5.A Tree Dweller Noah Rose, 29, is living in a tree house to protest about a new road ____1____ the local council is planning to build. “Sometimes you can get a bit bored of ____2____ in a tree house. I mean, you don’t have any of the basic things that you’re used to. I’m here because I really feel that this road should not be ____3____. It will just add to pollution and ____4____ some beautiful countryside. I know we’ll succeed ____5____ the end– I’m sure we can beat the Department of Transport. Who needs more roads anyway?” A Squatter Nancy Barrett, 23, lives in a squat in New Cross Road. The police want to evict her and other squatters from the houses in the area. “We have tied ourselves ____6____ the house, so the police can’t move us out. They’ve got no right. This house has been empty ____7____ years and nobody owns it. We live here peacefully and don’t do any ____8____ to anyone. We don’t believe ____9____ capitalism or consumerism, and that’s why this protest is important. A home is a home and you shouldn’t have to be grateful to the banks for that. ____10____happens, I know we’ll have to leave in the end. It’s depressing but that’s how it is – the police always win.”

这是一道典型的完形填空或语境词汇选择题。虽然题目中给出了10个空缺，但提供的选项只有 A. harm, B. good, C. use 三个，且最终答案指向 **A**。 根据上下文逻辑，这道题考察的是第 **8** 空的词汇选择。以下是针对该题的详细解析： ### 核心考点分析 **定位句子：** > "We live here peacefully and don’t do any ____8____ to anyone." > （我们和平地住在这里，没有对任何人造成任何______。） **逻辑推理：** 1. **语境线索**：前文提到 "We live here peacefully"（我们和平地居住），这是一个正面的、非冲突的状态描述。 2. **固定搭配**：英语中有一个非常常见的固定短语 **"do harm to someone"**，意为“对某人造成伤害/损害”。 3. **句意通顺性**： * 填入 **harm (A)**：don't do any **harm** to anyone（不对任何人造成伤害）。这与前文的“peacefully”（和平地）逻辑一致，强调他们的行为是无害的、合法的抗议方式。 * 填入 **good (B)**：don't do any **good** to anyone（不对任何人有好处）。虽然语法上可行，但在抗议者为自己辩护的语境下，他们通常强调的是“我没有做坏事”，而不是“我没做好事”。此外，“do good to”不如“do harm to”在否定句中常见用于表达无害性。 * 填入 **use (C)**：don't do any **use** to anyone。这是错误的搭配。英语中通常说 "be of use to someone" 或 "be useful to someone"，而不说 "do use to someone"。 ### 其他选项排除 * **B. good**：如果选 good，句意变成“我们对任何人都没带来好处”，这不符合抗议者试图证明自己是无辜、和平居民的辩护逻辑。 * **C. use**：搭配错误，且语意不通。 ### 结论 因此，根据固定搭配 **do harm to** 以及上下文中“和平居住、无害于人”的逻辑，正确答案是 **A. harm**。 --- ### 补充：全文其他空缺的可能答案参考（供学习延伸） 为了帮助理解整篇文章，以下是其他空缺处基于常见英语用法的推测答案： 1. **that/which** (定语从句引导词，指代 road) 2. **living/staying** (介词 of 后接动名词，bored of living...) 3. **built** (被动语态，road should not be built) 4. **destroy/damage** (动词，破坏乡村景色) 5. **in** (固定搭配 in the end，最终) 6. **to** (tie ourselves to the house，把自己绑在房子上) 7. **for** (for years，持续多年) 8. **harm** (即本题考点) 9. **in** (believe in capitalism，信仰/信奉资本主义) 10. **Whatever** (Whatever happens，无论发生什么)