（2023新高考I卷）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。
Xiao long bao (soup dumplings), those amazing constructions of delicate dumpling wrappers, encasing hot, 1 (taste) soup and sweet, fresh meat, are far and away my favorite Chinese street food. The dumplings arrive steaming and dangerously hot. To eat one, you have to decide whether 2 (bite) a small hole in it first, releasing the stream and risking a spill (溢出), 3 to put the whole dumpling in your mouth, letting the hot soup explode on your tongue. Shanghai may be the 4 (recognize) home of the soup dumplings but food historians will actually point you to the neighboring canal town of Nanxiang as Xiao long Bao’s birthplace. There you will find them prepared differently — more dumpling and less soup, and the wrappers are pressed 5 hand rather than rolled. Nanxiang aside, the best Xiao long bao have a fine skin, allowing them 6 (lift) out of the steamer basket without allowing them tearing or spilling any of 7 (they) contents. The meat should be fresh with 8 touch of sweetness and the soup hot, clear and delicious.
No matter where I buy them, one steamer is 9 (rare) enough, yet two seems greedy, so I am always left 10 (want) more next time.
（2023新高考II卷）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。
Whenever I tell people that I teach English at the Berlin Zoo, I almost always get a questioning look. Behind it, the person is trying to figure out who exactly I teach…the animals?
Since June 2017, right before the 11 (arrive) of the two new pandas, Meng Meng and Jiao Qing, I have been helping the panda keepers at the zoo to feel more comfortable and 12 (confidence) speaking English. And who do they speak English 13 ?
Not the pandas, even though 14 language used for the medical training instructions is actually English. They talk to the flood of international tourists and to 15 (visit) Chinese zookeepers who often come to check on the pandas, which are on loan from China. They also need to be ready to give 16 (interview) in English with international journalists. This is 17 they need an English trainer.
So, what are they learning? 18 (basic), how to describe a panda’s life. It’s been an honor to watch the panda programme develop 19 to see the pandas settle into their new home. As a little girl, I 20 (wish) to be a zookeeper when I grew up. Now, I’m living out that dream indirectly by helping the panda keepers do their job in English.
【2023▪全国乙卷】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。
Beijing is a city bridging the ancient and the modern. From Buddhist temples to museums, narrow hutong 21 royal palaces, it is home to more than 3,000 years of glorious history even down to its layout, with the city keeping its carefully 22 (build) system of ring roads.
But for all its ancient buildings, Beijing is also a place 23 welcomes the fast-paced development of modern life, with 21st-century architectural 24 (wonder) standing side by side with historical buildings of the past.
It is a distinct visual contrast (反差) that shouldn’t work, 25 somehow these two very different worlds make a good combination. 26 (visit) several times over the last 10 years, I 27 (amaze) by the co-existence of old and new, and how a city was able to keep such a rich heritage (遗产) while constantly growing. As a photographer, I have spent the last two years 28 (record) everything I discovered.
The 29 (remark) development of this city, which is consciously designed to protect the past while stepping into the modern world, 30 (mean) there is always something new to discover here, and I could be photographing Beijing for the next 50 years.
【2023▪全国甲卷】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。
For thousands of years, people have told fables (寓言) 31 (teach) a lesson or to pass on wisdom. Fables were part of the oral tradition of many early cultures, and the well-known Aesop’s fables date to the 32 (six) century, B．C． Yet, the form of the fable still has values today, 33 Rachel Carson says in “A Fable for Tomorrow.”
Carson uses a simple, direct style common to fable. In fact, her style and tone (口吻) are seemingly directed at children. “There was once a town in the heart of America, 34 all life seemed to enjoy peaceful existence with its surroundings,” her fable begins, 35 (borrow) some familiar words from many age-old fables. Behind the simple style, however, is a serious message 36 (intend) for everyone.
37 (difference) from traditional fables, Carson’s story ends with an accusation instead of a moral. She warns of the environmental dangers facing society, and she teaches that people must take responsibility 38 saving their environment.
The themes of traditional fables often deal with simple truths about everyday life. However, Carson’s theme is a more weighty 39 (warn) about environmental destruction. Carson proves that a simple literal form that has been passed down through the ages can still 40 (employ) today to draw attention to important truths.
【2023▪浙江1月卷】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。
During China’s dynastic period, emperors planned the city of Beijing 41 arranged the residential areas according to social classes. The term “hutong”, 42 (original)meaning “water well” in Mongolian, appeared first during the Yuan Dynasty.
In the Ming Dynasty, the center was the Forbidden City, 43 (surround)in concentric(同心的)circles by the Inner City and Outer City. Citizens of higher social classes 44 (permit)to live closer to the center of the circles. The large siheyuan of these high-ranking officials and wealthy businessmen often 45 (feature)beautifully carved and painted roof beams and pillars(柱子). The hutongs they formed were orderly, lined by 46 (space)homes and walled gardens. Farther from the center lived the commoners and laborers. Their siheyuan were far smaller in scale and 47 (simple)in design and decoration, and the hutongs were narrower.
Hutongs represent an important cultural element of the city of Beijing. Thanks to Beijing’s long history 48 capital of China, almost every hutong has its stories, and some are even associated with historic 49 (event). In contrast to the court life and upper-class culture represented by the Forbidden City, the Summer Palace, and the Temple of Heaven, the hutongs reflect 50 culture of grassroots Beijingers.
