补全短文分析 如何关注选项时态？

补全短文分析 如何关注选项时态？

解题思路

关注备选项之间在时态上是否有差异：某些选项是过去时态，某些选项是现在时态。备选项的时态与空格所在的上下文（句群）基调时态一致，则该备选项成为答案的可能性较大。在解答补全文章题目以前，先快速浏览一下选项，如果选项时态不同，就可以先将选项分类，在后续解题的过程中，可以根据上下文判断空格处的时态，从而只需在此类型时态的选项中作出选择，而不必考虑其他的选项。这是一种简单快速的排除法。

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Female Bullfighting

It was a unique, eye-catching sight: an attractive woman in a shiny bullfighter's suit, sword in hand, facing the sharp horns of a black, 500-kilogram beast.

Most people thought the days of female bullfighting were over in Spain.　46

The first woman fighter, Cristina Sanchez, quit in 1999 because of male discrimination (歧视). But Vega is determined to break into what could be Spain's most resistant male field.　47

Spanish women have conquered almost all male professions.　48　"The bull does not ask for your identity card," she said in an interview a few years ago. She insisted that she be judged for her skills rather than her femaleness.

Vega became a matador (斗牛士) in 1997 in the southwestern city of Caceres. 　49　. She entered a bullfighting school in Malaga at age nine and performed her first major bullfight at age 14. She has faced as much opposition as Sanchez did. And the "difficulties have made her grow into a very strong bullfighter," her brother Jorge says.

The 1.68-metre tall and somewhat shy Vega says her love of bullfighting does not make her any less of a woman.　50

A. She intends to become even better than Sanchez was.

B. Her father was an aspiring (有雄心壮志的) bullfighter.

C. But many bullfighting professionals continue to insist that women do not have what it takes to perform the country's "national show".

D. "I'm a woman from head to toe and proud of it," she once said.

E. She looks like a male bullfighter.

F. But recently, 29-year-old Mari Paz Vega became the second woman in Spanish history to fight against those heavy animals.

［答案解析］

46．F。［解析］前句用的过去时，故空格处也应选择过去时态。根据句意此处对前句进行了转折，故答案为F。

47．A。［解析］本段用的均为一般现在时，表示一般的状态，故为保证时态一致，空格处也应为一般现在时。

48．C。［解析］前一句提到已征服了几乎所有的male professions，故此处对前句进行了转折。故答案为C选项。

49．B。［解析］前句为过去时，前面是对Vega的家庭背景的简单介绍，在介绍出生地后，很自然地会介绍父母，故答案为B。

50．D。［解析］最后一段作为文章的总结，从形式上可以很容易想到引用女主人公的话，故答案为D。

Achilles' heel

如果一个句子带有自己的时间状语，则其可以使用自己独特的时态，而不受所在句群的基调时态的影响。例：Mum used to sing the same song to me when I was sick, but now I still don't know its name. 前半句用的是过去时，表示过去常常进行的一个动作，后半句中给出了自己的时间状语now，说明后半句是表示状态的一般现在时，故助动词选用don't而非didn't。