三、阅读短文,从方框中选择适当的词并用其正确形式填空,使短文通顺、意思完整。每词限用一次。
final know happy be talk kid interest play fear they
I came home after school and threw my volleyball down on the floor. I tried out for the school volleyball team, but I didn’t make it. As a result, I felt 1. . I hardly wanted 2. to anyone, and everything seemed awful. 3. , my mother sent me to my uncle.
Later on, over cookies and tea, my uncle said, “Tommy, I 4. proud of you for trying out. Do you 5. what I do? Every year, I improve myself by trying one new thing—a new sport, a new book or a new hobby.”
It sounded 6. . I decided to try something new. I took a different way from my usual one. I was walking by a school when I found that some 7. were playing baseball. I thought about what my uncle had said, so I got over the 8. and came over to the kids. It took some courage (勇气), but soon I started enjoying myself playing with 9. .
I found the happiness because I tried something new. From then on, I played with those kids every week. A year later, I became a player on our school baseball team. I still have fun 10. baseball with my friends every week.

1. unhappy 2. to talk 3. Finally 4. am 5. know 6. interesting 7. kids 8. fear 9. them 10. playing

【分析】
本题是英语选词填空题，解题思路为：1. 通读全文，理解短文主旨（作者落选排球队后情绪低落，在叔叔鼓励下尝试新事物，最终找到快乐并加入棒球队）；2. 结合方框给出的10个备选词，根据每个空的语境、语法规则（词性、时态、固定搭配、非谓语动词等），选择合适的词并进行正确形式的变形；3. 注意每词限用一次，确保所选词汇符合上下文逻辑。
【解析】
1. 空前是系动词felt，需形容词作表语，结合前文“没选上排球队”的语境，应填happy的反义词unhappy；
2. 固定搭配want to do sth，故talk需变为不定式to talk；
3. 此处需副词修饰整个句子，final的副词形式为Finally，句首大写；
4. 固定搭配be proud of，主语为I，一般现在时，be动词用am；
5. 助动词Do后接动词原形，结合句意“你知道我做什么吗”，填know；
6. 系动词sounded后需形容词，修饰“尝试新事物”这件事，用interest的形容词interesting；
7. some后接可数名词复数，kid的复数为kids；
8. 固定搭配get over the fear（克服恐惧），符合语境；
9. 介词with后接宾格代词，they的宾格为them，指代前文的kids；
10. 固定搭配have fun doing sth，故play变为playing。
【答案】
1. unhappy 2. to talk 3. Finally 4. am 5. know 6. interesting 7. kids 8. fear 9. them 10. playing
【知识点】
词汇运用、词性转换、固定搭配
【点评】
本题考查英语词汇在语境中的运用，涉及词性变化、固定搭配、语法结构等知识点，要求学生结合上下文逻辑准确选择并变形词汇，是初中英语基础题型，侧重考查学生的语言运用能力。
【难度系数】
0.4