专题05 短文填空15篇（含答案解析）【2025高频考点】-冲刺2025年中考英语演练（上海专用）

专题05 短文填空15篇【2025高频考点】-冲刺2025年中考英语演练（上海专用） （2025·上海虹口·二模）One day at breakfast, Mark couldn’t help sharing his food with his identical twin brother Scott. He couldn’t really share it, so he sent him a picture. “I’m a little envious (羡慕),” Scott said, “but I knew he was just making a j 1 .” Scott feels this way because he can’t get hot, fresh bread in space. Scott is the officer-in-charge of the International Space Station (ISS). He has been living there for a year. His twin, Mark, is also an astronaut, but has spent the last year on the Earth. Mark eats regular Earth food, exercises outside, and lives his life as usual. Scott only gets fresh food when cargo ships bring it to space. There are other d 2 too. Scott can only exercise on a special zero-gravity (零重力) machine and can’t go outside without a spacesuit. And of course, Scott floats around instead of walking. The International Space University (ISU) is studying everything that happens to both twins during the year, with the goal of finding out how living in space a 3 the human body. They already know that astronauts often get headaches, their bones get weak, and they are more likely to get sick. Scientists wonder whether staying in space longer makes these problems worse. The twins are helping them answer these questions. Based on the study results, future astronauts can then be trained and be p 4 for long missions (任务) to Mars. The twins came up with the idea after Scott was chosen for the one-year mission. The brothers asked ISU how they could help since Mark is also an astronaut. ISU recognized this as a rare opportunity which they could h 5 afford to miss. How can scientists tell which changes in health are caused by being in space, and which would have happened anyway It would help if they could c 6 their astronaut in space with a copy of him or her on the ground. Scott and Mark are identical, so they share the same DNA．They are also both astronauts, so their overall health and training is pretty s 7 . From them, scientists can find out what spaceflight has actually done to the human body. That’s why the twins are so important. （2025·上海徐汇·二模）Read the passage and fill in the blanks with proper words. (在短文的空格内填入适当的词，使其内容通顺，每空格限填一词，首字母已给) Meet Leo, a tech genius born in 1950. As a boy in Chicago, Leo loved inventing things. By his 20s, he created smart machines that could read books aloud—a big help for people with disabilities. But Leo’s biggest dream wasn’t just inventing, he wanted to live f 8 . Leo believes tiny robots, called “nanobots”, will one day swim inside our bodies and fix sick cells like tiny doctors. B 9 he thinks computers will soon think like human brains. But to see this future, Leo must stay healthy until 2050. How Through s 10 daily plans. Every morning, Leo drinks 10 glasses of water—no coffee or soda. “Water washes away bad stuff,” he says. His breakfast V 11 , b ... ...