盐城市康居路初级中学2025届初三年级第三次模拟考试
英语试卷
(卷面总分：120分 考试时间：100分钟)
第Ⅰ卷(选择题 共65分)
一、补全对话(共5小题，每小题2分，共计10分)
根据对话内容，从选项中选择恰当的句子将对话补充完整。
A: Hello, Kate, you look unhappy. ___1___
B: Oh, yesterday I argued with my friend, Rose.
A: What happened? ___2___
B: She agreed to come to my party, but in the end, she didn’t come.
A: ___3___
B: Yes I did. She didn’t come because she had to look after her little sister at home.
A: ___4___
B: Yes. She had a bad cold.
A: I’m sorry to hear that. I think you should say sorry to her.
B: I think so, too. But she is still very angry with me. ___5___
A: Why not visit her with a small gift?
B: That’s a good idea.
A. What should I do?
B. Why did you fight with her?
C. Did you ask her the reason?
D. What’s wrong?
E. Was her sister ill?
二、完型填空(共15小题，每小题1分，共计15分)
请认真阅读下面短文，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。
Every Saturday night, our family gathered around the kitchen table to spend a special night. Mama ____6____ counted the money Papa brought home. “This is for the rent,” she said, ____7____ the big silver coins. “These are for food,” she added, setting aside another group of coins. Then, my sister Christine, my brother Nels, or I might say, “I need a notebook.” Mama would save one or two coins for us, and we watched with worried and curious eyes.
Finally, Papa would ask, “That is ____8____, right?” When Mama nodded, we all felt relaxed. She smiled and said, “Great. We don’t need to go to the bank.” We were so proud of Mama’s Bank Account. It made us feel warm and ____9____, like staying at home on a cold day.
When Nels finished primary school, he wanted to go to high school. “It will cost some money,” he told us. Quickly, we came together around the ____10____. I took out a small box. It was our “Little Bank”. We used it when something ____11____ happened.
Mama counted the money in the Little Bank, but it wasn’t enough. “We shouldn’t use the bank,” she said. We all ____12____.
“I’ll work at Dillon’s grocery store after school,” Nels said. Mama smiled and wrote down how much he could earn. “It’s still not enough,” Papa said. After thinking, he said, “I’ll stop smoking.” Mama reached out and touched Papa’s arm to show she was ____13____. We worked together and finally got enough money. We didn’t need to take money from Mama’s Bank Account. It felt like a big ____14____ for us!
That whole year, the Little Bank helped us many times. It paid for Christine’s ____15____ for the school drama and Nels’s hospital bills. No matter what happened, we felt safe because of the “bank”.
Twenty years passed. Last year, I sold my first story and got a ____16____. I ran to Mama’s house and gave it to her. “Put this in your bank account,” I said.
____17____ I sat there, I saw how old Mama and Papa had become. Papa seemed shorter, and Mama’s black hair was all white now.
“Tomorrow you should take this to the bank,” I told Mama.
“Will you go with me?” she asked, sounding a little ____18____.
“No need. Just give it to the person at the bank, and they will put the money in,” I said.
