中考真题2024年山西省语法填空-折纸中的数学奥秘
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“You must be Alex.” said a girl, offering her hand.
Surprised, Alex quickly put the folded paper behind his back.
The girl continued, “I’m Sophia. I ___1___ in Smart Start Group for a year. You’re welcome.”
“Glad to meet you.” Alex tried to put himself at ease.
“Could you tell me a little ___2___ about yourself? What do you like to do? What would you love to do here?”
“I want ___3___ anything but math!” Alex replied.
“Well, I guess that’s why you’re here,” Sophia said with a laugh. “I used to hate math, too.”
Alex realized that Sophia was trying to make him feel ___4___ “What made you start to like it?” he asked politely.
“Things in our life are all about math. Hey
may I have a look at what you ___5___? What is it?” she joked.
“It’s nothing yet, but soon it will be,” Alex explained. Then, he folded and creased (压褶). “A crane!” he said, showing his work ___6___.
“That’s cool!” Sophia said, giving attention to the folds. “Do you mind if I take it apart?”
Alex showed that he didn’t care. Sophia unfolded each step of the paper crane.
“Don’t you see? What you have here is math, right in front of ___7___!” Sophia spread the paper with her hands.
“Do your first fold,” she ordered, and Alex did what he ___8___ to do. “You began with a square, and created two rectangles. And you have a fraction (分数), too: one half! Fold it again... and now you have four ___9___” Sophia pointed to the top fold. “What fraction does this piece stand for?”
“One quarter?”
“Right! Get out some more paper, and let’s do some geometry (几何).”
It would be a thing ___10___ was expected to happen if math study was going to be paper-folding, Alex thought. He hoped it could be a Smart Start.