2013年广东省佛山市中考英语试卷及答案文本版(4)

This happened for many days and his father decided not to sell the farm.
 
36.    A. tree                              B. pond                            C. garden
37.    A. hated                           B. copied                          C. heard
38.    A. bottom                         B. top                               C. branch
39.    A. farm                            B. magic                           C. mess
40.    A. beautiful                      B. ordinary                       C. boring
41.    A. forgot                          B. required                       C. continued
42.    A. grew up                       B. dropped in                    C. woke up
43.    A. burning                        B. selling                          C. damaging
44.    A. quickly                        B. loudly                          C. fortunately
45.    A. refused                         B. noticed                         C. expected
 
三、阅读(共两20小题；每小题2分，满分40分)
    第一节  阅读理解(共10小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下列短文，从各题所给的A、B、C和D项中选出最佳选项，井在答题卡上将该项涂黑。
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 Robots aren’t only in the movies or on TV. One “real” robot recently married a couple at a wedding ceremony in Tokyo, Japan.
 Fifty guests stood as the music played and the bride(新娘)walked down towards the groom
(新郎). Only one guest stayed seated - the minister(牧师), who happened to be a robot. For this special ceremony, the four-foot tall robot named I-Fairy wore flowers around her head. I-Fairy’s eyes flashed colored lights as she pronounced the couple man-and-wife and asked the groom to kiss the bride. The wedding was the first time a marriage had been led by a robot, according to the company that built I-Fairy.
 A robot might seem like an unusual choice(选择)to lead a wedding, but if you knew the couple you would think I-Fairy was the perfect choice. That’s because the groom teaches robotics at a university and the bride works for the company that built I-Fairy. The newly married couple hopes their wedding will encourage more uses for robots. They hope their wedding will give people ideas about ways in which they might use robots to do “everyday things” in their lives in the near future.