Question

词语填空(共10小题,计10分)
用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空,使短文通顺、正确、连贯(每个单词限用一次).

many  usual   mile  reply  rich  come  use   live  they  chase

For 25 years Terry Cemm was a policeman, but for the last seventeen years he has been walking up and down five____【小题1】____ of beach every day, looking for things that might be ___【小题2】____to someone. Terry is a beachcomber.
Nearly everything in his cottage has ___【小题3】___from the sea - chairs, tables, even tins of food. What's the most ___【小题4】__thing he has ever found? “A barrel of beer just before Christmas. That was nice”, he remembers. He finds lots of bottles with messages in_【小题5】__, mainly from children. They all get a reply if there's an address in the bottle. “Shoes? If you find one, you'll find the other the next week”, he says.
But does he really make a ___【小题6】___? “Half a living,” he___【小题7】___. “I barter (物物交换)with a lot of things I find, and I have my police pension(退休金). But I don't actually need money. My life is ___【小题8】___ in variety. ”
Terry seems to be a very happy man. “You have to find a way to live a simple, honest life. People spend all their lives ___【小题9】____ things they don't really need. There's so much waste.”
“Some people say I'm mad,” says Terry, “But there are a lot___【小题10】____ who'd like to do what I do. Look at me. I've got everything that I could possibly want.”

Answer 1

【小题1】miles
【小题2】useful
【小题3】come
【小题4】unusual
【小题5】them
【小题6】living
【小题7】replies
【小题8】rich
【小题9】chasing
【小题10】more

解析试题分析：
【小题1】结合语境可知他每天在海滩步行五英里，根据前文基数词five，可知填复数名词miles，英里。
【小题2】联系下文，可知他在寻找一些对人有用的东西，故填use的形容词形式useful，有用的。
【小题3】结合语境可知他小屋里的所有东西都是来自海滩，根据前文has可知本句为现在完成时态，come的过去分词和原形词形一致，故填come，来自。
【小题4】联系下文，可知此处指的是与众不同的东西，故填形容词usual的反义词unusual，与众不同的。
【小题5】结合语境可知此处代词指的是上文提到的lots of bottles ，做介词宾语的人称代词要用宾格形式，故填they的宾格形式them，他们。
【小题6】联系下文描述，可知此处指的是谋生的意思，结合前文不定冠词a，可知填live的单数名词形式living，生存，谋生。
【小题7】联系上下文可知此处指的是他回答道，结合语境可知本句描述的是客观性动作，故用用一般现在时态，主语he是单数第三人称，故谓语动词用单数，填replies，回答。
【小题8】结合语境可知他的生活丰富多样，结合前文系动词is，可知填形容词rich，丰富的，做表语。
【小题9】spend后面一般接现在分词作补足语，表示主语的伴随性动作，结合语境可知下文句意为：追逐他们不需要的东西，故填chasing，追逐。
【小题10】结合语境可知句意为：但是有更多的人想做我做的这些事情。结合语境可知填many的比较级more，更多的。
考点：短文中动词的运用能力
点评：由于本题已经给出所需单词，故完成比较简单。解答此类题型的方法一般就是根据上下文及时间状语，主语的人称与数，判断出动词的时态和数的变化，然后进行适当的词形变换，完成阅读。