【正文】 meaningfuladj.有意義的forcev.強(qiáng)迫expertn.專家familiaradj.熟悉的challengen/v.挑戰(zhàn)plenty of exercise足夠的鍛煉make your vocabulary much larger使你的詞匯更豐富sharpens your brain使你的大腦變敏捷express yourself表達(dá)自己get into the habit of 養(yǎng)成習(xí)慣 練習(xí)4The story behind the shopping cartCharactersSylvan Goldman owner of a grocery shopFred Young—Sylvan’s friend, a mechanic (機(jī)械師)One night in 1936, in an American city. Inside Fred’s workshop. Sylvan sits next to Fred, who is making adjustments（調(diào)試）to their new i_____81_____—a shopping cart.Sylvan: My customers don’t like our shopping cart.Fred: Really? So they p_____82_____shopping with those heavy baskets?Sylvan: (nods) I’ve got a huge crowd of customers every day, b_____83_____none of them wants to use the cart. Fred: I don’t understand .We invited the cart so people don’t need to carry a basket around the shop.Sylvan: (laughs) And so that they will buy more groceries!Fred: So why don’t they like the shopping cart?Sylvan: Young men think that pushing a cart around makes them look w_____84_____and slow, and young women think it’s unfashionable.Fred: Of course it isn’t fashionable right now. It’s only just been invented! But I’m sure older people will appreciate it.Sylvan: Um...Fred: What? They don’t like the cart e_____85_____？Sylvan: Well, they think pushing it makes them look helpless!Fred: Oh, no. We need to do something, Fred. We can’t just g_____86_____up on this invention!Sylvan: We won’t. (He gets up and walks around the room. Suddenly, he stops) Aha! I’ve got an idea.Fred: What is it?Sylvan: I’ll hire (雇傭) some goodlooking guys and girls to push the carts around and pretend they are shopping.Fred: Oh! So the real shoppers will see these attractive people using the carts and think, ‘Hey, if it’s good enough for them, it’s good enough for me!’Sylvan: E_____87_____.Fred: Hey! Maybe you could get one of the girls to greet your customers and encourage them to use the cart.Sylvan: Great idea!【參考答案】invention、prefer、but、weak、either、give、Exactly小結(jié)本文的題材比較新穎。首先，很多學(xué)生不理解vocabulary的含義。很多學(xué)生容易寫成單數(shù)，沒有注意到problem是可數(shù)名詞，前面沒有冠詞“a”，因此需要添加“s”。而主語是“it”，因此需要加“s”。例如，81題，所填詞為needs。上下文之間的邏輯關(guān)系比較緊密。Wechat（微信）！Read messages from people who have different interests. And some say that learning to express y_____87_____in just 100 words is a great brain challenge.Have a try and do these every day. Little by little you can get into the habit of challenging your brain, and make your brain smarter!【參考答案】needs、another、problems、larger、when/while、create/cause、yourself/yourselves小結(jié)本篇文章向我們介紹了如何鍛煉我們的大腦。Calculate w_____85_____ you shopAs you put things in your grocery cart, total everything in your head. See how close you get to the actual total.216。Learn a new a languageLearning a new language involves different learning methods. Learning a language sharpens your brains and helps prevent memory p_____83_____that you may meet in later years.216。Limit your TV viewingNever spend too much time on TV viewing, for it n_____81_____very little brain activities. Your brain will bee weak just as your muscles do. If you do watch TV, choose something educational and meaningful.216。例如，本文中85題前有much，因此注意到所填詞需要用比較級。因此，在平時的學(xué)習(xí)中，應(yīng)當(dāng)著重加強(qiáng)高頻詞匯的拼寫和運(yùn)用。文章有一定的難度，選材并不屬于學(xué)生特別熟悉的范疇。另外，最后一題，很多學(xué)生寫的是exiting，但是沒有注意到文章最后一句“gain happiness”，因此這里填enjoyable（快樂的）更為合適。很多學(xué)生填的是describe(描述),錯誤的原因是沒有看到后面的介詞搭配“with”，如果是describe的話，適當(dāng)?shù)慕樵~應(yīng)該選用“to”。文章難度適中。 near their home. With three children in college, it was i_____84_____for the couple to spend all the family’s money to start a shop. To cover the $100,000 cost, they used some of their savings, borrowed from relatives and from a bank.In order to a_____85_____customers, Mary always had new ways. The shop had a coffee bar and it offered presents to mystery lovers and served dinner for book clubs that met in the store. She also invited many writers to d_____86_____their stories with the buyers to let them understand the stories better. Now after paying taxes, business costs and the six parttime sales clerks, Richard and Mary together earn about $34,000.例如：動詞的時態(tài)，名詞的單復(fù)數(shù)以及形容詞副詞的級。如果發(fā)現(xiàn)有不順暢的地方，則需要再進(jìn)行推敲。（6）重讀文章，檢驗(yàn)答案當(dāng)全部答完后，一定要把文章重新讀一遍。首字母填空著重考查學(xué)生對上下文的理解，因此，很多情況下，隨著下文的展開和文章的深入，前面填不出的詞，在下文中會有提示。（4）熟悉考綱詞組的固定搭配考綱搭配在中考的考查中占據(jù)了重要的位置，而在首字母中，也出現(xiàn)過直接考查固定搭配的情況，因此，在平時的學(xué)習(xí)過程中，需要鞏固好考綱詞組。（3）抓住關(guān)鍵詞文章的展開是按照一定的邏輯關(guān)系的，因此在文章中，作者也會使用一些關(guān)鍵的表現(xiàn)邏輯關(guān)系聯(lián)詞，例如：but、so、in addition等。（2）把握段首句中考的首字母往往以議論文為主，而段落的開首句，往往揭示了整段的段意。2. 解題技巧（1）通讀全文，了解大意通讀全文的目的是能夠做到整體把握文章，迅速的了解文章大意，并且對文章的整體結(jié)構(gòu)和中心思想有一個基本的了解。一般來講，在考試中，七個首字母，會涉及到不同詞性。中考英語首字母填空解題技巧講解中考英語首字母填空解題技巧講解學(xué)法指導(dǎo)1. 總述首字母填空既考查學(xué)生對語法、詞匯、句型、搭配等基礎(chǔ)知識的綜合運(yùn)用能力，也考查了學(xué)生對文章的閱讀理解能力。其中，著重考查學(xué)生在具體的語境中運(yùn)用語言知識的能力，根據(jù)文章內(nèi)容進(jìn)行合理的邏輯推斷和分析概括的能力。以名詞、動詞、形容詞和副詞為主，虛詞為輔。通讀全文時，不宜看一空填一空，以免造成所填答案不符合全文的要求。因此在考試中，把握好段首句，可以窺探到整段的全貌，以首句的時態(tài)，意義為立足點(diǎn)，可以方便我們判斷整段的大意及主題。這些關(guān)鍵詞，可以幫助我們聯(lián)系上下文展開合理的邏輯分析，了解所提問的特定語境和語篇的內(nèi)在關(guān)系。（5）聯(lián)系上下文解題在解題過程中，應(yīng)當(dāng)遵循“先易后難”的原則，當(dāng)遇到解不出的題時，應(yīng)當(dāng)跳過。因此，學(xué)生在作答時，應(yīng)當(dāng)加強(qiáng)聯(lián)系前后文，充分利用上下文中的有效信息，確定答案。查看文章是否通順，語法是否有誤。個別單詞的形式要著重注意。過關(guān)檢測 練習(xí)1Mary and her husband, Richard Goldman, loved books. Like many lovers of books, they s_____81_____walked past a bookstore without stopping to look inside. They often talked of opening their own store one day.In order to realize their w_____82_____, they started by talking to bookstore owners and researching book business. One figure caught her attention: She had read somewhere that about 20 percent of books sold were mysteries (推理小說), and many buyers of mysteries spent more than $300 a year on books. She and Richard were mystery r_____83_____and had a big collection of such books. On Halloween 1992, they opened the Mystery Lovers Bookshop and Caf233。 “The job we love may not go hand in hand with lots of money,” says Richard. “We do this to give an e_____87_____life to ou