艾易艾斯（aeas)阅读出题-填空解析2

原文：The Minerals Hall was good, with examples of so many minerals from around the world. If we pushed a button on a special map, a light on the map showed which minerals are located in that country. We learned that Australia produces 19 different minerals in large amounts from almost 400 mines, and is one of the top producers of minerals in the world, even though mining only began here in the 1800s. Because of all the many uses for minerals in modern life, the minerals mined in Australia make mining the top source of income for the country!

题目：No more than one word or number.

20._____ kinds of minerals are produced in Australian 21._____ making Australia among the leading mineral 22._____.

解题步骤：判断填空处的词性，再用自己的单词量理解文章找出正确答案，最后检查语法。

我们第一步用名词或名词词组定位。题目附近的名词或名词词组有kinds of minerals, Australia, mineral。带入原文能看出第三句话 We learned that Australia produces 19 different minerals in large amounts from almost 400 mines, and is one of the top producers of minerals in the world, even though mining only began here in the 1800s.是答案的出处。

我们再开始判断词性，20题空后的kinds是我们熟悉的单词，名词词性，意思为种类并且加了s表示是复数，前面只能接大于一的数字。21题前Australian告诉我们此空应该填名词，特别要注意的是Australian或者Chinese是形容词词性。22题前面是leading和mineral，有可能部分同学都不是很熟悉这两个词，但是前面有一个the, the leading mineral _____, the 后面一定要有名词，这一空作为这句话的最后一个词只能是名词。

定位到原文先做20题，原文中数字有19，400和1800s，空后是kinds of minerals（minerals的种类）,那答案只能是19。接下来21题，首先空内填名词，对应的原文名词有minerals, amounts, mines, producers, world，我们只需在这些名词中找一个合适的填入空内，21题是说 minerals在澳大利亚的____被生产，这样一来排除minerals, amounts和world, 再看原文是Australia produces 19 different minerals from almost 400 mines,根据from和原文的意思，我们应该填入mines. 22题也是填名词，能填的原文中的名词还是minerals, amounts, mines, producers, world，前面21题已经填了mines.

空前又有mineral，再根据原文，making Australia the (leading mineral) _____，使澳大利亚成为_____，只能填入producers（生产者）。

我们最后补充一下相关的单词。

leading adj.领先的，领导的

mineral n.矿物

among prep.在….之中，在…之间