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2023届高三英语晚练
语法填空专练
1.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。
China is the birthplace of silk. Raising silkworms for silk production 1.__________ (date) back to 6,000 years. Legend has it that the wife of the Yellow Emperor was having tea under a mulberry tree when a cocoon fell into her cup.As she watched,a strong white thread came out from 2.__________ cocoon.She wound the string onto her finger,3.__________(realize) that it could be used as weaving thread. She taught her people 4. __________(raise) silkworms. Silk production reached a high level during the Shang Dynasty (1600 BC-1046 BC).
For more than two thousand years, the Chinese kept the secret of silk to 5.__________(they).It was one of the most guarded 6.__________ (secret) in history.Anyone found guilty of stealing silkworm eggs, cocoons, or mulberry seeds was put to death. Silk clothes were worn by emperors and rich people and became a symbol 7.__________wealth.The common people were prohibited from wearing silk. With travels and trade, the production of raw silk by raising silkworms 8.__________(gradual) reached the outside world from Asia to Europe.Now most of the silk 9.__________(produce) in the south of the Yangtze River Delta,such as Suzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing,10.__________Shaoxing.
2.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。
The Palace Museum, also known ____36____ the Forbidden City, is a much-visited and much-photographed tourist ____37____ (attract). This Chinese palace with a history of about 600 years receives millions of visits every year and ____38____ (show) in lots of TV programs in recent years.
However, it still has secrets. ____39____ (explore) those unknown areas and show the palace in a new light, a new program was carefully designed. The variety show, Shang Xin Le Gu Gong, broadcast ____40____ (it) first episode (一集) on Beijing TV and iQiyi. com, on November 9. That first episode won wide acceptance from audience and was thought highly of on Douban.com. “It brings many elements (元素) together, and