专题05 短文填空-冲刺2022年中考英语重难题型考前突破（广东专用）

冲刺2022年中考英语重难题型考前突破（广东专用）-短文填空 【原卷版】 Exercise 1 （2022·广东·深圳市高级中学二模改编） One of the most popular athletes at Beijing 2022 is two-time freeski (自由式滑雪) world champion Gu Ailing. Going into the Games, 1 18-year-old set her sights high. In the women’s freeski big air event, she 2 gold medal thanks to an amazing jump. To complete the jump, she made four and a half rotations in the air and landed backward. It was a difficult jump 3 she had never done before. Her mother told her to play it safe. “ 4 I didn’t listen to her and gave it a go, not trying to beat anyone but to elevate (提升) 5 to the next level,” said Gu. Gu is known 6 her strong will and hard work. She encourages teenagers to challenge themselves through winter sports. “I love feeling nervous and then overcoming it 7 , feeling that rush and that reward ... that got me into skiing,” Gu told The New York Times. “I hope that I’m 8 to use this platform to inspire more young girls to take 9 in freeskiing. That’s always 10 my biggest goal since Day One.” Exercise 2 （2022·广东深圳·二模改编） A long time ago, there was a monster named Nian. Nian loved to visit a little village in China each year, and scare everybody that he saw. He thought that was great fun. He liked to do this just when the new year began, to remind people that Nian was still around. This probably would have gone on forever. But one day, just by luck, one of the 1 was wearing a red coat when Nian jumped out and tried to scare him. Nian took one look at the red coat and 2 away. The villager was 3 frightened that he dropped the heavy metal bucket which he had been carrying. It made 4 horrible noise. Nian looked fearfully over his shoulder, and began running even 5 . The villager told everyone of his good luck. His red coat had scared Nian. And the loud noise of the bucket had made him run away. This was good news. The villagers 6 several m