阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。【2019•山东淄博】Ernes...

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阅读下面短文，在空白处填入适当的内容(不多于3个单词)或括号内单词的正确形式。

【2019 • 山东淄博】Ernest Hemingway, the son of a doctor and a music teacher, was born in 1899 in Oak Park, Illinois. Hemingway's father___47___(teach) him early on how to hunt and fish，two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life. Instead of ___48___(go) to college, Hemingway became a reporter for the Kansas City Star.

Later, in Europe, he worked as a driver ___49___ the Italian army until he was wounded and shipped home, where he again wrote for newspapers. Two years ___50___, he moved to Paris, where he hoped to improve his writing. There he became friends with other ___51___(America) writers, including Gertrude Stein and F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Hemingway developed ___52___ style of writing that was simple and direct. He chose words sparingly(俭省地), avoided using adjectives, and trusted the reader to understand ___53___(mean) of his writing. As he put it, “I always try ___54___(write) on the principle(原则) of the iceberg(*山). There is seven eighths of it under water for every part that shows. ” This style continues to influence Writers today. In his career(生涯), which lasted some 40 years, Hemingway earned the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize. He was one of the finest writers of the___55___(twenty) century.

For a while Emest Hemingway lived in Key West, Florida, where he had nearly 50 cats. One of them was a cat with six toes(脚趾), which a ship's captain had given him. Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there. Some of them are ___56___(child) of Hemingway's six-toed cat. Hemingway was married four times and had three sons. He died in 1961.

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47. taught   

48. going   

49. for   

50. later   

51. American   

52. a   

53. meaning   

54. to write   

55. twentieth   

56. Children

【解析】这篇短文主要讲述了著名的作家海明威的生平介绍。

47.句意：海明威的父亲很早就教他如何打猎和捕鱼，海明威一生都喜欢这两项活动。

根据下文how to hunt and fish，two activities Hemingway loved throughout his life.可知这里海明威的父亲教他如何打猎和捕鱼。整个文章都是一般过去时态，这里用teach的过去式是taught。根据句意，故填taught。

48. 句意：海明威没有上大学，而是成为堪萨斯城明星的记者。Instead of代替，而不是，后加名词，代词，动名词。根据句意，故填going。

49. 句意：后来，在欧洲，他为意大利*队当司机，直到他受伤并被运回家，在那里他再次为报纸写作。

这里是说为……工作，这里用介词for。根据题意，故填for。

50. 句意：两年后，他搬到巴黎，希望在那里提高写作水平。一段时间+later表示多长时间之后。根据句意，故填later。

51. 句意：在那里，他成了其他美国作家的朋友，包括格特鲁德斯坦和菲茨杰拉德。这里是形容词作定语修饰writers，这里用America的形容词American，意思是“美国人的”，根据句意，故填American。

52. 句意：海明威发展了一种简单直接的写作风格。这里是说泛指，style的首字母是以辅音音素开头，这里用不定冠词a。根据题意，故填a。

53. 句意：他谨慎地选择单词，避免使用形容词，并相信读者理解他的写作含义。这里是说理解他写的意思。这里用mean的名词meaning，意思是“意思”，根据句意，故填meaning。

54. 句意：我总是试着写*山原理。短语try to do sth.表示设法去做某事。根据句意，故填to write。

55. 句意：他是二十世纪最优秀的作家之一。表示第几个世纪用序数词，twenty的序数词是twentieth，根据句意，故填twentieth。

56. 句意：其中一些是海明威六趾猫的孩子。根据上文Today his Key West home is a museum, and many cats still live there.可知这里是说海明威六趾猫的孩子们，这里用child的复数形式Children，意思是“孩子们”，根据句意，故填Children。

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