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广东省深圳市龙华区2023-2024学年七年级下学期期中英语试卷(解析版)
一、完型填空
I’m a piano teacher. I can feel ____1____ how talent and hard work affect my students.
In fact, not everybody was good at playing the piano. For example, some of my students just ____2____ two or three months learning to play the piano well. ____3____ others need to learn for years and talent doesn’t always bring a good ____4____. When playing the piano seems easy to a student, he or she sometimes finds it boring and then gives up. And talented students sometimes have other things they enjoy ____5____, so they give it up, too.
Some of my student work hard. But they still ____6____ play the piano beautifully. I teach them again and again, and ____7____ practice for long. However, it just doesn’t work for these students. In my eyes, it isn’t necessary to do everything very well. When you really don’t have any ____8____ for something, the best way is to give up. Then you can ____9____ what you’re truly interested in or good at, and put all your heart into it.
Both talent and hard work play important roles in ____10____. If you want to do the best, you need to follow your talent and work as hard as you can. Don’t give up halfway.
1. A. quickly B. clearly C. simply D. hardly
2. A. spend B. solve C. use D. catch
3. A. After B. Before C. But D. And
4. A. advice B. prize C. dream D. result
5. A. more B. many C. little D. less
6. A. shouldn’t B. might C. can’t D. must
7. A. they B. she C. he D. it
8. A. hobby B. culture C. peace D. talent
9. A. dislike B. choose C. describe D. practice
10. A. learning B. playing C. reading D. working
二、阅读理解
By 2050, nearly (将近) 70% of the world’s population (人口) will live in cities. Many of them will become large cities with a population of more than 10 million. Moving people around each large city will be difficult. The traffic speed (速度) in London will fall to about 7 miles (英里) per (每) hour. Around the same speed (速度) it was 150 years ago, in the days of the horse and cart. But city planne