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) 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技術在農業種植方面帶來的新變化。

1.聯系下文描述，可知此處指的是總是有浪費的空間。結合語境及首字母可知填名詞space，空間，太空。抽象名詞不可數，故用原形即可。

2.聯系下文，可知此處指的是一些聰明的農民們，結合語境及首字母可知填形容詞clever，聰明的，作定語。

3.聯系下文，可知此處指的是現在唯一的問題是價格。結合語境及首字母可知填名詞price，價格。抽象名詞不可數，故用原形即可。

4.聯系下文，可知此處指的是許多人知道這條諺語，結合語境及首字母可知填單數名詞saying，諺語，言論。

5.聯系下文，可知此處指的是詩人們需要把玫瑰是紅色的改成玫瑰是紅色的，玫瑰是藍色的。To是不定式符號，后面用動詞原形。結合語境及首字母可知填原形動詞change，改變。

6.聯系下文，可知此處指的是一朵藍色花朵，結合語境及首字母可知填單數名詞flower，花朵。

7.聯系前文，可知此處指的是不只是有用的。結合語境及首字母可知填形容詞useful，有用的。

8.聯系上下文，可知句意為：多年以來，中國的科學家們一直在從事發展一種新型的更強壯的水稻。結合前文be動詞及首字母可知填現在分詞working，工作，經營。

9.聯系上下文，可知此處指的是保護它自己免受蟲害和病害。結合語境及首字母可知填翻身代詞itself。它自己。

10.聯系前文描述，可知此處指的是再過去。結合語境及首字母可知填名詞past，過去，往事。

11.聯系下文，可知美國科學家已經發明了一種方法，結合語境及首字母可知填單數名詞way，方法，道路。

考點：短文中詞匯短語的運用能力

點評：首字母一直是英語考試中的難點，得分率比較低。解答此類題型的方法一般就是根據文章前后句子之間意思推斷出詞義，并結合首字母推斷出所缺單詞，然后根據該單詞在句子中的句子成分，所起作用，確定單詞詞形，進行適當詞形變化。