9A2023年江苏省南京市秦淮区中考一模英语试卷.docx

2023年江苏省南京市秦淮区中考一模英语试卷二、完形填空(共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分)阅读下面短文，从短文后所给各题的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。I used to think the whole purpose of life was looking for happiness. What truly makes people happy? What I discovered changed my life. Looking for happiness may make people stressed and.16.Even though life is getting better by nearly every standard, more people feel hopeless, sad and alone. According to the research, what causes this is not a lack(缺乏) of happiness but a lack of having .17inlife. Many psychologists(心理学家) think of happiness as feeling comfortable or good in the moment. Meaning, though, is deeper. The famous psychologist Marin Seligman says meaning comes from belonging (归属感),achieving something beyond yourself and 18 from the best inside you. Belonging, purpose, transcendence(超越),telling storiesthese are the four parts of meaning. We need to build them inside our families and organizations to help people19an excellent person. But living a meaningful life takes work. There's a long way to go. As each day goes by, we're creating our lives,20to our story. I remember a powerful experience I had with my father. Several months after I graduated from college, my dad had a21heart attack. He survived, and when I asked him what was going through his mind as he faced death, he said all he could think about was needing to live,22he could be there for my brother and me, and this gave him the courage to fight for life. When doctors were giving him anoperation,hedidn'tfeelafraid.23,he repeated our names. He wanted our names to be the last words he spoke on earth if he died. My dad lives a common, but a good life. Lying there facing death, he hada24to live: love. His sense of belonging inside his family, his purpose as a dad, his unusual thinking, repeating our namesthese are why he survived. That's the story he tells himself. That's the25of meaning. Happiness comes and goes. But whether life is good or bad, having meaning gives you something to hold on to.16. A. amazedB. cheerfulC. unhappyD. comfortable17. A. abilityB. meaningC. progressD. direction18. A. hidingB. acceptingC. promisingD. developing19. A. doB. makeC. inventD. succeed20.A. addingB. changingC. attendingD. continuing21. A. crazyB. gentleC. unknownD. serious22. A. soB. butC. thoughD. whether23. A. HoweverB. InsteadC. PerhapsD. Otherwise24. A. chanceB. reasonC. attentionD. beginning25. A. powerB. symbolC. secretD. method2022年江苏省南京市秦淮区中考一模英语试卷二、完形填空You could see mountains, craters and valleys if you looked at the Moon through a telescope（望远镜）. Galileo was the first person to see these things through a telescope. He is _16_ as the farther of modern science. Galileo was great not only for his _17_, but for the scientific methods he developed.Galileo did not invent the telescope. It was first made by a Dutchman in 1608 and later Galileo _18_ the design. So he was able to study the stars and planets _19_. Some people call him the first astronomer（天文学家）. His telescope made things appear larger by much more times.As he studied the sky, Galileo _20_ that the planets circle around the sun. He was not the first person to believe this, but he was the first to prove details of this fact. People of that time believed that the Earth was the _21_ of the universe（宇宙）and everything in space moved around the Earth. Galileo got into trouble with the government for saying that what they believed was _22_. He had to take back what he said, or he would be in prison.Galileos work went _23_ an astronomer. He was an inventor as well. He made the first thermometer（温度计）. His thermometer didnt tell the temperatures exactly, _24_ it could show if a temperature was higher or lower or the same as another temperature.Galileo thought about the world in a _25_ way. Before Galileo, people did not run experiments or test out their ideas. He is one of the first real scientists.16ArealizedBdesignedCconsideredDencouraged17AdreamsBintroductionsCdiscoveriesDinstructions18ArecordedBimprovedCpresentedDtranslated19AcalmlyBcloselyCnearlyDgently20AprovedBhopedCpromisedDimagined21ApartBcornerCsurfaceDcentre22AtrueBusefulCwrongDcommon23AafterBacrossCthroughDbeyond24AsoBandCbutDsince25AnewBusualCnarrowDdifficult