首字母填空 Passage 1 Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1 in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l 2 but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f 3 he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v 4 him. Ming’s father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings（圈）have been put around the birds’ n 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been t 7 to bring the fish to people. And then people reward（奖励）them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f 8 . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 .
1. river 2. land 3. friends 4.visit 5. uses 6. necks 7. taught/trained 8. finished 9. shopping 10. own
【解析】本篇短文第一句“关于明的在水上的生活”，给大家一个总体的信息，重点是“on the waters”，而且时态为现在时。
1. 既然Ming的生活是和水紧密联系的，所以第一个空就很容易了，r打头的关于水的单词，就是river，因为前面有冠词a，所以只用单数形式。
2.通过前文可以得知，“Ming住在一个船型的屋子里，6年里他从来没有到过**，但是他从来不孤单”，也就是说他非常喜欢在水上的生活，因此可以推测出他从来没有来过陆地，填land。
3.本空的关键在play with，通常后面可以加fire、snow，但是与文意不符，所以是与朋友们玩，后文的their说明是复数形式，填friends。
4.本空的ask them to ** him和or之前的swims across to their boats是相互对应的，要么Ming去朋友那里，要么他的朋友来看他，所以填visit，表示拜访的意思。
5.本句说到，Ming的父亲是一位渔夫，一位渔夫捕鱼用线或者网是非常正常的事情，但but表示转折，说明他的父亲与一般渔夫不一样，不使用线或者网，后文的birds do the fishing for him也说明他自己不需要用这些工具。他的父亲是第三人称，所以填uses。
6.本题是难题，通过上下文可以得知，Ming的父亲在那些鸬鹚的某个部位圈上了圈，所以它们就不能把捕到的鱼吃下去了。通常鸬鹚吃鱼是直接吞的，如果不让它们吃下去的话只能在脖子上圈住，这样鱼就会卡住，吞不下去，而且鸬鹚是复数形式，所以填necks。
7.那些鸬鹚不是天生就会为Ming的父亲捕鱼的，而是通过后天的训练和教导，所以填taught或者trained。 8.通过句意得知，当鸬鹚的工作**了之后，它们会得到一大条鱼作为奖励，从逻辑上来看，应该是完成工作后，而且空前有is，所以填finished。
9.最后一句中，出现了shop，提示了此空和shop有关，应该是由go引导固定词组，go shopping，表示去购物。
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10.本题也是难题。因为Ming是生活在水上的，那么肯定商店也是在水上的，从短文的第二句可以推测出，商店也是和Ming的家的外形很像，所以填own，词组of one's own表示某人的，这里解释为“这个商店也和Ming自己的家外形很像”。
Passage 2 Can animals be made to work for people? Some scientists think that one day animals may be trained to do a number of simple jobs i 1 of people. They say that at a circus（杂技场）,for example, we may see elephants, monkeys, dogs and other animals doing q 2 skillful（熟练的）things. Perhaps you have seen them on the television or in a film. If you watch closely, you may find that the trainer always g 3 the animal some sugar o 4 a piece of fruit as a reward. The scientists say that many d 5 animals may be trained to do a lot of simple things if they know they will get a reward f 6 doing that. Of course, as we know, dogs can be trained to look after a house, and soldiers in both old and modern t 7 have u 8 geese to give warning（警报）by m 9 a lot of noise when an enemy comes near. And also it may be possible to train animals to work in families or f 10 . 1. instead 2. quite 3. gives 4.or 5. different 6. for 7. times 8. used 9. making 10. factories
【解析】本篇短文的首句，用一个疑问句来提出了“动物可以为人类工作？”，说明本篇文章将围绕此问题展开，而且时态为现在时。
1.通过本句句意理解，“科学家认为有一天动物可以被训练，然后做一些简单的工作”，意思与文章首句呼应，所以是代替人们做简单的工作，填insteadof，表示代替。
2.本空可以使用语法上的技巧。如果本空忽略不看的话，句子仍然是成立的，说明填的单词词形不会是名词、动词或形容词，所以只能填副词来修饰skillful，那么“非常”可以用quite来表示，因此填quite。
3.本空应该填动词，当动物做好表演时，训练者会给动物一些奖励，所以填gives。
4.本题很好理解，要么给动物一些糖，要么就给水果，填or，表示选择性。 5.通过上文可以得知，现在大象、猴子、狗和其他动物都被训练做了许多事情，所以动物的种类是多种多样的，空格前的many也提示了不同种类的，所以填different。
6.本题很好理解，作为……的奖励，用介词for。
7.本题考察的是词组的运用，表示在以前和现在，填times，表示时代。 8.在以前和现在，士兵们都用鹅来发警报，使用某物，填use，前面有have表示现在完成时，因此填used。
9.本题考察的是词组的固定搭配，通过让鹅制造噪音来提醒士兵们有敌人靠近了，词组是makenoise，前面有介词by，所以填making。
10.本题的逻辑词是or，表示选择性，说明本空也是一个表示地点的词，并且同样是由介词in引导，所以不能填farm（onthe farms）而且应该和families呼应，要用复数形式，填factories。 Passage 3
In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in
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Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w 1 the interest of many young people. The game is interesting but a little d 2 . One needs to play it very c 3 . A kite-board is in fact a skateboard（滑雪板）drawn（拉）by a few big flying kites. The old game was p 4 by some young people in Holland and Spain as e 5 as the last century. Since the board was hard to control, f 6 people dared（敢）to play it. With the development of the design of kite and skateboard, many people can l 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f 8 as about 50 kilometers an hour. If you haven’t had any practice, you’d better not play it. It is not s 9 . It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also the sensitivity of your brain（大脑的敏捷）. 1. won 2.difficult/dangerous 3. carefully 4. played 5.early 6. few 7.learn 8. fast 9. safe 10. body
【解析】通过本文第一句，可以得知文章的中心主体是 kite-board（风筝板，冲浪运动的一种，可以借助风力飞上天）。
1. 通过文章首句，可以得知近些年风筝板越来越流行，既然如此流行，必定会让年轻人产生浓厚的兴趣，空1所在的句子的兴趣用了interest名词形式，说明要用一个动词来表示出“引起、得到”的意思，那么很容易想到“赢得某人的兴趣”，用win，前面有has是现在完成时，所以win改成won。
2. 空2的关键点在于逻辑词but，but表示前后意思的转折，“风筝板很有趣，但是也很**”，那么和“有趣”相对的就是“危险”或者“困难”，所以dangerous或difficult皆可。
3. 第一段最后一句是前面一句的延伸，如果空2填出来，空3就不成问题，正是因为这项运动很危险，所以玩的时候必须要非常小心仔细，填carefully。 4. 文章首句就有playing kite-board，提示出空4应该是play的被动语态，填played。
5. 本题考察的是as…as的结构，当中填形容词或者副词的原级，关键点在结构后的last century，既然已经是上个世纪，不难想出应该是“和上世纪一样早”，所以填early。
6. 本局先有Since引导出了一个原因，“因为风筝板非常难以控制”，而导致“结果就是很少有人敢玩”，所以填few。
7. 本题难度不大，是“许多人们可以学习如何去玩”，所以填learn。 8. 本题的关键在于空格后的50 kilometers an hour（每小时50公里），不难得知这是一个速度，所以是和这速度一样快，所以填fast。
9. 本题是逻辑题，通过前半句可以得知“如果没有练习，最好不要玩”，后半句就是解释为什么不要去玩，因为不是很安全，所以填safe。
10. 通过整篇文章，我们对风筝板的运动有了一个大概的了解，它可以让人们得到锻炼，所以是锻炼身体，因此填body。 Passage 4
British Milkman Steve Leech saved some shops and flats with milk and won a National Bravery Award（国家勇敢奖）.
Leech, 35 years old, said that when he was sending out milk as u 1
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