人教高考英语二轮复习：生活常识和文化背景完形填空学案（含答案）.docx

生活常识和文化背景
解答完形填空，有时文章中提供的信息还不够，考生的英语语言知识和有关世界的知识，都发挥着重要的作用。当对语言的把握不很准确时，可充分利用自己已掌握的文化背景和生活常识，巧妙地加以运用，能够根据主题猜测细节，体会文章表达的氛围。这样将会大大简化复杂的分析与判断过程，节省宝贵时间，顺利地沿作者的思路阅读下去。
[典例1] I said that I didn’t know how to get back into town. In silence, he started driving. I ran back to my car and drove behind him. Finally I rcognized a familiar street. As I turned to head home, the car disappeared. Then I _____my driveway when the warning light for my gas tank turned on.
A. pulled into B. drove away C. ran across D. fount out
影响这个题目正确作答的关键是对空后面的driveway的含义的理解，driveay指的是the hard area or road between your house and the street，(美) (从建筑物、车库等通至道路的) 私用车道,车道( (英)drive)。而中国家庭大多数是不存在这样的一个driveway的。本句意思是当邮箱的耗油警示灯亮起的时候，我也到家了，所以选pull into.正确答案为A.
[典例2] Salina Joe began to ____ when she was one-year old.
A. say B. cry C. sing D. talk
根据常识判断，婴儿在一岁的时候应该是开始学说话，而不是学哭或学唱歌，故答案只能在A、D之间选出。又因为say是及物动词，其后面需接宾语，而talk是不及物动词，其后不需要接宾语，故正确答案为D。
[典例3] Every morning she would give him breakfast in bed and bring him the paper to _____
A. check B. read C. keep D. sign 外国人早上有读报的****惯，题中的paper指的是报纸，这是理解本文细节的关键，有了这些文化背景知识，可迅速推断出正确答案为B。
[典例4] We arrived in Spain for the first time a few weeks ago. I decided to buy a car because we had sold the one we had in England. ... But when I turned into the main road I suddenly s