Question

【题目】I 【1】 (edit) a photo caption when I saw the phrase “Smith said his kids favorite part of the event was the snow cone truck.” I walked over to 【2】 student photographer who wrote the caption and asked whether Mr. Smith had one child or many.

The photographer wanted to know why. The word “kid” needed an apostrophe, I replied, and where I put that punctuation mark would change the size of Mr. Smith’s family.

“Wow,” the photographer said. “One punctuation mark can make a big 【3】(differ).”

This exchange isn’t made up. And the fact that it happened in the same month as National Punctuation Day—which is Sept. 24— 【4】(emphasize) the importance of proper use of punctuation.

For National Punctuation Day, my goal is 【5】 (promote) proper use of commas, semicolons and so on 【6】 my good example. I will use punctuation in all text 【7】 (message), never leaving out periods on Twitter.

Jeff Rubin, who founded National Punctuation Day in 2004, wrote that he started National Punctuation Day because of concern about 【8】(decline) language skills. He noted that almost 60 percent of incoming college freshmen needed remedial(补救的) English classes 【9】 (urgent).

Information like that is 【10】 our anger should be focused. So classroom is a great place to celebrate National Punctuation Day.

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】was editing

【2】the

【3】difference

【4】emphasizes

【5】to promote

【6】through/by

【7】messages

【8】declining

【9】urgently

【10】where

【解析】一位学生摄影师在写照片标题时，本应用他的“孩子们”时却没有加双引号造成歧义，本文作者以这个例子说明准确使用标点的重要性。

【1】考查动词时态。句意：我正在编辑照片标题，这是我看到了一句话。根据when I saw the phrase可以得知，当时正在做，用过去进行时。故填was editing。

【2】考查冠词。句意：我走到那个写照片标题的学生摄影师身边。有定语从句限定，表示特指用定冠词the，故填the。

【3】考查名词。句意：一个标点符号就能产生巨大的变化。make a difference“有影响，起作用”，冠词后用名词，故填difference。

【4】考查动词时态。句意：9月24日是国家标点日，它强调了正确使用标点的重要性。主语是“国家标点日”，客观事实用一般现在时，谓语动词用单数形式，故填emphasizes。

【5】考查非谓语动词。句意：我的目标是促进逗号，分号等等的使用。不定式作表语，解释或说明主语的具体内容，故填to promote。

【6】考查介词。句意：我想通过这个例子促进大家对标点符号的正确使用。through my good example，“通过”是介词，也可以用by，故填through/by。

【7】考查名词。句意：我会在所有文本上用标点符号，不遗漏句号。all修饰名词复数形式，故填messages。

【8】考查动名词。句意：Jeff Rubin担心语言技能下降所以开创了国家标点日。concern about doing“关注做某事”，介词后用名词或动名词形式，故填declining。

【9】考查副词。句意：他指出60%的大一新生急切需要补习英语课程。副词修饰动词，故填urgently。

【10】考查关系副词。句意：这样的信息是我们应该感到愤怒的地方。表语从句中缺少地点状语，故填where。