人与社会 主题(五) 文学、艺术与体育(含答案)（Word练习）-【指点中考】2025年湖北中考英语话题读写思维训练

主题五　文学、艺术与体育

一、完形填空

Podareva, 28, was born in the hometown of Russia's famous poet Sergei Yesenin.She has 　1　 poetry(诗歌) since her childhood.Growing up, she wrote many poems in both Russian and English.　2　 she came to China to study Chinese in 2013, the world of Chinese poetry opened up before her.

Podareva has had colorful 　3　 in China in the past ten years.She has won prizes in many Chinese poetry writing competitions and published her own Chinese poetry collections.Her most 　4　 memory is that one of her Chinese poems written in 2020 was turned into a song.

“Some people may praise China in a direct way, but I 　5　 to express my feelings about the country and describe the friendship between China and Russia through different styles of 　6　，” Podareva says.

Podareva has always wanted to be a cultural ambassador(使者) between the two 　7　.

In 2020, she began to make videos and shared 　8　 online.Besides sharing Chinese poems she had written, Podareva also 　9　 videos about cultural differences between China and Russia.Sometimes she created humorous videos to 　10　 the misunderstandings that Chinese people have towards Russians.

Besides writing poetry, Podareva has also been painting.She doesn't think the two art forms are 　11　 from each other.“Wang Wei was a famous Chinese poet, and he was 　12　 a painter，” she says.In December 2022, Podareva held an exhibition in Shanghai with 66 of her 　13　 on show.

“All art is a way for the creators to express their 　14　，” Podareva says. “I hope to create a website in Russia and introduce China—through my poetry and paintings to Russians, so that the friendship between the two countries will be much 　15　.”   

1．A．passed  B．loved 

C．wished  D．heard

2．A．Although  B．If

C．After  D．Before

3．A．experiences  B．benefits

C．lessons  D．interests

4．A．uncomfortable  B．unbelievable

C．unforgettable  D．unlucky

5．A．wait  B．stick 

C．promise  D．prefer

6．A．reports  B．poems  

C．plays  D．movies

7．A．cities  B．schools

C．families  D．countries

8．A．them  B．him 

C．it  D．us

9．A．bought  B．produced

C．carried  D．borrowed

10．A．explain  B．delete 

C．cut  D．cover

11．A．similar  B．free 

C．different  D．safe

12．A．really  B．also 

C．quite  D．even

13．A．books  B．poems 

C．videos  D．paintings

14．A．spirit  B．time 

C．wealth  D．power

15．A．clearer  B．deeper 

C．wider  D．higher

二、阅读理解

Like many American teenagers, Dick Fosbury wanted to be a professional sportsman but he had a problem—he wasn't very good at any sport.He didn't play football very well and although he was very tall, he wasn't a very good basketball player either.He tried running, throwing and jumping, and of all these events, he found that he wasn't too bad at the high jump.

At that time there were two popular styles of jumping over the bar(横杆)．There was the scissors jump, where the athlete jumped over using his legs like a pair of scissors, and there was the straddle(俯卧式跳高), where the athlete jumped face forward.By following the second style, Dick Fosbury could jump high but it was still a long way from the world record of 2.23 m.

One afternoon he decided to do something completely different.Instead of jumping face forward, he turned around and made a backwards jump by using the natural shape of his back.The results were amazing！In a few hours he improved his personal best by over 20 cm.

When Dick Fosbury took part in the 1968 Olympics, no one knew his name.As the competition started, people in the crowd began to notice that one of the jumpers had a very strange style.At first, they laughed each time he jumped over the bar.After nearly four hours, there were only three jumpers left.The crowd weren't laughing at him anymore—they were cheering him on.The bar was at 2.24 m—a new world record.The other two jumpers knocked it off but Fosbury flew over.He won the gold medal.

Dick Fosbury was now famous all over the world and his Fosbury flop changed forever the way that high jumpers jumped.

1．Why did Fosbury choose to do the high jump?