Question

根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项，选项中有两项为多余选项。

Home on the Way

People need homes. Children assume their parents’ place as home. Boarders call school “home” on weekdays. Married couples work together to build new homes and travelers have no place to call “home”, at least for a few nights. 1.? Don’t they have the right to a home? Of course they do.

Some regular travelers take their own belongings like bed sheets, pillowcases and family photos to make them feel like home no matter where they are. Some stay for long periods in the same hotel and as a result become very familiar with service and attendants. 2..Furthermore, driving a camping car during one’s travels and sleeping in the vehicle at night is just like home—only mobile!

And how about keeping relationships while in transit(运输中)? 3. . Some send letters and postcards, or even photos. Others may just call and say Hi just to let their friends know that they’re still alive and well. People find ways to keep in touch. Making friends on the way helps travelers feel more or less at home. 4..

Nowadays, fewer people are working in their local towns, so how do they develop a sense of belonging? Whenever we step out of our local boundaries, there is always another “home” waiting to be found. 5. , we can make the place we stay “home”.

A. Hostels provide a clean safe place to stay while you are travelling the world

B. Others may simply put some flowers by the hotel window to make things more homely

C. Backpackers in youth hostels may become very good friends, even closer than siblings (兄弟姐妹)

D. So how about people who have to travel for extended periods of time

E. No matter where you go in the world, hotels are there, too

F. Some keep contact with their friends via Internet

G. Wherever we are, with just a little bit of effort and imagination

Answer

1.D

2.B

3.F

4.C

5.G

【解析】

试题分析：本文叙述了出门在外的人需要家的感觉，介绍了游客排解思乡之情的几个有效的方法。

1.D 根据本段第一句People need homes.及横线后一句Don’t they have the right to a home? Of course they do. 可知本段描述的是各种人群都需要家。D项“So how about people who have to travel for extended periods of time？”与横线后两句的回答相一致。表示旅行在外的人也需要家的温暖。

2.B 根据本段前两句Some regular travelers take their own belongings l..... and attendants.可知，此节主要论述的是人们使外出有家的感觉的各种措施，所选答案也应该是与之相似的行为，故B项“Others may simply put some flowers by the hotel window to make things more homely”与前面两句相一致。

78．3.F根据横线前一句And how about keeping relationships while in transit?在旅行中人们是如何保持联系的？这是一个问句，那么横线句是对这个问题的回答。故F项“Some keep contact with their friends via Internet一些人通过互联网与家人保持联系。”正是对上文的问题的回答，且与横线后一句相串联。故F正确。

4.C根据横线前一句Making friends on the way helps travelers feel more or less at home.可知 交朋友可以染游客感觉有家的感觉。所以横线句的内容应该是与交友有关的话题，故C项正确。

5.G根据横线前一句Whenever we step out of our local boundaries, there is always another "home" waiting to be found.可知，后面应是不论身处何处，只要稍加努力和想像，我们就能把栖身之地营造成一个“家”！故此题应选G.

【名师点睛】

七选五解题的关键是能娴熟地利用各种衔接手段，其中最重要的是词汇衔接；词汇衔接又可以具体分为三种：代词、同义词/近义词、上下义词/同一范畴词对应关系。

1. 代词

英语表达中的代词出现的频率极高，代词的作用是指代前面提及的名词或形容词概念，巧妙利用这样的指代关系和根据代词的单复数差异可以准确而快速地解题。

例题：…The new design was well received by the reception staff of the hotel hain._________

They all believe that its introduction has led to a modern , more professional corporate image and greater confidence among them.

例题分析：选项中的they是一个复数人数主格代词，对应空格前句中的staff。staff是一个集合名词（全体员工），是个复数概念。代词中有一类叫不定代词，常见的有：one, everyone, everybody, each, both, all, many, these, this等，特别要注意它们所指代的名词概念的单复数性质，考生如果对此比较敏感，对解题有很大的帮助。

2. 同义词/近义词

英语前言后语之间往往有同义词、近义词、近义表达语甚至相同词汇的重复使用，这是我们解题的一个很好的判断线索。其实就其本质而言，上文讲的代词和下文将涉及的上下义词和同一范畴词都是特殊的同义/近义词。

例题：Laura Ashley made a fortune by looking back to past centuries, searching for old designs to decorate a variety of clothes and household furnishings. _____.

正确的选项是：These traditional products created a huge wave of demand from the States and elsewhere.

例题分析：空格前句中的old和选项中的traditional是近义词，是很明显的同义对应关系。 有的时候，如果选项中出现空格前后句里相同的词汇，尤其是实词（特别是名词），这往往是很好的提示。这就是所谓的同词重复现象。

3. 上下义词/同一范畴词

什么是上下义词和同一范畴词？举个例子你们就明白了。Fruit和apple之间就是上下义词，因为前者包含了后者，或可以说后者是前者的一个子集。Apple和orange之间则是同一范畴的关系，都属于fruit。利用前后句中这样的特殊的同义关系常常可以很轻松地解题。

例题：A recently study by American management institute shows that the processing of documents takes up 60% of office works’ time, 40% of labor costs and up to 10% of business income. ______.

正确的选项是：These figures are hardly surprising since documents convey nine-tenths of all information.

例题分析：选项中的these figures 提示我们前句一定出现了大于等于三个数字，

figure/number/ data等都是表示“数字、数据”的意思，空格前面出现了三个百分数，属于数字的一种，是上下义词的关系。

例题：Certain key products have been subject to a thorough review, most notably menswear, where significant advances have been made in product design and manufacture. ____.All of these have reported an increase in market share.

正确的选项是：Other areas where product innovation has been particularly effective are in lingerie, （女士内衣） gifts and home ware.

例题分析：空格后句开头的all of these 提示我们空格里面肯定出现大于等于三个并列的名词概念，正是选项中的lingerie（女士内衣）, gifts（礼品）and home ware（家居用品），这三个名词与前句中的menswear(男士服装)属于同一范畴类的事物，都是百货商店中的常见商品类别。从这道例题我们还能得出这样一个有用的结论：很多题目的衔接可能不止一个，我们可以从不同的角度来解题或对答案进行验证。

4)数字线索

包括具体数字以及和数字相关的词汇诸如numbers, rate等等。作者列出数字，除了和其他数字进行对比和比较之外，还可以用数据来说明一个观点。

例题：Researchers analyzed the contents of 28 strawberry-flavored products sold in stores． Of the 11 products that did contain strawberries, five of them contained less than one percent real fruit．In addition, each juice box contained nearly eight teaspoons of sugar．

正确答案为They found that about 60 percent of them didn't contain any fruit at all．从数字60 percent，空后11和空前的28可以推出此空与数字有关。再从空中的them和空后的the 11 products可以推测前面提到了products.

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