2021年湖北省荆门市中考英语真题及答案解析

阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的A、B、C和D四个选项中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。 One Friday night, a poor art student Joseph was playing the violin at New York subway station. In front of him was a [21] with a few dollars. He needed some more money for his tuition(学费). Joseph was playing his last piece of music when a middle-aged man who looked excited [22] and put a 50-dollar banknote(钞票) into the hat. Joseph nodded to the man [23]. The next [24], Joseph came to the same place as usual. [25] from the night before, he took out a large piece of paper and laid it on the ground. The paper said, “Last night, a gentleman put something unexpected into my hat [26]. Please come to get it.” Interested, many passers-by stopped, wondering what the unexpected thing could be. Just then, a man [27] through the crowd to Joseph and shouted excitedly, “Thank God you’re here. I knew you are a(n) [28] man.” “Did you lose something, sir?” asked Joseph. The man nodded “Yes, a lottery ticket.” Joseph took out a ticket, “Is this one [29]?” The gentleman [30] the ticket and then hugged Joseph tightly saying “Thank you, thank you, young man.” It turned out that the middle-aged man [31] the ticket the other day and was excited to find that he was the lucky [32] of $100,000. Overjoyed, he took out a [33] banknote and put it in Joseph’s hat on his way home. [34], the lottery ticket was also thrown in. When Joseph found it was a winning lottery ticket, he decided to return it to the owner. To thank Joseph, the owner [35] him $500 as a gift. Joseph’s honesty paid off.

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容（1个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式(不超过3个单词）。 Tea is the leaf of a plant which grows widely in China. It is our national drink and tea-drinking is one of the daily activities of Chinese people. In China, ___[36]___ a visitor comes, he is served with a cup of tea. Tea-drinking has ___[37]___ history of over 4,000 years. According to Tea Classics by Lu Yu, tea was discovered by Shen Nong, and became a drink in the State of Lu because of Zhou Gong. According to a legend, Shen Nong tasted hundreds of wild plants ___[38]___ (stop) people from eating poisonous (有毒的) plants. One day, he was poisoned by an unknown plant but ___[39]___ (save) by eating leaves of an evergreen plant. Later, people called the leaves that saved his life “Cha (tea)”. Drinking tea does good to people in many ways. When people are tired, they feel better after drinking a cup of tea. Compared with people who don’t drink tea, tea drinkers are likely to enjoy a ___[40]___ (long) life. It is said that drinking tea can also help fat people lose weight.