常州市二〇二二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題卡上，写在试卷上的一律无效。2.答题前, 考生务必将自己的姓名、考试证号填写在试卷上，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。1. —How ________ this question is! I’ve spent two hours on it.—Let me help you!A. practicalB. generalC. difficultD. natural2. —________ does your school organize an English Reading Festival?—Once a term.A. How oftenB. How oldC. How longD. How soon3. Learning is a life-long journey, for it brings us ________ new every day.A. everythingB. nothingC. anythingD. something4. To achieve our dream, we ________ rest on what we have done.A. may notB. should notC. need notD. could not5. —Why didn’t you open the door for me, Jim?—I ________ clothes in the bathroom. I didn’t hear the knock.A. am washingB. have washedC. was washingD. washed6. The summer vacation is coming. Don’t swim in the lake, ________ when you are alone.A. probablyB. possiblyC. especiallyD. exactly7. Although the match is moving in an unexpected ________, our team will win finally, I believe.A. instructionB. introductionC. positionD. direction8. If you want to keep healthy, going to bed early and getting up early is highly ________.A. recommendedB. challengedC. translatedD. influenced9. —Mum, do you know ________? An engineer.—That’s interesting. I guess you often fix things for others in your school.A. what do my classmates call meB. what my classmates call meC. why do my classmates call meD. why my classmates call me10. —It’s necessary for us to spend more time with our grandparents.—________. They won’t see us often after we go to college.A. I hope notB. I think soC. I’m sorryD. I’m not sure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。The three men were moving down a fast and rocky river. Thornton was in the boat, while Hans and Pete had to move along the river bank, holding the boat with a rope. Buck, the dog, followed them, keeping a(n) ____11____ eye on Thornton.They came to a more ____12____ part of the river, and the boat started to go too quickly. Hans pulled on the rope to stop it, but pulled it too hard. The boat ____13____, and Thornton was thrown into the water.Buck jumped in at once and swam three hundred meters until he ____14____ Thornton. Then Buck returned, with Thornton holding his tail. Buck swam towards the river bank. But they moved ____15____. Thornton knew they would not get to the bank quickly enough, so he let go of Buck, held on to a rock in the middle of the water, and ____16____, “Go, Buck, go!”Buck swam as hard as he could to the bank, and Pete and Hans pulled him out.It was hard for Thornton to hold ...
