湖北省鄂州市2021-2023中考英语真题分类汇编：短文填空

湖北鄂州2021-2023中考英语真题分类汇编：短文填空 【2021鄂州】 五、短文填词（共9小题；每小题1分, 满分9分） 从下面方框中选出合适的词, 将其正确的形式填入短文, 使短文意思正确、通 顺（有—个词是多余的）。 difficult disappear, job, need, another, without, price, live, mean, return In some countries in western Europe, such as France, Spain and Britain, the countryside is changing. Life has become difficult for many villages, and some are ___46___ now. There are a number of reasons for this. Firstly, young people from villages usually want ___47___ somewhere livelier and they often move to the towns and do not ___48___. Secondly, people move to the cities to find work, as there are often very few ___49___ in the countryside. Sometimes villages remain because people from the cities have bought a “second home” in the village, where they come and stay at weekends. The ___50___ of homes goes up and people from the area cannot afford to buy a house there. Another problem is that it is becoming more and more ___51___ for farmers to make money from their farms. So they sell their land and find ___52___ job. All these things ___53___ that many villages in western Europe are fighting to survive. We can only hope that they will remain. The countryside would be a sadder and uglier place ___54___ them. 【2022鄂州】 五、短文填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分） 根据下面短文内容，用括号内所给单词的正确形式填空，使短文完整、通顺。 Beep! Beep! Beep! The barcode（条形码）technology makes it faster and easier to buy things in stores. You have probably seen the black-and-white barcode on ___46___ (product) packaging（外包装）. In 2022, the great invention is 51 years old. In 1971, an IBM engineer named George Laurer ___47___ (come) up with a code（代码）that could be printed on food packages. Then, a complete code system（系统）, the barcode was formed later. The system was used by many ___48___ (company) from 1973. Before this, shopkeepers had to ___49___ (record) prices by hand which took much time and energy. Actually, a barcode is ___50___ (real) a simple idea: show each product’s information in different numbers（just like the ID card numb