题目内容
【题目】阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容(1个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。
Silence is unnatural to man. He does all he can 【1】(make) a noise in the world, and he fears silence more than anything else. Even his conversation is an attempt to prevent a fearful silence. If he【2】(introduce) to another person, and a number of pauses occur in the conversation, he regards himself as【3】failure, and is full of envy of the emptiest-headed chatterbox (喋喋不休的人).He knows that ninety-nine percent of human conversation 【4】(mean) no more than the buzzing of a fly, but he is anxious to join in the buzz and to prove that he is a man and not a waxwork figure (蜡塑人像).
The aim of conversation is to keep up the buzzing sound. There are, it must be admitted, different qualities of buzz; there is even a buzz that is as【5】(annoy) as the continuous noise made by a mosquito (蚊子). But at a dinner party one would rather be a mosquito 【6】a quiet person. Most buzzing, fortunately, is pleasant to the ear. and some of it is pleasant even to the mind.
Those【7】 hate to pick up the weather as a【8】(conversation) opening seem to me not to know the reason why human beings wish to talk. Very few human beings join in a conversation in the hope of【9】(learn) anything new. Some of them are content if they are 【10】(mere) allowed to go on making a noise into other people's ears.
【答案】
【1】to make
【2】is introduced
【3】a
【4】means
【5】annoying
【6】than
【7】who
【8】conversational
【9】learning
【10】merely
【解析】
本文是一篇议论文。沉默对人来说是不自然的。他尽其所能在世界上制造噪音,他比其他任何事情都更害怕沉默。
【1】考查动词不定式。句意:他尽其所能在世界上制造噪音,他比其他任何事情都更害怕沉默。此处是动词不定式做目的状语,故答案为to make。
【2】考查被动语态。句意:如果他被介绍给另一个人,并且在谈话中出现了一些停顿,他认为自己是一个失败者,并且充满了对那个头脑清醒的喋喋不休的人的嫉妒。此处是if引导的条件状语从句,主句是一般现在时态,则从句也要用一般现在时态,从句的主语he和introduce之间是被动关系,所以从句中要用一般现在时态的被动语态,故答案为is introduced。
【3】考查不定冠词的用法。句意:如果他被介绍给另一个人,并且在谈话中出现了一些停顿,他认为自己是一个失败者,并且充满了对那个头脑清醒的喋喋不休的人的嫉妒。不定冠词放在抽象名词前面,表示抽象名词的具体化,a failure一个失败的人/一件失败的事,故答案为a。
【4】考查时态。句意:他知道百分之九十九的人类对话只意味着苍蝇的嗡嗡声,但他渴望加入到嗡嗡声中,并证明他是一个男人,而不是一个蜡像。结合句意宾语从句用一般现在时态,从句的主语是ninety-nine percent of human conversation单数第三人称形式,故答案为means。
【5】考查形容词。句意:甚至还有一种嗡嗡声,就像蚊子发出的连续噪音一样令人讨厌。结合句意可知be动词后面用形容词annoying“恼人的”,故答案为annoying。
【6】考查固定搭配。句意:但在晚宴上,人们宁愿做一只蚊子,也不愿做一个安静的人。固定句式:would rather---than---,宁愿---也不愿---,故答案为than。
【7】考查定语从句。句意:那些不喜欢把天气当作一种开放的人,在我看来,不知道人类想要说话的原因。此处Those是先行词,指人,在后面的定语从句中做主语,故答案为who.
【8】考查形容词。句意:那些不喜欢把天气当作一种开放的人,在我看来,不知道人类想要说话的原因。此处opening是名词,形容词修饰名词,故答案为conversational。
【9】考查动名词。句意:很少有人类加入到对话中来,希望能学到新的东西。介词of后面用动名词做宾语,故答案为learning。
【10】考查副词。句意:如果他们只是被允许继续在别人的耳朵里制造噪音,他们中的一些人是满意的。此处allow是动词,副词修饰动词,故答案为merely。
抽象名词的具体化:有些抽象名词前面用不定冠词a/an,表示一个具体的事情。a success一个成功的人,一件成功的事; a failure一个失败的人,一件失败的事; an honour一个荣幸的人,一个荣幸的事; have a good knowledge of 有某方面的好知识。