Question

八、短文填空 阅读下面短文，在空白处写出适当的单词，单词首字母已给出。［有的词请 注意词形的变化！］

Once, there was a little grey planet. People living on it hadn’t looked after it well. A1. they had excellent inventions and spaceships beyond our imagination, they made the planet f2. of rubbish and pollution. As a result, there were no plants or a3. left.

One day, a little boy was walking on the  p4.. When he passed a cave(山洞), he noticed a small red  f5. in it. The flower was sick and almost dying. The boy  d6.

it out carefully with its root and some soil. Then he tried to find somewhere to plant it, but he failed. He looked up in the sky and he found the  m7.. He thought the flower might grow  w8. on the moon. So he climbed into a spaceship with the flower and  f9. to the moon. He grew the flower on the moon and took care of it every day. Soon the flowers spread all over the moon and the moon was  c10.  with red flowers.

When all the flowers come out, the moon looks  r11. , like a warning light. If we don’t look  a12. our earth carefully, the day will come when flowers will only be able to grow on the moon.

Answer

1.Although

2.full

3.animals

4.planet

5.flower

6.dug

7.moon

8.well/wonderfully

9.flew

10.covered

11.red

12.after

【解析】

短文通过一个小男孩拯救一朵小红花的故事，告诉我们保护环境，热爱地球的重要性。

1.句意：虽然他们有着超乎想象的优秀发明和宇宙飞船。上句提到他们有着优秀的发明，下句又说他们使地球充满了垃圾和污染。根据首字母提示可知，此处是although引导的让步状语从句，故答案为Although。

2.句意：他们使地球充满了垃圾和污染。full of充满，结合句意以及首字母提示可知，答案为full。

3.句意：结果没有留下任何植物或动物。根据首字母提示可知，答案为animals，与planets相一致，animal也要用名词复数形式表一类。

4.句意：一天，一个小男孩正走在地球上。根据短文开头的句子“Once, there was a little grey planet. People living on it hadn’t looked after it well.”结合首字母提示可知，此处是指我们所生活的地球，答案为planet。

5.句意：当他经过一个山洞时，发现里面有一朵小红花。根据后面的句子“The flower was sick and almost dying.”可知，答案为flower。

6.句意：小男孩小心翼翼地从土壤中把它挖出来，带着它的根和一些泥土。此句缺少谓语动词，根据后面的句子可知小男孩把那朵小红花从土壤中挖了出来，把它带到了月球上面，因为讲述的是过去的故事，句子的时态为一般过去时，故答案为dug。

7.句意：他仰望天空，发现了月亮。根据后面的句子“He thought the flower might grow w 8 on the moon.”可知，小男孩看到了天空中的月亮，故答案为moon。

8.句意：他认为这朵花可以在月球上长得很好。副词修饰动词grow，小男孩为了拯救一朵小红花，才打算飞向月球，因为他认为花儿在那里能够很好地生长，故答案为well/wonderfully。

9.句意：于是他爬进一艘宇宙飞船，带着这朵花飞向月球。fly to the moon飞向月球，and 前面的句子“So he climbed into a spaceship with the flower”的时态为一般过去时，并列连词and前后连接的两个句子的时态要一致，故答案为flew。

10.句意：花儿很快传遍了月球，月球上布满了红色的花。be covered with被……所覆盖，结合句意可知，答案为covered。

11.句意：当所有的花开出来时，月亮看起来像红色，像一盏警示灯。look为系动词，后跟形容词作表语，前面提到了红花，根据首字母提示可知，答案为red。

12.句意：如果我们不小心谨慎地照顾我们的地球，花儿只能在月球上生长的这一天将会到来。look after照看，照顾，短文最后警告地球上的人们一定要照顾好我们赖以生存的星球，故答案为after。