2021年英语中考热点原创首字母填空第一周.docx

1、Day 1Reveal untold storyAnyone who has watched the classic film Titanic will remember this scene: Rose floats on the ocean water on a piece of wood, w 1 to be rescued. The scene was b 2 on the real-life story of a Chinese passenger on the ship.Fang Rongshan was one of eight Chinese passengers on the

2、 Titanic. Six of them survived the shipwreck (沉船) on April 23, 1912. Over 109 years after the tragedy (悲剧), a lot of r 3 has been done and many stories have been toldbut few of them were about the six.Now, people can hear their stories in the documentary film The Six: The Untold Story of RMS Titanic

3、s Chinese Passengers (六人：泰坦尼克上的中国幸存者), which c 4 out on April 16.What happened to the passengers afterward and where did they go? Why have they been forgotten for so long? The documentary tries to find the answers, a 5 to director Arthur Jones. And his team s 6 five years looking for information and

4、 interviewing more than 100 people.It was long rumored (谣传) that the Chinese survivors d 7 as women in order to board lifeboats during the wreck. H 8 , the film team found that this was not true. Whats worse, after arriving in New York, the six were driven out of the US b 9 of the Chinese Exclusion

5、Act (排华法案).The Titanic may have sunk (沉没) long ago, but prejudice (偏见) a 10 the survivors still remains, Jones said. “We used to talk about who was the hero and who the villain (反派) on Titanic. But now, what we need to talk about is racial discrimination (种族歧视). It also needs to be voiced,” he added

6、.Day 2Have you ever d 1 of traveling back to ancient China? See with your own eyes the dressing tables u 2 during the Ming dynasty. Play some long-lost Chinese instruments and enjoy their sounds. How interesting it would be!Zhong Yetang has done just this. For sure, the young woman doesnt have a tim

7、e m 3 . She “travels”back in time by c 4 studying historic books.Zhong began to show an interest in traditional Chinese culture at an e 5 age. Her favourite book was Dream of the Red Chamber红楼梦. The girl couldnt stop t 6 its pages. She learned a lot about life in the past. Later, Zhong went to the U

8、.S. to study. To her surprise, many of her American classmates knew more about traditional Chinese culture than her. They asked questions that Zhong couldnt answer. The girl felt ashamed. She decided to f 7 explore Chinese culture.Now, Zhong makes online videos about ancient China. One of them is ab

9、out the traditional clothing of Chinas 56 ethnic groups. T 8 the video lasts for only nine minutes, Zhong spent two years making it. She d 9 many of the clothes by herself. To do this, she read lots of books and asked experts for advice.Zhong says she will make more videos to s 10 Chinese culture. S

10、he wants to help more people “see” ancient China with their own eyes.Day 3Once upon a time, there was a cat. His name was Tom. Some people at an animation(动画)studio thought it would be a good idea to pair him with a mouse. Then they found a young, smart, s 1 named Jerry. The cat and the mouse finall

11、y c 2 a double act that made both of them household names.After 80 years, Tom and Jerry still cant stop t 3 to get at each others throats(打斗争吵). This time, the forever-battling pair is once again returning to the big screen. But this isnt necessarily the Tom and Jerry you remember.In fact, the new m

12、ovie Tom&Jerry places them in the real world. B 4 on the famous cartoon characters, the film is an eye-catching mixture of classic animation and live action(真人实景). All the animals in this world are animated, from the title characters to the horses pulling carriages(马车). The h 5 , however, are all pl

13、ayed by real performers.In their l 6 adventure, Tom and Jerry are trying to start a new life in New York City. Jerry moves into the citys finest hotel b 7 it is going to hold a big event. Tom is hired by hotel to catch the mouse. Its not s 8 that the pair turn the event into a disaster. But now will

14、 they deal with this messy s 9 ?Tom&Jerry may not be the best film in recent years as its storyline is pretty simple. The film isnt trying to be overly touching or thought-provoking(令人深思的), either. Instead, it brings audiences an interesting story and a c 10 to laugh with their family.Day 4What oper

15、ating system (操作系统) does your phone use? Googles Android or Apples iOS? Now, you have a t 1 choiceHuaweis HarmonyOS.On June 2, Huawei launched HarmonyOS2an open-source operating system m 2 for different devices for smartphones. HarmonyOS, or Hongmeng in Chinese, is Chinas first self-developed operat

16、ing system for mobile devices. It was released (发行) for Huaweis wearable (可穿戴的) devices in August 2019. Huawei has been p 3 to change from Android to HarmonyOS for a long time s 4 the US restricted (限制) Huaweis access to (使用权) Google software and services in 2019, a 5 to China Daily. “Harmonys devel

17、opment for smartphones will s 6 be a serious rival (对手) to Googles Android or Apples iOS”, Bradley Blankenship, a US columnist wrote for CGTN.Huawei says that its g 7 for this year is to have 300 million devices running HarmonyOS, with 200 million of them being smartphones.HarmonyOS is d 8 for the i

18、nternet of things (IoT, 物联网) era. It can c 9 all kinds of IoT devices. So it is much e 10 to develop apps for cross-device (跨设备) experiences based on HarmonyOS, said Yin Dong, a software developer from Beijing. Yin has been using tools from HarmonyOS to develop mobile apps for five months. He feels

19、optimistic (乐观的) about the operating systems future.Day 5Youve probably seen this famous painting of a tsunami (海啸) before. Its called The Great Wave off Kanagawa (神奈川冲浪里) and is p 1 the best-known example of ukiyo-e (浮世绘) art. It is one of over 100 ukiyo-e works that were on display at the Today Ar

20、t Museum in Beijing from March 12 to May 6. Ukiyo means “floating world” in Japanese. It refers to the l 2 that rich businessmen enjoyed as they benefited from Tokyos economic growth in the Edo period (1600s-1860s). The ukiyo-e style of painting was very popular a 3 these people. The woodblock print

21、ing method was used to create the paintings, a 4 them to be printed many times. Ukiyo-e was different from most Japanese art at the time. For one thing, it was more colorful and complex (复杂的), as Japanese art tended to focus more on s 5 black-and-white images. The paintings often featured unusual an

22、gles (角度) as well. In The Great Wave, for example, a large ship is in the foreground (前景), with a smaller ship in the b 6 and Mount Fuji even farther away, giving a sense of depth(深度).As for their themes, the paintings often featured n 7 scenery, known as “flower-and-bird pictures”. However, famous

23、kabuki (歌伎) actors and female beauties were also popularly p 8 . Some paintings even showed well-known warriors (武士) and monsters, as well as h 9 from Chinese stories, such as Romance of The Three Kingdoms (三国演义), and Japanese stories, such as Tale of Genji (源氏物语).Ukiyo-e paintings were not only pop

24、ular in Japan, but also i 10 Western painters, especially Impressionist (印象派画家) and post-Impressionist painters like Edgar Degas, Claude Monet and Vincent van Gogh. Day 6Beep! Beep! Barcode (条形码) technology makes it f 1 and easier to buy things in stores. Youve probably seen the black-and-white zebr

25、a stripes (条纹) on product packaging. This year, this great i 2 is 50 years old!On a Sunday afternoon in 1971, IBM engineer George Laurer came up with a code that could be printed on food labels (商标). It became the basis for the Universal Product Code, w 3 was used by many grocery companies starting

26、in 1973, according to The New York Times. Before this, cashiers (收银员) had to ring up(把计入) p 4 by hand. Time has proven it to be a great invention. Today, barcodes are scanned (扫描) over 6 billion times every day and used by 2 million c 5 worldwide, PR Newswire reported. What information does a barcod

27、e contain? Where the product comes from, where it has been, its price, expiration date (过期时间) you name it. It can also help stores keep track of their products. For example, if there are 10 boxes of milk and a customer buys one, it will be recorded so that the store owner knows there are nine boxes

28、l 6 . In the 1980s, libraries started using barcodes to keep track of books in this way.“Its creation allowed the first digitization (数字化) in the c 7 of the stock (库存),” Jos Mara Bonmat from AECOC, a Spanish commercial association, told El Mundo. The next generation of barcodes, such as QR codes, ca

29、n h 8 more information. “They can tell consumers if a product contains allergens or if it is organic. This p 9 consumers with a greater l 10 of trust in the products they buy,” said GS 1, an organization that develops global barcode standards.Keys：Day1：1.waiting，2.based，3.research，4.came，5.according

30、，6.spent，7.dressed，8.However，9.because，10.againstDay2：1.dreamed, 2.used ,3.machine, 4.carefully, 5.early, 6.turning, 7.further ,8.though, 9designed, 10.spreadDay3：1.star ,2.created, 3.trying, 4.Based ,5.humans, 6.latest ,7.before ,8.surprising ,9.situation ,10.chanceDay4：1.third ,2.made ,3.preparing ,4.since, 5.according, 6.surely, 7.goal , 8.designed , 9.connect ,10.easierDay5：1.probably, 2.lifestyle ,3.among, 4.allowing, 5.simple ,6.back, 7.natural, 8.painted, 9.heroes ,10.influenceDay6：1.faster, 2.invention, 3.which, 4.prices,panies,6.left, 7.control,8.hold,9.provides,10.level,