孩子一个人在家，能看电视、打游戏，可“谁做饭”成了难题——这道初三短文填词就从这个生活场景切入，考的不只是词义，还有助动词后原形、like doing、动名词作主语、复合形容词、不定式、转折连词等中考常客。很多同学空都会填，但一遇到“like后面用watch还是watching”“learn后面用do还是to do”就含糊。
Your parents go to work and you are at home alone. Do you 1______ (think) it’s great?
Cao Fan says “Sure”. “I can do my favorite things, like 2______ (watch) TV and 3______ (play) computer games. But who makes food for me?” the 4______ (fourteen) boy says. “I can have instant noodles, but that’s not healthy. I think many 5______ my classmates are the same. Our 6______ (parent) do all the things for us at home.”
Students 7______ (need) to learn some life skills. Making chicken is difficult for you, but 8______ (cook) tomatoes and eggs is easy. Sweaters are big for you to wash, 9______ socks and T-shirts are small. You can’t tidy the big house. So, how about your room? You see, there are lots of things we can learn 10______ (do).
The winter holiday is a good time 11______ (start). Come on! Try 12______ (learn) to do something.
1. think（助动词 do 后用动词原形）
2. watching（like doing sth. 喜欢做某事）
3. playing（与 watching 并列，用 -ing 形式）
4. fourteen-year-old（复合形容词“14岁的”，修饰 boy）
5. of（many of my classmates 我的许多同学）
6. parents（父母两人，用复数）
7. need（主语 students 复数，一般现在时用原形）
8. cooking（动名词作主语）
9. but（前后转折：毛衣太大难洗，但袜子和T恤小）
10. to do（learn to do sth. 学会做某事）
11. to start（a good time to do sth. 做某事的好时机）
12. to learn（try to do sth. 努力/试着去做某事）
别让孩子只背单词，也别一上来刷套卷。先用这种生活化小短文练“语法+独立能力”，既补英语又练生活技能。把文章转给孩子做一遍，对答案时重点问：第2空为什么不是watch？第8空为什么用cooking？第12空try to learn和try learning有什么不同？欢迎留言说说孩子错得最多的空，我挑典型再写精讲。
