2024年苏州中考英语真题讲解 | 语法填空

When cultures meet, not just their language or clothing may be different. Often their food will be ____44____ (great) different too. People on both sides can discover new chances for trading. This text ____45____ (tell) how some common food plants spread around the world.

As early as 5, 000 BC, ____46____ (potato) were traded in South America as a valuable type of food. They were ____47____ (take) to Europe in the 1500s and their use soon spread across it. Tea drinking started in China. By the early 1600s, traders had begun to ship tea from China to Europe. 

Tea drinking soon ____48____ (become) fashionable there but because ____49____ its high price, it remained a drink for the wealthy. Sugar cane (甘蔗) was first used to produce ____50____ kind of sweet juice over 8, 000 years ago on the island of New Guinea. Its use soon spread across South East Asia and then to the ____51____ (wide) world.

Cocoa was used to make a cold, spicy drink in Central America over 3, 000 years ago. The Europeans brought it back with ____52____ (they) in the 1520s and added sugar to make the sweet, hot drink we know today. ____53____ it’s expensive, many people still love it.

解析：

44题：词性转化（形容词变副词）

Often their food will be ____44____ (great) different too. 

be different，great起修饰作用，所以用greatly

45题：动词 谓语

This text ____45____ (tell) how some common food plants spread around the world.

从how开始是从句，所以前面是主句，主句缺谓语，考虑时态主被动，文章讲述所以是主动，看已知动词用一般现在，所以用tells

46题：名词 复数

As early as 5, 000 BC, ____46____ (potato) were traded in South America as a valuable type of food. 

potato名词，名词基本考察单复数，所有格，根据were也知道用复数，注意potato复数是potatoes

47题：动词 谓语

They were ____47____ (take) to Europe in the 1500s and their use soon spread across it.

and连接2句话，前句缺少谓语，they指代potatoes，与take是被动关系，根据上一句话用一般过去，所以是were taken，were有了所以用taken 时态的考察一般不会让分开写

48题：动词 谓语

49题：介词

Tea drinking soon ____48____ (become) fashionable there but because ____49____ its high price, it remained a drink for the wealthy.

48题but连接2句话，前句缺少谓语，根据上文知道是过去时，所以用became

49题无提示，空格后是短语，先考虑冠词，介词，有限定词its所以用介词，结合because，所以用of

50题：冠词

Sugar cane (甘蔗) was first used to produce ____50____ kind of sweet juice over 8, 000 years ago on the island of New Guinea.

无提示，空格后是短语，上一题用了介词所以很明显用冠词 a/an, the，结合 kind of sweet juice，所以用a

51题：形容词比较级

Its use soon spread across South East Asia and then to the ____51____ (wide) world.

44题考过形容词变副词，又因为基本不会出现原词照抄一遍的情况，剩下的就是变比较级最高级，所以用wider

52题：人称代词

The Europeans brought it back with ____52____ (they) in the 1520s and added sugar to make the sweet, hot drink we know today. 

52题介词后加宾格，所以用them，这里可能会有人想themselves行不行？语法上说得通，但宾格更普通，如He brought books with him.

53题：连词

____53____ it’s expensive, many people still love it.

空格后是句子，考从句连词，两句话都是完整句就先考虑连词吧，连词的话就考虑两句话的逻辑关系，虽然贵，但是很多人还是喜欢。所以用Although/Though