Question

Once there was once a farmer who was always criticizing his wife. One day, she was so angry with him that she said, "I’m going to work in the fields. You can do my work in the house. Let’s see how w1. you do it!"

The man’s first task was to make the butter. The work soon made him t2., so he went down to the cellar to drink some wine. While he was opening the barrel(桶), he heard the pig come into the house and knock over the butter dish.

He ran back upstairs to stop the pig from doing more d3., forgetting to put the cork(软木塞) back in the wine barrel.By the time he had chased the pig out of the kitchen, it was lunchtime.

He put the soup on to boil, and then remembered that he had not f4. the cow yet. There wasn’t time to take the cow out to the field, so he decided to take it onto the roof. There it could eat the grass that grew among the tiles(瓦片).

It wasn’t easy getting the cow onto the roof, but at last he s5.. To make sure that it did not fall off, he tied it to the chimney with a rope.

He did not want it to burn, so to get to the kitchen quickly, he decided to lower himself down the chimney.

He tied one end of the r6. to his foot and the other end to the cow. He had just reached the kitchen when the cow slipped and fell off the roof.The first thing his wife saw when she came home was the cow hanging from the rope, so she cut it loose.When the woman entered the house, she saw the floor covered with butter, the cellar flooded with wine and her husband upside down with his head in the soup!

The farmer p7. never to complain again if his wife would do the housework in the future.

Answer

1.well

2.tired

3.damage

4.fed

5.succeeded

6.rope

7.promised

【解析】短文大意：从前有一个农夫对他的妻子所做的家务活不满意，总是批评他的妻子。有一天，妻子对丈夫说，“让我们交换一下工作，你可以在家里做我的工作。”经过一天的体验，农夫发现自己在家里所做的工作真是一团糟，体会到妻子的工作真是不容易，农夫答应以后如果他的妻子做家务的话再也不抱怨了。

1.句意：让我们看看你做得有多好。how后跟形容词或副词，因为修饰动词do，只能为副词形式，结合句意以及首字母提示，答案为well。

2.句意：这项工作很快就使他疲劳了。make sb.后面可以跟形容词作宾语补足语，结合句意以及首字母提示，答案为tired。

3.句意：他跑上楼去阻止那头猪进行更多的破坏。根据上文中的句子“he heard the pig come into the house and knock over the butter dish.”可知，有一头猪走进房子打翻了黄油，因此上楼赶走那头猪 ，避免它做更多的坏事，答案为damage。

4.句意：然后想起他还没有喂牛。此句是过去完成时态的否定句，缺少过去分词，根据下文中的句子“so he decided to take it onto the roof. There it could eat the grass that grew among the tiles(瓦片).”判断，牛还没有喂，故答案为fed。

5.句意：把牛赶到屋顶并不容易，但最后他成功了。通过上句“It wasn’t easy getting the cow onto the roof,”判断，尽管把牛赶到屋顶并不容易，但是他还是做到了，此句缺少动词，时态为过去时态，根据首字母提示，答案为succeeded。

6.句意：他把绳子的一端系在脚上，另一端系在牛身上。根据下文中的句子“The first thing his wife saw when she came home was the cow hanging from the rope,”可知，答案为rope。

7.句意：农夫答应以后如果他的妻子做家务的话再也不抱怨了。此句缺少谓语动词，时态为一般过去时态，根据句意以及首字母提示可知，答案为promised。

点睛：根据首字母提示，在短文中完成单词拼写，是比较难的一个考试题型，首先学生要把握短文大意，根据句意以及首字母提示，去判断所要填写的单词，切记要根据语法需要，联系上下文去把握单词的正确形式。如第4小题是考查过去完成时态的过去分词形式，第5，7小题是考查一般过去时态。