Do you like cooking? I am crazy about 1. (make) cakes. When I was 2. a young age, I often watched people make cakes on TV. Their cakes looked so nice 3. delicious that I could almost smell and taste them through the screen. From then on, I began to learn baking from my mum. With 4. (she) help, my baking skills get better and better.
To celebrate my sister's 5. (nine) birthday, I try to decorate a cake by myself. I try my best. But I keep making 6. (mistake). My hands shake(颤抖) when I start drawing on 7. cake. My mum asks me to take a deep breath. She says, "Just try doing it. Even if you can't do it very well, it's fine as long as you do your best." When I finish the cake, I take it to the birthday party. My sister 8. (real) loves it. It is then that I understand that sharing with others brings us happiness.
Now, I can not only make delicious cakes, but have the great joy of sharing them with my family and friends. Most importantly, making cakes 9. (let) me feel the happiness of baking. And it also makes my life 10. (colour). I hope I can make my cakes tastier and prettier in the future.

1. making 2. at 3. and 4. her 5. ninth
6. mistakes 7. the 8. really 9. lets
10. colourful

【分析】
这是一篇英语语法填空题，需结合固定搭配、词性变化、语法规则及语境逐个分析填空：1. 介词后接动名词，be crazy about中about为介词，需用make的动名词形式；2. 固定短语at a young age表“在年轻的时候”；3. 并列形容词nice和delicious需用并列连词and连接；4. 名词help前用形容词性物主代词修饰，指代妈妈的帮助；5. 表“第九个生日”需用序数词；6. 固定搭配make mistakes中mistake为可数名词，此处用复数；7. 特指上文提到的蛋糕，用定冠词；8. 修饰动词loves需用副词；9. 动名词作主语时，谓语动词用第三人称单数；10. make sth +形容词结构中，需用colour的形容词形式。
【解析】
1. 考查动名词：be crazy about中about是介词，后接动词-ing形式，故填making；
2. 考查固定搭配：at a young age是固定短语，意为“在年轻的时候”，故填at；
3. 考查并列连词：nice和delicious是并列形容词，用and连接，故填and；
4. 考查形容词性物主代词：修饰名词help，指代“妈妈的”，故填her；
5. 考查序数词：表示“第九个生日”，用nine的序数词ninth，故填ninth；
6. 考查固定搭配：make mistakes是固定短语，意为“犯错误”，mistake为可数名词，此处用复数形式，故填mistakes；
7. 考查定冠词：特指上文提到的要装饰的蛋糕，用定冠词the，故填the；
8. 考查副词：修饰动词loves需用副词，real的副词形式是really，故填really；
9. 考查主谓一致：动名词短语making cakes作主语，谓语动词用第三人称单数，故填lets；
10. 考查形容词：make sth +形容词表示“使某物……”，colour的形容词形式是colourful，故填colourful。
【答案】
1. making 2. at 3. and 4. her 5. ninth 6. mistakes 7. the 8. really 9. lets 10. colourful
【知识点】
动名词用法、固定搭配、词性转换
【点评】
本题为语法填空题，围绕个人烘焙经历展开，考查初中英语核心基础知识点，如介词搭配、序数词、词性变化等，注重语境与语法规则的结合，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.8

(二)
I'm a seventh-grade student. Now I 1. (read) a book about the time difference. It 2. (have) a lot of fun. Let me give you an example. It's one o'clock in the early morning in Beijing. People are still sleeping. 3. are people in different countries doing?
In London, some people are leaving work to go back to 4. (they) houses. Some people are shopping for gifts in the supermarkets. In Moscow, some people are taking 5. walk in the parks after dinner. Some are going to the cinema. Some are drinking 6. (happy) in the pubs(酒吧). It's morning in Los Angeles. People are working in the offices. 7. (child) are studying at school. How 8. New York? It's noon. People aren't working 9. having lunch. They are eating hamburgers, hot dogs or other foods. Some people are meeting friends. Everyone hopes 10. (have) a happy day. What are you doing right now?

1. am reading 2. has 3. What 4. their
5. a 6. happily 7. Children 8. about
9. but 10. to have

【分析】
本题为英语语法填空题，围绕“时差”话题展开，主要考查时态、代词、副词、固定搭配等基础语法知识。解题思路：先通读全文把握语境，再结合每个空格的语法规则（如时态、词性转换、固定短语）和上下文逻辑逐一确定答案。
【解析】
1. 根据时间状语Now可知，此处需用现在进行时，结构为“am/is/are + 现在分词”，主语为I，故填am reading。
2. 主语It为第三人称单数，一般现在时中谓语动词用第三人称单数形式，故填has。
3. 此处为特殊疑问句，询问“不同国家的人正在做什么”，需用疑问词What，故填What。
4. 空格后为名词houses，需用形容词性物主代词修饰，they的形容词性物主代词为their，故填their。
5. 固定搭配take a walk意为“散步”，此处需填不定冠词a，故填a。
6. 空格处修饰动词drinking，需用副词，happy的副词形式为happily，故填happily。
7. 此处泛指“孩子们”，child的复数形式为Children，且位于句首首字母需大写，故填Children。
8. 固定搭配How about...?用于询问情况，意为“……怎么样？”，故填about。
9. 此处为否定句，连接两个并列动作表转折，需用连词but，故填but。
10. 固定搭配hope to do sth.意为“希望做某事”，故填to have。
【答案】
1. am reading 2. has 3. What 4. their 5. a 6. happily 7. Children 8. about 9. but 10. to have
【知识点】
现在进行时、一般现在时、固定搭配
【点评】
本题考查七年级核心语法知识，结合语境考查时态、词性转换及固定短语的运用，难度适中，需学生具备基础语法掌握能力和语境理解能力。
【难度系数】
0.6

(三)
Some cities are famous for their weather. They even have special 1. (name). Do you know what are they? Kunming 2. (have) good weather all year round. It is not too cold 3. too hot. It is always like spring. 4. people call it “Spring City”. 5. is the weather in Seattle? It rains a lot. There are about 200 6. (cloud) days in Seattle every year. So it has a name of “Rainy City”. If you travel to Chicago, you need 7. (take) a windbreaker(风衣), because 8. city is called “Windy City”. It is windy most of the year. People call London “City of Fog”. Every year, 9. autumn and winter, fog is always in this city. You must be 10. (real) careful when you drive a car.

1. names 2. has 3. or 4. So 5. How
6. cloudy 7. to take 8. the 9. in 10. really

【分析】这是一篇介绍以天气闻名的城市的英语短文填空题，解题思路为：先通读全文理解文章大意，再结合每个空格的语法结构、固定搭配及上下文语境，逐一确定每个空应填的单词或其正确形式，确保符合英语语法和语义逻辑。
【解析】1. 空格前有形容词special，且前文提到“they”（指代城市），此处需用可数名词复数，故填names；2. 主语Kunming是第三人称单数，一般现在时中动词用第三人称单数形式，故填has；3. 否定句中连接两个并列的形容词用or，故填or；4. 前文提到昆明像春天，与后文“人们叫它春城”是因果关系，故填So；5. 询问天气的固定句型为“How is the weather?”，故填How；6. 修饰名词days需用形容词，cloud的形容词形式为cloudy，故填cloudy；7. 固定搭配need to do sth（需要做某事），故填to take；8. 此处特指前文提到的芝加哥这座城市，需用定冠词the，故填the；9. 表示“在某个季节”用介词in，故填in；10. 修饰形容词careful需用副词，real的副词形式为really，故填really。
【答案】1. names 2. has 3. or 4. So 5. How 6. cloudy 7. to take 8. the 9. in 10. really
【知识点】名词单复数、动词时态、固定搭配
【点评】本题为英语基础短文填空题，考查核心语法与词汇运用，结合语境和基础语法规则即可解答，适合巩固初中英语基础知识。
【难度系数】0.8