吉林省长春市南关区2022-2024年（三年）中考一模英语试题汇编：短文填空

吉林省长春市南关区2022-2024年(三年)中考一模英语试题汇编 短文填空 2024年吉林省长春市南关区中考一模英语试题 五.短文填空。(10分) 阅读下面短文,在空白处填入适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。 As we all know,there are four inventions in ancient China,one of which is paper making About 2,000 years76 Chinese invented paper making.At that time,this kind of"paper"was made of silk.It was so expensive77 only rich people could afford 78 (use)it. Later,a person_79 (call)Cai Lun improved the paper making process.He made cheap paper out of tree bark (树皮),old cloth and so on.The 80(improve)in paper making spread paper_81 (wide),and many different_82 (type)of peper were invented by Chinese people.Here are some of them. Xuan paper is a kind of high quality paper,whose life is more than one thousand years.People call 83 the "longevity star"of paper.Common paper will be damaged by nature in two or three hundred years.Newsprint is another kind of paper and its life is_ 84 (short),and it will turn yellow and brittle (脆的)in fifty or sixty years. Later,Chinese paper spread to the West by the Chinese Silk Road.Thousands of years of Chinese culture 85(record)on paper and passed to different parts of the world. 2023年吉林省长春市南关区中考一模英语试题 短文填空 Brandon is a 37-year-old man. He comes _61_ Canada. When Brandon was young he was _62_ (interest) in Chinese poems. He spends nearly ten hours a day translating Chinese poems into English. He has translated more than 1,000 Chinese poems _63_ six years ago. His works have been exhibited at art festivals in many _64_ (country). After translating a Chinese poem into an English one, Brandon often writes it down on a piece of paper with a brush pen. He also draws a picture beside the poem to help show the _65_ (mean) of the Chinese poem. He connects Chinese and foreign culture _66_ his paintings, and writes the poems in English, so his readers can have a better understanding of Chinese poems, even Chinese history and culture. Brandon wants to learn another foreign language if his Chinese is good enough, but that day hasn’t arrived yet. He has