2025年中考第二次模拟考试
英语
答题注意事项
1.本试卷共8页，满分100分，考试时间120分钟。
2.请将答案写在答题卡上，写在试卷或草稿纸上无效。
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第一卷（选择题，共60分）
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. Visitors didn’t realize the beauty of Suqian ______ they came here.
A. if B. until C. because D. after
2. Our monitor never shows off, so all the classmates think he is very ________.
A. generous B. patient C. modest D. creative
3. I invited my friends to the King Xiang’s Hometown yesterday. We enjoyed ______ there.
A. themselves B. ourselves C. yourselves D. herself
4. The man who saved a child from fire was ______ praised because of his bravery.
A. hardly B. quietly C. quickly D. highly
5. Please follow the ______ and you will use the new type of washing machine.
A. instructions B. instruments C. inventions D. introductions
6. — ______ big success you achieve! I’m really proud of you.
— Yes. I’m really thankful to all my teachers who are thinking about our future.
A. What a B. How a C. What D. How
7 —Look! The man looks like Mr Li.
—It ______ be him because he has been in Canada for a week.
A. can’t B. needn’t C. mustn’t D. shouldn’t
8. —Mary has been ill for a week.
—Oh, I didn’t know. I ______ to the hospital to see her this afternoon.
A. went B. have gone C. will go D. was going
9 — Our English teacher has recommended many books. Have you decided ______?
— Yes. This Saturday.
A. how you’d like to borrow them B. which you’d like to read first
C. when you’d like to buy them D. where you’d like to find them
10. —Excuse me, could you show me how to download DeepSeek on my phone?
—________. I’ll teach you as soon as my project is finished.
A. Never mind B. With pleasure C. That’s all right D. That’s not the case
二、完形填空（共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分）
During the Warring States Period (475—221 BC), King Zhao of the State of Yan (燕昭王) wanted to beat the State of Qi. He decided to get talented people to ____11____ for him. When he asked a knowledgeable man named Guo Wei for ____12____, Guo told him the story of buying horse bones with 500 pieces of gold.
There was once a king ____13____ wanted a special kind of horse. This special kind of horse could ____14____ 1,000 li a day. It was called qianlima. The king sent many people to find these horses and buy them ____15____ him. After three years, nobody found him such a horse.
One day, someone new ____16____ to help. Within three months, he heard about a qianlima. He hurried to find it, ____17____ the horse had already died. Still, he bought the bones of the horse with 500 pieces of gold.
The king said ____18____ and wanted to kill him. “What I want is a live horse, not the bones of a dead horse!”
The man replied calmly, “Imagine this. You’re willing to pay a high price for a dead horse, let alone a live one. This shows people you truly wish to buy the horses. Just ____19____, and the horses you want will come very soon.”
That was ____20____. Very soon, many qianlima owners ____21____ their horses to the king.
