专题14 短文填空（查补知识·通关练）【查漏补缺】2024年中考英语复习冲刺过关（广东专用）

专题14 短文填空（原稿版） 一．（2023年广东省卷真题）请从方框内选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使文章完整连贯。注意每空一词，每词仅用一次，有两词为多余项。请将答案写在答题卡对应题目的答题位置上。 it either be because what else by invent clean popular habit hundred There is a small thing we use every day. We usually put ____1____ in the bathroom. Without it, we might have tooth problems. Can you guess ____2____ it is? Yes, it’s the toothbrush. But do you know anything about its history? According to some research, before toothbrushes appeared, the ancient Chinese people ____3____ their teeth with some small tree branches (树枝). About 800 years ago, people made a kind of brushes with pig hair and bamboo. It might ____4____ the world’s earliest form of toothbrushes. As time went ____5____, the forms of toothbrushes changed. For example, people chose horse-tail hair instead of pig hair ____6____ pig hair was too hard. Imagine that you travel back to ____7____ of years ago and brush your teeth comfortably. It sounds fantastic, doesn’t it? Around the 15th century, the Chinese toothbrush found its way into Europe. It became ____8____ among local people soon. The ____9____ of toothbrushes was not as famous as that of paper-making, but it was very useful in daily life. Today we have a good ____10____ of brushing teeth. We should thank the ancient Chinese for it. 二．（2022年广东省卷真题） 请阅读下面短文，在所给的每个空格中填入一个形式正确、意义相符的单词。 Would you like to start your day with a cup of tea? If the answer is 1.______, you may have the same habit as many people. You may not know 2.______ popular tea is. Among all kinds of drinks, tea is one of the top two choices. People like it because it is 3.______ for their health. Tea is mostly produced 4.______ Asian countries like China and India. Chinese people started to drink tea as early as 5,000 years 5.______. At that time, people made tea in a simple way. They just put fresh tea leaves into hot 6.______. Tea wasn’t introduced into Europe until the early 17th century. And now it has 7.______ popular in Europe and America. People there like to