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2023年高考英语完形填空精讲精练——不明词汇多义和生义理解不透而失分
技法指导
在完形填空的选项中,有时也会出现一些多义词。在英语中,有些单词有两个甚至多个意思,我们把这种现象称之为一词多义。如果考生对这类词的常见意义掌握得不够全面,就会在解答完形填空时错选或误选,尤其值得注意的是:近年高考在完形填空中考查熟词生义有加大的趋势。在复习词汇的过程中,我们要特别关注和积累一词多义,特别是常用动词及其短语。
精练必刷题:
(2022·天津一中高三阶段练习)The pandemic has greatly changed the landscape of education. But that never ____1____ one brilliant girl’s resolve to reach for the stars.
While most teens are tackling the challenges of middle school, Alena Wicker, has already ____2____ her high school diploma at the age of 12. And after learning in a long-term online program, she is ____3____ to attend Arizona State University this summer. There, she ____4____ to major in both astronomical science and chemistry to ____5____ her dream of working at NASA where she hopes to ____6____ her extraordinary skills to build spacecraft after graduation. ____7____, she wanted to be an astronomer, but then she switched over to engineering ____8____ her love of building things.
Alena’s space journey began with her early ____9____ for Lego (乐高), with which she’s always played around since she was 4. So far, she’s built ____10____ of everything from the Taj Mahal to NASA rockets.
“She would ___11___ the Lego pieces by color and size,” her mother McQuater said. “She was always ____12____ at her Lego pieces, and if you ____13____ her Lego pieces, it would be easy for her to put them together.” Besides bringing her visions into reality, this genius had remarkable ____14____ in other aspects of life.
Seeing the ____15____ of opportunities in the STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) fields for women, Alena wanted to make a change. With her mum’s encouragement, Alena ____16____ a website to encourage other girls with ____17____ interests to focus on fields which had been ____18____ inaccessible to women.
Alena hopes to set an example for other girls--never let the long-established concept keep us from ____19____ the course of our life. “It doesn’t matter what your age is or what you are planning to