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备战2024年英语中考题型专项训练 短文填空 how　students　importance　and　ago　skill　with　but　kind　much　before　require In China, many students spend 1.____________ time on their studies, and don't help 2.____________ housework at home.As a result, they lack basic 3.____________. Luckily, things are changing.Since two years 4.____________， the governments have given a lot of policies, 5.____________ that colleges, middle schools and primary schools pay more attention to 6.____________ labor education.Following these policies, many schools offered some labor classes and began to teach students life skills. Guangming Middle School in Sichuan set up a School Garden.In the garden, there are many plants, including beans, potatoes, pumpkins.“At first, I thought I could only grow some vegetables here, 7.____________ actually, I learnt a lot about vegetables.” said Chen Jia, a girl at the school.The School Garden can teach children the importance of caring for the environment and 8.____________ nature works to feed us. In Hope Middle School, students have a special life skill class: they learn to make dumplings in different 9.____________ of shapes.“I couldn't make dumplings before, but now I am good at doing it.I really love my life skill class.It's my favourite class，” said Zhang Yan, a boy at the school. In fact, learning life skills is as 10.____________ as learning Chinese and maths, because it helps students prepare for their future life. by　as　direction　divide　unite　wide　today　the　great　a　for　country Chinese writing is one of the world's 1.____________ writing systems.It is more 2.____________ used than alphabetic (字母的) writing systems.More than half of the world's books are written in Chinese. At the beginning, written Chinese was 3.____________ picture­based language.It dates back several thousand years to the use of animal bones and shells on which symbols were carved 4.____________ancient Chinese people.Some of the ancient symbols can still be seen in 5.____________ hanzi. By the Sha