首字母填空讲解
如何做好首字母填空题
考查重点是名词、动词、形容词、副词和代词这几大词类。
✧首字母填空的解题方法和技巧：
◆通读全文，了解大意
短文中虽有一些词未知，但不影响对文章主要内容的理解。在初步阅读中，可以跳过空格，尽量捕捉文章所提供的内容信息，以及语法结构方面的提示，有助于下一步的分析与判断。
◆再读全文，理清脉络
通读全文、掌握大意后，还应逐字逐句地仔细阅读，从文意中找出句与文、句与句、词与句、词与词之间的关系，尤其是一些不易察觉的、隐含的微妙关系，用已知信息去获取未知信息，以便初步确定答案。在答题过程中，同学们可以把有把握的词先填好，逐步减少空格对阅读造成的障碍，然后再仔细推敲剩下的难题。
◆仔细推敲，确保准确
词义判断正确了不等于答题正确，还应从词法、句法、惯用法等方面考虑答案的准确性。如果填的词是名词，首先要考虑到单、复数的问题；如果是动词，要考虑应使用什么时态和语态。
◆注意：填入的词既能使句意通顺，又能做到语法、用词搭配的正确。在初步确定答案
后，一定还要反复考虑，仔细推敲，确保用词准确
◆复读全文，全面检查
答题完毕后复读全文，进行核查是必不可少的。做完题后，一定要认真检查，尽量减少粗心所致的笔误或拼写错误，对有疑问的地方，更要根据文章的内容、上下文的语法结构、逻辑发展进行反复斟酌，这样才能尽量避免失分。
专项题型解析：
例题解析：
Dogs are good pets. They are very f 1 to people and also very beautiful. Most dogs get on very well with c 2 and their parents. Others are good watch-dogs because they cry loudly when a s 3 arrives.
When you buy a dog, an important thing to think about is its s 4 ——buy a small dog if your home is small and a bigger one if y 5 is larger. Many people don’t know how much to feed their dogs. Dogs eat a 6 anything! They like meat, rice and lots of other things. You can buy lots of food m 7 for dogs in shops. Don’t let your dogs eat too much. Feed it only once a day. Always l 8 water for your dog. It can get thirsty very quickly, especially in s 9 .
Remember that dogs need e 10 . You should take it for a walk every day. Don’t keep your dog inside all day.
答案及简析
1. friendly. 人们之所以把狗作为宠物来养，主要是因为它们比较通人性，且对人很友好，能给人们带来欢乐。根据“be very f 1 to people”来分析，此空应填一个形容词，表明狗对人的态度。friend是名词，friendly是形容词，故friendly是正确答案。
2. children. 宠物狗自然是在家中养，它们除了听主人的话以外，与家中的小主人即孩子也是好朋友。由于是指大多数家庭的情况，并受their一词的提示，此处应填“孩子”的复数形式，即children。
3. stranger. 狗的天性是护家。文中的watch-dogs意为“看家狗”，专门指有生人来时发出叫喊的狗。“生人”在英文中即为stranger。
4. size. 这个空略微有点难。一是size一词平时用得较少，二是一般家庭都养小型犬，供狗活动的空间一般不成问题，因此，对狗的体积问题考虑的较少。从后面的句子来看，此处是在谈狗的体积的问题——“如果你的家小，就买一只小狗；如果你的家大，就买一只大狗。”
5. yours. 这是一个名词性物主代词，代替上半句的your home。此句完整的说法应是buy a small dog if your home is small and buy a bigger one if your home is larger. 为避免词的重复使用，在英文句子中常用名词性物主代词代替前面的那个名词。
本文最突出的一个特点就是决大多数需填词的后面都有一句或两句话的内容是对所填词的内容进行补充说明的。因此，在做这种类型的题时，一定要注意分析上下文的内容，进行推理和归纳，正确的理解句意，最后决定出最佳的词及其正确形式。
巩固练习：
There was an old man who loved money very much. He n 1 gave anything to anybody. After some years he became r 2 .
One day he was walking near the river with his friends when he fell into the river. His friends
ran to help him. One of them held out his hand and cried, “Give me your hand, and I’ll p 3 you out！”The rich m 4 head went down the water a 5 then came up again, but he did not g 6 his hand to his friend. Again another of his friends tried, but again the s 7 thing happened.
Then a 8 friend, Nasreddin, said, “Take my hand and I’ll pull you out!” The rich man took his hand and Nasreddin pulled him out of the water.
“You don’t know your friend very w 9 .” Nasreddin said to the others. “When you say ‘Give！’ to him, he d 10 nothing, but when you say ‘Take！’ he always takes.”
➢答案与简析：
守财奴闹出了笑话。文中谈了一次救人的过程，解题时要根据当时的情况特别注意“give”和“take”的妙用。
1. never. 因为love money,所以他决不会“给予”。never意为“从不”。
2. rich. rich是形容词，作表语。由于从不施舍，几年后他就富有了。
3. pull. pull...out意为“把……拉出来”。
4. man’s. head 为名词，要选用man的所有格形式。
5. and. and then...意为“后来又……”。and起并列作用。
6. give. give...to...意为“把……给……”。
7. same. 句意为：又发生了同样的情况。
8. another. another表示不定指的“又一个，另一个”。
9. well. well为副词，know well意思是“很了解”。
10. does. 这句话是引述原话，故用一般现在时。do no thing表示“什么事都不干”。
例题解析
A
