朝花夕拾杯中酒Unit 3A taste of English humour李仕才【短文语法填空】As less people choose to make sugar paintings, the traditional Chinese folk craft might have become a 1 (distance) memory in some ways. However, a 38-year-old craftsman, Li Jiangzhong, is committed to 2 (keep) the art of sugar painting alive.Li worked as a miner for more than ten years. After 3 mine closed down, Li turned 4 housing decoration, until he 5 (force) to give that up due to a finger injury. Earlier this year, he discovered sugar painting, something he really had an interest in.Since there was no sugar painting craftsman in his village, he studied by 6 (he) through large quantities of videos and information on the Internet. Li loved painting when he was young, and he found it easy to learn the skill in sugar painting. He soon mastered the skill and could make a 7 (vary) of sugar paintings. A sugar painting is made with 8 (melt) brown or white sugar. Craftsman 9 (normal) paint animals and flowers on a stone board with the syrup(糖浆). When the sugar cools down, 10 appears is a piece of sugar art.【文章大意】本文是记叙文，讲述38岁的李健忠回到老家继承中国传统文化，学习制作糖画的故事，文章还说明了糖画的制作。1.distant【解析】考查词性转换。空格处修饰名词memory，形容词修饰名词作定语，故填distant。2.keeping3.the【解析】考査冠词。上文提到他做过十多年矿工，故此处表示他所在的矿井关闭以后，为特指，故填the。4.to【解析】考查介词。句意：他转而去做房屋装修的工作了。 turn to“转而做，转向”是固定词组。故填 to。5.was forced【解析】考查动词的时态和语态。句意：直到他因为手指受伤而被迫放弃。此处讲述过去的事情，故用一般过去时，句子的主语和force之间是被动关系，应用被动语态，且主语和是第三人称单数。故填was forced。6.himself【解析】考查代词。句意：由于他的村子里没有糖画手艺人，因此他自学制作糖画。by oneself固定用法，表示“独自地，全靠自己地”，故填himself。7.variety【解析】考查词性转换。句意：他很快掌握了这项技术并能制作出各种各样的糖画。a variety of“各种各样”是固定短语，故填variety。8.melted 9.normally【解析】考查词性转换。句意：手艺人们通常用糖浆在石板上画动物和花。修饰谓语动词用副词作状语，故填normally。10.what【解析】考查主语从句。分析句子结构可知，空处引导主语从句，且在从句中作主语，表示“所的东西”，what引导主语从句，作主语、宾语或者表语。故填what。一高考单词识记思考运用1核心词汇overcome vt.&vi.战胜；克服content adj.满足的；满意的n.满足；内容vt.使满足slide vt.&vi.(使)滑动；(使)滑行n.滑；滑动；幻灯片whisper n. 耳语；低语vt.&vi.低语；小声说entertain vt.&vi.使欢乐；款待 entertainment n娱乐；款待convince vt.使信服 convincing adj.令人信服的 convinced adj. 相信的direct vt.&vi.导演；指示；指挥；adj.直的；直接的；真率的director n导演react vi.作出反应；回应 reaction n回应amuse vt.使发笑；使愉快 amusing adj.好笑的；有趣的 amused adj.感觉好笑的 amusement n娱乐；乐趣2常考词汇chew vt.&vi. 嚼碎；咀嚼食物outstanding adj. 突出的；杰出的；显著的throughout prep. 遍及；贯穿adv. 到处；始终；全部occasion n. 时刻；场合gesture n. 手势；姿态vi. 做手势astonish vt. 使惊诧astonishing adj. 令人感到惊讶的astonished adj. 吃惊的fortunate adj. 幸运的；吉利的unfortunately adv. 不幸地particular adj. 特殊的；特别的n. 细节；细目particularly adv. 特殊地；特别地explanation n. 解释；讲解；说明explain vt. 解释failure n. 失败者；fail v. 失败用所给单词的适当形式填空1Unfortunately (fortunate), that plan seems unlikely to work: we have yet to invent a firewall that is secure against ordinary humans, let alone super intelligent machines.(2017北京卷)2There has been a recent trend in the food service industry toward lower fat content (content) and less salt.(2017全国卷)3But we all have to accept that as we get older our reactions (react) slow down and this often results in people avoiding any potentially challenging driving conditions and losing confidence in their driving skills.(2017全国卷)4Were it not for the support of the teachers，the student could_not_overcome (overcome) her difficulty.(2017江苏卷)5A quick review of successes and failures (fail) at the end of year will help shape your year ahead.(2017江苏卷)6What brought about this astonishing (astonish) change in me？(2016浙江卷)7Failure (fail) is probably the most exhausting experience a person ever has.(2016天津卷)8Vaillants words serve as an explanation (explain) why some boys grew into happy men.(2016天津卷)9During my first quarter，I spoke directly (direct) to the Chancellor，asking him for support.(2016浙江卷)10This function of the Internet is particularly (particular) striking when Im writing.(2016江苏卷)“满足，满意”家族content adj.满足的；满意的n.满足vt.使满足satisfy vt.使满意，满足；satisfaction n满意；满足please v(使)高兴，(使)满意；pleased adj.高兴的，满意的happy adj.感到满意的meet vt.满足后缀-tion构成的抽象名词explanation 解释，说明admiration 钦佩，赞美conservation 保存，保护creation 创造description 描写，描述education 教育expectation 预期，期待exploration 探索examination 检查，细查，考试graduation 毕业词形相近词对比记忆content n内容；context n上下文march n前进；match n比赛affect v影响；effect n影响，效果sweat n汗水；sweet adj.甜的monkey n猴子；donkey n驴expand v扩张；expend v花费steal v偷；steel n钢adapt v适应；adopt v收养【完形填空】Something quite tragic(悲剧的)happened in our home.It had a _1_ effect on our lives.It _2_ the way we relax and even where we sit.There was no fire or flood.we _3_ our WiFi service，for over a week.I was raised in the preWiFi era，so I was relatively _4_ to the situation.My children，_5_，did not have this training.When given the news that there was no WiFi in the house，their first _6_ was：“But，what will we do？”Fortunately，the TV still worked，although the children were _7_ to find that it had only 70 chan