2002年全国中学生英语能力竞赛决赛“动词填空”试题解析
A）用所给动词的正确形式填空。
Matt Groening is the man who invented the world's most popular cartoon．People in almost 100countries（76） _______（watch）The Simpsons every week．Groening was born in Portland， Oregon in 1954．When he was twenty-six he（77） _______（start）drawing cartoons for The Los Angeles Reader，a weekly newspaper．In 1986 Matt invented the Simpson family for the popular Tracey Ullman Show．He gave them the names of his family：Matt's father's name is Homer，his mother is Margaret，and he（78） _______（have）two sisters，Lisa and Maggie．
Groening and his artists，musicians and actors（79） _______（make）twelve series of programmes up to now．People of all ages，from seven to seventy all（80） _______（love）it！
短文动词填空，既要参看空词的句子的时间状语、上下文的联系，也要注意短文的整体时态。76小题，前面的句子是一般现在时态，本句有“every week”，说的是日常情况，主语“People”是复数，应填“watch”；77小题，上下文都是讲过去的事情，本句时间状语从句也是一般过去时态，所以这里该填“started”； 78小题，主语是“he”，前面的句子都是一般现在时态，这里也应用一般现在时态，填“has”； 79小题，后面有明确的时间状语“up to now”，理应用现在完成时态，所以填“have made”； 80小题，承接前句，讲目前实际情况，所以应该用一般现在时态，填“love”。
B）从斜体词中选用动词并用其适当的形式填入文中空白处。
answer，ask，call，do，explain，move，take，tell，wait，work
My boyfriend took time off from work one week to move to a new house．It was a lot of hard work．
I was feeling a little under the weather the next day from working so hard．I wanted to give my boyfriend a call and（81） _______ him that we should call off our plans for the evening．
When I called the number，a woman（82） _______ the phone．“Hello，she said．I had not counted on a woman answering Mike's phone．I was a little surprised．
I asked，“Is Mike there？The woman said，“He（83） _______some washing right now．” Then I asked，“Can you tell him to call his girl-friend？”I hung up the phone without waiting for the woman's answer．
Thirty minutes later，Mike had not called me back．I went on（84） _______for an hour before I called Mike again．A man answered the phone．“Hello，he said．The voice was strange． Suddenly I knew that I had the wrong phone number．I said，“You're not Mike！
The man said，“And you're not my girl-friend．I（85） _______that to my wife for over an hour．
本题只有5个空，但提供的单词有10个，而且都是原形动词。这就要认真推敲、比较、选择，还要考虑动词形式，以确保用词准确。81小题，根据句意所空单词应该是与“说话”有关，“that”从句是说话的内容。推敲几个有关单词（answer，ask，call，tell），只有“tell”合适；82小题，依据本句的语境，10个词中与“the phone”合理搭配的只有“answer”，但要用过去式形式“answered”；83小题，首先考虑与“some washing”的搭配，习惯用“do”，但根据语境和时间状语“right now”，应该 用现在进行时态“is doing”；84小题，根据句意，应该用“wait”，正好空后是“for”，wait for（等待）；前面是“went on”，理应填“waiting”； 85小题，依据句意，应选用“explain”，另根据后面的时间状语“for over an hour”，应该用现在完成时态（have explained），或现在完成进行时态（have been explaining）。
