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备战2023高考英语语法填空专项分类训练
语法填空名校模拟真题综合强化51
(2023·吉林·长春吉大附中实验学校校考一模)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个恰当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The piano used to be a rare foreign import in China, now four in five are made here. Much of this can ___1___ (trace) back to the tiny Chinese island named Gulangyu.
After the first Opium War in 1842, foreign powers forced the emperor to permit their residents ___2___ (live) in several “treaty ports” (通商口岸). One of those was Xiamen. Gulangyu, which lies just ___3___ 5-minute ferry ride offshore, was an international settlement. Expatriates (侨民) helped make the piano an everyday amusement. There was soon ___4___ (hard) a family on the island that did not host or go to hear an evening recital (独奏会).
It was the largest number of pianos per person in China ___5___ led to a stream of outstanding musicians. The island’s most celebrated musician is Yin Chengzong. In 1969 he arranged an earlier revolutionary cantata (大合唱) into the “Yellow River Piano Concerto”. It remains China’s first-class ___6___ (compose). Where once Western classical music ___7___ (flow) into China, pianists are pouring out. Of the 50m children ___8___ (learn) the instruments worldwide, as many as 40m may be Chinese.
The government invests generously on orchestras, ___9___ now number over 80, and new concert halls. Fastidious parents and cool young things crowd ____10____ (they) to hear the latest wunderkind, Lang Lang and Yuja Wang, to name just a few.
(2023·河南·高三统考阶段练习)阅读下面短文,在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
One of the exceptional things that stand out from Chinese culture is their art forms and the fact ____11____ even their oldest traditions live on to date. One such cultural element that makes China very ____12____ ( appeal) is Chinese shadow puppetry(皮影戏), which is a form of theatre acted by colourful silhouette(剪影)figures ____13____(make)from leather or paper, accompanied by music and singing.
Chinese shadow puppetry is believed to have originated in the Western Han period (202 BC —8AD) ____14____ a re