能力演练4 巧用派生词-相反词,做好语法填空 完形填空 阅读理解阅读中的猜词技巧(2) 对比法 摘要

能力演练4
一、语法填空
专题训练（四）巧用派生词，做好语法填空。

◆技巧点拨
英语中有许多单词可带否定前缀或否定后缀，将该词变成一个与原来单词意义完全相反的词。

在做语法填空时，要仔细领会短文的意思，理清文章脉络，注意行文逻辑，特别注意上下文之间有无转折、对比、相反关系，如果有此种关系，文中又没有相应过渡词语，就要考虑利用构词法知识，即利用单词的否定前缀或否定后缀来解题。

◆活学活用
（一）用所给单词的适当形式填空。

Ann walked out of the chemical factory,annoyed at her 1 (pleasant)interview with Jack,the vice general manager of the factory.Ann was told the factory had been pouring waste water directly into the river,making the water 2 (suit)to drink.Ann thought it was her duty to 3 (close)the
matter and had it reported in the newspaper.She also thought it was 4 (responsible)〖JP3〗for the factory to do so.Jack thought it was 5 (proper)and 6 (legal)for Ann to report the whole thing in public without telling them in advance.
However,Ann regarded it most important to ensure the residents near the factory to drink 7 (pollution)water.She told Jack if his factory kept on polluting the river,he was sure to answer for what he had done one day.
（二）语法填空。

In the days when an ice cream cost much less,Tom, 1 eight year old boy,entered a hotel coffee shop 2 sat at a table.A waitress put a glass of water in front of him.“How much is an ice cream？”“Fifty cents,”replied the waitress.The little boy pulled 3 right hand out of the pocket and studied a number of 4 in it.“How much is a dish of plain ice cream?”he asked.Some people were now waiting for her service and the waitress grew a little 5 (patient).“Thirty cents,”she said 6 (polite)and loudly,which surprised other 〖JP3〗customers.The boy counted the coins 7 .”I will have a plain ice cream,”he said.The waitress walked 8 .The boy finished the ice cream,paid the cashier and left.It was not long 9 the waitress came back and then she began to wipe the table and suddenly was surprised at what she saw.There, 10 (place)neatly beside the empty dish,were two nickels and five pennies—her tip!
二、完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

As a child, I was very shy. I wanted to be successful, but lacked 1 . When I discovered climbing, I found something I was good at. I began to be 2 by my friends and this gave me the desire to climb 3 and higher mountains. I found that nothing was impossible if I could find the 4 to try to achieve my goals.
Both personal determination and teamwork are 5 when you climb. You need to rely on the 6 of your team and share in the achievement. But personal focus and determination to keep going despite any difficulty are also very helpful to team success.
My greatest achievement in 7 was being the first ever to reach the top of the 5,000 foot Troll Wall in Norway, which has the highest and most vertical(垂直的) rock face in Europe. A stone dropped from the top of the mountain will 8 nothing until it lands on the valley floor one 9 below. So it was very adventurous.
Before our climb, the experts in Europe had said it was 10 to climb the Troll Wall. But with three companions, I decided to 11 . It took ten days to make the climb and we 12 on ledges(岩石架)no more than a foot wide when we were tired. Thankfully, we 13 .
Afterwards, I said to myself, “If I can do that, I can do anything.”Some years later, I climbed up Mount Everest-the highest mountain in the world.
Adventure to me is not just 14 a rope along the side of a mountain, but is one field where adventurous people can often 15 themselves. If we look at every day as an adventure, we can test ourselves and continue to grow throughout our life. That is the final adventure.
1.A.money B.confidence C.purposes D.chances
2.A.denied B.attacked C.recognized D.tricked
3.A.harder B.farther C.smaller D.safer
4.A.place B.secret C.courage D.time
5.A.suitable B.simple C.equal D.important
fort B.support C.interest D.doubt
7.A.science B.medicine C.climbing D.engineering
8.A.touch B.stop C.pollute D.hurt
9.A.meter B.inch C.centimeter e
10.A.easy B.impossible C.exciting eful
11.A.try B.learn C.return D.escape
12.A.ate B.lived C.rested D.stood
13.A.worked B.decided C.continued D.succeeded
14.A.bending over B.falling off C.hanging onto D.leaning against
15.A.hold B.forgive C.punish D.challenge
三、阅读理解阅读中的猜词技巧（4） 根据同等关系猜测词义
◆方法点拨
同等关系指一组词在句中作同一成分，且它们的词义属于同一义域，这些词常用and或or来连接。

如：
At fifty he is in his prime of life and always full of energy.
◆活学活用
（一）利用上述猜词技巧，猜测下列各句划线部分的意思。

1.He is a serious person who always does everything conscientiously.
2.If you don‟t stop doing like this,you‟ll impair your health.
3.He strayed because of the darkness,and didn，t know where he was.
4.In the ancient city of Rome,we visited every mansion,battle site,theatre and other public halls.
（二）阅读下列短文，按要求完成读写任务。

(2008年广东卷)Parents and kids today dress alike,listen to the same music,and are friends.Is this a good thing？Sometimes,when Mr.Ballmer and his 16 year old daughter,Elizabeth,listen to rock music together and talk about interests they both enjoy,such as pop culture,he remembers his more distant relationship with his parents when he was a teenager.
“I would never have said to my mom,‘Hey,the new Weezer album is really great.How do you like it?’”says Ballmer.“There was just a complete gap in taste.”
Music was not the only gulf.From clothing and hairstyles to activities and expectations,earlier generations of parents and children often appeared to move in separate orbits.
Today,the generation gap has not disappeared,but it is getting narrow in many families.Conversations on subjects such as sex and drugs would not have taken place a generation ago.Now they are
comfortable and common.And parent-child activities,from shopping to sports,involve a feeling of trust and friendship that can continue into adulthood.
No wonder greeting cards today carry the message,“To my mother,my best friend.”
But family experts warn that the new equality can also result in less respect for parents.
“There，s still a lot of strictness and authority on the part of parents out there,but there is a change happening,”says Kerrie,a psychology professor at Lebanon V alley College.“In the middle of that change,there is a lot of confusion among parents.”
Family researchers offer a variety of reasons for these evolving roles and attitudes.They see the 1960s as a turning point.Great cultural changes led to more open communication and a more democratic process that encourages everyone to have a say.
“My parents were on the ‘before’side of that change,but today s parents,the 40 year olds,were on the ‘after’side,”explains Mr.Ballmer.“It s not something easily accomplished by parents these days,because life is more difficult to understand or deal with,but sharing interests does make it more fun to be a parent now.”
Ⅰ.根据短文，写一篇30词左右的摘要。

___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ _______
Ⅱ.根据所读短文，选出最佳答案。

1.The underlined word gulf in Para.3 most probably means _______________.
A.interest
B.distance
C.difference
D.separation
2.Which of the following shows that the generation gap is disappearing?
A.Parents help their children develop interests in more activities.
B.Parents put more trust in their children s abilities.
C.Parents and children talk more about sex and drugs.
D.Parents share more interests with their children.
3.The change in today,s parent child relationship is _____________.
A.more confusion among parents
B.new equality between parents and children
C.less respect for parents from children
D.more strictness and authority on the part of parents
4.By saying “today s parents,the 40 year olds,were on the ‘after’side.”the author means that today s parents _______________.
A.follow the trend of the change
B.can set a limit to the change
C.fail to take the change seriously
D.have little difficulty adjusting to the change
5.The purpose of the passage is to _______________.
A.describe the difficulties today’s parents have met with
B.discuss the development of the parent child relationship
C.suggest the ways to handle the parent child relationship
pare today s parent child relationship with that in the past
能力演练5
一、语法填空
专题训练（五）巧用派生词，做好语法填空
◆技巧点拨
要做好高考语法填空题中的词语派生题，关键是掌握词语搭配关系，然后将所给单词变成该搭配
阅读下面短文，用括号中所给单词的适当形式填空。

A father sat at his desk looking at and carefully studying his 1 (month)bill when his young son rushed in and announced,“Dad,because this is your birthday and you are 55 years old,I m going to give you 55 kisses,one for each year!” But the father exclaimed,“Oh,Peter,don t do it now.I m too busy!”
The boy immediately fell 2 (silence)as tears rolled down from his big blue eyes. 3 (apologize)the father said,“You can finish later.”
The boy said nothing but 4 (quiet)walked away, 5 (disappont)written over his face.That evening the father said,“Come and finish the kisses now,Peter!” But the boy didn t respond. 6 (fortunate),the boy had an accident and was drowned.His heartbroke n father wrote,“If only I could tell him how much I regret my 7 (thought)words and could be assured that he knows how much my heart is aching.”
Love is a two way street.Any loving act must be 8 (warm)accepted or it will be taken as 9 (reject)and can leave a scar.Nothing is more 10 (importance)than responding with love to the
cry for love from those who are near and precious to us.
二、完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

I was a single parent of four small children,working at a low paid job.But I didn‟t want my children to know we were poor, so when christmas was drawing near, I decided to give them some money to buy some 1 .
They planned weeks ahead of time,asking 2 what they wanted for Christmas.Fortunately,I had saved ＄120 for 3 to share by all five of us.
The big 4 arrived.I gave each kid a twenty dollar bill and 5 them to look for gifts of about four dollars each. Then everyone scattered（散开）.We had two hours to shop;then we would 6 back at the “Santa,s Worksho p”.
Driving home,everyone was in high Christmas spirits, 7 my younger daughter,Ginger,who was unusually 8 .She had only one small,flat bag with a few candies fifty cent candies!I was so angry,but I didn,t say anything 9 we got home.I called her into my bedroom and closed the door, 10 to be angry again.This is what she told me.
“I was looking11 thinking of what to buy,and I 12 to read the little cards on the …Giving Trees‟.One was for a little girl,four years old,and all she13 for Christmas was a doll（玩具娃娃）.So I took the card off the tree and 14 the doll for her.We have so much and she doesn,t have anything.”
I never felt so 15 as I did that day.
1.A.gifts B.flowers C.candies D.books
2.A.the other B.each other C.one by one D.every other one
3.A.toys B.clothes C.presents D.bills
4.A.day B.chance C.cheque D.tree
5.A.forced B.reminded C.invited D.begged
6.A.draw B.stay C.move D.meet
7.A.including B.besides C.except D.regarding
8.A.quiet B.excited C.happy D.ashamed
9.A.since B.after C.while D.until
10.A.waiting B.ready C.hoping D.afraid
11.A.out B.over C.forward D.around
12.A.forgot B.stopped C.failed D.hated
13.A.wanted B.did C.got D.played
14.A.made B.searched C.bought D.fetched
15.A.angry B.rich C.patient D.bitter
三、阅读理解阅读中的猜词技巧（5）
根据生活经验常识和逻辑推理推测词义
◆方法点拨
有时候，逻辑推理和自身的生活经验及普通常识能帮助我们确定词义。

如:
例1：The snake slithered through the grass.
例2：Fishes live in water and have fins which help them to swim.Most fishes have slimy skins covered with scales,but in fishes such as eels the scales are very small and can hardly be seen.
例3：Not wanting to disturb the sleeping kitten,I gingerly lifted her from the box and put her on a blanket near the heater.
◆活学活用
（一）根据上述技巧,猜测下列划线词的词义。

1.The man walked briskly to keep warm on the very cold night.
2.The door was so low that I hit my head on the lintel.
3.When a doctor performs an operation on a patient，he usually gives an anaesthetic to make him unconscious，because he does not want his patient to feel pain or to know what is happening to him.
4.If you are capable of working twelve hours a day without a rest，and if you can engage in physical exercise for hours without seeming to get tired，then you are indefatigable.
5.Thousands of people got stuck in lifts.But no one panicked,we passed the time telling stories. （二）阅读下列短文，按要求完成读写任务。

(2009年全国卷Ⅱ)
I know you,re thinking:Pizza(比萨饼)？For breakfast？But the truth is that you can have last night,s leftover in the am if you want to.
I know lots of women who skip breakfast(不吃早餐),and they have a ton of different excuses for doing it.Some say they don,t have time,others think they are saving calories(卡路里),still others just don,t like breakfast food.
But the bottom line is that eating in the morning is very important when you are trying to lose weight.“Eating just about anything from 300 to 400 calories would be better than nothing at all,”says Katherine Brooking,R.D,who developed the super easy eating plan for this year,s SELFCHALLENGE.“And even pizza can be healthy if it s loaded with vegetables,and you stick to o ne small piece.”
Breakfast is one meal I never miss,and the same goes for most weight loss success stories. Research shows that eating breakfast keeps you from overeating late in the day.Researchers at the University of Southern California found that breakfast skippers have a bigger chance of gaining weight than those who regularly have a morning meal.
So eat something in the morning,anything.I know plenty of friends who end up having no breakfast altogether,and have just coffee or orange juice.I say,try heating up last night s leftovers—it may sound crazy,but if it works for you,do it! I find if I tell myself,“You can always eat it tomorrow,” I put away the leftovers instead of eating more that night.Try it.You may save yourself some pre bedtime calories.And watch your body gain the fat burning effects!
Ⅰ.根据所读短文，写一篇30词左右的摘要。

___________________________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________
Ⅱ.根据短文，选择最佳答案。

1.The word “leftovers” in Paragraph 1 probably means_____________.
A.food remaining after a meal
B.things left undone
C.meals made of vegetables
D.pizza topped with fruit
2.What can we infer from the passage?
A.Working women usually have breakfast in a hurry.
B.Many people have wrong ideas about breakfast.
C.There are some easy ways of cooking a meal.
D.Eating vegetables helps save energy.
3.According to the last paragraph,it is important to _____________.
A.eat something for breakfast
B.be careful about wh at you eat
C.heat up food before eating it
D.eat calorie controlled food
4.The text is written mainly for those_____________.
A.who go to work early
B.who want to lose weight
C.who stay up late
D.who eat before sleep
5.What does the underlined sentence mean?
A.Skipping breakfast is helpful if you want to lose weight.
B.Eating breakfast will make you fatter.
C.Eating breakfast can help lose weight.
D.You can,t lose weight without breakfast.
能力演练6
一、语法填空
专题训练（六）动词变化
动词是语法填空题的必考内容，动词的主要考点有时态、语态、语气、非谓语动词、主谓一致等。

非谓语动词更是考查热点。

在本专题中,我们介绍几个应试技巧，让你在考场上稳操胜券。

◆技巧点拨
only后接现在分词或不定式都可表示结果，但only doing是一般用语，only to do则表示意想不到的结果。

动词、介词后面要求接名词或动名词做宾语，如果所给动词后有宾语，则将所给动词变为动名词，如果所给动词后无宾语，则将所给动词变为名词。

(1)Jack went swimming in the lake,only _______________(have)great fun with his fellows.
(2)Jack hurried to Tom s home,only _______________(find)Tom was out and the door was locked.
(3)He was good at _______________(persuade)others to give up their ideas.
(4)They just stood there and stared at the stranger in _______________ (amaze).
句（1）单纯表示结果，用having。

句（2）的结果是Jack意想不到的，用to find。

句（3）的persuade 前有介词，后有宾语others，应填入动名词persuading。

句（4）前有介词，后无宾语，应填入名词amazement。

◆活学活用
（一）用所给动词的适当形式填空。

1.She turned up the driveway,only _______________(find)her way blocked.
puters are widely used for __________(explore),including for _________(explore)space.
3.Her husband died,only_______________(leave)her debts.
4.The boy grew up day by day,only _______________(become)stronger and healthier.
5.Mike went swimming with his classmates,only _______________ (drown).
（二）语法填空。

（2008年东莞一模改编）阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。

Once there lived a rich man 1 (want)to do something for the people of his town.But first he wanted to find out whether they deserved his help.
In the centre of the main road into the town,he placed a very large stone.Then he 2 (hide)behind a tree and waited, 3 (watch)what people would do with the stone.Soon an old man came along with his cow.“Who put this stone in the centre of the road?” said t he old man without 4 (try)to remove the stone.Instead,with some difficulty he passed around the stone and 5 (continue)on his way.Another man came along and did the same thing; then another came,and another.All of them complained about the stone but not tried to remove it.Full of 6 (disappoint),the rich man was to go away and give up his idea 7 (help).Just then,a young man came along.He saw the stone, 8 (say)to himself:“The night 9 (be)very dark.Some neighbors will come along later in the dark and will fall against the stone.”
Then he began to move the stone.He pushed and pulled with all his strength to move it,only 10 (find)a bag of money under the stone.Imagine how surprised he was!
二、完形填空
A woman in her sixties lived alone in her little cottage with a pear tree at her door.She spent all her time taking care of the tree.But the children nearby drove her 1 by making fun of her.They would climb her tree and then run away with pears, 2 “Aunty Misery” at her.
One evening,a passer by asked to 3 for the night.Seeing that he had an 4 face,she let him in and gave him a nice 5 .The next morning the stranger,actually a sorcerer（巫师）,thanked her by granting（允准）her 6 that anyone who climbed up her tree 7 not be able to come back down until she 8 it.
When the children came back to steal her 9 ,she had them stuck on the tree.They had to beg her long 10 she gave the tree permission to let 11 go.Aunty Misery was free from the 12 at last.
One day another man 13 her door.This one did not look trustworthy to her, 14 she asked who he was.“I am Death.I ve come to take you15 me,”said he.The woman thought fast and then said to the man，“Could you do me a favor to pick the golden pear on the tree?”Then man was so happy to “help” her and thus was immediately stuck to the tree.
1.A.hopeless B.painful C.dull D.crazy
2.A.calling B.shouting C.announcing D.whispering
3.A.stay B.live C.hide D.lie
4.A.interesting B.honest C.anxious D.angry
5.A.gift B.kiss C.treat D.smile
6.A.suggestion B.demand C.permission D.wish
7.A.could B.should C.might D.must
8.A.permitted B.promised C.answered D.declared
9.A.branch B.food C.tree D.fruit
10.A.after B.while C.since D.before
11.A.it B.them C.him D.her
12.A.trick B.question C.trouble D.difficulty
13.A.stepped into B.left for C.stopped at D.walked around
14.A.so B.but C.although D.because
15.A.with B.off C.upon D.for
三、阅读理解 阅读中的猜词技巧（6）
根据文章的综合信息推测词义
◆技巧点拨
根据文章的内在逻辑关系推测词义是指运用语言知识来分析和判断相关信息之间存在的逻辑关系，然后结合上下文，根据逻辑关系推断生词词义或大致意思。

在解题时，我们可以利用上下文的线索、暗示信息或单词的作用和关系准确推测词义。

如：
(1)“My son has been in school for twelve years and he cannot write a sentence,” Tom shouted to the headmaster.“You ve made him an i lliterate”
解析：依据信息“上学12年”、还“不会写一个句子”、“大喊大叫”，可知家长在指责校方，也就不难猜出illiterate意为“文盲”。

(2)One mistaken idea about business is that it can be treated as a game of perfect information.Quite the reverse,business,politics,life itself are games which we must normally play with imperfect information. 解析：前句说“关于商业的一个错误观点是商业可以看做完美的信息游戏”，而后句说“商业、政治、生活本身是非常不完美的信息游戏”，由此推之quite the reverse的意思是“正好相反”。

特别提醒：我们分6个单元介绍了阅读中猜测词义的常用方法。

但是必须牢记，各种方法都是互相联系的，都离不开对上下文的正确理解，所谓词不离句、句不离篇讲的就是这个道理。

在解题时，同学们应该综合运用各种方法，根据对语篇的理解，结合上下文，对生词或短语或句子的含义作出准确的、合乎逻辑的猜测。

◆活学活用
（一）猜出下列句中划线单词的意思。

1.Doctors believe that smoking cigarettes is detrimental to health.They also regard drinking as harmful
2.The hot air ballon took off.It was b uoyant in the air as a rose leaf in water.
3.The consequences of epochal events such as wars and great scientific discoveries are not confined to
a small geographical area as they were in the past.
4.The child is as fragile as glass.
5.He fell into a ditch and lay there,semiconscious,for a few minutes.
（二）阅读理解
(2009年全国卷Ⅰ)It is not easy being a teenager(13—19岁青少年)—nor it is easy being the parent of a teenager.You can make your child feel angry,hurt,or misunderstood by what you say without realizing it yourself.It is important to give your child the space he needs to grow while gently letting him know that you,ll still be there when he needs you.
Expect a lot from your child,just not everything.Except for health and safety problems,such as drug use
or careless driving,consider everything else open to discussion.If your child is unwilling to discuss something,don t insist he tell you what s on his mind.The more you insist,the more likely tha t he,ll clam up.Instead,let him attempt to solve things by himself.At the same time,remind him that you are always there for him should he seek advice or help.Show respect for your teenager,s privacy.Never read his mail or listen in on personal conversations.
Teach your teenager that the family phone is for the whole family.If your child talks on the family,s phone for too long,tell him he can talk for 15 minutes,but then he must stay off the phone for at least an equal period of time.This not only frees up the line so that other family members can make and receive calls,but teaches your child moderation(节制).Or if you are open to the idea,allow your teenager his own phone that he pays for with his own pocket money or a part-time job.
Ⅰ.根据短文写一篇30词左右的摘要。

___________________________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________________________ Ⅱ.根据所读短文,选择最佳答案。

1.The main purpose of the text is to tell parents _______________.
A.how to get along with a teenager
B.how to respect a teenager
C.how to understand a teenager
D.how to help a teenager grow up
2.What does the phrase “clam up” mean?
A.become excited
B.show respect
C.refuse to talk
D.seek help
3.The last paragraph is about how to teach a teenager _______________.
A.to use the phone in a sensible way
B.to pay for his own phone
C.to share the phone with friends
D.to answer the phone quickly
4.What should parents do in raising a teenager according to the passage?
A.Not allow him to learn driving or take drugs
B.Give him advice only when necessary
C.Let him have his own telephone
D.Not talk about personal things with him
能力演练7
一、语法填空
专题训练(七) 动词变化
◆技巧点拨
如果需要填写的动词后面有by，则用过去分词，表示被动意义。

如果所需填写的动词前面是一个句子并且有逗号，一般应用现在分词表示伴随或结果。

如果需要填入的动词前有and,或者and 后面需要填入动词，一般考虑and前后的动词形式相同。

◆活学活用
（一）用所给动词的适当形式填空。

(1)An old man______________(support)by a young girl came out of the hall.
(2)______________(frighten) by the stranger,the girl ran away in a hurry.
(3)Football is played in over 80 countries,_______________(make) it the most popular game in the world.
(4)A few students sat under the tree,_______________(discuss) something heatedly.
(5)If you eat brain foods regularly,they helped you pay attention,keep you motivated,improve your memory and ______________(less)stress from studies.
（二）阅读下面短文，根据文意，用所给动词的适当形式填空，注意动词形式变化。

Odysseus is a literary figure in the Odyssey 1 (write)by Homer.He rejected the comfortable life of a Greek king and 2 (make)a promise to help another Greek leader,Menelaus,get his wife back.But the war 3 (drag)on and on and he was away from his family for ten years.During this time the fortunes of the war were so changeable that no one could predict who would win.Odysseus became 4 (tire)of the war and the delay in Troy.He urgently wanted to return home,so when the Greek kings had the regular weekly meeting he suggested that they take an opportunity 5 (trick)the Trojans.The Greeks built a giant wooden horse so that men could hide inside it.The Greeks then pretended to leave aboard their ships as if they 6 (discourage)by the length of the war.The Trojans blessed their God for their good fortune and 7 (prepare)to celebrate. That night the men climbed out of the horse and 8 (open)the city gates to the Greek army.The Greeks marched into Troy, 9 (announce)the Greek victory. 10 (awake)by the bell,the Trojans had to face the punishment which seemed endless.
二、完形填空
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1~15各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项。

We lived in a house with a yard surrounded by a rock st summer,I found a little unknown plant in the yard,we decided to let it continue growing until we could 1 what it was.
The mysterious plant appeared to be a sunflower,so I decided to take care of it.One day,as I pull rocks from the area to get to the weeds,I noticed something 2 .The sunflowers had not 3 where I saw the stalk（茎）began.It 4 had begun under a big rock and grown under and around it to reach the 5 .
That,s when I 6 that if a tiny little sunflower didn,t let a big rock stand in its 7 of developing,we too have the capability of doing the same thing. 8 our environment begins to see that we believe in ourselves like that little sunflower,we can 9 the same nutrient as well.
10 ,we need to believe in ourselves knowing we have the capabilities in 11 our desires.Like the sunflower,it knew it had the capability to overcome its obstacle（障碍）because it 12 in the universal truth and had 13 that it would succeed.
Stand tall like the sunflower and be 14 of who and what you are and the environment will begin to support you.You will find a way to go under or 15 your big obstacle in order to reach your desires.
1.A.watch out B.work out C.give out D.figure out
2.A.wonderful B.secret C.valuable D.unusual
3.A.passed B.started C.stopped D.broken
4.A.aimlessly B.naturally C.especially D.actually
5.A.air B.top C.sun D.wall
6.A.realized B.doubted C.expected D.noticed
7.A.place B.way C.course D.process
8.A.Although B.Since C.Unless D.Once
9.A.seek B.dig C.gain D.attract
10.A.First B.Generally C.Finally D.Eventually
11.A.setting B.controlling C.achieving D.directing
y B.trusted C.grew D.rooted
13.A.faith B.energy C.hope D.courage
14.A.proud B.fond C.careful D.aware
15.A.beneath B.over C.above D.around
三、阅读理解文章主旨
◆方法点拨
主旨大意题要求对文章的整体或局部（如段落）进行分析、概括，归纳相关部分的中心大意(Main idea)，选择标题（title），判断作者的写作目的（purpose）等。

主旨大意题的提问方式常有以下几种:
（1)What does the writer mainly tell us？
（2)Which of the following can summarize the main idea of this text？
（3)Which of the following best expresses the main idea?
（4)The best headline for this newspaper article is______________.
（5)What would be the best title for the passage?
（6)What is the author s main purpose?
（7)The main idea of the passage is about ______________.
（8)The article is written to explain ______________.
（9)With what topic is the passage chiefly concerned?
（10)The subject discussed in this text is ______________.
呈现主题的方式(1）无主题句
主题隐含在全文中,没有明确的主题句，必须根据文篇中所提供的事实细节，进行全面考虑，综合分析，然后找出共同的东西，归纳成一般概念。

必须注意的是，既不能以偏概全，也不能在概括时过于宽泛，要恰如其分。

◆活学活用
阅读下列短文，然后按要求完成读写任务。

Zoe Chambers was a successful PR(Public Relations)consultant and life was going well—she had a great job,a beautiful flat and a busy social life in London.Then one evening in June last year,she received a text message telling her she was out of work.“The first two weeks were the most difficult to live through.” she said.“After everything I,d done for the company,they dismissed me by text! I was so angry and I just didn,t feel like looking for another job.I hated everything about the city and my life.”
Then,Zoe received an invitation from an old school friend,Kathy,to come and stay.Kathy and her husband,Hu,had just bought a farm in north west Wales.Zoe jumped at the chance to spend a weekend away from London,and now,ten months later,she is still on the farm.
“The moment I arrived at Kathy,s farm,I loved it and I knew I wanted to stay.” said Zoe.“Everything about my past life suddenly seemed meaningless.”
Zoe has been working on the farm since October of last year and says she has no regrets.“It,s a hard life,physically very tiring.” she says.“In London I was stressed and often mentally exhausted.But this is a good,healthy tiredness.Here,all I need to put me in a good mood is a hot bath and one of Kathy,s wonderful dinners.”
Zoe says she has never felt bored on the farm.Every day brings a new experience.Kathy has been teaching her how to ride a horse and she has learnt to drive a tractor.Since Christmas,she has been helping with the lambing.“watching a lamb being born is unbelievable,” she says,“It,s one of the most moving experiences I,ve ever had.I could never go back to city life now.”
Ⅰ.根据所读短文，写一篇30词左右的摘要。

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Ⅱ.根据所读短文，选择最佳答案，说出第四题的解题思路。

1.When working as a PR consultant in London,Zoe thought she lived a ______________ life.
A.satisfying
B.tough
C.meaningless
D.boring
2.The most important reason why Zoe went to visit Kathy s farm is that______________.
A.Zoe lost her job as a PR consultant
B.Kathy persuaded her to do so
C.Zoe got tired of the city life
D.Zoe loved Wales more than London
3.How does Zoe feel about the country life according to the passage?
A.Tiresome and troublesome.
B.Romantic and peaceful.
C.Mentally exhausting but healthy.
D.Physically tiring but rewarding.
4.Which of the following is closest to the main idea of the passage?
A.A friend in need is a friend indeed.
B.Where there is a will,there is a way.
C.A misfortune may turn out a blessing.
D.Kill two birds with one stone.
5.We can infer that ______________.
A.Zoe was glad to be fired because she had planned to live in the countryside.
B.Zoe was a capable lady and could do her job quite well.
C.Zoe would never go back to the city becasuse she enjoyed her life in the country.
D.Zoe would find another good job if she wanted to.。