09：【名校好题】选词填空-2023年九年级英语名校试题专题集训

09：选词填空-2023年九年级英语名校试题专题集训 （2022·上海市进才中学北校九年级期中）Complete the following passage with the letters representing the words or phrases in the box. Each word or phrase can only be used once(将下列单词或词组的字母编号填入空格。每空格限填一个单词或词组，每个单词或词组只能填一次） A．strange   B．tricks   C．allowed  D．sports   E. turned out A good trick doesn’t leave lasting damage and always makes people laugh. It can even amaze them with its creativity. Some schools and universities have a long tradition of students playing good ____1____ , which sometimes include school buildings and cars. The California Institute of Technology, a university in the US, has a special day on which students are ____2____ to play big tricks. One time, a group of students took apart a car, moved the parts into a student’s room and then put the car back together next to the bed. It was a quiet evening at an American high school. Going home, the headmaster got into his car and started the engine. It’s quite ____3____ that the wheels turned, but the car didn’t move! It ____4____ that some students had found a way to lift the car up so that its tires were just above the ground. A．responsible   B．later   C．actually   D．shocked   E. amazing One morning in 2006, the staff at another American high school were ____5____ to find a pink car on the roof. The car even had question marks painted all over it! The staff believed that many students must have worked together to complete this. The American trick in 2006 was ____6____ a copy of British trick in 1958. That year, at the University of Cambridge, a car appeared on the roof of a building that was five storeys high. It caused a lot of trouble for police and firefighters as they had to cut the car into pieces to get it down. They couldn’t find out who was ____7____, and the trick made headlines around the world. It was only fifty years ____8____ that the students in the case proved who they were and how they played the excellent trick. （2022·上海浦东新·模拟预测） Choose the proper words in the box to co