江苏省常州市金坛区2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编：完形填空

江苏省常州市金坛区 2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编 完形填空 2023年江苏省常州市金坛区中考一模英语试题 二、完形填空（共12小题；每小题1分, 满分12分） There are many stories and legends（传说）about the history of Chinese New Year. The first and most 11 is the legend of Nian. There are two versions（版本）of it. As the story goes, there was a monster in ancient times with a body of a bull, a head of a lion. and a home of a unicorn（麒麟）. It was a dangerous animal that lived in the mountains and hunted for a _12. Towards the end of winter, when there was nothing to eat, Nian would visit the villages and attack and cat whatever it saw, 13 the villagers to live in fear. One night when Nian came down the mountain, some villagers started fires, put up boards painted bright 14, and stayed up all nightlong to make all kinds of loud sounds. When the monster came to the village, the sight in the village makes it so 15, and it ran back into the mountains. The next morning, the villagers had a big 16. The following year, all the villagers came together and 17 that when it was time for Nian's annual visit, they would start a fire in front of every door, hang a red painted board in front of every house, and not go to sleep 18 rather make noise by the strong beating of drums and gongs （锣）, along 19 the heavy use of firecrackers. In the second version of the legend of Nian, the monster lived at the bottom of the sea most of the year and would only go onto land on the last day of the Chinese lunar calendar to attack and eat both villagers and animals. The villagers learnt from an old man that Nian was afraid of loud noises and the color red, and began setting off fireworks and attaching "couplet" poems on red paper on their 20 door every New Year's Eve. Over time all the villagers 21 that the monster Nian was afraid of three things: the bright red color, fire, and noise. Every year they repeated the custom and it has been 22 from generation to generation（代相传）until today, and thus the custom of Guo Nian was established based on the legends of Nian