题目内容
根据文章意思，首字母填空(8分)
Do you have any hobbies? If students don’t have any interest e___1___ school work, they may become boring people. And that can influence their studies.
Studying without relaxing isn’t good for health. We can’t get good g___2__ if we have bad health. We should do something we like. Some people like singing, taking photos and drawing p__3__. Other people prefer collecting stamps, reading or shopping. I have a few hobbies, but my f___4___ is collecting stamps. I like it best because I can learn a lot from stamps.
Some people collect stamps because they can m__5__ money from the stamps. But I am just i__6__ in collecting them and enjoy looking at them when I am free.
Stamp collecting is becoming more and more p__7__ all over the world. I know an Australian boy and a French girl through the Internet. They both like collecting stamps. We show stamps to each other o__8__. That is cool.
except
grades
pictures
favourite
make
interested
popular
online
【解析】
试题分析：这篇短文描述了个人的兴趣爱好问题，告诉我们正当的兴趣爱好有助于我们放松自己，作者并详细介绍了自己的兴趣。
联系下文可知句意为：如果学生们除了学校课程没有其他兴趣，他们将成为无聊的人们。结合首字母可知填介词except，除了。
联系上文，可知此处指的是不能取得好的成绩，结合首字母可知填复数名词grades，成绩。
联系前文drawing 可知此处指的是画画，结合首字母可知填复数名词pictures，图画。
联系下文描述，及前文转折连词but，可知此处指的是我最喜爱的事物，结合首字母可知填名词favourite，最喜欢的人或者事物，抽象名词，不可数，用单数即可。
联系下文money 可知考查短语make money挣钱，结合前文情态动词can及首字母可知填原形动词make，制造，获得。
联系下文enjoy looking at them 可知我是出于兴趣爱好，结合前文系动词am及首字母可知填形容词interested，感兴趣的。
联系下文，可知指的是收集邮票在世界上越来越流行，结合首字母可知填形容词popular，流行的。
联系上文描述，可知我们在网上相互展示邮票，结合首字母可知填online，在线，作状语。
考点：短文中词汇短语的运用能力
点评：首字母一直是英语考试中的难点，得分率比较低。解答此类题型的方法一般就是根据文章前后句子之间意思推断出词义，并结合首字母推断出所缺单词，然后根据该单词在句子中的句子成分，所起作用，确定单词词形，进行适当词形变化。
