Question

段落语法填空

I can’t remember the last time someone asked me to write back. We don’t write letters anymore. The strong feeling of 1. (excited) is gone; there’s never anything good in the mail. We know 2. is in the mail – advertisements and circulars (印刷信函).

When I was young, my family only moved 200 miles, but it seemed like we had been separated from friends and all things familiar by two continents and an ocean. Long distance phone calls were rare and expensive then, most often kept for emergencies 3. bad news. But people wrote. Both of my grandmothers, and two of my great-aunts wrote to 4. (I).

It was special that someone took an interest 5. a homesick kid. That someone would take the time to share their lives and inquire about mine really 6. (mean) a lot. My mother was a great letter writer. I looked forward to her letters when I left home, went to college and then traveled across the country 7. (work) newspaper jobs. When I married, had children and moved again, still far from home, she wrote 8. (faith). Letters were a way of closing the distance.

Back then, letter writers were storytellers because they were 9. (observe) of the world around them. As phone calls became 10. (afford), then cheap, the flow of letters slowed down and eventually stopped.

Answer

1.excitement

2.what

3.or

4.me

5.in

6.meant

7.working

8.faithfully

9.observers

10.affordable

【解析】

这是一篇说明文。作者主要论述了自己对过去人们写信的记忆和感受。

1.考查名词。句意：强烈的兴奋感消失了;邮件里从来没有什么好事。of为介词后跟名词做宾语，短语feeling of excitement“兴奋感”。故填excitement。

2.考查连接词。句意：我们知道邮件里有什么——广告和通知。本句为宾语从句，从句中缺少主语，指事物，应用what。故填what。

3.考查连词。句意：那时，长途电话很少见，也很贵，大多数都是为了紧急情况或坏消息。结合句意可知表示“或者”应用选择连词or。故填or。

4.考查代词。句意：我的两位祖母和两位姑祖母都给我写信。此处做动词write的宾语，应用人称代词宾格形式。故填me。

5.考查介词。句意：特别的是，有人对一个思乡的孩子产生了兴趣。短语take an interest in…“对……感兴趣”。故填in。

6.考查动词时态。句意：有人愿意花时间分享他们的生活，询问我的生活，这真的意义重大。结合上文It was special that someone took an interest可知，应用一般过去时。故填meant。

7.考查非谓语动词。句意：当我离开家，去上大学，然后在全国各地从事新闻工作时，我期待着她的来信。分析句子结构可知work在句中做非谓语动词，与逻辑主语I构成主动关系，应用现在分词。故填working。

8.考查副词。句意：当我结婚，生儿育女，又搬家了，还远离家乡，她忠实地写道。修饰动词write，应用副词。故填faithfully。

9.考查名词的数。句意：那时，写信的人是讲故事的人，因为他们是周围世界的观察者。此处应用名词做表语，表示“观察者”observer，且结合上文they可知，应用名词复数形式。故填observers。

10.考查形容词。句意：随着电话变得便宜，通信的速度也慢了下来，并最终停止了。根据上文become可知，应填形容词作表语。故填affordable。