ her words on paper.
　　A. put            B. putting       C. to put           D. puts
　　13.—— What do you think of the sofa?
　　—— Not bad, but it may _________ too much space of our living room.
　　A. tap              B. put up               C. open up           D. map
　　14.—— Excuse me, could you tell me ___________?
　　—— Well, there’s one on your left.
　　A. when the bank opens                       B. where the bank is
　　C. how far is the bank                         D. how can I get to the bank
　　15.—— Only those who have a lot in common can get along well.
　　—— _____________. Opposites sometimes attract.
　　A. I hope so                                B. I think so
　　C. I don’t care                               D. I don’t think so
　　二、完形填空（共15小题;每小题1分，计15分）
　　阅读下列短文，从文后各题所给的四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。
　　When Charles Lee handed me the small red notebook in 1974, he changed my life. “While travelling, you should keep notes on the things you see and do.__16__, you will forget them some day,” he explained. I was staying in his house when travelling in England. 
　　I took his __17__.I wrote in the notebook every day during the homestay and bacniversity. I recorded weekend trips, my professors and ideas about my life and future.
　　When I wrote, I wondered about my __18__ and purpose. Who would read this? Was I recording events and ideas just as a reminder to memory, or was there some larger purpose for this __19__ exercise?
　　I got a big picture for the task. I was recording events, thoughts, words that were__20__ to my life. I __21__ a future me sitting down to read the pages. I wondered what it would feel like to read those words later.
　　I filled the notebook Charles gave me. I bought a new one and __22__ it. Then another and another.
　　Recently, I decided to loogh my notebooks in the past 42 years. Charles had been __23__. I remembered the big __24__, the central happenings, but on each page were details I had __25__.
　　I hadn’t written every day, but I always picp the __26__ when it felt important. I often wrote in them at school__27__ my students were writing. I wanted to pass on the __28__ Charles had given me. These writings formed a continuous __29__ between my past, present, and future through events in my life.
　　It took several long evenings to read through my notebooks. As I read, I suddenly realized they are a gift to the __30__me-----I am now the person I was writing to throughout those years.
　　(   )16. A. So             B. Instead     C. Moreover     D. Otherwise
　　(   )17. A. donation B.reward         C. advice         D. promise
　　(   )18. A. listeners B.readers     C. students     D. professors
　　(   )19. A. daily B. weekly        C. monthly     D. yearly
　　(   )20. A. common B. important C. practical     D. similar
　　(   )21. A.imagined B. remembered C. enjoyed D. expected
　　(   )22. A. wrote     B. filled     C. gathered     D.