2022年嘉兴舟山中考英语真题

一、完形填空(本题有15小题，每小题1分，共计15分)

阅读下面短文，然后从各题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中选出一个最佳答案。

The first time, Hank, a two-year-old cat, went out of his yard, he got stuck in a 40-foot-tall tree for five days, with no food or water.

One day last November, when Delores, the ____1____ , returned from a market, she found Hank didn’t come in for his lunch. As it got ____2____ , she began to look for him around the house. Then she heard the mew of a cat, ____3____ , and saw Hank on her neighbor’s tree. He must have climbed onto the tree while some dogs were running after ____4____ , and became too afraid to climb down.

Delores, now very ____5____ , called the firemen immediately. But it was not easy, so they didn’t have a ladder（梯子） tall enough to ____6____ the cat. She asked a tree company for help them. ____7____ they failed for safety reasons.

The poor owner could do nothing but sit ____8____ the tree and call to Hank. A kind neighbor offered her some cat food, ____9____ it would make the hungry cat come down. Nearby dog owners took their pets for _____10_____ instead of letting them out in their yards, so that Hank would not climb even _____11_____ with fear.

Nothing had worked until it came to day five. _____12_____ Lyda, another neighbor, talked of a clever way of getting the cat down from a tree, Delores decided to _____13_____ it at once. Together, they produced a system of pulleys（滑轮） and lifted a _____…