两篇都覆盖了高考语法填空的核心考点矩阵:
非谓语动词:using / to create / preparing
被动语态:were found / might be made
副词变形:gradually
定语从句:who …
介词搭配:eat with their hands
l取材不同 :TEXT 1以大禹传说和考古证据(殷墟),说明筷子起源,是纵向讲历史;Text 2以推测和孔子思想进行说明,横向讲文化。
l在设空上,Text 2更加考查理解逻辑和语法决策(69空)
教学建议:基于Text 1 和 Text 2的文本特征, 进行语法填空练习和群文对比;再播放以下视频,使学生从视听角度 了解筷子文化,体会中华文化如何走出去。
第二节语法填空(共10小题;每小题1.5分,满分15分)
阅读下面短文, 在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
The use of chopsticks has been a big part of Chinese food culture for 56(century). When cooking food or picking it up, a pair of chopsticks always comes in handy.
So how did chopsticks come into being? It’s said that Dayu, a legendary ruler of ancient China th s57helped his people fight floods, invented them. In those days, people ate only 58h stheir hands. But Dayu was busy 59(prepare)for flood control work and often ate in the wild.
Most of the time, he was in a hurry to deal with an 60(emergent) and didn’t want to wait to eat. But the meat cooked in the pot was too hot to pick up by using his hands. So one day Dayu picked up some twigs (小树枝)61(help)him hold the meat. Later the twigs 62hs(gradual)became the chopsticks we know today.
But of course, this is just a story. The 63(early)chopsticks that archaeologists have found so far are more than 3,000 years old, dating back to the Shang Dynasty. The six bronze chopsticks h s64(find)in Yinxu, or the Ruins of Yin, one of China’s oldest archaeological sites, in Anyang, Henan province.
Now, chopsticks have become 65symbol of Chinese culture.
Test 2: 2016年新课标Ⅲ卷 【底色为Grace讲评笔记】
In much of Asia, especially the so-called “rice bowl” cultures of China, Japan, Korea,61Vietnam, food is usually eaten with chopsticks.
Chopsticks are usually two long, thin pieces of wood or bamboo. They can also be made of plastic, animal bone or metal. Sometimes chopsticks are quite artistic. Truly elegant chopsticks might 62(make) of gold and silver with Chinese characters. Skilled workers also combinevarious hardwoods and metal63(create) special designs.
The Chinese have used chopsticks for five thousand years. People probably cooked their food in large pots, __64__ (use) twigs(树枝) to remove it. Over time, 65the population grew, people began cutting food into small pieces so it would cook more quickly. Food in small pieces could be eaten easily with twigs which __66__ (gradual) turned into chopsticks.
Some people think that the great Chinese scholar Confucius, 67lived from roughly 551 to 479 B.C., influenced the 68(develop) of chopsticks. Confucius believed knives would remind people of killings and __69__ (be) too violent for use at the table.【长难句分析】
Chopsticks are not used everywhere in Asia. In India, for example, most people traditionally eat __70__ their hands.
