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一、完形填空
(2023·云南中考)My mom is pretty cool. She is always trying to come up with ways to give the environment a helping hand.One day, she brought a green 1 to work. At lunch, she shared the cake 2 friends. Everyone liked it. They were all surprised how she made it.
The story goes back a few weeks. Our city 3 a new recycling program—families were supposed to separate food rubbish from the other kitchen waste.
My 4 loves fruit. My father especially loves watermelons. He 5 a lot of them in the summer. The skin(果皮) always ends up in the rubbish. That's almost half the weight of a watermelon!
After a lot of thinking, my mom found a 6 way to use all the melon skins. She brought out the blender(搅拌器) and cut the melon skins into small pieces. 7 she blended them, she got a whole cup of green watermelon juice. Then, she mixed the juice with flour(面粉). From there, she 8 made her delicious GREEN cake.
What a great product of the melon eating! And it was nature friendly too. From now on, my mom doesn't need to 9 the heavy waste from eating melons. And everyone always wants more of her 10 cake.
1.A.cake B.hamburger C.sandwich D.watermelon
2.A.about B.with C.into D.at
3.A.refused B.missed C.stopped D.started
4.A.neighbor B.family C.coach D.doctor
5.A.makes B.drinks C.eats D.throws
6.A.better B.worse C.shorter D.harder
7.A.Though B.Whether C.Before D.After
8.A.carefully B.politely C.hardly D.sadly
9.A.look up B.worry about C.give out D.put up
10.A.terrible B.common C.special D.white
二、阅读理解
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(2023·湖南怀化中考)In China, there are 24 solar terms(节气) in a year. And there are six solar terms in winter. They are beginning of winter, light snow, heavy snow, winter solstice(冬至), lesser cold(小寒) and greater cold.
Beginning of winter usually falls on November 7th or 8th. On this day, after a year of hard work, people are happy to have a rest and spend time with the family. The northern China celebrates beginning of winter as the “Small Spring Festival”.