五、核心素养 思维品质 完形填空。
主题群:做人与做事 子主题:动手实践 语篇类型:记叙文 难度:★★
[2025扬州市邗江区期中改编]Are you interested in making new things? Inventions always play an important role in our daily life. They make our life more 1 and much easier than before. A university class project helped two young women create a great idea for a difficult problem. Julia and Jessica are students at Harvard University. One day, 2 teacher said in class, “I want you to solve a world problem about energy sources. Who can 3 this task?”
After hearing that, Julia and Jessica started to feel excited. They wanted to take up that challenge. So they answered, “We decided to accept the difficult task.” Before they 4, they had to do some research first. They first studied many different countries with few energy sources.
They found that both adults(成人) and 5 in these countries played soccer. 6 Julia and Jessica decided to create a new energy source that could have something to do with soccer.
Though they had an idea, it was a bit hard for them to create a soccer ball with a battery(电池). Then they asked their friends for help. They 7 with their friends to make a soccer ball with a battery in it. It took them a long time, but it 8 turned out to be a big success. They knew the soccer ball was exactly what they wanted. They named their ball the SOCCKET and showed it to the users.
When the players 9 the ball, the battery inside caught the energy from the ball's movement. After 10, the players used the energy in the battery to make the smartphones work. It is fantastic that a simple project can make our lives better! Small things always make a big difference.
1. A. helpful B. colourful C. peaceful D. careful
2. A. your B. her C. their D. our
3. A. discuss B. receive C. start D. finish
4. A. took out B. cut out C. set out D. put out
5. A. tourists B. students C. teachers D. children
6. A. So B. And C. Or D. But
7. A. cleaned B. stayed C. played D. worked
8. A. actually B. easily C. simply D. finally
9. A. broke B. kicked C. lost D. bought
10. A. shows B. parties C. games D. lessons

1. B 根据“Inventions always play an important role in our daily life.”可知，新发明还会让我们的生活变得更丰富多彩。
2. C 根据“Julia and Jessica are students at Harvard University.”可知，此处指代的是她们两个人的老师。
3. D 根据“We decided to accept the difficult task.”可知，此处应是老师在课堂上询问谁可以完成这个任务。
4. C 根据 they had to do some research first 可知，此处应是指在她们开始做这个项目之前，必须先做一些研究。
5. D 根据句意可知，她们经过调查研究发现了这些国家的成人和孩子都踢足球这一情况。
6. A 根据空处所在句子与上文“They found that both adults and children in these countries played soccer.”可知，二者之间是因果关系。
7. D 根据“Then they asked their friends for help.”可知，她们向朋友寻求了帮助，因此朋友们和她们一起工作，想办法制作装有电池的足球。
8. D 根据句意可知，虽然花了很长时间，但是这个项目最后取得了巨大的成功。
9. B 根据句意可知，当球员踢球时，内部的电池可以从球的运动中获取能量。
10. C 根据“When the players kicked the ball ...”可知，比赛后球员使用电池中的能量使智能手机工作。

【分析】
做完形填空需先通读全文，把握文章主旨（本文讲述两名大学生受课堂任务启发，结合当地成人与孩子踢足球的现状，发明带电池的足球SOCCKET的故事）；再逐空分析，结合上下文语境、逻辑关系、词汇词义辨析、代词指代等方法，筛选符合文意和语法的选项，确保答案连贯合理。
【解析】
1. 选B。根据前文“Inventions always play an important role in our daily life”可知，新发明会让生活更丰富多彩，colourful符合语境。
2. 选C。主语是Julia和Jessica两人，此处指代“她们的老师”，用形容词性物主代词their。
3. 选D。根据后文“We decided to accept the difficult task”可知，老师询问谁能完成任务，finish表示“完成”，符合语境。
4. 选C。根据“they had to do some research first”可知，此处指“在她们开始做项目之前”，set out意为“开始，着手”，符合语境。
5. 选D。由空前“adults”可知，此处对应指“孩子”，children与adults并列，符合文意。
6. 选A。前文提到发现这些国家成人和孩子都踢足球，后文是由此决定发明相关能源，二者为因果关系，用So连接。
7. 选D。根据“asked their friends for help”可知，她们和朋友一起工作，work with sb表示“与某人共事”，符合语境。
8. 选D。根据“It took them a long time”和“turned out to be a big success”可知，项目最后取得成功，finally意为“最终”，符合语境。
9. 选B。根据“the ball's movement”可知，当球员踢球时，电池获取能量，kick意为“踢”，符合语境。
10. 选C。根据“When the players kicked the ball”可知，比赛后球员使用电池能量，games符合语境。
【答案】1.B 2.C 3.D 4.C 5.D 6.A 7.D 8.D 9.B 10.C
【知识点】完形填空解题技巧、词汇词义辨析、上下文语境理解
【点评】本文是围绕“动手实践”主题的记叙文，通过讲述两名大学生结合实际需求创新发明的故事，考查学生的语境分析和逻辑推理能力，难度适中，能有效提升学生的完形填空解题能力。
【难度系数】0.6