18．She said the terrible weather shrank  harvests in Western Africa that year．

分析 她說那一年糟糕的天氣使得西非的收成縮水．

解答 答案是shrank．本題考查語境中選用恰當(dāng)?shù)脑~；shrink v．收縮，縮水；主句動(dòng)詞為過去時(shí)，賓語從句中的動(dòng)詞也往往用與過去相關(guān)的時(shí)態(tài)；且從句中的that year也說明從句中需要過去時(shí)，故答案是shrank．

點(diǎn)評 首字母填空必須在對語境整體理解的基礎(chǔ)上抓住指向答案的關(guān)鍵線索、固定句型或搭配等，并聯(lián)系首字母，同時(shí)注意所選詞的形式變化．

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