《2025年英语听读空间九年级译林版》

Ⅰ. 完形填空
Maybe it's my love of baseball that connects my aunt Helen and me. She has always kept me 1A in her experiences of playing baseball back in the 1940s. I would listen to these 2C over and over. She used to say, "Go after what you want. Don't be ashamed of failing. Real embarrassment comes from 3D trying."
In 1943, she was one of the young women who 4B for the All-American Girls Professional Baseball league. She 5C what it would be like to win a championship for her hometown. She imagined a long narrow pointed flag 6D at the baseball field, and on it the name Helen would be there for all to 7B.
About a week later, Aunt Helen received a(n) 8A from the leaders of the girl's baseball league in Chicago. Aunt Helen 9B it open and learned that she had been invited to the league's main tryouts.
But as the days went by, Aunt Helen became 10C about travelling to Chicago alone. What if she went all that way and 11D? When the day of the tryouts 12B, she was too afraid to go.
Aunt Helen has spent the rest of her life wondering what would have happened 13A she had gone to those tryouts. Because of this, she never missed another 14C in her life. She learned that every dream is worth 15A, even if you catch only a few of them.

答案： 【解析】：
这是一道英语完形填空题，主要考查学生对英语词汇、语法和语境理解的综合运用能力。题目给出了一个关于Aunt Helen追求棒球梦想的短文，其中留有若干空白处需要学生根据上下文选择最合适的词汇填入。
1. 第一个空需要填入一个形容词，描述Aunt Helen如何保持我对她棒球经历的兴趣。根据后文的"I would listen to these stories over and over"可以推断出，她让我对她的经历保持了兴趣，因此选择"interested"。
2. 第二个空需要填入一个名词，描述我反复听的内容。根据语境，"stories"最符合，因为我反复听的是Aunt Helen的棒球故事。
3. 第三个空需要填入一个副词，描述真正的尴尬来源于什么。根据Aunt Helen的话"Don't be ashamed of failing. Real embarrassment comes from never trying."可以得出答案，"never"。
4. 第四个空需要填入一个动词短语，描述Aunt Helen在1943年做了什么。根据后文的"invited to the league's main tryouts"可以推断出，她当时是参加了全美女子职业棒球联赛的选拔，因此选择"tried out"。
5. 第五个空需要填入一个动词短语，描述Aunt Helen梦想做什么。根据后文的"what it would be like to win a championship for her hometown"可以得出答案，"dreamed of"。
6. 第六个空需要填入一个动词，描述Aunt Helen想象的旗帜是如何在棒球场上飘扬的。根据常识和语境，"hanging"最符合。
7. 第七个空需要填入一个动词，描述人们如何看到Aunt Helen的名字在旗帜上。根据语境，"see"最符合。
8. 第八个空需要填入一个名词，描述Aunt Helen收到了什么。根据后文的"learned that she had been invited to the league's main tryouts"可以推断出，她收到的是一封信，"letter"。
9. 第九个空需要填入一个动词，描述Aunt Helen如何打开信封。根据常识，"tore"最符合，表示撕开信封。
10. 第十个空需要填入一个形容词，描述Aunt Helen对独自前往芝加哥的心情。根据后文的"she was too afraid to go"可以推断出，她感到担心，"worried"。
11. 第十一个空需要填入一个动词，描述Aunt Helen担心如果去了芝加哥会发生什么。根据语境和前文的"afraid to go"可以推断出，她担心会失败，"failed"。
12. 第十二个空需要填入一个动词，描述选拔日到来的情况。根据语境，"came"最符合。
13. 第十三个空需要填入一个连词，引导一个条件状语从句。根据语境和后文的"she had gone to those tryouts"可以推断出，这是一个假设条件，"if"。
14. 第十四个空需要填入一个名词，描述Aunt Helen从此不再错过的东西。根据语境和前文的"invited to the league's main tryouts"可以推断出，她不再错过机会，"chance"。
15. 第十五个空需要填入一个动词，描述每个梦想都值得什么。根据语境和前文的"Go after what you want"可以推断出，每个梦想都值得追求，"chasing"。
【答案】：
1. A；2. C；3. D；4. B；5. C；6. D；7. B；8. A；9. B；10. C；11. D；12. B；13. A；14. C；15. A。