“语法填空”这种无选择项的填空题由于没有干扰项有利于考生更好地发挥其英语水平,并从浩瀚的选择题的题海中解脱出来。笔者用报刊上“科学生活”栏目中的文章作为语法填空题来训练学生,要求学生在规定的时间内整体理解文章的大意后通过释义、转换、改写和分析句子结构等方法完成设计的填空练习。以下是笔者在指导学生阅读《二十一世纪学生英文报》高三版第302期“Lectures on iPod”这篇文章前所设计的填空练习。
Nowadays, students who don’t understand the lecture in class have ____ (1) second chance. ____ (2) class, they can pipe the lecture to their laptops or MP3 players and hear it again ____ (3) looking at the slides of the talk. The lectures ____ (4 store) on a server for students to retrieve ____ (5) and replay the content on the bus ride home. Another advantage is ____ (6) the systems are easy to operate. To capture the lectures, the speaker just turns on a mike and pushes a button to start the recording.
Long before audio files, students used to take notes. But ____ (7) rapid writers may fall behind in fast-spoken, highly detailed lectures. The new technology may be ____ (8) great help to those in large lecture classes. Not ____ (9 have) to review the whole lecture, students ____ (10) type in key words on their computer, do a Google-like search, and open the lecture at that point.
To enrich the students’ school life, our school held the annual art week in the first week of December. There were various activities including singing, dancing on the stage, a game of tug-of-war on the playground and so on. Besides, the students put wastepaper to artistic use by coloring and crafting some things, such as flowers, cards, etc. The most attractive part of the art week was that some students made a map of China with leaves. Therefore, the students benefitted a lot from these activities as some of them showed their hidden talents by singing, dancing, drawing and above all, they freed themselves from endless homework and exams.