2023 年江苏南通中考英语真题及答案
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第Ⅰ卷(选择题 共 60 分)
第Ⅰ卷共 45 小题,请将答案按要求填涂在答题卡上。
一、单项选择(本题共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 15 分)
从 A、B、C、D 四个选项中,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。
1. As a student in modern China, everybody should work hard to live ________
meaningful life.
A. a
B. an
C. the
D. 不填
2. Shenzhou 16 was sent up into space ________ the morning of May 30, 2023.
A. in
B. on
C. at
D. from
3. —It’s neither too cold nor too hot all year round in Kunming, making ________
a perfect place to live in or visit.
—Right. I went there last year.
A. that
B. one
C. this
D. it
4. —Our English teacher is very confident. And he is always ready to ________ a
challenge.
—So he is. We all like him.
A. touch
B. choose
C. discuss
D. accept
5. The first Nobel Prize was presented to a German scientist for the discovery of
rays, which are ________ used to look for problems inside our bodies.
A. quiet
B. successfully
C. hardly
D. gently
6. ________ you can’t work out the problem, perhaps you need to ask your classmates
for help.
A. Unless
Whether
B. Though
C. Since
D.
7. —Life is like a road. It isn’t always ________.
—I can’t agree more. So we should learn to deal with all kinds of difficulties.
A. smooth
special
B. silent
C. serious
D.
8. —________ are easily made, but not easily kept.
—That’s true. Once you make one, be sure to keep it.
A. Speeches
B. Decisions
C. Promises
D.
Suggestions
9. The wind energy costs very little and will never ________. Besides, it produces
little pollution.
A. blow out
B. run out
C. put out
D. break
out
10. —Excuse me, ________ is the Gengsu Theatre from this hotel?
—It’s about ten minutes if you take a taxi.
A. how far
B. how long
C. how soon
D. how
much
11. If a football team wants to enter the World Cup, it ________ become a member
of FIFA first.
A. may
B. must
C. can
D. might
12. ________ healthy, we’ve got used to washing hands before meals and using public
chopsticks.
A. Keeping
B. Keep
C. To keep
D. To
keeping
13. ________ it was to see the main sights of the world in the World Park!
A. How amazing day
B. How an amazing day
C. What amazing day
D. What an amazing day
14. —Mike, your first Dragon Boat Festival in China is coming. Shall we celebrate
it together?
—I’d love to, but could you tell me ________?
A. what is the meaning of the festival
B. where we would have the celebration
C. how you usually celebrate the festival
D. when is this year’s Dragon Boat Festival
15. —Thinking creatively and trying bravely are very important to young people.
—________. They’re valuable qualities.
A. Great
better not
B. That’s all right
C. Exactly
D. You’d
二、完形填空(本题共 15 小题;每小题 1 分,满分 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。
Jatto’s mother was doing housework while Jatto was reading a book aloud in
English. Jatto didn’t always like ____16____ to his mother. She spoke only Esan,
one of the languages in Nigeria. Wasn’t it a waste of time to read to someone who
couldn’t understand? His mother didn’t even realize when he made ____17____. Still,
she insisted he read aloud every day.
“Let’s bottle nuts when you finish reading,” she said in Esan.
Jatto shook his head. He had so much homework to do. “I’ll never finish
reading.”
Jatto said “never” in English because there was no word for never in Esan.
“What’s ‘never’?” she asked.
Jatto cleared his throat to ____18____ the English word. “It means I won’t
stop reading today, tomorrow, or ____19____.” He drew circles in the air. “Nor
the day after the day after tomorrow, the day after the day after, the day after …”
“Oh, OK! That’s forever,” his mother said.
Jatto stared at the nuts. Each one looked delicious.
Now would be a ____20____ time to eat some. But he couldn’t ask. He remembered
the ____21____ he’d drawn in the air.
Jatto’s mother whistled. Tam-tam, their cow, came up to them. Jatto could
____22____ cow-milk air as his mother milked her. Tam-tam’s milk was the best he’d
ever tasted.
Jatto needed to take his mind off the ____23____. “Mama, why do you make me
read to you even though you don’t understand?”
“I want you to practice speaking English often,” she said.
“I can practice English in my head,” he said, not ____24____.
His mother smiled. “We share our stories aloud with others, not in our heads
where ____25____ can hear them.”
Jatto nodded. He’d learned about that in school.
She decided to tell him a story and handed him some nuts and milk. “You can
eat ____26____ I talk.”
He ate as she started. Soon, Jatto was singing the story with his mother.
“You never tell me stories,” he said when they stopped ____27____.
She sighed. “I used to, but when you started school, I wanted you to focus on
English.”
“I make a lot of mistakes when I read to you,” Jatto said.
His mother ____28____. “I guessed so. But I like hearing the sound of your voice
while I work.”
Jatto knew what she meant. He had enjoyed listening to her story as he bottled
the nuts. It made the work seem ____29____. “I have an idea,” he said. “Next time,
I will read a story to you in English, then I will tell you the same story in Esan.
We can even make up songs together.”
“Great! And I will tell you stories in Esan and you can say them back to me
in English. Let’s ‘never’ stop ____30____ stories.”
Jatto smiled. His mother’s understanding of never was even better than his own.
16. A. talking
B. reading
C. replying
D.
listening
17. A. mistakes
B. jokes
C. efforts
D. noises
18. A. speak
B. pronounce
C. organize
D.
explain
19. A. the day before
B. the last day
C. the day after
D. in the
future
20. A. good
B. free
C. busy
21. A. nuts
B. bottles
C. circles
22. A. see
23. A. milk
B. smell
B. cow
24. A. alone
B. aloud
directly
C. feel
C. story
C. kindly
25. A. nobody
B. somebody
C. anybody
everybody
D. bad
D. cows
D. hear
D. food
D.
D.
26. A. before
B. while
C. after
D. until
27. A. saying
B. eating
C. singing
chatting
28. A. shouted
B. cried
C. praised
laughed
29. A. easier
B. slower
C. heavier
shorter
30. A. practicing
B. telling
C. sharing
writing
三、阅读理解(本题共 15 小题;每小题 2 分,满分 30 分)
D.
D.
D.
D.
请认真阅读下列短文,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。
A
There is nothing wrong with having an accent (口音). In fact, most native English
speakers won’t care if you do. You should feel confident about your accent! But
as you improve your language abilities, losing your accent might be something you’ve
started to think about. And, if you’re entering the workforce in an English speaking
environment, it is important to get your pronunciation to a level that native
speakers can understand without difficulty. So, here, we’re looking at some tips
to help you sound like a native speaker.
Speak slowly and clearly
Learn the schwa skillfully
Pay close attention to getting your
The schwa is a vowel which sounds like
words out clearly and speaking slowly as
“uh”. English speakers pronounce many
you go. When your pronunciation gets
other vowel sounds as the schwa. Learning
better, you can speed up your speaking
when to exchange them can make your
speed.
English sound more natural.
Use “He” and “She” correctly
Fall tone and rise tone fluently
Make sure that you call men “he”
In English, the meaning of what you
and women “she”. If you mix them up, it
say can change based on the way you say
can be confusing (混淆的) for your
it. Make sure to work on your falling and
listeners and it is a giveaway that you
rising tones so that your meaning is
are not a native speaker.
communicated clearly.
Learning how to sound like a native speaker can be a hard task. But it’s
something you’ll have to do on your language learning journey. If you want to improve
your pronunciation, the tips above will be of great value to you.
31. What should you do to make your English sound more natural?
A. Speak slowly and clearly.
B. Use “He” and “She”
correctly.
C. Learn the schwa skillfully.
D. Fall and rise your tone
fluently.
32. What’s the purpose of this passage?
A. To suggest what a native English speaker should do.
B. To suggest what you should do to sound like a native speaker.
C. To explain why there is nothing wrong with having an accent.
D. To explain why your pronunciation is always of great importance.
33. Where can you probably read this passage?
A. In a novel.
C. In an advertisement.
B. In a storybook.
D. In a magazine.
B
The Drama Festival will run in and outside China from June 20 to July 7.
Sixty-five works will be put on both in theaters and online. “The festival is all
about imagination connecting drama with the latest technology,” says Liu Chang,
manager of the festival, who is also a drama director. Technology has improved design,
performances and so on. Artists like Liu aren’t sure if the new technology can take
drama to the future.
A Chinese play directed by Meng Jinghui, inspired (赋予灵感) by the two-part
drama Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, will be on as the opening play of the
festival. In the first half of the play, Meng introduces the story to 400 real
audiences (观众) sitting in the Fengchao Theater in Beijing. The second half of the
play will have more audiences, who use their cellphones, computers and headsets to
be part of the play online.
Zhang Zhouxiang is a director full of imagination. His work, inspired by
Hieronymus Bosch’s painting The Garden of Earthly Delights, will be shown from June
30 to July 2. Supported by AI, audiences can explore the fictitious scene, similar
to the feeling in the real world, as the painting describes.
“The stage (舞台) design is done by AI, which is like an assistant realizing
the ideas of me and my team,” says Liu, “Now I try to use the latest technology,
such as ChatGPT, to write the script, and I am still working on it because the language
model is difficult to understand.”
Now technology is playing a more and more important role. Many artists want to
use it to improve drama. They are very interested in the relationship between people
and the latest technology, especially when connected in drama—a scene to dream.
34. Which of the following is true according to this passage?
A. Liu doubts whether technology can greatly improve drama.
B. Meng’s two-part drama Faust will be on at the opening.
C. Audiences can explore the scene of Liu’s work by AI.
D. Liu has managed to write the script by ChatGPT.
35. What does the underlined word “fictitious” mean in Paragraph 3?
A. colorful
B. unreal
C. fantastic
D. boring
36. What is the structure of this passage? (1=Paragraph 1, 2-Paragraph 2…)
A.
B.
C.
D.
37. What is the best title of this passage?
A. A drama festival
B. Human imagination
C. Drama of the future
D. AI-assisted technology
C
Climate change (气候变化) has brought a serious warning to the living areas of
the Siberian crane, increasing the need to better protect the birds and their
migratory channels (迁徙路径), an expert said.
The Siberian crane breeds (繁殖) in northeast Siberia in Russia and flies to