2024年大英赛完形填空题型解读及答题策略
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【题型解读】 【答题策略】 做完形填空题可遵循以下几点： 【典型题例】 Section A Read the following passage and fill in the blanks with the correct forms of 5 words or phrases out of the 7 given in the box. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. [carry out, take over, explain, capable, drop out of, grateful, particular] When adults praise a child for trying, despite unacceptable work, they teach that the act of attending is more important than the results. I once 1. ( ) a class in the middle of a term from a teacher who was a generous maker. After I had returned a batch of marked papers, one boy complained about receiving a “C”. “I'm used to getting A's," he said. When I 2. ( ) that his essay was badly organized, he asked, “What about the pictures? Our other teacher gave extra marks for effort.” Real life seldom rewards those who try but don’t get results. And it’s a rare boss who tolerates an employee insists that he did his best. Unmerited praise may keep children from gaining their own true 3. ( ) . Years ago, my best friend was a naturally gifted musician. Her family saw every effort as “brilliant” but hated practicing and often did badly at recitals. After one 4. ( ) embarrassing performance, her mother said, “You were wonderful, but that piano needs tuning and the audience was noisy, so it's no wonder you forgot the second movement.” Had this girl received criticism, she might have realized her dreams of becoming a concert pianist. As it was, her playing got gradually worse. And she lost interest and eventually 5. ( ) music school. Section B Please read the following passage and fill in each blank with one word in one ofthe following three ways: according to the context, by using the correctform ofthe given word,or byusing the given letter(s)ofthe word. Remember to write the answers on the answer sheet. The Penny Black is the name of the world’s first postage stamp.It was 6. ( ) (introduce) in the UK in 1840 and is perhaps the most famous stamp ever issued. It has a picture of the young Queen Victoria and because color and its price of one penny, it is known as the “Penny Black”. Before 1840, postage rates for delivery of letters in the UK depended on the distance the letter had to travel and the number of sheets of paper used. At that time the postage had to be paid by the receiver rather than by the sender of the letter. The Penny Black changed everything: at the rate of one penny, letters that did not weigh more than half an ounce could be sent to any 7. des ( ) in the UK. Nowadays, the Penny Black stamps are not all that rare although they are 8.h ( ) regarded by stamp collectors, About 68 million of these stamps were issued between 1840 and 1841, and it is thought that about 1.5 million of these still exist today. The price of the stamp today 9. ( ) (vary) according to whether it has been used or not and its condition. A fine used copy can be bought for around 77 pounds or less, while unused examples are quite rare and sell for 2,000 pounds or more. To honor the UK for having issued the world’s first postage stamp, the Universal Postal Union has made exception 10. ( ) (regard) its law that the name of the country must appear on a stamp. No British stamp date has ever had the country name on it.
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