二、阅读还原（有两项多余）
Mr. White is sixty years old. He always talks about how fast things have changed. 1.
Now cities are full of cars. Some families even have two or more cars. 2. The traffic in some cities is getting worse and worse, too. Car drivers drive so fast that there are more traffic accidents.
3. Mr. White often sees people in restaurants eating face to face while looking at their own mobile phones. He thinks it is strange that they don’t talk to the ones who sit opposite to them during the meal. Some of them even have fun chatting with others on the phone.
Most families own computers now. 4. The number of children using the Internet has grown by three times in the past three years. Mr. White’s grandson is a middle school student. He often stays up late playing computer games on the Internet. He falls asleep in the early hours of the morning and spends less time doing homework. His teacher told Mr. White that his grandson failed another test. 5.
Mr. White thinks that life was simple and happy, but now it has changed a lot.

A. Mr. White got very angry with him.
B. So parking is becoming a big problem.
C. His grandson is interested in playing computer games.
D. Cars are becoming more and more important in our life.
E. A study found that children use the Internet more and more.
F. He often says that life in the past was better than it is these days.
G. More and more people are always looking at their mobile phones with their heads down.

【主旨大意】本文从怀特先生的视角探讨了当今生活的变化以及其带来的弊端。
1.F 2.B 3.G 4.E 5.A

【分析】
这是一道英语阅读还原题，解题思路为：先通读全文把握主旨（怀特先生谈论生活变化带来的问题），再逐个分析每个空的上下文，依据句子间的逻辑关系（因果、承接、举例等）匹配选项。第1空承接怀特先生谈论事物变化快，引出他对过去生活的看法；第2空承接“城市车辆多”，推导停车问题；第3空引出人们低头看手机的现象，对应后文吃饭时看手机的描述；第4空承接“家庭有电脑”，衔接孩子上网的情况；第5空承接孙子考试不及格，对应怀特先生的反应。
【解析】
1. 第1空：前文提到怀特先生总是谈论事物变化快，F选项“他常说过去的生活比现在好”，承接上文，符合语境，故选F。
2. 第2空：前文说城市里车辆多，部分家庭有两辆以上，B选项“所以停车成了大问题”，是车多带来的结果，衔接下文的交通问题，故选B。
3. 第3空：后文描述人们吃饭时看手机不交流，G选项“越来越多人低头看手机”，引出这一现象，符合逻辑，故选G。
4. 第4空：前文说多数家庭有电脑，后文提到孩子上网数量增长，E选项“研究发现孩子上网越来越多”，衔接上下文，故选E。
5. 第5空：前文说老师告知怀特先生孙子考试不及格，A选项“怀特先生对他很生气”，是老师告知后的合理反应，故选A。
【答案】
1.F 2.B 3.G 4.E 5.A
【知识点】
阅读还原、上下文逻辑衔接
【点评】
本题为初中英语常见的阅读还原题型，要求学生结合上下文语境和逻辑关系选择合适句子，难度适中，理清段落逻辑联系即可正确作答。
【难度系数】
0.3

三、[2026 江苏宿迁期末改编]短文填空
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Shi Guangyin is a farmer in Dingbian, northwest China’s Shaanxi Province. Dingbian lies on the side of the Maowusu Desert. In the past, sandstorms often destroyed houses and crops, which 1. (great) affected local people’s lives. Many local people had to leave 2. (they) hometown.
In the 1970s, when the government called on people to green the desert, Shi decided to plant trees. To raise money to buy young trees, he sold nearly all the things in his home. He started 3. (lead) many people to plant trees for a greener future. However, it wasn’t an easy thing. Only one 4. (ten) of the young trees that they had planted were alive (存活) at first. Some people felt disappointed and lost heart, 5. Shi said he would never give up.
The following years, Shi made several trips to ask for suggestions from experts in other places. He also led the 6. (village) to try new ways to take care of the young trees. Finally, his hard work paid off. More than 80% of the trees grew well. They’ve finally built a “Green Great Wall” of over 50 kilometers in the desert, which has become a great 7. (attract). People always kindly call Shi “Uncle in the Desert”. Now, the forest coverage (覆盖率) in Dingbian has 8. (rise) from 3.8% in 1980 to 33.5% today. Local people now benefit a lot 9. cleaner air and more farmland.
“We plan to improve forest quality in the next five years,” Shi said. “We’ll see a more 10. (beauty) and greener countryside.”

【主旨大意】本文主要介绍了石光银带领村民绿化沙漠，植树造林，把荒漠建成“绿色长城”的事迹。
1. greatly 【点拨】此处需用副词修饰动词“affected”，“great”的副词形式为“greatly”，表示“极大地”。
2. their 【点拨】空后“hometown”是名词，需用形容词性物主代词修饰，“they”的形容词性物主代词为“their”。
3. to lead/leading 【点拨】“start”后接非谓语动词，可接“to do sth.”或“doing sth.”，均表示“开始做某事”。
4. tenth 【点拨】表示“分数”时，分子用基数词，分母用序数词，“one tenth”意为“十分之一”。
5. but 【点拨】前文“有人失望、失去信心”与后文“石光银不放弃”存在转折关系，需用转折连词“but”。
6. villagers 【点拨】此处需表示“村民”，应变形为“villager”；且根据语境用复数形式“villagers”。
7. attraction 【点拨】空前“a great”后需接名词，“attract”的名词形式为“attraction”，意为“有吸引力的事物”。
8. risen 【点拨】空前“has”提示此处为现在完成时，结构为“has+过去分词”，“rise”的过去分词为“risen”。
9. from 【点拨】“benefit from”是固定短语，意为“从……中受益”。
10. beautiful 【点拨】空后“countryside”是名词，需用形容词修饰，“beauty”的形容词形式为“beautiful”。

【分析】
这是一篇介绍石光银绿化沙漠事迹的短文填空，解题时需先通读全文把握大意，再结合空格处的语境、词性要求、语法规则及固定搭配逐一分析：1. 修饰动词需用副词；2. 修饰名词需用形容词性物主代词；3. start后可接不定式或动名词；4. 分数表达用“基数词+序数词”；5. 前后语义转折用转折连词；6. 表示群体用名词复数；7. 冠词后需接名词；8. 现在完成时需用动词过去分词；9. 固定短语搭配；10. 修饰名词需用形容词。
【解析】
1. 空格处修饰动词affected，需用形容词great的副词形式greatly，故填greatly。
2. 空格后是名词hometown，需用主格they对应的形容词性物主代词their修饰，故填their。
3. 动词start后可接不定式to do或动名词doing，构成固定搭配start to do/doing sth.，表示“开始做某事”，故填to lead/leading。
4. 表示分数“十分之一”，分子用基数词one，分母用序数词tenth，故填tenth。
5. 前句“有人失望失去信心”与后句“石光银不放弃”为转折关系，需用转折连词but，故填but。
6. 此处指“村民”，需用名词villager的复数形式villagers，故填villagers。
7. 空格前有不定冠词a，需用动词attract的名词形式attraction，故填attraction。
8. 空格前有助动词has，构成现在完成时，需用动词rise的过去分词risen，故填risen。
9. 固定短语benefit from意为“从……中受益”，符合语境，故填from。
10. 空格后是名词countryside，需用名词beauty的形容词形式beautiful修饰，故填beautiful。
【答案】
1. greatly 2. their 3. to lead/leading 4. tenth 5. but 6. villagers 7. attraction 8. risen 9. from 10. beautiful
【知识点】
副词与形容词用法；物主代词；时态与固定搭配
【点评】
本题为短文填空，围绕人物事迹展开，考察初中英语核心基础知识点，需结合语境分析语法规则与词汇搭配，难度适中，适合巩固英语基础。
【难度系数】
0.7