四、任务型阅读
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(2025·安徽改编)One day, a little squirrel called Nico saw some orange leaves falling off the trees. "Fall is here!" Nico shouted excitedly. "It's time for Nut Hunt Day!"
All the little squirrels exercised to get ready for the big day. They practised running, climbing and jumping. Everyone wanted to win the game.
When the game kicked off, the little squirrels all ran in different directions. Nico started the hunt well. He jumped around, looking for the nuts under the orange leaves. "Oh, I found one! My first nut!" Nico said happily and picked up the nut.
"Oh, another one!" Nico cheered. He picked up the nut with the other paw and moved on. But when Nico tried to pick up the third nut, he faced a problem. "How can I carry back these three nuts with two paws?" Nico thought.
"Oh, I know!" Nico put the nuts on top of one another and tried to carry them all together. But the nut tower was too high, and he couldn't see the way! Ouch! Nico fell and dropped all of the nuts! "I might carry one nut in one paw and two nuts in the other paw," Nico said. But soon Nico realized how difficult it was. He dropped one nut on his leg. Ouch! Then he dropped another nut. Ouch! And another! Ouch! Ouch!
根据短文内容,回答下列问题。每题答案不超过9个词。
1. In which season did the story happen?
2. Why did all the little squirrels exercise?
3. How many nuts did Nico pick up in all according to this passage?
4. What was the problem Nico faced?
5. How could Nico work out the problem by himself? (Please give a piece of advice.)

任务型阅读
本文讲述了一只名叫尼科的小松鼠为参加找坚果比赛积极准备,但在比赛中遇到如何同时携带多个坚果的难题,并通过不断尝试寻找解决办法的故事。
1. Fall/Autumn. 根据第一段中的"Fall is here!"可知,这个故事发生在秋季。
2. To get ready for Nut Hunt Day. 根据第二段中的"All the little squirrels exercised to get ready for the big day."可知,小松鼠们做运动的目的是为"找坚果比赛"那一天做准备。
3. Three. 根据第四段中的 these three nuts 可知,尼科一共捡到了3个坚果。
4. He didn't know how to carry back the nuts. 根据第四段中的"How can I carry back these three nuts with two paws?"可知,尼科所面临的问题就是他不知道如何用两个爪子把三个坚果带回去。
5. He could carry the nuts one by one.(答案不唯一,言之有理即可)

五、短文填空
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根据短文内容及所给首字母提示写出所缺单词,使短文意思完整,每空一词。
Do you know about Jeska Duman? The woman comes from Chicago, the USA. She is
1. i in DIY. She is good at making clothes by hand. With 2. n more than a sewing machine and a passion for her hobby, she makes shirts, dresses and so on.
At first, Jeska 3. d a few pictures. Then she turned them into styles. She used different 4. k of cloth to make new clothes. But the cloth itself was mostly second-hand. She said, "I love second-hand shops. 5. M of my things come from them."
Jeska 6. t herself to sew with the help of online videos. She said, "With the Internet, it's much 7. e to get started if you never sew anything."
But why does Jeska make her own clothes when it's so easy to just buy them in shops? She has a lot of different 8. i on this.
"Whenever I go shopping for ready-made clothing, there's always 9. s I want to make better in some ways," she said.
"There's a strong sense of pride that comes in 10. m your own clothes, and getting dressed is more fun. I feel more confident in what I wear," she added.

1. interested be interested in意为“对……感兴趣”。
2. nothing nothing more than为固定搭配,意为“仅仅,只不过”。
3. designed/drew 根据下文 turned them into styles 可知,她把它们变成款式,所以此处应该是“设计”图或“画”图,design 意为“设计”,draw 意为“画”,上下文时态为一般过去时,谓语动词要用过去式。
4. kinds different kinds of 为固定搭配,意为“不同种类的”。
5. Most 此处应用固定短语 most of,表示“……中的大多数”。
6. taught teach oneself 意为“自学”。
7. easier 根据空格前的 much 可知,此处填比较级,表示“……得多”,此处指开始做起来容易得多。
8. ideas 现在在商店里买衣服很容易,但是她仍然自己制作衣服,是因为她有很多自己不同的看法。
9. something 根据句意理解可知,现成的衣服总有她想要做得更好的东西,结合首字母提示可知填 something,意为“某物,某事”,用于肯定句中。
10. making 此处指制作自己的衣服,空格前的 in 是介词,后接动词时需用动名词形式。