Question

阅读短文，根据短文内容和已给出的首字母，在空白处填入适当的单词。

Tom is a student of Hongqi Middle school. He u______(1) to be interested in comics about insects. He often borrowed some because he couldn’t a_______(2) to buy too many comics. Every day he wasted most of his time on these comics and was not patient with h _______(3) in his study.

One day Tom caught an insect at school and c_______(4) lots of trouble. To his s_______(5), the insect died half an hour later. That night, Tom had a bad dream. He was so t________(6) of it. Then he went to sleep with his bedroom light o________(7).

Tom knew it was the insect’s d________(8) that terrified him. Also, Tom found it was necessary for him to p______(9) attention to his daily studies. Only in this way could he forget that insect. In the e______(10), Tom made a decision to change himself.

Now Tom has become one of the best students in his class.

Answer

 used

 afford

 himself

 caused

 surprise

 terrified

 on

 death

 pay

 end

【解析】

试题分析：

 根据下文描述可知句意为他过去常常对关于昆虫的漫画感兴趣。结合首字母可知填used。

 根据上文他常常借，可知他买不起，结合首字母可知填afford。

 联系前文可知句意为：在学习上他对自己没有耐心，结合首字母可知填himself。

 联系下文可知引起了麻烦，结合首字母可知填caused。

 联系下文insect died half an hour later 可知他很吃惊，结合首字母可知填surprise。

 联系上文That night, Tom had a bad dream.及下文描述，可知他做了个噩梦，结合首字母可知填terrified，他是如此害怕。

 结合语境可知句意为：然后他就开着灯睡觉了，结合首字母可知填on。

 结合上文可知是这只虫子的死吓坏了他，结合前文名词所有格及首字母可知填名词death。

 联系下文可知考查短语pay attention to 注意，重视，结合首字母可知填pay。

 联系语境可知考查短语in the end终于，最后。结合首字母可知填end。

考点：短文中词汇语法的应用能力

点评 ：首字母填空一直是英语考试中的难点，得分率比较低。其解题原则首先要根据句子中上下文等信息判断出句意。然后根据该单词在句子中的句子成分，所起作用，确定单词词形，进行适当词形变化。