专题05 短文填空 （名校模拟+地区真题）-冲刺2023年中考英语必考题型终极预测（福建专用）

冲刺2023年中考英语必考题型终极预测（福建专用） 专题05 短文填空 （2023·福建·统考模拟预测）阅读下面短文，根据语境、音标或单词的提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当单词，使短文意思完整、行文连贯。 Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway’s father ____1____ ([tiːtʃ]) him early on how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life. Instead of ____2____ (go) to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver ____3____ the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years ____4____, he moved to Paris, where he hoped to improve his writing. There he became friends with other ____5____ (America) writers, including Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway developed ____6____ style of writing that was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly (俭省地), avoided using adjectives, and trusted the reader to understand the ____7____ ([ˈmiːnɪŋ]) of his writing. As he put it, “I always try ____8____ (write) on the principle (原则) of the iceberg (冰山). There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows. “This style continues to influence writers today. In his career (生涯), which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the ____9____ (twenty) century. For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes (脚趾), which a ship’s captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are ____10____ (child) of Hemingway’s six-toed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961. （2022·福建厦门·厦门市湖滨中学校考模拟预测）阅读下面短文，根据语填、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。 Wherever you go in China, you can see lion statues(雕塑). Do you know why?                                          ____11____ (put) lion statues outside of buildings is a common practice in