英语完形填空题主要考查学生阅读理解能力、逻辑思维能力和对具体语境的把握能力，设10处空白，每处空白要求学生从文下所给的四个选项中选择一个最佳选项作为答案。考生必须尽可能地利用短文中上下文中出现过的信息词、信息句去猜测推断意思，理解线索，弄清句与句之间、段落与段落之间的联系，从而达到全面理解整篇文章、进而找到最佳选项，使补全后的短文意思通顺、前后连贯、结构完整的目的。 第一章： 高考完形填空典型例析 2008年广东高考英语完型填空，介绍了流传在英国的一个仙女偷换小孩的民间故事，叙述与说明相结合，现以其为例，说明如何灵活针对不同考点采用恰当技巧、方法求得最佳答案。
Tales of the supernatural are common in all parts of Britain. In particular, there was (and perhaps still is) a belief in fairies(仙女). Not all of these 21 are the friendly, people-loving characters that appear in Disney films, and in some folktales they are 22 and cause much human suffering. This is true in the tales about the Changeling. These tell the story of a mother whose baby grows 23 and pale and has changed so much that it is almost 24 to the parents. It was then 25 that the fairies had come and stolen the baby away and 26 the human baby with a fairy Changeling. There were many ways to prevent this from happening: hanging a knife over the baby’s head while he slept or covering him w
