首字母填空 Passage 1 Here s a story about Ming s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r1 in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l 2 but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f 3 he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v 4 him. Ming s father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings（圈） have been put around the birds n6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been t 7 to bring the fish to people. And then people reward （奖励）them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f 8 . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 . 1. river 2. land 3. friends 4.visit 5. uses 6. necks 7. taught/trained 8. finished 9. shopping 10. own 【解析】本篇短文第一句 关于明的在水上的生活 ，给大家一个总体的信息，重点是 on the waters，而且时态为现在时。 1. 既然 Ming 的生活是和水紧密联系的，所以第一个空就很容易了，r 打头的关于水 的单词，就是river，因为前面有冠词a，所以只用单数形式。 2.通过前文可以得知，Ming住在一个船型的屋子里，6 年里他从来没有到过* ，但 是他从来不孤单 ，也就是说他非常喜欢在水上的生活，因此可以推测出他从来没有来过陆 地，填 land。 3.本空的关键在play with ，通常后面可以加fire、snow，但是与文意不符，所以是与 朋友们玩，后文的their 说明是复数形式，填friends。 4.本空的 ask them to * him 和 or 之前的 swims across to their boats 是相互对应的，要 么 Ming 去朋友那里，要么他的朋友来看他，所以填visit ，表示拜访的意思。 5.本句说到， Ming 的父亲是一位渔夫，一位渔夫捕鱼用线或者网是非常正常的事情， 但 but 表示转折，说明他的父亲与一般渔夫不一样，不使用线或者网，后文的birds do the fishing for him也说明他自己不需要用这些工具。他的父亲是第三人称，所以填uses。 6.本题是难题， 通过上下文可以得知，Ming 的父亲在那些鸬鹚的某个部位圈上了圈， 所以它们就不能把捕到的鱼吃下去了。通常鸬鹚吃鱼是直接吞的，如果不让它们吃下去的 话只能在脖子上圈住，这样鱼就会卡住，吞不下去，而且鸬鹚是复数形式，所以填necks。 7.那些鸬鹚不是天生就会为Ming 的父亲捕鱼的，而是通过后天的训练和教导，所以 填 taught 或者 trained。 8.通过句意得知，当鸬鹚的工作* 了之后，它们会得到一大条鱼作为奖励，从逻辑上 来看，应该是完成工作后，而且空前有is，所以填finished 。 9.最后一句中，出现了shop，提示了此空和shop有关，应该是由go 引导固定词组， go shopping，表示去购物。 10.本题也是难题。 因为 Ming 是生活在水上的，那么肯定商店也是在水上的，从短文 的第二句可以推测出，商店也是和Ming 的家的外形很像，所以填own，词组 of ones own 表示某人的，这里解释为 这个商店也和Ming 自己的家外形很像 。 Passage 2 Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs i 1 of people. They say that at a circus （杂技场） ,for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 skillful （熟练 的） things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer always g 3 the animal some sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many d 5 animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f 6 doing that. Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t 7 have u 8 geese to give warning （警报） by m 9 a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or f 10 . 1. instead 2. quite 3. gives 4.or 5. different 6. for 7. times 8. used 9. making 10. factories 【解析】本篇短文的首句，用一个疑问句来提出了 动物可以为人类工作？ ，说明本 篇文章将围绕此问题展开，而且时态为现在时。 1.通过本句句意理解， 科学家认为有一天动物可以被训练，然后做一些简单的工作 ， 意思与文章首句呼应，所以是代替人们做简单的工作，填insteadof，表示代替。 2.本空可以使用语法上的技巧。如果本空忽略不看的话，句子仍然是成立的，说明填 的单词词形不会是名词、动词或形容词，所以只能填副词来修饰skillful ，那么 非常 可以 用 quite 来表示，因此填quite。 3.本空应该填动词，当动物做好表演时，训练者会给动物一些奖励，所以填gives。 4.本题很好理解，要么给动物一些糖，要么就给水果，填or，表示选择性。 5.通过上文可以得知，现在大象、猴子、狗和其他动物都被训练做了许多事情，所以 动物的种类是多种多样的，空格前的many 也提示了不同种类的，所以填different。 6.本题很好理解，作为 的奖励，用介词for。 7.本题考察的是词组的运用，表示在以前和现在，填times，表示时代。 8.在以前和现在，士兵们都用鹅来发警报，使用某物，填use，前面有 have 表示现在 完成时，因此填used。 9.本题考察的是词组的固定搭配，通过让鹅制造噪音来提醒士兵们有敌人靠近了，词 组是 makenoise，前面有介词by，所以填making。 10.本题的逻辑词是or，表示选择性，说明本空也是一个表示地点的词，并且同样是 由介词 in 引导，所以不能填farm（onthe farms）而且应该和families 呼应，要用复数形式， 填 factories。 Passage 3 In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w 1 the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d 2 . One needs to play it very c 3 . A kite-board is in fact a skateboard （滑雪板） drawn（拉） by a few big flying kites. The old game was p 4 by some young people in Holland and Spain as e 5 as the last century. Since the board was hard to control, f 6 people dared（敢） to play it. With the development of the design of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometers an hour. If you haven t had any practice, you d better not play it. It is not s 9 . It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also the sensitivity of your brain（大脑的敏捷）. 1. won 2.difficult/dangerous 3. carefully 4. played 5.early 6. few 7.learn 8. fast 9. safe 10. body 【解析】通过本文第一句，可以得知文章的中心主体是kite-board（风筝板，冲浪运 动的一种，可以借助风力飞上天）。 1. 通过文章首句，可以得知近些年风筝板越来越流行，既然如此流行，必定会让年 轻人产生浓厚的兴趣，空1 所在的句子的兴趣用了interest 名词形式，说明要用一个动词来 表示出 引起、得到 的意思，那么很容易想到 赢得某人的兴趣 ，用 win ，前面有 has是现 在完成时，所以win 改成 won。 2. 空 2 的关键点在于逻辑词but，but 表示前后意思的转折， 风筝板很有趣， 但是也 很* ，那么和 有趣 相对的就是 危险 或者 困难 ，所以 dangero