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2024年中考英语逆袭冲刺名校模拟真题速递(江苏专用)
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(2024上·江苏南京·九年级统考期末)阅读下面短文,按照句子结构的语法情况和上下文连贯的要求,在空白处填入适当的词或用括号中所给词的正确形式填空。
In 1867, Caroline Shawk Brooks and her husband, Samuel, had a farm in Arkansas. From sunrise to sunset, Caroline and Samuel milked cows, gardened and 1 (pick) cotton. This left Caroline no time for her dream of becoming 2 artist. Time was not the only problem. Money was a worry too. The cotton crops were failing. Caroline decided to make butter from 3 (they) cows’ milk·and sell it at market. But other farms also made and sold butter. 4 (draw) attention to her butter, she began making small butter sculptures.
Caroline had a simple system to keep the sculptures from melting (融化) as she formed them. She put the butter in a shallow(浅的) tin pan, which sat in a 5 (large) one filled with ice. Caroline’s butter sculptures were so 6 (success) that she displayed them at fairs and exhibitions before long. One of her largest butter sculptures was a life-size statue called A Study in Butter—the Dreaming Iolanthe.
Caroline also made sculptures using marble (大理石). She 7 (final) opened a studio in New York City where she created many marble portraits. Some of these sculptures 8 (show) at the 1893 world’s fair in Chicago.
But Caroline never stopped 9 (make) butter art. She considered butter the best material to work with. At the 1893 fair, she also displayed her butter techniques with a sculpture of Christopher Columbus.
Caroline died in St Louis, Missouri, in 1913 She is remembered as the 10 (one) known American butter sculptor.
(2024上·江苏泰州·九年级统考期末)Have you heard of the story of Dick and Rick Hoyt? They were 11 unforgettable team. The father and son ran their race together in 1977 for the 12 (one) time, after Rick told his dad that he wanted to take part in a 5-mile charity running race. The race was held for a sports player who had been hurt in an accident. R