09-冲刺2023年中考英语首字母填空临考押题（上海专用）

冲刺2023年中考英语首字母填空临考押题（上海专用）09 （一） Otters（水獭） are cute water animals. These days, keeping otters as pets is getting popular. In Japan, some “otter cafés” are open for b____1____. People can pay to play with the otters there and to take photos with them. In Indonesia, people go swimming with their pet otters and take funny videos. These photos and videos posted online have attracted more people to buy otters as pets. However, these enjoyable photos and videos hide the damage that the online trade is doing to otters. In fact, wild otters are f____2____ many threats—they have long been hunted for their coats; in some places, fishermen have been killing otters in order to stop them from eating fish; and now, the online pet trade has become a____3____ big problem for otters. In the wild, baby otters usually stay with their mothers during their first year of life. According to a report, 70% of the otters sold online are under one year old. These baby otters have been s____4____ from their mothers. When they are kept as pets by humans, they do not live full and natural lives. Otters are very social. They live in family groups of up to 15 in the wild. Keeping an otter as a pet can make it very sad and l____5____. These animals also need enough space to swim. Their owners’ bathtubs（浴缸） or pools are nowhere near as large as the bodies of water in the wild. On the other hand, otters simply don’t make good pets. They have a very special fishy smell. If they are kept indoors, they will leave a lot of waste around the house. This would make the smell even more unpleasant. Besides, when otters are unhappy, they will make loud noise and even attack people. If a person is hurt by an otter, he or she needs to go to hospital i____6____. So, we should stop the otter pet trade and n____7____ share photos and videos about them online. （328词） 答案：1.business 2.facing 3.another 4.stolen 5.lonely 6.immediately 7.never 译文： 水獭是一种可爱的水栖动物。如今，把水獭当宠物饲养得越来越受欢迎。在日本，一些“水獭咖啡馆”已经开始营业。人们可以花钱和那里的水獭一起玩耍，并