2025届高考英语考前语法填空考点押题专练之中国体育文化篇

2025届高考英语考前语法填空考点押题专练之中国体育文化篇

A

China is an ancient civilization and a big sports nation. Since 1949, China has vigorously developed 1.        (vary) sports and has made brilliant achievements in the 2.        (develop) of sports.

China 3.        (success) hosted the 29th Olympic Games in 2008, fulfilling the centennial Olympic dream of Chinese people. The Beijing Olympic Games not only showed the world China's local conditions and customs,4.        China's style as a big sports nation.     

Chinese national diving team is the trump card of Chinese sports. Since the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the diving team 5.       (contribute) 40 Olympic gold medals to the Chinese sports delegation, 6.        (rank) first in all Olympic events. It has emerged diving stars such as Gao Min, Fu Mingxia, Wu Minxia, Xiong Ni, Guo Jingjing, Tian Liang, Quan Hongchan.

Chinese national diving team 7.        (call) the“dream team”. Fu Mingxia, Guo Jingjing, Wu Minxia are called the“Diving Queens”. At Tokyo 2020, Quan Hongchan, 14-year-old, won the 10m platform champion with record results and became a new diving star.     

Table tennis has always been one of the favorite 8.        (sport) of the Chinese people. Since Rong Guotuan won 9.        first World Championship in 1959, the Chinese table tennis team has won more than 120 World Championships for the country for more than 40 years. Deng Yaping, Liu Guoliang, Kong Linghui, Zhang Yining, Wang Nan and Ma Long have become well-known table tennis stars. 10.       

July 30, 2021, Ma Long won the men's singles champion of table tennis in the Tokyo Olympic Games.   

B

Volleyball is a popular sport in China. Chinese women's volleyball team has become a world champion for ten times. Gymnastics is a 1.        (tradition) sport in China.

Chinese gymnastics team is the team 2.        has won the most Olympic gold medals for China in a single session in history. Famous players such as Li Ning, Li Xiaoshuang and Li Xiaopeng have emerged. Weightlifting is one of the advantageous sports in China. In August 2021, the Chinese weightlifting team won 7 gold medals,

3.        (create) the best record of Chinese weightlifting in the Olympic Games. Sprint has always been the weakness of Asians, 4.        Liu Xiang and Su Bingtian have impressed the world. In 5.        (add), shooting, swimming, badminton, basketball, football, fencing and other sports have achieved great development and 6.        (outstand) achievements in China.

As 7.        important part of popular culture, sports in China began to take real shape during the Qin, Han and Three Kingdoms periods. Sporting 8.     (scene)

have been recorded over the dynasties in sepulchral mural paintings(壁画), stone paintings, brick paintings, poems, etc.

During the Tang dynasty, equestrian polo was popular in the palace, the army

and among the men of letters. Even women took delight in playing it. The princess in the famous ancient drama Beating the Princess While Drunk 9.        (describe) as being addicted 10.        the game.

C

In the Song dynasty, cuju, a primitive soccer game using a leather ball 1.       

(fill) with hair, etc, was so popular 2.        everyone from the emperor to ordinary people participated 3.        it. In the novel Water Margin、Gao Qiu, a vulgar villain was promoted to a high 4.        (office) position by the emperor just because he was a skillful cuju player.

In the Yuan dynasty, people liked playing a game called chuiwan, 5.       was similar to golf as shown in the mural painting Hitting Balls, At that time, people used a stick that was crooked at one end to hit balls into a hole. The one who hit most balls into the hole won the game. 6.        (beside) ball games mentioned above, wrestling, dancing, chess playing, horse racing and other forms of sports were part of the ancient people's daily pastimes. Because of their unique lifestyles, ethnic minorities play sports with 7.        (they) own characteristics.

Since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Chinese government

8.        (promote) the development of traditional ethnic sports. Among the 1,000 or so such sports, some of the well-known ones are Mongolian wrestling, horsemanship and archery; Hui shuttlecock kicking and tug-of-war; Tibetan yak racing; Miao swinging and dragon boat racing; Zhuang coloured silk balls throwing; Korean see-saw jumping; Manchu skating; Dong walking on stilts; Yao top whipping.

Dragon boat racing, kite flying, yangge, weigi, qigong and taichi chuan are also traditional sports 9.        (popularity) among both Han people 10.        people of ethnic minorities.

D

Among traditional Chinese physical 1.        (active), martial arts may be the most 2.        (represent) and typical.

Martial arts can also 3.        (call) kung fu. According to the formation of Chinese characters, Wu is made up of Zhi and Ge . The former means “stop” while the 4.        (late) means “daggeraxe”or “any kind of weapon”. The combination of the two means “stop martial actions”. The character Shu means strategies. So the term Wushu means“using methods and skills 5.        (stop) martial actions and activities”. Another meaning of the term is the martial activities between two people or two groups with weapons.

Chinese martial arts may be traced back to prehistoric times 6.        Chinese ancestors used stones and wooden clubs in hunting for subsistence and self-defense, They are the forms of fighting sports that combine kicking, hitting, wrestling, seizing, tumbling, striking, chopping, etc., barehanded or with weapons. Martial arts have been created and developed 7.        the Chinese people and are a precious national cultural legacy.

With vigorous, graceful movements, martial arts provide practitioners with elegance and strength. People 8.        (attract) to martial arts for many reasons: to improve their health and fitness, to hone their defense skills, to enhance their mental

discipline, to have fun and to participate in martial arts competitions.

Chinese martial arts can be classified into the 9.        (follow) styles:northern VS southern styles.The Yellow River is used as the rough demarcation line.The practitioners of the southern style often utter shouts and cries to make their movement more forceful. The northern style is characterised by 10.        ( it) short, swift and vigorous routines.

E

The difference between internal and external styles lies in which parts 1.       

(train), the inner organs of the body or organs like wrists, arms, shoulders, legs, etc. The words “external”and “internal”are commonly misconceived, inaccurately and poorly applied. Some people hold that martial arts styles are either exclusively hard (external) 2.        exclusively soft (internal)

This tendency is incorrect, because any good martial arts style requires a 3.      

(balance) combination of the inseparable internal and external principles. With hundreds of styles, Chinese martial arts are diverse and complex, each possessing unique characteristics and all 4.        (come) from a rich cultural legacy. But there is a good saying, “Martial arts originate in China, but it belongs to the world”

Tai chi chuan is a popular school of Chinese martial arts 5.        (mark) with slow and gentle movements 6.        are designed for defense, strengthening of physique and prevention of diseases.

Qigong, also called deep breathing exercise, is practised by the Chinese on a regular basis 7.        (keep) fit. “Qi ” 8.        (literal) means “air" and implies“life force". The purpose of qigong is to coordinate the health of the mind and body. The practitioner does qigong for self-reliance, self-adjustment, body building, resisting premature aging, and prolonging life.

It is divided into two categories.The quiescent type requires practitioners to stand, sit or lie still, concentrate their mind, and breathe 9.        a special way to promote the circulation and digestion of the body. The mobile type calls for the use of mild physical exercises or massage to build one's health.

As for the popular superstars of martial arts, Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan and Jet Li are always at the top of the list. They are remembered and respected for 10.         

(they) contribution to the Chinese and even Asian culture. They have opened the door for people of all races and cultures, and are followed by countless people in pursuing their kung fu dreams.

F

To promote physical fitness nationwide, the General Administration of Sport of China has adopted many measures in the hope 1.        more people will take fitness activities as an integral part of their 2.        (day) life.

People throughout the country are paying more and more attention to fitness, and their lifestyle has changed a lot. In some large and medium-sized cities, spending money 3.        health and fitness has become trendy. There are many gymnasiums and stadiums across China, most of 4.        are open to and widely used by the general public. Body-building equipment can 5.        (find) easily in communities or other public places. 6.      (similar), there is a growing trend for people 7.