Question

阅读下面短文，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。

Something is happening to the British. They seem to be developing green fingers! The number of people growing their own fruit and vegetables 1. (increase) in the past year, according to Gardeners’ World.

Gardens and private land for vegetables and fruit across the UK have been put to use with people’s 2. (discover) of the joys of home-grown produce. But not everyone has space for a vegetable land or a flowerbed. And sometimes a window box just isn’t enough for 3. gardening challenge. This is why people plant flowers or vegetables in public spaces to make them 4. (green) and more pleasing to the eye.

Many people would approve 5. beautifying towns and cities, but this type of gardening is not 6. (strict) legal. Therefore, the special gardening often takes place late at night. But the image of the enthusiastic gardener is not someone 7. breaks the law. It is of someone spending all their time in 8. (greenhouse) and potting sheds (育秧棚), a person knowing every aspect of how to tend and grow the plants.

Yet, despite the increase in people growing their own, half of the UK population 9. (be) still puzzled about when most fruit and vegetables are in season, according to Gardeners’ World. It seems that Britain still has a long way 10. (go) before being called a nation of gardeners

Answer

1.has increased

2.discovery

3.a

4.greener

5.of

6.strictly

7.who/that

8.greenhouses

9.are

10.to go

【解析】

本文是说明文。文章讲述了英国日益盛行的园艺，现在人们自己种植的水果和蔬菜。

1.

考查动词时态。根据时间状语从句in the past year可知，描述过去发生，一直持续到现在的动作，用现在完成时，主语是The number，是第三人称单数，故填has increased。

2.

考查名词。句意：英国各地的花园和用于种植蔬菜和水果的私人土地被人们用来发现本土农产品的乐趣。名词所有格people’s修饰名词，故填discovery。

3.

考查不定冠词。句意：有时，一个窗花盆对于一个园艺挑战是不够的。此处泛指“一个园艺挑战”，应用不定冠词，gardening是以辅音音素开头的词，应使用a，故填a。

4.

考查形容词比较级。句意：这就是人们在公共场所种植花卉或蔬菜，使它们更绿色，更令人赏心悦目的原因。根据下文的more pleasing并结合句意可推断，用比较级，故填greener。

5.

考查介词。句意：许多人赞成美化城镇。approve of“赞同；赞成”，是固定短语，故填of。

6.

考查副词。修饰形容词legal用副词做状语，故填strictly。

7.

考查定语从句。分析句子可知，_______breaks the law是限定性定语从句，先行词是someone，指人，从句中作主语，用关系代词who或者that。故填who/that。

8.

考查名词复数。句意：它是一个人把所有的时间都花在温室和盆栽棚里。介词后接名词作宾语，根据句意和下文的sheds可知，用复数，故填greenhouses。

9.

考查动词时态和主谓一致。文章主时态是一般现在时，主语是half of the UK population，谓语动词与half of the UK population“英国一半的人口”一致，用复数，故填are。

10.

考查非谓语动词。way to do sth.“做……方式”是固定短语，故填to go。