题型:完形填空 题类: 难易度:困难
北京市东城区2024年中考一模英语试题
Our community library decided to offer a painting class. I told my friend Ella, and we both signed up.
On the big day, our first 1 was to paint a white vase of cheerful yellow sunflowers against a blue background.
We were asked to paint our canvas (画布) 2 . It was easy to follow the instructor to move the brush. Although I had never painted before, I could tell I was a 3 . I started thinking about where I would hang my new masterpiece.
Immediately after that, however, I began to run into 4 . The first curved (弯曲的) line of my vase looked perfect, but when I painted the line on the opposite side, my hand slipped (打滑). I tried to 5 that white streak (条痕) with blue paint, but it didn't work.
While I was busy fixing my messy painting, the instructor explained how to paint the sunflower leaves. Things went downhill fast after that. My leaves looked like fat, green caterpillars (毛毛虫). When I failed to clean my paintbrush, I accidentally made the sunflowers green. I felt 6 when I saw how good everyone else's paintings looked.
Ella sweetly praised my sunflowers, perhaps feeling sorry for me. When I said that hers were much better, she looked surprised. "No, they're not. I messed up in at least five places." After a few seconds, she asked, "Want to 7 paintings?"
Until that moment, I had felt only dislike for my painting. And yet for some reason, giving it away felt wrong. It wasn't a perfect painting, but it was mine—the first one I had ever created. I knew Ella must have realized that she felt the same way when she suddenly shook her head and said. "Never mind."
My sunflower painting still hangs directly above my bed. I often look at it. Every time I look at it. I 8 . It always brightens my day and brings warmth to my room. I really like it now.
{#blank#}1{#/blank#}Jane was deeply attracted by Chinese history and culture. She wants to learn some geography facts about ancient China. {#blank#}2{#/blank#}Bob likes to collect different sayings. In Chinese culture, his favorite saying is "Learning without thought is effort lost; thought without learning is dangerous." {#blank#}3{#/blank#}Lily is a big fan of Chinese Tang and Song poetry. She enjoyed reading poetry even more after she came to China last year. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}Mike is very interested in China's history. If possible, he would like to learn all of five thousand years of Chinese history. {#blank#}5{#/blank#}John is a great fan of Wu Song. When he first heard the story of Wu Song, he was interested in it. He also wants to be a hero like Wu Song. | A. Water Margins is one of China's four great classic novels. Wu Song fights the tiger is a wonderful story in the book. The story shows Wu Song is so brave that he fights against the tiger. B. The Analects(《论语》)is a collection of sayings of Confucius and his students during the Spring and Autumn Period. The sayings in it are easy to understand but have deep meanings. C. The Classic of Mountains and Rivers includes ancient geography, history, animals, plants, medicine and so on. It has always been regarded as a practical(适用的) geography book and an encyclopedia(百科全书) of ancient times. D. The Ordinary World is a novel written by Lu Yao. The book mainly tells the story of two brothers, Sun Shaoping and Sun Shaoan. They work hard to get a better life. The writer thought highly of workers and he put this feeling into the work. E. Records of the Historian(《史记》) was written by Sima Qian. Being a great work, Records of the Historian opens a new way of recording historical events. It also has great influence on later works. F. The Border Town was written by Shen Congwen. It is a classic novel of Shen Congwen. The writer tells the special customs of western Hunan with the love story of Cuicui, a young girl. G. Poetic Remarks on the Human World is a great work written by Wang Guowei. It talks about Chinese classical poetry, such as some famous Tang and Song poetry from different levels. |
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