2021年甘肃省兰州市初中学业水平考试英语试卷（A卷）注意事项：1.全卷共90分，考试时间90分钟.2.考生必须将姓名、准考证号、考场号、座位号等个人信息填(涂)写在答题卡上。
3.考生务必将答案直接填(涂)写在答题卡的相应位置上。
一、完形填空（共1小题：每小题10分, 满分10分）阅读下面短文, 从短文后各题所给的四个选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳答案。
Sometimes animals can do strange things. Here are ____1____ true stories aboutpeople and animals. A pet lizard was kept in a biology classroom. The students lookedafter it well ____2____ loved having it in the classroom. However, large lizards likebeing ____3____ and don’t really like lots of people around them all the time, esp eciallynoisy girls and boys at school. The large lizard noticed that whenever the alarm bell rang during the school’s practice fire drills （消防演练）, all the children and their teachers ran out of the classroom, leaving the lizard behind, peaceful and ____4____ for a while. Over several weeks, there were quite a few false fire alarms. Someone noticed that every time the alarms went off, the lizard was out of its cage. So, the children decided to ____5____ the lizard. To their surprise, they found that it climbed over to the fire alarm on the back wall and set it off! The lizard just wanted to be left alone.A tourist was driving along a road one evening, he accidentally ran over a kangaroo. Thetourist thought that ____6____ would believe him, so he decided to take a photo of the kangaroo.He picked the dead kangaroo up and put it next to the car. He then ____7____ his jacket andsunglasses and put them on the kangaroo to make his photo more interesting. All went well,____8____ , the kangaroo woke up! It had only been knocked out but not actually dead! As soonas the kangaroo woke up, ____9____ ran away, wearing a jacket, which also included threecredit cards （信用卡）, one passport and ＄1,000 in cash! What a _____10_____ kangaroo!1. A. two B. three C. four D. five2. A. but B. of C. and D. so3. A. active B. alive C. awake D. alone4. A. noisy B. friendly C. quiet D. afraid5. A. find B. watch C. help D. save6. A. everyone B. someone C. no one D. anyone7. A. took off B. handed out C. picked up D. gave away8. A. recently B. suddenly C. lately D. usually9. A. they B. you C. we D. it10. A. lucky B. sad C. careful D. busy二、阅读理解（共3小题：每小题10分, 满分30分）阅读下面三段材料, 根据材料内容和要求。
从题后选项中选择一个最佳答案。
AEveryone knows that China is changing and developing very quickly at the moment. Many young people from home and abroad thought about the changes. The following are some comments which young people made on a website message board.I’m a Chinese student. I’m very proud of China and I’d love to make a real contribution （贡献）to the development of my country. When I finish my training in Canada, I will goback to China and start a business, so I can give something back to the country.I’m a Chinese student in America. My hometown used to be very poor. But it haschanged now. Most people in my hometown have a good standard of living and some cannow afford cars. I’m very pleased with these changes and very proud of them.I spent a year in Beijing as a student in the late 1990s and I recently went back there onholiday. I could n’t believe the changes which had taken place in such a short time and thequalities （品质）I admire in Chinese people are their wish to succeed, their family valuesand their sense of responsibility. I think these qualities will be very important if China is tocontinue developing.I hope that China will become a successful and prosperous（繁荣的）country. There isstill a long way to go. There are many challenges and difficulties ahead, but I am sure we canovercome them if we work together.阅读以上微博评论，根据其内容判断下列各小题的正误。
正确的填（涂）A，错误的填（涂）B。
11. Jiayu will go back to China after training in Canada.12. Some people in Zihan’s hometown now have enough money to buy cars.13. Jackson spent two years in Beijing as a student in the late 1980s.14. Sean from Oxford thinks Chinese people can overcome challenges and difficulties.15. China is changing and developing very fast now.BSix weeks before his 97th birthday, Giuseppe Paterno made his dream of a lifetime come true: He got auniversity degree.Mr. Paterno’s sto ry has been reported around the world, partly because of hisage. But he has also drawn attention because his life story speaks of belief. He hasencouraged millions of children in Italy and elsewhere while they are facingdifficulties during the coronavirus pandemic（新冠疫情）.Born in Palermo in 1923, the first of seven children in a very poor family. Mr. Paterno began working soon after finishing primary school. It was only after he retired in the mid-1980s that he returned to his books.“His story shows th at dreams can come true and that you can remain young—not in age but in spirit—if you develop interests,” said Rosella Cancila, his teacher of history at the University of Palermo.Italy’s university system is based on a three-year degree, then a two-year master’s course. University officials are hoping that Mr. Paterno will continue his studies. △“I have to say that in this moment, I don’t know whether I would keep on studying with the same spirit,” he said, adding that all the attention had mad e him a bit tired. Still, Mr. Paterno said that he would probably try to get his master’s degree but he hadn’t decided yet.阅读以上短文。