【正文】 ped 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(shí)，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(bào)》的記者。of是介詞其后是動(dòng)名詞，故填going。 （3）句意： 后來，在歐洲，他在意大利軍隊(duì)當(dāng)司機(jī)，直到他受傷并被運(yùn)回家，在那里他再次為報(bào)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(shí)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(dòng)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(diǎn)評】考查語法填空，注意謂語的時(shí)態(tài)，非謂語動(dòng)詞，詞性，介詞搭配等多種用法。13．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?，買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，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(shí)，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(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：“??！啊！“??！”固定短語，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?！惫潭ǘ陶Z，say to oneself，因主語是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(diǎn)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。14．閱讀下面短文，在空白處填入一個(gè)適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。 It was a quarter past Tine Mr. Beet hadn39。t e back His wife was a bit worried. The super was cold and she had waited for two and a half hours. She was sitting by the table in a dark room. She closed her ________ （eye） and listened carefully. Her neighbour Mr. Turner39。s television was on. She liked the pop music, ________she would not turn on hers. Her husband worked in an office. He worked hard so that he was paid a lot. The things in his home, such ________ the television, the puter, the fridge and so on, were all left by his parents. He and his wife only had to pay ________ their food and clothes. They tried to save money. If they ever felt sick, they just bought some medicine instead of ________ （see） a doctor. Suddenly the woman ________ （hear） someone ing upstairs. It was her husband who came back. She hurried to open the door. In the dark she could hear his deep breathing. As ________ as he sat down, she turned on the light and found he looked very tired. ________ do you e back so late, dear? asked the woman. Didn39。t you take the bus?” No, I didn39。t take it. I ran after it and I saved two dollars this evening. That39。s great! the woman said ________ （happy）. Run after a taxi next time and you ________ （save） even.【答案】 eyes；but；as；for；seeing；heard；soon；Why；happily；will save 【解析】【分析】本文講述了Beet夫婦雖然有錢，但是很節(jié)省，不開燈，也不坐公共汽車。（1）句意： 她閉上眼睛仔細(xì)聽著。形容詞性物主代詞her后是名詞，表示泛指用復(fù)數(shù)，故填eyes。（2）句意： 她喜歡流行音樂，但她不會(huì)打開她的電視。 根據(jù) liked the pop music 和 would not turn on可知是表示轉(zhuǎn)折，故用轉(zhuǎn)折連詞，但是，but ， 故填but。（3）句意： 他家里的東西，如電視機(jī)、電腦、冰箱等，都是他父母留下的。such as，固定搭配，例如，故填as。（4）句意： 他和他的妻子只需要付他們的食物和衣服的錢。 pay f