专题05 短文填空-备战2023-2024学年九年级上学期英语元调考试真题汇编（武汉专用）

九年级上学期英语元调期末考试真题汇编（武汉专用） 短文填空（分类汇编） 元调期末真题 （2022〜2023学年度武汉市部分学校九年级元调英语试卷） The telephone rang.Zeb Hogan got the news.A fisherman in Cambodia had caught a megafish(超级大鱼).Soon,Zeb was 76 (head)there by plane.“These catches are so unusual,I don't want to miss out on any of them,"he says. Zeb is an aquatic ecologist(水域生态学家).He is always s 77_ for megafish.Megafish are aquatic monsters that g 78 to at least 6.5 feet(2meters)or 220 pounds (100kg).He studies the megafish that live in the Mekong River in Southeast Asia.Many megafish live in this river which the s 79 rivers flow(流)into. Why is Zeb so interested in megafish?"By studying megafish,we can learn a lot about the h 80 of an aquatic ecosystem(生态系统).If you still have these giant fish types in the river,it's a good sign that the river is healthy,"he says. For centuries,the Mekong's fish of all 81 (size)lived well in clean water.There were so many fish,Cambodians often said,"Where there is water,there are fish." Today,however,fewer and fewer big fish are f 82 in the Mekong.To Zeb,it's a warning.Something is out 83 balance. Overfishing is one cause of fewer fish.D 84 water is another.Soon there may be fewer smaller fish,too.This will hurt people who need the fish for food. Zeb wanted to make Mekong waters healthy,so he 85 (start)a program in Cambodia.Whenever fishermen catch megafish,they give them to Zeb.He lets the fish go and tracks their movements.It's good for both the fishermen and the fish.It also helps Zeb learn how to better protect megafish and the river. （2021〜2022学年度武汉市部分学校九年级元调英语试卷） In Spelling Bee competitions, children try to spell difficult words correctly. And by spelling words, 14-year-old Zaila w___76___ first prize in the 2021 National Spelling Bee. To get to this point, Zaila practiced for seven hours a day. She tried to r___77___ the spelling of about 13,000 words per day. But the girl describes spelling as a side h___78___. She says her “