Demon老师首字母秘诀分享【二】：上下文关联

今天我们来分享一下首字母填空秘籍之“二”：瞻前顾后之“上下文关联”。话不多说，先上真题：    

【2011年静安区一模】

In the United States, when you become rich, you want people to know about it. And even if you aren't very rich, you want people to think that you are. that is w___1___" keeping upwith the Joneses" is about. It is the story of someone who tried to look asrich as his neighbours.

The expression was f___2___ used in 1913 by ayoung American called Arthur Momand. He told this story about himself. He began earning $125 a week at the age of 23. That was a lot of money in those days. He got married and moved with his wife to a very rich neighbourhood o___3___ New York City.

Whenhe saw that rich people rode horses, Momand went horseback riding every day.When he saw that rich people had servants, Momand and his wife also hired a servant and gave big parties for their new neighbors.It was like a race, but one could neverf___4___this race because one was always trying to keep up. The race ended for Momand and his wife when they could not pay for their new way of life any l___5___ .They moved back to New York City, living in an old flat.

Momand looked around him and noticed that many people did things just to keep up with the rich life style of their neighbors. He saw the funny side of it and started to write a series of short stories about this. He called it "Keeping up with the Joneses"because "Jones" is a very c___6___ name in the United States."Keeping up with the Joneses" came to mean keeping up with the rich lifestyle of the people around you. Momand's series a___7___ in different newspapers across the country for over 28 years.     

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