13-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）13 （一） They say that "travel is the best teacher" and there is no better example of this idea than the Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer Xu Xiake（1587-1641）. His book The Travel Notes of Xu Xiake not only e____1____ a love of travelling among Chinese people but provides important scientific information about the country's land and geography. Born into a wealthy Jiangyin family, Xu became interested in books about different places at an early age and wanted to travel. When he was 18, however, Xu's father died and so, it seemed i____2____ for his travelling dreams. He then started managing the family farm and taking care of his 60-year-old mother as tradition required. But his mother had different ideas. Understanding her son's love of travel and valuing the knowledge he could get from such experiences, this modern-thinking woman r____3____ to keep her son at home. She agreed that Xu could travel for three months every year, when there was less farm work. So at the age of twenty and with his mother's support, Xu set off for the first time, leaving behind not only his mother but his new wile as well. He would repeat this goodbye each year for most of the next 30 years. During this time, he travelled t____4____ the Ming kingdom, carefully studying the lands he passed through and recording his experiences and many discoveries in a diary. This diary, which once had over 500, 000 words, would become The Travel Notes of Xu Xiake later. Although rich, Xu a____5____ comfortable travel, preferring to go almost everywhere on foot. This way he could research the environment in detail and get a true picture of the natural world. Many of his trips were to hard-to-reach mountain areas, and through wild forests where few people lived. However, his willingness to face hardships came at a cost. Progress was slow and he was frequently sick, robbed and beaten during his journeys. S____6____, Xu became seriously ill during his last and longest j