三、短文填空。
阅读下面短文，在空白处填入一个适当的单词或用括号内单词的正确形式填空。
When talking about the painters I like, I would have to say that Wu Guanzhong is my favorite. His painting style is different
31. other painters'.
Wu Guanzhong's painting style
32. (have) both Western and Chinese painting traditions. However, his style
33. (be) also very modern: many of his paintings are not only very simple,
34. also very beautiful.
Wu Guanzhong is good at 35. (use) white space. My favorite painting is Zhou Village. In the painting, he used this skill very 36. (good). Like many of his other 37. (work), it's very classic.
Wu used black strokes (笔画) and white space 38. (draw) traditional Chinese buildings in a water town. There is something beautiful and strange about the whitewashed (粉饰的) 39. (house) in the painting: they rise up like mountains. The river is in the foreground (前景), and at 40. (it) center is a small bridge. When you look at the painting, it seems that you can cross the bridge and enter another world.

31. from
32. has
33. is
34. but
35. using
36. well
37. works
38. to draw
39. houses
40. its

【分析】
本题为英语短文填空题，考查固定搭配、动词时态、词性转换、连词用法等知识点。解题思路：先通读短文理解主旨，再逐个分析每个空格的语法结构、固定搭配或语境要求，结合括号内单词的适当形式或上下文逻辑确定答案。
【解析】
31. 考查固定搭配。be different from是固定短语，意为“与……不同”，故填from。
32. 考查动词时态和主谓一致。主语Wu Guanzhong's painting style为第三人称单数，全文用一般现在时，谓语动词用have的第三人称单数形式has。
33. 考查be动词。主语his style是第三人称单数，一般现在时，be动词用is。
34. 考查固定连词。not only...but also是固定搭配，意为“不但……而且……”，连接并列成分，故填but。
35. 考查非谓语动词。be good at是介词短语，后接动词动名词形式，故use变为using。
36. 考查词性转换。此处修饰动词used，需用副词，good的副词形式为well。
37. 考查名词复数。many of后接可数名词复数，work表示“作品”时为可数名词，复数形式是works。
38. 考查非谓语动词。use sth to do sth是固定用法，意为“用某物做某事”，故填to draw。
39. 考查名词复数。根据语境，画中的房子不止一个，故用house的复数形式houses。
40. 考查物主代词。此处修饰名词center，需用形容词性物主代词，it的形容词性物主代词是its。
【答案】
31. from
32. has
33. is
34. but
35. using
36. well
37. works
38. to draw
39. houses
40. its
【知识点】
固定搭配、动词形式变化、词性转换
【点评】
本题为初中英语常见的短文填空题，侧重考查基础语法和固定搭配，难度适中，需要学生掌握常见短语及词性变化规则。
【难度系数】
0.6