今天我们来分享一下首字母填空秘籍之二：瞻前顾后之上下文关联。话不多说，先上真题：
【2011年静安区一模】
In the United States, when you become rich, you want people to know about it. And even if you arent very rich, you want people to think that you are. that is w___1___ keeping upwith the Joneses is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look asrich as his neighbours.
The expression was f___2___ used in 1913 by ayoung American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very rich neighbourhood o___3___ New York City.
Whenhe saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day.When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.It was like a race, but one could neverf___4___this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could not pay for their new way of life any l___5___ .They moved back to New York City, living in an old flat.
Momand looked around him and noticed that many people did things just to keep up with the rich life style of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories about this. He called it Keeping up with the Jonesesbecause Jones is a very c___6___ name in the United States.Keeping up with the Joneses came to mean keeping up with the rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momands series a___7___ in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.
【2012年浦东新区一模】
EachIndian tribe (部落) had a different language. Many Indians never learned any language e___1___ their own. Do you know how Indians from different tribes talked toeach? They had two ways to talk without sound. One way was by sign language;the other was by signals. Sign language is a way talking by signs. Indians used it when they met strangers. In this way, they could find out w___2___ the stranger was a friend or an enemy./p
Indians usually used signals when they wanted to send messages to someone far away. To make signals, an Indian might use a pony (小马). He might use a blanket. Or he might use smoke, a mirror or fire arrows (箭) .
To signal that he had seen many animals, an Indian r___3___ his pony in a large circle. Sometimes the Indian gave a signal likethis and then went away to hide. This meant that there was danger.
The blanket signal was visible from far away. AnIndian held two c___4___ of a blanket in his hands. Then he began to swing the blanket from side to side in front of him. An Indian could send many different signals with his blanket.
He could also send many signals with a mirror to w___5___ someone or to get the attention of a person far away. But he also used it to send messages in code. Of course, mirrors could be used o___6___ when the Sun was shining. At night, Indians used fire arrows for signaling.
An Indian also sent signals with smoke. He made a small fire of dry wood. Then he put grass or green branches on it. He held a blanket over the fire for a minute. When he r___7___ the blanket from the fire,there was a cloud of smoke. The number of clouds of smoke told his message in code.
Now you can see that Indians didnt need to learn each others language. They could talk to one another by using signals or sign language.
【2013年嘉定区一模】
Peggy Cardona parked her blue Nissan at a supermarket one day in February. Ill come and open the door for you, she told her four-year-old grandson, Ryan Eshleman,in the back s___1___.
The car moved ahead before Cardona could even close the door. Nana, the car is moving! Ryan cried. Cardona jumped into the drivers seat and reached for the handbrake (手闸), her left leg stepping outside, trying to s___2___ the car. She couldntfind the brake, and she got out of the car as it moved down the steep slope towards a pond 20 feet away. Ryan was very f___3___ and cried Nana! as thecar fell into the pond and the water began pouring in.
Help! Cardona cried as the car moved from the bank. My grandson is i___4___!
A supermarket clerk, Clint Fountain, 24, had just stepped outside for a break when he saw a crowd gathering by the pond. He jumped down the slope and dived into the cold water.
Reaching the car, Fountain saw Ryans terrified face just inches above the water. Unlock the door! Fountain shouted. The boys fingers fumbled (未触到) with the lock.
Fountain hit on the back window, but the glass wouldnt break. A___5___ man Dick McClung dived in and handed him a hammer. Grabbing it, Fountain told the boy to move aside, and broke the glass. His hands went through the broken window in the black water and pulled the boy out. At that moment the last flash of the blue car d___6___ under the water.
Climb onto my back, Fountain said. Ryan did so, but the tired man couldnt swim back.McClung, still beside them in the water, picked up Ryan and swam to the bank s___7___. Later, doctors found Ryan had got only a little hypothermia (体温过低).
They risked their lives to save Ryan, Cardona said of the men. I thank God every day for them.
上下文关联是首字母填空里非常重要的技巧，在做题的过程中务必把得出答案相关的依据给标注出来哦！便于后期与解析比对
Demon老师首字母秘诀分享【二】：上下文关联答案
【2013年嘉定区一模】
Peggy Cardona parked her blue Nissan at a supermarket one day in February. Ill come and open the door for you, she told her four-year-old grandson, Ryan Eshleman,in the back s___1___.
The car moved ahead before Cardona could even close the door. Nana, the car is moving! Ryan cried. Cardona jumped into the drivers seat and reached for the handbrake (手闸), her left leg stepping outside, trying to s___2___ the car. She couldntfind the brake, and she got out of the car as it moved down the steep slope towards a pond 20 feet away. Ryan was very f___3___ and cried Nana! as thecar fell into the pond and the water began pouring in.
Help! Cardona cried as the car moved from the bank. My grandson is i___4___!
A supermarket clerk, Clint Fountain, 24, had just stepped outside for a break when he saw a crowd gathering by the pond. He jumped down the slope and dived into the cold water.
Reaching the car, Fountain saw Ryans terrified face just inches above the water. Unlock the door! Fountain shouted. The boys fingers fumbled (未触到) with the lock.
Fountain hit on the back window, but the glass wouldnt break. A___5___ man Dick McClung dived in and handed him a hammer. Grabbing it, Fountain told the boy to move aside, and broke the glass. His hands went through the broken window in the black water and pulled the boy out. At that moment the last flash of the blue car d___6___ under the water.
Climb onto my back, Fountain said. Ryan did so, but the tired man couldnt swim back.McClung, still beside them in the water, picked up Ryan and swam to the bank s___7___. Later, doctors found Ryan had got only a little hypothermia (体温过低).
They risked their lives to save Ryan, Cardona said of the men. I thank God every day for them.
上下文关联是首字母填空里非常重要的技巧，在做题的过程中务必把得出答案相关的依据给标注出来哦！便于后期与解析比对
Demon老师首字母秘诀分享【二】：上下文关联答案