《2025年经纶学典课时作业九年级英语上册译林版》

中考趋势 六、语法填空(根据短文内容,在空格上填入一个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式)
There are about 200 countries in the world but few have purple on their ______1______ (nation) flags. Why?
In the past,the purple dye(染料) was from a small sea snail(海螺). ______2______ (create) just one gram of the purple dye,people needed to collect more than 10,000 sea snails. After sea snails were collected by the thousands,they were ______3______ (boil) in a pot for days until the mixture turned a reddish-purple colour. It was ______4______ long process. What was worse,it ______5______ (smell) terrible. All the above made purple an unusual and expensive colour. Only rich ______6______ (ruler) could afford to buy and wear the colour.
Then do you know when purple was ______7______ (wide) used?
In 1856,William Henry Perkin,an English chemist,created a bright purple colour ______8______ accident. He realized that it could be used to dye clothes,______9______ he started to produce the dye. Its price was much ______10______ (low) than that of the dye from sea snails. Soon,it grew in popularity around the world. Thanks to Perkin,more and more people could afford to buy and wear the colour.
1. ______ 2. ______ 3. ______ 4. ______ 5. ______
6. ______ 7. ______ 8. ______ 9. ______ 10. ______

答案： 1. national 2. To create 3. boiled 4. a 5. smelled/smelt 6. rulers 7. widely 8. by 9. so 10. lower