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四川省历年中考真题分类汇编:完形填空(故事阅读类)

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日期: 2024-11-26
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完形填空
完形填空

All the time, little Dick was happy. He used to go about singing and dancing the whole day long. Nothing could make him sad.

One day, Dick wanted" travel in the1. So he set out with excitement, singing till he made the forest full of songs.

He was about to drink near a river in the woods when he was2. He found himself in the hands of a tall giant (庞然大物), a hundred times as3as himself! The giant looked at him and then put him into a large4and carried him off.

Poor Dick tried to get out of the bag,5the giant only laughed.

At last the giant came to his house—a dark place. When he got in, 6shut the door, and took Dick out of the bag.

Dick now thought he would7, for when he looked around he saw a large fire, and before it his two brothers were roasted (烤) for the giant's dinner. However, the giant, did not kill Dick, but put him into a prison (监狱) which he had8for him.

The prison was dark, with bars (栏杆) all round it. The only food was bread and water. Dick beat his head9the bars. Dick was too10to think of eating or drinking.

The11Dick thought of his free life — warm home, close friends, the12the trees and the flowers.

The giant came again, and wanted Dick to sing as he13do. "Sing, sing!" said he. But Dick was too sad to14. A prison is no place in which to sing. 15the giant grew angry, and took Dick out to force him to sing. Dick cried, struggled, and then died in the giant's hand!

This is a true story. Poor Dick was a little bird, and the giant was a cruel boy.

阅读理解

Ping-pong, or table tennis is very popular in China. It might seem like an ordinary game to play with friends or family. 1 it holds a special place in China-US relations, as it has helped both countries get along for the last 50 years. This has 2 "ping-pong diplomacy (乒乓外交)".

Judy Hoarfrost was just 15 years old when she 3 from the US to China as part of a nine-member table tennis team. The year was 1971, and for the previous (之前的) 20 years, relations between China and the US had been 4.

But as the team 5 around China, things started warming up. Hoarfrost even got to meet then-Premier Zhou Enlai. "The most memorable moment was that Zhou was shaking hands 6 me and looking into my eyes," Hoarfrost told China Daily. "You have opened a new page in Sino-US relationships," Zhou told the team.

Players from both countries believed strongly in the idea of 7 first, competition second. To this day, many of them remain friends. Hoarfrost thinks we should remember ping-pong diplomacy 8 understand the importance of people-to-people exchanges in establishing bonds, human bonds between peoples.

In the years that followed the historical visit, US president Richard Nixon (尼克松) made a landmark (里程碑) visit to China in 1972. Diplomatic relations 9 the US and China were fully established (建立) in 1979.

Seeing tension (紧张局面) between two of the world's biggest powers in recent years, Hoarfrost said China and the US 10 work together. "We have so much in common and we should improve our relations," she added.

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