B (2023·辽宁营口)
make，culture，day，fall，use，it，something，show，heavy，how
新素材 传统文化 For thousands of years，bamboo inspired artists to create works of art. In the hands of artisans(手艺人)，bamboo can 1 into beautiful objects.
Wuyi Mountain is a UNESCO World Heritage(遗产) Site that is near Fujian and Jiangxi provinces，and bamboo grows 2 there. Apart from Wuyi Mountain’s tea，the place is also known for 3 bamboo weaving(编织) tradition. Artisans can make baskets，umbrellas，and almost 4 out of bamboo. Carrying a history of 2，000 years，bamboo weaving art was listed as a national 5 heritage in 2008.
Xie Hongxing，40，as an inheritor(传承人) of bamboo weaving art，has been weaving bamboo for 22 years. Recently，he has become famous for a mini Tiangong Space Station made of bamboo. Xie surprised watchers online by 6 a knife to quickly cut bamboo into pieces of the same width. He said it took forty - six 7 to finish his mini space station. He used more than a dozen species of local bamboo 8 the beauty of the space station. It took him seven hours to figure out 9 to weave a small national flag of China.
He hopes more young people 10 in love with the art and discover the beauty of traditional culture.

1. be made 2. heavily 3. its 4. anything
5. cultural 6. using 7. days 8. to show
9. how 10. will fall

C (2023·泰州市兴化期末)
Has anyone ever told you to “put a sock in it”? That might mean you are too 1 (noise) or you are talking too much. The person wants you to be quiet. It is 2 funny thing to say. How did this 3 (usual) expression come into being?
We know Thomas Edison invented the light bulb 4 many other things. He had one favourite invention(发明). It was the phonograph(留声机) or “talking machine”. It could record sound and play it back. Edison felt 5 excited that he called it his “baby”. At first，the sound that the machine made was very loud. And there was no way to control the volume(音量) of sound. The sound that came from the horn(喇叭) was so loud that people could hardly talk while the music 6 (play). The noise gave some people headaches. To turn down the volume，people started putting socks into the horn to make the sound lower. Until the 1930s，teenagers always put socks into their record players. It stopped their parents 7 (get) sick from the loud music.
8 (luck)，a sound control was made. Then socks went back where they belonged—on 9 (people) feet. Today， 10 people tell you to “put a sock in it”，you will know exactly what their meaning is.

1. noisy 2. a 3. unusual 4. and 5. so
6. was played 7. getting 8. Luckily
9. people’s 10. if/when