首字母填空 Passage 1 Here’s a story about Ming’s life on the waters. Ming has lived all his life on a wide r 1 in China. His home is a large house-boat with a roof, one of hundreds that move up and down. In about six years he has not once been on l 2 but he is never lonely. He is a strong swimmer. In fact, he could swim before he could walk. When he wants to play with his f 3 he just swims across to their boats or asks them to v 4 him. Ming’s father is a fisherman, but he never u 5 a line or a net（网）. Great black birds called cormorants do the fishing for him. Rings（圈）have been put around the birds’ n 6 so that they cannot eat the fish they catch. They have been t 7 to bring the fish to people. And then people reward（奖励）them with a fine big fish as soon as their work is f 8 . Ming loves watching the cormorants, but better still he likes going s 9 with his mother. The shops, of course, are boats very like his o 10 . 1. river 2. land 3. friends 4.visit 5. uses 6. necks 7. taught/trained 8. finished 9. shopping 10. own 【解析】本篇短文第一句“关于明的在水上的生活”，给大家一个总体的信息，重点是“on the waters”，而且时态为现在时。 1. 既然Ming 的生活是和水紧密联系的，所以第一个空就很容易了，r 打头的关于水的单词，就是river，因为前面有冠词a，所以只用单数形式。 2.通过前文可以得知，“Ming 住在一个船型的屋子里，6 年里他从来没有到过**，但是他从来不孤单”，也就是说他非常喜欢在水上的生活，因此可以推测出他从来没有来过陆地，填land。 3.本空的关键在play with，通常后面可以加fire、snow，但是与文意不符，所以是与朋友们玩，后文的their 说明是复数形式，填friends。 4.本空的ask them to ** him 和or 之前的swims across to their boats 是相互对应的，要么Ming 去朋友那里，要么他的朋友来看他，所以填visit，表示拜访的意思。 5.本句说到，Ming 的父亲...
