题目内容
【题目】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。
When Albert was five years old, his father gave him 【1】 compass. Albert was filled with wonder when he discovered that the compass needle always pointed in the same 【2】 (direct) ---the north. He asked his father and his uncle 【3】 caused the needle to move. Their 【4】 (answer) were difficult for Albert to understand. Yet he spent a lot of time 【5】 (think) about them. He said later that he felt something must 【6】 (hide) behind things.
Albert didn't like school. The German schools of that time were not pleasant. Students couldn't ask questions. Albert said he 【7】 (feel) as if he were in prison.
One day Albert told his uncle Jacob how much he hated school, 【8】 (especial) mathematics. His uncle told him to solve mathematical problems by pretending 【9】 (be) a policeman. 'You are looking 【10】 someone, ' he said, 'but you don't know who he is. Call him X. Find him by using your mathematical tools. '
Albert learned to love mathematics. He was studying the complex mathematics of calculus while all his friends were still studying simple mathematics.
【答案】
【1】a
【2】direction
【3】what
【4】answers
【5】thinking
【6】be hidden
【7】felt
【8】especially
【9】to be
【10】for
【解析】
这是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了年轻时的爱因斯坦的情况。爱因斯坦在上学时,就对指南针感兴趣。他不愿意呆在学校上学,因为学校里当时不让学生问问题,而他却偏偏爱问问题,因此不愿去上学,但是后来在他叔叔的鼓励和帮助下,他对数学产生了兴趣,别人都在学简单的数学而他已经开始研究微积分学。
【1】
考查冠词。句意:当Albert5岁时,他的爸爸给了他一个指南针。compass“指南针”是可数名词,根据句意可知此处是泛指,应用不定冠词,又compass是辅音音素开头,故填a。
【2】
考查名词。分析句子可知,此处应填名词作为介词in的宾语,由后文the north判断方向只有一个,应用名词单数,故填direction。
【3】
考查宾语从句。句意:他问爸爸和叔叔是什么造成了指针的移动。分析句子可知,此处是宾语从句连接词,从句caused the needle to move缺少主语,且结合上下文可知,此处意为“什么”,应用连接代词what,故填what。
【4】
考查名词的数。分析句子可知,此处应用名词作为句子主语,由谓语动词were判断主语应用复数形式,故填answers。
【5】
考查固定短语。此处考查固定短语spend some time (in) doing sth.“花费时间做某事”,应用动名词作为介词in的宾语,故填thinking。
【6】
考查被动语态。句意:他后来说,他觉得背后肯定隐藏着什么。由情态动词must判断此处应用动词原形,主语something和hide之间是被动关系,应用被动语态,故填be hidden。
【7】
考查时态。句意:分析句子可知,此处是宾语从句谓语动词,由said和were判断此处应用一般过去时,故填felt。
【8】
考查副词。句意:一天Albert告诉他的叔叔Jacob他非常讨厌去上学,尤其是数学。根据句意可知,此处用especially“尤其”符合语境,故填especially。
【9】
考查固定短语。此处考查固定短语pretend to do sth.“假装做某事”,故填to be。
【10】
考查介词。句意:他说:“你正在寻找某个东西,但你不知道他是谁。”根据句意可知,此处用look for“寻找”符合语境,故填for。