【正文】 ________ （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：“??！??！“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：我們所有人都把時間和金錢花在了一些事情上。spend，花費(fèi)，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(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。13．閱讀下面的短文，用括號內(nèi)所給詞的適當(dāng)形式填空，必要時可加助動詞或情態(tài)動詞。 I never saw my father home from work late or ill, nor did I ever see my father take a night out with the boys. He had no________ （hobby） but just took care of 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，作者因為太忙，跟父親沒有太多的交流，當(dāng)作者想要彌補(bǔ)時，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： 他總是對我的生活感興趣。be interested in，固定搭配，對......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、英國或佛羅里達(dá)的時候打來的。 根據(jù) in Australia 可知此處是表示國家的名詞，England，英國，故填 England。 （4）句意： 九年前，當(dāng)我買下我的第一棟房子時，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，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歲的父親花了五個小時組裝秋千給我女兒。根據(jù) Five years ago 可知是一般過去時，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可知時態(tài)是一般過去時，send與主語father是被動關(guān)系，故是被動語態(tài)，主語是第三人稱單數(shù)，助動詞是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，我會彌補(bǔ)失去的時間，和他好好長談，然后真正地了解他。副詞修飾動詞短語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】考查語言綜合運(yùn)用能力，注意謂語的時態(tài)，語態(tài)，詞性，搭配等多種用法。14．閱讀下面的短文，在空白處填入一個適當(dāng)?shù)脑~，或填入括號中所給單詞的正確形式。 Sitting at a desk in a classroom all day can be pretty boring. With a bike, the reading class can be ________（interesting） than before. The teachers in ________school in the USA have tried this. The Read and Ride program ________（begin） five years ago. As part of the Read and Ride program, the teachers change the students39。________（desk） into exercise bikes. With this program, one classroom in the school has enough bikes for each student in class. ________is possible for the students to ride bikes and read books at the same time. Even mon classrooms have one bike at the back of them. The students who cannot sit still can use the bike ________（do） exercise. The exercise bikes are not only go