甘肃省兰州市2021年中考英语试题（A卷）（含答案）

2021 年甘肃省兰州市中考英语试卷（A卷） 一、完形填空（共1小题：每小题10分, 满分10分）阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。 Sometimes animals can do strange things. Here are ____1____ true stories about people and animals. A pet lizard was kept in a biology classroom. The students looked after it well ____2____ loved having it in the classroom. However large lizards like being ____3____ and don’t really like lots of people around them all the time, especially noisy girls and boys at school. The large lizard noticed that whenever the alarm bell rang during the school’s practice fire drills （消防演练）, all the children and their teachers ran out of the classroom, leaving the lizard behind, peaceful and ____4____ for a while. Over several weeks, there were quite a few false fire alarms. Someone noticed that every time the alarms went off, the lizard was out of its cage. So, the children decided to ____5____ the lizard. To their surprise, they found that it climbed over to the fire alarm on the back wall and set it off! The lizard just wanted to be left alone. A tourist was driving along a road one evening, he accidentally ran over a kangaroo. The tourist thought that ____6____ would believe him, so he decided to take a photo of the kangaroo. He picked the dead kangaroo up and put it next to the car. He then ____7____ his jacket and sunglasses and put them on the kangaroo to make his photo more interesting. All went well, ____8____ , the kangaroo woke up! It had only been knocked out but not actually dead! As soon as the kangaroo woke up, ____9____ ran away, wearing a jacket, which also included three credit cards （信用卡）, one passport and ＄1,000 in cash! What a _____10_____ kangaroo! 1. A. two B. three C. four D. five 2. A. but B. of C. and D. so 3. A. active B. alive C. awake D. alone 4. A. noisy B. friendly C. quiet D. afraid 5. A. find B. watch C. help D. save 6. A. everyone B. someone C. no one D. anyone 7. A. took off B. handed out C. picked up D. gave away 8. A. recently B. suddenly C. lately D. usually 9. A. they B. you C. we D. it 10. A. lucky B. sad C. careful D. busy 二、阅读理解（共3小题：每小题10分, 满分30分）阅读下面三段材料, 根据材料内容和要求。从题后选项中选择一个最佳答案。 A Everyone knows that China is changing and developing very quickly at the moment. Many young people from home and abroad thought about the changes. The following are some comments which young people made on a website message board. I’m a Chinese student. I’m very proud of China and I’d love to make a real contribution （贡献） to the development of my country. When I finish my training in Canada, I will go back to China and start a business, so I can give something back to the country. I’m a Chinese student in America. My hometown used to be very poor. But it has changed now. Most people in my hometown have a good standard of living and some can now afford cars. I’m very pleased with these changes and very proud of them. ... ...