《2026年通城学典全国中考试题分类精粹英语》

（一）（2025·苏州）〔核心素养—文化意识〕
On Pingjiang Road in Suzhou, 65 - year - old Ms Wu runs a traditional tea house for 30 years. She never expected _1_ (oneself) to become a tea master who helped build a cultural bridge.
It started in 2015 when a German tourist named Klaus walked into her shop. With the help of a phone app, Ms Wu _2_ (patient) showed him the way to properly brew (沏) Biluochun, Suzhou's famous green tea. Klaus returned every day that week and _3_ (bring) more friends each time.
Seeing how _4_ (interest) they were in Chinese tea, Ms Wu started a weekly activity called “Tea Culture Saturdays”. She showed foreigners _5_ to brew tea with traditional methods—from choosing the water temperature to _6_ ( follow ) tea - making rules. Her daughter Lily, a college student, helped translate.
Soon, her tea house was always crowded with _7_ (visit), including students and business people from many places. “I used to think foreigners wouldn't understand our tea culture, _8_ they love it deeply. Some of them even treat their friends to Chinese tea at home,” Ms Wu said.
One of her favourite _9_ (moment) was when Sarah, a Canadian, gave her a notebook filled with tea notes written in both English and Chinese. “This is why I keep teaching,” Ms Wu said, showing _10_ treasured notebook.
Now, her tea house appears in travel guides as “Suzhou's cultural living room”. For tourists, every cup of tea served is a window on the tea culture of this ancient city.
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答案： (一)［主旨大意］本文讲述了苏州65岁的吴女士通过经营传统茶馆，意外成为促进中外茶文化交流的桥梁的故事。
1. herself 2. patiently 3. brought 4. interested
／易错分析／
本题容易写成 interesting，此处需要熟记固定短语 “be interested in．．．”意为“对……感兴趣”。
5. how 6. following 7. visitors 8. but 9. moments
10. the

（二）（2025·湖南）
Long, long ago, there was a city called Jijiaocheng, so named because it was said to have been built at daybreak. 1. The city was on the rich Liyang Plain (平原). Many waterways 2. provided (provide) water for crop fields and the people living inside and outside of the city.
The rulers of Jijiaocheng asked the people 3. to cut (cut) down trees in the mountains. The wood was shipped by 4. workers (worker) to the city for tall buildings. Standing in them, the city's rulers would be able to see 5. their (they) people and crops between the waterways. In autumn, plenty of rice was brought to the city.
This is not some bedtime story. It 6. really (real) took place around 4,500 years ago.
Thousands of years later, the once busy 7. and rich Jijiaocheng, which is now in a town of Hunan, came to the notice of the modern world. With the help of archaeologists (考古学家) and historians, artists painted recreations of life in Jijiaocheng in a 8. traditional (tradition) scroll (卷轴).
The scroll was part of a huge project. A group of artists spent two years 9. on it. It includes eight paintings, which are 140 meters long in total. It 10. shows (show) early human activities on the Liyang Plain and the prehistoric culture in Hunan.
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答案： (二)［主旨大意］本文主要讲述了古代城市极交城的历史及其在现代的考古发现，并通过艺术家的画卷重现了当时的生活场景。
1. The 2. provided 3. to cut 4. workers 5. their
6. really 7. and 8. traditional 9. on 10. shows