高中英语语法填空试题

（共10小题；每小题1分，满分10分）
The hostess was to have a party and entertain guests at home. She busied herself so early in the morning, cleaning the house. She was so tired ___ she felt pain in her waist and on the back. Drops of sweat fell from her forehead. She did not finish cleaning the house __ dusk.
___ (look) at the clean and tidy drawing room, she released a sigh with a smile on her face. The guests were coming! Entering the drawing room, they ____ (attract) by the fresh flowers. Surprisingly pleased, they cheered in praise, “Oh, what beautiful flowers!”
“How colorful and fragrant!”
“Just have a look at them, and life is full of pleasure!”
Then they went on to express their thanks __ the hostess for her __ (delicate) arranged flowers.
With an embarrassed smile, the hostess said, “I am glad you like it. Thank you for your praise. I was ___ bit surprised about it. I ___ make detailed arrangement for your honor. I was busy the whole day cleaning and mopping. As to the flowers in the vase, it is a piece of cake. I did it by just lifting my hand. Now you are ___ (aware) of my hard work and praise me highly for my easiest effort. It is __ my expectation.

Peter：Mary, we are going to have   party on New Year’s Eve. I’m sure we’ll have a good    . Would you like to join    ?
Mary：I like to. Thank you.  are you going to have it?
Peter：In our classroom.We are going to decorate it and turn it into a splendid dancing hall.
Mary：Oh, it is great. I shall be very glad to spend my first New Year in China with you.
Peter：But we are going to ask everyone at the party to give a      (perform). Do    us some English songs, please.
Mary：I    . My voice is not very pleasant   the ear, though.
Peter：I    (hear) you sing once.Your voice is sweet    beautiful. I’m sure you’ll be the star of our New Year party.
Mary：Oh, thank you.

阅读下面对话，掌握其大意，并根据汉语或首字母提示，写出所缺英语单词的完整、正确形式，使对话通顺，并将答案写在答题纸上。
Tim:  Hi, Susan. I've been wondering when I'd run into you. What are busy with?
Susan: Nice to meet you here, Tim. I'm buying some Christmas gifts for those      work with me, but it's really        headache?
Tim:  Maybe I could give you some advice. Firstly, you should consider        (divide) them into different groups. Who are the people that are your friends as well as your workmates and who are the people you do not know well       see pretty much daily.
Susan: OK, then       should I do?
Tim:  For the friends, you want to buy        personal gifts. Chocolate, for example.
Susan: This is what I always give, but I know one of my friends, Mary, is       a diet.
Tim:  Does she like fruit or coffee? Anyway, think the gift that you know your friend likes.
Susan: Well, I think fruit is helpful to keep     (health). What about others?
Tim:  You can send them cards.
Susan: Christmas cards?
Tim:  Yes, you can afford them. More     (important), it reminds them that you're thinking of them.
Susan: Thank you for your suggestion, Tim. You     (help) me out.

Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will    (probable) say that they go to learn languages, arithmetic, history, science and some other knowledge. That is quite true; but why do they learn these things?
We send our children to school to prepare them for the time     they will be big and will have to work for     . Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that     only reason why they go to school?
There is more in education than just     (learn) facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we have left school we can continue to learn. A man    really knows how to learn will always be successful, because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself, he will also be able to teach others     to do it in the best way. The      (educate) person, on the other hand, is either unable to do something new, or just     (do) it badly. The purpose of schools, therefore, is not to teach languages, arithmetic, history, science, etc.,       to teach pupils the way to 1eam.

Amanda Hocking             (love) to write. For several years,         27-year-old from Minnesota worked        a carer by day and wrote fantasy novels by night. She dreamt that one day her books would get        (publish). She sent her works to publishers,        only received rejection (拒绝) letters in reply. By 2010, Amanda had        (write) 17 unpublished novels.
But then her luck changed. In April 2010, Amada decided to upload (上传) one of her books to Amazon’s online bookstore. There, people could download        to their e-readers for S0.99. Very soon, Amanda _______ selling several copies daily. By January 2011, it was 9,000 copies _______  day. Within a year of e-publishing her first novel, Amada had become a ________ (million).

For most of the Chinese students who _____( graduate ) from college last year, the white-collar lifestyle remains far out of reach, especially for those_ come from rural families .Wang Junying is one of them .She grew up in a village, and were raised to believe a college degree was a sure route to a______ (comfort) life. When she was at _______early age, she spent her spare time _____(collect) cow dung for the family's furnace. While in high school, her summer job consisted __ tending the flock of ducks that would later___ (sell) to pay her tuition. After Wang finished a business English degree at a college in Xi'an, she applied for a position at the village elementary school , ___it would take an $11,000 bribe just to secure the position.  ____(know) her farming family would have trouble paying the needed money, Wang remained in Xi'an and ____(eventual) found a job teaching English for about $300 a month.

It was a sunny Monday morning in the spring of 1976. I was driving to look for a c______. I stopped at a light just ______（对面） New York Hospital when I saw a well-dressed man ________(run) down the hospital steps. He was shouting to me.
Just then, the light turned green, and the driver b________ me honked (按汽车喇叭) ________. (impatient). But I wasn’t about to lose this ride. Finally, the man jumped into the taxi. “LaGuardia Airport， Please. And thanks for waiting.”
From his talking, I knew he was a _______ doctor. I told him that I had a 15-year-old son, Danny. We’d like him to go camping this summer, but he wanted a job. I asked the doctor if there was a job for him in his hospital—even if he didn’t get ________(pay).
He told me he could give me a help. Two weeks later when I arrived home from work. Danny was beaming. He told me he had a job in a hospital. After working for two weeks as a volunteer, he was paid $ 40 a week for the r_______ of the summer. For the next three summer holidays, he worked in the hospital. Then he become a college student and got his ______ (medicine) degree(学位). He’s very famous doctor now.
_______(机会) are important for a person. Sometimes they can come out of ordinary encounters(相遇)—even something as ordinary as a taxi ride.

We high school students do have some growing pains, but we can get rid of them correctly and wisely.  , some of us are upset   their body styles and looks. It’s unnecessary and it’s not important at all. We needn’t care about it. It is one’s inner beauty   matters. Second, we sometimes seem to be misunderstood   our teachers, parents and classmates.  (face) with this, we can find a proper time to have a heart-to-heart talk with them, trying to remove the   (understand). Some of us have fewer friends. I think being open-minded and friendly will do you good. Third, we may fall behind others,  makes us stressed. Actually we can encourage        to work efficiently, full of   (determine). At last, some of us don’t have much pocket money, so they feel unhappy. Isn’t it strange? So long as we have some, that’s enough. And we can learn   to spend money

Last weekend our school held a sports meeting. ________(Realize) it was our last high school sports meeting, we decided to make it an unforgettable experience for all of us.
We first attended the opening parade, for ________our class had made a lot of _____________(prepare).___ __ our excitement, our parade performance was a great success. After the parade, the games started. My classmates attended _______(vary) events such as running, high jump and long jump. Due to the hard training they__________(do) before, their performances were very_______(impress). On the stand, my classmates applauded and cheered for the athletes, some____(raise) their cameras to capture the excitingmoments. Finally, the result _____________( announce). It was _________(amaze) that our class won the second place. Our efforts paid off! Cup in hand, we took a picture together.
I believe this sports meeting will remain a precious memory for all of us as time goes by.

At 3:42 a.m. everything began to shake. It seemed     the world was        an end! Eleven kilometers     (direct) below the city the greatest earthquakes of the 20th century began. It was heard in Beijing,     is one hundred kilometers away. One - third of the nation felt it. A huge crack that was  eight kilometers long and thirty meters wide  cut     houses, roads and canals. Steam burst from        (hole) in the ground. Hard hills of rock became rivers of dirt. In fifteen terrible seconds a large city lay in ruins. Two-thirds of the people died or     (injure) during the earthquake. Thousands of families     ( kill)  and many children were left     parents. The number of people        were killed or injured reached more than 400,000.

Everybody knows how to learn. Learning is a _________(nature) thing. It begins the minute we are born. Our first teachers are our families. At home we learn to talk and to dress and to feed ourselves. We learn these and other skills by  __________(follow).
Then we go to school. A teacher tells us what to learn and how to learn. Many teachers teach us, and we pass many tests and exams. Then people say we are educated.
Are we really educated? Let’s think about the real meaning of learning. Knowing facts doesn’t mean being able to solve problems. Solving problems requires  _________(create), not just _________ good memory. Some people who don’t know many facts can also be good at solving problems.
Henry Ford is a good example. He _______(leave) school at the age of 15. Later, when his company couldn’t build cars fast enough, he solved the problem. He thought of the assembly line. Today the answer seems simple. Yet, just think of the many university __________(graduate) who never solve any problems.
What does a good teacher do? Does he give students facts to remember? Well, yes, we must sometimes remember facts. But a good teacher _______(show) how to find answers. He brings us to the stream of knowledge so we can think for ourselves. When we are thirsty , we know _________ to go.
True learning combines intake _________ output. We take information into our brains . Then we use it. Think of a computer; it stores a lot of information , ______ it can’t think. It only obeys commands. A person who only remembers facts hasn’t really learned. Learning takes place only when a person can use what he knows.

Do you believe fate can bring together people who are far apart? Here is a true story．
As he posed for a holiday photo on the beach, six-year-old Nick Wheeler paid no attention to the little girl   （make） sandcastles a few yards away． It was only when he showed his fiancee Aimee Maiden the phot0 20 years later that she pointed at  five-year-old in a swimsuit and cried     （surprise）:  "That's me!”
 the picture was taken in 1994, the pair lived hundreds of miles apart, yet fate determined that they   （meet） and fall in love at sixth-form college, 11 years later． After their college years, Mr．Wheeler joined the army    Miss Maiden trained as a teacher．
They moved in together three years ago and got engaged last year． They hosted a party, where they showed off the photo   their friends and family． The couple married on Saturday at Gulval Church in Mousehole, 20 years  me photo was taken and just a   （minute） walk from the same spot．
They are heading to Florida for _ _ honeymoon and plan to frame the treasured picture as soon as they get back．

阅读下面短文，根据以下提示：1）汉语提示，2）首字母提示，3）语境提示，在每个空格内填入一个适当的英语单词，所填单词要求意义准确，拼写正确。
People around the world have been praying for the passengers of MH370 and h    for a miracle.
The Boeing 777 took         from Malaysia’s largest city, Kuala Lumpur, in the early hours of March8,     it never showed up at its    (目的地), Beijing.
There were 239 people on board the Malaysia Airlines flight, 154 Chinese i     . As of March 13, 12 different       , such as China, Vietnam and the US, were still searching for the plane.
Between 1—2 hours after liftoff, the plane suddenly      (失去) contact with people on the ground. The pilots didn’t place any distress calls (求救信号). No debris(残骸) was found in the area      the flight last made contact.
People are talking about a possible hijacking(劫机) on March 9. At l        two passengers on the flight used      （偷） passports to get on board.
“We are looking for at all possibilities. We can’t jump the gun(草率行事),” said Malaysian Transport Minister Hussein.

阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）或括号内单词的正确形式。
Sean:  What a fine day! Oh, I can spend all my free time       (read) on this balcony （阳台）on a fine day like this. I like it.
Jean:  The balcony is very beautiful, but I don’t like the fact that it         (face) north.
Sean:  Why? What’s wrong with its facing north?
Jean:  You don’t know that           the balcony faces north, it will get cool in the summer, but too cold in the winter.
Sean:  You don’t have to worry about that. We have the         (center) heating system in winter, don’t we?
Jean:  Yes, we do. The best houses face south, anyway. In that case, we will enjoy the cool wind in the summer and the warm sunshine in the winter.
Sean:  Oh, darling, I’m sorry,      we don’t have enough money for such a house.
Jean:  Well, forget          . I was just talking. The nice environment of this apartment is good for our children. I am satisfied with it.
Sean:  Thanks. And it’s convenient          you to go to work and go shopping.
Jean:  You’re right. To our children, it’s also close to their school. That’s really
___     (satisfy).
Sean:  I’m most           (attract) by the price. You know it costs the least in Beijing.
Jean:  The least? Are you sure? Do you know the developer?
Sean:  I know little about the developer but I am sure this is the       (cheap) building here.

Travel agency: Good morning. Can I help you?
Daisy: I’m sorry to say that I am _______ (disappoint) about my trip to Norwich. It is the ______ (bad) experience of my life!
Travel agency: What is the problem?
Daisy: Well, first of all, I found my wallet _____ (go) when I got on the bus. I turned _____ the guides for help, but they were impatient. I hate to say this, _______ they behaved impolitely towards us customers. Could you do something about this?
Travel agency: Hmm, I apologize. Did you find ______ wallet?
Daisy: No. And that’s not all. The bus was one hour late. Worse _____, it picked up passengers on the way to our destination. You really have to do something about it.
Travel agency: I’m so sorry, but sometimes the bus can _____ (delay) by some problems. We can’t always be sure that the bus will set out on time.
Daisy: Why didn’t you tell me the truth? ______ I booked the ticket, you promised to drive non-stop from Aye to Norwich.
Travel agency: I am _____ (terrible) sorry to hear that. I will look into it immediately and give you a satisfactory reply.