五、(2025·镇江句容期中)首字母填空
在英国，DIY极为盛行，在商店、超市随处可见DIY用品。如果家中物件需修理，像刷墙、装新架子等，人们都喜欢亲自动手，还乐于和朋友分享经历，既享受乐趣又能省钱。不过，DIY虽好，若不小心也有危险，一起来看看需要注意的地方。
词数: 178 体裁: 说明文 核心素养: 思维品质
话题: DIY 难度: 中 建议用时: 5分钟
DIY is quite popular in the UK. Lots of stores and supermarkets sell DIY things. If people need to 1. f something around their homes, such as 2. p the walls or putting up a new shelf, they will do the jobs 3. t. They share DIY stories with their friends. More and more people find the 4. j of DIY. Sometimes people also do DIY to save money.
Nowadays, many people don't have 5. e money to buy a big house. They are looking at how they can make their house better 6. w spending a lot of money. It is not 7. s that DIY is so popular.
However, DIY can be dangerous if you are 8. c. It's reported that in just one year over 230,000 people were hurt when doing DIY in the UK. DIY can bring us lots of fun, but it is not always 9. a easy as it is thought to be if we do something difficult. Maybe factories should make easier and 10. s things for us to DIY.

1. fix 2. painting 3. themselves 4. joy 5. enough 6. without 7. surprising 8. careless 9. as 10. safer

【分析】
做首字母填空时，需先通读全文把握DIY在英国流行的主旨，再逐句分析每个空格的语境、词性要求，结合首字母提示，考虑词汇的正确形式（如动名词、反身代词、比较级等），同时关注固定搭配和上下文逻辑，确保所填单词符合语法与语义。
【解析】
1. 结合前文“家中物件需修理”，此处表示“修理”，need to后接动词原形，故填fix；
2. such as后接动名词，“刷墙”对应paint的动名词形式，故填painting；
3. 表示“亲自动手”，用反身代词themselves，故填themselves；
4. 结合语境“享受DIY的乐趣”，填名词joy，故填joy；
5. 修饰名词money，结合“没有足够的钱买大房子”，填形容词enough，故填enough；
6. 结合“不花很多钱让房子更好”，用介词without表示“不，没有”，故填without；
7. 结合前文解释DIY流行的原因，此处表示“不奇怪”，填形容词surprising，故填surprising；
8. 结合“DIY危险”，原因是“不小心”，填形容词careless，故填careless；
9. 考查固定结构as...as，表示“和……一样”，故填as；
10. 与easier并列，修饰things，结合语境“更安全的”，填形容词比较级safer，故填safer。
【答案】
1. fix 2. painting 3. themselves 4. joy 5. enough 6. without 7. surprising 8. careless 9. as 10. safer
【知识点】
首字母填空、动词形式变化、固定搭配
【点评】
本题围绕DIY话题设置首字母填空，考查学生对语境的理解、词汇运用及语法知识的掌握，需结合上下文逻辑和固定搭配准确填词，难度适中。
【难度系数】
0.6