专题05 短文填空-冲刺2022年中考英语必考题型终极押题（福建专用）

2022年中考英语必考题型终极押题（福建专用）-短文填空 （2022·福建漳州·一模）阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或所给单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个恰当的词，要求所填的词意义准确、形式正确，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。 Piggy banks have been around for a long time, but did you ever wonder why people made their banks in the shape of a pig? Pigs have nothing to do with money. They don’t store food like a rabbit ____1____ a squirrel (松鼠). So how did we end up using a pig as the style of a bank? Believe it or not, it happened by ____2____ /mɪˈsteɪk/. During the ____3____ (fifteen) century, metal was very expensive. Dishes and pots were made from ____4____ kind of expensive orange clay called pygg, which was pronounced just like pig. ____5____ that time, there weren’t banks, so people would store their money at home. When people had extra (额外的) coins to ____6____ /seɪv/, they would place them in clay jars or pots. They called the jars pygg banks. After a few hundred years, people forgot that the word “pygg” refered to the clay. The English language was also changing and the word “pig” was much ___