专题67 艺术家-备战2022中考英语完形填空话题分类训练（中考真题+各地模拟题）-中考英语备考资料重点汇总知识点归纳.docx

备战2022中考英语完形填空话题分类训练(中考真题+各地模拟题)专题67 艺术家（2021·江苏·南京市教育局一模）Do you know what you’d like to be when you grow up? It takes most people many years to find the answer. For Alexandra Nechita, it never really seemed to be a ___1___. From the day she began ___2___ at the age of two, she was an artist. Born in Romania in 1985, Alexandra moved to California when she was a baby. She loved painting so much. Her parents hoped that she could spend more time being ___3___ and playing with other children. So when her parents ___4___ away her coloring books, Alexandra began drawing her own pictures and coloring them in. By the time Alexandra was seven years old, she had began painting with oil paints. When she took a local art class, her teacher was amazed at the young artist’s unusual ___5___ of painting. Alexandra’s work was ___6___ in some ways to cubist paintings by artists like Picasso. These artists did not paint in a realistic way. They ___7___ their imaginations to play an important part in their work. The interesting thing was that little Alexandra had ___8___ seen the work of these artists. People called her “Little Picasso”. This was a great honor, but Alexandra’s style of painting was all her own.   Alexandra soon became famous. ___9___ she is still a teen, her career has continued to progress at an amazing pace. The sale of a single piece can earn ____10____ more than $100,000. But this is not why Alexandra paints. She donates lots of money to her favourite charities.1．A．question B．danger C．disaster D．task2．A．singing B．writing C．drawing D．dancing3．A．stressed B．calm C．nervous D．active4．A．washed B．turned C．took D．ran5．A．hobby B．style C．tradition D．attraction6．A．similar B．different C．same D．opposite7．A．made B．allowed C．told D．asked8．A．often B．usually C．sometimes D．never9．A．Though B．However C．Moreover D．Otherwise10．A．him B．it C．them D．her（2021·山东济南·一模）Who says only adults can influence the world? Teenagers can too. A good ___11___ is Canadian singer and songwriter Shawn Mendes.Mendes was once on Time magazine’s list of the most influential teens of the year. He is ___12___ as a role model(榜样) who always shares positive ideas on ___13___ media(媒体).Indeed, unlike others, Mendes ___14___ social media in a good way. In 2012, he was still a high school student. One day, he put a clip(片段) of ___15___ singing Justin Bieber’s song As Long as You Love Me on Vine, a video-sharing app. In only six seconds, he ___16___ to show his sweet voice and cute smile. By the next morning, he had 10,000 likes.From there, he became a/an ___17___. His first album(唱片) Handwritten topped the Billboard 200 chart in 2015. He is one of ___18___ singers to do so up till now.Mendes ___19___tries to be himself. “There are lots of people who ____20____ “act this way” and “talk this way ” on social media, ____21____ what worked for me was just being myself,” he told Seventeen, a US magazine for teens.He does so in life as well. During his first ____22____ in Toronto, he asked the house lights to be ____23____ and he sang without a microphone. “So I can see their faces, and see there are real people, that it’s not just a ____24____,” he told The Telegraph.“I’m not the ____25____ singer in the world. I’m just good at picking up what I want to sound like,” he added. Maybe Mendes is really a positive example for everyone to always be yourself and live your own life.11．A．news B．choice C．example D．boy12．A．seen B．cared C．prepared D．caught13．A．personal B．professional C．traditional D．social14．A．introduces B．uses C．makes D．buys15．A．myself B．herself C．himself D．themselves16．A．used B．succeeded C．paid D．managed17．A．singer B．dancer C．actor D．writer18．A．young B．younger C．youngest D．the youngest19．A．never B．seldom C．always D．hardly20．A．tell B．speak C．say D．talk21．A．but B．and C．or D．so22．A．visit B．concert C．year D．speech23．A．turned off B．turned on C．turned up D．turned down24．A．name B．visitor C．room D．crowd25．A．last B．least C．latest D．best（2021·湖南·安乡县深柳中学一模）Xian Xinghai was a very famous musician in China. He wrote one of the greatest pieces of music of the 20th Century. In his short life, he wrote ____26____ 300 songs and an opera.Xian was born in Panyu, Guangzhou, China in 1905. Because his father died before he was born, Xian moved from place to place with ____27____ mother. He began learning to play ____28____ violin when he was 20 years old. In the beginning, his violin was ____29____ cheap and badly made that he ____30____ not play it well. His friends laughed at him. Xian did not stop ____31____ and soon showed his talent. In 1934, he was one of the first Chinese students ____32____ studied in a special music school in Paris. Before he ____33____ , Xian became the school’s best student ____34____ won several prizes for his talent.In 1935, he returned to China and helped fight against the Japanese army. Later, he came to Yan’an ____35____ music at a college. ____36____ there we。