【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 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人因為貪便宜，買了一些根本不能作為水果的辣椒。結(jié)果因為舍不得自己花的那些錢，堅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，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 to India. 提示可知此句要用一般過去時，故填asked。 （3）句意：所以這位老人買了整整一公斤，開始吃。語句the old man bought a whole kilogram and started eating rupees in India is almost nothing, 的結(jié)果，故填so。 （4）句意：然而，他一開始吃東西，嘴巴就開始燃燒。burn，燃燒；固定結(jié)構(gòu)begin to do sth，開始做某事，故填to burn/burning。 （5）句意：整個臉變得像水果一樣紅。固定結(jié)構(gòu)as…as，與……一樣，故填as。 （6）句意：他跳上跳下，尖叫著：“?。“。　鞍。　惫潭ǘ陶Z，jump up and down，跳上跳下，故填down。 （7）句意：有些人看著他，搖搖頭說：“你瘋了！head，頭，因前面some people，要用復(fù)數(shù)形式，故填heads。 （8）句意：老人自言自語道：“我付了錢，所以我必須吃。”固定短語，say to oneself，因主語是he，故填himself。 （9）句意：我們所有人都把時間和金錢花在了一些事情上。spend，花費，動詞。因前面有助動詞have，其后要用過去分詞，故填spent。 （10）句意：我們可以從這位老人身上學(xué)到的是……。固定短語，learn from sb，向某人學(xué)習(xí)，故填from。 【點評】考查語法填空。通讀全文理解大意，然后根據(jù)上下文或者所給單詞的提示對所缺部分進(jìn)行逐一解答。6．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?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.【答案】 taught；going；for；later；American；a；meaning；to write；twentieth；children 【解析】【分析】本文介紹了海明威及其寫作風(fēng)格。 （1）句意： 海明威的父親很早就教他如何打獵和釣魚。描述過去用一般過去時，teach的過去式是taught，故填 taught。 （2）句意： 海明威沒有去上大學(xué)，而是成了《堪薩斯城明星報》的記者。of是介詞其后是動名詞，故填going。 （3）句意： 后來，在歐洲，他在意大利軍隊當(dāng)司機，直到他受傷并被運回家，在那里他再次為報紙寫作。work for，固定搭配，為……工作，故填for。 （4）句意： 四年后，他搬到巴黎，希望在那里提高寫作水平。時間段+later，……之后，故填later。 （5）句意：在那里，他和其他美國作家成了朋友。writers是名詞其前是形容詞做定語，America是名詞，American是形容詞，故填 American。 （6）句意： 海明威形成了一種簡單直接的寫作風(fēng)格。style是名詞單數(shù)，以輔音音素開頭，故用不定冠詞a表示泛指，故填a。 （7）句意：他謹(jǐn)慎地選擇詞語，避免使用形容詞，并相信讀者能理解他作品的意思。understand后是動名詞做賓語，故填 meaning。 （8）句意：我總是試圖用冰山的原理寫作。try to do，固定搭配，嘗試做某事，故填 to write 。 （9）句意： 他是20世紀(jì)最優(yōu)秀的作家之一。根據(jù)定冠詞the可知，此處是序數(shù)詞，twenty是基數(shù)詞，twentieth是序數(shù)詞 ， 故填 twentieth。 （10）句意： 其中一些是海明威六趾貓的孩子。根據(jù)are，可知表語是名詞復(fù)數(shù)，child的復(fù)數(shù)是children ， 故填 children。 【點評】考查語法填空，注意謂語的時態(tài)，非謂語動詞，詞性，介詞搭配等多種用法。7．閱讀下面的材料，在空白處填入一個