【文章內(nèi)容簡(jiǎn)介】 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(yǔ)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(wèn)。ask，詢問(wèn)，由語(yǔ)句 An old man went to India. 提示可知此句要用一般過(guò)去時(shí)，故填asked。 （3）句意：所以這位老人買了整整一公斤，開(kāi)始吃。語(yǔ)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(kāi)始吃東西，嘴巴就開(kāi)始燃燒。burn，燃燒；固定結(jié)構(gòu)begin to do sth，開(kāi)始做某事，故填to burn/burning。 （5）句意：整個(gè)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?！”固定短語(yǔ)，jump up and down，跳上跳下，故填down。 （7）句意：有些人看著他，搖搖頭說(shuō)：“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(yǔ)道：“我付了錢，所以我必須吃?！惫潭ǘ陶Z(yǔ)，say to oneself，因主語(yǔ)是he，故填himself。 （9）句意：我們所有人都把時(shí)間和金錢花在了一些事情上。spend，花費(fèi)，動(dòng)詞。因前面有助動(dòng)詞have，其后要用過(guò)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(yǔ)，learn from sb，向某人學(xué)習(xí)，故填from。 【點(diǎn)評(píng)】考查語(yǔ)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(duì)所缺部分進(jìn)行逐一解答。6．閱讀下面材料，在空白處填入適當(dāng)?shù)膬?nèi)容或括號(hào)內(nèi)單詞的正確形式。 Next time you hold a book in your hands, stop and think. Like most other things in the modern world, it is the result of thousands of years of human invention. First, came the invention of writing, ________（probable） .about 5, 500 years ago. With writing, people did not have to remember everything in their heads. They could municate with people that they never________ （see） and share their knowledge with insure generations.Later, the Greeks were wellknown for their literature （文學(xué)） and science, but their books looked very different ________the books of today. They were called scrolls （卷軸）. They were difficult to use and took a lot of space in a library. About 2,000 years ago, books with lots of pages________ （invent）. For more than a thousand years, the pages of books were made from animal skin. That changed in ________thirteenth century, when Europeans learned about a very ________（use） Chinese invention: paper.But the biggest change for books in Europe came in 1439, when Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press. Before that, books in Europe were copied by hand, so they were very expensive. Many more people could afford the books ________were produced on a printing press.These days it is difficult ________（imagine） a world without books. But human invention does not stop. Every year, more________ （story） are bought as ebooks and read on a screen. Will anyone turn the pages of a traditional book in the future, ________will books, like scrolls, soon disappear?【答案】 probably；saw；from；were invented；the；useful；that/which；to imagine；stories；or 【解析】【分析】本文介紹了書(shū)的歷史。 （1）句意： 首先，書(shū)寫(xiě)的發(fā)明可能在大約5500年前。副詞修飾動(dòng)詞came，probable是形容詞，probably是副詞，故填probably。 （2）句意： 他們可以與從未見(jiàn)過(guò)的人交流，并與保險(xiǎn)公司的幾代人分享他們的知識(shí)。根據(jù) 5, 500 years ago可知時(shí)態(tài)是一般過(guò)去時(shí)，see的過(guò)去式是saw ， 故填saw。 （3）句意： 后來(lái)，希臘人因他們的文學(xué)和科學(xué)而聞名，但是他們的“書(shū)”看起來(lái)和今天的書(shū)大不相同。be different from，固定搭配，與……不同 ， 故填from。 （4）句意： 大約2000年前，有很多頁(yè)的書(shū)4被發(fā)明。根據(jù)2000年前是一般過(guò)去時(shí)，invent和pages是被動(dòng)關(guān)系，主語(yǔ)是名詞復(fù)數(shù)，故助動(dòng)詞是were ， 故填 were invented。 （5）句意： 這種情況在13世紀(jì)發(fā)生了變化，當(dāng)時(shí)歐洲人了解到一項(xiàng)非常有用的中國(guó)發(fā)明，紙。根據(jù)thirteenth是序數(shù)詞，其前是定冠詞the，故填the。 （6）句意：這種情況在13世紀(jì)發(fā)生了變化，當(dāng)時(shí)歐洲人了解到一項(xiàng)非常有用的中國(guó)發(fā)明，紙。invention是名詞，其前是形容詞，use是動(dòng)詞，useful是形容詞，故填 useful。 （7）句意： 更多的人買得起印刷機(jī)上生產(chǎn)的書(shū)。定語(yǔ)從句缺少主語(yǔ)，指代先行詞books，故用關(guān)系代詞that/which指代，故填 that/which。 （8）句意： 如今，沒(méi)有書(shū)的世界很難想象。it39。s+形容詞+to so，固定搭配，做某事很…… ， 故填 to imagine。 （9）句意： 每年，都有更多的故事以電子書(shū)的形式被購(gòu)買并在屏幕上閱讀。此處缺少主語(yǔ)，根據(jù)are可知是名詞復(fù)數(shù)，story是名詞 ， 故填 stories。 （10）句意： 將來(lái)會(huì)有人翻過(guò)傳統(tǒng)書(shū)籍的書(shū)頁(yè)嗎？像卷軸一樣的書(shū)會(huì)很快消失嗎？連接疑問(wèn)句表示并列關(guān)系用or ， 故填or。 【點(diǎn)