一、用所给单词的适当形式填空。
1. We've got a 3-day holiday ______ (include) New Year's Day.
2. The 20th Sports Games of Jiangsu was ______ (success) held in Taizhou.
3. Many parents are considering ______ (choose) a good school for their children.
4. When you play with children, you will be ______ (amaze) at how quickly they learn things.
5. (2025·扬州市高邮期末)Though my uncle is already in his ______ (fifty), he keeps a childlike sense of wonder.

including
; successfully
; choosing
; amazed
; fifties

1. Jackie Chan is considered ______ many people ______ a superstar ______ his success in action films.
A. by; as; for
B. by; for; as
C. as; for; by
D. for; as; by

A
;

2. Our headmaster often tells us that success needs a lot of ______.
A. charm
B. career
C. effects
D. efforts

D

3. (2023·泰州市兴化月考)Travelling by train is ______ cheaper and ______ enjoyable than by air.
A. more; much
B. rather; much too
C. much; far more
D. much; far too

C

4. —Why didn't you write down what the teacher said?
—Because she spoke ______ fast ______ I couldn't follow her.
A. too; to
B. very; that
C. enough; to
D. so; that

D
;

三、完成句子。
1. 到目前为止，成龙演了将近一百二十部电影并获得过许多奖项。
__________, Jackie Chan ____________ many awards.
2. 他们如此善良以至于他们把所有的钱都用来帮助那里的残疾人。
They were ____________ they ____________ the disabled there.
3. 听完他的讲座，你就能明白他的教学风格有何特别之处了。
You will understand ____________ after listening to his lecture.
4. 他不仅导演了这部电影，而且还在影片中担任了主角。
He ____________ in it.
5. 他的电影之所以特别是因为他成功地将文化与激动人心的故事相结合。
His films are special because ____________.

So far
; has acted
; in nearly 120 films and has won
; so kind that
; spent
; all their money (on) helping
; what is special about
; his teaching style
; not only directed this film but (also) played
; the lead role
; he
; successfully joins culture and exciting stories together

四、(2025·泰州市泰州中学附中月考)任务型阅读。
Pigsy Eats Watermelon is a 1958 animated Chinese short film. It is less than 30 minutes long. Different from other films, this film was based on Chinese paper-cutting art. Its characters were paper cutouts(剪纸). How did the film-makers make the cutouts move? Well, they used some tricks from shadow puppetry(皮影戏). The story centres on Pigsy, one of the followers of Monk Xuanzang. Xuanzang and his followers are travelling to the west. On a hot day, when they are hungry and thirsty, Pigsy finds a watermelon, but he eats it all by himself. To punish him, the Monkey King makes Pigsy fall on watermelon rinds(外皮) again and again...
The film was directed by Wan Guchan. In 1956, Wan came back to Shanghai from Hong Kong. He started to work at the Shanghai Animation Film Studio. The director wanted to make a film to show traditional Chinese arts.
In early 1957, Wan's team began to work on this paper-cut film. They glued the characters and backgrounds onto a glass plate(板). Then, they put the plate on a wooden stand(架子). They planned to make this film in the style of stop-motion animation(定格动画). This meant that they had to form each small movement frame by frame(逐帧). After each shot(镜头), they would take the plate off the stand. Then, they changed the scene and put the plate back for the next shot. At first, the film looked too shaky(摇晃的). But after many tries, the team finally succeeded in making the film.