2023年江苏常州中考英语真题及答案

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1.本试卷共8页，全卷满分为90分。考试时间为100分钟。考生须将答案书写在答题卡上，写在试卷上的一律无效。
2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考试号填写在试卷上，并填写答题卡上的考生信息。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
一、单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
1. We ________ n the cuntryside rad when a sudden strm hit, s we made ur way back.
A. jggedB. were jggingC. have jggedD. will jg
2. My father ges back t Nanjing fr the Spring Festival every year ________ last year because he was busy with his wrk in Changzhu.
A. includingB. sinceC. exceptD. till
3. As we live in a rapidly develping wrld, we will be left behind ________ we keep learning.
A unlessB. ifC. afterD. thugh
4. When yu have fixed this type f lck, yu ________ take a key with yu. Yu can pen the dr with yur fingerprint.
A. shuldn’tB. needn’tC. mustn’tD. can’t
5. I’ve visited New Yrk and Ls Angeles, but I dn’t like ________ f them very much.
A. eitherB. anyC. neitherD. nne
6. After she was brught back t China, the sick giant panda Ya Ya received gd ________ in her new hme and gt better.
A. educatinB. cmmunicatinC. entertainmentD. treatment
7. —Can yu ________ the sign fr the cmmunity party?
—Sure, where shuld I hang it?
A. keep upB. take upC. give upD. put up
8. —Let’s invite sme mre peple t help with the prject n air pllutin in this area.
—Gd idea! ________.
A. Many hands make light wrk
B. The early bird catches the wrm
C. The grass is always greener n the ther side
D. When in Rme, d as the Rmans d
9. Culd yu tell me smething abut Qu Qiubai? I need t knw abut ________.
A. hw many bks did he publishB. that he studied and wrked in Russia
C. which part f Changzhu did he live inD. what freign languages he culd speak
10. —Shall we be vlunteers in Changzhu Museum during the summer hliday?
—________. I’m lking frward t that.
A. Dn’t mentin itB. That’s nt the caseC. It culdn’t be betterD. I’m afraid nt
二、完形填空（共12小题；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、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Last year in early summer, I was walking up the hill t my huse when I saw tw birds, each abut 60 centimetres tall, standing n the path. They didn’t seem t ___11___ me until I was right in frnt f them and then they at nce mved quickly int the bushes.
I was quite excited by the idea f tw birds making a nest (巢) in my frnt yard, althugh I didn’t really expect them t ___12___ wild birds dn’t usually nest s clse.
A few weeks later, the birds ___13___ again. I fund them cruching beside a tree ff t the side f the path. As I mved nearer t them, I ___14___ that they wuld run away like they did last time. But instead they stuck ut their heads and made a threatening (威胁的) craking (呱呱叫) sund. It seemed t warn me nt t g any ___15___.
I didn’t knw why they were craking at me until a shrt time later I made an amazing ___16___: they had tw small baby birds.
As I mved quietly twards the birds, ___17___ nt t make any sudden mvements, they started their craking again. They straightened their necks frward s they seemed ___18___ and mre threatening. The mther carefully cruched dwn ver the chicks, and ___19___ her babies well in her feathers.
I was watching them with ____20____ when I suddenly tripped and fell t the grund. The birds tk this as a threat and the father raced twards me, ____21____ his wings t prtect the mther and the chicks while making himself appear larger.
I was ____22____ t have surprised them and left quickly. I was amazed by their fearless actins. Their parental natural ability kicked in and made them s curageus. It is hard nt t respect nature.
11. A. nticeB. welcmeC. fllwD. believe
12. A. whenB. untilC. becauseD. while
13. A. fughtB. flewC. screamedD. appeared
14. A. explainedB. imaginedC. cnfirmedD. remembered
15. A. nearerB. fasterC. earlierD. deeper
16. A. discveryB. cntributinC. achievementD. agreement
17. A. patientB. curiusC. carefulD. plite
18. A. widerB. lngerC. weakerD. smaller
19. A. pulledB. shkC. tuchedD. hid
20. A. trustB. curageC. cnfidenceD. respect
21. A. shuttingB. spreadingC. cntrllingD. breaking
22. A. angryB. happyC. srryD. prud
三、阅读理解（共14小题；每小题2分，满分28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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
23. Which captin f last mnth’s was cnsidered the funniest?
A What a shark-ing sight!
B. Just ut fr a quick bite.
C. I think that red car might be lst. It just keeps circling.
D. Car pling!
24. Which f the fllwing will win the mst mney if it is chsen?
A. A funny captin.B. A real-life laugh r jke.
C. An article abut smart pets r wildlife.D. A true and encuraging stry.
25. Where can we read the text?
A. On a business website.B. In a magazine.
C. In a textbk.D. In a travel guide.
B
Sending astrnauts t Mars is a big challenge. Astrnauts will have t take everything they need, including fd, air and water. The rm inside the spaceship is t limited t hld many things. S packing a spaceship is a huge challenge fr a trip t Mars.
Six astrnauts n an eight-mnth trip t Mars will need at least 18,000 kilgrams f water fr drinking and washing. They’ll als need water t prtect themselves frm space rays which can pass right thrugh spaceship walls and harm astrnauts’ living cells. But a layer f water placed arund the ship can stp the harm.
That’s a lt f water. And sending water int space is t expensive. It csts $33,000 t send ne cup f water t Mars. The mre yu take, the mre it csts. We have the technlgy t get t Mars, but the prblem is that it’s t expensive.
But Flynn, an engineer at NASA, thinks he has a way f slving the prblem. Instead f building a heavy spaceship and packing it full f stuff (物料), why nt use the stuff as part f the spaceship?
Imagine a spaceship that blws up like a balln. Inside, the walls have pckets like a big hneycmb (蜂巢). These hld lts f plastic bags filled with water, dried fd and algae (水藻). All these make hard walls and great radiatin (辐射) prtectin. And stpping radiatin desn’t influence the fd r water itself—it’s safe t eat and drink. And what if the same water culd be reused again and again? Flynn and his team call their packed-pcket idea Water Walls.
Making xygen and taking away CO2—the waste gas yu breathe ut—is anther prblem in space. “Water Walls will take away CO2 the same way it’s dne here n ur Earth—with living plants,” Flynn says. Living plants take in CO2 t make their fd, and give ff xygen. “Plants are hard t grw in a spacecraft, s we use algae,” he says.
Algae are tiny plants that live in water. The algae will live in bags in the walls t, fed by human waste and sunlight, eating up CO2 and making xygen fr the astrnauts t breathe.
Flynn thinks his nbard recycling system has many advantages. He hpes it will help make flying t Mars a reality very sn.
26. What des the underlined phrase “packing a spaceship” in paragraph 1 mst prbably mean?
A. repairing things in a spaceshipB. recycling things in a spaceship
C. checking things in a spaceshipD. putting things int a spaceship
27. What is the advantage f Flynn’s system?
A. Cst is saved.B. Travelling time is saved.
C. Plastic bags are saved.D. Fd is saved.
28. What is ne purpse f Flynn’s idea f Water Walls?
A. T prevent space rays during the space trip.B. T make the whle spaceship strnger.
C. T cntrl the temperature in the spaceship.D. T prduce water in the spaceship.
29. Why are algae put in the plastic bags?
A T prevent water frm being plluted.B. T serve as fd fr astrnauts.
C. T prvide xygen fr astrnauts.D. T help ther plants grw in a spaceship.
C
When Singaprean Tng Weiqiang watched Hng Kng wuxia dramas mre than 10 years ag, he was greatly impressed. He then pineered a lcal mvement t supprt hanfu, r traditinal Chinese clthes, and started the Han Cultural Sciety f Singapre in 2012 t attract mre fans. “Many peple in ur cultural sciety first learned abut hanfu frm these Chinese wuxia dramas,” he tld China Daily.
In recent years, with the increased ppularity f Chinese culture thrugh dramas and nline literature, wuxia-related cntent has started t regain ppularity with viewers all ver the wrld, including thse in Sutheast Asia, Accrding t China Daily, Wuxiawrld, a web nvel site started by Chinese-American Lai Jingping in 2014, attracts millins f page views per day frm users in mre than 100 cuntries.
One reasn fr its ppularity is that wuxia wrks bring them fresh new experiences. The ecnmies (经济) f many Sutheast Asian cuntries are based n agriculture. As China Daily mentined, what really interests them is the different lifestyles f wuxia heres they have never experienced.
New thughts and ideas in wuxia wrks als help it g a step further abrad. Unlike traditinal wuxia, the mdern frm f wuxia which has gained ppularity in Sutheast Asia is a brader idea that includes xianxia and xuanhuan.
But there’s ne thing that never changes-its cre (核心) spirit. Mixing the Chinese characters “wu” and “xia” these wrks always keep the spirit f the Chinese heres fighting against scial injustice (不公正) and beating bad peple, nted the Interact Kungfu website.
“Althugh wuxia is a special part f Chinese culture, the cre spirit f pursuing (追求) freedm and justice is generally accepted by peple all ver the wrld,” Lily Lee, president f Yu-Clud which perates AppGrwing, tld China Daily.
30. Why des the writer tell the stry f Tng Weiqiang?
A. T prvide the backgrund.B. T raise up the questin.
C. T lead int the main tpic.D. T intrduce the main character.
31. Which f the fllwing is ne reasn fr wuxia’s ppularity?
A. Peple’s wishes t change thers’ lifestyles.
B. The ecnmic cnditins f different cuntries.
C. The differences between xianxia and xuanhuan.
D. The acceptance f wuxia's cre spirit acrss the wrld.
32. What is the best title f this article?
A. A Wide Wrld f WuxiaB. A Special Part f Wuxia
C. The Cre Spirit f WuxiaD. The New Meaning f Wuxia
D
Scientists wh study happiness have evidence (证据) t shw that being kind t thers can result in happiness. Acts as simple as buying a cup f cffee fr smene can lift a persn’s md, fr example. Everyday life is full f chances fr such actins, yet peple d nt always make the mst f them.
In studies, behaviral scientist Nichlas Epley and I examined a pssible explanatin: peple wh d kind acts underestimate (低估) hw much the nes receiving kindness value their behavir.
In the experiments (实验), abut 1, 000 peple were asked t d sme actins t make smene else feel gd. We asked bth the persn perfrming (执行) the kind act and the ne receiving it t answer sme questins. The perfrmers were asked t reprt their wn experience and t guess hw the receivers might feel. We wanted t understand hw valuable peple cnsidered these acts t be, s bth the perfrmer and receiver had t rate (评分) hw “big” the act seemed. In all cases, we cmpared the perfrmer’s expectatins f the receiver’s md with the receiver’s actual (实际的) experience.
Fr ne, bth perfrmers and receivers experienced mre psitive (积极的) mds. Fr anther, the receivers felt much better than the kind perfrmers expected. The receivers als rated these acts as “bigger” than the peple perfrming them did.
At first, we studied acts f the kindness dne fr familiar peple, such as friends, classmates r family. But we fund that perfrmers underestimated their psitive influences n strangers as well. In ne experiment, perfrmers in a public park gave away ht chclate n a cld winter’s day t peple that just happened t be nearby. Again, the kind act brught mre happiness than the perfrmers expected.
These findings suggest that what might seem small culd matter a great deal t the persn we d it fr. Cnsidering these warm actins can imprve ur wn md and brighten the day f anther persn, why nt chse kindness when we can?
33. What did the receivers d in the experiments?
A. They shwed kindness t thers.
B. They guessed the perfrmers’ feelings.
C. They rated hw valuable the perfrmers’ act f kindness was.
D. They cmpared the perfrmers’ expectatins with their actual results.
34. What is paragraph 5 mainly abut?
A. Different purpses f the research.B. Mre evidence fr the research results.
C. Pssible influences f the research findings.D. Anther explanatin f the research methds.
35. What is the writer’s attitude (态度) twards shwing kindness t thers?
A. Supprtive.B. Unclear.C. Dubtful.D. Uninterested.
36. What is the main idea f this article?
A. Being kind can reduce ne’s happiness as expected.
B. Kindness can have unexpectedly psitive influences.
C. Chsing kindness is mre difficult than expected.
D. Shwing kindness is mre valuable than receiving it.
四、还原信息（共4小题；每小题1. 5分，满分6分）
阅读下面短文，从短文后所给的六个选项中选出四个可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
Years ag, I interviewed a successful advertising man. ____37____ I never believed he culd make it. Abut ten years later, hwever, I was surprised t see the man n TV, hlding up his new bk. He has published mre than 100 best sellers.
His ability t see himself as a writer shws a cncept (理念) knwn as “pssible selves.” It describes hw peple picture their future life: what they may becme, r want t becme, r even fear t becme.
____38____ What yu imagine can cme true if yu build a bridge frm yur “nw” self t yur pssible self. But hw d we build that bridge? Here are a few steps yu can try.
First f all, just take actin. If yu’re dreaming f a certain jb, attend a curse, fllw smene wh des what yu want t d and start by taking up that type f wrk as a hbby r a side jb. Yu shuld tell yurself that these are the steps yu can take t achieve that gal (目标).
A study f adults aged between 23 and 72 fund that mre than 70 percent f thse wh sent weekly prgress t a friend cmpleted their gals, twice the percentage f thse wh didn’t share written gals. S secndly, when yu have a gal, share it. ____39____ That finding held true fr all gals.
Finally, try lking tward peple yu knw nly by chance fr advice, r thse with whm yu haven’t spken in years. A lt f research has fund that when yu’re asking fr valuable advice, peple in yur larger netwrk are mre likely (可能) t help yu than thse clsest t yu. ____40____
A. Ask yur best friends t share their gals.
B. A pssible self can take yu beynd daydreams.
C. He tld me that he dreamed f being a writer in fact.
D. S, reach ut t yur weak cnnectins fr it when needed.
E. He always imagined himself as the mst successful businessman.
F. Mre friends knwing abut yur gal makes it mre likely t be achieved.
五、综合填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Dear Millie,
Yu asked me abut the Dragn Bat Festival. Nw let me tell yu smething abut it.
The Dragn Bat Festival is a traditinal Chinese festival we Chinese ____41____ (celebrate) fr ver 2, 000 years. It’s ne f the three mst imprtant lunar festivals in China, alng with the Spring Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. The Dragn Bat Festival takes place n the ____42____ (twenty-tw) f June this year.
Thrughut the years, many stries have been tld abut the ____43____ (begin) f this festival. Amng them, ____44____ (famus) ne is abut Qu Yuan, a well-knwn schlar in ancient China. He nt nly ____45____ (write) gd pems but als gave suggestins t the king. ____46____ he devted himself t his cuntry, the king didn’t like him. This great persn drwned (溺水) himself in the Milu River n the 5th day f the 5th Chinese lunar mnth because his Chu State fell t Qin State. Lcal peple tried t save him r find his bdy, but they didn’t ____47____ (success). Qu Yuan was later cnsidered as ____48____ natinal her. T remember him, every fifth day f the fifth lunar mnth, peple beat drums and g bat racing n the river as they nce did ____49____ (keep) fish away frm his bdy.
Dragn bat racing is ne f the mst imprtant custms Chinese peple practice t celebrate the Dragn Bat Festival. This activity ____50____ (hld) widely in China’s suthern and sutheastern areas where there are lts f rivers and lakes.
Lts f lve,
Wendy
六、根据所给中文完成句子（共6小题；每小题1. 5分，满分9分）
51. 迈克已经承诺会为同学们发书。
Mike ________________________________________________ t his classmates.
52. 乡村音乐听起来和摇滚音乐一样让人激动吗？
________________________________________________ rck music?
53. 我想知道你的亲戚们去海南度假有多久了。
I wnder ________________________________________________.
54. 幸运的是，这场大火被及时扑灭了。
_______________________________________________________
55. 吉姆和他的双胞胎兄弟的方向感都不好。
Neither Jim ________________________________________________.
56. 这幅画有着永恒的价值，因此它值得保存。
The painting ________________________________________________.
七、书面表达（共1题；满分15分）
57. 当前，有些学生忽视倾听的作用，针对该情况，请你根据要点提示，用英语写一篇短文向校英文报投稿，阐述倾听的重要性。
要点：
1.在学校生活中要倾听及理由；
2.在日常生活中要倾听及理由。
注意：
1.文中不得出现你的真实姓名和学校名称；
2.词数100左右；文章的开头已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Listening carefully plays an imprtant rle in ur life.
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常州市二O二三年初中学业水平考试
英语试题
注意事项：
1.本试卷共8页，全卷满分为90分。考试时间为100分钟。考生须将答案书写在答题卡上，写在试卷上的一律无效。
2.答题前，考生务必将自己的姓名、考试号填写在试卷上，并填写答题卡上的考生信息。考试结束后，请将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
一、单项选择（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
从题中所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
【1题答案】
【答案】B
【2题答案】
【答案】C
【3题答案】
【答案】A
【4题答案】
【答案】B
【5题答案】
【答案】A
【6题答案】
【答案】D
【7题答案】
【答案】D
【8题答案】
【答案】A
【9题答案】
【答案】D
【10题答案】
【答案】C
二、完形填空（共12小题；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、C、D四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
【11~22题答案】
【答案】11. A 12. C 13. D 14. B 15. A 16. A 17. C 18. B 19. D 20. D 21. B 22. C
三、阅读理解（共14小题；每小题2分，满分28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，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
A
【23~25题答案】
【答案】23. B 24. D 25. B
B
【26~29题答案】
【答案】26. D 27. A 28. A 29. C
C
【30~32题答案】
【答案】30. C 31. D 32. A
D
【33~36题答案】
【答案】33. C 34. B 35. A 36. B
四、还原信息（共4小题；每小题1. 5分，满分6分）
【37~40题答案】
【答案】37. C 38. B 39. F 40. D
五、综合填空（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
【41~50题答案】
【答案】41. have celebrated
42. twenty-secnd
43. beginning
44. the mst famus
45. wrte 46. Thugh##Althugh
47. succeed
48. a 49. t keep
50 is held
六、根据所给中文完成句子（共6小题；每小题1. 5分，满分9分）
【51题答案】
【答案】has prmised t give ut bks
【52题答案】
【答案】Des cuntry music sund as exciting as
【53题答案】
【答案】hw lng yur relatives have been n vacatin t Hainan
【54题答案】
【答案】Luckily, the fire was put ut in time.
【55题答案】
【答案】nr his twin brther has a gd sense f directin
【56题答案】
【答案】has a lasting value, s it’s wrth keeping
七、书面表达（共1题；满分15分）
【57题答案】
【答案】例文
Listening carefully plays an imprtant rle in ur life.
In class, we shuld listen t teachers carefully. It can nt nly help us have a better understanding f what the teachers say, but als it can imprve learning efficiency. What’s mre, we shuld listen t ur classmates carefully. It can shw that we are listening t ur classmates and we care abut them s that it can strengthen ur relatinship.
We shuld be gd listeners at hme. We shuld listen t ur parents carefully in rder t knw abut ur parents’ ideas and avid arguing with each ther.
In a wrd, listening t thers carefully is imprtant in ur daily life, s we shuld learn t becme gd listeners.
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Cme up with the funniest captin (文字说明) fr the fllwing pht and yu culd win $100.
T enter, email asiaeditr@
Or see details belw
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Write: Reader’s Digest Asia, Editrial
Department, Singapre Pst Centre,
PO Bx 272, Singapre, 914010
Online: rdasia.cm/cntribute
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Fr last mnth’s cmpetitin, we gt the fllwing interesting captins:
1. What a shark-ing sight!
By Jessica Cheng Hui Min
2. Just ut fr a quick bite.
By Chris Rams
3. I think that red car might be lst. It just keeps circling.
By Adam Williams
4. Car pling!
By Sukhdeep Singh
The winner f last mnth’s was Chris Rams.
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