首字母填空Passage 1Here ' a story about Ming ' Sfe on the waters. Mi ng 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 I __________ 2 ____ but he is never Ionely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. Whe n 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 neveu _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 bee n 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. river2. la nd3. friends4.visit5. uses6. n ecks7. taught/tra ined8. fini shed 9. shopp ing 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n ecks。

7. 那些鸬鹚不是天生就会为M ing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s hop,提示了此空和shop有关，应该是由go引导固定词组，go shopp ing，表示去购物。

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Mi ng的家的外形很像，所以填own，词组of on e'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 2Can ani mals be made to work for people? Some scie ntists think that one day ani mals 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 elepha nts, mon keys, dogs and other ani mals 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 scie ntists say that many d 5 a nimals 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 en emy comes n ear. And also it may be possible to train ani mals to work in families or f 101. in stead2. quite3. gives4.or5. differe nt6. for7. times8. used9. making10. 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in steadof，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ma ny也提示了不同种类的，所以填differe nt。

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make no ise，前面有介词by，所以填mak ing。

A kite-board is in fact a skateboard （滑雪板）drawn （拉）by a few big flying kites. The oldgame was p 一4by some young people in Holla nd and Spain as e 一5as the last cen tury.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 （on the farms）而且应该和families呼应，要用复数形式，填factories。

Passage 3In recent years, playing kite-board seems to become more and more popular in Alaska in America. It is a new and old game. The game has w _1 the in terest of many young people. The game is in teresti ng but a little d 2 . One n eeds 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 oldgame was p 一4 by some young people in Holla nd and Spain as e 一5 as the last cen tury.Since the board was hard to control, f 6 people dared （敢）to play it. With the development of thedesig n of kite and skateboard, many people can I 7 how to play it. A kite board may go as f —8 asabout 50 kilometers an hour. If you haven ' t had any practice, you play it. It is not s 9 .It is said that the game can exercise not only your b 10 but also the sen sitivity of yourbrain （大脑的敏捷）.1. won2.difficult/dangerous3. carefully4. played5.early【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）。