江苏省南京市建邺区2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编：首字母填空

江苏省南京市建邺区 2021-2023年中考英语一模试题分类汇编 首字母填空 2023年江苏省南京市建邺区中考一模英语试卷 七、首字母填空 请根据短文内容及首字母提示, 填写所缺单词, 并将答案填写在答题卡标号为 66—75 的相应位置上。 Have you ever seen or drawn the “smiley face”? It’s become a popular way to show that a person is pleased or happy. Where did it come from? Back in 1963, a company in the US was suffering from low employee morale(员工的士气). Everyone was worried they might lose their job, b 66 the company faced difficulty. It meant there were suddenly more employees than n 67 . To encourage employees to smile at work, the company hired an artist named Harvey Ball and expected him to come up with a good d 68 . Ball chose to make a happy face. It took him less than 10 minutes to draw a smiley face on a bright yellow background, which was then made into buttons(纽扣) that employees could wear on their jackets a 69 a reminder to smile at each other. The face soon became p 70 of the company’s culture and was introduced to the world. “It has r 71 everybody. Its message is as good as you can get, ” Ball once said. By 1971, millions of smiley face buttons had been sold! He was p 72 of making something that made so many people feel good. He often said, “I made the world smile. ” However, as much effort as Ball made, that “message” soon grew to become unusual. Just think about it: How many of us s 73 use the simple smiley face emoji just to say, “I’m smiling”? Chances are when we use it, we often mean, “I’m just going to ignore(忽视) you” or “That’s just perfect”—in a sarcastic(讽刺的) way. And our favourite emojis perhaps also i 74 the upside-down face or the face with tears ofjoy—both developed gradually from Ball’s original smiley face—and yet, both are often used sarcastically. Indeed, in today’s world, we are likely to act to many things with sarcasm instead of with a smile, perhaps because we’re finding it harder and harder to be happy. But we keep f 75 about the fact that happiness and smiling go both ways. That was probably what was in Ball’s mind when he first