2021年中考英语短文填空与阅读表达专项练习十八（外研版）

美 文 阅 读 35 （一） A young Chinese girl who1. _______(sell) hand-made diapers(尿布) for birds earns 30,000 yuan a month. Twenty-five-year-old Zheng Han, from East China’s Jiangsu Province, now has 2. ___________(customer) from Australia, the United States, Canada, Singapore and so on. Zheng 3._______(give) up her job as a nurse on 2014 and started her own online store on Taobao, one of the4. _______(large) e-commerce platforms in China. She started by selling decorative costumes(装饰服装) for birds. Later on, she 5.______ (begin) designing diapers for birds after questions from some friends who wanted a better way to deal with bird waste. She found through an online search that bird diapers in the US are6. _______ (poor) designed but expensive, sold at 200-400 yuan each. So she started to design more convenient and practical bird diapers on her own. In her design, the outer layer 7. _______( make) of cotton cloth in cute patterns while the inner layer is made of waterproof canvas. The cost of her bird diaper is about 20 yuan for one. Now every month she sells 1,000 diapers. With business getting better , Zheng 8._______( win) over her family, who at first thought that quitting her nurse’s job was irresponsible. “Now they believe young people have their own ideas, and encourage me 9. _______(do) it well,” she said. “Young people should have their own dreams. I hope I can go 10.______( far),” she added. 任务一：1-10小题用括号内所给词的正确形式填空。 任务二： 猜测加粗黑色单词或短语的意思: outer layer_________, quit________ 任务三：将划线句子翻译成汉语 _______________________________________________________________ 任务四：给出文章的主旨大意__________________________________ （二） A mini garden carried on China’s Chang’e 4 Moon lander recently 1._______ (become) home to the first plant to grow in another world. This is another 2. _____ ( succeed) for Chang’e 4. On January 3rd 2019, Chang’e 4 became the first lander to touch down on the far side of the Moon. This face of the Moon always 3.________ (look) far, so we n