【正文】 用法。3．閱讀下面的短文，用括號內(nèi)所給詞的適當形式填空，必要時可加助動詞或情態(tài)動詞。 I never saw my father home from work late or ill, nor did I ever see my father take a night out with the boys. He had no________ （hobby） but just took care of his family. For 22 years, since I left home for college, my father called me every Sunday at 9:00 am. He was always ________ （interest）in my life—how my family as doing. The calls even came when he and my mother were in Australia, ________ （English） or Florida. Nine years ago when I bought my ________ （one） house, my father, 67 years old, painted my house himself. He worked eight hours a day. He would not allow me ________ （pay） someone to have it done. All he asked was a glass of iced tea, and that I hold a paintbrush for him and talk to him. But I was too busy, for I had a law practice to run, and I could not take the time to hold the paintbrush, or talk to my father. Five years ago, my 71—year—old father ________ （spend）five hours putting together a swing set（秋千）for my daughter. Again, all he asked was that I get him a glass of iced tea, and talk to him. But again, I had laundry to do, and the house to clean. The morning on Sunday, January 16, 1996, my father telephoned me as ________ （usually）, this time he had seemed to have forgotten some things we had discussed the week before. I had to get to church, and I cut the conversation short. The call came at 4:40 am. That day my father ________ （send）to hospital in Florida, I got on a plane immediately, and I vowed（發(fā)誓）that when I arrived, I would make up for the lost time, and have a nice long talk with him and ________ （real）get to know him. I arrived in Florida at 1:00 am, but my father had passed away at 9:12 pm. This time it was he who did not have time to talk, or time to wait for me. In the years since his ________ （die） I have learnt much about my father, and even more about myself. As a father, he never asked me for anything but my time. Now he has all my attention, every single day.【答案】 hobbies；interested；England；first；to pay；spent；usual；was sent；really；death 【解析】【分析】 這篇短文中作者給我們講述了她的父親，她父親是一個很顧家的人，眼里只有他的家人。作者在短文中講述了生活中的幾件事情，從這些事情中我們可以看到，作者因為太忙，跟父親沒有太多的交流，當作者想要彌補時，父親卻離開了她。 （1）句意： 他沒有愛好，但只是照顧家人。hobby是可數(shù)名詞，表示泛指用復數(shù)形式，故填 hobbies。 （2）句意： 他總是對我的生活感興趣。be interested in，固定搭配，對......感興趣，故填 interested。 （3）句意： 這些電話甚至是在他和我媽媽在澳大利亞、英國或佛羅里達的時候打來的。 根據(jù) in Australia 可知此處是表示國家的名詞，England，英國，故填 England。 （4）句意： 九年前，當我買下我的第一棟房子時，我67歲的父親親自粉刷了我的房子。one，基數(shù)詞，一，表示第一個，用序數(shù)詞，first，故填 first。 （5）句意： 他不允許我付錢給某人去做這件事。allow sb to do，固定搭配，允許某人做，故填 to pay。 （6）句意： 五年前，我71歲的父親花了五個小時組裝秋千給我女兒。根據(jù) Five years ago 可知是一般過去時，spend的過去式是spent，故填 spent。 （7）句意： 1996年1月16日星期日的早上，我父親像往常一樣7點給我打電話，這次他似乎忘記了我們一周前討論過的一些事情。as usual，固定搭配，像往常一樣，故填 usual 。 （8）句意： 那天，我父親8被送到佛羅里達州的醫(yī)院。根據(jù) That day可知時態(tài)是一般過去時，send與主語father是被動關系，故是被動語態(tài)，主語是第三人稱單數(shù)，助動詞是was，send的過去分詞是sent ， 故填 was sent。 （9）句意： 我發(fā)誓當我到達時，我會彌補失去的時間，和他好好長談，然后真正地了解他。副詞修飾動詞短語get to know，real的副詞是really，故填 really。 （10）句意： 在他去世后的幾年里，我了解了很多關于我父親的事情，甚至更多關于我自己的事情。 his是形容詞性物主代詞，其后是名詞，death，是名詞，故填 death。 【點評】考查語言綜合運用能力，注意謂語的時態(tài)，語態(tài)，詞性，搭配等多種用法。4．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入適當?shù)膬?nèi)容（不多于3個單詞）或括號內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。 Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway39。s father________（teach） him early on how to hunt and fish, two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life. Instead of ________（go） to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star. Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver ________the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years ________, he moved to Paris, where he hoped to improve his writing. There he became friends with other ________（America） writers, including Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald. Hemingway developed ________style of writing that was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly（儉省地）, avoided using adjectives, and trusted the reader to understand ________（mean） of his writing. As he put it, I always try ________（write） on the principle（原則） of the iceberg（冰山）. There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows. This style continues to influence Writers today. In his career（生涯）, which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the________（twenty） century. For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes（腳趾）, which a ship39。s captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are ________（child） of Hemingway39。s sixtoed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961.1