五四真题剖析
(一)
(2018·山东威海中考)
用括号里所给动词的适当形式填空。
Drawing might help you think
When you're sitting in class, have you ever drawn pictures in the margins of your notebooks?
If so, your teacher might have told you 1. (stop). Many people think of doodling(涂鸦) as a distraction(精神涣散) from more importa nt things. But it might be just the opposite.
One study shows that doodling may help you remember things you hear. In 2009 researchers asked two groups of people to listen to a phone message. One group
2. (e ncourage) to doodle, but the other was not. Neither group knew that it would be asked to remember information from the message. But the group that doodled remembered 29 percent more.
Other people 3. (suggest) other uses for drawing. Jesse Prinz, a professor who studies doodling, says it can help you think creatively. Walking away from a problem to draw might actually help you solve it. When you come back, you
4. (have) a fresh perspective and figure out an answer more quickly.
Two years ago, an author named Sunni Brown 5. (write) a book on doodling. She argues that doodling is a tool that can help people thin k. She admits that people see doodling as doing nothing , but she wants to change that. In fact, she runs a business that helps companies improve organization and planning through doodling. Brown 6. (believe) doodling is helpful because it incorporates(整合) many ways of learning. You learn in four ways: seeing, hearing, reading or writing, and through movement. The more ways you use, the better you learn. And when you doodle while you 7. ( listen) to a lecture, you use all four.
You might think that being good at 8. (draw) is important for doodling. But if the point of doodling is to help you think, then it doesn't matter what the picture looks like. Even if you're not an artist, doodling can help you. So next time you need help focusing, pick up a pen and doodle away!
【答案及解析】
1．to stop tell sb. to do sth.“告诉某人做某事”。结合语境可知，此处表示老师让你停止(画画)。
2．was encouraged 结合语境可知此处“group”与“encourage”之间为被动关系，再由后句“was not”可知此处为一般过去时，故用一般过去时的被动语态。
3．have suggested 结合语境可知，此处用现在完成时，句意：其他人已经建议画画的其他用处。
4．will have 结合语境可知，when引导的时间状语从句用一般现在时，主句用一般将来时，故填will have。
5．wrote 由时间状语“Two years ago”可知，此处用一般过去时，故填wrote。
6．believes 结合语境可知，此处是描述Brown的一种想法，故用一般现在时描述，又因为主语为Brown，故用第三人称单数。
7．are listening 结合语境可知，此处表示当你正在听一个报告时，故用现在进行时。
8．drawing be g ood at doing sth.“擅长做某事”，故此处用动名词形式。
