Ⅰ. 完形填空
阅读下面短文，从各小题所给的四个选项中选出最佳选项。
I’m Maddie and we’re students in Ms King’s class. We want music lessons, but we don’t have money to buy instruments. We 1 a good idea. We decide to make instruments by 2 and give a show!
We can sell tickets(票) to 3 money, and buy new instruments. But 4 do we make instruments? We ask our friends and family for help. Aha! We can use the things from our homes, 5 paper boxes, bowls, buckets and pots(桶和锅).
We are making instruments that we can shake(摇). Fay and Oscar put some stones into two Coke bottles. Evan and Kate put some 6 into paper boxes. Now, they are shaking them to a piece of music.
We are all practicing our instruments. These buckets and pots are our drums. Bruno, Sara, and Dan are hitting them with 7. Ms King is helping us. We are having fun.
It’s the show night. People are buying tickets. We are all playing our instruments, singing and dancing. Our parents are taking 8 for us. The people are giving money! It’s a 9 show.
Look, now we have our new instruments! Words cannot 10 how happy we are! We are playing them and we sound great. We still like our old instruments, too!
()1. A. look like B. think of
C. learn about D. talk with
()2. A. yourself B. himself
C. myself D. ourselves
()3. A. raise B. borrow
C. save D. keep
()4. A. how B. what
C. why D. when
()5. A. along B. by
C. including D. inside
()6. A. water B. rice
C. milk D. honey
()7. A. clay B. glue
C. scissors D. sticks
()8. A. pictures B. walks
C. classes D. hours
()9. A. wonderful B. bad
C. lonely D. wide
()10. A. help B. teach
C. express D. lead

1. B 2. D 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. B 7. D 8. A
9. A 10. C

【分析】
做完形填空需先通读全文把握主旨（本文讲述学生们没钱买乐器，自制乐器办演出筹钱的故事），再结合语境、词义辨析、固定搭配逐一分析每个空：先明确每个空的考查方向，再匹配对应选项的含义与语境适配性，确保逻辑通顺。
【解析】
1. 考查动词短语：look like（看起来像）、think of（想出）、learn about（了解）、talk with（和…交谈），结合语境“想出一个好主意”，选B。
2. 考查反身代词：by oneself表示“独自”，主语是we，对应反身代词ourselves，选D。
3. 考查动词：raise money是固定搭配，意为“筹钱”，符合“卖票筹钱买新乐器”的语境，选A。
4. 考查疑问词：根据后文“用家里的东西制作乐器”，此处询问“如何制作乐器”，用how，选A。
5. 考查介词：including意为“包括”，用于列举物品，符合“用家里的东西，包括纸盒、碗等”的语境，选C。
6. 考查名词：结合前文“制作可摇晃的乐器”，rice（米）放入纸盒摇晃可发声，符合语境，选B。
7. 考查名词：打鼓用的工具是sticks（棍子），其他选项（黏土、胶水、剪刀）不符合，选D。
8. 考查固定搭配：take pictures意为“拍照”，符合父母为演出的孩子拍照的语境，选A。
9. 考查形容词：根据前文“人们给钱、大家开心”，演出是精彩的，wonderful（精彩的）符合，选A。
10. 考查动词：express意为“表达”，句意为“言语无法表达我们有多开心”，选C。
【答案】
1.B 2.D 3.A 4.A 5.C 6.B 7.D 8.A 9.A 10.C
【知识点】
完形填空解题技巧、词义辨析、固定搭配
【点评】
本文是贴近学生生活的记叙文，考查的词汇和语法均为初中英语基础考点，需结合上下文语境分析，难度适中，适合学生巩固基础。
【难度系数】
0.6

Ⅱ.短文填空
阅读下面短文,在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。
“How do you do the 72 changes? ... Push it up to change ...” A man named Guo Yuanfeng played 11. a little toy in a video. The toy was 12. (quick) turned into flowers, animals and more!
This toy has a beautiful name: Magic Paper Flowers. Guo's family has a long history of
13. (make) it. When Guo 14. (be) young, he learned it from his father. 15. (one), he chooses special paper. Then he 16. (cut) the paper into small pieces. After that, he colours them. 17. (final) he glues the pieces together.
Guo made the video this March. In the video, he also gives each shape an 18. (interest) name and tells it in a song. Millions of people watched it 19. the Internet and they all loved it! Some people danced to his video and some played 20. drums(鼓) to it.
Some even started learning Chinese with his video 21. they thought this language(语言) was really fun!
Now, Magic Paper Flowers 22. (get) more and more popular all over the world. TV stations from different 23. (city) ask Guo to perform on their shows. When he has time, he also teaches it in schools in 24. (he) hometown of Fuzhou.
“I'm so happy 25. (see) that people from all over the world like this traditional art!” said Guo.

11. with 12. quickly 13. making 14. was
15. First 16. cuts 17. Finally 18. interesting 19. on
20. the 21. because 22. is getting 23. cities
24. his 25. to see

【分析】
本题为短文填空题，考查词汇运用、语法规则及固定搭配。解题思路：先通读全文理解短文主旨（介绍郭元峰的“魔纸花”传统艺术及其走红情况），再结合每个空格的前后语境、词性要求、时态规则、固定搭配等逐一确定答案，注意单词的形式变化（如词性转换、动词时态、名词复数等）。
【解析】
11. 考查固定搭配，play with表示“玩……”，故填with；
12. 此处修饰动词turned，需用副词，quick的副词形式为quickly，故填quickly；
13. 介词of后接动名词，make的动名词为making，故填making；
14. 描述过去的动作，主语Guo为第三人称单数，be动词用was，故填was；
15. 此处表示步骤的“第一步”，用序数词First，首字母大写，故填First；
16. 主语为he，一般现在时，动词用第三人称单数形式cuts，故填cuts；
17. 此处表示步骤的“最后”，修饰整个句子，用副词Finally，首字母大写，故填Finally；
18. 修饰名词name，需用形容词，interesting表示“有趣的”，修饰物，故填interesting；
19. 固定搭配on the Internet表示“在网上”，故填on；
20. 固定搭配play the +乐器，鼓是乐器，需加定冠词the，故填the；
21. 前后为因果关系，后句说明原因，用连词because，故填because；
22. 表示“正在变得流行”，用现在进行时，结构为is + doing，故填is getting；
23. different后接可数名词复数，city的复数形式为cities，故填cities；
24. 修饰名词hometown，需用形容词性物主代词his，故填his；
25. 固定搭配be happy to do sth，故填to see。
【答案】11. with 12. quickly 13. making 14. was 15. First 16. cuts 17. Finally 18. interesting 19. on 20. the 21. because 22. is getting 23. cities 24. his 25. to see
【知识点】介词搭配、词性转换、动词时态、固定搭配
【点评】本题围绕传统艺术的短文展开，考查初中英语基础词汇与语法，需结合语境和语法规则解题，是常见的基础题型，注重知识的实际应用。
【难度系数】0.7