题目内容
【题目】根据短文内容，用方框中所给词的正确形式填空，使短文完整、正确，并将答案写在答题卡的相应位置。（每个单词只能使用一次）
A group of boys were playing a game around a tall tree. They decided to see who could get to the top of the tree 【1】. Their mothers were sitting not far away, looking on at their children as they played.
One of the 【2】 was an 8-year-old boy named David. He was the 【3】 child in the group. Nobody thought he would 【4】 the competition.
Then the game started. All of the boys 【5】 their best to climb as high as they could. They all made it halfway up the tree before David did, but he reached the top of the tree fastest in the 【6】.
His mother was 【7】 of his son. She asked him, “David, how did you manage to reach the top of the tree so 【8】?”
“It was easy.” David said, “The other children kept looking down as they climbed. When they came to 【9】 how high they were, they got scared and were afraid of falling down. I, however, looked only up. When I saw how close I was, I kept going higher and higher 【10】
I reached the top.”
It is true in life that if we just keep going forward without looking back, we are more likely to reach our goals.
【答案】
【1】first
【2】climbers
【3】shortest
【4】win
【5】tried
【6】end
【7】proud
【8】quickly
【9】realize
【10】until
【解析】
本文属于哲理短文。由一群孩子爬树来说明一个道理：在生活中，如果我们不回头就继续前进，我们更有可能达到我们的目标。
【1】句意：他们决定看看谁能先爬到树顶。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择first；get to the top of the tree first：第一个到树顶；语境是：他们决定看看第一个到树顶的人是谁。故答案为：first。
【2】句意：其中有一个爬树者名叫大卫的8岁男孩。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择climb；分析句子One of the ____2____ was an 8-year-old boy named David. 的结构可知，本题缺少主语，因此应该用climb的名词形式climber；又因为One of“其中之一”，后跟可数名词的复数，故答案为：climbers。
【3】句意：他是这群孩子中最矮的一个。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择short；根据in the group和空前面的定冠词the可知，本题应该填形容词的最高级，short的最高级为shortest。故答案为：shortest。
【4】句意：没人认为他会赢得比赛。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择win；由would可知，would为情态动词，后跟动词原形。故答案为：win。
【5】句意：所有的男孩都尽力爬到最高处。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择try；本题考查try one’s best to do sth. 尽力做某事。根据短文的句子Then the game started. 可知，本文的时态为一般过去时，所以该空的时态也用一般过去时，try的过去式为tried。所以答案为：tried。
【6】句意：他们都比大卫先爬到树的一半，但最后他最快到达了树顶。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择end；本题考查in the end“最后；终于”的意思。语境是：大卫最后最快到达了树顶。所以答案为：end。
【7】句意：他母亲感到很骄傲。根据They all made it halfway up the tree before David did, but he reached the top of the tree fastest in the ____6____. 可知，大卫赢得了比赛，因此他的母亲应该感到很骄傲。由所给单词的意思可知，应该选择proud；be proud of“对……感到骄傲”。故答案为：proud。
【8】句意：她问他：“大卫，你怎么设法这么快就爬到树顶了呢？”由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择quick；我们知道reach the top of the tree中的reach是动词，因此后面应该用副词来修饰，quick的副词为quickly，故答案为：quickly。
【9】句意：当他们意识到自己有多高时，他们害怕，害怕掉下来。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择realize；由空前面的came to可知，came to后跟动词原形，come to realize“逐渐意识到”的意思。(当come to 后面接“认知、感知类”动词时，如：know, understand, realize, see 等，它表示“开始、渐变”之意。) 故答案为：realize。
【10】句意：当我看到自己离他们有多近时，我不断地往上爬，直到到达树顶。由语境和所给单词的意思可知，选择until；本题考查until的用法。until作连词用时，后面接时间状语从句。句子I reached the top.是一个时间状语从句，因此用连词until引导。故答案为：until。
