内容正文:
湖北初中名校联盟2024年5月中考适应性考试
英语试卷
(本试题卷共10页,满分120分,考试时间130分钟)
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笔试部分(90分)
一、完形填空(共15小题,每小题1分,满分15分)
阅读短文,从每小题所给的A、B、C、D四个选项中,选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项。
“PROFESSOR, will you be away on business for five months?”
“Yes. But I’ll be ____1____ you from high above. Make sure you hand in your papers on time!”
This isn’t just a funny joke. It’s based on a real ____2____. One day before the Shenzhou-16 crew (乘组) went into space, China made public the names of its three astronauts. One of them, a man wearing glasses, got tons of ____3____. His name is Gui Haichao. He works as a college professor.
Gui showed a ____4____ interest in science from an early age. One of his favorite books was The Encyclopedia for Children and Teenagers (《少年儿童百科全书》). He learned ____5____ about space from it. And the more the boy learned about this ____6____ place, the more he wanted to know about it. In 2003, Yang Liwei became the first Chinese man to travel into space. Gui was excited about the news. And he dreamed of going into space ____7____ one day.
With this dream in ____8____, he entered Beihang University to study space science. His resolution to explore the unknown pushed him to ____9____ moving forward. In 2017, at the age of only 31, he became one of the ____10____ space science professors in China. Gui never forgot his dream of going into space. He knew this was ____11____ the best way to study its many mysteries. So, when China ____12____ its astronaut recruitment (招募) to college researchers in 2018, Gui immediately signed up (报名). The ____13____ was hard, but there was nothing that could keep him from making his lifelong dream ____14____.
Are you ____15____ in the unknown? We hope you’ve answered yes. Who knows? Maybe one day, you’ll be watching your friends and us from somewhere high above!