精品解析：2024年山东省淄博市高青县中考一模英语试题

2023-2024学年第二学期第一次模拟考试 九年级英语试题 注意：请将答案写在答题纸的相应位置！满分90分, 时间100分钟。 一、完形填空（共10小题, 满分10分） 阅读下面短文，从每小题A、B、C、D中选出一个能填入文章中相应空白处的最佳答案。 I was eleven years old when I asked my mom for piano lessons. At that time, our family was in poor condition. She said ____1____ but a polite “no”, wearing a smile on her face. That didn’t stop me. I ____2____ how to make a keyboard on the Internet, drew the keys on a piece of paper and stuck it to my desk. I would click on an online piano keyboard, keep the sounds in mind and “play” back on my paper one. I spent ____3____ months playing without touching a real one. Half a year passed my mom realized I was ____4____, she borrowed money from her friends and relatives and bought me ten lessons. I was shocked by how wonderful the ____5____ of a real piano was while having the first lesson. After eight lessons, I passed my level one. When it was over, we couldn’t ____6____ more lessons. I had to practice on my paper piano instead of a real one. In this way, I passed my level three and five then. One evening, my mom said she had a ____7____ for me: it was an electronic keyboard, bought with more borrowed money. That night, I played for her for the first time. She was ____8____, with tears in her eyes. My school didn’t offer music A-levels. I found the Purcell School for young musicians. But I had to pass a difficult test. The exam was so difficult that I felt beaten during the process. ____9____. I was offered a place. I take pride in myself because I was awarded the senior prize when I graduated and now become a teacher at the Guildhall School, a world’s leading music school. It has been ten years since I drew my paper piano. The fun thing is that I continue to practise in my mind, away from the real piano, what we call mental practice. Today my mum still keeps my first paper piano at home. Behind the paper piano hides a mum’s love and ____10____. It also is a symbol of my hard work and it reminds us there is always a way to solve the