2020年广州市初中毕业生学业考试
英语
本试卷共四大题，12页，满分110分。考试时间120分钟。
注意事项：
1.答卷前，考生务必在答题卡上用黑字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、考点考场号、座位号，再用2B铅笔把对应这两个号码的标号涂黑。
2.选择题每小題选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑。如需要改动，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他答案。不能答在试卷上。
3.非选择题必须用黑字迹的钢笔或签字笔作答，答案必须写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，改动的答案也不能超出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液。不按以上要求作答的答案无效。
4.考生必须保持答题卡的整洁，考试结東，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。
一、语法选择(共15小题；每小题1分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，从1~15各题所给的A、
B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th century. In his short life he wrote-1 300 songs and an opera.
Xian was bom in Panyu, Guangdong, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with-2 mother. He began learning to play_  3  violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was cheap and badly made that he_ 5 not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop  6    and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students_7 studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he    8    , Xian became the schools best student   9     won several prizes for his talents.
In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came t
o Yan'an  10    music at a college.    11    there were no pianos in Yan'an at that time Xian still wrote   12    of his most important music there, including The Yellow River, his most famous work.
In May 1940, Xian   13    to the Soviet Union by the Chinese Communist Party to write music for movies. In the Soviet Union, life was very   14    . Xian got sick and later died of a lung illness   15    October 30, 1945, aged only 40. Xian's music, however, lives on in the people's hearts.
1. A. near              B. nearly              C. nearby              D. nearer
2. A. he              B. him              C. his                  D. he’s
3. A. a              B. an                  C. the                  D. this
4. A. so              B. such              C. very                  D. much
5. A. need              B. may              C. should              D. could
6. A. practice          B. practicing          C. to practice          D. practised
7. A. what              B. which              C. whom              D. who
8. A. leave              B. leaves              C. left                  D. was leaving
9. A. and              B. but                  C. as                  D. or
10. A. teach          B. taught              C. teaching              D. to teach
11. A. If              B. Although          C. When              D. Because
12. A. any              B. little              C. few                  D. some
中考成绩13. A sent              B. was sent            C. has sent              D. was sending
14. A hard              B. harder              C. hardest              D. the hardest
15. A. at              B. in                  C. on                  D. by
二、完形填空(共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从16~25各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
Before graduating college, Jackie began to look for a job. She aimed at a famous company, but the   16  for such jobs was very strong. The company Jackie chose planned to employ only one person, but more than twenty people applied for the job. 17  , Jackie was one of the three people invited for the final interview. The interview was very   18_  . The interviewer asked just a few questions and it was all over in less than 10 minutes. Then the interviewer said to them, "All of you are very good. Please go home and   19     our response.”
Three days later, Jackie received a message saying she would not be   20   the job. She felt deeply disappointed. That evening. however she received another   21    . This time it said that she got the job.
Jackie later found out that the first message sent to her phone was part of the interview---a 
  22  to see if she was suitable for the job. All the three people received the_  23  _text, but only Jackie's reply   24   the company Of the three, one did not reply. The other said “goodbye” and Jackie said “thank you”. This reply showed that Jackie was a/an   25  person, so the company offered her the job.
16. A. exam              B. work              C. competition            D. plan
17.A. Thankfully      B. Unluckily          C. Hopefully          D. Immediately
18. A. long              B. strict              C. interesting          D. simple
19. A. pick up          B. wait for              C. deal with          D. think of
20. A. offered          B. returned              C. refused              D. shown
21. A. letter          B. e-mail              C. call              D. message
22. A guide              B. conversation          C. test              D. lesson
23. A. same              B. other              C. second              D. whole
24. A. reached            B. satisfied            C. helped              D. surprised
25. A. brave              B. clever              C. polite              D. honest
三、阅读(共两节:满分45分)
第一节 阅读理解(共20小题;每小题2分,满分40分)
阅读下列短文，从26~45各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
（A）
For his eleventh birthday, Lin was given a gift that would shape his life. On that day his father took him to the Children’s Activity Centre and said he could choose any course that interested him. There was just one requirement: Lin would have to promise to study it for at least one year.
To that point Lin had had many hobbies, but none kept his interest for more than a week or
two. His mum once gave him a bag of stamps to encourage stamp collecting. That hobby lasted a week. Then his father got him some paints hoping that Lin's artistic side would shine through. Those paints were now under his bed, still unopened. This time Lin’s parents would let him decide.