完形填空不仅考查学生对词汇、语法等基础知识的综合运用能力，而且考查学生的逻辑推理和篇章结构理解能力。它的命题原则是“以实词为主，虚词为辅，突出词汇语境化”。该题型难度大，区分度高，是历年高考得分率较低的题型。下面结合历年上海高考完形填空题对完形填空题的解题策略进行分析，希望对广大学子有所裨益。
一、利用文章首句信息解题
完形填空首先考查考生对文章的理解能力。因此在做完形填空时，应把它作为一个意思连贯、结构完整的语篇。完形填空首句甚至前几句话往往是完整的，为考生提供足够的信息去了解文章的思路，而且它提供的信息可以帮助考生判断全文大意甚至全文主题。掌握好了首句，有助于抓住文章主旨，通过上下文确定文章所要前进的方向。
【例】The term home schooling means educating children at home or in places other
than a normal setting such as a public or private school. There are many reasons why
parents choose home schooling for their children. Some parents ... Still other parents
choose this type of 48 for religious reasons.（2006年上海春考）
48.A.activity cation C.behavior D.belief
【解析】通过选文的首句我们就不难推断：选文讲的是与家庭教育（home schooling）有关的问题。home schooling 涵义是什么？人们为什么要选择home schooling？这正是后面文章要讲的。而随后命题者所给第一个空格正是围绕home schooling来设置的，考生只要把握好了文章首句就可以轻松地选择B（education）。
高三英语专题：完形填空
完形填空这一题型重点考察考生对语境意义的理解以及常用的一些固定搭配。考察实词（包括名词、动词、形容词等）较多，因此，突破这一题型的方法重在精讲精练，让考生积累一些固定搭配以及一些常用的实词的用法。
完形填空精讲精练（20篇上）
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～20各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中选出最佳选项。
（一）
A Strange Greeting, a True Feeling Last week I was invited to a doctor’s meeting at
the Ruth hospital for incurables. In one of the wards a patient, an old man, got up
shakily from his bed and moved towards me. I could see that he hadn't long to 1 ,
but he came up to me and placed his right foot close mine on the floor.
“Frank！” I cried in astonishment. He couldn’t 2 , as I knew, but all the
time 3 his foot against mine.
My 4 raced back more than thirty years to the 5 days of 1941, when I
was a student in London. The 6 was an air-raid shelter, in which I and about
hundred other people slept every night. Two of the regulars were Mrs. West and her
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One morning Raman, a true master of the art of archery (箭术), invited his favorite student to
watch a display of his skill. The student had 36 this more than a hundred times before, but he still
obeyed his 37.
Together, they went into a nearby wood and reached a tall 38. Raman picked a rose flower
and 39 it on one of the branches of the tree. He 40 opened his bag and took out three objects.
his 41, an arrow and a white handkerchief.
Raman stood one hundred paces from the spot where he had placed the 42. Facing his target,
he 43 his student to blindfold (蒙住眼睛) him with the handkerchief. The student did as his
teacher 44.
“How often have you seen me practice the sport of archery?” Raman asked him 45.
“Every day,” replied his student. “And you have 46 managed to hit the rose from three hundred
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People of Burlington are being disturbed by the sound of bells. Four students from Burlington
College of Higher Education are in the bell tower of the 36 and have made up their minds to
ring the bells nonstop for two weeks as a protest（抗议）against heavy trucks(卡车) which
run 37 through the narrow High Street.
“They not only make it 38 to sleep at night, but they are 39 damage to our houses and shops
of historical interest,” said John Norris, one of the protesters.
“ 40 we must have these noisy trucks on the roads,” said Jean Lacey, a biology student，“why
don’t they build a new road that goes 41 the town？Burlington isn’t much more than
a 42 village．Its streets were never meant for heavy traffic．”
Harry Fields also studying 43 said they wanted to make as much 44 as possible to force
