Question

【題目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

I won’t call myself the most accomplished person when it comes to 【1】(hold) chopsticks. In fact, I’m pretty sure that my technique looks clumsy at times. I tend to hold 【2】 (I) in the middle, more beginner than expert.

Still, since I eat almost every meal with the eating utensil(器皿) of choice in China it’s not uncommon for a new friend or acquaintance to come to a simple 【3】 (conclude) after observing me that my Chinese husband, Jun, must 【4】 (show) me how to use them.

They are wrong. I’ve used chopsticks ever since I was a teenager, a time when my sister and mother were both fond of Chinese cuisine and introduced me 【5】 many new dishes, along with the 【6】 (prefer) utensils in China. We always kept bamboo chopsticks along with our 【7】 (knife), forks and spoons, ready for whenever we happened to have Chinese food for dinner. It was my closest family 【8】 observed my first mistakes I made in using chopsticks.

Plus, I lived over two years in China before Jun and I started dating and I 【9】 (expect) to use chopsticks in almost every restaurant, stand and bar. Trust me, when you’re hungry you figure out pretty fast what it takes to down(咽下)【10】 meal with these utensils.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】holding

【2】mine

【3】conclusion

【4】have shown

【5】to

【6】preferred

【7】knives

【8】who/that

【9】was expected

【10】a

【解析】

本文是一篇記敘文。文章主要記敘了作者本人學會用筷子的點點滴滴。

【1】考查動名詞。在when it comes to …這一固定句型中，to是介詞，后接名詞或動名詞。句意：說到拿筷子，我不會稱自己為最有成就的人。故填holding。

【2】考查動詞。hold為及物動詞，后接名詞或者代詞作賓語。根據(jù)上下文可知，這里是指“握住我的筷子”。所以用I的名詞性物主代詞。句意：我往往握住筷子的中間。故填mine。

【3】考查名詞。固定短語come to a conclusion(得出結論)，故用名詞形式。句意：得出了一個簡單的結論。故填conclusion。

【4】考查情態(tài)動詞+have done。本題考查情態(tài)動詞must表推測的用法，因為是對過去行為的推測，故用have done。句意：一定會向我展示怎么用它們。故填have shown。

【5】考查介詞。短語introduce sb. to sth.使某人了解某物。故填to。

【6】考查形容詞。preferred“更受喜愛的”為形容詞修飾名詞untensil。意為“為中國人所偏愛的”。句意：以及中國人所偏愛的器皿。故填preferred。

【7】考查名詞。根據(jù)前面的our和后面的forks and spoons可知，這里用其復數(shù)形式。句意：一起的還有刀叉和調(diào)羹。故填knives。

【8】考查強調(diào)句。本句是強調(diào)句，因為被強調(diào)部分是人，所以，既可以用who也可以用that。句意：就是我最親密的家人看到我第一次錯誤的使用筷子。故填who/that。

【9】考查時態(tài)和語態(tài)。全文時態(tài)為過去時，所以本句也為過去時，主語I與expect為動賓關系，故用過去時的被動形式。故用was expected。

【10】考查冠詞。這里meal為可數(shù)名詞，單數(shù)，非特指。且meal的首字母發(fā)音為輔音因素，故用不定冠詞a。故填a。

淺談強調(diào)句

1. 用It is／was...that／who...句型表示強調(diào)。

（1）陳述句的強調(diào)句型：It is/was+被強調(diào)部分（通常是主語、賓語或狀語）+that/who（當強調(diào)主語且主語指人）+其它部分。 e.g. It was yesterday that he met Li Ping.

（2）一般疑問句的強調(diào)句型：同上，只是把is/was提到it前面。 e.g. Was it yesterday that he met Li Ping?

（3）特殊疑問句的強調(diào)句型：被強調(diào)部分（通常是疑問代詞或疑問副詞）+is/was+it+that/who+其它部分？e.g. When and where was it that you were born?

注：被強調(diào)的部分（通常是句子的主語、狀語、賓語或賓語補足語）放在is／was的后面，如被強調(diào)的是人，則后面可用who，whom等代替。

2. not...until...句型的強調(diào)句：

句型為：It is/was not until+被強調(diào)部分+that+其它部分：

e.g. 普通句：He didn't go to bed until/till his wife came back.

強調(diào)句：It was not until his wife came back that he went to bed.

3. 強調(diào)謂語動詞：用助動詞do, does或did加動詞原形來強調(diào)謂語動詞。注意：此種強調(diào)只用do/does和did，沒有別的形式；過去時態(tài)用did，后面的謂語動詞用原形。如：Do come early. 務必早來。He did send you a letter last week. 昨天他確實寄給你一封信。