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贵阳市南明区2024年初中学业水平适应性考试
英语
同学你好!答题前请认真阅读以下内容:
1.全卷共8页,四个部分,满分90分,考试时间为100分钟,考试形式为闭卷。
2.请在答题卡指定位置作答,在试题卷上答题视为无效。
3.选择题均为单项选择题,多选不得分。
第一部分 完形(共两节,满分16分)
第一节(共6个小题;每小题1分,满分6分)
阅读下面短文,从框内7个选项中选出能分别填入6个小题空白处的最佳选项。
A. but B. surprise C. used D. them E. older F. habit G. from
For people who love reading, there’s nothing better than the smell of an old book. But what makes old books smell the way they do? The paper, ink and glue that are ___1___ to make books hold hundreds of chemical compounds (化合物). Lignin (木质素) is a compound found in the trees that paper is made from. As a book gets ___2___, compounds like lignin start to break down, and they give off chemicals that we can smell.
But why do people like the smell so much? Because they think the smell of old books is similar to the smell of chocolate. Scientists created an “old book smell” using fibers (纤维) ___3___ a 1928 French book. Seventy-nine people smelled the old book smell, ___4___ they weren’t told what it was. They were then asked to describe it. A large number of people said it smelled like chocolate. Others said it smelled like coffee. This shouldn’t be a ___5___: coffee and chocolate also come from materials having lignin.
Lignin might give books their sweet smell, but it also makes the pages yellow, and books today use paper with less lignin. This might let ___6___ stay white longer, but won’t make the smell as sweet in the future.
Just ignore (忽视) what books are made from. Let’s do as an old saying goes, “Book smell enriches the soul, reading enriches life”.
第二节(共10个小题;每小题1分,满分10分)
阅读下面短文,从短文后各题所给的A、B、C三个选项中,选出可以填入各题空白处的最佳选项。
Through hard training, a girls’ soccer team in Zhangpan village in Luoyang, Henan province, has helped improve young players’ self-confidence and bring them a brighter future. There are only about 200 students and 19 teachers in Zhangpan Primary School and the small rural school has faced many problems in ___7___ the sport.
Everything didn’t go well at first The player