2013年湖北省襄阳市中考英语试题及答案文本版(3)

    A. fast            B. faster          C. the fastest       D. most fast
36---How do you like the concert given by F.L.R.?
  ---Exciting, ______ one piece of the music wasn’t played quite well.
    A. though         B. because         C. so             D. and
37---We all went to the cinema except you last night. Why didn’t you come?
  ---Because I ______ that movie twice.
    A. have watched   B. had watched      C. was watching   D. would watch
38---Driving less, walking more is good for our health.
  ---So I’d rather_____ an hour’s walk to work than consider ______ a car.
    A. take, drive      B. take, to drive     C. take, driving   D. taking, driving
39---Don’t you see the sign “No Parking!” on the right?
  ---Sorry, I didn’t. But now I know parking______ here.
    A. wasn’t allowed   B. isn’t allowed    C. won’t allow    D. doesn’t allow
40---Could you tell me_______?
  ---At nine o’clock, in ten minutes.
    A. how will he leave  B. when he has left   C. why he is leaving  D. when he will leave
三、完形填空 （本大题满分10分，每小题1分）
阅读下面的短文，根据短文内容从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中，选出一个可以填入空白处的最佳答案，是短文完整、通顺， 并在答题卡上将该标号涂黑。
Lang Lang is a world-class young pianist who grew up in Shenyang. He went to a piano school in Beijing when he was just eight. “You need fortune(运气), ” his father said. “But 41_____ you work hard, no fortune will come.”
What made him sad was that his piano teacher in Beijing didn’t like him. “You have no 42_____. You will never be a pianist.” As an eight-year-old boy, Lang Lang was badly 43_____. He decided that he didn’t want to be a pianist any more. For the next two weeks, he didn’t touch the piano. Wisely(明智的) his father didn’t 44_____, but wait.
Luckily the day came when his teacher asked him to play some holiday songs. He didn’t want to, but as he placed his fingers on the piano keys, he 45_____ he could show other people that he had ability to do it well. That day he told his father that he wanted to 46_____ with a new teacher. From that point on, everything turned around.
He started 47_____ competitions in the 1994 International Young Pianists Competition when it was announced that Lang Lang had won, he was too 48_____ to hold back his tears. Soon it was clear that he couldn’t stay in China forever—he had to play on the world’s big stages. In 1997 Lang Lang 49_____ again, this time to Philadelphia, US. There he spent two years practicing and by 1999 he had worked hard enough for fortune to take over. After his 50_____ performance at Chicago’s Raviniu Festival, gigs (演奏会) in Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall started pouring in. Lang Lang finally worked to reach the place where fortune spots(找到) him, and lets him shine.
41. A. if            B. unless           C. when         D. since
42. A. piano         B. knowledge       C. fortune       D. talent
43. A. hurt          B. ill              C. broken        D. scared
44. A. hear          B. push            C. eat           D. sleep
45. A. realized       B. explained        C. forgot         D. noticed
46. A. argue         B. dance           C. study         D. interview
47. A. winning       B. beating          C. watching      D. refusing
48. A. annoyed       B mad             C. tired          D. excited