Question

【题目】Right now, more and more people are digging into their food with 【1】 (二) sticks which are called chopsticks. Even people eating with knives and 【2】 (餐叉) begin to love them. What’s so special about them? Because they have deep influence in many people’s ways of life.

Simplicity. There’s 【3】 (几乎不) anything simpler than chopsticks. With new technology developing every day, there is 【4】 (仍然) something that has just one use —simply to eat. Also the chopsticks don’t 【5】 (花费) much. In real life, we don’t need to keep improving things all the time.

Aim. When using chopsticks, you can not pick up everything in one go. Know what you want and just do it. Sometimes, a little bit of focus makes the difference 【6】 (在…之间) failure and success.

Practice. Using chopsticks doesn’t come naturally. You have to learn to use them and practice it. Most would 【7】 (同意) that there’s no better way than to practice. In real life, you may have many things you want to do, but it will just be a 【8】 (梦想) if you don’t try doing it.

Slowing down. A healthy way to eat is to eat with chopsticks. It slows you down and it 【9】 (允许) your stomach to tell your brain you are full before you overeat. In our life, we sometimes need slow down to have time to think, to realize that we’re actually full and don’t have to rush full 【10】 (速度) through life.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】two

【2】forks

【3】hardly

【4】still

【5】cost

【6】between

【7】agree

【8】dream

【9】allows/permits

【10】speed

【解析】

试题分析：这篇短文通过筷子的使用来阐述生活哲理。在现实生活中，我们不需要一直在不断地改进事情。我们要有目标，在实践中实现梦想，放慢生活的节奏，学会思考。

【1】句意：现在越来越多的人用叫做筷子的两根棍子夹取食物。根据句意可知这里表示的是数量，所以用基数词，故填two

【2】句意：甚至用刀叉的人们也开始使用他们。根据于前面knives并列, 所以要对fork 进行一定的变形，把单数变为复数，故填forks

【3】句意：几乎没有比筷子更简单的的东西了。hardly 表达几乎不的意思，否定副词，故填hardly。.【4】句意：随着新技术的日益发展，仍然有单单是为了吃的这一用处的东西。根据句意，故填still

【5】cost 四个花费；spend,pay, cost,take.。其中spend和pay是人做主语；take 是it 做主语，只有cost 是物做主语，所以这里应该选cost, 由于前面有助动词don’t, 后面加动词原形，所以cost不用变形

【6】between between 和among 都有表示”在…….之间”的意思.但是between 是两者之间，among 是三者或者是三者以上，所以这里应该填写between.

【7】句意：大部分人赞同没有比练习更好的方法了。would 后面要加动词原形，所以agree 不用变形，故填agree

【8】如果你不尝试的话，那只是一个梦想。根据句意，故填dream

【9】allows/permits allow和permit都是表示同意的意思，根据前面it slows, 这句话真正的主句是it指代”to eat with chopsticks”, “it”是第三人称，第三人称单数谓语动词要加”s”,所以要对allow 和permit 进行一定变形，加”s”变为allows 和permits

【10】在我们的生活中有的时候我们需要放慢速度去思考，去认识到，确实完全没有必要急匆匆的全速通过生活。根据句意，故填speed