《2025年通城学典初中英语阅读组合训练七年级上册江苏专版》

This February, over 1,270 athletes joined the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin. It was the 1. largest (large) Asian Winter Games in history! Let's 2. see (see) what made the Games great!
Hot-weather 3. countries (country) join the fun
Athletes from Cambodia and Saudi Arabia joined the Games for 4. the first time. They come from hot and dry places in Asia, but they had big 5. dreams (dream) of success on the ice! The Philippines men's curling team won the country's first gold medal(金牌) at the Games. In the men's freestyle skiing slopestyle, Paul Henri Vieuxtemps won the first medal for Thailand.
Cool tech makes things easier
In 1996, Harbin hosted 6. its (it) first Asian Winter Games. At that time, a lot of people helped bring snow to the place each day. 7. But this year, 150 snow-making machines helped make snow. There was a high-tech video replay system(回放系统) 8. to make (make) sure the results were right.
Youth power on show
This year, 170 Chinese athletes took part 9. in the Games. Their average age was 23 years old. Li Fanghui, for example, 10. is (be) a young star in Chinese freestyle skiing. Born in Harbin in 2003, she won a gold medal in the women's freeski halfpipe.

答案： 1. largest 2. see 3. countries 4. the 5. dreams 6. its 7. But 8. to make 9. in 10. is

Yash Mehta is a 15-year-old student from the US. In October, 2024 he won 1. first place in the Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge. He made an electronic braille reader(电子盲文阅读器).
Mehta's grandfather 2. lives in India. He helps run a school for the blind. One day Mehta 3. had the idea when he visited the school. He found that all of the 4. students there didn't have an electronic braille reader. Then he learned that most readers cost around 3,000. It is too 5. expensive for the blind students.
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So, Mehta decided to make a model that cost 6. less than 50. After a lot of tests, he made a small reader. It only 7. costs 35, with 86 percent accuracy.
It's important to have cheaper braille readers for blind students. “Bringing down the cost of braille readers is very important to make education more possible for 8. everyone,” Mehta said.
For Mehta, cutting the cost of the reader is not 9. enough. He is now working with schools to make the reader easier to use. He hopes to give 1,000 free readers to blind people in those poorer 10. countries each year.

答案： 1. first 2. lives in 3. had 4. students 5. expensive 6. less than 7. costs 8. everyone 9. enough 10. countries