Question

【题目】Directions: After reading the passage below, fill in the blanks to make the passage coherent and grammatically correct. For the blanks with a given word, fill in each blank with the proper form of the given word; for the other blanks, use one word that best fits each blank.

I won’t call myself the most accomplished person when it comes to 【1】(hold) chopsticks. In fact, I’m pretty sure that my technique looks clumsy at times. I tend to hold 【2】 (I) in the middle, more beginner than expert.

Still, since I eat almost every meal with the eating utensil(器皿) of choice in China it’s not uncommon for a new friend or acquaintance to come to a simple 【3】 (conclude) after observing me that my Chinese husband, Jun, must 【4】 (show) me how to use them.

They are wrong. I’ve used chopsticks ever since I was a teenager, a time when my sister and mother were both fond of Chinese cuisine and introduced me 【5】 many new dishes, along with the 【6】 (prefer) utensils in China. We always kept bamboo chopsticks along with our 【7】 (knife), forks and spoons, ready for whenever we happened to have Chinese food for dinner. It was my closest family 【8】 observed my first mistakes I made in using chopsticks.

Plus, I lived over two years in China before Jun and I started dating and I 【9】 (expect) to use chopsticks in almost every restaurant, stand and bar. Trust me, when you’re hungry you figure out pretty fast what it takes to down(咽下)【10】 meal with these utensils.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】holding

【2】mine

【3】conclusion

【4】have shown

【5】to

【6】preferred

【7】knives

【8】who/that

【9】was expected

【10】a

【解析】

本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要记叙了作者本人学会用筷子的点点滴滴。

【1】考查动名词。在when it comes to …这一固定句型中，to是介词，后接名词或动名词。句意：说到拿筷子，我不会称自己为最有成就的人。故填holding。

【2】考查动词。hold为及物动词，后接名词或者代词作宾语。根据上下文可知，这里是指“握住我的筷子”。所以用I的名词性物主代词。句意：我往往握住筷子的中间。故填mine。

【3】考查名词。固定短语come to a conclusion(得出结论)，故用名词形式。句意：得出了一个简单的结论。故填conclusion。

【4】考查情态动词+have done。本题考查情态动词must表推测的用法，因为是对过去行为的推测，故用have done。句意：一定会向我展示怎么用它们。故填have shown。

【5】考查介词。短语introduce sb. to sth.使某人了解某物。故填to。

【6】考查形容词。preferred“更受喜爱的”为形容词修饰名词untensil。意为“为中国人所偏爱的”。句意：以及中国人所偏爱的器皿。故填preferred。

【7】考查名词。根据前面的our和后面的forks and spoons可知，这里用其复数形式。句意：一起的还有刀叉和调羹。故填knives。

【8】考查强调句。本句是强调句，因为被强调部分是人，所以，既可以用who也可以用that。句意：就是我最亲密的家人看到我第一次错误的使用筷子。故填who/that。

【9】考查时态和语态。全文时态为过去时，所以本句也为过去时，主语I与expect为动宾关系，故用过去时的被动形式。故用was expected。

【10】考查冠词。这里meal为可数名词，单数，非特指。且meal的首字母发音为辅音因素，故用不定冠词a。故填a。

浅谈强调句

1. 用It is／was...that／who...句型表示强调。

（1）陈述句的强调句型：It is/was+被强调部分（通常是主语、宾语或状语）+that/who（当强调主语且主语指人）+其它部分。 e.g. It was yesterday that he met Li Ping.

（2）一般疑问句的强调句型：同上，只是把is/was提到it前面。 e.g. Was it yesterday that he met Li Ping?

（3）特殊疑问句的强调句型：被强调部分（通常是疑问代词或疑问副词）+is/was+it+that/who+其它部分？e.g. When and where was it that you were born?

注：被强调的部分（通常是句子的主语、状语、宾语或宾语补足语）放在is／was的后面，如被强调的是人，则后面可用who，whom等代替。

2. not...until...句型的强调句：

句型为：It is/was not until+被强调部分+that+其它部分：

e.g. 普通句：He didn't go to bed until/till his wife came back.

强调句：It was not until his wife came back that he went to bed.

3. 强调谓语动词：用助动词do, does或did加动词原形来强调谓语动词。注意：此种强调只用do/does和did，没有别的形式；过去时态用did，后面的谓语动词用原形。如：Do come early. 务必早来。He did send you a letter last week. 昨天他确实寄给你一封信。