山东省济宁市兖州区2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编：语法填空

山东省济宁市兖州区 2021-2023年中考英语二模试题分类汇编 语法填空 2023年山东省济宁市兖州区中考二模英语试题 五、语法填空(共10小题, 计10分) 阅读下面短文, 在空白处填1个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。 A Some students got together to visit their old university professor. They talked about their trouble? in work and life. After the professor had offered? his guests a drink, he went into the kitchen and 1_________ (return)with a large pot of coffee and some cups - porcelain(瓷的), plastic, glass, crystal(水晶的), some plain-looking(外表平常的), some beautiful, some expensive. The professor told them to help 2__________ (them) to the coffee. When all his students had a cup in hand, he said:"I don't know if you noticed, but when all the nice-looking expensive cups were taken up, the plain and cheap ones 3________(leave)behind. While it is normal for you to want only the 4 _________ (good)for yourselves, that is the source(根源)of your problems and stress. " "What all of you really wanted was coffee, not the cup, 5________ you went for the best cups and were eyeing each other's cups to see if they were better. " "But think about this: Life is the coffee, and the jobs, money and titles are the cups. Sometimes, by concentrating(专注于) only on the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. So, don't let the cups drive you. Enjoy the coffee instead. " B A group of boys gathered around a tree. "What a tall tree!" they said to each other. "It would be exciting 6_______ (climb) to the top!" The group of boys then decided to play a part to see who could climb to the top of the tree first. Their mothers 7_________(sit) not far away, looking at their children as they played. Then the game started. All of the boys tried their best to climb as high as they could. One of the climbers was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the shortest child in the group. Other 8___________ (boy) all made it halfway up the tree before David did, but he reached the top of the tree fastest in the end. His mother was proud to see this. She asked him, "David, how did you manage to reach the top of the t