Question

【題目】I 【1】 (edit) a photo caption when I saw the phrase “Smith said his kids favorite part of the event was the snow cone truck.” I walked over to 【2】 student photographer who wrote the caption and asked whether Mr. Smith had one child or many.

The photographer wanted to know why. The word “kid” needed an apostrophe, I replied, and where I put that punctuation mark would change the size of Mr. Smith’s family.

“Wow,” the photographer said. “One punctuation mark can make a big 【3】(differ).”

This exchange isn’t made up. And the fact that it happened in the same month as National Punctuation Day—which is Sept. 24— 【4】(emphasize) the importance of proper use of punctuation.

For National Punctuation Day, my goal is 【5】 (promote) proper use of commas, semicolons and so on 【6】 my good example. I will use punctuation in all text 【7】 (message), never leaving out periods on Twitter.

Jeff Rubin, who founded National Punctuation Day in 2004, wrote that he started National Punctuation Day because of concern about 【8】(decline) language skills. He noted that almost 60 percent of incoming college freshmen needed remedial(補救的) English classes 【9】 (urgent).

Information like that is 【10】 our anger should be focused. So classroom is a great place to celebrate National Punctuation Day.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】was editing

【2】the

【3】difference

【4】emphasizes

【5】to promote

【6】through/by

【7】messages

【8】declining

【9】urgently

【10】where

【解析】一位學(xué)生攝影師在寫照片標題時，本應(yīng)用他的“孩子們”時卻沒有加雙引號造成歧義，本文作者以這個例子說明準確使用標點的重要性。

【1】考查動詞時態(tài)。句意：我正在編輯照片標題，這是我看到了一句話。根據(jù)when I saw the phrase可以得知，當時正在做，用過去進行時。故填was editing。

【2】考查冠詞。句意：我走到那個寫照片標題的學(xué)生攝影師身邊。有定語從句限定，表示特指用定冠詞the，故填the。

【3】考查名詞。句意：一個標點符號就能產(chǎn)生巨大的變化。make a difference“有影響，起作用”，冠詞后用名詞，故填difference。

【4】考查動詞時態(tài)。句意：9月24日是國家標點日，它強調(diào)了正確使用標點的重要性。主語是“國家標點日”，客觀事實用一般現(xiàn)在時，謂語動詞用單數(shù)形式，故填emphasizes。

【5】考查非謂語動詞。句意：我的目標是促進逗號，分號等等的使用。不定式作表語，解釋或說明主語的具體內(nèi)容，故填to promote。

【6】考查介詞。句意：我想通過這個例子促進大家對標點符號的正確使用。through my good example，“通過”是介詞，也可以用by，故填through/by。

【7】考查名詞。句意：我會在所有文本上用標點符號，不遺漏句號。all修飾名詞復(fù)數(shù)形式，故填messages。

【8】考查動名詞。句意：Jeff Rubin擔心語言技能下降所以開創(chuàng)了國家標點日。concern about doing“關(guān)注做某事”，介詞后用名詞或動名詞形式，故填declining。

【9】考查副詞。句意：他指出60%的大一新生急切需要補習(xí)英語課程。副詞修飾動詞，故填urgently。

【10】考查關(guān)系副詞。句意：這樣的信息是我們應(yīng)該感到憤怒的地方。表語從句中缺少地點狀語，故填where。