专题08 短文填空20篇（最新开学试题）--2022年秋九年级上学期英语开学考试汇编

专题08 短文填空 --2022年秋九年级上学期英语开学考试汇编 考点一 短文首字母填空 Test 1（2021·天津南开） 根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使短文意思完整。每空限填一词。 China’s greatest translator showed us the beauty of words Xu Yuanchong Profession: translator Lived: 1921-2021 Birthplace: Nanchang, Jiangxi Education: National Southwest Associated University The world has l____1____ a great translator. Xu Yuanchong, one of the world’s most famous Chinese translators, died at the age of 100 on June 17, 2021.Xu devoted (投入) himself to translation for more than 60 years. He published more than 100 translated novels, anthologies and plays in Chinese, English and French, reaching millions of readers all over the w____2____. A translated work should be just as beautiful as the original (原作), Xu said. He used his creativity to make this p____3____. Instead of directly translating words from one l____4____ to another, he changed the translated wording when necessary to make the text readable and relatable to readers. He translated Chinese poems into rhyming verses (押韵的诗句) in b____5____ English and French. Thanks to his translations, English and French-speaking readers are able to better u____6____ Chinese literature. In 2014, Xu b____7____ the first Asian winner of the Aurora Borealis Prize for Outstanding Translation of Fiction Literature (北极光杰出文学翻译奖), one of the world’s h____8____ prizes for a translator. Xu was hard-working. He lived in an old house near Peking University. Every day, he would translate about 1,000 words, working u____9____ 3 to 4 am, then sleep for about three hours and get up at 6 am to c_____10_____ working. He often quoted (引用) a verse from English poet Thomas Moore’s The Young May Moon: “And the best of all ways to lengthen (延长) our days is to steal a few hours from the night.” Test 2 （2021·江苏·南通市九年级上学期开学考试） In order to make drivers keep their hands on the wheel（方向盘）and their eyes on the road, a new Japanese smartphone app offers free coffee to drivers who don’t check their phones for at least 100km. In the