浦东区中考英语二模首字母训练真题

C. 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):(共14分)

According to experts, the word Hutong originated from Mongolian language meaning "Well"(井). In ancient times, people tended to gather and live around wells. So the original meaning of Hutong should be a place where people gather and live. But Hutong first a   86      in Beijing during the Yuan Dynasty. The old city was completely destroyed during the war. So they had to rebuild it. First, they had to find a center, and then built a r   87   square city. At that time, there was a clear definition for "Avenue, Street and Hutong". A 37-meter-wide road was called an avenue, an 18-meter-wide one was called a street, and a 9-meter-wide lane was called a Hutong. Most of today's Hutongs were formed during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Nobody knows e   88   how many Hutongs there are in nowadays Beijing. But if we connected all the Hutongs together, their total l   89  would even be longer than the famous Great Wall, which is about 4,000 miles.

Today you can find v   90   Hutongs with different shapes, sizes or directions. The shortest one is only 40 centimeters wide. And some Hutongs have more than 20 turns.

As we walk t   91   the Hutongs, you may find most of them look almost the same with gray-colored walls and bricks. Actually inside those walls are the courtyard houses, where people live. In Chinese we call them 'Siheyuan". "Si" literally means four; "he" means to surround and "yuan" refers to the courtyard. So a rectangular wall enclosing four houses, one built on each side facing into the center, is called a Siheyuan. When they were first built, usually one Siheyuan was   o  92   by only one family. And nowadays, with the growth of the population, most Siheyuans

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