中考真题2025年湖南省语法填空-鸡鸣城的古今
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Long, long ago, there was a city called Jijiaocheng, so named because it was said to have been built at daybreak. ___1___ city was on the rich Liyang Plain (平原). Many waterways ___2___ (provide) water for crop fields and the people living inside and outside of the city.
The rulers of Jijiaocheng asked the people ___3___ (cut) down trees in the mountains. The wood was shipped by ___4___ (worker) to the city for tall buildings. Standing in them, the city’s rulers will be able to see ___5___ (they) people and crops between the waterways. In autumn, plenty of rice was brought to the city.
This is not some bedtime story. It ___6___ (real) took place around 4,500 years ago.
Thousands of years later, the once busy ___7___ rich Jijiaocheng, which is now in a town of Hunan, came to the notice of the modern world. With the help of archaeologists (考半车) and historians, artists painted recreations of life in Jijiaocheng in a ___8___ (tradition) scroll (卷釉).
The scroll was part of a huge project. A group of artists spent two years ___9___ it. It includes eight paintings, which are 140 meters long in total. It ___10___ (show) early human activities on the Liyang Plain and the prehistoric culture in Hunan.
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解析：选The。冠词。上文已提到 “a city called Jijiaocheng”，此处特指这座城，用定冠词 The。
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解析：选provided。谓语动词。全文讲述过去的事，时态为一般过去时，主语 “Many waterways” 与 “provide” 是主动关系，填 provided。
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解析：选to cut。非谓语动词。固定搭配 “ask sb. to do sth.”，表示 “要求某人做某事”，故填 to cut。
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解析：选workers。名词复数。“worker” 是可数名词，此处指众多工匠，需用复数形式 workers。
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解析：选their。形容词性物主代词。修饰名词 “people and crops”，需用形容词性物主代词，they 的对应形式为 their。
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解析：选really。副词。修饰动词 “took place”，需用副词，real 的副词形式为 really。
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解析：选and。连词。“busy” 与 “rich” 是并列关系，均形容鸡鸣城的特征，用并列连词 and 连接。
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解析：选traditional。形容词。修饰名词 “scroll”，需用形容词，tradition 的形容词形式为 traditional。
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解析：选on。介词。固定搭配 “spend time on sth.”，表示 “在某事上花费时间”，故填 on。
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解析：选shows。谓语动词。描述卷轴的客观内容，时态为一般现在时，主语 “It” 是第三人称单数，填 shows。