高中英语语法填空试题

阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的
词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空，并将答案填写在答题卡标号为16-25的相应位置上。
In most cities,    or poor, it is the less well off that are most at risk from floods and natural disasters. It was the poor of New Orleans, nearly a   (three)of the population, who lived in the lowest-lying parts of the city and  (suffer)most from Katrina’s(卡特里娜飓风) wrath (愤怒).   (similar), it was the urban poor of Honduras(洪都拉斯) and its neighbors who were struck hardest   Hurricane Mitch in 1998. And it is the people of the slums (贫民窟) more widely in Latin America  are most capable of being attacked.
In some places, too little water, not too much, is the problem. China’s thirst for industry and   (irrigate) has combined with climate change to drain the aquifers(蓄水层). Droughts seem to be ever more frequent in northem China, and southern cities such as Guangzhou are also affected. Rivers are drying up: the Yellow River now flows to the sea for only   few weeks a year. And the rain,when it comes, is intensely acid. To make matters  (bad), the glaciers on which both China India partly depend are melting. Any benefits from extra water supplies will be short-term, and damaged by floods.

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It was a winter morning, just before Christmas, while most people were warming up their cars, my husband, Trevor, had to ride his bike 4 kilometers away from home to work. On his    (arrive), he parked his bike outside the back door   usual. After 10 hours of labor, he returned to find his bike gone,   was our only transport. Trevor used it to get to work, and also the bike was used    (get) groceries, saving us from having to walk long distances from   we live.
I was so sad that I wrote to the newspaper and told our story. Shortly after that, several people in our area offered to help. One wonderful stranger even bought a bike, and then called my husband to fetch it. Once again my husband had a way to get to and    his job. It really is    honor that a complete stranger would go out of their way for someone they have never met before.
People say that a smile can     (pass) from one person to another, but acts of kindness from strangers are even more so. This experience has had a spreading effect in our lives because it     (strong) our faith in humanity. And it has influenced us to be more mindful of ways, we, too, can share with others.

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No One Dares to Help
On a recent Sunday, I was buying groceries in a supermarket   ___     I heard the sound of a car accident. It was close but not very close, so I continued shopping. As I took a right turn on Munadhama Street, I saw a man ____    (lie) on the ground in a small pool of blood. He wasn’t dead.
____       idea of stopping to help or to take him to a hospital crossed my mind, but I didn’t dare. Cars passed without stopping. Pedestrians and shop owners kept doing   __________     they were doing, pretending nothing _____________ (happen).
I was still looking at the injured man and blaming myself            not stopping to help.          ______ shoppers peered at him from a distance, sorrowful and sympathetic, but did nothing.
I was on to another grocery store, staying for about five minutes while shopping for tomatoes, onions and other vegetables. During that time, the man managed to sit _____________ and waved to passing cars.
No one stopped. No one did ______     . No one lifted a finger.
The injured died on the street. The only reaction came from a woman    ______    was in the grocery store. In a low voice, she said,” My God, bless his soul.”
An offer of aid could have saved the man’s life.

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Chinese proverbs are rich and they are still widely used in Chinese people’s daily life.    these proverbs there are often interesting stories. For example, the proverb, “plucking up a crop    (help) it grow”, is based on the following story.
It is said that a short—tempered man in the Song Dynasty (960—1279) was very anxious to help   rice crop grow up quickly. He was thinking about    day and night. But the crop was growing much slower than he expected.
One day, he came up with an idea     he would pluck up all of his crop a few inches. He did so the next day.
He was very tired     doing this for a whole day,     he felt very happy since the crop did “grow”  (high).
His son heard about this and went to see the crop. Unfortunately the leaves of the crop began to wither.
This proverb is saying we have to let things go in their    (nature) course. Being too anxious to help an event develop often    (result) in the contrary to our intention.

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Mary took off her shoes and ran over the hot sand. She tiptoed into the water,       (laugh) as a wave washed over her legs. She looked back at her mother,      was sitting under a big umbrella, holding an apple in one hand and a drink in the      .
Just then, a big wave came and       (sweep) Mary's feet, making her fall into the water. She tried to scream,     swallowed some water instead. She didn't know     way was up or down. She pushed with her hand against     sand and came up for air. She screamed desperately and tried hard to swim.
When she       (final) returned to the shore, Mary ran over to her mother, who was standing up      a worried look on her face.
But to her mother’s surprise, Mary said, “This is the       (good)  vacation ever, Mum. Come and play with me in the water.”

What do you look for when you go shopping for clothes? Do you choose something     (fashion) or comfortable? Do you like to look different? Or do you wear the same clothes     your friends? Do you go for this year’s colours? Is it the logo — the company symbol — that
  (catch) your attention? Or maybe film stars are wearing these clothes?     helps you choose the clothes you like?
Everyone spends money on clothes, and everyone has their personal look. The best-known clothing companies sell their “designer” clothes all over the world.     number of these big name companies is in fact very small, and the clothes they make are more expensive than the clothes made by some other companies less famous.    , many people still prefer them to   ordinary but comfortable clothes. Why?
Many young people today care about the way they look. They often buy “designer” clothes     they think they look cool. Then the less famous companies make clothes     look the same. But they don’t sell as well because they don’t have the logo.
People also think “designer” clothes are better made. For example, many people think the right    (run) shoes will make you run faster or play better. Of course, this is not     true. It’s the training — not the trainers or the equipments — that improves your speed or your score.

It was a cold and cloudy afternoon. I was on the bus with my children, aged four and two, heading home when it started to rain. I realized this would mean a wet walk home     the bus stop.
Home was only two blocks away    it was not a pleasant walk with one small boy fast asleep in the pram (手推婴儿车), the other one in a raincoat and no umbrella for myself. A pick-up truck passed us on the road and, a few minutes later, I saw it   (pull) back and the driver looking directly at us.
A young man put the window down. “Hey, here’s an umbrella for you --- please take it.” He called out.
I stood there    (astonish), barely believing that the man,   existence was unknown to me only moments ago, could be so    (thought). “Come on, give this to your mummy,” he said to my older son. I gratefully accepted the offer,   (thank) him and watched the truck disappear down the road.
This man might have needed the umbrella for    later during the day but preferred to give it to me. It was a lesson to me    it’s possible to give without expecting anything    return.

The style of western art has changed many times, while Chinese art has changed less often. Art is influenced by the customs and __16__ (believe) of people. During the Middle Ages, the main aim of painters was to represent religious themes. Artists were interested in creating a feeling of respect and love__17__God. In the Renaissance , people focused more on humans and less on religion. Artists__18__ (try) to paint people and nature as they really were. Masaccio used perspective in his paintings, which made people__19__ (convince) they were looking through a hole in the wall at a real scene. In the late 19^th century, Europe, __20__used to be a mostly agricultural society, changed a great deal into a mostly industrial__21__. The impressionists were the first__22__ (paint) outdoors. They had to paint__23__ (quick) and their paintings were not as detailed as those of__24__(early) painters. Today people accept impressionists’ paintings__25__the beginning of modern art. Some modern art is abstract while some is realistic.

“What is the saddest case you ever knew of ?”I asked the matron （护士长）of a hospital just retired. She thought for a minute______two and then replied, “It was a nurse I had, one of the most beautiful girls I ever saw. But she had a car accident and her face was so disfigured（毁容）______ she realized she would have to give up______（nurse）at least until she had had a long series of operations. She was engaged to be married but broke it______.”
The matron shook her head, remembering, “She was so miserable and______（depress）I feared for her sanity（心智健全）,”breaking into a smile. “Then I had______ idea. I took her one day to the `Blind Children’s Home`, and that afternoon she played with the children and for the first time I saw her happy. Just as we were leaving, a little blind girl put her arms______ her neck and said,` I do like your voice and I know you must have a lovely face, too.’ The nurse cried all the way home in the car, but it was with______（happy）, for she had found her life work with the blind children______came to call her their `lovely lady’.”
A sad case? Well, in a way, But______ a joyful ending!

Until recently daydreaming was viewed as a waste of time. Or it __________（consider） an unhealthy escape from real life and its duties. But now some people are taking a fresh look at daydreaming. Some think it may be a very __________ （health） thing to do. Some researchers are finding that daydreaming may be important to mental health. Daydreaming, they tell us ,____ ___（be） a good means of relaxation. But its benefits go beyond this. A number of psychologists have conducted experiments and have reached some    （surprise） conclusions.
Dr. Joan T. Freyberg has concluded that daydreaming contributes to intellectual growth. It also improves         （concentrate）,attention span, and the ability _________ (get) along with others. Industrialist Henry J. Kaiser believed that much of his success was due to the positive use of daydreaming. Florence Nightingale dreamed of becoming a nurse. The young Thomas Edison pictured          as an inventor. For these notable persons, it appears       their daydreams came true. Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick offered this advice: “Hold a picture of yourself… in your mind’s eye, __________will drew you toward success. Picture yourself       (vivid) as defeated and that alone will make victory impossible.

Charlie Chaplin developed his own manner of acting, the one that was to become world-famous. He wore a small black hat, very wide trousers, a moustache and carried a stick that he swung in the air     he walked. During his first year, Chaplin acted in 35 films, many of    he wrote and directed himself. Chaplin’s earliest films were    (silence), because the equipment for adding sound to films had not yet been developed.
The    (develop) of films with sound became a problem for Chaplin, as he was uncertain about    (make) films with dialogue. Instead, he continued to make films without dialogue, but he added music. Chaplin’s later films, _ , were not well received. He made only six films    1940 and 1966 and only   first of these is still popular today. Before he died in 1977, he _ (honour) in a number of ways for   contributions to the film industry.

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It’s really hard for any of us to be faster than Liu Xiang, but still we can do our share during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Since the first modern Olympics, volunteers     (become) an important and insuperable part of the great event. There were 900 people     (work) for free at the first modern games and      number of volunteers increased since then.
     has been estimated that around 100,000 volunteers will be needed for the Beijing Olympic and Paralympics Games. It might be the     (big) volunteer recruitment in the history of modern Olympics.
There are many kinds of volunteers. “Towards Olympics” volunteers refer to those     help the whole nation preparing for the games when the final day comes closer. “Games-time” volunteers refer to volunteers recruited directly by BOCOG. They perform post-specific   (responsible) during the Games, work at the times and places designed by BOCOG and serve at the Beijing Olympic Games     pay. High school students are welcomed to become city volunteers. They will have     (fix) or specially assigned working positions during the Games. Anyone can be a social volunteer,     jobs are spreading Olympic concepts and culture, maintaining social orders, optimizing city environment and advocating civilized behavior.

If you have decided to study abroad, you might be looking for effective ways to prepare your language skills before you depart. Some students attend ESL (English as a Second Language) classes at local schools while others practice with   1  conversational partner. However, for those in situations   2  these two options are not available, studying ESL online might be the next alternative.
During the past decade, many websites have sprung up on the Internet,   3  (provide) ESL activities to help people practice the major language skills  4  grammar, reading, and vocabulary. Perhaps the  5  (great) interests for students are websites that focus on listening and speaking skills. In the past, listening to audio online was a very slow process, but since high-speed connections appeared, things  6  (change) greatly. A simple Internet search using the term “ESL” will bring up thousands of relevant websites out there, but not all the sites are the same. 7  you want to find a site that is suitable for you, you should look among those that combine good contents with a user-friendly interface and style.
Finally, no matter which site you end up visiting, you should set some goals  8  your study.   9  might include the number of vocabulary you want to learn, specific grammar structures you want to review,  10  even how many minutes you want to read aloud from a newspaper in English.

Grey-haired Chang Zhifu stands out from the young volunteers working   guides in Xidan Culture Square, one of the capital city’s booming business districts.
“Welcome to Beijing. I am an Olympic volunteer,” Chang said on Tuesday to Carhen Winston,  _ tourist from Washington D.C.
“It’s  (amaze) to meet a 66-year-old Chinese lady    speaks good English,” Winston said.
In order to become a volunteer for the Beijing Olympics, Chang began to study English and sign language a year ago.
“As an old Chinese saying   (go), ‘It’s never too old    (learn),’ and    I have to do is to put in more efforts,” said Chang.
Every day she carries two booklets, one for English and the other for sign language. The time she spends _ the bus is “always good for revising”.
Chang   (invite) to teach sign language to young volunteers now and then. “Go, China!” is always the first sign she teaches.
“Granny Chang is quite a celebrity here, because of    hard work and Olympic spirit. We just want her to have a short break.” Wang Hao, the leader of the volunteer team said. 

语法填空（共10小题；每小题1.5分，满分15分）
阅读下面短文，按照句子结构的语法性和上下文连贯的要求，在空格处填入一个适当的词或使用括号中词语的正确形式填空。
The earth is a special planet in the solar system. The explosion of the earth produced carbon, nitrogen, vapor and other gases,    1   (make) the earth’s atmosphere. As the earth cooled    2  , water which is fundamental    3   the development of life appeared and stayed on the surface. The continued    4  (present) of water allowed the earth to dissolve harmful gases into the oceans and this produced a chain reaction which made    5   . possible for life to develop.
Many millions of years later, the arrival of small plants encouraged the development of early shellfish    6   all sorts of fish. Then, with the first green plants appearing on land, land animals appeared and dinosaurs developed and existed on the earth for millions of years. Then Dinosaurs’ sudden disappearance made the rise of mammals possible on the earth. They were different from all life forms    7   ever existed in the past because they produced young from within their bodies. Finally, some small clever animals with hands and legs __8___(appear) and spread all over the earth. Thus they, in    9   turn, have become the most important animals. However, they are putting too much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. So for millions of years to come,    10   life will continue on the earth will depend on whether the present problem can be solved.