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he 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,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,可知表語是名詞復數(shù),child的復數(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。6.語法填空 The Chinese first ________ (make) paper about 2,000 years ago. China still has pieces ________paper which were made as long ago as that. But Chinese paper was not made from the wood of trees. It was made from the hairlike parts of certain plants. Paper was not made in ________ (south) Europe until about the year 1100. Scandinavia( 斯堪的納維亞半島),which now makes a great deal of the ________ (world) paper, did not begin to make it until 1500. It was a German ________ (name) Schaeffer who found out that one could make the best paper from trees. After that, the forest countries of Sweden, Norway, Finland, and the United States ________ (bee) the largest paper producers. Today in Finland, which makes the ________ (good) paper in the world, the paper industry is the biggest on the land. New papermaking machines are very big, and ________ (them) make paper very fast. The biggest machines can make a piece of paper that is 300 metres long and 6 metres wide ________ one minute. When we think of paper, we think of newspapers, books, letters, envelopes and writing paper. ________there are many other uses. Only half of the paper that is made is used for books and newspapers, etc.【答案】 made;of;southern;world39。s;named;became;best;they;in;But 【解析】【分析】本文介紹了全世界的造紙工藝。 (1)句意: 大約2000年前中國制造了第一張紙。根據(jù) 2,000 years ago可知2000年前是一般過去時的標志,make的過去式是made , 故填made。 (2)句意:中國仍然有在那之前制作的紙。pieces of,固定搭配,張,故填of。 (3)句意: 直到大約1100年,紙才在南歐制造出來。Europe是名詞其前是形容詞,south是名詞,southern是形容詞,故填 southern。 (4)句意:斯堪的納維亞半島現(xiàn)在在世界報紙上占有很大份額,直到1500年才開始發(fā)行。paper是名詞,此處是所有格,故填 world39。s。 (5)句意:是一個叫謝弗的德國人發(fā)現(xiàn)人們可以用樹做最好的紙。name和German是被動關系,故用過去分詞做后置定語,故填 named。 (6)句意:此后,森林國家瑞典、挪威、芬蘭和美國成為最大的紙張生產國。描述過去用一般現(xiàn)在時,bee的過去式是became,故填 became。 (7)句意:今天,在世界上造紙最好的是芬蘭,造紙工業(yè)是世界上最大的。根據(jù) the biggest on the land 可知此處是最高級,good的最高級是best,故填 best。 (8)句意:新的造紙機很大,而且造紙很快。此處缺少主語,故用主格,them是賓格,主格是they,故填 they。 (9)句意:最大的機器可以在一分鐘內制造出一張長300米、寬6米的紙。此處缺少介詞表示時間范圍,in one minute,在一分鐘之內,故填in。 (10)句意:但還有很多其他用途。此處缺少連詞,此處表示前后的對比,故是轉折關系連詞but,故填But。 【點評】考查語法填空,注意謂語的時態(tài),語態(tài),非謂語動詞,詞性,連詞搭配等多種用法。7.語法填空 Tonight is the night when children in much of the ________(west) world will be waiting for a fat man ________ red and white to pass by on his sleigh and climb down the chimney to deliver the Christmas ________ (present). And as we all know, Santa Claus, or Father Christmas lives at the North Pole, you might not realize he39。s________ (actual) from Finland. Everyone dreams of the ing of Santa Claus ________ (bring) him something. Stories ________him spread throughout the centuries including one in which he helped a poor man who couldn39。t afford money for his married daughters. In the dead of night, Nicolas came to throw gold into his house. But the windows were too narrow so he had to climb down the chimney, yes, you guessed it, threw gold in the girls39。 stocking ________ (hang) up to dry.