【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 f 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(gè)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?yàn)樘?，跟父親沒有太多的交流，當(dāng)作者想要彌補(bǔ)時(shí)，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(fù)數(shù)形式，故填 hobbies。 （2）句意： 他總是對(duì)我的生活感興趣。be interested in，固定搭配，對(duì)......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(guó)或佛羅里達(dá)的時(shí)候打來的。 根據(jù) in Australia 可知此處是表示國(guó)家的名詞，England，英國(guó)，故填 England。 （4）句意： 九年前，當(dāng)我買下我的第一棟房子時(shí)，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(gè)，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(gè)小時(shí)組裝秋千給我女兒。根據(jù) Five years ago 可知是一般過去時(shí)，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(diǎn)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(dá)州的醫(yī)院。根據(jù) That day可知時(shí)態(tài)是一般過去時(shí)，send與主語father是被動(dòng)關(guān)系，故是被動(dòng)語態(tài)，主語是第三人稱單數(shù)，助動(dòng)詞是was，send的過去分詞是sent ， 故填 was sent。 （9）句意： 我發(fā)誓當(dāng)我到達(dá)時(shí)，我會(huì)彌補(bǔ)失去的時(shí)間，和他好好長(zhǎng)談，然后真正地了解他。副詞修飾動(dòng)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(guān)于我父親的事情，甚至更多關(guān)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(diǎn)評(píng)】考查語言綜合運(yùn)用能力，注意謂語的時(shí)態(tài)，語態(tài)，詞性，搭配等多種用法。6．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，或填入括號(hào)中所給單詞的正確形式。 An old man went to India. When he got there, he saw some fruit for sale, but most of it was very cheap. The ________ （cheap） thing has a basket of red fruit. How much per kilo? the old man ________ （ask）. Two rupees （盧比）, the shopkeeper answered. Two rupees in India is almost nothing, ________ the old man bought a whole kilogram and started eating it. However, as soon as he started eating, his mouth began ________ （burn）, his eyes began to water, and his whole face became as red ________ the fruit. As he coughed and struggled to breathe, he jumped up and ________, screaming: Ah! Ah! Ah! And yet he continued to eat the fruit. Some people who were looking at him shook their ________ （head） and said, You are crazy! Those are chili peppers （辣椒）!You can39。t just eat them by the handful! The old man said to ________ （he）,I paid for them, so I must eat them. This old man seemed pretty stupid. But are we so much smarter? All of us have ________ （spend） money and time on somethingmaybe a relationship, or a business, or a joband sometimes, even if we know there39。s no hope that things will change, we still continue with it. What we can learn ________ the old man is this: if you39。ve lost a lot over something that doesn39。t work, let it go and move on. It39。s better than continuing to lose.【答案】 cheapest；asked；so；to burn /burning；as；down；heads；himself；spent；from 【解析】【分析】文章大意：這篇短文主要講述了一個(gè)人因?yàn)樨澅阋耍I了一些根本不能作為水果的辣椒。結(jié)果因?yàn)樯岵坏米约夯ǖ哪切╁X，堅(jiān)持把它們吃完的故事。從而告訴我們放棄某些東西比繼續(xù)損失要好。 （1）句意：最便宜的東西有一籃子紅水果。cheap，便宜。根據(jù)上文語句but most of it was very cheap. 提示可知，此句應(yīng)該用最高級(jí)，故填cheapest。 （2）句意：“每公斤多少錢？”老人問。ask，詢問，由語句 An old man went