Question

【题目】

throw make satisfy he many use wonder one student sad spend result

There was once a young man who liked puppets (木偶) so much. He became a student of a master puppet-maker. 【1】, the young man was not so clever as his classmates. His teacher and the other 【2】 were always telling him that he had no ability to make puppets, so he would never succeed.

Even so, he enjoyed 【3】 puppets so much that he worked day after day to improve his skills. With his efforts, they would always find something wrong with the puppets that he had made. So they often 【4】 his puppets out of the workshop.

The young man wasn’t going to give up. He made up his mind 【5】 all his time in making just one kind of puppet. Years passed, and with each new attempt(尝试), his puppet became a little bit better. By now, his puppet was much better than his old classmates could make, but he still kept making 【6】 improvements than before.

By the time he was an old man, his puppet was truly 【7】. After so many years of hard work, he finished work on his puppet, and said, “I can’t find anything wrong with it. This time it is perfect.” And for the 【8】 time in all those years, instead of throwing his puppet away, he put it on the shelf. He felt very 【9】 and happy. What made him succeed was not 【10】 talent but his hard work of so many years. If you want to make a difference in your life, you should keep it in your mind that success lies in never giving up.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】Sadly

【2】students

【3】making

【4】threw

【5】to spend

【6】more

【7】wonderful

【8】first

【9】satisfied

【10】his

【解析】【主旨大意】本文主要讲述了年轻的木偶师傅成功的故事，启发我们：只要功夫深，铁杵磨成针。即使缺少天分，但若坚持不懈，每天努力一点点，每次完善一点点，我们相信，我们终会获得成功。

【1】句意：_________这个年轻人没有他同学那么聪明。结合语境与备选词汇可知，此处应指“遗憾的是”年轻人并没有其他人聪明，故选词sad。分析句子结构可知，空格处位于句首作状语，因此应为副词形式。注意单词位于句首时首字母应大写。故填Sadly。

【2】句意：他的老师和其他_________总是告诉他……结合语境与备选词汇可知，此处应指其他“学生”，故选词student。其他学生不止一个，因此应用student的复数形式。故填students。

【3】句意：尽管如此，他还是如此喜欢_________木偶以至于为了提高他的技术日复一日地工作。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处指他喜欢做木偶，故选词make。enjoy doing sth.，意为“喜欢做某事”，所以enjoy后应用make的动名词形式作宾语。故填making。

【4】句意：所以他们经常把他的木偶_________出车间。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处指“扔出”车间，故选词throw。根据本段时态可知，本句说的是过去发生的事情，应用一般过去时。故填threw。

【5】句意：他下定决心把所有的时间都_________制作一种木偶上。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处指的是把时间都花费在制作木偶上，故选词spend。根据短语make up one’s mind to do sth. 意为“下定决心去做某事”，应用动词不定式。故填to spend。

【6】句意：到现在为止，他的木偶比他的老同学做得还要好，但他仍在不断地取得比以前_________改进。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处指“更多的”改进，故选词many。分析句子结构可知，空格处是定语，修饰名词“improvements”，根据“than”可知，空格处应用形容词比较级，所以用many的比较级。故填more。

【7】句意：当他是个老人的时候，他的木偶真是_________。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处指他年迈时做的木偶已经非常棒了，故选词wonder。分析句子结构可知，was是系动词，后接表语，wonderful“精彩的，棒的”符合句意。故填wonderful。

【8】句意：这些年来，他_________没有扔掉木偶，而是放在架子上。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处表示第一次，故选词one。根据短语for the first time，意为“首次;第一次”，可知空格处应用数词one序数词形式，修饰名词time。故填first。

【9】句意：他感到非常_________和幸福。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处说他感到非常满意和幸福，故选词satisfy。分析句子结构，felt是系动词，后接表语，结合“and”后的“happy”可知，空格处应用形容词，应用satisfy的形容词形式satisfied，意为“满意的”。故填satisfied。

【10】句意：使他成功的不是_________天分而是他多年的努力。结合语境和备选词汇可知，此处指的是“他的”天分，故选词he。分析句子结构可知，修饰名词talent，应用形容词性物主代词，所以本题应用he的形容词性物主代词形式his。故填his。