Question

【题目】

get, they, with, young, although, pencil, on, spend, if, friend, call, than

Do you have a mobile phone? Do you send text messages to your friends and family?

Text messaging or “texting” is becoming very popular. Not only students but also adults like talking with 【1】 by texting. However, scientists have discovered that texting can give us problems 【2】 our hands. Be careful! Too much texting can cause RSI (Repetitive Stain Injury) in our thumbs(拇指) and wrists(手腕). We spoke to a doctor 【3】 Harriet Wilson, who treats many patients with RSI. She said if we 【4】 more than 10-15 minutes texting each time, we could have problems in the future. She also said that the 【5】 patient she had treated was a five-year-old girl. She had such bad RSI that she couldn’t hold a 【6】.

As mobile phones develop, people can do many interesting things on them. We are 【7】 closer with mobile phones. Texting with a smaller phone, is worse 【8】 using a larger phone with bigger buttons. Using computers and playing video games can cause the same problem. So more and more people found 【9】 with RSI. 【10】we don't do anything about this, too many young people would grow up in terrible pain.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】friends

【2】with

【3】called

【4】spent

【5】youngest

【6】pencil

【7】getting

【8】than

【9】themselves

【10】If

【解析】

本文讲述了如果人们每次发短信的时间超过10-15分钟，后期可能会成为RSI患者。讲了一位名叫哈里特·威尔逊的医生治疗过的一个五岁小女孩的经历，来警示人们要采取措施解决这个问题。

【1】句意：不仅学生，成年人也喜欢通过发短信与朋友交谈。

根据“like talking with ___1___ by texting”可知喜欢通过发短信与 交谈，可推测出此处是“朋友”，且此处是名词复数，故答案为 friends。

【2】句意：然而，科学家发现，发短信会给我们的手带来问题。

根据“give us problems ___2___ our hands.”可知此处缺介词，可推测出此处是“with”，故答案为with。

【3】句意：我们采访了一位名叫哈里特·威尔逊的医生，她治疗过许多RSI患者。

根据后文“Harriet Wilson”可知此处缺过去分词作定语，可推测出此处是“called”，故答案为called。

【4】句意：如果我们每次发短信的时间超过10-15分钟，我们以后可能会遇到问题。

根据“we ___4___ more than 10-15 minutes texting each time”可知我们每次发短信的时间超过10-15分钟，可推测出此处是“spend”，主句是一般过去时，所以此处也是一般过去时，故答案为spent。

【5】句意：她还说，她治疗过的最年轻的病人是一个5岁的女孩。

根据“the ___5___ patient she had treated was a five-year-old girl.”可知她治疗过的 的病人是一个5岁的女孩，可推测出此处是形容词“年轻”，结合空前“the”可知此处缺形容词最高级，故答案为youngest。

【6】句意：她的重复性压迫损伤非常严重，以至于她不能拿铅笔。

根据“a”可知缺单数名词，可推测出此处是“铅笔”，故答案为pencil。

【7】句意：我们离移动电话越来越近。

get close to表示“靠近，接近”，根据“We are ___7___ closer with mobile phones”可知此处缺doing，可推测出此处是“getting”，故答案为getting。

【8】句意：用较小的手机发短信，比用按键较大的大屏手机更糟糕。

根据“is worse”可知此处是比较级，可推测出此处是“than”，故答案为than。

【9】句意：所以越来越多的人发现自己患有重复性压迫损伤。

根据这里主语more and more people与空格处指的是相同的人们，反身代词与它所指代的名词或代词形成互指关系，在人称、性质、数上保持一致，可推测出此处是“themselves”，故答案为themselves。

【10】句意：如果我们不采取任何措施，太多的年轻人将在可怕的痛苦中成长。

根据“ we don't do anything about this, too many young people would grow up in terrible pain.”可知 我们不采取任何措施，太多的年轻人将在可怕的痛苦中成长，可推测出此处是“如果”，放句首，需大写。故答案为If。

选词填空题需要根据句子大意并结合备选词来确定空缺处所需词语。本题中所给词语都是需要变化形式，对于学生而言比较难。如第8小题，根据句意可推出是花时间做什么，用备选词spend合适，全文是一般过去时，所以此处也是一般过去时，把spend变为spent即可。