七七 | 2022八省TOP8聯(lián)考

1??完形填空

My family moved into our home nine years ago. We live on a corner, and the entire side of the yardis enclosed by a 41 professionally built rock wall. The front of the house though is another 42 story because instead of a wall along the sidewalk，the rocks appear to be just 43 thrown up onto the dirt.

• throw up：隨意撿起

We did the best we could and called this area our ‘rock garden'. Whenever we had leftover flowersor plants, I would 44 cut them out front, just to bring some 45 pick to the area.

• cut：放置在某個位置，使某物凸顯出來

Last summer I reached the end of the rock garden and found a tiny little plant that I could not immediately 46 identify, we didn't plant it. We decided to let it 47 continue growing until we could 48 figure out what it was.

• figure out：辨認(rèn)出來

Weeks passed and as I made my way back to the 49 mysterious plant，it appeared to be a sunflower. It was skinny. I decided to 50 baby it along and weed around it. As I pulled rocks to get to the weeds，Inoticed something 51 unusual. The sunflower had not started where l saw it 52 begin. It actually had begununder a big rock and grown under and around it to 53 reach the sun.

• baby：v. 像嬰兒細(xì)心照料

That's when I realized that we should stand tall like the sunflower and the environment will begin to 54 support us.We will find a way to go under or around our big 55 problems in order to reach our desires.

2??語法填空

I'm not Chinese，but I love Chinese New Year. There are many fun New Year 56 celebrations （celebrate）, but nothing quite matches the excitement of the lion dance which can wake up the spirit 57 completely（complete）.

The sound of the drums，58 you can feel throughout your entire body，is quite inspiring. The two performers are very flexible. But it is actually very difficult as the lion head is very heavy and being the 59 lower（low）part of the lion is tiring as he has to bend his back and also carry 60 person infront sometimes.The lion head is made with paper over a bamboo frame 61（cover）in gauze（紗布），and decorated with beautifully-colored materials.

The lion dance 62 is believed（believe） to have first appeared in the Qianlong Emperor's dream during his Southern tour，and he ordered an animal 63 to be made（make）in the likeness of his description and used in to be made festivals from ths believed

l love all about the lion dance. The other day，l saw a film about a left-behind teenager whoinsisted on pursuing his dreams despite difficulties and 64（succeed）in lion dance. As Master Xu translates :“Heaven has made us talents; we're not made 65 in vain.”