四、词汇运用(每小题1分,满分10分)
A)根据所给汉语或首字母提示写出单词。
41. This may sound . However, a walk in the rain can not only be fun, but it can also clear the mind.
42. The company says it will stop cars in 2026 because of continuous losses.
43. I enjoy listening to and analyzing different viewpoints before f my own ideas.
44. Even if people wash fruit and vegetables s times, there are still some chemicals left on them.
45. Farmers welcome the rainy seasons, but if there is too much rain, the f will destroy the crops.
B)用方框中所给单词的适当形式填空。
cloud check north make thousand
Some popular places to visit are built by people. Other famous places are created by nature. For example, in the 46. part of the United States, there was a famous rock on a high mountain that looked just like an old man. He had lots of hair, a big nose, and a beard. People called him "The Old Man of the Mountain" and every year 47. of people came to visit him. Scientists think that the stone face had been there for about 17,000 years.
In May 2003, there was very bad weather near the Old Man of the Mountain. There were very high winds and the temperature was very cold. The sky was so 48. that people couldn't see the stone face for many days.
As soon as the storm was over, people discovered that he was seriously damaged. The stones that 49. his face sank down the mountain. A number of scientists climbed up 50. if they could repair the stone face, but they had to give up. The damage from the weather was just too bad.

A)41. strange 42. producing 43. forming 44. several
45. flood/floods
B)46. northern 47. thousands 48. cloudy 49. made 50. to check

【分析】
这道词汇运用题分为A、B两个模块，解题时可以分两步走：① 针对A部分的提示填空：先通读完整句子梳理逻辑关系，结合句中给出的转折、因果等提示判断空格所需的词义，再根据空格前的搭配（比如系动词后接形容词、介词后接动名词等）确定单词的正确形式；② 针对B部分的选词填空：先通读整篇短文把握文章大意，再逐一匹配方框内的备选词，结合空格处的词性需求、时态语态、固定搭配对单词做正确变形，最后代入通读检查逻辑是否通顺。
【解析】
A)
41. 句意为“这听起来可能很奇怪。然而，在雨中散步不仅有趣，还能清醒头脑”，sound为系动词后接形容词，结合后文的转折逻辑，此处表达“奇怪的”含义，填strange。
42. 句意为“这家公司表示由于持续亏损，将在2026年停止生产汽车”，固定搭配stop doing sth.表示“停止做某事”，“生产汽车”为produce cars，变形后填producing。
43. 句意为“在形成我自己的想法之前，我喜欢倾听和分析不同的观点”，before在此处为介词，后接动名词，结合首字母f和“形成自己的观点”的含义，填forming。
44. 句意为“即使人们把水果和蔬菜洗好几次，上面仍然残留一些化学物质”，结合首字母s和“几次”的含义，修饰可数名词复数times，填several。
45. 句意为“农民欢迎雨季，但是如果雨太多，洪水会毁掉庄稼”，结合首字母f和大雨带来的灾害的语境，“洪水”可填单数或复数形式，即flood/floods。
B)
46. 句意为“比如，在美国的北部地区，高山上有一块很像老人的著名岩石”，空格后为名词part，需用形容词修饰，north的形容词形式为northern，表示“北部的”，填northern。
47. 句意为“每年成千上万的人来参观它”，固定搭配thousands of表示“成千上万的”，填thousands。
48. 句意为“天阴得很厉害，人们好几天都看不到那张石脸”，be动词后接形容词作表语，cloud的形容词形式cloudy表示“多云的，阴天的”，填cloudy。
49. 句意为“构成他脸的那些石头从山上掉了下去”，描述过去发生的事件，时态为一般过去时，make的过去式为made，填made。
50. 句意为“很多科学家爬上去查看是否能修复石脸，但是他们不得不放弃”，此处用动词不定式作目的状语，表示爬上山的目的是查看修复可能性，填to check。
【答案】
A)41. strange 42. producing 43. forming 44. several 45. flood/floods
B)46. northern 47. thousands 48. cloudy 49. made 50. to check
【知识点】
1. 固定短语搭配
2. 词性转换
3. 非谓语动词用法
【点评】
本题是初中英语典型的词汇运用题型，兼顾词义理解和词形变形的考查，既需要学生结合上下文语境推断词义，也要求学生熟练掌握各类词形变化规则、常用固定搭配，易错点集中在介词后动名词变形、不定式作目的状语的用法，整体能有效检验学生的词汇综合运用能力。
【难度系数】
0.6