Question

先通读下面的短文，然后根据短文内容和所给首字母，在空格内填入一个合适的词，使短文意思完整。所填单词必须在答卷标有题号的横线上完整写出。

Here is a question I have often asked at dinner parties:

You're on an island with only one other person, your best friend. He's d   1.   of cancer. In his f 2. days, he tells you, "I have 100,000 dollars in a bank back home. When I die, make s  3. my son goes to medical school." Then he dies. But his son is a no-good playboy who has no i 4.  in going to medical school and will w  5.   that money away in a very short time. But your son is entering college, and he is w  6.  to become a doctor. Which one do you give the money to for medical school?

   I've asked this question of everyone from the president of a famous university t 7. an ordinary young soldier, and it has never f  8. to get a discussion going. Everyone has an opinion, most of them different, but all of them c 9. . Sometimes this one topic l 10. the whole evening.

Answer

1.dying

2.final

3.sure

4.interest

5.waste

6.willing

7.to

8.failed

9.correct

10.lasts

【解析】

试题分析：

1.句意：他死于癌症。Be dying of死于，是一个固定短语，所以填写dying。

2.句意：在他最后的日子，他告诉你……。根据上句He is dying of cancer可知此句是说在他最后的日子里，他告诉你……，所以填写final。

3.句意：当我死的时候，务必让我的儿子上医学院。Make sure确保，务必，是一固定短语，所以填写sure。

4.句意：但他的儿子是一个花花公子，对上医学院没兴趣并且会在很短的时间内浪费那些钱。所以填写interest。

5.句意：但他的儿子是一个花花公子，对上医学院没兴趣并且会在很短的时间内浪费那些钱。所以填写waste。

6.句意：但你儿子上大学，他愿意成为一个医生。Be willing to乐意，愿意，所以填写willing。

7.句意：从著名的大学校长到普通士兵总统我都都问了这个问题。根据前面from可知这里填写to。

8.句意：它从未没有失去过一个讨论机会。所以填写failed。

9.句意：每个人都有自己的观点，大多数人不同，但他们都对。根据连词不同可推知本句是指大多数人观点不同但都正确，所以填写correct。

10.句意：有时这一话题要持续整个晚上。根据句意结合this one topic是单数第三人称可知填写lasts。

考点：短文填空。