Question

短文綜合填空（本大題滿分11分，每空1分）

Most people may not think that there are any problems with watermelons, but some Japanese sellers do. There is often wasted s_______1.when they store watermelons, because round watermelons do not sit nicely on shelves. So some c_______2.farmers have solved the watermelon problem. They make their watermelons grow in square glass boxes so the watermelons become square. The only problem now is the p_______3.. The square watermelons cost about 80 dollars each.

Many people know the s_______4.“Roses are red, violets(紫羅蘭) are blue, sugar is sweet and so are you”. Well, today the poem needs to c_______5.“Roses are red” to “Roses are red, roses are blue”! Australian scientists discovered that when they put a chemical from a blue f_______6.into a rose, they can create a nearly 100% blue rose. Some of science’s inventions are beautiful, not just u_______7.!

For many years Chinese scientists have been w_______8.on developing new kinds of stronger rice and now they have produced a new kind, called super rice. Super rice not only can protect i_______9. against insects(昆蟲(chóng)) and diseases(病害), but it also produces more than any other kind of rice. Today farmers can grow almost one and a half times more rice than they could grow in the p_______10..

Doctors might be able to use vegetables to fight cancer now. US scientists have discovered a w_______11.to put a chemical into tomato plants while they are growing. When cancer patients eat the tomatoes, the tomatoes will fight the cancer in their bodies.

 

Answer 1

【答案】

1.space

2.clever

3.price

4.saying

5.change

6.flower

7.useful

8.working

9.itself

10.past

11.way

【解析】

試題分析：這篇短文主要描述了科學(xué)技術(shù)在農(nóng)業(yè)種植方面帶來(lái)的新變化。

1.聯(lián)系下文描述，可知此處指的是總是有浪費(fèi)的空間。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填名詞space，空間，太空。抽象名詞不可數(shù)，故用原形即可。

2.聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是一些聰明的農(nóng)民們，結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填形容詞clever，聰明的，作定語(yǔ)。

3.聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是現(xiàn)在唯一的問(wèn)題是價(jià)格。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填名詞price，價(jià)格。抽象名詞不可數(shù)，故用原形即可。

4.聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是許多人知道這條諺語(yǔ)，結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填單數(shù)名詞saying，諺語(yǔ)，言論。

5.聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是詩(shī)人們需要把玫瑰是紅色的改成玫瑰是紅色的，玫瑰是藍(lán)色的。To是不定式符號(hào)，后面用動(dòng)詞原形。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填原形動(dòng)詞change，改變。

6.聯(lián)系下文，可知此處指的是一朵藍(lán)色花朵，結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填單數(shù)名詞flower，花朵。

7.聯(lián)系前文，可知此處指的是不只是有用的。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填形容詞useful，有用的。

8.聯(lián)系上下文，可知句意為：多年以來(lái)，中國(guó)的科學(xué)家們一直在從事發(fā)展一種新型的更強(qiáng)壯的水稻。結(jié)合前文be動(dòng)詞及首字母可知填現(xiàn)在分詞working，工作，經(jīng)營(yíng)。

9.聯(lián)系上下文，可知此處指的是保護(hù)它自己免受蟲(chóng)害和病害。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填翻身代詞itself。它自己。

10.聯(lián)系前文描述，可知此處指的是再過(guò)去。結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填名詞past，過(guò)去，往事。

11.聯(lián)系下文，可知美國(guó)科學(xué)家已經(jīng)發(fā)明了一種方法，結(jié)合語(yǔ)境及首字母可知填單數(shù)名詞way，方法，道路。

考點(diǎn)：短文中詞匯短語(yǔ)的運(yùn)用能力

點(diǎn)評(píng)：首字母一直是英語(yǔ)考試中的難點(diǎn)，得分率比較低。解答此類(lèi)題型的方法一般就是根據(jù)文章前后句子之間意思推斷出詞義，并結(jié)合首字母推斷出所缺單詞，然后根據(jù)該單詞在句子中的句子成分，所起作用，確定單詞詞形，進(jìn)行適當(dāng)詞形變化。