考向47 短文填空之首字母填空-备战2023年中考英语一轮复习考点微专题（全国通用）

考向47 短文填空之首字母填空 （2022·江苏盐城·统考中考真题）根据短文内容及首字母提示，填写所缺单词，使其意思完整。 I grew up in the countryside. At around 10 years old, I began to learn cooking. The first skill I mastered was making dough（面团）. Since my parents often came home l____1____, a prepared dough would help my family have supper sooner. I thought it would be e____2____ because I often saw my mum do it — just mix water and flour, right? Not quite! It turned out to be a m____3____ for a while. First I made the dough too soft. Then I made it too hard. But as I kept trying, I learned the trick. Later, I cooked fried dishes and things like dumplings and I f____4____ in love with cooking. It’s a good way to relax. More importantly, thanks to my cooking skill, I live better d____5____ the COVID-19 pandemic. Now working at home, I cook every meal instead of ordering takeout. It s___6___ money and I don’t have to wait for delivery drivers to feed me. Besides cooking, I did a lot of f____7____ work in my childhood. I got to know how to plant vegetables. T___8___ it was hard work, the experience taught me things that many of my friends still don’t know. For example, the part of a potato that has sprouts（芽）can be planted as a seed. I once discussed this with my friends from the city. They thought it was a p____9____ that they didn’t have the chance to learn these things in their lives. Some might say we can learn these things from textbooks. But it can’t compare to the j____10____ of learning firsthand, watching plants blossom and grow. It brings a new way to look at the world. 【答案】1．(l)ate    2．(e)asy    3．(m)ess    4．(f)ell    5．(d)uring    6．(s)aves    7．(f)arm    8．(T)hough    9．(p)ity    10．(j)oy 【导语】本文是一篇记叙文。文章讲述了作者在乡下长大的经历让他受益颇深，一方面从小练习的烹饪让他在疫情期间过的更好，也节省了钱。另一方面，小时候做的农活教会了他许多知识，也带给了他许多城市朋友没有机会体验到快乐。 1．句意：因为我的父母经常回家晚，一个准备好的面团可以帮助我的家人早点吃晚饭。根据“a prepared dough would help my family have supper sooner”可推测出，我的父母回家晚，“晚，迟”结合首字母可知，其英文表达为late，根据“Since my parents often came home”可知，空格处应用副词原级，即late。故填(l)ate。 2．句意：我以为这很容易