阅读短文，从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空。
meet he lover perfectly of gift because valuable describe perform
During the Spring and Autumn Period, there lived a 1. musician named Yu Boya, who often drew inspiration from nature. He was really good at playing the guqin. However, Boya was unhappy because few people could understand 2. music.
While travelling by boat to the State of Chu, the beautiful scenery inspired him to play. So he couldn't help playing his guqin. As he performed, Zhong Ziqi, a woodsman and music 3. , stood quietly on the bank, enjoying the music. Yu invited him onto the boat. Yu played music that 4. the high mountains. Zhong said, “Wonderful! I see the grand (雄伟的) Taishan Mountain!” When Yu played another music describing the flowing water, Zhong again understood 5. , saying, “I hear the rushing river!”
Yu was surprised and said, “You really understand my music!” Then the musician and the woodsman became good friends. They decided to 6. each other again at the same place the next year. When that time came, Yu arrived, but he unluckily found that Zhong had died 7. an illness.
Yu felt so sad that he gave the last 8. of the “high mountains and flowing water”. He then broke his guqin into pieces and never played it again 9. he thought no one in the world would understand his music anymore.
This story tells us that 10. friendship isn't about who you are or how long you've known each other. Instead, it should be about two people sharing the same feelings with each other.

1. gifted 2. his 3. lover 4. described 5. perfectly 6. meet 7. of 8. performance
9. because 10. valuable

【分析】
本题为短文选词填空题，解题思路如下：1. 先明确方框内10个单词的词义、词性；2. 通读全文，理解短文（伯牙子期的故事）的主旨大意；3. 结合每个空格的语境、语法规则（如词性、时态、固定搭配等），选择合适的单词并进行必要的形式变化；4. 将所选单词代入空格，检查是否符合逻辑与语法，最终确定答案。
【解析】
1. 空格后为名词musician，需用形容词修饰，方框中名词gift变形为形容词gifted（有天赋的），故填gifted。
2. 空格后为名词music，需用形容词性物主代词修饰，方框中主格he变形为his，故填his。
3. 此处表示“音乐爱好者”，方框中名词lover符合语境，故填lover。
4. 空格所在定语从句缺谓语，时态为一般过去时，方框中动词describe变形为过去式described，故填described。
5. 空格处修饰动词understood，需用副词，方框中形容词perfect变形为副词perfectly，故填perfectly。
6. 固定搭配decide to do sth.（决定做某事），方框中动词meet符合语境，故填meet。
7. 固定搭配die of（死于……），后接疾病类名词，故填of。
8. 空格前为last，需用名词，方框中动词perform变形为名词performance（演奏），故填performance。
9. 空格后表原因，需用连词because引导原因状语从句，故填because。
10. 空格后为名词friendship，需用形容词修饰，方框中形容词valuable符合语境，故填valuable。
【答案】
1. gifted 2. his 3. lover 4. described 5. perfectly 6. meet 7. of 8. performance 9. because 10. valuable
【知识点】
形容词用法、词性转换、固定搭配
【点评】
本题围绕经典故事展开选词填空，考查学生对词汇的词义、词性及形式变化的掌握，需结合语境与语法规则解题，是初中英语常见题型，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.6