题目内容
缺词填空（共10小题，每题1分，满分10分）
Zeng Zimo becomes more and more popular among friends. But do you know her story
b 1. she became a hostess for Phoenix Satellite TV（凤凰卫视）? When she was only 17 years old, she i 2. on not going to Qinghua and Beijing universities. Though she had only one month to study TOEFL, she g 3. a high score first in that test.
Later she worked for a b 4. in New York for four years. Each day she had to deal w 5. data（数据）and forms. It’s a well-paid job, but she got tired, and decided to make a change.
When she joined the TV station, Zeng said she h 6. knew anything about the field at all. She had to learn how to do interviews all by h 7. . She had to learn how to face those c 8. . It was a challenge. But she found the new job fresh and fun.
Were her years in the bank wasted then? Zeng says that the a 9. is no. They made her smart and c 10. . "What you do in life changes the way you think. You take what you have learnt from an experience with you onto the next stage of life," she says in her book “Mo ji”.
1.before
2.insisted
3.got
4.bank
5.with
6.hardly
7.herself
8.cameras
9.answer
10.careful
【解析】
试题分析：本文主要介绍了凤凰卫视的主持人曾子墨的成长历史。她在很小的时候就拒绝了清华北大，通过托福考试去了美国留学，然后在美国一家银行工作了四年，后来成为凤凰卫视的主持人。
1.联系下文描述，可知此处指的是在她成为凤凰卫视的主持人之前，结合语境及首字母可知填连词before在……之前。
2.联系下文，可知此处指的是她坚持不上清华和北京大学。结合语境可知本句描述的是过去发生的动作，故用一般过去时态。根据首字母可知填过去式动词insisted，坚持。
3.联系上下文，可知此处指的是她在第一次考试中获得了很高的分数。结合语境可知本句描述的是过去发生的动作，故用一般过去时态。根据首字母可知填过去式动词got，获得。
4.联系下文Each day she had to deal with data（数据）and forms.描述，可知此处指的是她在纽约一家银行工作了四年，结合语境及首字母可知填单数名词bank，银行。
5.联系下文，可知考查短语deal with处理，结合首字母可知填介词with，伴随，对于。
6.联系上下文，可知此处指的是她几乎一点都不知道这个领域的任何东西。结合语境及首字母可知填副词hardly，几乎不。
7.结合语境可知此处指的是自学，根据首字母可知填反身代词herself，她自己。
8.联系上文，做主持人，作采访，肯定就要面对无数的镜头，结合首字母可知填复数名词cameras，照相机，摄像头。
9.结合语境可知此处指的是答案是否，根据首字母可知填单数名词answer，答案。
10.联系上下文，可知此处指的是他们（以前的工作）让她变得精明和细心。结合语境及首字母可知填形容词careful，细心的，作宾语补足语。
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。
