13-冲刺2023年中考英语首字母填空临考押题（上海专用）.docx

冲刺202 3 年中考英语首字母填空临考押题 （上海专用）13 （ 一 ） They say that "travel is the best teacher" and there is no better example of this idea than the Ming dynasty travel writer and geographer Xu Xiake （ 1587-1641 ） . His book The Travel Notes of Xu Xiake not only e ____1____ a love of travelling among Chinese people but provides important scientific information about the country's land and geography. Born into a wealthy Jiangyin family, Xu became interested in books about different places at an early age and wanted to travel. When he was 18, however, Xu's father died and so, it seemed i ____2____ for his travelling dreams. He then started managing the family farm and taking care of his 60-year-old mother as tradition required. But his mother had different ideas. Understanding her son's love of travel and valuing the knowledge he could get from such experiences, this modern-thinking woman r ____3____ to keep her son at home. She agreed that Xu could travel for three months every year, when there was less farm work. So at the age of twenty and with his mother's support, Xu set off for the first time, leaving behind not only his mother but his new wile as well. He would repeat this goodbye each year for most of the next 30 years. During this time, he travelled t ____4____ the Ming kingdom, carefully studying the lands he passed through and recording his experiences and many discoveries in a diary. This diary, which once had over 500, 000 words, would become