A. 。分析：此题考查非谓语动词和几个相关动词的用法。说实话，此题难度较大。考生会误选B或D。 I was not a strong __27__, or one who learned to swim early, for I had my __28__. 27．A. . swimmer B. rider C. walker D. runner A. 。分析：下文提到游泳，所以选A. 。
28．A. . hopes B. faiths C. rights D. fears D。分析：前文提到作者没有很早学游泳，而且根据常理小孩子应该是害怕。
But I loved being in the swimming pool close to my father’s office and __29__those summer days with my father, who __30__ come by on a break.
29．A. . spending B. saving C. wasting D. ruining A. 。分析：此句的意思是我喜欢在离父亲办公室很近的那个游泳池游泳，与父亲一起度过夏日。其它几个动词意思不符。
30．A. . should B. would C. had to D. ought to B。分析：此题考查情态助动词的用法。此处“would”表示过去常常做某事。“should”意为“应该”，“had to”不得不，“ought to”应该。
I needed him to see what I could do. My father would stand there in his suit, the __31__person not in swimsuit.
31．A. . next B. only C. other D. last
B。分析：根据常识，在游泳池的人一般都是穿着泳装，而我父亲没有穿，所以选“only”。
A. fter swimming, I would go __32__ his office and sit on the wooden chair in front of his big desk, where he let me __33__anything I found in his top desk drawer.
32．A. . away from B. out of C. by D. inside D。分析：游泳结束后，作者到父亲的办公室玩。
33．A. . put up B. break down C. play with D. work out
C。分析：“put up”意为张贴，搭建，为某人提供食宿；“break down”机器出故障，身体垮掉，感情失去控制，分解。“ work out ”计算出，想出。“play with” 与?玩。小孩子从抽屉里找可以找到的东西，当然是用来玩。
Sometimes, if I was left alone at his desk __34__ he worked in the lab, an assistant or a student might come in and tell me perhaps I shouldn’t be playing with his _35__.
34．A. . the moment B. the first time C. while D. before
C。分析：此题考查对语境的理解和从属连词的用法。“the moment”意为“一?就” ， “the first time” 第一次，“while” 在此处意为“而，然而”，表示转折对比。
35. A. . fishing net B. office things C. wooden chair D. lab equipment
B。分析：此题考查对语境的理解。上文提到作者在父亲的办公室从抽屉里找东西玩，所以选B。 But my father always __36__and said easily, “Oh, no, it’s __37__.”
36. A. . stood up B. set out C. showed up D. turned out
C。分析：此题考查动词短语的区别。“stood up”意为站起来，“set out ”出发, 开始, 陈列, 宣布, 移植, 陈述 ，“turned out”结果是，被证明是。只有“showed up”出现，才符合语境。
37. A. . fine B. strange C. terrible D. funny
A. 。分析：“Oh, no, it’s fine .”指的是没关系的，父亲允许儿子玩办公室的东西。 Sometimes he handed me coins and told me to get __38__ an ice cream… 38. A. . the student B. the assistant C. myself D. himself C。分析：此处当然是让儿子给自己买冰激凌吃。 A. poet once said, “We look at life once, in childhood,; the rest is __39__.” 39. A. . memory B. wealth C. experience D. practice
A. 。分析：解题的突破口 应该是上文的文章开头的“my memory”和下文的“our memories”，做完形应该瞻前顾后，注意某些词语在文章中的复现。
A. nd I think it is not only what we “look at once, in childhood” that determines our memories, but __40__, in that childhood, look at us.
40. A. . which B. who C. what D. whose
B。分析：作者回忆了童年时期父亲观看他游泳和在父亲办公室里可以玩一些从抽屉里找到的东西，从而给他带来了美好的回忆，至今记忆犹新。所以发出了“童年时期，谁看着我们长大的也是很重要的”感慨。
方法提炼
夹叙夹议型题，解题需要“瞻前顾后”，通过上下文暗示考查考生对语意、语境、语篇的深层次理解，并在掌握文章主旨大意的基础上，正确理解句与句、段与段之间的内在联系。
2008年广东
Tales of the supernatural are common in all parts of Britain. In particular, there was (and perhaps still is) a
belief in fairies(仙女). Not all of these__21__are the friendly, people-loving characters that appear in Disney films, and in some folktales they are__22__and cause much human suffering. This is true in the tales about the Changeling. These tell the story of a mother whose baby grows__23__ and pale and has changed so much that it is almost__24__ to the parents. It was then__25__ that the fairies had come and stolen the baby away and__26__ the human baby with a fairy Changeling. There were many ways to prevent this from happening: hanging a knife over the baby’s head while he slept or covering him with some of his father’s clothes were just two of the recommended__27__. However, hope was not lost even if the baby had been 28 . In those cases there was often a way to get the__29__ baby back. You could__30__the Changeling on the fire--then it would rise up the chimney, and you would hear the sound of fairies’ laughter and soon after you would find your own child safe and sound nearby.
21. A. . babies B. believers C. fairies D. supermen 22. A. . powerful B. cruel C. frightened D. extraordinary 23. A. . sick B. slim C. short D. small 24. A. . uncomfortable B. unbelievable C. unacceptable D. unrecognizable 25. A. . feared B. predicted C. heard D. reported 26. A. . covered B. changed C. replaced D. terrified 27. A. . cases B. tools C. steps D. methods 28. A. . missed B. stolen C. found D. lost 29. A. . 1ittle B. pale C. sad D. real 30. A. . seize B. burn C. place D. hold 解析：
本文主要是说英国的神话故事中非所有仙女都是善良的，有的很残酷，常给人们带来痛苦。
21. C 结合前句可知，本句意为“并不是所有的仙女(fairies)都像迪斯尼电影中出现的人物那样友善、讨人喜爱”。
22. B 与前面的friendly相对，后面的and cause much human suffering也说明了这一点。 23. A. 由与之并列的pale (苍白)可知，是有病的婴儿。
24. D 因为“变化如此之大”，所以父母也“无法识别，辨不出来”。
25. A. 孩子变得辨认不出来了，这时“人们担心(it is feared that?)”被仙女来换了一个孩子了。 26. C 由前文stolen the baby away可知，是用a fairy Changeling来取代了the human baby；表示“取代”
用replace = take the place of。
27. D 由前文的many ways可知，与ways同义的是methods。 28. B 由前文stolen the baby away可知。 29. D 与用来取代的假的相对，应当为“真的”。 30. C 把the Changeling“放到”火上面。 方法提炼：
采用说明文的开头点题方法就可顺藤摸瓜。
2008年江苏
Evelyn Glennie was the first lady of solo percussion in Scotland. In an interview, she recalled how she became a percussion soloist(打击乐器独奏演员) in spite of her disability.
“Early on I decided not to allow the__36__of others to stop me from becoming a musician. I grew up on a farm in northeast Scotland and began__37__piano lessons when I was eight. The older I got, the more my passion(酷爱) for music grew. But I also began to gradually lose my__38 __. Doctors concluded that the nerve damage was the__39__and by age twelve, I was completely deaf. But my love for music never__40__ me.”
“My__41__was to become a percussion soloist, even though there were none at that time. To perform, I__42__to ‘hear’ music differently from others. I play in my stocking feet and can__43__the pitch of a note(音调高低) by the vibrations(振动) I feel through my body and through my__44__. My entire sound world exists by making use of almost every__45__that I have.” “I was __46__ to be assessed as a musician, not as a deaf musician, and I applied to the famous Royal A. cademy of Music in London. No other deaf student had__47__this before and some teachers__48__my admission. Based on my performance, I was__49__admitted and went on to__50__ with the academy’s highest honors.”
“A. fter that, I established myself as the first full-time solo percussionist. I __51__ and arranged a lot of musical compositions since__52__had been written specially for solo percussionists.”
“I have been a soloist for over ten years. __53__the doctor thought I was totally deaf, it didn’t__54__ that my passion couldn’t be realized. I would encourage people not to allow themselves to be __55 __by others. Follow your passion; follow your heart. They will lead you to the place you want to go.”
36. A. . conditions B. opinions C. actions D. recommendations 37. A. . enjoying B. choosing C. taking D. giving
38. A. . sight B. hearing C. touch D. taste 39. A. . evidence B. result C. excuse D. cause 40. A. . left B. excited C. accompanied D. disappointed 41. A. . purpose B. decision C. promise D. goal 42. A. . turned B. learned C. used D. ought 43. A. . tell B. see C. hear D. smell
44. A. . carefulness B. movement C. imagination D. experience 45. A. . sense B. effort C. feeling D. idea
46. A. . dissatisfied B. astonished C. determined D. discouraged 47. A. . done B. accepted C. advised D. admitted 48. A. . supported B. followed C. required D. opposed 49. A. . usually B. finally C. possibly D. hopefully 50. A. . study B. research C. graduate D. progress 51. A. . wrote B. translated C. copied D. read 52. A. . enough B. some C. many D. few
53. A. . However B. A. lthough C. When D. Since 54. A. . mean B. seem C. conclude D. say 55. A. . directed B. guided C. taught D. limited 解析：
讲述的是英国著名聋女打击乐手Evelyn Glennie成功的故事。本文中的很多词汇，如：solo、percussion等在牛津英语教材模块八第二单元中均有所涉及。
36. B。从上下文可知Glennie不想让别人的看法（the opinions of others）左右自己成为音乐家的理想。A. 条件；C项行动；D项推荐。
37. C。Glennie八岁开始学习钢琴。take lessons上课，固定短语。
38. B。 从下文可知，Glennie听觉（hearing）逐渐失去，直到12岁时完全失聪（completely deaf）。 39. D．神经损伤（the nerve damage）是Glennie失去听觉的主要原因（cause）。evidence证据；result结果；excuse借口。
40. “我对音乐的爱从来没有离开过我。”根据never，句意否定，所以B项excite sb.令人激动，C项accompany sb.陪伴某人不正确。D项应为disappear from sb.。