2024年中考英语热点语法填空专项练习（三）

中考热点时文语法填空专项练习（三）（原卷版） 第一篇： 石头竟然会走路？ Each day is a new adventure, waiting for us to discover and experience its wonders. Can you imagine stones move on 1.________ （they）own, leaving behind a trail? That’s what happens in Death Valley National Park in the US. Amazing, isn’t it? But 2.________does this happen? In fact, not all of the stones there move. Those that have moved don’t move at the same time or in the same 3.________（direct）. Some seem to have made abrupt (突然的) 90-degree 4.________（turn）. People have noticed that the stones moved a distance from tens of meters to 5.________（hundred）of meters long. Since the early 20th century, people had been trying 6.________（explain） this strange thing. It was not until 2014 that they found out that the 7.________（move）stones are “the result of a perfect balance of ice, water, and wind”, said the website of the National Park Foundation. In the winter, rain 8.________（fall） on the ground and freezes at night. The next day, it melts (融化) and breaks up 9.________thin ice sheets. With 10.________help of wind, the ice sheets move forward, pushing the stones with them. 第二篇： 世界最深人工钻井 When astronauts in Shenzhou-17 were flying high to study space, scientists 1._________（dig） deep to study the center of Earth! Earlier in May, China started drilling (钻) its first over 10,000-meter-deep borehole (钻孔) in Xinjiang. By Oct. 1, the hole was already 7,856 meters deep, 2.________(report )Xinjiang Daily. The borehole has a planned depth of 11,100 meters. It will take 457 days to dig, said Bloomberg News. When it 3._________(finish), it will become the deepest hole in China and one of the deepest in the world. The drill will go 4._________ more than ten layers of rock. The oldest layer is about 145 million years old. The Earth has lots of heat inside. So as the drill goes 5._________（deep）, it faces higher and higher temperatures. The metal drill could get so hot 6._________it would become as soft as noodles. The company doing the pr