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5年(2017-2021)中考1年模拟英语试题分项详解(浙江专用)
专题08 短文填空之综合填空
(2021·浙江杭州市·中考真题)
All around the world, families celebrate special days together. Traditions for these days 1. (be) very different. Some of them may surprise you.
Families in most countries have a special day to celebrate mothers. In Serbia, this day is on 2. second Sunday before Christmas. On that day, children sneak(溜)into their 3.(mother)bedroom and tie her feet with ribbon(丝带)so that she can’t get out of bed. Then they shout, “Mother’s Day, Mother’s Day! What will you pay 4.(get) away?” Then the mother gives 5. (they) small treats and presents as payment so that the kids “free” her.
In China, they say that 6. (baby) are one year old when they are born. After that, all children celebrate their birthday on New Year’s Day because that’s when they grow a year 7. (old). Actual birthdays are 8. (usual) celebrated with a big family meal. The tradition is that the “birthday boy” or “birthday girl” should fill their mouth with as many long noodles 9. they can and then eat them. This is because in Chinese culture, long noodles are a symbol 10. long life.
(2021·浙江宁波市·中考真题)
Susan was tired of having her three children talk back to her. One day, she climbed into her kids’ tree house. It was 11. good place, she thought, for a mother to go on strike(罢工). She was tired of 12. (drive) them everywhere without thanks and doing more than her share of the work around the house. Until 13. (thing) changed, Susan decided to stay up in the tree.
Susan’s strike got her kids’ attention, 14. course. But that was not all that happened. Word of the fed-up mother spread. Before long, a camera crew from television’s Today Show came into their yard. Now people all across America were going to find 15.who drove the kids’ mother up a tree.
As the cameras worked, the three kids stood with their father near the tree house. Kate, the Today Show host, had a question for 16. (they). “What do you think about your mom on strike in that tree house?