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It is well-known that the English go out with an umbrella or a raincoat. Why? Because the weather in Britain oftenchanges quickly. It ________ stay long. is not very usual for the same kind of weather to _____ Spring can berainy or windy, the weather is getting warmer and ____ you can hope for more sunny days. ____ much In fact there can be as _____ sunshine in spring as in summer. Summer is the ____ time for visitors to go to the seaside and other best places of interest. The weather can be sunny and nice. People often go out to have a walk or swim. Fall is a beautiful seasonwith trees in the ___ woods and parks changing color. During fall it is still nice to beoutside ______, too. In winter, it gets colder. It might snow, especially on high land and in the north. There are very high winds in this season. January and February are the coldest months of the year, while the are warmest ____ often July and August. The difference in temperature between winter and summer is not so great in Britain. The average _____ temperature for winter is about 4.5℃, and for summer about 15.5℃.
英语短文填空专项练习Ⅱ
叶县叶邑镇中学英语组 姚胜兰 2012年11月2日
英语短文填空解题思路与方法
英语短文填空试题旨在考查学生在具体语境中运用词汇的能 力。一篇英语短文给出10个空格，同时提供12个原形单词，让学 生从中选出10个单词并用其适当形式填空。所提供的12个单词以 实词为主，如名词、动词、代词、形容词、副词、数词等。名词 有单、复数和所有格形式；动词有各种时态和语态、不定式和动 名词形式；形容词和副词有比较级和最高级形式；数词有基数词 和序数词形式；人称代词、物主代词和反身代词都有人称和数的 变化。 做好英语短文填空题要求考生具备坚实的英语语法知识、理 解文章主旨大意的能力，牢固掌握英语习惯用法和固定搭配，熟 记英语单词的拼写。解答英语短文填空可从以下几方面入手： 1.研究试题提供的12个单词，对词性做简单的标记，同时初 步理解词义。
英语短文填空解题思路与方法
2.通读全文，充分理解短文内容，注意发现习惯用法和固定 搭配关系，凭语感积极猜测空格残缺的信息，根据需要去备选词 汇中寻找匹配的答案。 3.填词过程中要瞻前顾后，所填词既要符合本句的语意，又 要保证句式结构正确。 选填名词时,要考虑是否把它变成复数或所有格形式，还要考 虑名词是否变成形容词。选填动词时，要有意识地考虑时态和语 态变化以及非谓语动词形式的变化。 选填形容词或副词时，一考虑是否要变成比较级或最高级， 二考虑形容词与副词的相互转换以及形容词变名词的要求。 选填代词时，注意主格、宾格、名词性和形容词性物主代词 以及反身代词的用法。 选填数词时，注意基数词和序数词的变化。选填介词或连词 时，只要符合上下文逻辑或固定短语搭配，填入即可。
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The air we breathe is so freely available that we take it for granted. minutes Yet without it we could not survive more than a few _______. For the most part, the same air is available to everyone, and everyone _____ it. needs Some people use the air to sustain them while they sit around and feel sorry for __________. Others breathe in the air and use the _______ it themselves energy provides to make a magnificent life for themselves. Opportunity is the same way. It is everywhere. Opportunity is so freely available that we take it for granted. Yet opportunity alone is not _____ enough to create success Opportunity must be _____ and acted upon _______. seized in order to have value. So many people are so anxious to "get in" on a "ground floor opportunity", as if the opportunity will do all the _____. work That’s impossible. breathe Just as you need air to _______, you need opportunity to succeed. It takes more than just breathing in the fresh air of opportunity, however. You must make use of that opportunity. That’s not up to the opportunity. That’s up to you. It doesn’t matter what "floor" the opportunity is on. What matters is _____ you do with it. what
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I remember my dad teaching me the power of language at a very young age. Not only did my dad understand that specific words affect our mental pictures, but he understood _______ words are a powerful programming factor in lifelong success. One particularly interesting event occurred when I was eight. As a kid, I was always hanging climbing trees, poles, and literally __________ around upside down from the rafters of our lake house. So, it came to no __________ for my dad to find me at the top of a 30-foot tree surprise swinging back and forth. My little eight-year-old brain didn’t realize the tree could break or I could get hurt. I just thought it was fun to be up so high. ____ in My older cousin, Tammy, was also ___ the same tree. She was hanging on the first big limb, about ten feet below me. Tammy’s mother also noticed us at the exact time my dad did. About that time a huge gust of wind came over the tree. I could hear the leaves _____ start dad's to rattle and the tree begin to sway. I remember my _____ voice over the wind yell, “Bart, Hold on tightly.” So I did. The next thing I know, I heard Tammy screaming at the top of her lungs, laying flat on the ground. She had fallen out of the tree. I scampered down the tree to _______. My dad later told me why she fell and I did not. safety Apparently, when Tammy’s mother felt the gust of wind, she yelled out, “Tammy, don’t fall!” And Tammy did… fall. explained My dad then ___________ to me that the mind has a very difficult time processing a negative image. In fact, people who rely on internal pictures cannot see a negative at all. In order for Tammy to process the command of not falling, her nine-year-old brain had to first imagine falling, then try to tell the brain not to do what it just imagined. Whereas, my tightly eight-year-old brain instantly had an internal image of me hanging on _______.