A 核心素养 思维品质
[2026 南通市启东市期末]Curiosity is essential in human history. The greatest inventions would be impossible 1. w curiosity.
Curiosity can bring new discoveries. Benjamin Franklin is a great example. He was drawn to electricity and had a deep curiosity about its nature. He did a lot of research to try to understand it. For example, he 2. f a kite during a storm. His curiosity led him to invent the lightning rod. This 3. i protects buildings from lightning.
Curiosity can also make people brave. It is said that Wan Hu, the pioneer of space exploration in the Ming Dynasty, was so curious about space that he invented a “flying chair”. He 4. l his life while testing it. He didn’t die for nothing. People learnt from his example, and created safer ways to 5. e space.
But curiosity is more than just 6. t risks. It also drives people towards certain goals. Zhang Heng, a Chinese scientist and inventor, was curious about the world: how did everything in the world move? He 7. s years studying the sky and the earth. Finally, he drew China’s first systematic star map, and invented the first 8. e detector.
As Jacques Cousteau said, “What is a scientist after all? It is a curious man looking 9. t a keyhole, the keyhole of nature, trying to know what’s going on.” Curiosity is the key. It opens one door after another for us to 10. d a new world.

B 核心素养 中华优秀传统文化
Chinese people started to use hand fans thousands of years ago. At that time, they were almost the only way to drive the 1. h away. The Chinese character for the word "fan" has the same 2. s as the character for "kindness".
The fans came in 3. d shapes such as round ones and square ones. They were made from all kinds of materials. Palm leaf fans were cheap and easy to make. Feather fans showed the owner's 4. h position. Sandalwood(檀香) fans could send out a sweet smell.
Later, hand fans became far more than just something that could cool people down. They 5. d into works of art, in which tuanshan—round fans and zheshan—folding fans were the most 6. c because people used them a lot.
In the shape of a full moon, the 7. r fans stood for reunion(团圆) and happiness. They had beautiful embroidery(刺绣) with 8. b and flowers on them, representing wealth and longevity(长寿). Women, especially those in the palace, liked to use them.
Folding fans first 9. a in the Song Dynasty and became popular in the Ming Dynasty. Men, especially the literati(文人学士), used zheshan a lot because it was usually made of paper and the literati could paint and write 10. p on it. It was a way for them to show off their skills in literature, painting and calligraphy.