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2018年广州市中考英语模拟考试（一） 本试共四大题,10页,满分110分,考试时间120分钟 注意事项： 1．答卷前,考生务必在答题卡上用黑色字迹的钢笔或签字笔填写自己的考生号、姓名、试室号、座位号,再用2B铅笔把对应号码涂黑。 2．选择题每小题选出答案后，用2B铅笔把答题卡上对应题目的答案标号涂黑，如需要改功，用橡皮擦干净后，再选涂其他签案，不能答在试卷上。 3．非选择题必须用黑色字迹的钢笔或签宇笔作答，答案必须填写在答题卡各题目指定区域的相应位置上；如需要改动，先划掉原来的答案，然后再写上新的答案，改动的答案也不能出指定的区域；不准使用铅笔、圆珠笔和涂改液，不按以上要求作答的答案无效。 4．考生须保持答题卡的整洁；考试结束，将本试卷和答题卡一并交回。 一、语法选择(共10小题,每小题1分,满分15分) 阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求,从1-15各题所给的A、B、C、D项中选出最佳答案,并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 Agatha Christie is one of the most popular writers of all time. About 1 copies of her books have been sold, and they have been translated into 103 languages. She 2 the queen of the “whodunit”. A whodunit is a story 3 starts with a crime, usually murder. Then the main character of the story tries to discover who 4 it (or who-done-it). Readers love Agatha Christine’s stories because there 5 lots of clues and puzzles for them to think about as they read. Her two 6 characters are the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot and the elderly amateur detective Miss Marple. Christie always wrote about places that she knew, like Torquay, the English town where she was born in 1890. 7 her readers are lucky that she was also a great traveler. She 8 an archaeologist and travelled with him to Syria and Iraq where they worked at archaeological “digs”. In 9 book Murder in Mesopotamia, Poirot investigates a murder at one of these digs. Christine 10 travelled to Egypt, the setting for Death on the Nile, and 11 the train ride between Istanbul and Paris (Murder on the Orient Express). Agatha Christie died in 1976 but her books 12 to be popular today. For one week every year, lovers of her stories 13 go to Agatha Christie Festival in Torquay. People dress up in clothes from the 1920s and 1930s, 14 characters in her stories. Jazz bands play at tea parties and there are dinners on old trains and at old country houses. “Murder” is everywhere, and visitors have a lot of fun 15 to discover who