二、单项选择
6. I prefer sleeping at home to ______ outside at weekends.
A. play
B. playing
C. plays
D. played

B

7. Hurry up! Everybody ______ for you.
A. waited
B. wait
C. is waiting
D. will wait

C

8. —Why do you hope to visit Chengbi Lake some day?
—______ it is a beautiful lake in Baise City.
A. Because
B. For
C. Though
D. As soon as

A

9. Look! Sonia looks worried. There must be ______ with her.
A. nothing wrong
B. something wrong
C. wrong anything
D. wrong everything

B

10. When I see some ______ animals in Nanjing Hongshan Zoo, I feel ______.
A. amazed; amazing
B. amazing; amazing
C. amazed; amazed
D. amazing; amazed

D
; A ; D ; B

综合能力提升练
完形填空(文化艺术)
【2024 天津中考】Some artists are often not famous during their lifetime. Vincent van Gogh（梵高）was such an artist. People did not pay much attention to his ______1______. He began to think he was not a very good painter. But he did not give up painting. He was so ______2______ in what he was painting that he did not want to stop. He would even ______3______ to eat!
______4______, his paintings were dark. He used pencils or charcoal sticks（炭条）to make them. Then he ______5______ colour. He used lots of brown and dark green.
Later, Vincent moved to France. He wanted to learn from the artists who ______6______ there. They were trying new ______7______ of painting. In France, Vincent began using bright colours. He used oil paints（绘画颜料）to create his art. He painted both the countryside and people. He ______8______ painted self-portraits（自画像）. He created more than 20 portraits of himself!
Vincent completed more than 2,000 paintings in his life. ______9______ people did not buy his paintings during his lifetime, his paintings sell for a lot of money today. People think his paintings are masterpieces（杰作）. For example, the painting Sunflowers is very ______10______ all over the world.
1. A. trips B. paintings
C. villages D. music
2. A. wrong B. lucky
C. interested D. tired
3. A. forget B. start
C. hope D. agree
4. A. At last B. Once again
C. At least D. At first
5. A. helped B. added
C. missed D. guessed
6. A. worked B. sang
C. danced D. cooked
7. A. facts B. stories
C. ways D. reports
8. A. never B. hardly
C. perhaps D. also
9. A. Before B. Though
C. If D. When
10. A. humorous B. polite
C. famous D. quiet

A ; C ; D ; B ;