请从方框内选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空，使文章语法正确、完整连贯。注意:每空一词,每词仅用一次,有两词为多余项。
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interest sing popular much
plenty cheer culture they
A 10-year-old student named Yu Xiaojun put on his Beijing opera clothes and started performing. People 1. when they heard his singing.
Yu is one of more than 800 children in the children's Beijing opera troupe(剧团) in Zhengzhou. "I want to be a Beijing opera 2. when I grow up," Yu said. "I have been learning Beijing opera since five years ago. I am very 3. in it. The longer I learn Beijing opera, the 4. I love it."
Like Yu, all the other children in the troupe spend 5. spare time practising Beijing opera while their classmates are playing.
These children not only do well in singing, but also know much about traditional Chinese 6. .
Yu and his partners are a bit shy when answering questions, 7. they are confident when singing.
"The children in the troupe are from 20 schools. 8. them, the youngest is only 6 years old. They all practise hard," said Hu, a teacher in the troupe.
The troupe has become 9. these years. The children often go to different 10. to perform. People all speak highly of their performances.

1. cheered
2. singer
3. interested
4. more
5. their
6. culture
7. but
8. Among
9. popular
10. places

【分析】
首先通读全文，明确文章讲述郑州儿童京剧团孩子学习京剧的故事。接着逐个分析每个空格的语境、语法要求，从方框内选词并进行适当变形，注意每词仅用一次，排除未使用的词汇。具体思路：1. 第1空需过去式动词，对应cheer；2. 第2空需表示职业的名词，对应sing的名词形式；3. 第3空考查固定搭配be interested in；4. 第4空考查the+比较级，the+比较级结构；5. 第5空需形容词性物主代词修饰名词；6. 第6空需名词表示“文化”；7. 第7空需转折连词；8. 第8空需介词表示“在三者及以上之间”；9. 第9空需形容词作表语；10. 第10空需名词复数，对应different修饰。
【解析】
1. 句子时态为一般过去时，谓语动词用过去式，cheer的过去式是cheered，符合“人们听到他的演唱欢呼”的语境，故填cheered。
2. 此处表示“京剧歌手”，sing的名词形式为singer，故填singer。
3. 固定搭配be interested in意为“对……感兴趣”，符合语境，故填interested。
4. 固定结构“the + 比较级，the + 比较级”表示“越……越……”，much的比较级是more，故填more。
5. 修饰名词spare time需用形容词性物主代词，they的形容词性物主代词是their，故填their。
6. traditional Chinese culture意为“传统文化”，culture为不可数名词，故填culture。
7. 前后句为转折关系，用连词but，故填but。
8. 表示“在三者及以上的人/物之间”用介词among，句首首字母大写，故填Among。
9. become后接形容词作表语，popular意为“受欢迎的”，符合语境，故填popular。
10. different后接可数名词复数，place的复数形式是places，故填places。
【答案】
1. cheered
2. singer
3. interested
4. more
5. their
6. culture
7. but
8. Among
9. popular
10. places
【知识点】
词汇变形；固定搭配；语法运用
【点评】
本题考查词汇在语境中的综合运用，需结合句意、语法规则选择并变形方框内的单词，重点考查固定搭配和常见语法结构，要求学生掌握基础词汇的不同形式及用法。
【难度系数】
0.6