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Friends are very 1. (importance) in our life because friends are always there when we need 2. (they). It's great 3. (have) many friends, and I can't imagine my life 4. my friends. I am Molly Disney from the United Kingdom. My best friend is Lily. When I first 5. (meet) her, I was five. She is one year 6. (old) than me. Now she is in 7. same class as me, and we are in the 7th grade. She is tall and quite thin with long curly blonde hair and blue 8. (eye). I am not so beautiful. Sometimes I wish I could be as beautiful 9. she is.
I am tall enough but a little 10. (fat) than Lily. Lily and I like doing a lot of things together and we also like 11. (talk) about many different things. She always 12. (help) me with my maths and I sometimes help her with her English and history. Lily is 13. (friend) and everybody loves her. She is also smart and she can deal 14. everything. I am happy to have a friend 15. her.

1. important 2. them 3. to have
4. without 5. met 6. older 7. the
8. eyes 9. as 10. fatter 11. talking/to talk
12. helps 13. friendly 14. with 15. like

【分析】
本题为英语语篇填空题，需结合词性转换、语法规则、固定搭配及句意推导答案：
1. 空在be动词后，需用形容词作表语，故将名词importance转换为形容词；
2. 空在动词need后，需用人称代词宾格作宾语，故将主格they转换为宾格；
3. 考查固定句型It's + adj + to do sth，需用动词不定式；
4. 根据句意“无法想象没有朋友的生活”，需填表“没有”的介词；
5. 描述过去的动作（初次遇见），用一般过去时，故将动词meet变为过去式；
6. 由than可知需用形容词比较级，故将old变为比较级；
7. 考查固定搭配the same，需加定冠词the；
8. 指“双眼”，可数名词用复数形式；
9. 考查同级比较固定搭配as...as，故填as；
10. 由than可知需用形容词比较级，故将fat变为比较级；
11. 考查like的用法（like doing/to do），故填动名词或不定式；
12. 主语为第三人称单数she，一般现在时谓语用三单形式；
13. 空在be动词后，需用形容词作表语，故将名词friend转换为形容词；
14. 考查固定搭配deal with，需填介词with；
15. 根据句意“像她这样的朋友”，需填表“像”的介词。
【解析】
1. 考查形容词：be动词后接形容词作表语，名词importance的形容词形式为important；
2. 考查代词宾格：动词need后接人称代词宾格作宾语，they的宾格为them；
3. 考查固定句型：It's + adj + to do sth为固定句型，意为“做某事是……的”，故填to have；
4. 考查介词：根据句意“我无法想象没有朋友的生活”，填介词without；
5. 考查一般过去时：描述过去发生的动作，谓语动词用过去式，meet的过去式为met；
6. 考查形容词比较级：由than可知需用比较级，old的比较级为older；
7. 考查固定搭配：the same为固定搭配，意为“相同的”，故填定冠词the；
8. 考查名词复数：eye是可数名词，此处指双眼，需用复数形式eyes；
9. 考查固定搭配：as...as为同级比较固定搭配，故填as；
10. 考查形容词比较级：由than可知需用比较级，fat的比较级为fatter；
11. 考查like的用法：like后可接动名词或不定式表示“喜欢做某事”，故填talking/to talk；
12. 考查主谓一致：主语为第三人称单数she，一般现在时谓语用三单形式，help的三单为helps；
13. 考查形容词：be动词后接形容词作表语，名词friend的形容词形式为friendly；
14. 考查固定搭配：deal with为固定搭配，意为“处理”，故填介词with；
15. 考查介词：根据句意“我很高兴有像她这样的朋友”，填介词like。
【答案】
1. important 2. them 3. to have 4. without 5. met 6. older 7. the 8. eyes 9. as 10. fatter 11. talking/to talk 12. helps 13. friendly 14. with 15. like
【知识点】
形容词转换、代词宾格、固定搭配
【点评】
本题围绕“朋友”主题设置语篇填空题，考查初中英语核心基础语法（词性转换、时态、比较级、固定搭配等），注重对词汇和语法规则的实际运用，难度适中，适合初中阶段学生巩固练习。
【难度系数】
0.6

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Have you ever seen someone blow sugar figu-
rines(糖人)? It's 1. kind of traditional
Chinese folk art with a history of over 600 years.
It is 2. (wide) loved in most people's
childhood. Do you know 3. to blow a
sugar figurine?
Xiong Chuanfa, a figurine maker from Jiangxi,
can show you the process. Sugar figurines are
4. (make) of syrup (糖浆). First,
Xiong 5. (heat) some syrup to the
required temperature. Then he turns the syrup
6. a ball with a hole in the centre and
7. (press) its edges(边缘) together to
form a tube (管). The most important step
comes—Xiong turns the sugar ball into different
8. (shape) while he is blowing air into
the tube.
Many people are interested 9.
Xiong's "magic show". Ngendakumana from
Burundi is one of them. He tried to make a sugar
figurine by 10. (he). However, it's
11. (easy) to see than to do. Ngenda-
kumana failed many times before he 12.
(final) succeeded in 13. (produce) a
sugar horse.
Xiong's family also do something 14.
(avoid) such folk art's disappearance. His wife
Wang Li does sugar painting, which is also one of
the 15. (form) of the traditional Chi-
nese art. Even Xiong's six-year-old son can blow
balloons out of sugar.

1. a 2. widely 3. how 4. made 5. heats
6. into 7. presses 8. shapes 9. in
10. himself 11. easier 12. finally
13. producing 14. to avoid 15. forms

【分析】
本题为语法填空题，需结合固定搭配、词性转换、动词时态、比较级、非谓语动词等知识点解题：1空考查固定搭配；2空需用副词修饰动词；3空考查“疑问词+不定式”结构；4空考查被动语态；5空考查一般现在时第三人称单数；6空考查固定短语；7空考查并列谓语的形式；8空考查名词复数；9空考查固定搭配；10空考查反身代词；11空考查比较级；12空考查副词修饰动词；13空考查固定短语搭配；14空考查不定式表目的；15空考查“one of+名词复数”结构。
【解析】
1. 固定搭配a kind of，意为“一种”，故填a；
2. 修饰动词loved需用副词，wide的副词形式为widely，故填widely；
3. 此处为“疑问词+不定式”作know的宾语，结合语境“如何吹糖人”，填how；
4. be made of为固定短语，意为“由……制成”，此处用被动语态，故填made；
5. 主语Xiong为第三人称单数，一般现在时谓语动词用第三人称单数形式，heat的第三人称单数为heats，故填heats；
6. turn...into...为固定短语，意为“把……变成……”，故填into；
7. 与前面turn并列作谓语，主语为第三人称单数，press的第三人称单数为presses，故填presses；
8. different后接可数名词复数，shape的复数为shapes，故填shapes；
9. be interested in为固定搭配，意为“对……感兴趣”，故填in；
10. by oneself为固定短语，意为“独自”，he的反身代词为himself，故填himself；
11. 由than可知用比较级，easy的比较级为easier，故填easier；
12. 修饰动词succeeded需用副词，final的副词形式为finally，故填finally；
13. succeed in doing sth为固定短语，意为“成功做某事”，produce的动名词为producing，故填producing；
14. 此处用不定式表目的，故填to avoid；
15. “one of+可数名词复数”表示“……之一”，form的复数为forms，故填forms。
【答案】
1. a 2. widely 3. how 4. made 5. heats 6. into 7. presses 8. shapes 9. in 10. himself 11. easier 12. finally 13. producing 14. to avoid 15. forms
【知识点】
固定搭配、词性转换、动词时态、比较级、非谓语动词
【点评】
本题围绕中国传统民间艺术糖人展开，考查基础英语语法与固定搭配，题型常见，侧重学生对基础知识的运用能力，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.3