Question

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Translated fiction sales in the United Kingdom1.（rise）5.5 percent last year，with growing demand for Chinese titles，said Nielsen Book on Wednesday.

British newspaper the Guardian featured Liu Cixin's The Three-Body Problem and Jin Yong's A Hero Born in its report on this trend，2.（say）that both "sold strongly" in 2018.

The research，by the Man Booker International Prize，shows more than 2.6 million  3.（copy）of translated titles 4.（sell）in 2018，at an estimated value of £20.7 million（$27 million），the highest ever since Nielsen started the study in 2001.

Fiammetta Rocco，from Man Booker International Prize，said，"Reading fiction is one of the best ways we have of putting 5.（we）in other people's shoes. The rise in sales of translated fiction shows 6. hungry so many British readers are for terrific writing from other countries. "

To Anna Holm wood 7.news is a signal that" a new era has arrived". Holmwood，who translated A Hero Born，told China Daily，"It's a big moment8.Chinese fiction abroad. "

Holmwood has worked as a literary agent and9.（translate）for nine years，and has seen firsthand how Chinese titles continue to gain a greater audience worldwide，10.（particular）in the English-speaking world.

Answer

1.rose

2.saying

3.copies

4.were sold

5.ourselves

6.how

7.the

8.for

9.translator

10.particularly

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。翻译小说在英国的销售去年增长了5.5%，其中对中国小说的需求在不断增长。译文小说销量的增长表明，如此多的英国读者渴望其他国家的优秀作品。

1.考查动词时态。根据表示过去的时间状语last year可知应用一般过去时，故填rose。

2.考查非谓语动词。本句已经存在谓语feature且句中没有连词，故say只能是非谓语，从逻辑上看是主动同时，所以用现在分词。填saying。

3.考查名词的数。copy为可数名词，由前面2.6million修饰，故用复数形式copies。。

4.考查被动语态。sell在句中做谓语，与主语copies of translated titles构成被动关系，且根据时间状语in 2018可知用一般过去时的被动。故填were sold。

5.考查反身代词。句意：阅读小说是我们设身处地为别人着想的最好方法之一。从句的主语是we，故应用反身代词ourselves。

6.考查连接词。句意：翻译小说销量的增长表明，如此多的英国读者对来自其他国家的优秀作品如饥似渴。show后跟宾语从句，修饰形容词hungry用how。故填how。

7.考查冠词。这里指上文中提到的这条消息，所以是特指的。故用定冠词the。

8.考查介词。句意：对于中国小说走向国外这是一个伟大时刻。表示“对于……来说”用介词for。故填for。

9.考查名词。句意：霍姆伍德已经做了九年的文学经纪人和翻译。主语是人，所以应该是作为一个“译者”。故填名词translator。

10.考查副词。修饰介词短语应用副词作状语，故填particularly。