Question

【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，并将答案填写在答题卡上。

English perfectly shows the “network effects” of a global tongue: the more people use it, the more useful it is. Parents expect their children 【1】(master)English, which is encouraging the 【2】(grow)of private schooling. Education authorities are switching to English medium, in part to control the outflow(外流) of children into the private sector.

Teaching children in English is fine if that is 【3】 they speak at home and their parents are fluent 【4】 it. But that is not 【5】 case in most public and low-cost private schools. Children are taught in a language they don’t understand by teachers 【6】 English is poor. The children learn neither English nor anything else.

Research shows that children learn 【7】(much)when they are taught in their mother tongue than they do when they are taught in any other language. In a study of children in 12 schools in Cameroon last month, those taught in Kom 【8】(do)better than those taught in English in all subjects.

English should be an important subject at school, but not 【9】(necessary)the language of instruction. Rather than switching to English-medium teaching, governments fearful of 【10】(lose) custom (光顾) to the private sector should look at the many possible ways of improving public schools.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】to master

【2】growth

【3】what

【4】in

【5】the

【6】whose

【7】more

【8】did

【9】necessarily

【10】losing

【解析】

这是一篇议论文。短文阐述了儿童教学宜采用母语，而非英语。

【1】考查动词不定式。expect sb to do sth “期望某人做某事”为固定短语。故填 to master。

【2】考查名词。 the +名词+of...“。。。。。。。的”。故填growth。

【3】考查连接代词。分析句子可知，is后接表语从句。在表语从句中，what作speak的宾语。故填 what。

【4】考查介词。be fluent in“在......方面流利”为固定短语。故填in。

【5】考查冠词。this is not the case“情况不是这样”为固定短语。故填the。

【6】考查关系代词。分析句子可知，teachers 为先行词，在后面的定语从句中作定语，所以关系代词为whose。故填whose。

【7】考查形容词比较级。由“than”可知，空处应填much的比较级more。故填more。

【8】考查一般过去时。由“last month”可知，本句为一般过去时。所以空处填did。故填did 。

【9】考查副词。necessarily为副词修饰整个句子。故填necessarily。

【10】考查动名词。of 为介词后接动名词作宾语。故填losing。

定语从句中关系词的选择可考虑以下三点：

(1) 一看先行词的意义，即分清先行词是指人、指物、时间、地点还是原因(如指物时不能用who或whom，指人时通常不用which等。

(2) 二看关系词的句法功能，即分清关系词是担任什么句子成分，是作主语还是宾语、是作定语还是状语等(如作定语通常用whose，有时也用which；作状语要用when, where, why。

(3) 三看定语从句的种类，即分清是限制性定语从句还是非限制性定语从句(如that和why通常不引导非限制性定语从句。

分析小题6的句子可知，teachers 为先行词，在后面的定语从句中作定语，所以关系代词为whose。故填whose。