例題分析:
President Clinton later today joins (S1)presidents Ford, Garter and Bush at“the president's summit for America's future”(S2)at recruiting one million volunteer tutors to provide after-school, weekend and summer reading help for up to three million children. Mr. Clinton will ask Congress this coming week for nearly three (S3)dollars to fund a five-year program called “America Reads”.The program would fund the (S4)efforts of 20 thousand reading (S5)and it would also give (S6)to help parents help children read by the third grade, or about age eight. Duringhis Saturday radio (S7), the president explained why the program is important:“We need ‘America Reads’ and we need it now. Studies show that if the fourth-graders fail to read well.
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But 40 percent of them still can't read at a basic level.”
Volunteer tutors, who provide community service in exchange for college funding, are being used in literacy and tutoring programs.
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The president says many of the Philadelphia summit's corporate sponsors will recruit tutors.
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解析:
第一個(gè)空格里面,通過(guò)快速掃描第一句話,發(fā)現(xiàn)有美國(guó)總統(tǒng)克林頓Clinton,又有美國(guó)總統(tǒng)福特,卡特,布什(Ford, Garter and Bush),那么后者跟前者相比較,同學(xué)們一定可以感覺(jué)到后者為前總統(tǒng),因此第一個(gè)空格應(yīng)填入former或類似含義的單詞。第二個(gè)空格我們看到后面有一個(gè)介詞,于是能發(fā)現(xiàn)應(yīng)當(dāng)在里面填一個(gè)動(dòng)詞,此時(shí)就需要注意時(shí)態(tài),單復(fù)數(shù)的問(wèn)題??崭袢黠@是一個(gè)量詞,第四個(gè)空格不好預(yù)測(cè),第五個(gè)可以估計(jì)出來(lái)應(yīng)填名詞,此時(shí)應(yīng)注意名詞單復(fù)數(shù)的問(wèn)題,第六同上,第七個(gè)空格技巧性較強(qiáng),需要背景知識(shí),同學(xué)們可以想想,美國(guó)總統(tǒng)一般去電臺(tái)(during his radio______)干什么?此時(shí)蹦入腦海的一定是“電臺(tái)演講,演說(shuō)”,于是應(yīng)當(dāng)是“lecture, presentation, address”等詞匯。后面的長(zhǎng)難句由于過(guò)長(zhǎng),很難提前預(yù)測(cè)判斷,但是在短短的幾十秒鐘的時(shí)間里面, 能預(yù)測(cè)出來(lái)這么多的信息,對(duì)得分會(huì)有很大幫助。
參考答案:
S1 former
S2 aimed
S3 billion
S4 coordination
S5 specialists
S6 grants
S7 address
S8. They're likely to drop out of school and less likely to succeed in life.
S9. The program, initiated by President Clinton,(initiated含義為“首次提出”,此處的插入成分難度很大,如果完全聽(tīng)不懂,就建議在考試時(shí)放棄。) has come under criticism by Congress.(本句中,國(guó)會(huì)“Congress”需要大寫(xiě))
S10. Dozens of(這個(gè)短語(yǔ)用“many”替代也可以)colleges and universities are prepared to send thousands of their students in support of theprogram(寫(xiě)成to support 更加簡(jiǎn)單)