Ⅷ.选词填空
从方框中选择适当的单词或短语并用其适当形式填空，每个单词或短语限用一次。
little, important, it, one, foot, material, comfort, choose, show, depend on
文化意识 文化鉴赏 Clothing takes the first place in people's basic needs for “clothing, food, housing and transportation”. We can see clothing's 1 for ancient people from it. Shoes, in turn, hold a high position in clothing.
For the common people in ancient times, clogs and straw sandals cost much 2 than shoes made of cloth or leather, so they were highly popular for quite a long time. In fact, they both had their disadvantages—straw sandals could hurt people's 3 after long walks, while clogs were inconvenient for travels.
Liu Bei, a great ruler in the Three Kingdoms Period, made a living by selling straw sandals at 4. In Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Cao laughed at Liu as “nobody who just makes straw sandals”. It 5 straw sandals were really worthless then, and that those who sold them were looked down upon.
The ancient people mostly 6 walking, so owning comfortable, cheap and durable(耐磨的) shoes was their dream. Ideas about other possible(可能的) 7 for shoes came up one after another in history. And you can always believe in our ancestors' final 8—cloth. Cloth shoes were breathable, 9 and cheap. So, they were accepted by the public soon.
The most fascinating part of cloth shoes is their thousand-layer soles(千层底). Tangchang, a town in Chengdu, is well-known for 10 cloth shoes with thousand-layer soles. In 2018, the government even added Tangchang cloth shoes to the intangible cultural heritage list of Sichuan Province.
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1. importance 2. less 3. feet 4. first 5. showed 6. depended on 7. materials 8. choice 9. comfortable 10. its

【分析】
本题为英语选词填空题，解题思路为：①通读全文，理解文章关于古代鞋履文化的主旨大意；②逐个分析每个空格所在句子，结合语境判断空格处所需的词性、词义；③从方框给出的单词中选择合适的词，根据语法规则（如名词单复数、动词时态、形容词比较级、固定搭配等）调整单词的适当形式；④验证所填内容是否符合上下文逻辑和语法要求。
【解析】
1. 空格前为名词所有格clothing's，需填名词，important的名词形式为importance，意为“重要性”，符合语境“服装在古代的重要性”。
2. 句中出现than，需用形容词比较级，little的比较级为less，修饰动词cost，表示“花费更少”，符合“比布或皮革鞋花费少”的语境。
3. 此处表示“磨伤人们的脚”，foot的复数形式为feet，用复数符合常识，故填feet。
4. 固定短语at first意为“起初，起先”，符合“刘备起初靠卖草鞋谋生”的语境，one的序数词为first。
5. 句子描述过去的情况，需用一般过去时，show的过去式为showed，意为“表明”，符合语境“这表明当时草鞋不值钱”。
6. 固定短语depend on意为“依赖，依靠”，结合上下文时态（过去时），depend的过去式为depended on，符合“古人大多依赖步行”的语境。
7. 此处表示“其他可能的鞋类材料”，material为可数名词，需用复数形式materials，符合语境。
8. 空格前为形容词final，需填名词，choose的名词形式为choice，意为“选择”，符合“祖先的最终选择是布”的语境。
9. 此处需填形容词，与breathable（透气的）并列描述布鞋的特点，comfort的形容词形式为comfortable，意为“舒适的”，符合语境。
10. 空格后为名词短语cloth shoes，需填形容词性物主代词，指代Tangchang，it的形容词性物主代词为its，符合语境“唐昌的千层底布鞋”。
【答案】
1. importance 2. less 3. feet 4. first 5. showed 6. depended on 7. materials 8. choice 9. comfortable 10. its
【知识点】
英语词汇适当形式填空、名词的数、形容词比较级
【点评】
本题结合古代鞋履文化的语境，考查学生对英语词汇的词义、词性及形式变化的掌握，同时涉及固定短语和语法规则的运用，能有效检验学生的语言综合运用能力。
【难度系数】
0.5